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Post by Ragingblues on May 17, 2007 16:52:37 GMT -5
Family's Punching Bag Holds Smelly Surprise Man Says Bag Filled With Underwearwww.news4jax.com/news/13331924/detail.htmlCINCINNATI -- A Cincinnati-area family got a smelly surprise when they opened a punching bag they purchased earlier this year.
Joe Heckel said he and his son were moving a TKO brand heavy punching bag from their garage to the basement when they decided to see what was inside in case the bag later leaked. But Heckel said that instead of sand or plastic pellets, he found the bag full of men's and women's underwear, some of it used.
"(There were) bras, thongs and bathing suits. We could not believe there were clothes inside instead of sand," he said. Heckel said the smell was "bad, real bad." Heckel said that contacting the store where he'd bought the bag didn't go anywhere.
"I called to ask them if they could tell me if these were clean underwear, but I don't think that he believed me," Heckel said. "I said 'I'm a cop, I'm telling you that's what's in there!' He stated that he had never looked in a bag so he didn't know what was in them."
Heckel described the discovery as "gross but kind of funny in a way," and couldn't help but chuckle as he told his story. He and his son finished installing the punching bag after taking pictures, but he says they have yet to use it.
A spokeswoman for the store told partner Web site WLWT.com that they were unaware of what had happened, but asked for Heckel's phone number so they could contact him about the matter.
Attempts by WLWT.com to contact Technical Knockout Inc., the company that owns the TKO brand, have been unsuccessful. A number listed for the company was "unassigned." But on Thursday, a company representative saw Heckel's story on a Houston Web site and called him.
Heckel said Thursday that the representative told him that the underwear in the bag was a "quality problem" that they were dealing with, and that the people who had made the decision to put underwear in the bags had been fired. The representative said a new, non-underwear-filled bag would be shipped to Heckel shortly.---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder what the next bag will be filled with... teeth and hair? Ken
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Post by pitfallharry on May 17, 2007 22:39:51 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D I sware.....doesn't anyone do their jobs anymore? We've got contaminated meat, peanut butter and spinach.....now their putting dirty underwear in our punching bags! It's madness.....shear madness. I wonder though if there are more than one of these bags floating around out there with dirty underwear in them? If so where were these workers getting all the dirty underwear to begin with??? ;D
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Post by Steve on May 22, 2007 15:12:39 GMT -5
I'm now going to be incredibly nervous every time I go to work. ;D
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Post by Ragingblues on May 28, 2007 22:14:21 GMT -5
Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than 'Hogzilla'www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PBKB5G0&show_article=1&catnum=-1&image=largeMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires. If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.
Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long. Regardless of the comparison, Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which has a Web site put up by his father—http://www.monsterpig.com —that is generating Internet buzz. "It feels really good," Jamison, of Pickensville, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Hogzilla II. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50- caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing. "I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited," said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school. His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast with 5- inch tusks decided to charge.
With the pig finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods. It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, which was recently calibrated, to weigh the hog. Kinder, who didn't witness the weigh-in, said he was baffled to hear the reported weight of 1,051 pounds because his scale—an old, manual style with sliding weights—only measures to the nearest 10. "I didn't quite understand that," he said. Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark, and he thought it meant a weight of 1,051 pounds.
"It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said. The hog's head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Jerry Cunningham of Jerry's Taxidermy in Oxford. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout. "It's huge," he said. "It's just the biggest thing I've ever seen." Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. "We'll probably get 500 to 700 pounds," he said.
Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in "The Legend of Hogzilla," a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia. Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs. "They are a little less dangerous." Ken
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Post by pitfallharry on May 28, 2007 23:11:27 GMT -5
Good Lord! Coming summer of 2008
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Post by Ragingblues on Jul 13, 2007 22:38:55 GMT -5
World's Tallest Man Meets World's Shortest Man7 Ft. 9" Bao Xishun meets 2 Ft. 4" He Pingping Ken
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Post by Ragingblues on Jul 17, 2007 20:48:31 GMT -5
Headache Cured: Tooth Was Lodged In ForeheadTooth Had Been In Head For More Than Three Months www.news4jax.com/health/13698312/detail.htmlBRISBANE, Australia -- Rugby player Ben Czislowski kept competing for more than three months despite the headaches that started after a clash with an opponent.
