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Police: Man Attempts To Cash $360 Billion Check

ddmagnan — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:20:46 GMT

[quote]FORT WORTH, Texas - Fort Worth police arrested a Crowley man accused of trying to cash a stolen check for billions of dollars. Police said Charles Ray Fuller, 21, tried to cash the check at a Chase Bank, but the teller did a double take after noticing the check was for $360 billion. [/quote]

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24394898/?GT1=43001[/url]

Since he was also caught with weed it gives me hope that he was high or drunk at the time. Otherwise its hard for me to imagine someone could be dumb enough to think you could cash a stolen check for $360 billion.

God arrested near church

ddmagnan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:03:50 GMT

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25338128/?GT1=43001[/url]

[quote]

TAMPA, Fla. - Police said a man named God was arrested near a Tampa church for selling cocaine.

Authorities began investigating God Lucky Howard in April, and he was arrested on Saturday. Police said he sold the cocaine to undercover detectives in his neighborhood. When officers searched his home, they reported finding 22 grams more of cocaine and a scale.

Jail records show Howard was charged with several counts of drug possession and distribution, which include increased charges for being within 1,000 feet of a church, a school and public housing.

He was being held on a bond of $86,500.

[/quote]

Unicorn Spotted

cleopatra143 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:42:41 GMT

I believe it!
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080613/hl_time/abriefhistoryoftheunicorn[/url]

London City Airport closed because of unexploded WW2 bomb

Konrad von Richtmark — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:27:28 GMT

[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ww2-bomb-alert-hits-london-airport-839389.html]Read it here![/url]

I think this qualifies for wacky news. I mean, what the heck, 60-some years of airport activity did not make the bomb go off, so why the need to do it now? Paranoia, anyone?

A daily dose of Onion

Terminal_Civ-er — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:43:05 GMT

[url=http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks]Too funny![/url]

Two years on the throne... and it stuck!

Konrad von Richtmark — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:12:41 GMT

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/13/wtoilet113.xml]Click![/url]

Seems like being afraid of going out can have hazardous consequences...

Parents take it to far

queen val — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:31:51 GMT

I was on the front page of Comcast this morning , and boy was I shocked. One story is that a 52 year old woman took a cattle shocker to punish her 15 years old daughter because she came home late. She told police that she ran away because of what her mother was doing to her. Another one is in a small town a judge sentenced a woman for leaving kittens in the wood and 9 of them die and now she has to spend 1 night in the woods with no food and water. This Judge has a mess load of punishment for the crimes. lmao

What really is upsetting is the news I saw on T.V. this morning, A woman went to a car wash and she high pressure sprayed her child with it because she disrespect her. That was cough on tape.

There are better ways to punish your child. I have change so much in my house that my kids hate what I do now. LMAO I'm having fun with it.

Komodos Drangons

queen val — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:29:24 GMT

This I found interesting I did was the documentary on them but didn't know some of this here is the web sit:

Sedgwick County zoo: http://www.scz.org go to News&events then to the recent news click on Komodos

The article said that 2 Komodo Dragon gave birth with out a male present. They think the the Komodos store the sperm and release it when things are right for them. I'm looking for article to print.

I hope this works. They are a very interesting breed of animal I think.:D:P

Redoing History Books AGAIN

queen val — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:08:55 GMT

Ok, My Loyal Friends, (hehehe) Here we go again, History has to be REWRITTEN. First they take pluto, out of our solor, then they found The Scorpian Kings tomb, Now the olds CROC. bones found. There is one thing I think that is funny, some of these smart people think that they will never find things that did live millions of years ago. But it, the little people that dream of them thing and they go out and find it. Now I have a Question. How many times do you think that they will have to rewrite the history book or any other book. :w00t::hehe:

Unknowing Twins Marry Each Other

Locus Coeruleus — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:58:38 GMT

[quote]They had been adopted by separate families and "met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."[/quote]

Heh. What are the odds???

Ok, this is wacky.

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/11/twins.married/index.html]Article at CNN.com[/url]

[quote]The marriage has been annulled.[/quote]

I would hope so...

Personal responsibility dies

Nuclearcow — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:06:51 GMT

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/348265_realestate22.html?source=rss

Unhappy home buyer, feeling misled on price, sues agent

By DAVID STREITFELD
THE NEW YORK TIMES

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Marty Ummel believes she paid too much for her house. So do millions of other people who bought at the peak of the housing boom.

What makes Ummel different is that she is suing her agent, saying it was all his fault.

Ummel claims that the agent hid the information that similar homes in the neighborhood were selling for less because he feared she would back out and he would lose his $30,000 commission.

Real estate lawyers and brokers say the case, which goes to trial in North County Superior Court on Monday, is likely to be the first of many in which regretful or resentful buyers seek redress from the agents who found them a home and arranged its purchase.

