Weird News

[MoonFreckle]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

I'm sure the poor puppy will never have kids.

hahaaa..was just checkin to see if anyone even bothered reading what i post

[ZenGum]

hehe, hiya MoonFreckle. Just leave an opportunity for some kind of smart alec comment, someone will bite.

Say, did anyone ever say to the cellar to you?

[ZenGum]

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says an alleged sex scandal involving male Navy personnel could discourage people from joining the armed forces.

The Defence Department is investigating claims Australian sailors from HMAS Success engaged in a sex-for-money competition.

Channel Seven News last night aired claims that the seamen ran a contest to see who could sleep with the most female crew members.

Ms Gillard has told Channel Ten today that she wants a full investigation so women do not feel excluded from serving their country.

"As a nation ... we've been saying for a long period of time we want men and women to be able to join the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and to have good careers in it," she said.

"We don't want to see anything that precludes women from having a good career in our armed forces if that's what they choose to do with their lives.

"Clearly these allegations need to be fully investigated."

The sailors reportedly dared one another to have sex in numerous locations, like the top of a pool table, and more money was on offer if a sailor could sleep with a female officer or lesbian.

It is alleged the contest was discovered when the ship was in Singapore in May.

The captain ordered the sailors to immediately return home to Australia after they were formally interviewed.

A Defence Department spokesman would not confirm how many sailors were involved but says the men were removed from the ship and a formal inquiry is underway.

And this will hurt recruitment, how?

[BrianR]

they are afraid WOMEN will not join the Navy for fear of being forced to have sex with male sailors, or perhaps that's too strong. Perhaps I should say they may not join if they don't feel safe from harassment by male colleagues in a place from which they will have a difficult time escaping. A ship at sea is a pretty small world.

[Sundae]

More money was on offer if they had sex with a female officer.

They're worried that men won't join because if they become officers their arses will be under-valued.

Re the puppy-makes-belt post - I wear leather (when I can afford it!) and I eat meat. If I was confident the killing was humane I'd buy a puppy-belt. Sorry and all that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

[ZenGum]

A New Zealand teenager tried to sell some sexy photographs of his mother on an internet auction site after the pair had an argument, a local newspaper reports.

The 18-year-old student opened an auction for "five naked photos of my Mum" on the Trade Me site after being told to clear the family garage and sell any unwanted items on the site, the Herald on Sunday said.

Trade Me pulled the auction the next day, but the student, identified only as Michael, was soon back trying to sell a series of eight-year-old "glamour" shots of his mother, including one of her in underwear.

His mother Jennifer, 44, who did not want the family name published, told the paper she was "pretty annoyed" when she found out about the first set of photographs.

"He was quite naughty... I thought you cheeky little git," she said.

But she was also annoyed that Trade Me withdrew the second set of pictures, of which she approved.

"I insisted Michael show me first, the little bugger. They are quite artistic. There is nothing dodgy about them."

"I wanted 50 per cent of the sale, but more than that I miss the nice comments."

Trade Me spokesman Jon Macdonald said both auctions were withdrawn because of "inappropriate" photos.

"We don't really want to be the place where people list photos of their mums in their underwear," he said.

[Crimson Ghost]

Is she hot?

[monster]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Re the puppy-makes-belt post - I wear leather (when I can afford it!) and I eat meat. If I was confident the killing was humane I'd buy a puppy-belt. Sorry and all that.

How about a kitten belt?

[Cicero]

uugh that's gotta sting...

[ZenGum]

Too short. Might make a good hat, though.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not too short.

[bigw00dy]

Man Dies After Falling Into Tank of Chocolate
Augustus Glump style

A Camden man died after he fell into a vat of melted chocolate at a factory Wednesday morning.

Vincent Smith II, 29, was standing on a nine-foot-high platform loading chunks of raw chocolate into a melting tank at Cocoa Services in Camden, N.J. when he fell in around 10:30 a.m., according to Camden County D.A. spokesman Jason Laughlin.

After falling, Smith was struck in the head by an agitator -- a large paddle-like mixing device – and killed.

Coworkers acted quickly to try and save Smith. They turned off the machine but were unable to pull the injured man from the eight-foot vat. He was eventually removed from the machine by firefighters.

"I tried as hard as I could," said a distraught friend and co-worker. The man asked not to be identified, but was visibly shaken by the accident.

Smith was a temporary worker who was with the company for the past few weeks, said Laughlin. He had just moved back to the city more than a month ago to find work.

"He was a good, hard-working person and it was a tragic loss that happened," the unidentified friend said.

Cocoa Services rented the facility on the 700 block of N. 36th Street in Camden from Lyons & Sons, Inc. The company mixes and melts raw chocolate for use by food and candy manufacturers such as Hershey Foods. The plant was quickly shut down for the day following the accident.

Smith's father and aunt rushed to the facility only to find out that he had died. "They say he didn't make it," confessed Smith's teary-eyed aunt Teresa Smith.

The family stood at the facility's gate late Wednesday afternoon, waiting to talk to Cocoa Services management. They want to know what exactly transpired and if the accident could have been prevented with a safety harness.

"That's all it would have taken was just some sort of a safety harness…to prevent him from falling in," said the aunt.

OSHA is opening an investigation to see if there were any safety violations at the plant.

[glatt]

what did they do with the chocolate?

[dar512]

Tom (singing): I fell into a vat of chocolate. I fell into a vat of chocolate...

Dick (singing): What’d you do when you fell in the chocolate?

Both: La dee doo dum la dee doo dum day...

Tom (singing): I yelled ‘fire’ when I fell into the chocolate...

Dick (annoyed, singing): Why’d you yell ‘fire’ when you fell into the chocolate?

Tom: I yelled ‘fire’ cause no one would help me if I yelled ‘Chocolate!’

Both: La dee doo dum la dee doo dum day.

Tom and Dick Smothers, from ‘Chocolate,’ on The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers LP.[i]