Czislowski was playing for Brisbane team Wynnum during the April 1 incident involving Tweed Heads forward Matt Austin. He had a head wound stitched up afterward, the Australian Associated Press reported Tuesday.
Czislowski later suffered an eye infection and complained of lethargy and shooting pains in his head. Then last week, his doctor found a tooth imbedded in Czislowski's head.
"I can laugh about it now, but the doctor told me it could have been serious, with teeth carrying germs," Czislowski said.
"I've got the tooth at home, sitting on the bedside table," he said. "If he (Austin) wants it back he can have it. I'm keeping it at the moment as proof that it actually happened."----------------------------------------------------- Ken
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Post by Ragingblues on Aug 7, 2007 22:24:27 GMT -5
Airplane Passenger Smuggles Monkey Under His Hat Into U.S.www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292496,00.html NEW YORK — A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane Tuesday, stashing the furry fist-size primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official said.
The monkey escapade began in Lima, Peru, late Monday, when the man boarded a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell. After landing Tuesday morning, the man waited several hours before catching a connecting flight to LaGuardia Airport.
During the flight, people around the man noticed that the marmoset, which normally lives in forests and eats fruit and insects, had emerged from underneath his hat, Russell said. "Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him," she said.
The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man's seat and behaved well, said Russell, who didn't know how it skirted customs and security. Airport police were waiting for the man and his monkey when the plane landed about 3 p.m., and the man was taken away for questioning. It was unclear if he would face any criminal charges.
The city's animal control agency said the monkey appeared healthy. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was planning to take it for disease testing and keep it quarantined for 31 days, CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said. If the monkey is healthy it could wind up in a zoo.
Russell, the airline spokeswoman, said she didn't know the monkey's name, but she quickly thought of one. "It is kind of a spirited monkey," she said. "That will be the nickname of the monkey: Spirit."------------------------------ I'm just wondering something here.... was this man wearing a "Big Yellow Hat" perhaps? And does the monkey answer to the name "George", maybe? Ken
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Post by Ragingblues on Sept 1, 2007 23:33:45 GMT -5
Texas Woman Claims to Have Found Mythical 'Chupacabra'www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295481,00.html (copy & paste link) CUERO, Texas — Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.
Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.
She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.
"I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.
What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the vampire-like beast, is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off — all the blood was drained from them, she said.
Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Canion thinks recent heavy rains ran them right out of their dens.
"I think it could have wolf in it," Canion said. "It has to be a cross between two or three different things."
She said the finding has captured the imagination of locals, just like purported sightings of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster have elsewhere.
But what folks are calling a chupacabra is probably just a strange breed of dog, said veterinarian Travis Schaar of the Main Street Animal Hospital in nearby Victoria.
"I'm not going to tell you that's not a chupacabra. I just think in my opinion a chupacabra is a dog," said Schaar, who has seen Canion's find.
The "chupacabras" could have all been part of a mutated litter of dogs, or they may be a new kind of mutt, he said.
As for the bloodsucking, Schaar said that this particular canine may simply have a preference for blood, letting its prey bleed out and licking it up.
Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas," accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei. Schaar also said he has one.
"If everyone has a fun time with it, we'll keep doing it," she said. "It's good for Cuero."----------------------------------------------------------- Ken
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Post by GCR on Sept 2, 2007 10:37:39 GMT -5
WTF?!? Chupacabra? It looks like a mummified dog to me. ;D Okay, a mummified, hairless dog...but still. This reminds me of something that happened a short while ago up in Maine, when some motorist found a carcass on the side of the road that no one could identify. They called it a "mystery beast" but it was just a poor dead dog. There is a lot of cool info on cryptozoology at this link, though. That includes some further info about the "Chupacabra" in this story. www.cryptomundo.com/-GCR
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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 2, 2007 10:52:44 GMT -5
It turns out that this "Chupacabra" was really just an ugly coyote. I'm sure the Roadrunner will be happy to hear the news. Researchers: Mythical, Bloodsucking Chupacabra Found in Texas Just a Coyotewww.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307576,00.html SAN MARCOS, Texas — The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in southern Texas is not the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. It's just a plain old coyote.
