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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Farting can be embarrassing, but one woman’s efforts to cover her tracks by striking matches to hide the smell was taking things a little bit too far. She was onboard an aeroplane and the smell of burning sparked security fears and the plane had to make an emergency landing.


If you really do need to own a penis pump make a mental note not to take it on holiday with you when you are travelling by plane. Don’t deviate from this plan and definitely don’t deviate from it if you are travelling with your mum. Mardin Azad Amin forget these golden rules and he must be wishing he hadn’t. When quizzed about the suspicious package in his bag, he told them it was a bomb, as he was too embarrassed to admit it was a penis pump in front of his mum. He could now face up to three years in prison.

Anyone who owns a parrot and is planning to have an affair next year should reconsider either their choice of pet or their potential infidelity. The two are just not compatible, as Suzy Collins from Leeds can testify. An African Grey parrot, called Ziggy, exposed Miss Collins affair to her partner Chris Taylor by saying the name of her lover, Gary, every time her phone rang. Ziggy also made kissing noises whenever he heard the name Gary on the television.


We all know it’s not right to peek at your presents before Christmas Day, but what we didn’t know was how severe the consequences can be if you dare to flout that rule. A 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, in the US, was arrested by police for unwrapping a Nintendo Game Boy Advance. He was charged with petty theft after his angry mum reported him.


It’s hard enough being a hedgehog at the best of times, so when a confused human tries to have sex with you it really is the final straw. But that is exactly what happened to one poor hedgehog, when a Serbian man thought he could cure his problem of premature ejaculation by having sex with the spiky animal. He claimed a witch doctor had told him it would work.

The eBay website caused problems for one family in 2006, when a three-year old boy managed to log on using his parent’s username and password and bought a car worth £9,000. Despite Jack Neal’s successful bid for the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro, the seller let Jack’s worried parents off the hook when he was made aware of the unusual situation.

Most people are afraid of something, whether it be spiders, sharks, the dark or flying in an aeroplane. But a mum from Cheltenham took phobias to whole new level, when she revealed she was absolutely petrified of peas. Louise Arnold was so afraid of the green vegetables that she can’t bear to be in the same room as them and has to leave restaurants and pubs if she sees any.

As a tribute to the legendary fictional spy James Bond, 23-year-old fan David Fearn officially changed his name to honour all the Bond movies. He is now known as James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond.

Slow. Relentless. Known for eating people’s brains and leaving a trail of devastation and misery in their wake. Yes, zombies have always had a lot in common with the American legal system – and now, seven of the undead have filed a lawsuit against the Minneapolis police.
The plaintiffs were dancing at a party in July when the seven of them – six adults and one juvenile in heavy zombie makeup – were arrested by the police, and held for two days. They claim they were abused and treated badly during that time.
The reason given by the police for their arrest was that the living dead were ‘simulating weapons of mass destruction.’ This might have been partly due to the police’s ongoing efforts in the War on Zombies, and partly due to the fact that the police couldn’t tell the difference between a radio in a backpack and a dirty bomb.
‘The musical equipment had no resemblance to weapons of mass destruction, and its purpose and use could easily be ascertained,’ states the zombies lawsuit.
The lawsuit also claims that one policeman swore at the zombies, saying he was going to teach them a lesson that that he didn’t care about the constitutional rights of the revenants (or Undead Americans, to use the politically correct term).
Furthermore, it says that one of the zombies had their prosthetic leg removed for the duration of time they were in jail – the jailers clearly unaware that mere limb loss won’t stop a zombie coming after you. Remove the head or destroy the brain, people.
The city defended the arrests in August, saying that the presence of the dancing zombies made the police genuinely fear for public safety.
The zombie plaintiffs – Jamie Jones, Raphi Rechitsky, Jake Sternberg, Jessica Baribeau, Christian Utne and Kate Kibby, as well as minor Kyle Kibby – are seeking damages of over $50,000, although it is believed they might settle for braaaaaiiiiins !!

