Weird News

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Ibby

found it on tumblr so I can't possibly vouch for its accuracy or anything, but...

THUNDAHSTRUUUUCK!

Lucky it wasn't TNT

From youtube:

Lyrics: (Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR30knJs4Xk if you care.

[Trilby]

Hey! Rock and Roll ain't noise pollution!

[ZenGum]

No, but it might be radioactive waste.


Heck, that'll probably be AC/DC's next album title.

[ZenGum]

After 40 days and 4,500 gruelling kilometres, Australian runner Grahak Cunningham is on track to claim victory in the world's longest certified footrace.

The Perth local is currently leading the New York race, which covers 4,989 kilometres.

Rather than tracing a long path that stretches its way across different landscapes, runners make continuous laps of an 883-metre city block in Queens.

By the time they reach the finish line, they will have run the circuit 5,649 times.

Competitors must chalk up an average of 96 kilometres per day to finish the race in the goal of 51 days or less.

Why? WHY???

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-2...t-race/4159090

You start at 6.00 every morning and you run until midnight on a concrete path around a block in Queens.

It's definitely pretty brutal on a physical level. Some people have been walking for weeks because of injury.

Personally I've lost five toenails, and I have a really bad skin rash.

Your legs and your bones really ache, especially in the first few weeks. As it goes on you get a little stronger and it's easier to remain injury-free.

WWHHHHYYYYYY??????????

[Lamplighter]

I've often wondered, especially about "jogging", if a person's LLI is greater than 1.

Length of Life Index = Age at Death with Jogging / Age at Death with NO Jogging

Cunningham seems to have a pretty normal personality.
But would he be disappointed if his LLI was exactly 1.000 ?
(I would after having spent that much time and effort.)

[ZenGum]

Worse, what about his Adjusted Length of Life Index?

ALLI = (age at death with jogging - time spent jogging or preparing for or recovering from jogging) / Age at death with no jogging

[Griff]

Somebody is having entirely too much fun.

[Griff]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say our hacker is a 48 year old white male.

[BrianR]

That leaves ME out!

But that did look like a fun time.

I learned to drum by listening to them. Now, I'm a fan, jut not crazy.

[Griff]

Ha!

[ZenGum]

Oh Darwin, I love you.

Both the scientist who explained the importance of thinning the herd, and the city in the Top End where the herd thinning takes place.

Northern Territory police say a party trick with a firecracker has left a Darwin man with severe burns to his buttocks.

Watch Commander Garry Smith says police were responding to reports of firecrackers being let off in the suburb of Rapid Creek on Saturday night.

He says police were conducting patrols when they were flagged down by people requesting an ambulance.

"It appears that a party was in full progress when a young male decided to place a firework between the cheeks of his bottom and light it," he said.

"What must have seemed to be a great idea at the time has obviously backfired and resulted in the male receiving quite severe and painful burns to his cheeks, back and private bits."

The man was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital.

Fireworks can only be let off in the Northern Territory on July 1 to celebrate Territory Day.

"I just remind people, they face a $282 fine on the spot for possessing and discharging fireworks outside of that designated period," Commander Smith said.

"And apparently they're not designed for that particular placement."

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

"And apparently they're not designed for that particular placement."

Cheeky!

[xoxoxoBruce]

There must be a hundred videos on the net of people making that same mistake.

[Gravdigr]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles — five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van.

By the time they ran outside, the tractor was down the driveway and out onto the road.

With their vehicles crushed, "We had nothing to pursue him with," said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.

Thursday afternoon's incident ended when city police in Newport, the county seat of the northern Vermont county, caught up with Roger Pion, 34, a short distance away.

No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officials said.

"Nobody was hurt. That's the thing everybody's got to cherish," said Sheriff Kirk Martin.

Vermont State Police said in a statement that Pion would face seven counts of felony unlawful mischief, one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief, one count aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of gross negligent operation, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident.

Pion was being held at the Northern State Correctional Center in Newport on $15,000 bail.

Sheriffs said they did not know if Pion had a lawyer. A phone number for him could not be located.

Martin estimated damage to the vehicles at more than $300,000; state police put it at more than $250,000.

Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, but "the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars ... We're going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns," Martin said.

Brooks said the destroyed vehicles constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff's cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident.

This makes me laugh.

[glatt]

It's like a scene from a movie. I hope video camera footage make it to the internet.