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Posted 7/19/08 by InsayneJayne
A 58-year-old man in Hampshire, UK, severed his own head using a chainsaw, after losing an eviction fight.
Police sources have revealed that David Phyall switched on the saw, and put a timer on the socket. He even had a cocktail of pills to knock himself out, and then rested the saw on his neck. When the timer went off, the saw sliced through his neck in an instant. David committed suicide so. . .
Posted 7/19/08 by InsayneJayne
Australian police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.
The embarrassing mistake, made in regional Gympie, is not an isolated incident and passionate creator of the "reborn" baby dolls Vynette Cernik knows just how easily they can be mistaken for the real thing.
Selling for up to. . .
Posted 7/18/08 by InsayneJayne
The word “Fanboy” is one of the hundred or so new words that Merriam-Webster has decided to add to their Collegiate Dictionary this year.
Apparently the first occurrence of the word was in the year 1919. Who knew?
Merriam-Webster ’s definition is:
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Posted 7/18/08 by InsayneJayne
UK- A dummy that moves and feels like a real patient and can bleed, vomit and sweat has been unveiled as the latest training tool for health professionals.
The remote-controlled mannequin, called iStan, has been created by the University of Portsmouth.
The £40,000 model is set to help provide realistic training for doctors, nurses and dentists.
It has been designed to replicate a human'. . .
Posted 7/18/08 by InsayneJayne
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch (18-cm) blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich.
John Agnesini, 26, a magazine designer, said he had already taken a few bites from the sandwich in late June when he spotted the knife jutting out from the bread's crust. The lawsuit, filed in Manha. . .
Posted 7/18/08 by bajaboy
A woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine. The snake, identified as a reticulated python, somehow got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger's 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine.
After Ranger took her blue jeans out of the machine Wednesday, she reached back into the load and felt something move.
"I jumped b. . .
Posted 7/17/08 by bajaboy
SEATTLE - Seattle's five problem-plagued public toilets could be yours if you're flush.
City officials decided to pull the plug on the multimillion-dollar self-cleaning toilet stalls and instead put them on the auction site eBay.
Starting bids are $89,000 apiece.
Neighbors and city-commissioned analysts said the unisex facilities attracted drug users and prostitutes, and were less co. . .
Posted 7/17/08 by bajaboy
A call by Nasa for donations of urine so it can create the perfect space lavatory has been leaked, resulting in a flood of offers.
The US space programme said it was seeking urine from workers at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, as part of its work on the new Orion space capsule.
The Orion will eventually take astronauts to the moon, according to an internal memo posted on th. . .