It's Certainly Man-Made But It's Interesting Regardless:

Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math.

At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, radiating out clockwise, doesn't look like much — modern art, perhaps.

But an electrical engineer from North Carolina — described by the London newspapers as a "retired astrophysicist" — figured out that it was an abstract representation of pi, the number at the center of Euclidean geometry.

The article says 'word quickly got around the crop-circle community'. I was unaware that such a community existed in any significant numbers but, hey, who am I to say what's significant. It's been proven time after time that these crop circles are man-made but that doesn't make them easy feats. I have to say, I'm impressed.

Survivors Of A Plane Crash In Southern Chile Got Hungry:

The survivors and pilot huddled inside the felage, eating crackers and trying to maintain a fire in sub zero temperatures. Pilot Nelson Bahamondes survived the initial impact but slowly bled to death inside the cockpit, finally dying two days after the crash.

Bahamondes, an experienced pilot with an estimated 16,000 hours of flying time, provided leadership and guidance throughout the first two days of the ordeal, explaining to the passengers that a radio transmitter would help rescuers locate the craft. As the food ran out, Bahmondes died.

"He had a cut on his head, a big wound and he lost lots of blood," said Victor Suazo, a Chilean police officer who was aboard the flight. "We couldn't do anything for him and he died around noon on Monday."

Soon after, the survivors' hunger began to deplete their strength and they debated whether to eat the pilot. "We thought about the pilot, I don't know how to say it ... to feed ourselves from him. We thought about this, but some people were not in agreement because the situation was already so extreme."

The accident recalled the 1972 plane crash in which a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into Andean snowfields, then ate dead teammates to survive. The book and film Alive were based on their 72-day struggle to survive.

I interviewed Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of the Andes plane crash depicted in the movie Alive, some time ago. He told me all about situations like this. He didn't avoid questions on cannibalism among survivors and simply said you do 'what you have to do to stay alive'. These folks came real close to being the stars of Alive 2. Luckily, they only had to wait a fraction of the time that Nando Parrado had to wait in the 70's. Otherwise, I imagine they would have followed through with their plan to eat the pilot and whoever else died as time went on.

What Do You Do When Walmart Closes All Of The Bathrooms?:



I don't think I need to tell you what happened there. The most bizarre thing is this guy wasn't even arrested. He was simply thrown out of the store. Imagine the poor sap that had to clean up after that?

"Uncontacted Indians," who have never before had any contact with the outside world, were discovered in the Envira River region in Brazil during a flight in May 2008 according to Funai, the National Indian Foundation, and the group Survival International. The tribe is shown here reacting to the unexpected visit over their camp, located close to the border with Peru.

I've seen photos of tribes much like this one in Sri Lanka but this is an amazing set. It looks like something out of a movie.

Purported UFO Video To Be Shown Friday In Denver, Colorado:

A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.

Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist.

"As impressive as it is, it's still one tiny portion in the context of a vast amount of peripheral evidence," he said Wednesday. "It's really the final visual confirmation of what you already know to be true having seen all the other evidence."

When Peckman went before city officials this month to discuss his proposed ET initiative, he promised to show the video.

Peckman said the general public will have to wait to see it because it's being included in a documentary by Stan Romanek.

Jeff Peckman just looks straight up crazy so I'm not inclined to believe him right off the bat. Additionally, how ridiculous is it that the 'public' won't be able to see the footage until the movie comes out? Is this a publicity stunt for a documentary that they are shopping or an actual concern for alien life?

"It shows an extraterrestrial's head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that's visible through an infrared camera," he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said earlier this month.

In a statement, Peckman said "other related credible evidence" proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday's news conference, too.

Really? Your best evidence is from an infrared camera? The documentary that they are clearly trying to sell was made by Stan Romanek. One peek at his website and you'll get a better idea of where this story is headed. I think that 'Alien Autopsy' joke that Fox ran a few years back had more promise...

