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Clodfobble 01-14-2009 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt
I'm guessing it includes x-rays at the dentist, which are routine every 2-3 years. Still, it's much higher than I thought.

My dentist does a small round of x-rays every visit (i.e. every six months.)

Pregnant women skew the numbers too, they can have anywhere from 3 to a dozen sonograms.

classicman 01-14-2009 06:05 PM

yabbut she is still more than "big".

TheMercenary 01-15-2009 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 522312)
My dentist does a small round of x-rays every visit (i.e. every six months.)

Pregnant women skew the numbers too, they can have anywhere from 3 to a dozen sonograms.

MRI and sonograms do not involve radiation. Just saying.

Pie 01-15-2009 10:58 AM

But they are "imaging studies".

glatt 01-22-2009 10:38 AM

More weird news. Don't steal tips from waiters. Just don't.

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Robber stabbed to death with sushi knife by seven angry waiters for stealing their tips

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 4:35 PM on 12th January 2009

Seven waiters at a Japanese restaurant in Paris were under arrest today after an armed robber was stabbed to death with a sushi knife after trying to steal their tips.

The 22-year-old was brandishing a pistol when he raided Planet Sushi, in the upmarket 5th arrondissement, last night.

An accomplice, also 22, was with him, holding an electric stun gun.
Planet Sushi, Paris

The 22-year-old unnamed man was stabbed to death with a sushi knife after trying to steal tips from Planet Sushi, in the upmarket 5th arrondissement in Paris

The pair first demanded that that management in the restaurant handed over all the day’s takings.

When they refused the criminals began helping themselves to a tray full of tips.

This infuriated the waiters, who began fighting with the robbers, stabbing one
with a razor sharp kitchen knife used to ‘sculpt’ fish segments into sushi.

‘An extremely vicious fight broke out, with one robber mortally wounded,’ said
a Paris police spokesman.
And the cops arrested the robbery victims for defending themselves during the robbery.

Shawnee123 01-22-2009 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 525289)
More weird news. Don't steal tips from waiters. Just don't.



And the cops arrested the robbery victims for defending themselves during the robbery.

Don't steal from bartenders either. I killed more than one person for such sneakiness, back in my day.

classicman 01-22-2009 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 525289)
And the cops arrested the robbery victims for defending themselves during the robbery.

Thats what bothers me the most. That they got arrested defending themselves.

Lets see there is one less loser on the planet, no wasted money on prosecution, detention or trial (fuggetabout rehabilitation) and the people who provided this service have been arrested?
I'd say a thank you is in order, not arrest. . . oh and their tips too.

lookout123 01-22-2009 10:57 AM

Yes, but this was in France. The waiters' proper response should have been, "but of course you may have our tips. allow me to provide directions to my home. please take what we have there as well'"

dmg1969 01-22-2009 11:04 AM

Several observations...

How can 7 people be arrested if the guy was killed with ONE knife? Unless the other 6 held the guy down...

I guess France has no right to personal self defense either. Sure, one could argue that they should have handed the money over, but who's to say he wouldn't have shot someone anyway. In this day and age, compliance doesn't equal safety.

I guess the robber never heard the old adage about bringing a gun to a knife fight. :D

classicman 01-22-2009 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dmg1969 (Post 525299)
I guess the robber never heard the old adage about bringing a gun to a knife fight. :D

lol - very good!

Scriveyn 01-27-2009 07:00 AM

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Speeding lands car in church roof

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Shawnee123 01-27-2009 09:11 AM

Woman gives birth to octuplets in 5 minutes.

Like a salad shooter.

Pie 01-27-2009 09:22 AM

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Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section, agreed. “It is quite easy to miss a baby when you’re anticipating seven.”
Caesarean. Not quite semi-automatic, but still.

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The mother plans to nurse the babies herself, which are now being fed pumped breast milk, Gupta told TODAY. "Right now, we are really encouraging her," Gupta said. "She is going to breast-feed the babies.
omgwtfbbq -- breast-feeding eight babies??? They better get some supplemental nutrition, or they won't last long.

Radar 01-27-2009 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 520455)
Brits like squirells! As in eating them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/di...uirrel.html?em



Hey, I ain't judgin, vittles is vittles.


My great great grandmother used to kill squirrels and cook them up for my dad and his sisters. My dad said she was a great shot. I knew her when I was little, She was the toughest lady I ever met. She mowed her 4 acres on a hill with a push mower into her 80s. She had skin like leather.

TheMercenary 01-27-2009 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie (Post 527000)
Caesarean. Not quite semi-automatic, but still.


My thoughts zachry. Delivered at 31 weeks was most likely for distress, for someone in the bunch. In that case delivery is within minutes of incision, for a good surgeon anyway. The part I don't get is the 40 something spectators.

lookout123 01-27-2009 02:09 PM

I'm willing to bet there was a camera crew for the next E! reality series.

