A 22-year-old carnival worker blames two friends having sexual intercourse in the back seat of his car for an accident in which his Chevrolet S-10 Blazer struck a telephone pole.
Joshua D. Frank, who is living in a trailer parked on the Latah County Fairgrounds, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. That's after he left the vehicle at the site of the mishap. He was fined $188.
Frank told Moscow Police Department officers that he was driving the vehicle near downtown early Saturday while a man and woman were having sex in the rear of the vehicle.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Frank told authorities that the actions of the pair in the back caused the Blazer, which "was top heavy anyway," to become "tippy" and lose control.
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Yeah, them rearview mirrors in Blazers are really, really heavy.
And if ya can't believe a carny, who can you believe?
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*whew!* It's always a relief not to see my name listed when I see the headline "Wild Sex Car Crash". I try to maintain *some* discretion, ya know...
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I was most confused because there's a redneck living in Moscow, must be a slightly (ahem) less famous place in the states?
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FARK,com humor > "Am disappointed in all of you ...Of course you know its Dubya's and America's fault ...This thread is useless without pics ... Like the Fist of An Angry God", etal.
D *** NG IT, COMMIES HAVE SEX???
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JosephM dear, where did you think little commies came from?
Bright Pebbles, I don't know where Moscow, U.S. is either. Quite possibly there's more than one; we're fond of recycling names on this side of the pond. (How many communities have a Main Street?) ;-)
As TW said, Americans tended to recycle European names as immigrants came in and we moved West. (Bet the Euros never had an Outhouse Mountain, though. ;-p)
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How about a local variant of the Grand Tetons, Barbara?
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Not around here (Virginia), TW. Our names are very British Isles, for the most part, or Indian.
Outhouse Mountain (and quite a few other interesting names) is out West, as are the Grand Tetons (and yes, in spite of my lack of French, I do know what that means ;-p).
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Caught my first trout in the Tetons as a boy.
Nice country.
Internet auction website eBay on Monday withdrew an unusual second-hand sale item, the country of Belgium, which had attracted an offer of EUR 10 million. "Belgium, a kingdom in three parts" was posted on the Belgian ebay site as offering "plenty of choice" despite the caveat that it comes with "300 billion in National Debt."
Offered in three parts -- Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia -- the accompanying blurb said the kingdom "can be bought as a whole (not recommended)." The vendor also included as added extras "the king and his court (costs not included)."
Ebay spokesman Peter Burin said the site could not host the sale of anything virtual or "unrealistic," the Belga news agency reported.
Double heh.
The 'vendor' was named as a former journalist, Gerrit Six. Offering his lot at an initial price of one euro, he saw 26 subsequent bids culminating in the 10 million euro offer on Monday before the auction was halted. The spoof sale was offered while Belgium is mired in a political crisis which has led to discussion over the country's future as a federal state.
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"The French islands produce 260,000 tonnes of bananas a year, worth some 220 million euros (305 million dollars). The industry, which employs 15,000 people, also receives 130 million euros in EU aid."
Translation into real speak: the crop brings in 90 million euros.
I thought our European betters were more nu-u-umerate than us ignunt hick 'murikuns.
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The article doesn't point out how it is Bush's fault. Maybe I'm missing something...I'll have to re-read it.
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"....And women are having fewer children than 15 years ago. The standard theory is that this is because of the pill, but I think it is linked to pesticides," he said.
Don't want to let a few facts spoil the narrative.
Seven-year-old Finley Collins thought her pet 12-inch bearded dragon might be giving birth when she noticed an unusual protrusion near the lizard's tail. But Finley's father, Jeff Collins, feared it might be something more ominous and rushed Mushu to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian pulled out a 7-inch toy rubber lizard. "I've never extracted a lizard from another lizard before," said veterinarian John Rossi.
Rossi had sedated Mushu and pulled on the protrusion.
"The next thing I knew, I was seeing legs and a body and a head. It was very strange to be tugging on this thing," he said. By the time the rubbery lizard's legs began to appear, Rossi realized what it was. "We were all laughing," he said. "It passed completely through the entire (gastrointestinal) tract," Rossi said.
Rossi said bearded dragons, a variety of Australian lizards, often swallow such things as small suction cups, screws and dimes.
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"Rossi said bearded dragons, a variety of Australian lizards, often swallow such things as small suction cups, screws and dimes...." and proceeded to recall an earlier case where another lizard had apparently swallowed several coins. After several hours of observation, he asked his aide the condition of the lizard.
Man Nearly Dies After Putting Pet Rattlesnake Down Throat
A man in Oregon nearly died after a pet rattlesnake that he put in his mouth while drinking with some friends bit him inside his throat. Matt Wilkinson said when he put his eastern diamondback rattlesnake down his throat, he immediately noticed a shot-like sensation. "Me, being me, I put his head in my mouth," Wilkinson said. "At first, it felt like someone had given me a shot in the mouth."
