Caffeinated Soap?

Ok, this might be a good idea for some people who have a hard time waking up in the morning and are especially lazy. Caffeine in your soap. It is a regular bar of soap with peppermint oil and caffeine that is absorbed through the skin to get you going in the morning. Personally I prefer to drink coffee in the morning, the warmth of it coursing through my bloodstream. What if you used caffeinated soap and drank coffee... wouldn't that be the equivalent of smoking with a nicotine patch? I think this soap would be PERFECT for 13-year-olds who don't yet drink coffee... Get to school, kid!

Croc Bites off Hand of Zoo Worker

TAIPEI, Taiwan (April 13) - A zoo worker had his forearm reattached Thursday after his colleagues recovered the severed limb from the mouth of a 440-pound Nile crocodile, an official said. [From AOL News]

Ten of the Best April Fool's Day Hoaxes

NEW YORK (AFP) - From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history.

Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. [Read Them Here...]

Toad the Size of a Small Dog Captured

DARWIN, Australia (March 27) - A "monster" cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured by an environmental group dedicated to wiping out the toxic amphibian, which has killed countless animals since being introduced to Australia in the 1930s. [Read More, See Pic...]

Channel 4's Gay-o-Meter

Are you a full-blown GEEK or not? That is so gay! Take this test and see!

Dog With College Degree Called to Court

An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school. (More...)

Police With a Sense of Humor D'oh!

POLICE have set their car on-board computers to shout “D’oh!” like Homer Simpson when they spot uninsured drivers.

The automatic number plate readers also say “Here’s Johnny” — Jack Nicholson’s saying from film The Shining — when they find a stolen car.

And if a car is linked to crime, it plays Dan Aykroyd saying: “People like this are a menace to decent society.”

Thames Valley cops say it helps their reactions.

Best of Craigslist: Why Geeks and Nerds Make The Best Boyfriends

Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.



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I gave a homeless kid a camera

A NEW Urban Legend, Fake or Real?
"A few years ago, I gave a camera and some film to a homeless kid I had befriended. After giving him a brief lesson in the use of a manual camera, I asked him to shoot all the film, then mail it back to me.

Here are the more interesting ones:" (See the pictures)

Sleep-Walking Woman Had Sex With Strangers

Sleep medicine experts have successfully treated a rare case of a woman having sex with strangers while sleepwalking.

The behaviour had disrupted the lives of the woman and her partner. At night while asleep, the middle-aged sleepwalker - who lives in Australia and cannot be identified for reasons of confidentiality - left her house and had sexual intercourse with strangers. The behaviour continued for several months and the woman had no memory of her nocturnal activities.

Circumstantial evidence, such as condoms found scattered around the house, alerted the couple to the problem. On one occasion, her partner awoke to find her missing, went searching for her and found her engaged in the sex act. (More...)

STRANGE NEWS

NYC Newcomer Gets Lost for Five Days
Mon Jan 22, 8:49 PM ET
NEW YORK - A newcomer to the city became hopelessly lost for five days after going for a walk. Damon Mootoo was staying at his brother's house in South Jamaica, Queens, when he decided to go for the stroll last Wednesday, 12 hours after arriving in New York for the first time, the Daily News reported Monday.

The 32-year-old man quickly got disorientated by the confusing streets of Queens.
(More...)

Man Arrested for Smuggling 500 Parrots in a Car
ALMATY, Jan 23 (Reuters Life!) - Kazakh border guards arrested a man trying to smuggle 500 parrots in his car from neighbouring Uzbekistan, media reported on Tuesday.

"Border guards discovered a live cargo of 500 parrots in his car," Kazakhstan Today news agency quoted a KNB security service official as saying.
(More...)


Diver Says he was Partly Swallowed by Shark
SYDNEY, Jan 23 (Reuters Life!) - An Australian abalone diver told rescuers he was partly swallowed head-first by a Great White Shark on Tuesday but managed to fight his way free, suffering a broken nose and bite marks around the chest.

Diver Eric Nerhus, 41, was underwater with his 25-year-old son and other divers off Cape Howe, near Eden on Australia's southeast coast, when the 3 meter (10 foot) shark attacked. (More...)


Pet Shop Owner Creates Beer for Dogs
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Jan. 22) - After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer. So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt. (More...)

Weird News

Stolen GPS Device Leads to Suspects' Home
Fri Jan 19, 10:13 AM ET
LINDENHURST, N.Y. - Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices didn't get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home.

Town officials said the thieves didn't even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were cell phones, which they planned to sell.

According to Suffolk County police, the GPS devices were stolen Monday night from the Town of Babylon Public Works garage in Lindenhurst. The town immediately tapped its GPS system, and it showed that one of the devices was inside a house. Police said that when they arrived there, Kurt Husfeldt, 46, had the device in his hands.
(More...)


