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Stupid News Story of The Day

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Man coughs up screw after operation

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Four years ago, Etienne Verhees broke two vertebrae falling off a ladder, after which doctors put a metal plate in his neck to help heal the wound.

This week, the Belgian coughed up one of four screws used to hold the plate in place.

"I have had a cold for the past few days," Verhees told daily Gazet Van Antwerpen. "I had a terrible cough a few days ago. That's when I suddenly felt something in my mouth.

"It turned out to be a screw."

One of the doctors involved told the paper he assumed the screw had moved because of an infection Verhees suffered following a second operation, which caused his neck to swell.

New Burger King Commercial

I decided to make up my own version of the BK Commercial....hehe

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"The older I get, the more certain I am that I will not have to spend the rest of my life in prison."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Guess she got the last laugh.)

Burglar, scared by corpse, phones police

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch burglar phoned police after fleeing in panic when he found the corpse of an 89-year-old woman in a house he broke into in The Hague.

Police said they were still searching for the burglar who "got the fright of his life."

"He said he was the burglar and that he found a corpse," a police spokesman said. "He found the mortal remains in one of the rooms and left the home to call emergency number 112."

Police were investigating if anything was stolen and believed the woman may have been dead for some time.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

It's Not a Sport

"Field hockey and fencing are activities, not sports. These activities aren't sports, because you can't gamble on them. Anything you can't gamble on can't be a sport. When was the last time you made a fencing bet?"

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Maybe he should have tried raising chickens instead.)

Farmer eaten by own animals

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man who raised bears to tap them for their bile, prized as a traditional medicine in Asia, has been killed and eaten by his animals, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

Six black bears attacked keeper Han Shigen as he was cleaning their pen in the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday, Xinhua said.

"The ill-fated man died on the spot and was eaten up by the ferocious bears," it said, citing a report in the Beijing News.

In practices decried by animal rights groups, bile is extracted through surgically implanted catheters in the bear's gall bladders, or by a "free-dripping" technique by which bile drips out through holes opened in the animals' abdomens.

More than 200 farms in China keep about 7,000 bears to tap their bile, which traditional Chinese medicine holds can cure fever, liver illness and sore eyes.

Bear farming was far more widespread before the cruelty involved came to light and Beijing introduced regulations to control the industry in 1993.

Animal welfare groups have called on China to completely ban bear farming, arguing that traditional herbal medicines can serve the same purposes as bear bile.

Xinhua said police sent to the scene of Monday's killing injected one of the bears with tranquillisers "but failed to tame the mad animal".

Police then threw meat into the bears' pen to distract them so they could recover Han's remains, it said without elaborating.

Spoooooooooky page

Yes, I changed my template ..... again. This time to reflect the Halloween mood. Isn't it spooooooky?

Blast From The Past

I remember playing this game at my friend's birthday party when I was in maybe 1st or 2nd grade. This was a popular game back then, and I can even remember the commercial theme song....Hungry, hungry hippos.....hungry, hungry hippos! The whole object of the game was to "eat" as many of the 20 white marbles as you could, and the one who "ate" the most marbles was the winner. To make the hippos "eat," you had to press down on their tails, which would make their mouths open up. The hippos even had names...Henry, Homer, Happy and Harry. I never actually owned this game, but I sure wanted it! Luckily, my friend had it and we played it often.

Kim's Law #12

Whenever I see a big bee or wasp flying near me, I can be sure of one thing...no matter how many flowers or trees are around, it will always pick my butt to land on.

King's Canyon Trip

We went to King's Canyon this weekend. I posted new pictures here. I had a blast! I also had this incident where a huge wasp-like bug landed on my butt and freaked me out - hehe. I am now known as the Butt Bee Girl. Yep...a new nickname - lol. Next weekend, it looks like we're heading on out to Death Valley. It is bound to be hotter than heck there, even in October. But at least Chris is going with me, and he has been there a few times on Geology trips through college, so he knows where the cool spots are (no, not cool as in lower temperatures, hehehe). Last time I went, it was only for an hour or 2 and I went by myself. It should be a cool trip :)

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"You learn something new everyday. Actually, you learn something old everyday. Just because you just learned it, doesn't mean it's new. Other people already knew it. Columbus is a good example of this."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Maybe he just didn't have any clean clothes)

No Shirt, No Shoes and No Pants Means Jail

CLEARFIELD, Utah - No shirt, no shoes — and no pants — has landed a Utah man in legal trouble. Last month the 51-year-old Sunset man allegedly entered a local convenience store in the buff on multiple occasions. Clearfield Police say in August he also made a trip through a restaurant drive-thru, au naturel.

City prosecutors have charged the man in justice court with misdemeanor lewdness. But now the Davis County District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of witness tampering, which could result in third-degree felony charges.

Police say that over the past week, the man has telephoned the same convenience store, asking for permission to enter the business naked.

He was attempting to talk clerks out of testifying against him, said Greg Krusi, assistant police chief for Clearfield.

Clerks called police, who kept watch outside the store. They witnessed the man approach the business, strip down and walk inside, Krusi said.

Krusi said officers arrested the man and booked him into the Davis County jail for allegedly driving under the influence, lewdness and telephone harassment.