Wednesday, August 31, 2011

VIDEO: Fawn Rescued .. Washington Firemen Save the Day

On the Morning of May 18th 2011, my wife noticed a deer in our yard that appeared to be franticly looking for something in the rocks that form a wall on our property line in Brush Prairie WA. When we first went out with our neighbors, we didn't see anything, but the deer wouldn't leave our yard. We went back to our house and watched; after a few minutes the deer came back.

We went out to the area the deer was concentrating on and could hear a baby fawn crying in the rocks. We moved some of the rocks and smaller boulders and saw a baby fawn's face among the rocks. He had apparently fallen into a crawl-through in one of the gaps and was now trapped. The larger boulders were too heavy to move and we didn't want to have the rocks cave in on the baby deer.

We finally called our Clark County Fire District 3. The B Shift team came out and they were able to move the larger rocks out of the way with the Jaws of Life; enough to be able to reach in and pull the baby fawn out and reunite it with its momma. The fawn was probably stuck in there most of the night and quickly went to nurse off its momma. One of our neighbors took some video clips of the fire department's rescue. I edited the clips into this short clip. After sharing it with some friends they thought that it was just too cute not to share with more people so my neighbors agreed to let me upload the final clip.






JOKE: MAN WALKS INTO A BAR

A man walked into a bar and sat down next to an extremely gorgeous woman. The first thing he noticed about her was her pants. They were skin-tight,high-waisted and had no obvious mechanism zipper, buttons or Velcro)for opening them. After several minutes of puzzling over how she got the pants up over her hips, he finally worked up the nerve to ask her."Excuse me, miss," he asked, "but how do you get into your pants?"

"Well," she replied, "it would help if you can start out by buying me a drink..."


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GOT CAPTION? 9/01

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VIDEO: Horse in the Сar







whenever I post a horse in a vehicle, I alway think of Patches..one of my all-time favorite videos


VIDEO: Hamish Blake, Ultimate Wingman

VIDEO: Amazing Recovery On Motorcycle

VIDEO: Bully Cat Stuffs Cat In Box

VIDEO: Best Costume Ever?

Grave offense as death warning is posted...at a Scottish cemetery

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A CHURCH congregation is in uproar after power bosses put up signs warning of "danger of death" - in a graveyard.
Politicians yesterday branded the signs in Bettyhill Cemetery in Farr, Sutherland, as "insensitive" and "utterly ridiculous".
Power firm Scottish and Southern Energy agreed the warnings could cause distress - but said they were bound by health and safety rules to put them up.
The yellow signs have been pinned to the power cable pole in the middle of the graveyard.
They warn: "Danger of death - keep off." To further illustrate the point, they show a silhouette of a corpse being electrocuted.
Msp Rob Gibson said: "It really is utterly ridiculous and insensitive. SSE need to redesign signs for such sensitive sites.
"People can get the message of the dangers of electricity without such a blatant sign and image in a cemetery."
Councillor Linda Munro, who lives four miles from the graveyard, called for the signs to be removed.
She said: "They are insensitive and some people will find them distressing. I would call for them to be taken down.
"Some people will see the lighter side but this is bureaucracy gone mad. They could particularly upset the bereaved at the graveside."
Interim moderator the Rev Leslie Goskirk said: "It is insensitive. I just wonder if they knew what they were doing?" But a spokeswoman for SSE said: "We have to warn of the dangers of electricity and these are standard signs.
"We are obliged to make people aware. But I understand why people say they are insensitive in this situation."
The cable supplies power to the old St Columba's parish church of Farr - now the Strathnaver Museum - built in 1774. The surrounding cemetery is still used as the graveyard for the area.

VIDEO: Bert the Cat vs Cat Balloon LMAO

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

FYI: Viagra Will Make Flowers Erect

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Did you know that Viagra also make flowers erect? Oui, Viagra is good not only for treating male impotence.
Israeli and Australian researchers have discovered that small concentrations of the drug dissolved in a vase of water can also double the shelf life of cut flowers, making them stand up straight for as long as a week beyond their natural life span.
They have tested Viagra on strawberries, legumes, roses, carnations, broccoli, and other perishables.
In this research they found that 1 mg of the drug (compared with 50 mg in one pill taken by impotent men) in a solution was enough to prevent two vases of cut flowers from wilting for as much as a week longer than might be expected.

