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A dwarf claims he was partially paralyzed on his birthday when a stranger lifted and heaved him onto the hard ground outside an English pub, according to The Telegraph.


Gerald Henderson, the victim, blames English rugby players who attended a dwarf-tossing contest at a New Zealand bar during the World Cup for inspiring the hooligan, The Daily Mail says.


While smoking a cigarette outside The White Horse in Wincanton on his 37th birthday in October, Henderson says a drunken stranger picked him up and threw him, causing him to land hard on his back, Metro says. Henderson rejoined his friends, who were shooting pool, but soon began to lose feeling in his back and legs.

Here's the link to the rest of the story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/dwarf-paralyzed-after-bar-tossing_n_1204799.html?ref=weird-news

Woman Enraged by 'Judge Judy' Attacks Man with Hammer

Updated: Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 4:02 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 2:57 PM EST(NewsCore) - A Florida woman was being held in jail without bond Tuesday on charges that she attacked a man with a hammer because she was upset at the TV court show "Judge Judy."
Police were called to the Jupiter, Fla., home of 62-year-old Janet Knowles at around 11:30am local time Sunday on a report of a domestic disturbance, The Palm Beach Post reported.
They found a 65-year-old man, whose identity and relationship to Knowles were not released, suffering from bleeding head injuries.
The man told officers he had been watching the show when Knowles got "upset with Judge Judy" and hit him in the head and arm with the hammer.
Knowles, who reportedly had difficulty conversing coherently with police, confessed that she attacked the man because she was "mad" at Judge Judy Sheindlin.
She was being held at Palm Beach County Jail and faces a charge of aggravated battery using a deadly weapon.
Her victim was treated at the scene, and his condition was unknown Tuesday.










judge judy is bad news. look at what she did.

[h=1]Abandoned by British justice: Student faces 10 years in U.S. jail for setting up 'illegal' website (in a chilling echo of Gary McKinnon)[/h] By Jack Doyle and James Slack

Last updated at 12:48 AM on 14th January 2012

A British student faces up to a decade in a U.S. prison for actions which are not even a crime in the UK.Campaigners say Richard O’Dwyer, 23, is being abandoned by his country in the same way as computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
Mr O’Dwyer is accused of listing places where films and TV programmes could be illegally downloaded, on a website he ran from his university bedroom in Sheffield.

Winter Woman said:

(Newser) – It appears that our friends from Down Under are in fact up higher than North Americans—a new study shows that Australians and New Zealanders are the world's top pot smokers, reports the Los Angeles Times. The Lancet found that 15% of Aussies and Kiwis ages 15-64 used some form of marijuana in 2009, as opposed to 11% of North Americans, and just 2.5% of people in Asia.

Australians and New Zealanders also are the top users of amphetamines.

“Just look at the way we take alcohol as an integral part of everyday life. I think a lot of young people see cannabis in the same way that we see alcohol: as no big deal, as a drug just to use to have a good time,” said one of the study's researchers. The study also found that up to 203 million people around the world use marijuana annually, compared to up to 56 million who use amphetamines and 21 million who use cocaine or opiates such as heroin.

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I saw hat article with a New York Times byline about a week ago!~
I also remember reading in that story (as printed by our local waste of sawdust) that somewhere between 125 million and 203 million people worldwide are estimated to have smoked weed in the last year.
The number struck me as oddly low. cn

[h=1]How Not To Gag[/h]
My Gay Best Friend
December 1, 2011



HeadDrama



Q: I have a problem, but I’m a good girl and I am a little embarrassed to describe it to you. Still I’m going to do my best to get at the heart of the matter without being too graphic.
I have an insane gag reflex. I have tried everything to train myself to suppress it. I have had no luck. This leads to my current problem. Let’s say for example I gag almost instantly when I put a toothbrush in my mouth. Now let’s say my boyfriend just loves when I put his toothbrush in my mouth. Now let’s say I’ve nearly tossed by cookies when my boyfriend even gets said tooth brush near my mouth.
Finally let’s say I’d really like to fix this problem and quick or my boyfriend is going to stop putting his tongue all over my toothbrush, which is something I’d be really sad about.
Can you help?
-Callie
{related article: getting up for getting down} A. Believe it or not, it actually WAS a dentist who helped me solve my own gagging issues.
I too have trouble when someone puts an instrument (dental or otherwise) into my mouth. For me the trouble begins when my tongue is touched.


