Weird News

[Caretaker]

Only in Northern Minnesota! ....... This guy raised  an abandoned moose calf with his Horses, and  believe it or not, he has trained it for lumber  removal and
Other hauling tasks. Given the  2,000 pounds of robust muscle, and  the
Splayed, grippy hooves, he claims it is  the best work animal he has. He
Says the  secret to keeping the moose around is a sweet  salt lick,
Although, during the rut he  disappears for a couple of weeks, but always  comes home.... Impressive !!



MINNESOTA  CLYDESDALE

He is huge. wow   

Bullwinkle!!!!!!

Amazing!!!!!

[Chipper]

IT'S RAINING FISH....NO....REALLY!

WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky.

The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine.

NEWSBREAKER Christine Balmer, who took these photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, had to pinch herself when she was told ``hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the sky.

"It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said, "They fell from the sky everywhere.

"Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.

"These fish were alive when they hit the ground."

Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged Care Centre, said her family interstate thought she had lost the plot when she told them about the event.

link:http://www.ntnews.com.au/.../02/28/127891_ntnews.html

[Whrose]

Wow! raining fish from the sky! LOL...good thing it wasn't crocodiles!

[Sam]

I wish that would happen here................I have a recipe for a Portuguese fish stew that I want to try.

[Caretaker]

Something "fishy" about that news report...

http://paranormal.about.c...rary/weekly/aa082602a.htm

[kaijuu]

otaku ( an anime fanatic/freak/weirdo ) marries a pillow


http://www.escapistmagazi...Marries-Anime-Body-Pillow

some time ago a japanese arried a videogame too , they talk about that into this article:

A Korean anime fan has proudly tied the knot with a pillowcase featuring the image of his favorite magical girl heroine.

Heavy Rain asked the player, "how far would you go for love?" Would you go so far as to travel to another country? Would you kill a man? Or would you just decide that your soulmate was a fictional character and marry her image printed on a cotton pillowcase?

A Korean otaku opted to go with the last option, wedding a dakimakura body pillow featuring the image of Fate Testarossa, one of the popular heroines of magical girl show Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Not only has this particularly dedicated fan married his favorite pillowcase, he also takes her out on dates to restaurants and to amusement parts, as chronicled on media sites.

This isn't the first time we've seen die-hard otaku marry fictional characters: A Japanese man named Sal9000 married his virtual girlfriend in dating sim Love Plus back in November. While our natural inclination to these scenarios is to sit back, point and laugh (and boy, do we sit back, point and laugh), it raises some interesting philosophical questions about marrying inanimate objects.

Oh sure, it's not a problem now as long as you're marrying pillowcases and plastic Nintendo DS screens, but what happens when we invent realistic sexbots (other than the extinction of humanity, that is)? What happens when AI becomes sentient? Will convincing a computer to fall in love with us save us when the machines take over?

One has to wonder how long the happy groom will remain happy for - after all, judging by the popular opinion expressed in fanart and fanfiction, his new bride is a total lesbian. On the other hand, it's not like he has to worry about a pillowcase cheating on him, unless you count what happens when he puts her in the washing machine with his other body pillows.

video:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...p;feature=player_embedded

[Whrose]

LOL! Gross, sick imaginations, and lust... this guy is a real dope, IMO a pillow case might be too good for his ilk but then again perverts come in many sizes and preferences 

As long as they keep their dirty mittens off children and innocents.

[summer]

Were  o!  Were  is  peoples  brains  at.? .

[kaijuu]

Were  o!  Were  is  peoples  brains  at.? .

in their pillows 

[Chipper]

Insert Quote
Quote from: summer on Today at 05:56:12 PM
Were  o!  Were  is  peoples  brains  at.? Huh. 

in their pillows 

 

[summer]

Well  shucks   this  look  at  the  bright  side  of  it>>>>>  It will  keep  the  world  population  down.

O!  I  can see it  now..That  guy  going  to  the  Doctor  with  his  pillow  wife>>>
         
                     Doctor........I  think  she  is  pragnet// ...

[White Tiger]

LOL Summer

[kaijuu]

Norrie May-Welby: The World's First Legally Genderless Person

Norrie May-Welby has become the first person to be officially designated as gender 'not specified' - being neither a man nor a woman.

May-Welby, born a man 48 years ago in Scotland, became a woman at age 28 after a sex change operation in Australia. However, May-Welby did not feel comfortable as a woman and desired to become a 'neuter.'

Officials in New South Wales, Australia have now altered May-Welby's birth certificate to specify the neutral gender.