JOKE: Socrates the Philosopher

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In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students...?"  "Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Test of Three."  "Test of Three?"  "That's correct," Socrates continued.  "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to test what you're going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"  "No," the man replied, "actually I just heard about it."  "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"  "No, on the contrary..."  "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?"  The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, "You may still pass though because there is a third test - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me as his teacher?"  "No, not really..."  "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"  The man was defeated and ashamed and said no more.  This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.  It also explains why Socrates never found out that Plato was banging his wife.

GOT CAPTION? 8/31

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Hurricane Irene's Destruction in Vermont..Entire Towns Devastated..No Roads Open

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this is Rte #4 the road I used to travel daily..this road travels east to west from Rutland to Killington ski area..obviously it will be some time until repairs can be made..entire towns are cut-off without roads and food is running short..many towns and cities are without power


VIDEO: Snowboarder Jumps Over Moving Train

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VIDEO: Worst Hail Storm Ever?

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VIDEO: Remote control F-16 with 'helmet cam'

A micro camera is installed onboard an r/c plane F-16. The camera transmit live the video to ground and I wear video goggle to fly the plane in real time like if I was in the cockpit. The camera replace the head of the pilot and the movement of the cam is control by the movement of my head on ground via a head mount gyroscope (head tracker)

The whole system cost around $1500 including the plane. But it is many hours of hand made modifcation. You can start with simpler video system that cost around $500 and install it on your own r/c plane.

VIDEO: Two chatbots talking to each other

VIDEO: ULTIMATE Caption FAIL

VIDEO: Youngest Hello EVER! Talking 2 month old baby says hello

VIDEO: Close Call on a Motorcycle

"Taking a buddy Karen out for her first sportsbike ride... A ute comes around a blind corner on my side of the road and misses by... Well, it looks like a few inches. I had to run off into the gravel and grass, thank fuck the BMW S1000RR has ABS!"

VIDEO: The Cat Says the Lid Stays Closed

Monday, August 29, 2011

JOKE: Lobster Tales

The seafood restaurant's sign read, "Big Lobster Tales, $5." Amazed at the great value, a customer asked the waitress, "Five bucks for lobster tails? Is that correct?" "Yep," she said. "It's today's special." He remained skeptical. "Are they little?" "No," she replied, "they're big." "$5 each? Are they old?" "No. Fresh today." "Wow. Great. Here's my five bucks." She took his money, led him to a table, sat him down, leaned over close and began, "Once upon a time, there was a really big red lobster..."

Definition of a "friend:" An acquaintance of the opposite sex who has a flaw that makes sex unappealing.

On that fateful day, Davy Crockett looked out from his observation post and saw a horde of Mexicans moving steadily toward the Alamo. He turned to William B. Travis and Jim Bowie with a puzzled look. "Were you expecting landscapers today?"
The handsome construction worker considered himself quite the stud and had no trouble persuading an attractive lady to go to his apartment. After making love, he rolled over and lit a cigarette. But his self-satisfied smile vanished when she hopped out of bed and snapped, "You may look like Mel Gibson, but you're lousy in the sack!" The indignant fellow snapped back, "Oh, yeah? What makes you such an expert after only forty-five seconds?!"
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GOT CAPTION? 8/30

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VIDEO: Adele - ''Someone Like You'' ..Another Wonderful Talent

VIDEO: Beat Boxing Piccolo Player..lol

VIDEO: Sticky the Dog

VIDEO: Chanting Cat Has ISSUES

VIDEO: Labrador Puppy Loves His A/C On a Hot Day

Sunday, August 28, 2011

JOKE: Kenny Rogers


Kenny Rogers and his entourage are aboard their tour bus on their way to a concert in Denver, when they get a flat tire.  The mechanic jumps off the bus to fix the flat, but because they're already behind schedule and in a hurry, he neglects to double check that the lug nuts are properly tightened.  Shortly thereafter, as the bus goes around a curve on a twisty mountain highway, the entire wheel comes off. The bus veers off the road, and plunges down the side of the mountain.  Everybody on board is killed, except for a young roadie who happened to be lying in his bunk, and was somewhat shielded from the crash by his mattress.  The kid is lying in his hospital bed being interviewed by the press, and one reporter asks him if Kenny Rogers had said any last words?  Yes, said the young man, he did. As the bus went over the edge I could hear Mr. Rogers singing...... You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel... 


