Wednesday, March 24, 2010
James Bond fan builds flame-throwing scooter
A James Bond fan from England has invented a moped equipped with a flame thrower to help settle road rage disputes. Colin Furze, 30, spent a month converting the sports scooter, which can travel up to 60mph to produce a 15 foot jet of fire.
It took three attempts to make the flame-throwing moped, which works by pressing a button on the handlebar. "It's a lot of fun and when I fire the flames out the back it makes me feel just like James Bond," said Mr Furze.
"The flames are pretty big and up to 15 feet long so you could definitely set fire to someone's car if you wanted to. The only problem is it can get rather hot if you are riding the moped and blast the flames when the wind is in the wrong direction."
But sadly Mr Furze, who built the moped in his spare time in his back garden in Stamford, Lincs, will not legally be allowed to use it on the road. "I've been told that if I fire the flames while riding on the road it's equivalent to using a fire arm and I could be in a lot of trouble," he said.
Boy with 15 fingers and 16 toes to have surgery
A boy in China who has 31 fingers and toes - a world record - is to undergo surgery to remove the extras digits.
The 6-year-old boy, from the city of Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province, has a total of 31 fingers and toes - 16 toes, and 15 fingers (although one of those fingers is incomplete, being a fork at the end of the right thumb.) Three fingers on each hand are fused together. That beats the current world record of 25, held jointly by two Indian children, Pranamya Menaria and Devendra Harne, who both have 12 fingers and 13 toes.
But the boy will go under the surgeon's knife to remove the additional digits. The boy has a condition known as polydactyly, in which one of a variety of genetic disorders - which can be inherited, or new mutations - gives rise to the supernumerary digits.
Most commonly, the extra digits appear on the little finger side of the hand - but this boy appears to have the much rarer condition of central polydactyly, in which the middle fingers and toes are duplicated.
w/VIDEO: Florida Man Gets 15 years for Breaking Into Jail
A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into Brevard County jail.
Sylvester Jiles, 25, was caught trying to climb a 12-foot fence at the detention centre in August, just a week after being released following a plea deal on a manslaughter charge. He was rushed to hospital with severe cuts from the barbed wire.
At the time, he begged jail officials to take him back into custody, saying he feared retaliation from the victim's family. But officials refused his request, advising him to file a police report instead.
Jiles was convicted in January of trespassing on jail property and resisting an officer.
Newest Anti-Terrorist Weapon: Chili Grenades
The Indian military is getting ready to heat up the war on terror.
Defense officials plan to unleash the power of thumb-sized bhut jolokia, or ghost chili, in tear gas-like grenades, The Associated Press reported.
"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told the news service.
"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists," said R. B. Srivastava, a director at the New Delhi headquarters of the organization.
The viciously hot pepper, named the planet's spiciest chili by Guinness World Records in 2007, is cultivated and consumed in northeastern India as a cure for stomach ailments and as an odd, albeit effective way to beat the brutal heat in summer, according to the report.
The bhut jolokia extract must be diluted more than 1.3 million times before its piquant flavor is undetectable to most people.
Life Sciences director Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, told the AP trials are also being conducted to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays that women can use to repel attackers, and for police use in mob control.
JOKE:
According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was
recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls
were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press
their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every
night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day
the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that
something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom
and met them there with
the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were
causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors
every night. To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the
mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort
was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet,
and cleaned the mirror with it. Priceless! Since then, there have been no
lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers....and then there are educators
~WHIRLED GNUS~
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