A man attempting to kidnap a teenager saw his plans go painfully wrong when, stuffing his gun back into his waistband, he shot himself in the testicle.
The incident occurred in Wichita, Kansas, after a dispute that reportedly involved stereo speakers (exactly what it was about the stereo speakers that provoked an attempted kidnapping is unclear, but they must have been very nice speakers).
Three men, aged 23, 20 and 18, confronted a teenager on Monday afternoon. The eldest would-be kidnapper pulled out a gun and fired at the teen, but missed. He then shoved the gun back into the waistband of his trousers.
That’s when it went off, shooting him in the left testicle.
This event caused the man to wince – well, it would do – and unfortunately for him, the motion of wincing caused the gun to go off again.
Luckily for him, it didn’t take out the other testicle. It just shot him in the left calf instead.
The man hobbled to a local hospital, where he sought treatment for a bullet through the testicle. He and his accomplices now face charges of attempted kidnapping, aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

A German woman is suing a foster agency, after her teenage foster son ruined valuable naked photos of her – by comitting an act of self-love all over them.
Marietta Anton, 50, who now lives in Portugal’s Algarve, was 25 when she was photographed naked by her boyfriend at the time, Sigmar Polke. After they split Polke went on to become a world famous artist, and the old pictures were valued at over £35,000.
But when Anton’s 15-year-old foster son Mehmet found the old snaps, he thought he had unearthed a secret porn stack, and proceeded to do what teenage boys will do.


A student accused of sexually relieving himself into the cafeteria salad-dressing was due to hand himself over to police on Monday.
17-year-old Marco Raphael G. Castro, of Wheaton, Illinois, allegedly did the bad thing into a small bottle of ranch salad dressing at his high school canteen, then returned it, and watched as other students consumed it.
The salad dressing was in use for two days on December 6 and 7, before it was washed and refilled (with salad dressing, not the other thing). Because it was washed, there may be little evidence remaining from the crime.
He was caught after allegedly bragging to friends about his adventures in self-pleasuring. One of them then told a teacher.
School Principal Jill Bullo described it as an ‘unusual and disgusting’ incident.
Castro – who reportedly got the idea from Jackass: Number Two, although it sounds more Fight Club to us – is said to have been cooperative with police investigations. He may now face charges of disorderly conduct and attempted battery.

A teenage boy is facing numerous charges after he drunkenly rammed his girlfriend’s car sixteen times in an attempt to get a goodnight kiss, following an argument.

The one flaw in this otherwise perfect plan was that he’d got the wrong car.

The 17-year-old, from Pinconning in Michigan, had fallen out with his girlfriend at a party that evening. She had left, and he had gone out searching for her. Believing he’d found her car, he promptly started to ram it repeatedly, on more than one occasion pushing it through an intersection.

All the while, he was talking to his girlfriend on her mobile phone, telling her to stop her car. He later told police that she seemed confused, because she didn’t know what he was talking about and had already stopped.

The victim, a 17-year-old girl, called police on her own phone, and managed to lead her attacker towards nearby police cars. At which point, he apparently decided that he wasn’t that fussed about the kiss, and decided to lead police on a 90mph chase instead.

It is believed he will be charged with drunk driving, assault with a vehicle, and fleeing police. It is not believed that he ever managed to get a goodnight kiss.

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A married couple who turned to burglary to fund their luxury lifestyle – and always left a turd behind after each raid – were caught in the act by police after trying too hard to flag up their latest raid.

Serial burglars Igor and Irina Moschkov, known in Russian media as the Bonnie and Clyde of Crap, were caught after breaking into a house in the city of Dmitrovograd.

A local police spokesman said: ‘They had robbed a string of properties and would always defecate on the furniture during the break-ins. We got a tip off from a women who heard grunting noises from a nearby house.

‘When our officers got there, we entered the flat after seeing the door open and a window broken, and saw the husband squatting down on the table trying hard to leave their trademark sign.

‘He was having some problems, and had been making some noise about it, which had alerted a neighbour.’

