'Kasper the Clown' faces prison for punching schoolboy | News | This is London
Topic: Recreation
9:23 am EST, Feb 23, 2007
As a child going to the circus, you might expect the clown to throw a bucket of confetti at you, or squirt you with water from the flower on his lapel.
You certainly wouldn't be prepared for him to grab you by the scruff of the neck, punch and kick you and leave you needing hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.
As these astonishing pictures show, that's what happened when 12-year-old Amos Lutz met Kaspar the Clown at a circus in Leipzig, Germany.
Family gets OK to use dead man's sperm - Yahoo! News
Topic: Recreation
3:29 pm EST, Jan 29, 2007
JERUSALEM - In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier's family can have his sperm impregnated into the body of a woman he never met.
When you're dad was dead when he impregnated your mom, you're destined to become the king of goths.
Hitler-themed eatery draws fire - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
Topic: Recreation
11:28 am EST, Nov 28, 2006
MUMBAI, India - A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country’s small Jewish community.
GREENBURGH - In X-rated testimony as graphic as a porno flick, a former dominatrix yesterday described a bizarre sexual encounter in the woods she claims to have had with a town police officer.
"He wanted to go to a motel in the Bronx where I would defecate on him, but I told him I was uncomfortable going to the Bronx," testified the dominatrix, Gina Pane, 31, buttoned up in an olive-gray suit with her black hair pulled back in a bun. "I suggested that we go into a woody area. He was very excited."
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"I live in a traditional Italian household," she explained.
Why Yes, That Man IS Pulling A Car With His Penis - Jalopnik
Topic: Recreation
4:32 am EST, Nov 21, 2006
As you can see, he's totally got the one-car penis-pull mastered. Of course now that we've seen this we're wondering whether it's possible for Swedish TV to get any weirder. Why yes, it can -- because we hear he's now working towards attempting the two-car penis pull. Video (and yes, it's safe for work) via the link below. [Hat tip to Nick!] – Ray Wert
TUGBOAT Do not try this at home. Remember, this is a professional captain.
The towboat is approaching the bridge with barges loaded with coal.
This frame gives you an idea of how fast the river is running. Obviously at or near flood stage
Oh CRAP!!! The bridge didn't open and the boat can't stop. Notice that the tug has released the barges. He is backing as hard as possible to try and avoid a collision with the bridge.
Can't back down enough against the current.
Uh Oh! The current has swung the boat around sideways.
The cook thinks maybe something isn't quite right.
The boss is going to be REAL mad!
A tug boat submerges to go under a bridge and comes out ok on the other side.
Some people gaze into their navel for inspiration: I look into mine and see navel fluff. Also known as navel lint, it is that fascinating fluffy substance that forms mysteriously in the belly buttons of special people.
NEW YORK — Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the self-balancing scooters it has shipped because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, throwing off the rider _ and in at least one incident, break some teeth.
I hate segways. I'm glad they do this to their users.
First Coast News - Strange & Unusual - Oregon Panty Thief Gets an Extra 18 Months
Topic: Recreation
12:10 pm EDT, Sep 14, 2006
"I would just like to apologize to the victims for any inconvenience it may have caused them . . . or any anguish or suffering," Kim said in the courtroom.
When investigators searched Kim's Tigard bedroom, they found more than 3,400 pairs of underwear and other pieces of women's clothing, along with dryer lint and human hair, marked with information as to where the clothing was taken, and stuffed into boxes, duffel bags and backpacks. His home computer contained more than 40,000 pornographic images, mostly depicting rape, torture and killings.