Cicero 01-28-2009 01:18 PM

Monopoly money exchange? lol!

http://www.thelocal.se/17154/20090126/

Crimson Ghost 01-29-2009 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 526994)

Jesus Christ, lady.

It's a vagina, not a clown car.

ZenGum 01-29-2009 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Radar (Post 527067)
My great great grandmother used to kill squirrels and cook them up for my dad and his sisters. My dad said she was a great shot. I knew her when I was little, She was the toughest lady I ever met. She mowed her 4 acres on a hill with a push mower into her 80s. She had skin like leather.

Say, cud yawl re-types that with a accent? It ud sound much betta.

HungLikeJesus 01-29-2009 09:36 AM

Construction signs warn of zombies
 
This is more humorous than weird:


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AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of "zombies ahead."
"I thought it was pretty funny," said University of Texas sophomore Jane Shin, who saw the signs while driving down Lamar Bouelvard with friends Sunday night. "We wondered who did it."
...

KXAN Austin News cameras caught many drivers slowing down to read the signs as they approached. Some read, "Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!"

... [more]


Sundae 01-29-2009 09:52 AM

Kiwi Prisoners Bungle Escape
 
BBC link, click to watch CCTV.
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CCTV has captured the moment when two handcuffed prisoners' attempt to escape custody came to a crashing end as they ran into a lamppost.

The pair ran away while awaiting their court hearing in Hastings and managed to cross a street towards a car park before they were recaptured.

Shawnee123 01-29-2009 11:51 AM

lol...the Keystone Prisoners.

What a visual!

dmg1969 01-29-2009 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicero (Post 527607)
Monopoly money exchange? lol!

http://www.thelocal.se/17154/20090126/


That's almsot as bad as the idiot who prints a fake $1,000,000 bill and tries to cash it at the bank. I mean for fuck sakes...do a $50 or a $100 bill...not a million. Apparently greed and intelligence don't go well together.

Crimson Ghost 01-30-2009 12:05 AM

68-year-old man found beaten inside Plano home

02:22 PM CST on Thursday, January 29, 2009

By DAN X. McGRAW / The Dallas Morning News
dmcgraw@dallasnews.com

Detectives are investigating the death of a 68-year-old man who was found beaten inside his Plano home this morning, Plano police said.
1100 block, Avenue I

Sherlock Holmes was found by a friend about 12:45 a.m. inside his home in the 1100 block of Avenue I, said Plano police spokesman Rick McDonald.

Police were interviewing neighbors and friends to determine a motive, McDonald said.

Holmes, a longtime resident of Plano, was a member of the city’s Douglass Community Center.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....156553fa.html
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Well, no shit.....

Moriarty wanted for questioning.

Clodfobble 01-30-2009 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
Woman gives birth to octuplets in 5 minutes.

Like a salad shooter.

Oh, and she already had 6 kids.

She "never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said." WTF? You have six kids, and THEN you take fertility treatments??

wolf 01-30-2009 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 528469)
Oh, and she already had 6 kids.

She "never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said." WTF? You have six kids, and THEN you take fertility treatments??

And no husband (no information given about even a steady boyfriend, LTR, or details on the baby daddy/ies of the 6 kids she was already fertile enough to squirt out), lives with her parents. Is "Quite Young." Let me go out on a limb and guess that she is not employed, but is on welfare and every other kind of assistance out there.

Isn't there some kind of questionnaire at the clinic?

How did she pay for the fertility treatments? Are they covered under MediCal too?

wolf 01-30-2009 11:48 AM

Needs it's own thread.

classicman 02-01-2009 02:25 AM

Sister Allegedly Beat Up Bride at Wedding

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Annmarie Bricker, of Valparaiso, Ind., allegedly showed up uninvited at her sister's wedding reception, wrestled the bride to the ground and pulled out some of her hair. Police charged the 23-year-old emergency dispatcher with misdemeanor battery.

Jeremy Glotzbach told police he was hosting a reception for newlyweds Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes at his home on Jan. 23 when Bricker, Kappes' sister, attacked Kappes on the front porch.
Bricker pulled out clumps of Kappes' hair, struck her head and took the bride to the ground during a struggle, according to the Porter County Sheriff's Department.
Bricker told police she went to the house because she "just wanted to talk" to her sister and parents about family problems. She said she never touched her sister, but five witnesses contradicted her, authorities said. Kappes did not need medical treatment.
Bricker later resigned from her job as a Porter County 911 dispatcher, officials said.

sweetwater 02-01-2009 12:06 PM

Google streetmapping car hits deer
I love the title for the story - also that the deer apparently got away.

TheMercenary 02-04-2009 03:21 PM

WTF?

http://wtfarchive.com/?p=4

ZenGum 02-07-2009 06:55 AM

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A pair of identical twins escaped being convicted and hanged on drugs charges in Malaysia, due to confusion over which one of them was the culprit, reports said Saturday.

