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Woman Crushed by Leaping Dolphin
Reuters
WELLINGTON (Dec. 27) – A New Zealand woman is in critical condition in hospital after being crushed by a dolphin that leaped on to her boat, media reported on Wednesday.The 27-year-old woman had been watching from the bow of the small boat cruising among the marine mammals off the North Island’s Coromandel Peninsula on Tuesday when the bottlenose dolphin landed on her, the New Zealand Herald said.
She suffered serious head injuries and was flown to hospital in Auckland.
The dolphin also smashed the boat’s windshield and bow rails before jumping back into the ocean, witnesses told the Herald.
Coast guard official Steve Taylor said the dolphin probably got over-excited and jumped on to the boat, although he had never heard of such an incident before.
Bottlenose dolphins, which can measure up to 8.2 feet in length and weigh as much as 572 pounds, are known for their friendly behavior toward human beings and seldom become aggressive.
Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out
POSTED: 9:27 a.m. EST, December 29, 2006
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.
Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.
"I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."
Gutt’s airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his mistake.
The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.
"I didn’t notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.
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Quote:"I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."LOL, no doubt he’ll ask questions in the future!
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Quote:NAIROBI (AFP) – A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him. "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a ‘mother’," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.
"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.
"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.
Police Taser 14-Foot Python to Save Handler
AP
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (Dec. 13) – A 14-foot python bit its handler and tried to drag her into its cage during a show at an aquarium, and wouldn’t release the woman until a police officer zapped the reptile with a stun gun.Alison Cobianchi, 18, was taking Chloe, a Burmese python, out of her cage for the daily snake presentation Saturday at the Tarpon Springs Aquarium when the snake wrapped itself around her arm and waist.
Visitors and aquarium employees kept the nonvenomous snake from pulling Cobianchi into the cage, but couldn’t make it release its grip.
Police were called to help. "We either had to Taser it or we would have had to kill it," police Sgt. Allen MacKenzie said.
Cobianchi suffered puncture wounds on her wrist.
"It was definitely the most scary and painful thing that has ever happened to me," she said. "I knew I wasn’t going to die, but I was worried I wouldn’t get my hand back."
The snake was not seriously hurt by the stun gun.
Aquarium owner Scott Conger said Chloe bit him once while he was feeding her, but Cobianchi is the first employee seriously injured. He said the snake show was canceled indefinitely.
"She was my favorite animal that we had," Cobianchi said of Chloe. "Not anymore."
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating.
The turtle and hippo are soooooo cute. I just saw them today for the first time.
I have a good story for y’all, it is a few weeks old but it’s a good one……………I once put a hex and an ex’s new girlfriend, you know, women can do those sorts of things.
Another great one from the Athens Banner Herald
Woman claims ex’s girlfriend hexed her
A Monroe woman reported to a Barrow County sheriff’s deputy that her ex-husband’s new girlfriend has placed supernatural curses on her, which she says kept her awake nights and caused "mysterious feelings on her chest."
The woman told a Barrow County sheriff’s deputy "she was having sharp, stabbing pains all over her chest and her chest was hot," according to a report she filed with the department. The woman equated the pains to "being poked with a needle or sharp stick."
She blamed her ex-husband’s new girlfriend for the "mysterious feelings," which began about two months ago, when the Monroe woman and her ex-husband divorced. The woman also told the deputy she has trouble sleeping "because she feels a presence hovering above her and it makes a loud humming noise," according to the report.
The deputy didn’t say why the Monroe woman went to the Barrow County Jail to file a report.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 122106
"Annastefka " wrote:The turtle and hippo are soooooo cute.I agree. It’s makes me sing "Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin’ world go round!"
Putting a hex on your ex…girls are crazy.
Scorpions On A Plane!
Well, really just one but funny nontheless.MONTPELIER, Vt. – A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then continued up that leg and down the other, he believes, before getting him again in the shin.
It wasn’t what he was expecting on a flight from Chicago to Vermont.
Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home from San Francisco, where he and his wife Helena had been visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange.
"My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something."
The second sting came after the plane had landed and the Sullivans were waiting for their bags at the luggage carousel. Sullivan rolled up his cuff to investigate, and the scorpion fell out.