GOT CAPTION? 8/29

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VIDEO: Beautiful Waterspout and an Ominous One..Same Place

VIDEO: Snoring Shar-pei Pup

VIDEO: Corgi Masseuse

Boy, 9, crashes while driving himself to school

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Nine year-old Brandon Brown took a few wrong turns on Thursday morning. "It was very wrong, and I shouldn't have done that," Brandon now says. His mother, Michelle Brown, says he was giving her trouble while getting ready to go to school. "I figured he was in the next room, because I'd seen the bedroom lights on...he's real quiet," Michelle says.

Quiet enough to sneak into his mother's purse, grab her car keys, and drive through his hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana. His drive ended when he crashed into two telephone poles. His grandmother, Christine Armstrong, who was driving along Prescott Road, spotted the accident first.

"I stopped, and I recognized the car, and I looked inside, and the people up there told me, 'The little boy did it'", she says. His grandmother didn't see him in the car. Brandon fled on foot to a nearby hospital. His parents found him, and after being cuffed and placed in the police officer's back seat, Brandon said he has learned his lesson.

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"It was very wrong, I shouldn't have done that," Brandon says, "and I said that I would never do that again." His mother says that she could care less about the damage. "I'm just glad that the police gave him back to me, and that he's okay," she says.

VIDEO: Cool Hot Rod Quadracycle

Local News: Widow says army Ranger killed self to avoid 9th tour

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Noah Hagemann, 6, is joined by his mother, Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, as he peers over a picture of his father, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann.

Army Ranger Jared Hagemann had served eight combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, with another deployment to Afghanistan looming.

But the 25-year-old staff sergeant dreaded the prospect of another tour. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and found the pressures of another a ninth deployment so overwhelming, his wife said, that he repeatedly threatened to take his own life.

On June 28, he was found dead, a gunshot wound to his head, in a training area at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, where he was based.

"He wanted out," Ashley Joppa-Hagemann said. "They should have let him out,".

Hagemann's wife is convinced it was suicide because she said he had repeatedly threatened to kill himself in the final months of his life.

The Army has not yet determined whether it was suicide, said Maj. Brian DeSantis, a spokesman with the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment in Fort Benning, Ga. He said the Army has launched two investigations into Hagemann's death to determine how he died and the factors leading up to his death.

Joppa-Hagemann said the military knew about her husband's mental health problems but did little to help him. "So many people knew there were issues. He sought help and nobody was paying attention," said the 25-year-old widow, who lives in Yelm with the couple's two young sons.

The Army says Hagemann's medical history is being reviewed as part of the investigation. The investigating officer will look into what diagnosis or treatment was made and whether policies were followed, DeSantis said.

The Army has not held a military memorial for Hagemann, and the Army Rangers said Tuesday there are no plans to hold a battalion memorial for him.

"It's ridiculous. He's served his time. Every soldier deserves a memorial," Joppa-Hagemann said.

DeSantis said Hagemann's unit participated in his funeral and gave him full military honors. "The unit was able to pay their respects, so an additional (ceremony) was not planned," he said.

Hagemann enlisted in the Army out of high school in 2004 because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. He stood up for what he believed in, his wife said, and the Rangers to him meant being the first one in, "taking care of the bad guys."

He was charming, outgoing, and commanded everyone's attention when he walked into a room, she said. But after each combat tour, he would return cold, quiet, paranoid, and at times increasingly aggressive and violent. He'd drink more each time, had mood swings and would complain of recurring nightmares, she said.

In 2009, he was admitted for four days to Madigan Army Medical Center for mental health care services and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she said. He went to counseling for alcoholism but was later told he needed to do it on his own time.

"Soldiers aren't being allowed to take care of their mental health programs," said Seth Menzel, an Army veteran who has been pushing for military accountability and has been advocating for Joppa-Hagemann.

In 2010, he received a glowing evaluation with top marks and raters noting his unparalleled loyalty to the Army and Rangers and outstanding potential. Later that year, he would return to Afghanistan for his eighth combat tour. His eight tours lasted, on average, about four months, according to the Army.