"When your house appreciates $100,000 in the first six months, you're not quite as concerned that maybe the valuation was $25,000 or $50,000 off," said Clifford Horner of the law firm Horner & Singer. "But when your house goes down, you ask: 'Who might have led me astray here?' "

Agents representing buyers rarely had the opportunity to make mistakes during the last real estate boom, in the late 1980s, because the job hardly existed then. For decades, residential transactions almost always involved brokers who, whatever assistance they gave the buyer, legally represented only the seller. The long boom that began in the late 1990s put an end to that one-sided world. As prices spiked, buyer's agents and brokers became popular as sounding boards, advisers and negotiators. The National Association of Realtors estimates they are now involved in two-thirds of all residential purchases.

That makes this the first housing collapse in which large numbers of buyers had a real estate professional explicitly looking after their interests. The Ummel case poses the question: In a relationship built on trust, where promises are rarely written down and where -- as in this case -- there is no signed contract, what are the exact obligations of these representatives in guiding their clients through a sizzling market?

"Agents have a lot of fiduciary duties, but they don't make money unless they close the sale," said Joel Ruben, a real estate lawyer in Manhattan Beach, Calif. "In an inflated market, there are built-in temptations to cut corners."

The defendant in the Ummel case is Mike Little, a veteran agent with ReMax Associates. He will argue that Marty Ummel, who brought the case with her husband, Vernon, is trying to shift the blame for the couple's own failures of research and due diligence.

"They simply didn't do what is expected of a knowledgeable, sophisticated buyer, and are now looking for someone other than themselves to take responsibility," Roger Holtsclaw, an agent who was hired by Little as an expert witness, said in a court deposition.

Horner, the lawyer, said valuation is a tricky area for brokers.

"Brokers aren't appraisers," said Horner, one of the writers of a guide to suing brokers. "They have no obligation to opine about value. But once they do, it becomes a gray area whether it's puffery or a misstatement of a known fact."

Most people who made a bad real estate deal might wince and move on, but people who know Marty Ummel describe her as unusually determined. She spent a year picketing ReMax offices on weekends.

Vernon Ummel, an administrator at Dominican University, gave her his permission to pursue the case, on one condition: "Don't tell me how much the legal fees are." So far, the bills come to $75,000, more than Marty Ummel's annual salary as a fundraiser at California State University-San Marcos.

"I do not think I'm obsessive-compulsive, but I am 114 pounds of absolute perseverance," Marty Ummel said.

proposal that would ban swearing in bars

ddmagnan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:05:29 GMT

Now that smoking is banned in bars in most States it seems that the PC police have moved on to the next issue. After this one I wonder what is next, banning alchohol in bars. :P

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22559988/[/url]

Hillary Dies!

jerm — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:17:55 GMT

Okay, that was a dirty trick but that's what it said on MSN (the link to the article, not the title itself):

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22597658/?GT1=10755]Everest conqueror Hillary dies at 88[/url]

Fox news headline:

Tosk — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:53 GMT

[b]UNION FORCES MAKE COWARDLY ATTACK[/b]

VIRGINIA (AP) - The War of Northern Aggression, mostly quiet for the last 130ish years, has flared anew. Yankee forces make first attack on the quiet, peace loving peoples of Virginia Beach with their terrorweapon, the "F-18" Hornet, and tempers are "buzzing" on the ground.

[url=http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/navy_hornet_dropsbomb_071030w/]The real story[/url]

Pravda Online

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:09:10 GMT

This is amazing. Is this for real? OMG this is amazing. Check out these loonie stories those Russians are reading up on over there.

First we have the story about the [url=http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/05-04-2007/89132-russian_alien-0]Mysterious dwarfish alien brutally murdered in Russia's remote village[/url].

Then of course there is the [url=http://www.funreports.com/fun/03-04-2007/1504-masturbating_woman-0]Male students call police when young woman starts masturbating for them[/url].

I've browsed around a bit, and it doesn't seem to include anything that crosses the line for a family standard (I hope). But I have to admit, I found out about this by doing a search and reading an article on Wiki about [url=http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/26-05-2006/81080-orgasm-0]Orgasm[/url].

ADDIT: This is absolutely amazing. An actual GLIMPSE inside the mass media being consumed by the typical Russian. Astounding [url=http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/31-10-2006/85294-usa_iraq-0]The politics of delusion and crisis denial[/url].

Appendix not useless after all; Sim scientists rejoice.

psweetman1590 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:51:22 GMT

Odd, considering that its regarded as common knowledge that the Appendix doesn't do squat...

http://health.yahoo.com/news/180096

And the part about Sim scientists is just a joke. If you've played SC 3000, you should get it. :P

Kung Fu vs Ninjitsu

ddmagnan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:49 GMT

As divisive as the eternal Pirate vs Ninja debate. Which is the superior martial art, Shaolin Kung Fu or Ninjitsu?