I tried everything, but I really started to believe there was nothing to be done.


That is until my dentist noticed a harsh reaction when he depressed my tongue with his little mirror and I violently shot up out of the chair and made right for his sink.


“Have you ever tried making a fist with your left hand?” he asked.


“Not until you pull out the floss.” I replied (a bit too harshly).


“Try doing it now while I work in your mouth, but be sure to squeeze your thumb inside your fist as well” he said.
I spent the next 10 minutes of my exam doing just that.
I didn’t gag once.
{related article: dirty little sex secrets} I now use the technique all the time (and for many non-dental related situations). Frankly, I thought I was the only person who did this until I read with great interest a story on Lifehacker titled “Turn Off Your Gag Reflex by Squeezing Your Left Thumb.”


This isn't a new discovery, but it's one many of us hadn't heard of before, so we thought it worth sharing. If you're in a situation where something is setting off your gag reflex (dentist's offices are one of the most common places), just form a fist with your left hand, squeezing your thumb. The folks over at Reddit's Ask Science forum deliberate as to why this is, and they point to a 2008 study that shows it to be effective—not to mention lots of anecdotal evidence on the internet—but whether it's an effect of the nerves in your hand or just a distraction, it looks like it's a pretty useful trick. Of course, it's a bit different for everybody, so your mileage may vary, but it's something to think about the next time you're sitting in the dentist's chair. Hit the link to read more.
{related article: charity sex vs. pity sex}

So back to your ‘dental’ concerns Callie.


Next time you find yourself faced with your boyfriend’s toothbrush, just grab your left thumb with your own left hand and squeeze. Then see how far you can get that toothbrush down your throat. I’m willing to bet ‘going to the dentist’ is never going to be a problem for you (or him) again.

This reminds me a bit too much of the folk remedy for "restless legs" - put a bar or two of Ivory Soap 9no other brands or types) under the bedsheet on the mattress down by the legs.
i get restless legs wicked bad at times, and my xgf had me try this. I was skeptical but also liked to please her. So for a month i had these migrating rectangular bergs on my side of the bed. Needles to say ... no result.

Imo there are many weird counterintuitive remedies kicking around out there ... simply look at some hiccup "cures" and the effusive personal accounts of their effectiveness. The human will to believe the just plain weird is amazingly strong imo. cn

North Korean authorities are punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, the Daily NK reported Wednesday.

The online North Korean newspaper, which is published by opponents of the governing regime, said a source in North Hamkyung Province revealed the information. The source told the paper “authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine,” according to the Daily NK.

There are an estimated 200,000 offenders and families held in North Korean prison camps, according to a May 2011 report from Amnesty International. The report details two types of camps known as “zones.” One zone, known as a Total Control Zone, is for people who have committed “serious crimes.” People in these camps are never released.

The second type of zone, called a Revolutionary Zone, are camps for people who have committed what North Korean authorities perceive as less serious crimes. These crimes may include making critical comments toward government policy or trying to cross the border. Sentences in Revolutionary Zone camps can range from a few months to 10 years.

The report estimates that 40 percent of inmates in the camps will die from malnutrition, and every former inmate interviewed for the report had witnessed at least one public execution while being held.

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Just when I thought North Korea couldn't top kim jong Il's batshittery along comes this utter stupidity.

CHICAGO — Dreadlocks, Bob Marley and an unwanted haircut.

Those are the unlikely subjects of an opinion issued on Friday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. The three-judge panel devotes 11 pages to explaining why Omar Grayson, a former inmate at Illinois' Big Muddy Correctional Center, can go ahead and sue a prison officer who forced him to shear his thick, braided locks.

The opinion even includes a photograph of Reggae superstar Marley to illustrate what dreadlocks look like. Marley died in 1981.

Grayson's a member of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and claimed the haircut violated his religious rights.
The appellate court notes the prison allows committed Rastafarians to keep dreadlocks but appeared to discriminate against other religions that also hold long hair in high esteem.

Makes you sick, doesn't it? Unbelievable what a people can do to one another.

Carne Seca said:

North Korean authorities are punishing mourners who failed to exhibit sincere sadness and despair after the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, the Daily NK reported Wednesday.

