http://rss.iscabbs.com/getfi.cgi?forum=133 The ISCABBS forum: Amazing Stories And Urban Legends en-us Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:00:33 -0600 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:00:33 -0600 minter@lunenburg.org minter@lunenburg.org http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59331 <pre class="hft-pre">A man attempting to burglarize an Edinburgh, Scotland home fled when faced with Thor. The home belongs to Torvald Alexander, 38, who had returned from a New Year&#39;s party dressed as the Norse god of thunder and surprised the thief. From The Telegraph: Mr Alexander said: &quot;As soon as he saw me his eyes went wide with terror. &quot;He looked like he had had a few drinks and decided to do a late night break in, but he hadn&#39;t counted on the God of Thunder living here.&quot; He added: &quot;I had just got back from a fancy dress New Year&#39;s party and because I have a Norwegian name I decided to go as Thor. &quot;It took ages making the cape, helmet and breast plate, and I must admit it was a bit chilly walking home, but when I saw that guy I just went mad and charged at him, my cape flying behind me. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4059789/Burglar-scared-off-by-man-dressed-as" class="hft-urls">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4059789/Burglar-scared-off-by-man-dressed-as</a>- Thor-after-New-Year-party.html <a href="http://tinyurl.com/9b4vqv" class="hft-urls">http://tinyurl.com/9b4vqv</a></pre> Bleys@iscabbs.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:48:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59329 <pre class="hft-pre">And it was so promising too.... UFO Display Caught On Camera. A &#39;spectacular&#39; display involving dozens of UFOs has been reported in the skies over the West Midlands. Eyewitnesses said up to 70 bright circular objects could be seen over Halesowen. www.liveleak.com/view?i=53d_1229698087 Source Of Midlands UFOs Revealed The mystery objects were identified as a cluster of cheap flying lanterns. They had been released into the night sky last night during a children&#39;s carol service at a nearby primary school in Halesowen. www.tinyurl.com/3uwjfs or (and this is that rare thing, a URL which actually does away with any need to read the actual web page): news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/UFO-Sighting-In-West-Midlands-Revealed- As-Kids-Lanterns-From-Nearby-Lutley-Primary-School/Article/200812315188565</pre> Xenos@iscabbs.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:19:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59328 <pre class="hft-pre">And, lest you disbelieve, here&#39;s the news article (including mugshot) about Anthony Curcio&#39;s arrest. <a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33836274.html" class="hft-urls">http://www.komonews.com/news/local/33836274.html</a></pre> Bleys@iscabbs.com Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:19:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59327 <pre class="hft-pre">Wired has an article on the &quot;Seven Best Capers of 2008&quot;. The following is my favorite... The Snohomish Smokescreen In September, a robber disguised as a gardener pepper-sprayed an armored car driver using a pesticide sprayer and ran off with a bag stuffed with $400,000 in cash. When police arrived seconds later, they found the sidewalk crowded with dozens of men decked out in the same attire as the perp: blue shirt, Day-Glo vest, safety mask and glasses. While the cops hacked through a forest of suspects, the real perp fled to a nearby creek and escaped in a waiting inner tube. Turns out the unwitting decoys had been lured to the crime scene by a Craigslist ad that promised construction work to those showing up in a &quot;yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask... and, if possible, a blue shirt.&quot; A month later, following a lead from a homeless man who witnessed the preparation for the Brinks job, police arrested 28-year-old Anthony Curcio fresh from a Las Vegas vacation. Curcio is now charged with &quot;Interference with commerce by threats or violence,&quot; because &quot;Pulling the most awesome robbery ever&quot; isn&#39;t listed in the U.S. code <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/capers.html" class="hft-urls">http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/capers.html</a></pre> Bleys@iscabbs.com Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:08:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59326 <pre class="hft-pre">I&#39;m not signed up, but I was able to access the article. AMAZING!</pre> Another Yossarian@iscabbs.com Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:55:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59325 <pre class="hft-pre">Wanna give the gist of it for those who haven&#39;t signed up for NYT online?</pre> Jscout@iscabbs.com Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:23:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59324 <pre class="hft-pre"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/health/23blin.html?_r=1&amp;em" class="hft-urls">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/health/23blin.html?_r=1&amp;em</a> the best feat in D&amp;D!</pre> Paladin Grendel@iscabbs.com Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:48:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59323 <pre class="hft-pre">That&#39;s an unusual objective.</pre> Lammam P Yrruf@iscabbs.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:07:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59322 <pre class="hft-pre">Is this animal abuse? Or a great way to get dog piss all over your shirt? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s2o9BpLTdQ&amp;feature=related" class="hft-urls">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s2o9BpLTdQ&amp;feature=related</a></pre> Paladin Grendel@iscabbs.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:10:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59321 <pre class="hft-pre">...you&#39;d have enough money to buy yourself a bottle of Gas-X.