ZenGum 02-09-2009 08:14 PM

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice is being updated as a zombie horror book and film.

A parody of the English novel is due to be published in April under the name Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, with Hollywood studios already bidding to turn the new book into a blockbuster movie.

The new book has been penned by Los Angeles-based TV comedy writer Seth Grahame-Smith, who has been able to update Austen's original tale because it is out of copyright.

Austen fans are in for a shock, with heroine Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters becoming zombie slayers and taught how to fight like Japanese ninjas by Mr Darcy.

"It quickly became obvious that Jane (Austen) had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," The Sunday Times quoted Grahame-Smith as saying.

"Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet's doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon?

"It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously."

Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.

"I hated her when I was forced to read Austen in school, but when I started re-reading I realised she was a brutal, but very funny, satirist," he said.

"I can only aspire to be as mean-spirited as she could be."

Aliantha 02-09-2009 08:18 PM

Oh it's a sacrilege! How could he???

Cicero 02-09-2009 08:26 PM

Wow. I might vomit.

Not that anything is sacred.

Crimson Ghost 02-09-2009 11:37 PM

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Already been done.

2001 Maniacs

Clodfobble 02-10-2009 02:49 PM

At first, I was thinking, "Oh, it's just your standard bad fan fiction, nothing to look twice at," but then I read:

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Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.
If you can shoehorn zombies into a text while maintaining an 85% integrity rate on the original... maybe there's more talent here than meets the eye. Or maybe Austen really was secretly writing about zombies.

ZenGum 02-11-2009 05:42 AM

Okay, I'd like to see this written into an Austen novel:

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Sex toys spring up in suburban street


RESIDENTS in the rural area of Darwin have renamed their street "Dildo Boulevard" after 30 sex toys were found lying in front of a house on Friday morning.
Robert Johns and Laurelle Bates discovered the mysterious toys as they left for work in the morning.

"It's a real mystery. We have no idea where they came from," Ms Bates said.

"I know they aren't new. They look used."

Mr Johns said he counted the sex toys on Friday morning, and the number had decreased within 24 hours.

"Yeah, some of the bigger ones are gone," he said.

Many of the devices are still lying outside the Osbeck Rd home - most crushed under the wheels of passing cars.

Locals have been puzzled by their sudden appearance and are trying to solve the curious case of the invading sex toys.

One theory is that it is an elaborate - and expensive - practical joke. Another school of thought is that they fell off the back of a delivery truck.
"I say, Mr Darcy, whatever is that?"
"Sadly, I know not, Miss Bennett, I have never seen the like before."
"To what use do you imagine it might be put, then, Mr Darcy?"

classicman 02-13-2009 12:11 PM

Man Calls 911 In Burger Beef
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FEBRUARY 9--"You cannot dial 911 'cause you're unhappy with your burger." That's what a police operator told a Florida man early Saturday morning when he called 911 to complain about his order at a Burger King in Boynton Beach. As can be heard on the below police recording, Jean Fortune, 66, called 911 when a Burger King employee told him that they did not have lemonade. Fortune told cops that he had placed an order for a #7 combo meal (chicken fries, French fries, and a soda for $4.49) while in the drive-thru line. But when he got to the window, Fortune was told the fast food outlet did not have lemonade. He was offered Coke, but Fortune decided instead to call police. "Sir, come on. I know you don't seriously think that the police need to make Burger King give you food faster. I cannot believe that," said an exasperated 911 operator. She also noted, "Customer service is not a reason to call 911. 911 is if you're dying. Do you understand that?" Fortune was charged with abuse of 911 communications, according the below Boynton Beach Police Department report. Pictured above is the Burger King at which Fortune did not find lemonade.
Audio of actual call available from the link

TheMercenary 02-14-2009 08:43 AM

Don't loose your head over this one.

http://www.buffalonews.com/494/story/578644.html

xoxoxoBruce 02-14-2009 06:51 PM

She deserved it.
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Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
"She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February]," Benz said.
Fuck her, if she wanted out she should have packed up and left.

Crimson Ghost 02-14-2009 10:11 PM

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TheMercenary 02-14-2009 10:14 PM

love it.

TheMercenary 02-20-2009 08:19 PM

Death by Office Chair? You better watch your ass.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-kil...chair-explodes

classicman 02-27-2009 12:31 PM

Bottom reached
http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uplo...-500_thumb.jpg
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“Natural living” advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention - the reusable toilet wipe.

Surely it’s time global warming believers marked their houses with some sign, a green pentangle or something, as a warning to visitors to enter at their own risk.
Read some of the comments.

My favorite -
Quote:

Oh Dear.