The online North Korean newspaper, which is published by opponents of the governing regime, said a source in North Hamkyung Province revealed the information. The source told the paper “authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine,” according to the Daily NK.

There are an estimated 200,000 offenders and families held in North Korean prison camps, according to a May 2011 report from Amnesty International. The report details two types of camps known as “zones.” One zone, known as a Total Control Zone, is for people who have committed “serious crimes.” People in these camps are never released.

The second type of zone, called a Revolutionary Zone, are camps for people who have committed what North Korean authorities perceive as less serious crimes. These crimes may include making critical comments toward government policy or trying to cross the border. Sentences in Revolutionary Zone camps can range from a few months to 10 years.

The report estimates that 40 percent of inmates in the camps will die from malnutrition, and every former inmate interviewed for the report had witnessed at least one public execution while being held.

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Just when I thought North Korea couldn't top kim jong Il's batshittery along comes this utter stupidity.

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Dogs recognise their owner's face



Scientists have shown just how much dogs rely on seeing their owners faces in order to recognise them.
The researchers also measured how much dogs prefer to gaze at and follow their owners, rather than a stranger.
In the journal Animal Behaviour, the team described how dogs had difficultly recognising their human "best friend" when the person had their face covered.
The study sheds more light on how thousands of years of domestication has affected the behaviour of canines.
Paolo Mongillo from the University of Padua in Italy led the study. He explained that, although many researchers have studied how dogs interact with humans, no one had yet investigated how the animals focused on one person in preference to another - or just how much companion dogs "prefer" their owners.
Dr Mongillo's team at the university's department of experimental veterinary sciences invented an experiment to measure this.
"We had the dog in an empty room and we instructed the owner and another person - someone unfamiliar to the dog - to walk across the room several times," the scientist explained.
"The people walked in opposite directions, so they crossed many times in front of the dog and we measured how long the dog looked at one person versus another."
The research team then instructed the two people to leave the room via two different doors and allowed the dog to approach one of the doors.
"Most of the dogs gazed at their owners for most of the time and then chose to wait by the owner's door," said Dr Mongillo.
He described this as an "expected" result but something that no one has measured before.
"If you imagine a dog in a real setting in a city or anywhere in the middle of a crowd or a crowded space, you can see how the animal must have adapted to give preferential attention to its owner," said Dr Mongillo.
In the second part of the study, the scientists asked the people to cover their faces; the human volunteers then walked across the room with bags over their heads.
During this phase of the experiment, the dogs were much less attentive to their owners. This revealed just how much the animals relied on human faces for recognition.
Wild dogs rely on body signals and on cues from other animals in their social groups, but studies including this one suggest that domestic dogs are so attuned to human social groups that they are even able to recognise some human facial expressions.
When the people covered their faces the dogs paid less attention to their owners


"This is very likely to be a by-product of thousands of years of domestication," said Dr Mongillo.
Studies of the genetic differences between dogs and their wolf ancestors suggests that canines were first domesticated between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Dogs and dementia
In the same study, the team investigated the effects of ageing on the dogs' attention.
They found that "aged" dogs - seven years and older - were less able to focus on their owner and also were less likely to choose the owner's door.
"There have been studies to show that dog ageing is similar to human ageing in terms of cognitive impairment," said Dr Mongillo.
So studying ageing in dogs could help our knowledge of human as well as animal age-related diseases.

From "News of the Weird"
... cn
Update Not all states have anti-bestiality laws, and Peter Bower's ongoing case in Ohio exemplifies prosecutors' frustration. There was evidence that Bower had had sex with a dog ("Maggie") and had written her "love" letters, and police arrested him in June. Prosecutors were willing to settle the case in November for minimal punishment because the only law Bower could have been charged under is "animal cruelty," and they explained that they might have had trouble showing harm to the apparently adored dog. (At the time of Bower's arrest, a search had uncovered human-animal pornography and a life-sized inflatable sheep.) [WBNS-TV (Columbus), 11-28-2011]

MOSCOW -- A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said.


Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in water 1,250 kilometers (775 miles) west of Wellington Island in Chile's south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces said in a statement carried by the country's news agencies.