</pre> Lammam P Yrruf@iscabbs.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:42:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59320 <pre class="hft-pre">&quot;However, I don.t think any of us were prepared for a smell that strong&quot; If I had a nickel for every time I heard THAT...</pre> Faunus@iscabbs.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:00:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59319 <pre class="hft-pre">Chessington Zoo in London has issued an apology to guests after giving the gorillas a Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts. The seasonal sprouts are highly nutritious, but the gorilla farts caused horror among people around them. Gorilla keeper Michael Rozzi said: .We feed the gorillas brussel sprouts during the winter because they are packed with vitamin C and have great nutritional benefits. &quot;Unfortunately, an embarrassing side effect is that it can cause bouts of flatulence in humans and animals alike. &quot;However, I don.t think any of us were prepared for a smell that strong&quot;. The zoo has taken the sprouts off the menu while the zoo is open to the public. The gorillas will enjoy them when the zoo is closed on Christmas Day. <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/brussels-sprouts-gorillas-bad-situation/" class="hft-urls">http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/brussels-sprouts-gorillas-bad-situation/</a></pre> Bleys@iscabbs.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:27:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59318 <pre class="hft-pre">Is there a law against piercings for domestic animals?</pre> Giraffe@iscabbs.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:24:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59317 <pre class="hft-pre">WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Humane officers said a Pennsylvania woman marketed &quot;gothic kittens&quot; with ear, neck and tail piercings over the Internet. Officers with the SPCA of Luzerne County removed three kittens and a cat from a home outside Wilkes-Barre. Officer Carol Morrison said the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided the home on Wednesday after getting a tip that the woman was selling the pierced kittens on eBay. &quot;It&#39;s unbelievable anybody would do this to kittens,&quot; Morrison said. Charges are likely against the homeowner, whose name was not released. Morrison said the woman has a pet grooming business in the basement of the home.</pre> Another Yossarian@iscabbs.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:22:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59316 <pre class="hft-pre"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SecondOpinion/story?id=6488655&amp;page=1" class="hft-urls">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SecondOpinion/story?id=6488655&amp;page=1</a> Foot Grows in Baby&#39;s Brain Doctors Find Foot Growing in Infant&#39;s Brain, but Can&#39;t Explain Why Yet By LAUREN COX ABC News Medical Unit Dec. 18, 2008 A doctor in Colorado found a surprise when removing what he thought was a benign growth from a newborn&#39;s brain. Instead of a microscopic tumor, out popped a tiny foot, partially formed hand, a thigh and another partially formed foot. &quot;It would be a shock to even the most experienced pathologist cutting into a tumor to see this,&quot; Dr. Paul Grabb told the ABC affiliate KMGH. Grabb said he could not tell whether the miniature limbs were from a benign stem cell tumor called a teratoma or the remnants of an identical twin that did not split off and survive, a condition called fetus in fetu. &quot;It looked like the breach delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain,&quot; Grabb told The Associated Press. &quot;To find a perfectly formed structure is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of.&quot; The baby, Sam Esquibel, was 3 days old when doctors at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs discovered a microscopic tumor in his brain. A hospital representative said Sam is alive and recovering well after his operation, but his family declined to discuss his case further until its interview with ABC&#39;s &quot;20/20&quot; in January. Whether the growth was the remains of a twin sibling or the work of renegade stem cells in Sam&#39;s body is hard to tell. But stem cell experts who study teratoma believe the body parts are likely the result of fetus in fetu. &quot;This is pretty bizarre. ... It&#39;s certainly possible [it&#39;s a teratoma],&quot; said Ed Morrisey, the scientific director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Philadelphia. &quot;My guess is, it&#39;s probably not a teratoma, because the tissues themselves in a teratoma are usually disorganized,&quot; said Morrisey. Studying Stem Cell Tumors Morrisey and other stem cell researchers create teratoma in mice to study how one day doctors may coach stem cells into growing into specific types of tissues that doctors need. By altering embryonic stem cells gene by gene and then watching to see what type of tissue -- nerve, muscle, hair, etc. -- they grow into, researchers can advance toward learning what directs stem cells to form full organs. But teratoma are known to form recognizable organs or limbs. &quot;If you take stem cells and inject them into mice they will spontaneously form teratoma,&quot; said Morrisey. He said the teratoma that form, and the teratoma that occur naturally, usually grow into disorganized clumps of tissue instead of a fully formed organ. &quot;You&#39;d form muscle, but it would just be a bunch of muscle cells together,&quot; he said. &quot;Not like a foot or a limb.&quot;</pre> DesCartes@iscabbs.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:42:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59315 <pre class="hft-pre">oh holy hell DAMN</pre> Tempestas@iscabbs.