A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
"Tha'sh right! Tha'sh what I done! [Hic!]"
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.
"I wuzh jush drivin' along, an' then — bang! — there she wuzh. A avull... ovalun... big-ashed snow drif'!"
He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out. But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.
"Purdy shoon there wudn't no room fer me! [Hic!]"
He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it.
"I mean, my bladder wuzh that big!"
He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."
Posted by: Fred ||
01/28/2005 6:21:24 PM ||
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60 bottles of beer might do it. Was it mentioned that his bladder exploded in a froth of foam.
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Deacon, we are going to kick you out of the mens club if you continue to talk like that. But I think that pure beer would freeze more than urine, so he did the right thing.
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I don't know about the beer freezing before the urine, Sarge. The Last batch of Deacon Blues Pork Palace and Potables Parlour Stout came in at a little over 6% alcohol. I gues the Engineer in me took over for a minute there. "Watch out where the Huskies go and don't you eat the yellow snow".
Frank Zappa
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This man used his body as a chemical reactor for turning beer into heat energy to melt his way out of an avalanche.
Superheroes may soon be popping up at the University of Oregon, they don't have a cap or mask but more of a helmet and a pigskin. This comic book was created to entice high school recruits to play U of O football. Each book features a prospective duck recruit as the superhero and is personalized just for them. And like most superheroes, they save the day. "At the end of the day, the recruit, the superhero wins the national championship game brings the ducks back. That's the story", Brett Kautter, Recruiting Assistant. U of O students helped to create and design the books. The reason these books are so popular for recruits is the time and effort spent personalizing each copy. Finding that info can be a challenge. "I go to their school web pages. I go to their towns newspapers, anything I can find", Heather Terry, Researcher and student. And getting these pages to look life-like isn't easy either. "I got a digital camera and went around and got pictures of everything that is there, the coach's, their offices. Our facilities, equipment and then I use that to draw from", Brian Merrell, Design Intern and student. Ironically, they could use the exact same technique to recruit high-tech nerds, except showing the school to be filled with superheroines who have secret identities as hard science undergraduates by day, but by night wear skin tight outfits to fight the Forces of Evil(tm).
Posted by: Anonymoose ||
01/28/2005 10:05:06 AM ||
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I understand Auburn uses a similar technique, using personalized coloring books.
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When your team is knicknamed the "Ducks", I suppose you have to do something a little different to recruit, or quack up. I wonder what the bill is? Somebody could be feathering their nest on the side. They don't really say it it will goose up recruitment numbers.
Well, in his world at least:
An inquest has heard that a teenager plunged to his death from cliffs in Cornwall after being startled by a dog. Asif Bharucha, 17, from Blackburn was with a party of students on a walk between Lizard Point and Kynance Cove last June when the accident happened. The inquest was told the Muslim teenager regarded dogs as "unclean" and was afraid of being bitten by one. The coroner at the inquest in Truro's municipal buildings recorded a verdict of accidental death. Friends said as a dog approached the group, Asif became agitated and ran off.
"Run awayyyyyyyyy!"
He appeared to lose his balance and fell from the cliff.
Gravity, why does it hate us?
The owner of the black cross-breed dog told the inquest that he will always be haunted by the incident. Describing Asif's death as a "tragic accident", his family paid tribute to their "brilliant" son, saying he was devoted to his family.
"Brilliant" is not quite the description I would use.
It must be terrible to be that stoopid sensitive.
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Oh, that's just great--and I expect, in keeping with the tradition of these immigrants expecting their adopted host country to adapt to them, they'll soon be demanding a ban on all dogs in Britain.
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We can't let that happen. Dogs are our first line of defence against terminators.
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I'd hate to be the head of PETA now...which way to go? Do you sympathize with the dog or with the mooselimb?
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Two policemen and a dacoit were killed in a shootout with dacoits near Multan on Thursday. Police got a tip on Thursday evening that 10 wanted criminals would be attending a wedding in Mouza Jalalpur Khakhi, Shujaabad tehsil, some 50 kilometres south of Multan.
"We're goin' to a weddin', Mahmoud. Go get yer formal firearms!"
"Sure t'ing, Mo!"
When police raided the site, the wanted dacoits opened fire on them.
"Cheez, it's the coppers. Let 'em have it!"
Police constables Mujahid of Faisalabad and Muhammad Afzal of Lodhran were killed at the scene. As the shootout continued, police reinforcements were called in and one of the dacoits was shot dead. He was later identified as Aziz, son of Muhammad Bakhsh Dhole, and nephew of Ashiq Dhole. Police were still chasing the other nine dacoits when this report was filed late on Thursday. Saadatullah Khan, the inspector general of Punjab Police, announced compensation of Rs 0.5 million each for the families of the two constables killed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Two policemen and a dacoit were killed in a shootout with dacoits near Multan on Thursday. Police got a tip on Thursday evening that 10 wanted criminals would be attending a wedding in Mouza Jalalpur Khakhi, Shujaabad tehsil, some 50 kilometres south of Multan. 