Wilkinson's throat began to swell and close as poison rushed through his body. Doctors stuck a breathing tube down his throat, injected several rounds of anti-venin and then put him in a medical coma for three days.
Wilkinson, who nearly died from the incident, is still recovering from the bite. "They said I had enough venom in me to kill between 12 and 15 people," Wilkinson said. "If he would have taken any longer to get to the hospital he probably would have died of asphyxiation," Dr. Richard Mullins told KGW-TV in Oregon. "If you have an obstructed airway and you can't breathe, you'll die in about seven minutes."
"I still love snakes but I will take a little more care in handling them," Wilkinson said. "It is kind of my own stupid fault." The mind boggles.
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Ah, come on you guys don't know what wonderful animals EDR are! Just a case of my favorite reptile person quirk, drunken venomous reptile handling!
I have been told this is nothing compared to who can rassle the biggest gator at the gator farm after several six packs have been consumed.
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LIMA (Rooters) - Dozens of people living in a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca reported vomiting and headaches after they went to look at a crater apparently left by a meteorite that crashed down over the weekend, health officials said on Tuesday. After hearing a loud noise, people went to see what had happened and found a crater 65 feet wide and 22 feet deep on an uninhabited plateau near Carancas in the Puno region.
Experts from Peru's Geophysical Institute are on their way to the area 800 miles south of Lima to verify whether it was a meteorite.
"We've examined about 100 people who got near to the meteorite crater who have vomiting and headaches because of gasses coming out of there," Jorge Lopez, health director in Puno, told Reuters. "People are scared," he said.
Lopez said people went to the site after hearing a crash that they thought might be an airplane. "We ourselves went near the crater and now we've got irritated throats and itching noses," Lopez said.
The site is near the border with Bolivia and experts from San Andres university in La Paz said initial analyses of sand samples from the crater showed that it could be a meteorite, according to newspaper reports. Meteorites fell in 2002 and 2004 in the Andean area of Arequipa in southern Peru, Hernando Tavera, head of the Peruvian Geophysical Institute, told Reuters.
Luisa Macedo, a geologist with the Mining Geology and Metallurgy Institute in Lima, told Reuters the reaction between the elements in a meteorite and the Earth's surface can generate gases that then dissipate.
she has a Mac 9 there Mooses, so i'd be nice to her every day of the month!
>:)
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RUMORMILLNEWS > RUSSIA thinks a US nuclearized satellite is what struck in Peru as a small
"meteor" would've left a much bigger impact hole *Some RMN Posters > ala reports of Chinese hacking [B52-ALCM incident]???
The WD-2 robot is a pretty amazing piece of technology. It can't walk, talk, compute awesomely complex equations, or carry heavy objects. What it can do, however, is morph to look like anyone's face. Created by researchers at Tokyo University, the WD-2 has "17 facial points, for a total of 56 degrees of freedom," whatever that means.
Made from a material called Septom, which is both very rigid as well as malleable, it's able to shift to match nearly any facial structure. It's certainly a creepy idea, one that I can't quite see the practical benefits of. It's also incredible to watch doing its thing, as a realistic face seems to morph on the fly into another, completely different realistic face. Technology is a crazy thing, isn't it? Adam Frucci
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There is finally some real momentum in the development of humanoid robot technologies. By combining several technologies, we are getting much closer to a practical and useful device.
1) Subdividing the robot "brain" into three parts, much like a humans brain with a primitive, midbrain and upper brain, but with only the primitive brain inside its physical body, overcomes many technical problems. The midbrain would be in proximity to the robot, communicating with WIFI. And the upper brain would be a supercomputer available by Internet.
2) Two different types of muscle control. For ordinary "weak" and precise muscle movement, use air tubes wrapped in mesh, made by the Shadow Robot Company:
For strong muscle movements, a new "strong" type of muscle developed for prosthetic limbs:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20496850/
3) The main energy supply of a humanoid robot has always been problematic, but recent innovations in propane fuel cells and capacitors may create some reasonable solutions. Propane contains far more energy than ethanol, but also burns cleanly, producing only water and carbon dioxide.
Capacitors have also been radically improved, and are far superior to batteries for many applications. A new type may be able to power an electric car for 400 miles between chargings.
This suggests that there will be three energy supplies: capacitor for "weak" muscle movements, with peroxide for "strong" muscle movements, and propane to power all other electrical systems.
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Can look like anyone? And could be programmed to not mind who's name you call it? Hey, this LiberalDemocrat Progressive idea that "marriage" is an open venue may get some traction here!