His wife said he was growing increasingly frustrated and repeatedly asked to leave the Rangers unit. The Army's DeSantis said the battalion leadership was not aware of any request for him to leave the unit.

"In the last month, he put a gun to his head three times. He told me every day was a struggle to wake up and want to live," Joppa-Hagemann said. "He said the things he had seen and done, no God would have forgiven him."



Young fox cub has the time of its life sliding down quarry conveyor belt



A disused gravel quarry became a playground for a young fun-loving fox and his family.
This photograph, taken by British man Duncan Usher, shows how the clever four-month-old creature turned an old conveyor belt into a make-shift slide, before travelling down it twice.
Mr Usher photographed the amusing sight close to Bursfelde, a hamlet in the German countryside.
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The sly-de fox: Appearing to enjoy himself, the cub, aged about four months, rides the quarry conveyor belt in Germany

The 56-year-old, who now lives in Bursfelde, said: 'One morning I arrived at the quarry and saw from a distance two young foxes playing on the conveyor belt.
'One ran back to the top of the conveyor belt and then started to walk back down it, stopped and sat down.

'After a few seconds it started to slide down the conveyor belt using its front paws to drag it forwards.
'They were attracted to the conveyer belt because it was a playground to them.
'I have not seen this type of behaviour amongst free living wild animals and I was really surprised and pleased to witness and capture this unusual event.
'I had to react quickly and knew that the chances of getting a decent image was slight.
'I thought the odds were really against me but that morning fortune was on my side.'
Mr Usher, orginally from Allendale, Northumberland, spent three weeks at the quarry before he managed to capture the elusive foxes at play.
He said: 'Obviously my determination paid off in the end. It was really a combination of repeatedly going back to the same spot and patience.
'I knew from past photographic experience that if I remained persistent, something unusual or worthwhile can, or may happen.
'A large portion of luck also helped.'


VIDEO: Speed Climbing the Eiger

Patient abandoned on operating table dies of smoke inhalation

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Local police are investigating the death of a patient who was allegedly abandoned while under general anesthesia when a fire broke out in a nearby operating room yesterday.

The the 49-year-old man was undergoing amputation surgery last night, after surviving a traffic accident, when the fire broke out at 10pm at Shanghai No. 3 People's Hospital in Baoshan District.

Hospital officials said a fire broke out in a room next to the operation theatre, but the cause of the fire and the reason why the man was abandoned while undergoing serious surgery was still being investigated.

All patients were evacuated from the building, but when rescuers returned Zhu was already dead, officials said.

The cause of his death is suffocation from smoke inhalation, police said.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

VIDEO: "Talking Lions" Encounter a Cobra BBC

VIDEO: Evolution Explained..Simply..Succinctly

UPDATE: Florida couple sentenced to prison in deadly python case where their 2 yr. old died



ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - A young Florida mother and her boyfriend were sentenced on Wednesday to 12 years each in prison on manslaughter charges stemming from the death of the woman's 2-year-old daughter, who was strangled by their pet python in her crib.
Jaren Hare, 21, and boyfriend Charles Darnell, 34, were convicted last month for the July 2009 death of Hare's daughter, Shaianna, in the central Florida town of Bushnell.
Assistant State Attorney Conrad Juergensmeyer said the couple also was ordered to serve five years of probation upon release from prison.
Darnell found the couple's 8-1/2-foot-long albino Burmese python named Gypsy wrapped around Shaianna's head and body after it escaped from an unsecured aquarium during the night, according to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office.
The medical examiner found bite marks on the child's head and arms.
Darnell told authorities he thought he had secured the snake by placing it in a laundry bag, which had a small hole in it, and then covering the aquarium with a quilt held on by safety pins.
Hare told deputies that the snake had escaped from the tank and laundry bag 10 times in the previous two months, and that she was planning to make a locking lid for the tank. The aquarium was kept in the living room where two other children sleeping on a convertible sofa were unharmed.

Greyson Michael Chance (Lady Gaga Paparazzi cover) Blows People Away!!!

this kid makes Bieber looks like an amateur..this video was shot without anyone knowing the talent they were about to witness..my understanding is that video was shot in a church on a cellphone..I have my doubts but the talent is without peer.. watch this kid!