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Fires A Weapon From A Moving Train:

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vice-Chairman of the State Duma (Russian Parliament), and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

If I am to understand correctly, he's drunk on a train, sends an aide to the back to get his shotgun so he can hunt crows from the speeding train...gets trigger happy and so starts taking aim at chicken coups of the locals along the tracks as well. As if hunting crows from a train wasn't a bad enough idea.

Apparently this is a public train no less. I edited out the long lead in of him jabbering on and on and sending the aide to get his gun...I guess he's given to anti-semetic rants, which I think he was doing prior to this, but my Russian isn't so good.

This guy is the #2 in the Duma, and has run for president of russia several times. To his credit, he stops long enough to wave to kids.

Above is the description posted with the video. I can't vouch for it's accuracy but it looks authentic to me. How long until someone posts a Dick Cheney hunting joke in the comments?

A 'Mentally Unstable' Woman In Utah Causes A Scene:

Two men in a Ford Bronco were looking for a lost cat when they spotted a car coming at them.

"This lady was speeding directly toward us,” said Fred Rollins, a passenger in the Bronco. “I tried to warn my friend to get out of the way, but she seemed like she was intent on hitting us and she did."

After ramming them twice, the driver pushed their Bronco about a hundred yards before it came to a stop.

That's when the two men saw a strange sight coming out of the other car.

Rollins said, "It was really crazy and as we were getting out of the car, she got out of the car and she was naked, stark naked.”

Hopefully she'll get some help... not to mention, some clothes.

'El Colacho' Jumps Over Babies For Good Luck In Spain:

A man representing the devil and dressed in a traditional red and yellow costume, known as El Colacho, jumps over babies placed on a mattress in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain. 'El Colacho' has been jumping over babies during the traditional celebration of Corpus Christi for centuries in an unusual ritual to protect them from evil spirits.

What kind of parent puts their child in this silly situation?

'Telectroscope' Connects New York To London In Real-Time:

NEW YORK — Hello, London! Jolly good show, New York!

New Yorkers could see their English cousins across the pond Thursday without benefit of cable TV or video conferencing, courtesy of an unusual live optical hookup created by a conceptual artist with a fanciful tale of a long-lost tunnel.

An optical device called a "telectroscope" was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn and another one on the Thames River in London on Thursday.

Spectators stepped up to the machine on both sides of the Atlantic and waved and wrote greetings to each other in real time on wipe-off message boards.

They told knock-knock jokes, asked about the weather and found time for a few shout-outs to Queen Elizabeth and the Manchester United soccer team.

How long until this thing turns into a means of insulting one another from across the pond? Still, it is a really cool toy.

Sex Offender Tosses Woman Down A Well And Flees The Scene:

Last week, in a place called Gun Barrel, Texas, a 63-year old woman was abducted from her home near midnight by a violent convicted sex offender who allegedly beat her with the barrel of a gun, dragged her into the woods and presented her with a nightmarish trio of choices, she told ABC News.

He told her he could strangle her, shoot her or toss her down a concrete well in the woods, she said. Before she could choose, she felt herself tumbling headlong into a dank, underground well that opened like a cistern at its base 20 feet beneath the ground.

The woman spent 16 hours in putrid water at the bottom of the well before her frantic family pieced together the fragmented clues to her disappearance and tracked her to the watery, underground prison.

It went something like this: A Texas Grandmother was sitting at home minding her own business when an 18-year-old claiming to have car trouble knocked on her door. She allowed him to use the phone and he left only to return minutes later with a shotgun. The hoodlum, Joshua Cannon, then beat, abducted and sexually assaulted the 63-year-old woman over a period of several hours.

After the ordeal was over, Cannon took the victim to a remote spot in the woods. He offered her the choice of several methods of murder. Before she could respond, the proud member of the Worst Generation tossed her down an abandoned well. Hours later, her family members started piecing together clues that eventually led to her, bruised and broken, at the bottom of a well.

Joshua Cannon was convicted, only days before, of a sex offense after molesting a five-year-old girl. His bond is an embarrassingly low $17,500 and he has only been charged with 'unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a felon' to this point. If this bastard doesn't face an attempted murder rap, I'll be on the first plane to Texas to sort this out myself.