A U.S. federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by California's attorney general on Monday seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse gases...
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If California is so gung-ho to fight global warming, the legislature can act immediately to ban the sale and use of all cars, trucks, buses, tractors, trains, airplanes, ships, boats, motorcycle engines and lawn mowers. This would have an immediate positive effect on global warming. Los Angeles would be free of smog. Since California supplies much of the produce in the US, people all over the country would starve (along with almost everyone in California, of course). This would further reduce global warming. Since California would no longer be making any significant contribution to the US (and world) economy, there would be a massive depression, further reducing global warming.
Since the legislature is not doing this, we can only conclude that they are not serious about global warming, and California is only using the courts to extort money from the automakers.
As Glenn Reynolds says, I'll start acting like global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis act like it's a crisis.
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Since California supplies much of the produce in the US, people all over the country would starve..
That's because.....its the food my food eats? Nah, we'll just import it directly from legit Mexican workers south of the border. Lettuce, lettuce, my kingdom for lettuce.
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Yeah, the storm was nothing. Like every typhoon I've ever been in in Asia, it was just some wind and rain. In Ningbo, there aren't even any trees blown down, much less power outages or roofless houses. The reason that these cause so much damage are due to the flimsy construction of houses in the countryside, and the general idiocy of the population.
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g: Yeah, the storm was nothing. Like every typhoon I've ever been in in Asia, it was just some wind and rain. In Ningbo, there aren't even any trees blown down, much less power outages or roofless houses. The reason that these cause so much damage are due to the flimsy construction of houses in the countryside, and the general idiocy of the population.
I've been through some of these typhoons. They are nothing like the hurricanes we get on the east coast stateside. But the locals (Chinese) like to crow about how well constructed their homes are compared to flimsy Americans shacks. Whatever.
The Cheshire grandmother who married Osama Bin Laden's son is divorcing him over fears they will be murdered. Jane Felix-Browne, 51, from Moulton, near Northwich, married Omar Osama Bin Laden, 27, in July, after romance blossomed during a holiday in Egypt. At the time the ex-parish councillor said she married him for love and did not care about his family's background. But she said there were now "two very very serious issues that have threatened our lives and our liberty".
[Binny's] son Omar,
Omar, who Ms Felix-Browne met while horse riding last September, is the Cheshire woman's sixth husband.
who Ms Felix-Browne met while horse riding last September, is the Cheshire woman's sixth husband. He was also on holiday in Egypt when the pair met. A relationship developed and within seven months they were married.
Ms Felix-Browne said on Wednesday that the marriage was not over as far as she was concerned. "We have had to get divorced because of threats from two major sources in Saudi Arabia," she said. "I know from who the threats have come but I'm not prepared to say. The threats are not from the general public, not from the government."
She added: "I have been living with my husband, it is a very happy marriage. We are both deeply in love. Very very happy, did not want to be forced into this divorce. It is against Islam to be forced into any divorce and as far as I am concerned this divorce will never stand up in a Sharia court."
She described her husband as her best friend. "We have an awful lot in common," she said. "We love the deserts. We are both pretty religious. We have a fantastic time. The threats have put an end to my marriage but we will re-marry."
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"The threats have put an end to my marriage but we will re-marry."
Does this make any logical sense to anyone?
What's to stop the "threats" if they remarry?
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Did she say "I divorce thee" three times. Otherwise in the eyes of the Sharia court, it doesn't count. How does Islam view women with more than one husband if she remarries without this divorce being acknowledged?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that if she was going to remarry her true love, she would have had to marry some other unlucky git and divorce him first before they can reattempt wedded bliss.
LAHORE: A teenager was shot dead by a security guard on Tuesday for playing cricket when the security guard had told him against it.
A security guard told the boys to stop playing there, but they ignored him. Sabir got angry, brought his gun and shot Ali.
South Cantonment police said that Mehmood Ali (18), son of Muhammad Eisa, was playing cricket with his friends at Eden Housing Society near New Airport. Sabir Hussain, a security guard at the society, told the boys to stop playing there, but they ignored him. Sabir got angry, brought his gun and shot at Ali, injuring him. Sabir fled the scene while Ali was taken to Farooq Hospital where he died. Police took the body to the city morgue and registered a case against the security guard.
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Teen killed for playing cricket
So, now we all know that Sabir Hussain is Pakistani for Sledge Hammer.
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Well, some imam somewhere or other has said that soccer is un-Islamic, so the security guard was just defending his religion. (In some people's minds anyway.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Man Nearly Dies After Putting Pet Rattlesnake Down Throat
[Binny's] son Omar, 
LAHORE: A teenager was shot dead by a security guard on Tuesday for playing cricket when the security guard had told him against it. 