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Kitten head not ideal present
Monday, February 5, 2007.

A woman from Pittsburgh was surprised to find a package left on her doorstep by her ex-boyfriend. On the plus side, it was nicely wrapped in red bows and pink tissue paper, and came with a note saying ‘I love you, Your Ben’.

On the down side, it contained the severed head of a kitten.

Police arrested the woman’s ex, 30-year-old Benjamin Gregory, on Friday. He is charged with stalking and cruelty to animals.

Katie Waters, a humane officer investigating the case, said: ‘We have been unable to determine where the kitten came from. It definitely did not belong to the victim.’ She also doubted that the kitten, which was black and between 3 and 4 months old, belonged to Gregory.

‘This has been an extremely difficult case to work on,’ she added.

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Rampage trucker ‘didn’t like city’
Tuesday, February 6, 2007.

A trucker in America stands accused of taking his truck on a methamphetamine-fuelled rampage of destruction around Albuquerque, New Mexico – on the grounds that he didn’t like Albuquerque very much.

Police are investigating the $500,000 worth of damage caused after Eric Dubach, 28, allegedly dropped the trailer from his truck off nearby, sniffed a ‘couple of grams’ of meth, and took the tractor off for a joyride around Albuquerque.

During his journey, he managed to smash up fences, trees, road signs, at least 4 houses, 5 businesses and around 24 cars, before finally being brought to a stop when he drove through a retaining wall.

Local Sheriff Darren White of Albuquerque police said: ‘If you could see it, it was like a tornado that went through this small community.’

According to White, the reason Dubach gave for his alleged destruction frenzy was that he didn’t like Albuquerque, and wanted to ‘mess it up’.

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"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
 
( The Third Man , 1947 )

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall—think of it. Always."

Mahatma Ghandi.

Overcome indifference ,  remember the words of Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

 

1..lawn mower

 

2..breast implants

3..14ft boat

4..park bench

5..jar of bull’s sperm

6..vasectomy kit

7..two human skulls in a bag.

a firefly is not a fly….its a beetle,
a lead pencil contains no lead…..it contains graphite,

a cucumber is not a vegetable….it’s a fruit,
a bald eagle…..is not bald,

a shooting star is not a star….it’s a meteor.
can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

do 3 people die each year testing a 9v battery on their tongue to see if it works.

Check Hornstein’s list of types below to see where your boss fits in:

Conquerors: The equivalent of the playground bully, this boss is obsessed with power. They’ll put you on permanent tea-making duty and pour the stuff into the plant pot in front of your eyes.

Performers: This boss feels threatened very easily and will attack anyone who seems to be competitive. Don’t have a bright idea in front of this one.

Manipulators: Wants to appear to be top dog at all costs. If a pet project of theirs is going awry expect them to palm it off on you and dress it up as an ‘opportunity’.

Dehumanisers: People are just numbers to these robots. They’ll see you as a company asset and boy will they try and sweat you. Don’t expect tea and sympathy if you have a problem on the home front: just make sure you turn up on time.

Blamers: This sort is righteous about wrongness and loves to dish out the blame. When they reprimand you, they’ll remind you that you deserved what happened to you.

Rationalisers: Their mantra is ‘the company comes first’. They justify their criticisms with the belief that it needed to be said.

1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

4- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

6- There are more chickens than people in the world.

7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."

9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20.

10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver or purple.

11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
letters "mt".

12- Where is the online database of new car lowest invoice prices?

13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end
in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

15- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

18- Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s "It’s
a Wonderful Life."

20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

22- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it
starves to death.

30- A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but
actually clear.

31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,
which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor
of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he
doesn’t wear pants.

33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed
in plane crashes.

34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually
turn white.

38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people do.

40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter in the English language.

41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter
with which they start, with the exception of North America.

42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left.

44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.

45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating one
olive from each salad served in first-class.

46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a
population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

48- "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

49- No president of the United states was an only child.

50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you.

The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."