JOKE: Oh God

A drunk lay slumped outside a bar, in serious need of a drink. A passing priest and bishop started to lecture him on the evils of alcohol. "You should be more like God, like me," said one. The other argued, "No, my son, more like me. I am more like God." The two holy men then argued over which was more like God. Finally, the drunk interrupted. "I'm more like God than either of you arguing hypocrites. And if you give me ten bucks, I'll prove it!" They accepted his challenge and each handed him five dollars. As the drunk stood, he said, "You two go sit in the bar and when I enter you'll have your proof." The bishop entered first and the barkeep said, "Good afternoon, bishop. What'll you have?" Then the priest entered and the barkeep said, "Good afternoon, father. What'll you have?" The drunk came in waving his ten dollars. The bartender shrugged. "Oh, God. Not you again!"

GOT CAPTION? 8/28

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VIDEO: News Camera Gets Mooned During Hurricane

VIDEO: My Favorite Russian Dmitri..Taking his tank to McDonald's drive-thru

Tractor Loving Swan Has a New Love..A Goose

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Schwani the swan who fell in love with an old tractor has traded it in for a new model - after falling for a goose.

Hotel groundsman Hermann Hericks - from Munster, Germany - says the fickle fowl has shunned the blue farm vehicle after a six year obsession and now spends all day following a goose around the park.

"Not so long ago he wouldn't be parted from my tractor and followed me from the minute I started the engine every day," said Herman.

"Now he never lets the goose out of his sight. I am very pleased he's found a new love because although it's not ideal, she's a much better match for him than a tractor," he added.

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VIDEO: dog farts and makes funny face

Man found with suitcase full of ape parts he planned to eat

A horrifying stash of ape body parts intended for use in voodoo spells has been confiscated by customs officials in Potsdam, Germany.

The haul - which included chimp heads, hands, internal organs and several penises - were discovered in the suitcase of African-born David Bueno, 41, who claimed he planned to eat them.

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But contraband expert believe the parts were to be used in witchcraft and voodoo rituals where animal body parts are said to bring strength and power to believers.

A customs spokesman said: "This is increasingly common, sadly. These body parts are used in religious rites or medicine." Bueno - who was on his way back from the Congo - is facing charges of trafficking endangered species.

Police Catch Squirrel Flag Thief ...Toledo Residents Relieved


It's not every day Toledo police catch a thief in the act, let alone with a uniformed command officer standing just feet away, watching. But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday. For days, officers had noticed that small flags were disappearing from the Toledo Police Memorial Garden at the Civic Mall, between the municipal and federal courthouses. There were no suspects, no clues left at the scene to help police catch the perpetrator.
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But at about 7:15 a.m. on Wednesday, walking into the office, Lieutenants James Brown and Mark King watched the bandit take a flag - and a single pink plastic flower - from the garden. "I just saw him eyeballing it," Lieutenant Brown said. "He didn't know I was standing there." The quick-thinking officer pulled out his cell phone to snap a picture. Lieutenant Brown got his man. Or, well, his squirrel.

The squirrel stopped for a split-second, perhaps realizing he had been caught red-handed - or pawed - on film to look at the lieutenant. Then the suspect, who police describe as a red and brown bushy-tailed critter, fled on four paws toward the Safety Building. "He was too fast," the lieutenant said. "I couldn't catch him." No charges have been filed and police believe the squirrel acted alone in the incident. Lieutenant Brown said it took the squirrel less than 30 seconds to get the small flag off the wooden dowel.

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"He definitely knew what he was doing," the lieutenant said. "This wasn't his first time." It's unclear how many flags have been taken from the garden, but the lieutenant said at least three are missing. "I can't prove it was all the same squirrel," he said. Carefully using his teeth, the squirrel cut the flag away from the post. The flag was not ripped and the wooden post was left intact.

Here Ya Go..Get Your Free Virgin's Guide

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VIDEO: Great Kia Commercial

VIDEO: Funny Dog

JOKE: An Old Man Goes to the Doctor

An 86-year-old man entered the crowded doctor's office, walked over to the the receptionist and said in a rather loud voice, "There's something wrong with my pecker!" The receptionist was offended.

"You shouldn't say things like that in a crowded office!"

"Why not? You asked me what was wrong. I told you," he said.

The receptionist replied, "Because you embarrass the other people waiting here. Say there's something wrong with your ear or something instead and then discuss your problem with the doctor, in private." The man left, waited in the hallway for a while and then reentered. The receptionist smiled smugly and asked, "Yes?"