Thomas Beatie Update - The Pregnant Man Is Doing Landscaping:

Keeping the lawn in tip-top shape is a matter of pride for many men and bearded transsexual Thomas Beatie is no different - despite being seven months' pregnant.

Sporting a T-shirt with the logo of his company "Define Normal", the 34-year-old gets stuck into his gardening chores while wife Nancy does her weekend duties at their Bend home in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Thomas, who was born Tracy Lagondino, said he first felt he was trapped in the wrong body when he was in his 20s and quickly went from a Miss Teen Hawaii finalist to taking testosterone and growing a beard.

I'll 'define normal'. Normal; adjective, the exact opposite of a bearded pregnant man mowing his/her lawn at 7-months along.

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe Introduces Something Ridiculous:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Its creators admit it is the ultimate in decadence: a $175 hamburger.

The Wall Street Burger Shoppe just raised its price from $150 to assure its designation as the costliest burger in the city as determined by Pocket Change, an online newsletter about the most expensive things in New York.

"Wall Street has good days and bad days. We wanted to have the everyday burger (for $4) ... and then something special if you really have a good day on Wall Street," said co-owner Heather Tierney.

The burger, created by chef and co-owner Kevin O'Connell, seeks to justify its price with a Kobe beef patty, lots of black truffles, seared foie gras, aged Gruyere cheese, wild mushrooms and flecks of gold leaf on a brioche bun.

The eatery sells 20 or 25 per month in the fine dining room upstairs versus hundreds of $4 burgers each day at the diner counter downstairs, Tierney said.

The competition raise it's burger price so the Wall Street Burger Shoppe followed suit. Why? Because someone will be dumb enough to eat this thing. With any luck, that someone will be me.

I Will Never Enjoy Any Sport Enough To Deal With This:

Vienna shows off a "FanCamp" for the Euro 2008 football championships. It offers 3,000 beds in 770 booths, plus 200 toilets and 100 showers.

The event normally results in a complete hotel sellout so these internment camp-style lodgings are for any hardcore 'football' fans.

Milwaukee Police Are On The Lookout For This Hooligan:

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies are searching for a man who commandeered a transit bus after attacking the driver.

Surveillance video shows a man in a red sweatshirt and bandanna boarding the bus in Milwaukee Wednesday, then pummeling the driver.

Deputies say the man grabbed the steering wheel, hit the gas and sent the bus through an intersection and into a tree.

The suspect fled from the bus and remains at large.

Yet another case of absolutely senseless violence in America.

11-Year-Old Boy Has A Face And Body Full Of Unwanted Hair:

Pruthviraj Patil has suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition also known as Werewolf Syndrome, since birth. He is believed to be one of only 50 people in the world with the condition.

Pruthviraj’s family have tried a range of treatments - including homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies and more recently laser surgery – but none has proved successful.

Now he has appealed to doctors to help him find a permanent cure.

Kids have a tough enough time growing up these days even without a face full of hair. I can only imagine what this particular kid has to deal with on a daily basis. Luckily, he's a decent cricket player and they're cutting him some slack - for now.

Al Gore's Network, Current TV, Spotlights Family Run Sex Club:



Interesting. And I genuinely mean that. They seem like a normal, functioning family despite the fact that they run a sex club in San Francisco. The daughter calls herself 'conservative' and the son seems to have his head on straight. The father is a bit bizarre but who cares? As much as I hate Al Gore I thought it was a great piece.

The Award For Most Disturbing Story Of The Day Goes To...:

TYLER, Texas — A jury again needed just four minutes Thursday to convict an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club where prosecutors say young children were forced to perform sexual acts for an audience.

Shauntel Mayo, 29, faces life in prison after being found guilty on charges that she forced three siblings, ages 7 through 10, to have sex with each other or perform sexual acts for club members who paid to watch.

In March, Mayo's 36-year-old boyfriend, Jamie Pittman, was also found guilty in four minutes. He was sentenced to life in prison after jurors deliberated for just two minutes.

