" To some, Hurtubise is a cult hero. He's burned through more than $100,000 and gone bankrupt building a 150-pound protective suit of titanium, plastic, chain mail, galvanized steel, rubber and thousands of feet of duct tape.

To test his invention, Hurtubise has been run over by a truck, hit by a moving car, smashed in the shins with a sledgehammer, scorched with flames, and hacked at with chain saws. "

We should send this guy after bin-laden.

The Trials of RoboBear

"MOSCOW - Sapamurad Niyazov, "Turkmenbashi the Great", was made President for Life of the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan yesterday. He marked the occasion by renaming all the months of the year. "

Wonder if he knew Emporer Norton.

Eccentric Turkman leader renames days of the week, months - one in his honour

"A man has been jailed for 50 days for dissecting his daughter's guinea pig believing it was a government spy."
""It's not often you have someone this paranoid from using drugs that they think a guinea pig is spying on them for the government," Deputy District Attorney Tom Connors said. The paranoia was apparently a byproduct of Zavala's methamphetamine use, not mental illness."

Its the government I tell you... They're in it with the hamsters and the mice!!!

Man jailed for killing guinea pig he thought was a spy

"An Australian council has been forced to apologise after a traffic warden issued a parking ticket for a car whose owner lay dead inside."

Warden issues parking ticket to dead man

"When US soldiers see my name on my badge, they ask to have their photos taken with me. Of course, I do this with good grace," the young Saddam said.

Saddam Hussein found in Baghdad ambulance

Being a victim of crime at the age of 12 is one of the most powerful indicators that a child will offend at 15. Likewise, offending at age 12 brings a strong possibility of victimisation at 15. One explanation of this link is that young offenders tend to group together and commit offences on each other. Another is that young people who get into risky situations together - such as late-night clubs or amusement arcades - end up both committing offences and being victims of crime. A third point is that personality traits such as being impulsive and taking risks lead both to offending and victimisation.

karma's a bitch

Young offenders and victims of crime are often the same people

Find a peach among a collage of asses.

Can you find the peach?

] LONDON, England (Reuters) -- An armada of small, faded
] yellow toy ducks is expected to make landfall in Britain
] within weeks at the end of an epic 11-year voyage from
] the Pacific Ocean.
]
] They are the survivors of a consignment of 29,000 bath
] toys washed overboard from a container ship in 1992 that
] have since floated across the ocean, round the United
] States, through the Arctic and past Greenland.

Viking toy ducks.

CNN.com - England braces for rubber duck invasion - Jul. 26, 2003

MIAMI (AP) - Cuban migrants fashioned a boat out of a 1951 Chevy pickup truck and "drove" it to within 40 miles of the United States before they were spotted, taken off and returned to the island, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.

Cubans found at sea on pickup truck

A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorised a German lake for years has washed up dead but the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on.

Germany's dog-eating catfish found dead