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:41:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59314 <pre class="hft-pre">I&#39;ll see your eyelids, and raise you three penises. <a href="http://sexualkungfu.atspace.com/" class="hft-urls">http://sexualkungfu.atspace.com/</a> Now there&#39;s a sentence I didn&#39;t imagine I&#39;d be typing when I woke up this morning...</pre> Faunus@iscabbs.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:58:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59313 <pre class="hft-pre"><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2051319.ece" class="hft-urls">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2051319.ece</a> now this..... is dumb.</pre> Paladin Grendel@iscabbs.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:52:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59312 <pre class="hft-pre">A Chinese man believed to have been killed by lightning was actually done in by a small weather rocket found when it detonated during cremation, police say. Authorities said people who were in the Inner Mongolia province house with Wang Diange -- who was overseeing a wake at the time of his death -- discovered his body amidst rubble after a large explosion that destroyed half of the home&#39;s roof, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. The residents concluded that the home had been struck by lightning from a thunderstorm and police concurred with the assessment, releasing Wang&#39;s body for a funeral and cremation, the British newspaper said. However, a few days after Wang&#39;s death, a weather rocket lodged in his body exploded while the corpse was being loaded into the cremation chamber, destroying the body and the doors of the cremation oven. Authorities said a small piece of metal found in the oven after the blast led investigators to a local weather bureau, which had been firing rockets into the atmosphere in an attempt to protect tobacco crops from large hailstones. Weather bureau internal investigators said one of the shells must have failed to detonate, crashed into the home where the wake was taking place and lodged in Wang&#39;s body, where authorities said it was concealed by the extensive injuries. The weather bureau said it is paying Wang&#39;s family about $12,000 in damages. <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1612145/rocket_not_lightning_killed_" class="hft-urls">http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1612145/rocket_not_lightning_killed_</a> chinese_man/index.html?source=r_oddities</pre> Bleys@iscabbs.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:40:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59311 <pre class="hft-pre">Hey, maybe the kid was looking for one of those Dollar Store pregnancy tests for mommy. &quot;Hey kid, go over to the store over there, and steal me some pregnancy tests as I drank up all our money again.&quot;</pre> DC Ten@iscabbs.com Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:55:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59310 <pre class="hft-pre">Clearly, the family should sue the state for not having plastic, Playschool-style road blockers keeping kids from walking onto the street. Imagine if that kid had gotten ahold of some dollar store deodorant like Correct-guard or some dollar store dish soap like &quot;morning Dawn.&quot;</pre> Pluck Duck@iscabbs.com Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:37:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59309 <pre class="hft-pre">Stop being so good at it !</pre> Tempestas@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:27:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59308 <pre class="hft-pre">It&#39;s what we do.</pre> Egregious@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:26:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59307 <pre class="hft-pre">Well, I wasn&#39;t bringing it here to get into a whole thing about the CPS investigation or whether the kid was being supervised or not. Good job guys! Damn</pre> Tempestas@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:24:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59306 <pre class="hft-pre"> What amazes me is the idiot who left the store door unlocked. How incompetant...</pre> The Outlaw@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:50:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59305 <pre class="hft-pre">When something like that happens, a review by CPS is often _automatically_ triggered, even when the harm is exceedingly unlikely to have been caused by neglect or negligence. But they do get pretty draconian about it.</pre> Steppenwolf@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:33:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59304 <pre class="hft-pre">They should have known better than to raise kids near a street.</pre> Egregious@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:07:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59303 <pre class="hft-pre">I can&#39;t believe the negligence of those parents, who had doors that can be unlocked from the inside, and actually took their eyes off the child for the minutes it would take for him to wander away, e.g. by using the bathroom for more than a minute or two. Maybe there&#39;s a history of problems with the family or something, but failing that, it sounds like this was just really, really bad luck, several wrong things happening at the same time....</pre> Faunus@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:02:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59302 <pre class="hft-pre">I wasn&#39;t shocked by CPS, either. I was surprised something horrible didn&#39;t happen to this toddler crossing a road in the middle of the night, getting into a dollah store (where he could have gotten into anything a kid shouldn&#39;t be getting into... all the stuff we keep locked under the sink is on a nice display shelf for him to grab and get into)</pre> Tempestas@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:00 -0600 http://rss.iscabbs.com/getpost.cgi?forum=133&post=59301 <pre class="hft-pre"> The actions of CPS aren&#39;t really amazing to me anymore, unfortunately.</pre> Egregious@iscabbs.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:41:00 -0600