Biologists at Texas State University announced Thursday night they had identified the hairless doglike creature. KENS-TV of San Antonio provided a tissue sample from the animal for testing. "The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote," biologist Mike Forstner said in a statement. "This is probably the answer a lot of folks thought might be the outcome. I, myself, really thought it was a domestic dog, but the Cuero Chupacabra is a Texas Coyote."
Phylis Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 90 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she could get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity. Additional skin samples have been taken to try to determine the cause of the animal's hair loss, Forstner said.Ken
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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 9, 2007 18:16:38 GMT -5
Ham Soda Anyone? How About Turkey & Gravy, Jelly Doughnut, Dinner Roll,Or Green Pea Flavored soft Drinks?Keep reading..... yeah, it gets worse. www.theolympian.com/northwest/story/266965.htmlThe Associated Press
SEATTLE — It's rare to find kosher ham. Rarer still to find it carbonated and bottled.
Jones Soda Co., the Seattle-based purveyor of offbeat fizzy water, said Friday that it was shelving its traditional seasonal flavors of turkey and gravy this year to produce limited-edition theme packs for Christmas and Hanukkah.
The Christmas pack will feature such flavors as Sugar Plum, Christmas Tree, Egg Nog and Christmas Ham. The Hanukkah pack will have Jelly Doughnut, Apple Sauce, Chocolate Coins and Latkes sodas.
"As always, both packs are kosher and contain zero caffeine," a Jones news release noted.
The packs will go on sale Sunday, with a portion of the proceeds to be given to charity, the company said.
Jones' products feature original label art and frequently odd flavors. Last year's seasonal pack was Thanksgiving-themed, with Green Pea, Sweet Potato, Dinner Roll, Turkey and Gravy, and Antacid sodas. For its contract to supply soda to Qwest Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, Jones came up with Perspiration, Dirt, Sports Cream and Natural Field Turf. The company - fortunately or unfortunately - prides itself on the accuracy of the taste.
Jones also makes more sedate flavors, including root beer, cherry and strawberry sodas. What? Ken
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Post by pitfallharry on Nov 9, 2007 18:53:48 GMT -5
Here's what I think of those.....
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Post by Mr. Fusion on Nov 9, 2007 21:05:20 GMT -5
Wow... uh... wow. The only word that could describe those is GROSS!
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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 23, 2007 22:36:44 GMT -5
Giant Hairball Removed From Teenage Girl's Stomachnews.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1293894,00.html?f=rss (copy & paste link or read text below) Surgeons have removed a massive 4.5kg hairball from the stomach of a teenager in the United States. The hairball: Pic from the New England Journal of MedicineThe 18-year-old went to her doctor after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting.
Doctors carried out a scan and were amazed to find the huge mass of hair blocking her entire stomach.
Advertisement The woman admitted she had been eating her locks for five years, the New England Journal of Medicine reported.
The publication said the hairball measured 37.5 x 17.5 x 17.5cm.
Once the hairball was removed, the patient was discharged and given psychiatric help.
A year on and the teenager has gained 9kg - and has stopped eating her hair, the journal said.------------------------------------------------------ Of all the weird psychological conditions people wind up with... this one is a first for me. Ken
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Post by jerthrs on Dec 28, 2007 9:43:19 GMT -5
some people doesn't know what to do jerthrs
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Post by Yan on Dec 28, 2007 12:19:47 GMT -5
*cough* cough* -"What's a matter honey?" -"...hairball"...
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Post by Ragingblues on Aug 1, 2008 7:06:27 GMT -5
'Montauk Monster' Has Hamptons in a Tizzywww.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html Photo Link: www.foxnews.com/images/409094/0_61_montauk_monster_grab.jpgWhat's brownish-purple, goes to the beach and stinks of rotting flesh?
New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island.
On Tuesday afternoon, a photo was posted on Gawker, the Big Apple's reigning gossip blog, which treated the Montauk monster with characteristic respect: "Good Luck With Your Hell Demons."
