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[Sheebs]

I found this pretty funny:


Like Something Out of a Cartoon...

London (Reuters) - Can't get out of bed in the morning?

Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed.

After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room.

"When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep," New Scientist magazine said Tuesday.


I could see myself destroying this thing haha

[LittleMilkJug]

This is because of the farting fish thread isn't it?

[alli balli]

Thank you so much for making a thread for these!

"Clocky" wouldn't work for me. I'd find it and go right back to sleep, no matter where it rolled to.

[TokyoNiGHTS]

I found this to be funny

ALBION, N.Y. - When Diane Viza got into an argument with her son over whether she was sober, she drove to the local police station asked to take a sobriety test. That turned out to be a bad idea. The 45-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after she showed up at the police station in the Orleans County village of Albion and asked officers to administer a breath test.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../irate_mom_dwi

[MalloryKeaton]

http://www.click2houston.com/money/4318179/detail.html

Woman Settles Suit Over Lack Of Work

Woman Gets New Job, Same Pay
Posted: 11:20 am CST March 25, 2005
Updated: 11:24 am CST March 25, 2005

Albany, N.Y. -- A woman who says the state of New York paid her to do nothing has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit.

Patricia Freund said she did nothing but read books in a back room during the past three years as a director at the State Liquor Authority. For that, she was paid nearly $83,000 a year.

With benefits, her job cost taxpayers about $100,000 a year.

The 25-year state employee filed suit, saying her bosses took away her duties after she questioned the practice of state employees attending Gov. George Pataki's annual prayer breakfast.

As part of the settlement, she'll be moving to a new job with the Department of Motor Vehicles, at the same salary.

The Albany Times Union reported Friday that she'll also get $33,000 for legal fees.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[*Lauren]

Thank you for opening this thread. It was getting annoying and coming and seeing all these non-news threads.

[Vampires_Bite]

Originally Posted by *Lauren Thank you for opening this thread. It was getting annoying and coming and seeing all these non-news threads.

Non-News???? News doesn't have to be sad and negative to be classified as news!

[fetch]

Romanian doctors have removed a man's wedding ring from his penis.

The patient, who is married and has two children, told doctors he had a one night stand with another woman.

He couldn't say how the ring got onto his penis but suspected the mistress wanted to embarrass him because he fell asleep during sex.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...irkies.sexlife

[- Jen -]

heh, he either has really fat fingers, or a really small penis

[LittleMilkJug]

Originally Posted by Vampires_Bite Non-News???? News doesn't have to be sad and negative to be classified as news!

Amen

[Lain]

I don't know if I should deem this strange, humorous or both.

Man charged in ambulance theft http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...242005/1710678 Date published: 3/24/2005 A homeless man was charged yesterday with stealing an ambulance that had just taken him to Mary Washington Hospital and crashing it minutes later. Officers caught up with the man, who is accused of trying to run away from the accident scene on the U.S. 1 Bypass, and sent him back to the hospital in another ambulance, Fredericksburg police spokesman Jim Shelhorse said. Police said his injuries appeared to be minor. Elijah Haith, 25, was charged with grand larceny of a vehicle, reckless driving and eluding police. Shelhorse said police would transfer Haith to the Rappahannock Regional Jail after he is released from the hospital. The incident began about 7:40 a.m. yesterday, when a passer-by called 911 to report a man walking down Fall Hill Avenue near Canal Street wearing only a T-shirt, underwear and one sock. Fredericksburg police determined that the man needed medical care. A rescue crew worried he might have hypothermia on the cold and rainy day, said Fredericksburg Fire Department spokesman Reggie Phillips. Paramedics Amy Hobart and Karen Allen arrived to pick up the man in a Fredericksburg Rescue Squad ambulance. The man went willingly, Phillips said. He was wheeled into the hospital on a stretcher about 8:10 a.m. While in the patient registry area, he got up and ran to the ambulance, which was still running, Phillips said. Paramedics called for help. Fredericksburg police Officer C.M. Reyes was patrolling nearby, Shelhorse said, and pursued the ambulance down U.S. 1 south. The driver lost control of the ambulance near Walker-Grant Middle School. The vehicle flipped several times and ended up on the southbound road--in Spotsylvania County just past the city line--about 8:20 a.m. Shelhorse said the driver apparently was ejected from the car through the windshield or side window. Bleeding, he ran from police, who caught him a short distance away near a car-rental business. He taken back to the hospital by a different Fredericksburg Rescue Squad ambulance. This time, he was under arrest, in the custody of city police. Nobody else was hurt in the incident. The wrecked ambulance was cleared from the road, and southbound U.S. 1 traffic was diverted down a service road. Walker-Grant Principal Denny Keffer said the Fredericksburg school started 30 minutes before the crash and was not disrupted. The ambulance, valued at about $150,000, was totaled in the wreck, Fredericksburg Fire Capt. Mike Jones said. Its tires were flattened, the chassis was torn up and it was caked with mud from flipping over. The vehicle was fully insured. It's the second city ambulance damaged in the past five weeks. On Feb. 21, an ambulance was hit by a driver whom authorities say fell asleep at the wheel. That occurred near the corner of Fall Hill and Linden avenues. Jones said the city has five ambulances, although yesterday's incident will leave rescuers shorthanded for a while. (Note fr. AngeL: And for your "enjoyment" here's the pic of the aftermath):

Somehow...there seems to be an irony in this situation.

[In Fair Verona]

I think the part I find the most humorous about that is that somebody is taking a picture of the man taking a picture, hee. I do see the irony in the situation though. They need to start getting some more ambulances, it looks like.

Hah, the wedding ring thing amuses me. Yet, I'm a bit frightened about how it fits on there.

[In Fair Verona]

This was originally posted by allyru.

A WIDOW is suing a hospital for £10,000 for the loss of sex with her late husband. In the first case of its kind, Nabila Pandya is claiming the compensation for being deprived of “loving marital services”.

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[MalloryKeaton]

http://www.click2houston.com/irresis...74/detail.html

Report: Woman Breastfeeds Two Endangered Tiger Cubs

Posted: 9:16 am CDT April 5, 2005

A Burmese woman has been breastfeeding two Bengal tiger cubs, according to the London Telegraph.

Hla Htay, 40, a mother of three apparently began feeding the cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their “aggressive mother,” the Telegraph reported.

The mother tiger apparently killed a third cub from her litter.

"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow," she told the privately-owned English-language paper Myanmar Times, the Telegraph reported.

The Bengal tiger is listed as endangered on the World Conservation Union's red list, with the global population estimated at fewer than 2,500, according to the paper, which reported that a tenth of them live in Burma.

The tigers are apparently threatened by poachers who kill them for medicines and trophies.

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