Odd News

[jsluder]

150 million years later, and it looks just like chicken.

Probably tasted just like chicken, too.

[Denny]

Orana Cheetahs Escape: 3 Big Cats Swim Moat, Escape Enclosure At New Zealand Wildlife Park

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Three cheetahs swam a moat and crawled through a hole in a rusty fence to escape their enclosure and then briefly roamed inside a wildlife park in New Zealand.

[Denny]

local boy
Teen crashes car into school, drives down hall

SHORELINE, Wash. – Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall. The car finally stopped 75 yards later when it hit a security office. Two school workers were still on the property and heard the crash.

[Denny]

and DEFIANCE, Ohio radishes

Rotten radishes prompt gas leak calls in Ohio

An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of suspicious smells in the last 45 days. A field of oilseed radishes, planted as a cover crop that adds nutrients to the field, is near a natural gas compression station and a gas exchange station.

[Denny]

Whistler....no snow but luge has a mascot

Lynx provides luge with animal magic

After days fretting over snow and protesters, Winter Olympics officials were confronted with reports of a wild animal on the loose at the Whistler sliding centre here on Monday.

[s1m0n]

Whistler....no snow but luge has a mascot

Lynx provides luge with animal magic

After days fretting over snow and protesters, Winter Olympics officials were confronted with reports of a wild animal on the loose at the Whistler sliding centre here on Monday.

Whitler's about four hours drive from the Fraser canyon, where that dog saved his boy from a cougar a couple of weeks ago. It's probably shorter across the mountains, actually. Both places are a two hour drive from Vancouver, but we're at the apex of the triangle.

[s1m0n]

local boy :o
Teen crashes car into school, drives down hall

SHORELINE, Wash. – Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall. The car finally stopped 75 yards later when it hit a security office. Two school workers were still on the property and heard the crash.

SHould have been me.

[Denny]

Vancouver residents blast noisy Irish

VANCOUVER (AFP) – Angry Vancouver residents have complained that Irish Olympic Games revellers are too noisy with police receiving a steady stream of calls from bleary-eyed locals.

Locals say they can hardly sleep at night and fear even more noise from the Irish House hospitality tent once the 2010 Games officially get underway Friday.

[Denny]

Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have sequenced the DNA from four frozen hairs of a Greenlander who died 4,000 years ago in a study they say takes genetic technology into several new realms.

Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues found.

"This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

[s1m0n]

Vancouver residents blast noisy Irish

VANCOUVER (AFP) – Angry Vancouver residents have complained that Irish Olympic Games revellers are too noisy with police receiving a steady stream of calls from bleary-eyed locals.

Locals say they can hardly sleep at night and fear even more noise from the Irish House hospitality tent once the 2010 Games officially get underway Friday.

And why didn't anybody invite me?

[Denny]

Bombs In Breast Implants?

HOUSTON -- A British intelligence service said it's discovered that gel and saline implants may be used by al-Qaida to make bombs, Houston TV station KPRC reported.

British spy satellites have intercepted terrorist communications from Pakistan and Yemen, talking about women suicide bombers getting explosives put inside breast implants.

Former Houston FBI Director Don Clark said he believes U.S. Homeland Security is taking this threat very seriously.

[Denny]

Man Fights Off Raccoon, Not Mountain Lion

FAIRFIELD, Calif. -- It must have been a big raccoon that attacked a Fairfield, Calif., man's dog. So big he thought it was a mountain lion.

Marquel Dawson, 19, said he was playing with the pit bull and German shepherd mix in a nature area at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when the animal attacked, Sacramento TV station KCRA reported.

"It was about the size of German shepherd police dog -- like big -- about twice the size of my dog," Dawson said.

[s1m0n]

Bombs In Breast Implants?

HOUSTON -- A British intelligence service said it's discovered that gel and saline implants may be used by al-Qaida to make bombs, Houston TV station KPRC reported.

Ha! Right after the underwear bomber, when Canada announced that it was going to put multi-million dollar X-ray specs in every airport, I fired off a letter to one big canadian newspaper saying that now that we've seen the underwear bomb, could the suppository bomb, the boob-job bomb, & the colostomy bomb be far behind?

*Not that such a scanner could have detected the underwear bomb, anyway. When the weapons you're trying to find are explosive chemicals, the logic of buying million-dollar super-duper ferrous metal detectors is somewhat elusive.

[Denny]

Airport tries to spare Valentine blushes

LONDON (Reuters) – A British airport is entering into the Valentine's spirit by offering private pre-flight searches for those planning to surprise their partners on holiday with an engagement ring.

Manchester, which earlier this month became one of two British airports to introduce body scanners, said that in previous years marriage proposals had risked being ruined when security staff revealed hidden engagement rings during routine searches.

Passengers traveling between February 12 and 15 can whisper "Be my Valentine" to security staff to take advantage of a private search behind a screen, the airport said.


my bold

[Denny]

Love stinks! Minn. farmer creates manure valentine

ALBERT LEA, Minn. – Nothing says "I love you" like a half-mile wide heart made out of manure. A southern Minnesota man created the Valentine's Day gift for his wife of 37 years in their farm field about 12 miles southwest of Albert Lea. Bruce Andersland told the Alberta Lea Tribune that he started the project with his tractor and manure spreader Wednesday and finished Thursday.