From their page on how to use them comes the following tips for washing:

I recommend washing wipes separately from the rest of your laundry. Wash in hot [sic], dry in the dryer. You may add whatever laundry additives you desire - chlorine bleach, oxygen bleach, tea tree oil, lavender oil, stain remover, whatever.


apart from being utterly gross, how eco-friendly are they if you have to tumble dry and bleach them???
From their site -
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Using cloth wipes for other toilet visits is not any more difficult, but there is a certain ick factor involved. Consider how much waste you're willing to leave on your children's diapers or wipes when you toss them in the pail. Use the same standards for yourself. Shake, scrape, swish, or squirt off anything you don't want in your laundry, and then toss the wipe into the pail or container. (Personally speaking, we just wipe and toss in the pail. Our wipes have minimal staining.)

BigV 02-28-2009 11:57 AM

Sounds like about the same ick factor with cloth diapers. Which is moderate, but not unbearable. For pete's sake the baby can handle it.

But I will continue to kill trees one roll at a time, thankyouverymuch.

xoxoxoBruce 02-28-2009 10:03 PM

You don't have to kill trees, or launder wipers, just use paper made from recycled fiber.

Crimson Ghost 02-28-2009 11:57 PM

High Pressure Hose

TheMercenary 03-04-2009 07:21 AM

You can't make this up:

Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald's chicken shortage

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MARCH 3--Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food "emergency." Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier--citing a McDonald's all sales are final policy--would not give her a refund. [To listen to Goodman's 911 calls, click here, here, and here.] When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." Goodman noted, "I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets," according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, "this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency."
:lol2:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...mcnugget1.html

classicman 03-04-2009 07:56 AM

And when the police showed up SHE got cited. Excellent.

glatt 03-04-2009 08:23 AM

What should she have done instead? If a customer took food from McDonalds without paying, you can be damn sure that McD's would call the cops on them. How is this any different?

She paid her money, and they refused to give her what she paid for. And they wouldn't return her money. They stole her money.

Clodfobble 03-04-2009 10:19 AM

I'm with glatt. She ordered, she paid, then they said, "Nevermind, we don't have the thing you ordered and we won't give you your money back." Okay, calling 911 was maybe a little over the top, but I bet if she'd presented her side in a more coherent manner (i.e., "They are robbing me," rather than "My McNuggets are an emergency!") then she would not have been cited. Fuck that McDonald's.

Happy Monkey 03-04-2009 10:25 AM

Yeah, using 911 instead of a non-emergency police number was her mistake. "All sales are final"? It's not a sale if she didn't get what she paid for.

xoxoxoBruce 03-04-2009 11:07 AM

Exactly, call the cops but not on 911.

classicman 03-04-2009 11:34 AM

I agree with HM and Bruce. Too many people use the 911 system for Non-emergencies.

glatt 03-04-2009 12:03 PM

And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

Who keeps the non emergency number memorized in their heads anyway? It varies by precinct. When you go out to a restaurant, do you know which precinct you happen to be closest to? If you called directory assistance, would you even be able to explain to them what number you were looking for? Directory assistance doesn't have the resources to look up what precinct is closest to your address. They aren't going to pull out a map.

It would have been better for her to use the non emergency number, but she should not be cited for calling 911. This was a matter for the police, and she called 911 to get the police. She did nothing wrong.

I'll admit I didn't listen to the tapes. If 911 provided her with the non-emergency number and told her to get lost, and she called again, then I'd have no problem with the citation. But if they were just ignoring a person who was calling to report a robbery in progress, like she was, then the 911 center screwed up.

classicman 03-04-2009 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 541272)
And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

Yes

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 541272)
Who keeps the non emergency number memorized in their heads anyway?
When you go out to a restaurant, do you know which precinct you happen to be closest to?
If you called directory assistance, would you even be able to explain to them what number you were looking for?

I have the local one programmed in my cell phone.
That depends on if I'm in my local area or not.
Absolutely, and every operator knows exactly what you want as well. They are specifically trained on this stuff.

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 541272)
It would have been better for her to use the non emergency number, but she should not be cited for calling 911. This was a matter for the police, and she called 911 to get the police. She did nothing wrong.

We disagree. She called 3 times on a line that is for emergencies only. The McDonalds wasn't going anywhere. They were not a flight risk. This was a non-emergency. This was NOT a life or death situation - not even close.
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911 is the number to dial for the fastest possible emergency response when you need emergency POLICE, FIRE or MEDICAL ASSISTANCE in a life or death situation.
Using the non-emergency number keeps 911 available for true emergencies.

Tulip 03-04-2009 12:57 PM

Perhaps that woman thought the number 911 is for calling the police?

TheMercenary 03-05-2009 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 541272)
And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

No, they should just shoot them.

classicman 03-05-2009 09:42 PM

That does reduce repeat offenders

TheMercenary 03-05-2009 11:06 PM

Eventually.


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