"It felt like a shock, a tingly thing. Someone screamed, ‘It’s a scorpion,’" Sullivan recalled. Another passenger stepped on the two-inch arachnid, and someone suggested Sullivan seek medical help.
He scooped up the scorpion and headed to the hospital in Burlington. His wife stopped at the United counter and was told the plane they were on had flown from Houston to Chicago. The Sullivans surmised the scorpion boarded in Texas.
"The airlines tell you can’t bring water or shampoo on a plane," Helena Sullivan said. But the scorpion did make it aboard, she said.
"We don’t see many scorpion bites in Vermont," No sir, we do not.
Man’s Homemade Mole Killer Kills Him Instead
Reuters
BERLIN (Jan. 11) – A German retiree who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead, police said Thursday.Uwe Werner, police spokesman in Stralsund north of Berlin, said the 63-year-old retired construction foreman was found dead in the garden of his weekend house in Zingst next to a 380-volt cable and metal spikes rammed into the ground.
"The moles survived," Werner said, noting the voltage was enough to run a cement mixer or heavy-duty power saw. "It was in any event an unorthodox method to try to get rid of moles."
I made the front pages of the news today.
Escaped chimp gets snack, cleans bathroom
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An escaped chimpanzee at the Little Rock Zoo raided a kitchen cupboard and did a little cleaning with a toilet brush before sedatives knocked her out on top of a refrigerator.The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped yesterday into a service area when a zookeeper opened a door to her sleeping quarters, unaware the animal was still inside.
As keepers tried to woo Judy back into her cage, she rummaged through a refrigerator where chimp snacks are stored. She opened kitchen cupboards, pulled out juice and soft drinks and took a swig from bottles she managed to open.
Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, so she may have been familiar with housekeeping chores. Judy wrung out a sponge and scrubbed down the fridge.
It took a couple of tries, but the zoo sedated the chimp, who fell asleep on top of the refrigerator with half a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread she had pulled out of the freezer.
The zoo veterinarian gave Judy a drug to bring her around. Rademacher says Judy was groggy but fine after the episode.
The zoo says there was no danger Judy would get out of the primate keepers service area and onto zoo grounds.
not quite sure what to make of this, Jimi Hendrix beverage in a screw top aluminum can…
Quote:Hear and See Jimi — Now Beverage Concepts Offers Another Way to Experience Jimi HendrixBeverage Concepts to Introduce the Liquid Experience — a Beverage Line with the Exclusive Rights to Jimi Hendrix
LOS ANGELES, Jan 19, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Beverage Concepts, LLC and Authentic Hendrix made noise today at the NAMM Show by announcing the launch of the only official beverage line to carry the exclusive rights to the Jimi Hendrix name and image. The rock ‘n beverage line, named The Liquid Experience, will launch in late April at the Experience Music Project’s ( http://www.emplive.org) Jimi Hendrix exhibit during a celebrity-filled event at their interactive music museum in Seattle.
"Beverage Concepts is committed to providing in our beverage line the same level of excitement, undefined coolness, rock ‘n roll feel and unprecedented taste that is synonymous with the Jimi Hendrix image," explained Beverage Concepts CEO Josh Glass. "We are especially pleased to announce this partnership with Authentic Hendrix here at NAMM, where we are surrounded by Jimi Hendrix fans and by music lovers from around the globe."
The first of Hendrix-themed beverages will be produced in a visually unique screw-top aluminum bottle, the first of its kind in the United States. Additionally, Beverage Concepts will be promoting the drink throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia, and in tandem with the traveling Jimi Hendrix museum called the Red House Tour ( http://www.redhousetour.com/”>http://www.redhousetour.com/). These rolling events will be announced at a future date. A portion of the proceeds from The Liquid Experience will be donated to charitable organizations that support educating youth through the power of music…I might be blind, but I can’t for the life of me see where it says what kind of beverage they’ll put inside Jimmy ?
"Robert " wrote:I might be blind, but I can’t for the life of me see where it says what kind of beverage they’ll put inside Jimmy ?The Liquid Experience? Sounds to me like acid in a bottle…not the kind of acid that will melt your face but the kind that only makes you think your face is melting.
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