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[Carruthers]

Musicians travelling home from Devon wedding relieve drivers' traffic woes by performing Pachelbel's Canon in outside lane of motorway near Taunton

Drivers stranded in a motorway jam were treated to an impromptu roadside concert by a string quartet.

The M5 was closed in both directions after a horse box broke down on Sunday and the animals inside became agitated.

So a group of musicians travelling home from a performance decided to pass the time by staging a gig in the outside lane. They set up their instruments and amazed their fellow motorists by performing Pachelbel's Canon.

Footage of the roadside concert was filmed by Helen Delingpole, of Ferndale, Wales, and posted on Facebook.

The 45-year-old wrote: "A horse escaped on the M5 today on our way back from Devon, causing a complete stand-still and a string quartet to play."

The quartet members, who were on their way back from a wedding in Devon, performed between junctions 26 and 27 on the Somerset/Devon border near Taunton.

Alison Gillies, 37, of Bristol, who plays the cello in the group, said: "We were on our way back from playing at someone's wedding and we got caught up in the traffic jam, then one of the quartet jokingly suggested it and we thought why not?

"A crowd of people came over, and everyone seemed to like it - it was great. People seemed to just come over, they saw us unpacking and everything so it wasn't much of a surprise for them, but they got into it it was really nice.

"We were playing so we didn't really notice at the time, but there was quite a crowd. We got a round of applause at the end and a woman came over and gave us some sweets. It was the more unforgettable gig of the weekend."

Another member of the group, 31-year-old Lu Jeffery, of Portishead, near Bristol, said: "It was a lovely moment, one the quartet will treasure.

"Between us, we have played some of the most incredible concert venues globally and the one afternoon you play the M5 it all goes crazy."

Highways Agency officials and a vet were all called to deal with the situation, which closed the road for about half-an-hour.

The horse transporter stopped at the hard shoulder, but the horses inside became agitated and tried to escape while traffic passed.

Daily Telegraph



You'll have to excuse the second motorcyclist who drowned them out at one point. Terribly bad form.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hmm, Pachelbel's Canon, good choice for stranded, frustrated people. Much better than Free Bird.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Pork Chops?

[Sundae]

Congrats, made me guffaw in the library and made the man next to me paranoid.
One post, two wins.

[DanaC]

Continuing the porcine theme...

An unofficial biography alleges that British prime minister took part in bizarre ritual at the Piers Gaveston Society, reported to encourage ‘ostentatious decadence’

An unofficial biography of David Cameron written by the Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft contains a series of allegations. They include that the prime minister spent time in a drug-taking environment at university, that he took part in a bizarre dinner club initiation ritual, and another claim about Cameron’s knowledge of the peer’s offshore tax status.

One specific allegation is that, in the words of the Daily Mail, Cameron took part in an initiation ceremony in which he “put a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth. It cites a source – a current MP – who claims to have seen photographic evidence. It allegedly took place at a notorious Oxford University drinking club, the Piers Gaveston Society.

Naturally, this has led to a lot of people calling back to the infamous pig-fucking episode of Black Mirror.

[Undertoad]

I can't fault him for this, I would have done it.

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Originally Posted by DanaC

...the infamous pig-fucking episode of Black Mirror.

The only episode I've seen.

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War in Syria causes first withdrawal from world seed bank

[sexobon]

There's a highly trained flock of birds waiting to intercept it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I can't fault him for this, I would have done it.

But only if she was dead.

[Sundae]

From the BBC website:

A drought-affected district in eastern Australia is asking for government help to protect its villages against a "plague" of thirsty kangaroos, it's reported.

The mayor of sparsely populated Barcoo Shire, in the state of Queensland, says hordes of kangaroos are causing concern among local people because they're coming into residential areas looking for food and water, the Brisbane Times reports. "The sheer numbers, you can drive around and you'll see a mob of kangaroos and you lose count after 120 or 130, they are in plague proportions," says Mayor Julie Groves. Some of the animals are "taller than most men" and can be aggressive, she says. "We appreciate they are starving but you have to keep the little kids and the older people in the town safe."

Emphasis mine. My guess is that any child growing up in Australia who can't get out of the way of a dangerous animal taller than a man is going to have trouble sooner rather than later.

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Leaving a couple dozen of their dead bodies lying around ought to send some kind of message.

Usually does with most other species.

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This has to be bullshit. It just has to be bullshit. I'm calling bullshit.

Her psychologist poured drain cleaner in her eyes because she wanted to be blind.

The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil.

Sooo much bullshit in this story.

This just has to be triple-distilled, double-rectified bullshit.

[DanaC]

I dunno man - there are many recorded cases of people seeking limb amputation because of this condition - and there have been surgeons willing to carry out the operation.

If it's true - then the psychologist needs prosecuting.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Would the New York Post lie to you? Has the New York Post ever lied to you?
Gawker asks, "Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?"
Obviously she didn't want to have to see herself in the mirror anymore.
Google has 148,000 links for Jewel Shuping, and this supposedly happened in 2006.