May-Welby has posted some thoughts about the reclassification on a blog:

    If I need to show identity documents, I certainly don't want details that are false, for this will only cause trouble when officials realize I don't match my documents.


    If my passport, for example, states that I am female, I may be detained when traveling if the local jurisdiction classes me based on the gender assigned at birth, or if my physically noticeable masculine aspects (for example, my Adam's apple, or my broad chest) are noticed.

    If the passport states male, again there is a dissonance with my physical form, castration having had a feminizing effect, and I am usually moving and talking in a feminine manner.

May-Welby goes on to speak of being "grateful that at least the state of New South Wales is able to deal with me on such an adult basis."

[kaijuu]

The world's only immortal animal
By Bryan Nelson, Mother Nature Network
Posted Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:57am PDT

http://green.yahoo.com/bl...only-immortal-animal.html

(Photo: Peter Schuchert)

The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.

Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.

Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters.  "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.

Bryan Nelson is a regular contributor to Mother Nature Network, where a version of this post originally appeared.

[Chipper]

Pet shop owner fined £1,000 and told to wear an electronic tag… for selling a GOLDFISH to a boy aged 14

Daily Mail | Mar 31, 2010

Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ’sting’.

At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s.

Instead, the great-grandmother was taken to court, fined £1,000, placed under curfew – and ordered to wear an electronic tag for two months.

The punishment is normally handed out to violent thugs and repeat offenders.

The prosecution of Mrs Higgins and her son Mark is estimated to have cost taxpayers £20,000 and has left her with a criminal record.

Mark, 47, was also fined and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work in the community.

Last night, as an MP criticised the magistrates, Mrs Higgins – who has run the pet shop for 28 years – said the family’s eight-month ordeal had left them traumatised.

link:http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/

[Barry]

Pet shop owner fined £1,000 and told to wear an electronic tag… for selling a GOLDFISH to a boy aged 14

Daily Mail | Mar 31, 2010

Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ’sting’.

At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s.

Instead, the great-grandmother was taken to court, fined £1,000, placed under curfew – and ordered to wear an electronic tag for two months.

The punishment is normally handed out to violent thugs and repeat offenders.

The prosecution of Mrs Higgins and her son Mark is estimated to have cost taxpayers £20,000 and has left her with a criminal record.

Mark, 47, was also fined and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work in the community.

Last night, as an MP criticised the magistrates, Mrs Higgins – who has run the pet shop for 28 years – said the family’s eight-month ordeal had left them traumatised.

link:http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/

We should expect more of this sort of baloney coming shortly. It seems as though everyone has lost all sense of reason. 

[Chipper]

Chinese Hunters Capture 'Yeti'?

The hairless beast was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province after locals reported spotting what they thought was a bear.

Hunter Lu Chin explained: "It looks a bit like a bear but it doesn't have any fur and it has a tail like a kangaroo."
"It also does not sound like a bear - it has a voice more like a cat and it is calling all the time - perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it's the last one?

"There are local legends of a bear that used to be a man and some people think that's what we caught," he added.

Local animal experts now plan to shipped the mystery beast to scientists in Beijing who will perform DNA tests on the beast.  ( photo at link)
link;http://www.telegraph.co.u...-discovered-in-China.html

[summer]

pooor  animal...........Jest  a  real  bad  case  of  Mange.

[Chipper]

I think this might go here?

Philippines dragon-sized lizard is a new species

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A dragon-sized, fruit-eating lizard that lives in the trees on the northern Philippines island of Luzon has been confirmed as a new species, scientists reported on Tuesday.

Hunted for its tasty flesh, the brightly colored forest monitor lizard can grow to more than six feet in length but weighs only about 22 pounds (10 kg), said Rafe Brown of the University of Kansas, whose team confirmed the find.

"It lives up in trees, so it can't get as massive as the Komodo dragon, a huge thing that eats large amounts of fresh meat," Brown said by telephone. "This thing is a fruit-eater and it's only the third fruit-eating lizard in the world."

Discovering such a large vertebrate species is extremely rare, Brown said. The lizard, a new species of the genus Varanus, is skittish and able to hide from humans, its primary predators, which could explain why it has gone undetected by scientists for so long.

Biologists first saw photographs of the big, skinny lizard in 2001, when those surveying the area passed hunters carrying the lizards' colorful carcasses, but the species at that point had never been given a scientific identification.
link:http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...6/sc_nm/us_science_lizard

[Whrose]

LOL!

Wait until Summer hears of this new food source!