Archive for January, 2007

31.01.07 Are criminals happier than police?
Filed: Society and Culture, Asia, Crime and Punishment
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In South Korea, criminals get more satisfaction from their line of work than the police, according to a survey published in local dailies.
The survey was conducted among 109 jailed mobsters by the Korean Institute of Criminal Justice. It showed that 79.3 percent of gangsters said they were somewhat or very satisfied […]

30.01.07 Die Hard firefighter undergoes surgery to look like Bruce Willis
Filed: Asia, Entertainment, Technology
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Die Hard firefighter undergoes surgery to look like Bruce Willis. John Joseph Conway, 43, from Chicago, flew all the way to India’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi with a photograph of his idol, so he could look like him.
Now recuperating, Conway told Hindustan Times, “I am a firefighter… I need […]

29.01.07 Fireman “in-heat” charged with arson
Filed: Human Interest, Crime and Punishment
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A former city fireman was fined $200 and charged with arson after he and a girlfriend had set fire in an unfinished house during hot sex inside the house.
Paul Joseph Sloan, 26, is charged with second-degree arson for starting a fire in the attic and master bedroom of an unfinished, expensive house, Police Sgt. […]

26.01.07 Strange, funny Wii warnings
Filed: Society and Culture, Strange, Entertainment, Technology
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Blunty3000’s interpretation/translation of the Japanese Wii manual, the warnings part.Funny and strange. I guess some people need to be given explicit instructions.

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Absolutely Insane Japanese Wii Safety Manual
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25.01.07 Canadian Women’s Pillow Fight League correction
Filed: Human Interest, Cool, Sports, Entertainment
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I got a comment, actually a correction regarding what I wrote about the Canadian Pillow Fight League:
CHAMPAIN :
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm e
CHAMPAIN here, Pillow Fight League Champion.
There was a bit of incorrect information in your article. Stacey Case is in a band would played while my burlesque troupe (Skin Tight Outta Sight) […]

23.01.07 Student killed by lightning while using cellphone
Filed: Human Interest, Society and Culture, Strange, Asia
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A Malaysian student, Chai Ming Hui, 23, was killed by lightning as she answered her cellphone, the New Straits Times newspaper reported.
The incident occurred at about 3pm yesterday during a thunderstorm, when the final-year Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) student was walking back to her hostel at Kota Semarahan with two others. She and […]

22.01.07 Record breaking break-ins
Filed: Society and Culture, Odd, Crime and Punishment
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The New Straits Times reported that the flower shop in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state on Borneo Island, has been robbed 30 times.
The owner of the shop, shop owner Tengku Auvaroza Tengku Abraham, estimated her total losses since the serial burglaries started in 2004 is at $56,300.
The newspaper noted the woman saying […]

18.01.07 Canadian Women’s Pillow Fight League
Filed: Human Interest, Cool, Entertainment
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Toronto’s College Street bar district has been popular lately due to women fighting. Not cat fights but pillow fights! Imagine a 50’s housewife trying to clobber a 35 year old waitress with a pillow. No one dared stop the fight, not anyone from the 500 people who came to watch it.
Welcome to the Pillow Fight […]

17.01.07 The First Underwater Luxury Hotel
Filed: Human Interest, Odd, Cool, Leisure
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Can you imagine spending the night 20 meters under the sea? Can you imagine waking up not to the early morning sun but seeing schools of fish swimming by, or a shark trying to bite his way through your window?
You may soon be able to do this, sleep in an underwater luxury hotel 20 meters […]

16.01.07 Thailand Vegetarian Festival
Filed: Health and Hygiene, Society and Culture, Strange, Asia
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In the southern part of Thailand, people especially of Chinese ancestry or Taoist philosophy observe this vegetarian festival around late September till early October every year. This is done mainly in Phuket that’s why the festival is also called Phuket Vegetarian Festival. This started around 1825 when a company of drama artists from China got […]