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20523643/?GT1=10252[/url]

Jail time for saggy pants

ddmagnan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:30:15 GMT

[url]http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/09/16/764841.html&cvqh=twisted_jail[/url]

Couple Tries to Name Baby 'At' Symbol

ddmagnan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:24:35 GMT

Well it would be easy to type your name on the computer, @. :)

[url]http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/08/16/740634.html&cvqh=itn_Atname[/url]

Man calls 911 to save him from police

ddmagnan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:52:19 GMT

Just a few too many drinks...:D

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19795748/?GT1=10150[/url]

Squirrel Spy Ring?

Tosk — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:47:16 GMT

[url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1274983,00.html][link[/url]

This little female was spotted because she was not wearing her burkha.
[img]http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1559294.jpg[/img]

This sneaky little guy has seen every single James Bond movie 25 times.
[img]http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/shumbelina/secret_squirrel.jpg[/img]

World's Tallest Man Weds

psweetman1590 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:45:30 GMT

Read for yourself. Some interesting side notes can be found in there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070712/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_tallest

Ugly Suit

jerm — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:53:08 GMT

[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/us/13pants.html?em&ex=1181880000&en=98e651ffd9c4030a&ei=5087%0A]Judge Tries Suing Pants Off Dry Cleaners[/url]

[quote]Roy L. Pearson Jr. wanted to dress sharply for his new job as an administrative law judge here. So when his neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced a pair of expensive pants he had planned to wear his first week on the bench, Judge Pearson was annoyed...

So annoyed that he sued — for $67.3 million.[/quote]

[quote]Later, while recounting the day he says the cleaners tried to pass off a cheaper pair of pants as his, Judge Pearson began to cry, asking for a break and dabbing tears as he left the courtroom.[/quote]

[quote]Using a complicated formula, Judge Pearson argues that under the city’s consumer protection law, the owners, Soo and Jin Chung and their son, Ki Chung, each owe $18,000 for each day over a nearly four-year period in which signs at their store promised “Same Day Service” and “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” In opening statements, Judge Pearson cast himself as a victim of a fraud on a historic scale, perpetrated by malicious business owners who had no intention of delivering on those promises.[/quote]

Ah, the justice of the American legal system...:hehe:

Rushdie going to be knighted

Konrad von Richtmark — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:09:30 GMT

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/16/queens.honors.ap/index.html]Read it all[/url]

I mean: :w00t:

What the, this guy wouldn't even be famous if not for Khomeini's Fatwa of Doom. Awarding for renowned blasphemy... when will they knight Britain's most prominent Black Metal artists?

They didn't even knight Tolkien for his legendary literary work, but Rushdie is eligible. Seriously, what the hell :w00t:

The world of Pornography

Roadkill — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:40:43 GMT

-Came across this by toptenreviews.com, pornography statistics of 2007. What I find most interesting is the Search Engine Request Keyword Trends list, most notably the word "sex." Look at the top countries here; Pakistan, India, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Indonesia, Vietnam, Iran and Croatia respectively(Top ten). Almost exclusively muslim countries...

-Oh, and the list for the keyword "porn," Norway is in at nr. 7! Take that!

How to cut your hair for free

Bastable — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:42:32 GMT

Clip from a film about Paris bookshop owner George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare & Company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hLk11K9OPI

Full film - A Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5574284408427118756

Getting High in Rome

Locus Coeruleus — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:44:27 GMT

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18974208/]There’s something in the air in Rome: cocaine[/url]

[quote]ROME - Scientists have discovered particles of cocaine and marijuana, as well as caffeine and tobacco, in the air of Italy’s capital, they said on Thursday.[/quote]

Bookstore Owner Burns Books in Protest!!!

Locus Coeruleus — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:12:24 GMT

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/05/28/bookburning.ap/index.html]This guy Rocks!!!! [/url]:w00t:

[quote]"After slogging through the tens of thousands of books we've slogged through, and to accumulate that many and to have people turn you away when you take them somewhere, it's just kind of a knee-jerk reaction," he said. "And it's a good excuse for fun."[/quote]

[quote]"I think, given the fact it is a protest of people not reading books, it's the best way to do it," Bechtel said. "(Wayne has) made the point that not reading a book is as good as burning it."[/quote]

Zero Tollerance to drugs in school

jerm — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:43:40 GMT

[url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/05/school_punishes.html]School punishes 13-year-old who wanted to take Tylenol for headache[/url]

[quote]Gabriella Nieves, 13, was suspended indefinitely because, by asking whether she could take the over-the-counter medicine that a classmate had given her for a headache, she was in violation of the school's "zero tolerance policy" regarding drug use, the report says.[/quote]

[quote]After a hearing, WVEC-TV says school officials decided to let Nieves return to classes after two days. But they want her to attend a counseling program.[/quote]

Woman gets DUI — for horseback ride

ddmagnan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:53:55 GMT

Shouldn't that be RUI?