"There's something wrong with my ear," said the man, loudly. The receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled because he had taken her advice.

"And just what's wrong with your ear, sir?"

And he bellowed, "I can't piss out of it!"

GOT CAPTION? 8/27

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Friday, August 26, 2011

VIDEO: 2012 Lexus LFA Supercar Hot Lap..this is cool

A bit overpriced but indeed a supercar..and for a "rice burner", some exquisite sounds come forth


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Edmunds.com Automotive Editor John DiPietro rides shotgun as professional race car driver Scott Pruett puts a bone stock (even the tires) 2012 Lexus LFA supercar through its paces around the Long Beach Grand Prix road course.

Those are 9,500 rpm upshifts you're hearing. Just an incredibly composed car when it's being rung out.


VIDEO: Unreal Jump Rope Skills

VIDEO: Golf Ball Sized Hail in Iowa

VIDEO: Winged Suit Crazy Jeb Corliss Doing it Again.."Grinding the Crack"

VIDEO: Movie Titles in Movies

Local Vocal - 90's Dance acapella medley mix

Obama Shakes Hands - Fresh Prince Style

Blue Man Group - Drumbone

VIDEO: Accidental snowkite liftoff in Algeria OMG

Georgia dog eats $10,000 worth of diamonds


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$10,000 worth of diamonds disappeared from an Albany, Georgia jewellery store, but they didn't have to go far to find them again. They quickly figured out it was an inside job, and recovered the jewels the next day. In fact, they didn't even have to call police. John Ross Jewellers is well-known in town for their four footed mascots. Tiffany and Velvet roamed the shop for years, and appeared in commercials. After their passing, Honey Bun now greets customers and as Chuck and Ann Roberts found out their new pup has expensive taste.

Honey Bun's not much of a guard dog, but is great on customer relations. "He's been loved," says Co-owner Chuck. Customers sometimes hide treats in their purses for Honey Bun, but the Roberts' recently learned this pampered pooch has more expensive taste. It happened two weeks ago when a customer came in.

"A customer came in, and I jumped up out of my chair and came out here to wait on him, and I left the chair where he could jump up on my chair, and jump up on my desk," said Roberts. On the desk four packs of loose diamonds, about a carat each to set in diamond earrings, pens, and dog treats. When he returned only three packs remained, and an empty pouch like this one was lying on the floor. "We looked all over and there weren't any diamonds, so immediately I knew he'd eaten them."

Since Honey Bun wasn't talking, there was only one way to find out. "She came down and took him across the street and we ran X-rays." Carbon doesn't show up on an X-ray, but two blank spots confirmed Honey Bun was a likely suspect. It only took a day, and they found another surprise. "The next afternoon sure enough the earring back and two diamonds were recovered, no panic."

Louisville man admits to drinking beer and having sex while driving

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A Louisville man is facing multiple charges after police said he was having sex and drinking beer while driving. According to arrest records, Jeffersontown police officers saw a car driving recklessly on South Hurstbourne Parkway at about 1:13 a.m. on Wednesday.

Police said they saw 58-year-old George E. Howard drink from a can of beer while continuing to drive in a reckless manner. A female passenger was bent over with her head between Howard's legs, police said. Howard swerved multiple times, almost colliding with a curb and causing an accident, according to arrest records.

Police said that upon contact with Howard, he smelled strongly of alcohol, had glassy eyes, was confused and unsteady on his feet, and once out of the vehicle, Howard's pants fell to the ground. Howard told officers he was having sex while driving and had consumed alcohol, according to arrest records.

The female passenger was trying to hide beer in her dress, police said. Howard failed several field sobriety tests, police said. Howard was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving and second-degree wanton endangerment.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

JOKE: INSATIABLE

An attractive young med student was having coffee with her girlfriend and complaining about her fianc�e extraordinary sexual appetites.

"I barely have the strength to come to work in the morning," she murmured. "And now that he's on his vacation, things will probably be even more intense when he gets back."

"How long is he off?" the assistant inquired.

"It varies," she replied. "But usually it's just long enough to smoke a cigarette."