The animal looks like a bloated, hairless dog, except that it's got an eagle-like beak, a prominent brow ridge and a curiously elongated front paw. Speculation immediately arose that it might be a hitherto unknown marine mammal, a sea turtle without its shell, an artful Photoshop creation or — cue the " X-Files" theme — an escaped experiment from the government animal-disease research facility on Plum Island, just offshore from Montauk.
The animal's resting on sand in the photo, with no other indication of location or scale except for what appears to be a large fly on its back.
Gawker itself thought it had broken the case late on Tuesday, when it noted that the woman who'd e-mailed in the photo worked for a viral-marketing firm. It all tied in neatly to "Cryptids Are Real," an upcoming Cartoon Network show about mysterious, scientifically undocumented animals such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Chupacabra.
But the tipster, whom New York magazine identified as Los-Angeles based Alanna Navitski, denied that her efforts were part of any campaign. She said she'd gotten the picture from her sister, who'd gotten it herself from a friend in New York who actually saw the darn thing.
"I saw the monster," said another witness, a waiter at a nearby restaurant, to New York magazine. "I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water."
Plum TV, a sort of upscale public-access network carried on Hamptons cable TV as well as in other tony summer resorts, promises an interview Friday with the original photographer as well as two other women who say they saw the animal.
FOXNews.com thinks one commenter on the Plum TV Web site may have figured it out. The short beak-snout and long, flipper-like paw certainly don't belong to a dog, but they could easily belong to a young raccoon whose fur and nasal cartilage rotted away in the water. Check out images of raccoon skulls here and here, and this image of a raccoon's paw.
To complicate matters, no one seems to know exactly where the mysterious beastie is now. It's no longer at the beach where it was supposedly found; then again, the sand it's resting on in the photo could be anywhere in the world. "They say an old guy came and carted it away," Navitski told New York magazine. "He said, 'I'm going to mount it on my wall.'"More info for those interested: gawker.com/tag/montauk-monster/Ken
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Post by Kaplan on Aug 1, 2008 10:18:27 GMT -5
that has to be a turtle. The turtle had a deformed flipper and it lost its shell. Ugly looking thing....ew.
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Post by Ragingblues on Aug 1, 2008 10:25:51 GMT -5
I agree that it has to be a turtle. I don't think I've ever seen a turtle without it's shell, just shells without the turtle still in them. Who knew they would look like that inside? Ken
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Post by Ramiel on Aug 1, 2008 12:05:29 GMT -5
Dead racoon (the "beak" is just his exposed skull with some missing theet ) Also turtles cannot be pulled out of their shell like in the cartoons, their skin is "glued" to the shell, so, if you want to pull them out, well... You can imagine the scene...
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Post by Ragingblues on Aug 1, 2008 18:59:08 GMT -5
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Post by Kaplan on Aug 3, 2008 2:07:00 GMT -5
That's a wild pig.. and somebody skinned it and cut off its snout??
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Post by Yan on Aug 3, 2008 11:21:16 GMT -5
If someone can reproduce an alien autopsy, I say it is rather quite easy to create that sort of creature...
Come on, that's all fake...
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Post by Ramiel on Aug 3, 2008 22:18:03 GMT -5
More than fake is silly! Silly how many people are talking about a dead animal all over the net, because they never saw a dead creature before (damn spoiled kids! LOL), take a sample of DNA and tell me if it is a racoon or something else, for sure isn't a monster or a genetic experiment! If you take those people out for a trip in the country or on a mountain, they will see an entire "alien world" of dead creatures! Have you ever seen a dead sheep? Looks almost like an alien!LOL ;D Ok, a wild animal is dead (or killed by some stupid kid) and it ended (for a reason or another) in the sea, in the water it could have hit a rock or it could have been "tasted" by a water creature (a fish or something) and then it landed on the beach... Oh Geez! A monster! C'mon! I think it's because we simply LOVE to have a mistery once in a while, and if there isn't one we'll make it! ;D I think that if I saw that corpse on a beach I would have just take a look at it and I then I would have walked away, it's not THAT interesting... LOL
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