January 25, 2009 – 11:16 pm
Africa. Cradel of civilisation and home to some very stupid and superstitious people. A goat has been arrested for armed robbery. Don’t worry, it’s not that dumb. The armed robber was obviously a shapeshifter who turned themself into a goat after the robbery, because, of couse a goat cannot carry a weapon.
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change shape.
A police spokesman in Kwara State has been quoted as saying that the “armed robbery suspect” would remain in custody until investigations were over.
And then it gets eaten.
LINK (BBC)
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January 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm
I am loving this news story…
An intruder received a taste of divine reckoning as he was chased from the Edinburgh flat he was breaking into by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.
The housebreaker leapt from the first-floor window of the building to escape Torvald Alexander who was dressed-up for a New Year’s fancy dress party.
Mr Alexander, 39, said the man may have been intimidated by the costume he made of the god of thunder out of tin foil.
The intruder did not manage to take anything from the flat in Inverleith.
Mr Alexander, a builder, said he was inspired to dress as Thor by the Marvel comic series.
I like to imagine that the burgler was later struck by lightning.
LINK (BBC)
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October 28, 2008 – 2:20 pm
In case you didn’t fear Russia already, here is a new reason. A recently discovered Siberian moth that feeds on blood. Apparently very similar to a moth that only feeds on fruit – Calyptra thalictri – this one is slightly different in that it
drilled their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and sucked blood.
I hope this is another wonderful facet of nature, and not a scheme by tiger fighter Vladimir Putin to breed super-deadly insects to wage war on the West. Although, that would be cool.
LINK (National Geographic)
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October 24, 2008 – 1:01 pm
More joy and future doom from the American Millitary who want a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” to “search for and detect a non-cooperative human” and kill the shit out of them. Well, not yet, but time is the simplest thing. I’m not sure if the prospect of seeing my fellow hu-mans being hunted down by a pack of tooled up Big Dogs fills me with horor or morbid facination. Either way, the world edges ever closer to a Snow Crash future. Yay!
LINK(New Scientist)
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October 20, 2008 – 12:55 pm
The car wash? Seriously? I know washing tha car can be a sexy activity, just watch that Whitesnake video with the chick on the car (yeah, she’s not washing it, but I always imagine her soapy. Like any woman in a music video by Whitesnake…) But to have full blown intercourse with the vaccum pump. Lordy. Next week I hope to find someone sticking their junk in a waste disposal…
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