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Mennonite Serial Rapes: In Bolivia, a Trial Tears Apart a Religious Community


Katarina Wall remembers little about the worst night of her life. She recalls waking up in her bed, seeing a man on top of her and feeling her arms too heavy to lift in resistance. The next thing she knew, it was morning — but her pajamas were torn, and the sheets beneath her and her sleeping husband were stained with blood from her vagina. "It was like a terrible dream," Wall, 36, said in her native Low German, weeping as she stands outside a courthouse in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
But the nightmare appears to be all too real. Wall is among 130 women and girls of the Mennonite colony in Manitoba Colony, who claim that from 2005 to '09, the same cloudy horror visited them. They're the victims of what is allegedly one of the ugliest sex scandals in the history of the Mennonites, a pacifist Christian Anabaptist denomination founded in Europe in the 1500s, if not Bolivia and South America. In a criminal trial now under way in nearby Santa Cruz, Peter Weiber, 48, a Mennonite veterinarian, is accused of transforming a chemical meant to anesthetize cows into a spray to be used on humans. For four years, Weiber and eight other Mennonite men allegedly sprayed the chemical through bedroom windows in Manitoba at night, sedating entire families and raping the females. One of the men is a fugitive, the others have pleaded not guilty. If convicted, each faces a maximum 30-year prison sentence.


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Jacob Wiebe Knelsen, seen in court in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on May 27, 2011, is accused, along with eight other Mennonite men, of serial rape


The criminal charges detail depraved acts few would expect inside a supposedly upright sect like the Mennonites. "When there were no grown women" in the houses that the men allegedly targeted, says Wilfredo Mariscal, an attorney for the victims, "they did what they wanted with the kids." Court-ordered medical exams reveal a 3-year-old girl with a broken hymen (most likely, doctors note, from finger and not penis penetration). The formal indictments list victims ages 8 to 60 years old, including one who is mentally retarded and another who was pregnant and sent into premature labor after allegedly being raped by one of the men — her brother.
More than 50,000 Mennonites with roots in Canada and Germany populate the Bolivian lowlands, and they are notoriously reclusive, especially in ultraconservative "old colonies" like Manitoba Colony. Their world of horse-drawn buggies and sorghum fields is segregated from the surrounding indigenous country; cars and electricity are prohibited, as are music, sports and television. Women's lives are even more circumscribed. They don't attend school after the age of 12 and, unlike many Mennonite men, rarely learn Spanish. They wear uniform, hand-sewn dresses, raise large families and seldom venture to (and almost never beyond) bustling Santa Cruz, three hours by car and cultural light-years away from Manitoba.
That entrenched, patriarchal seclusion, say those familiar with such communities, can breed behavioral rot and a culture of cover-up. "The denial of major problems in these colonies for decades has significantly compounded the problem," says Abe Warkentin, founding editor of the German-language Die Mennonitische Post, a newspaper published in Canada that circulates widely among the hundreds of thousands of Mennonites who live throughout Latin America. In the 1990s, for example, Mexico's Mennonite community was rocked by a wave of marijuana trafficking that featured pot being smuggled into the U.S. in large cheese wheels.
Indeed, Mennonites in less conservative Bolivian colonies say that when news of the alleged rapes reached them, there was grief — but not shock. Many Manitoba Colony members themselves now acknowledge the trouble. Abram Peters — whose son, defendant Abram Peters Dick, is accused of buying his first drugging spray from Weiber at age 14 — says the men are scapegoats for Manitoba's broader sins. "Rapes happen [in Manitoba] all the time," he claims, "within families too."

Manitoba's leaders deny anything inherent in the colony led to the spray-and-rape crimes. "It's something we just don't understand," says Bishop Johan Neudorf, the colony's religious leader. "There are good people in this world and bad." Nor can he explain how the community failed for so long to investigate rumors of the crimes — although many of the victims have no recollection of being raped, the spray drug couldn't hide the pain and ripped clothing discovered the mornings after. In the beginning, some of the women say they told their husbands or fathers — who usually dismissed the confidences as wild female imagination — but didn't speak to one another.
Slowly the stories spread. Abram Wall Enns, Manitoba's chief civic official from 2003 to '09, says leaders knew of the rumors but concedes they didn't take any action. "But we didn't know who was doing it," he says in tears, "so what could we do?" Then, in June 2009, one local woman caught two of the defendants entering her house — and as each man began ratting out the others, enraged husbands, fathers and brothers began locking up the nine accused in sheds and basements. Overwhelmed by the scandal, Manitoba's leadership handed the men over to Bolivian police. The defendants, who are being tried as a group (they either all go to prison or all go free), pleaded not guilty because they say their confessions to Manitoba leaders were given "only under threat of lynching," says defense attorney Luis Loza.
The men range in ages from 20 to 48. Four of them, including Weiber, are married. But they don't seem to take the case too seriously: they often joke with guards or fall asleep during trial proceedings, and during one victim's testimony the judge had to reprimand them for laughing and making faces. That may be one reason victims rarely go to the courthouse. "My heart was racing and my head hurt," Susana Banman, 55, tells TIME about her one day at the trial.