More @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/russia-space-probe_n_1207293.html

More bestial gold ... cn
Government Inaction: India's legendarily plodding government bureaucracy had long stymied a snake charmer named Hakkul (a villager in Uttar Pradesh state), who had sought a snake-conservation permit, which had been authorized at one level but delayed locally. In November, finally exasperated, Hakkul walked into the land revenue office in the town of Harraiya with several sacks of snakes (including cobras) and turned them loose, sending clerks and visitors climbing furniture or fleeing. Recent news accounts report that "almost all" of the snakes had been rounded up. [BBC News, 11-30-2011]
A December news release from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned of the dangers of Campylobacter jejuni bacteria infections on a sheep ranch, but apparently only among workers who used an old-style (19th century) method of castrating the animals. CDC strongly urged that workers stop biting off the sheep's genitals and instead use modern tools. [Wall Street Journal, 12-8-2011]

OMG! Biting off... You have to be kidding me. I'd call that torture.

cannabineer said:

More bestial gold ... cn
Government Inaction: India's legendarily plodding government bureaucracy had long stymied a snake charmer named Hakkul (a villager in Uttar Pradesh state), who had sought a snake-conservation permit, which had been authorized at one level but delayed locally. In November, finally exasperated, Hakkul walked into the land revenue office in the town of Harraiya with several sacks of snakes (including cobras) and turned them loose, sending clerks and visitors climbing furniture or fleeing. Recent news accounts report that "almost all" of the snakes had been rounded up. [BBC News, 11-30-2011]
A December news release from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned of the dangers of Campylobacter jejuni bacteria infections on a sheep ranch, but apparently only among workers who used an old-style (19th century) method of castrating the animals. CDC strongly urged that workers stop biting off the sheep's genitals and instead use modern tools. [Wall Street Journal, 12-8-2011]

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"Sometimes you feel like a nut." cn

DSB65 said:

thats just sick there...i was thinking he got impaled to death...

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i dont know if anyone answered this yet

the dudes cologn erupted and he died from toxemia i think

no one ever got "mr. hands" ' ed

just google mr. hands

the dude that actually died is on the net the video is up and everything been out for atleast 6 years


some sick shit though

my room mate put it as my home page so the next time i had went on my computer i got a home page with a dude getting fucked by a horse not fun

My bff and I went to a county fair. We walked thru the barns and we came across the sheep barn. I'm just lookin' around and my friend says, 'Will you look at the size of the balls on that sheep'. So, of course, I came running, I just had to see this. Well those sheep's balls were just about dragging on the ground.

She then said, 'Look, look at those, look at the size of those.' Then from over the stall wall we hear an old man's laughter and he said, 'You can certainly can tell who's a city woman in the sheep barns.' And he just crackled some more.

I think of that every time I see sheep.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/pill-camera-can-be-controlled_n_1199742.html?ref=weird-news&ir=Weird News

What if doctors could diagnose you by moving a tiny pill camera submarine around inside your body?

No, it's not science fiction: researchers at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have developed a pill camera that doctors can actually steer through your digestive system.

Pill cameras (known to doctors as capsule endoscopes) have been around for a few years, but most early versions either fell haphazardly through the body or had to be controlled with an invasive tether.

The new device relies on an ingenious little motor that can be controlled magnetically in an MRI machine. It's completely wireless, so once it's in your body you can forget about it.

A man who had pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter stemming from a crash near Tampa, Fla., on Christmas Day 2007 now denies causing the crash that killed three of the four people in the vehicle he hit.


David Belniak has sued the estate of Ray McWilliams, the now-deceased driver of the other vehicle, for more than $15,000, saying it was actually McWilliams who caused the crash by abruptly changing lanes, according to the Tampa Bay Times.


McWilliams initially survived the crash but later died. Belniak was sentenced to 12 years in prison, where he remains.


The money is to compensate Belniak for medical bills, "pain and suffering," and "loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life," according to the suit.


The Times reported that Belniak's attorney, Debra A. Tuomey, who is also his sister, said the government's prosecution amounted to a character assassination and Belniak accepted a plea deal only to avoid risking getting a life sentence in trial.


Tuomey said she wanted her suit, filed last month, to be considered alongside an existing suit brought by the victims' relatives against Belniak, scheduled for trial in April.


link to yahoo's version: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/florida-man-guilty-dui-manslaughter-sues-victim-130753893--abc-news.html