[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17953259/?GT1=9246[/url]

Duke University Cheating Scandal

Locus Coeruleus — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:38:07 GMT

Just don't do it.

Stupid jackasses at Duke. Damned cheaters. Grad Students. Morons!

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/01/duke.cheating.students.ap/index.html] Duke's business school punishes 34 graduate students for cheating[/url]

[quote]The largest cheating scandal ever at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business involved more than a take-home exam, a business school official said Tuesday.

After finding consistencies in exam answers, "the professor said, 'Let me take a look at other stuff that's been handed in,"' said Mike Hemmerich, an associate dean at the business school. A judicial board later investigated the final exam and other assignments, resulting in the punishment of 34 graduate students.

Nine students face expulsion from the competitive two-year program, which will cost first-year students in 2007 almost $50,000 for tuition, books and a laptop computer. Another 15 students could be suspended for one year and receive a failing grade in the course.

Nine others are set to get a failing grade, and one student could receive a failing grade on an assignment separate from the exam. Four others were found not guilty, Hemmerich said.

"Typically, students do file an appeal on an honor code violation," Hemmerich said.[/quote]

Of course, I am holding my breath.

We all know what happened the last time Duke students were accused of something :/

It's Friday, so lets give one more reason to drink.

ddmagnan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:27:24 GMT

I've never been one for sweet cocktails. I'm more of a whiskey coke kind of guy. However I may now how an excuse to drink when I normally wouldn't!:P

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18218185/wid/11915773?GT1=9303]Alcohol may make fruit more fruitful[/url]

I haven't had all my daily recommended servings of fruit yet. I think I'll have a pina colada.:D

Well that is one way to get to Paris...

ddmagnan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:46:26 GMT

Go to http://maps.google.com/ and type in "Seattle to Paris". Pay special attention to step #18.

Chicago Coyote prefers Quiznos to Subway.

Tosk — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:53:37 GMT

Back to the woods little buddy.

[url]http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=2284124&ch=61492&src=news[/url]

Only in America . . .

Scipio Africanus — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:05:48 GMT

Is this what a Universal Suffrage, Free Speech, Emancipation, Environmentalist, [url=http://www.clevescene.com/2007-03-14/news/amish-girls-gone-wild/full]Free Religion[/url] post-modern civilization looks like? :P

ADDIT: what a great story . . .

[quote]Tina gets a bit testy. "I know we're weird. The Amish are weird," she says. "I'll admit that. I mean, I wouldn't mind having electricity."

Byler knows where this is going. "Yeah, but if she left her family, she couldn't even sit at the same table with them anymore. That's hard."

Tina nods. "And if it's between family and electricity, I'll chose family. I would never not talk to my family again."

Byler shrugs before heading for another drink. "Just glad I'm not Amish," he says. [/quote]

Save the Trees too!

Scipio Africanus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:36:27 GMT

I hate starting more than one thread in the same week, but I just found this stuff on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Shigo]Alex Shigo[/url] so I couldn't help myself. Interesting to peek in on arboriculture.

Save the Cones & Signs

Scipio Africanus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:03:08 GMT

As a former sinner extraordinaire, I ask you all to confess and abscond with the cone theft. It is best for us all.

[url=http://www.trafficcone.com/]Field Guide To Traffic Cones[/url]

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_cone#Theft]The Humble Traffic Cone[/url]

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_sign_theft]Street Sign Theft[/url]

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/***ing]***ing Austria[/url]

Is this "Wacky" enough?

Bismarck2990 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:03:47 GMT

[URL=http://music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=13535]Jackson plans Vegas robot[/URL]

[QUOTE]"It has now been claimed that his plans include an elaborate show in Vegas, which would feature the giant Jacko striding around the desert, firing laser beams."[/QUOTE]

Could you imagine running into something like that in Las Vegas? I'd honesty never be the same mentally, if I somehow got lost in the desert, and was attacked by a 50 foot Michael Jackson robot.

Gotta love the French.

Tosk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:32:59 GMT

While losing a war with Algeria they try to surrender to the British.
And they wonder why they rank right up there with the UN as hopeless.

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16638084/]link[/url]

Oh The Irony.

Tosk — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:57:55 GMT

Whether you are a doubter or believer the irony here is funny.

[url=http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16887788.htm]Global Warming Expedition Cancelled Due to Cold Weather[/url]