Don't Panic! Lighten Up!
Last week the Pentagon discovered a mistake that took place 2 years ago involving a shipment of fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles to Taiwan. News came of this just minutes after relations between China and Taiwan became heated.
Berlin - A man in Germany fled his home half naked for cold, snow-swept streets to escape a mouse in his living room, authorities said on Thursday.
"He said there was nothing he was more afraid of," police in Goettingen said in a statement.
"He said there was nothing he was more afraid of," police in Goettingen said in a statement.
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| Sott editor's conceptualization of mouse-like behavior that caused such a fright. |
An airline pilot took his passengers on a 1,200-mile detour after refusing to land at a new airport in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, claiming he had never heard of it.
With 233 passengers on board, the KLM pilot diverted the flight from Amsterdam northwards from Hyderabad to New Delhi, was denied permission to land, and finally arrived in Bombay two hours later.
With 233 passengers on board, the KLM pilot diverted the flight from Amsterdam northwards from Hyderabad to New Delhi, was denied permission to land, and finally arrived in Bombay two hours later.
A US driver was stopped on suspicion of being a terrorist after his radioactive cat was mistaken for a bomb.
Anti-terror cops using specialist radiation detectors on motorway traffic flagged down the man.
But a search of his car revealed only his cat who had undergone radiotherapy for cancer three days earlier.
Deputy chief border agent Joe Giuliano revealed details of the incident to a meeting of San Juan Islanders, reports the Seattle Times.
Anti-terror cops using specialist radiation detectors on motorway traffic flagged down the man.
But a search of his car revealed only his cat who had undergone radiotherapy for cancer three days earlier.
Deputy chief border agent Joe Giuliano revealed details of the incident to a meeting of San Juan Islanders, reports the Seattle Times.
Secretarial students at a Chinese university are being asked to plan a bank robbery for an assignment.
They have to work out how to rob a bank with a team of six within seven minutes, reports Information Times.
The students are all majoring in secretarial studies at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
They have to come up with a robbery action plan for a team comprising a leader, a lock breaker, a driver, two robbers and a gunman.
They have to work out how to rob a bank with a team of six within seven minutes, reports Information Times.
The students are all majoring in secretarial studies at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
They have to come up with a robbery action plan for a team comprising a leader, a lock breaker, a driver, two robbers and a gunman.
Oh, to be a fly on those royal walls later this week when Madame Sarkozy is expected to meet the Queen. I do not mean the ghastly Carla Bruni-Sarkozy - whose idea of regal entertainment is, no doubt, to sing her folk songs while winking seductively at the Duke of Edinburgh - but Andrée, Mme Sarkozy Snr, the 82-year-old First Maman, diminutive defender of her large-eared son and the most belligerent belle-mère in France.
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| French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his mother |
BRISBANE, Australia - Village medicine men used to keep the tribe under control with threats of drawing on the Gods to cause mayhem to trouble makers.
Religion does a good job of keeping that trend alive: "sin and you will go to hell"
Fast forward 2008 years and you have people predicting that Planet X will arrive in 2012 and pass through our solar system before arching off on it's timeless odyssey around the Milky Way Galaxy.
Religion does a good job of keeping that trend alive: "sin and you will go to hell"
Fast forward 2008 years and you have people predicting that Planet X will arrive in 2012 and pass through our solar system before arching off on it's timeless odyssey around the Milky Way Galaxy.
PODOLYANTSI, Ukraine - Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus.
But Stadnik, who according to the Guinness World Records is the world's tallest human, says his condition has also taught him that the world is filled with kindhearted strangers.
But Stadnik, who according to the Guinness World Records is the world's tallest human, says his condition has also taught him that the world is filled with kindhearted strangers.
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| Ukrainian veterinarian, Leonid Stadnik, 2.59 meter (8,5 feet) tall, the world's tallest living man according to the Guinness Book of Records, rides a bicycle specially made for him, in the village of Podoliantsy, Ukraine's northwestern Zhytomyr region, 212 kilometers (131.74 miles) west of the capital Kiev, Sunday, March 23, 2008. Stadnik's growth spurt started at age 14 after a brain operation apparently stimulated his pituitary gland. Stadnik, 37, is still growing up. |
A pickpocket made a big mistake when he robbed the justice minister... and then ran into a bus full of police officers.
The dumb criminal mugged MP Bridget Prentice as she boarded a bus in south London.
However, little did pickpocket Kenneth Cooper know that his target, the justice minister, had an off-duty detective standing behind her.
The dumb criminal mugged MP Bridget Prentice as she boarded a bus in south London.
However, little did pickpocket Kenneth Cooper know that his target, the justice minister, had an off-duty detective standing behind her.
An Australian man's complaint of an break-in at his home went to pot Friday when police arrested him for growing marijuana.
The 35-year-old man in the central Australian city of Adelaide called police to report that six men had broken into his house through a window and stolen parts of his cannabis plants, South Australia Police said.
The 35-year-old man in the central Australian city of Adelaide called police to report that six men had broken into his house through a window and stolen parts of his cannabis plants, South Australia Police said.
Comment: Notice how the Niburians have morphed the theory. On the site linked to in the article, they write:
"Nibiru is in fact a dark star, about half the size of our Sun. It has a number of large planets and moons orbiting around it, one of which is Planet X."
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