Man Says he Killed Grandma in Rage Over T.V.
Fri Jan 19, 12:34 PM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - A Russian confessed to police he killed his grandmother because they could not agree on what program to watch on television, prosecutors said on Friday.

Arguments over who controls the television remote are familiar to most families. The suspect, from Russia's Karelia region near Finland, took things to extremes by stabbing and bludgeoning to death his 81-year-old grandmother.

"When he started to testify to police, he said he killed her because they could not agree on what TV program they wanted to watch," said Tatyana Kordyukova, a spokeswoman for the Karelia prosecutor's office.
(More...)

Cheat on Your Spouse in Michigan and Spend Life in Prison?
Thu Jan 18, 8:16 AM ET
DETROIT, United States (AFP) - Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.

And not the emotional kind.

The state's appeals court recently ruled that extramarital flings can be prosecuted as first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in jail.
(More...)

Cambodian "Jungle Girl" Struggling to Adapt
PHNOM PENH, Jan 19 (Reuters Life!) - A Cambodian woman who went missing in the jungle for 18 years before being found last week is struggling to adapt to life as a human and wants to return to the forest, police said on Friday.

"She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human," said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the jungle-clad northeastern province of Rattanakiri where the girl's family live.

"Unfortunately, she keeps crying and wants to go back to the jungle," he said. "She is not used to living with humans. We had to clothe her. When she is thirsty or hungry she points at her mouth," he told Reuters by phone.
(More...)


Helicopter Blows Deer Safely Off Ice
Awwwe.. Watch the Deer Blown to Safety

Strange But True Headlines This Week

BERLIN (Dec. 27) - A 21-year-old German woman who did not feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped. (More...)

WELLINGTON (Dec. 27) - A New Zealand woman is in critical condition in hospital after being crushed by a dolphin that leaped on to her boat, media reported on Wednesday. (More...)


MANCHESTER, N.H. (Dec. 26) - Police say a man they pulled over for driving drunk continued to swig his beer during his arrest. Patrick Allain, 35, faces numerous charges after his arrest Monday night, the fourth time he's been arrested for driving while intoxicated. Police say he hit two other cars and initially refused to stop when officers tried to pull him over.

When he finally stopped, Allain allegedly continued to drink a 40-ounce bottle of beer, telling officers, "You can charge me with whatever you want. It's not going to stop me from drinking and driving." (More...)

DES MOINES, Iowa (Dec. 26) - You, Only Bouncier. Once reserved for the likes of athletes and celebrities, now bobblehead dolls can look just like you. (More...)


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WINDOW WASHER FALLS ASLEEP 20 STORIES UP?

Talk about no worries!

A window washer working on a downtown Nashville high-rise building apparently fell asleep on the job. The man was cleaning the glass on the 20th floor of the Fifth Third Bank building on Church Street Friday when several onlookers noticed he was not moving. No one could tell if he was sleeping or passed out because he was 20 stories high, but they could see that he wasn't moving.

Nashville Fire Chief Henry Booker said the worker was taken to Baptist Hospital to be checked for a rapid heartbeat. My heart would be a little racy too! I don't know how he could be so relaxed 20 stories high, that he would just decide to take a little nap. This last sentence is so blase (from an article in the Tennessean):

"It's unusual to fall asleep outside while on scaffolding that high up," Booker said."

Unusual?? I'd say it's a little more than unusual!
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Information from: The Tennessean

URBAN LEGEND? REAL CROCODILE CAUGHT IN BROOKLYN

Another New York legend (no not the dog again) is the alligator-in-the-sewer, which students trace to Feb. 10, 1935, when a group of teenagers discovered a 7-foot 'gator in a manhole in East Harlem. Hauled out with a rope, it tried feebly to open its jaws and was dispatched with snow shovels, according to a story in The New York Times.
From that incident apparently grew the widespread myth the city's sewers teemed with reptiles that had been bought as souvenir pets in Florida and were discarded when they became too big for their cages.

Looks like another crocodile turned up in New York City yesterday, far from its native habitat in the tropical Americas, and replenishing one of the city's most enduring urban legends. On Tuesday, police responding to a 911 call in Starrett City, a public housing complex in Brooklyn, found a two-foot caiman (crocodile) in a cardboard box, with a shoelace firmly tied around its jaw.

The police gathered up the crocodile and turned it over to Animal Care & Control. "The caiman was cold, and we had to warm it up," said Richard Gentles, director of administration for AC&C. But whoever left it in the box was concerned that nobody got hurt, he said. "It was pretty feisty. The shoestring was double-knotted for safety, like a running shoe."

The last time it happened was in June, 2001, when a small caiman was discovered in the Harlem Meer, a lake in the northeast corner of Central Park. After it eluded capture for five days, a self-described alligator expert flew in from a Florida game park to save the city. After some posturing, he used a canoe and a flashlight to retrieve the reptile in minutes.
(Courtesy AP News)