German schoolgirl Annika Irmler been entered into the Guinness Book of Records with her stunning seven centimetre tongue. “My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day,” said Annika. Annika says she is proud of her tongue and is glad people everywhere will be able to read about her.
One student was killed and many more injured when about 100 armed students stormed rival Bangkok Commercial College wielding hand grenades, guns and knives. One female student was seen taken away by attackers and has still not been found. More than fifty students were injured, mostly by knife wounds.
The attackers were from Rajmangala Institute of Technology Bangkok Campus, Rajsitharam Technical College and Krungthon Technology College.
Police, who have arrested more than 70, have vowed to show no mercy in handling the attackers.
Amazon stocks a book which may come in handy if you are every faced with evacuating in a rural area: How to Shit in the Woods : An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art. Helpful chapters take the guesswork out of posture, style, and (for you ladies) how not to pee in your boots. This book might actually help if the pages aren’t too rough.
The world’s largest funeral company, Menorah Gardens of Florida, has been accused of shocking behavior in a class action lawsuit. Among the abuses mentioned were: burying people in the wrong graves; digging up corpses and dumping their remains in the woods; crushing down old coffins in the ground to make room for new ones on top; mixing the remains of more than one decedent; burying couples head-to-toe on top of each other instead of side-by-side.
Police officers in Bangkok, Thailand have arrested a 28-year-old man for smuggling nearly a quarter ton of dried dog meat. A 20 year-old Toledo University student has had to have a surgeon open his eyelids after another student glued them shut. The student fell asleep in his fraternity house on the sofa (not smart). When he woke up he had a receipt glued to his head and he couldn’t open one of his eyes.
He flagged down a police officer who drove him, with the receipt glued to his head, to the hospital. A surgeon used a scalpel to reopen his left eye. No stitches were needed but according to the student it looks messy.
The student who glued him faces felonious assault charges.
A 20 year-old Toledo University student has had to have a surgeon open his eyelids after another student glued them shut. The student fell asleep in his fraternity house on the sofa (not smart). When he woke up he had a receipt glued to his head and he couldn’t open one of his eyes.
He flagged down a police officer who drove him, with the receipt glued to his head, to the hospital. A surgeon used a scalpel to reopen his left eye. No stitches were needed but according to the student it looks messy.
The student who glued him faces felonious assault charges.
Illegal hardwood loggers in Indonesia are using their wives to slow down enforcement officials. The women take off their clothes and distract the authorities while their husbands make a getaway with the precious cargo of wood taken from protected forests.
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