Some jurors cried during testimony in Mayo's three-day trial, the Tyler Morning-Telegraph reported.

The children were also given drugs which Mayo and company called 'happy pills.' A life sentence is a slap on the wrist in this case. They need to track down every single person who went to this 'child swingers club' and throw them in a cell with these creeps. If you're a parent, I can imagine a story like this hits you twice as hard.

A Teenage Girl Gang In London Sought Revenge, Blew Up House:

The explosion collapsed three houses in north west London, killing an innocent resident in a neighbouring property, and leaving the intended target - a 17-year-old girl - in intensive care with severe burns.

Detectives today revealed that a gang of girls - aged 16 and 17 - were suspected of pouring a purple liquid through the letterbox of the house on Stanley Road, Harrow, hours before the blast. They are investigating whether it was an form of explosive researched on the internet or a type of petrol bomb.

The innocent victim was Emad Qureshi, a 26-year-old from Pakistan, who lived with his parents next door and had reported just recently finished a post-graduate degree in computing.

A police source said: “There are several possibilities, one of which is that this was a home made bomb. The methods for making these liquid explosives are all over the internet. We have seen with recent terrorism trials that there are plenty of things on the Web, but it would obviously be a disturbing development if a girl gang has decided to settle a dispute in such dramatic and tragic way.”

Well, that's a little disturbing, isn't it? These girls used information found on the Internet to build a bomb so big that it leveled three houses. No one has been arrested as of yet but you can bet, with a death toll, they'll round these ladies up soon enough.

Dallas To Paris Flight Chugs Along Despite Missing Panel:

American Airlines Inc. is investigating why a wide-body jet lost an exterior access panel shortly after it took off April 20 from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on its way to Paris.

The 3-foot by 6-foot panel, made of composite materials, apparently fell off the Boeing 767's belly as the aircraft was climbing past 10,000 feet.

In a message to American's pilots, managers said that the aircraft crew, which heard a noise and felt a brief vibration, could not identify the cause.

However, the crew, technicians and dispatch personnel determined it was safe to continue flying after no further problems were noted.

With all these airfare hikes, you'd think it wouldn't be too much to ask for your plane to stay in one piece during flight.

End-Of-The-World Cult Leader Wayne Bent Has Been Arrested:

The leader of an apocalyptic church was arrested at a remote ranch in New Mexico as part on a child sex abuse investigation, police said.

Wayne Bent, 66, the head of the doomsday Lord Our Righteousness Church, was detained after agents arrived at the compound where the leader and his followers are based near Clayton, north-east New Mexico.

New Mexico State Police spokesman Peter Olson said Bent was facing three charges of criminal sexual contact, but did not provide further details.

This guy is beyond creepy. His followers at the Lord Our Righteousness Church are all brainwashed into thinking that he is God reborn. Parents who have left the sect over the years have often left their children behind only to be abused by Bent. I was following this story about a week ago after watching a documentary on the sect and I made an attempt to interview Wayne Bent on The News Junkie.

His reply to my request was this bizarre email.

[contact@strongcity.com]

This is Michael's response:

"Return the children and then we will visit."

He's referring to an event a few weeks back when several children were removed from the sect. I don't know if he was so delusional that he thought I had something to do with the raid or if he's just that crazy but I knew something was bound to happen. This man has his followers so bamboozled that husbands are letting their wives sleep with him because Wayne says 'it's what God wants.' He even did this to his own son, his most strident and dedicated follower. When his son and the other men made it clear that they were not happy he simply said 'take it up with God.' And they bought it...

Several times in the documentary I linked to above Wayne Bent is seen with young girls. Most of their parents no longer live with the sect. Bent admitted that at least two of the girls slept naked with him in his bed. They talked about the experience and said that it brought them 'closer to God.' The disturbing details go on and on and on as this story unfolds. By the way, Bent told his followers the world would end late last year and when the date came and went, he simply adjusted to a later date. Brainwashed.