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Mennonite families watch the court proceedings


If the men are acquitted, it's hard to imagine they could return to the colony — and, in fact, Katarina Wall's husband Jacobo Friesen warns that "they will be lynched" if they do. But even if they're convicted, closure will be difficult for the victims, especially since many feel they can no longer trust their insular community to help them deal with the trauma. It's hard to blame them: shockingly, some of Manitoba Colony's male leaders have suggested that because the women were usually sedated during the rapes, they have no psychological wounds. None have yet received counseling. "I'd like to be able to talk to someone, but it will have to be when I learn Spanish," says Banman. "I rarely sleep through the night anymore."
Then there's the stigma. Out of shame, many of the women no longer attend church, the colony's only real social space; the younger among them say they fear they are "stained" and will never be able to marry. The day Wall went to the Santa Cruz courthouse to testify, she did not tell her 13-year-old daughter where she was headed. The teenager was raped the same night as her mother — but she has no idea her mom was a victim too.
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The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons (1496-1561), who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. The teachings of the Mennonites were founded on their belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus Christ, which they held to with great conviction despite persecution by the various Roman Catholic and Protestant states. Rather than fight, the majority survived by fleeing to neighboring states where ruling families were tolerant of their radical belief in adult baptism. Over the years, Mennonites have become known as one of the historic peace churches because of their commitment to nonviolence.
There are about 1.5 million Mennonites worldwide as of 2006. Mennonite congregations worldwide embody the full scope of Mennonite practice from "plain people" to those who are indistinguishable in dress and appearance from the general population. The largest populations of Mennonites are in Ethiopia, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States, but Mennonites can also be found in tight-knit communities in at least 51 countries on six continents or scattered amongst the populace of those countries. There are also significant numbers of Mennonites scattered throughout China. There are German Mennonite colonies in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay, who are to a large extent descendants of Mennonites living in eastern Europe, and there remains a small congregation in the Netherlands where Menno was born.

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'Naked rambler' jailed again

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The 52-year-old was arrested outside Perth Prison, Scotland almost immediately after he was released from his previous 21-month sentence.

He was found guilty of breaching the peace and being in contempt of court.

The former Royal Marine, from Eastleigh in Hampshire, has been behind bars in Scotland for much of the past decade.

He was found guilty of breach of the peace after a trial at Perth Sheriff Court, which was initially held up while court staff found a sheet of brown paper for him to sit on "for hygiene reasons".

Gough appeared naked in the court dock and was also found guilty of contempt of court for failing to display the "decency" required by the court process.

He claimed that arresting him for walking around naked was a breach of his human rights and his right to freedom of expression.

Repeated arrests
But Sheriff Michael Fletcher rejected Gough's defence and found him guilty of conducting himself in a disorderly manner by walking naked, refusing to put clothes on, and breaching the peace in Manson Terrace, Perth, on 20 July.

Sheriff Fletcher said: "The court expects people to come here in a decent state of dress. That has been explained to you in the past. I gave you the opportunity to dress yourself."

Gough earned the title Naked Rambler by walking unclothed from Lands End to John O'Groats after quitting his job as a lorry driver.

He has been repeatedly arrested in the street outside Perth Prison by police waiting for him to be released at the end of each sentence.

The latest 657-day sentence - his longest yet - includes the unexpired portion of his last sentence from which he was freed early, a year for breaching the peace and 90 days for contempt of court.

Gough said: "What I am doing is based on my belief about what I am and what I am is not indecent. Ordinary people have prejudices and intolerances."

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