The Weird & Wonderful News Thread

[mossy]

Painful toilet-stop?
New 5:15AM Friday May 30, 2008

A tourist who stopped for a roadside toilet break near Laura in northern Queensland, about 300km northwest of Cairns, cried out in pain after a deadly snake bit him on the penis.

The victim was crouching down with his pants around his ankles when the highly venomous brown snake slithered under and attacked.

Paramedics said the man was lucky to survive.

The snake left a bite mark but is not believed to have injected enough venom to threaten his life.

Emergency staff wrapped the wound but the man was later given the all-clear.
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Ouch.

[Brainfreeeeeze]

Originally Posted by LaArana2

Now we're talking. It'd be even cooler if it were pus or flesh-eating acid. Of course, he would be impervious to it. Reminds me of the horned lizard that shoots blood out of its eyes. He must be the evolved form of it...

seriously, how cool of a suprise attack would tha be. Just jump out at someone and be like BAM, eye milk.

[mossy]

Originally Posted by Brainfreeeeeze

seriously, how cool of a suprise attack would tha be. Just jump out at someone and be like BAM, eye milk.

You should do that but with your weiner.

[Devil-Josh]

Comic Actor Harvey Korman has died.
The actor was 81 years old.

[LaArana2]

That's wonderful... wait - I mean weird?

[mossy]

Originally Posted by Devil-Josh

Comic Actor Harvey Korman has died.
The actor was 81 years old.

I'm not sure how I see this as weird or wonderful...unless he died riding a whale into the sunset whilst eating a foot long hotdog.

[zodiac66]

Originally Posted by mossy

I'm not sure how I see this as weird or wonderful...unless he died riding a whale into the sunset whilst eating a foot long hotdog.

I do hope he passed doing what he did best...making people laugh. I so did love seeing him on Carol Burnett.

The news isn't weird or wonderful, but he was. I swear to god, I never laughed so hard as I did watching him and Tim Conway.

[mossy]

No shocks in life for electrician

A Romanian electrician claims he doesn't get electric shocks even when he touches live wires without protection.

Constantin Craiu, 51, from Buzau, says he can stick two nails into a power socket and feel only his fingers getting warm.

Mr Craiu said: "One day when I was working as an electrician for the railway company, I had to make some repairs to a building's network.

"I asked my colleague to disconnect the power and started doing my job. It was only after I finished that we both realised I was working with live wires."

Local media dubbed him the Electric Man after he performed a demonstration for journalists in which he put two wires into an electricity socket then used his hands as conductors to turn on a lamp.

Specialists say Mr Craiu's skin might be unusually resistant to electricity or he may have an unknown anomaly which protects his heart from shocks.
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A super hero perhaps?

[mossy]

Keith's life on Mars

A Liverpool man claims to have eaten nothing but Mars bars for 17 years.

Keith Sorrell, 37, eats a dozen a day for his breakfast, lunch and dinner, reports The Sun.

He even orders Mars Bar drinks mixed with vodka or rum when he goes to the pub.

Single Keith said: "My love of Mars Bars started at school with one or two between meals. All my pocket money went on them and one day I realised I couldn't get by without them.

"Now I can easily polish off 12 a day, more at weekends. I'm totally addicted.

"People say it's bad for me but I drink lots of orange juice and take vitamins. I haven't changed my diet for 17 years and my health is fine."

But experts warned Keith, from Walton, was increasing his risk of heart disease, cancer and bowel problems.

Anne Sidnell, of the British Nutrition Foundation, said: "It's amazing how he's survived this long, but he could be the exception and live to 80.

"He seems to get enough vitamin C and the bars could provide enough calcium and protein. But he's missing out on fibre, which will have an effect as he ages."

A spokesman for Mars said: "We encourage people to enjoy chocolate as part of a balanced diet."
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That's gotta be good for you.

[mossy]

Woman's year in cupboard

A homeless woman has been arrested in Japan after living undetected for almost a year in a man's cupboard.

Tatsuko Horikawa, 58, was found by police searching the home of the man, who believed he lived alone in Fukuoka.

The man, who has not been named, suspected he was being burgled after he noticed food going missing from his fridge, reports the Daily Telegraph.

He decided to install security cameras linked to his mobile phone and caught images of a woman walking around the house while he was out.

The man contacted police and, after an exhaustive search of the property, officers found the woman hiding in the top of a built-in cupboard designed to store bedding and mattresses.

Behind the sliding door, she had laid out a thin futon and had several plastic drinks bottles, police said. There was just enough room for her to lay down, they added.

"We searched the house, checking everywhere that someone could possibly hide," said Hiroki Itakura, a police spokesman. "When we slid open the closet door, there she was, curled up nervously on her side."

Horikawa told police that she had nowhere to live and had first taken up residence in the cupboard, in a room that the man rarely used, when the owner of the house had gone out and not locked the door.

The woman did not apparently steal any money or other items from the house, but did make use of the shower and toilet.

The police described Horikawa as looking neat and clean. She was charged with trespassing.