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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Did the Earth move for you?
The Quirkology team has joined forces with Professor John C. Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, to provide an answer to the age-old question "did the earth move for you?"
The answer, it seems, is always yes, but they have gone all the way to find out just how far.
Simply select your nearest city. The latitude will automatically appear. Then the duration of intercourse in minutes.
Press the submit button to find out how far the earth moved for you.
The answer, it seems, is always yes, but they have gone all the way to find out just how far.
Simply select your nearest city. The latitude will automatically appear. Then the duration of intercourse in minutes.
Press the submit button to find out how far the earth moved for you.
Lettuce on accused robber's shopping list
One accused robber's list of things to steal included whiskey, a thermometer and lettuce.
Police were called to a grocery store late Thursday after witnesses said a 46-year-old man from Brown Deer threatened employees. The workers said the man gestured as though he had a concealed gun and told them he would shoot.
The man left with 12 bottles of whiskey, two heads of lettuce and a digital thermometer, police said.
Officers found a vehicle in a nearby neighborhood that matched a description given by store employees. The man was taken into custody and identified from store surveillance video.
Police were called to a grocery store late Thursday after witnesses said a 46-year-old man from Brown Deer threatened employees. The workers said the man gestured as though he had a concealed gun and told them he would shoot.
The man left with 12 bottles of whiskey, two heads of lettuce and a digital thermometer, police said.
Officers found a vehicle in a nearby neighborhood that matched a description given by store employees. The man was taken into custody and identified from store surveillance video.
Naked riders promote pedal power
About 700 cyclists in various states of undress have cycled through central London in another leg of the World Naked Bike Ride.
The naked cyclists - and others with strategically-placed body paint, sticky tape or bum bags - were highlighting the damage caused by car dependency.
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They were also promoting the environmental benefits of cycling.
The World Naked Bike Ride is now in its fourth year with more than 60 cities participating in 2007.
The naked cyclists - and others with strategically-placed body paint, sticky tape or bum bags - were highlighting the damage caused by car dependency.
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They were also promoting the environmental benefits of cycling.
The World Naked Bike Ride is now in its fourth year with more than 60 cities participating in 2007.
Awakened by noise, deputy shoots himself in the leg
A noise awakened an off-duty Pinellas sheriff's deputy Friday evening and he reached for his gun, accidentally shooting himself in the leg.
Deputy Jonathan Lopes' three children were home at the time, but no one else was injured, sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said.
Lopes, 49, an 11-year veteran, was in good condition Saturday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa and could not be reached for comment.
The shooting occurred about 7 p.m. Friday when Lopes was awakened by a sudden noise and grabbed his personal 9mm handgun, which fired a round into his left leg, Barreda said. Investigators had not determined the source of the noise.
Barreda said she didn't know whether Lopes had ever been involved in a shooting before.
Deputy Jonathan Lopes' three children were home at the time, but no one else was injured, sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said.
Lopes, 49, an 11-year veteran, was in good condition Saturday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa and could not be reached for comment.
The shooting occurred about 7 p.m. Friday when Lopes was awakened by a sudden noise and grabbed his personal 9mm handgun, which fired a round into his left leg, Barreda said. Investigators had not determined the source of the noise.
Barreda said she didn't know whether Lopes had ever been involved in a shooting before.
Plane lands nose down on Florida beach
A small airplane carrying two people made an emergency landing on Jacksonville Beach on Saturday and landed nose down in the sand, police said. No one was injured.
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The single-engine plane was returning to a Jacksonville area airfield when it lost power around 5 p.m., Police Sgt. Tom Bingham said. It was forced to land in the sand as beachgoers looked on from a distance.
The impact slightly damaged the plane's propeller and nose wheel.
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The single-engine plane was returning to a Jacksonville area airfield when it lost power around 5 p.m., Police Sgt. Tom Bingham said. It was forced to land in the sand as beachgoers looked on from a distance.
The impact slightly damaged the plane's propeller and nose wheel.
Man drowns trying to retrieve phone from sewer
A 41-year-old man drowned on Wednesday after getting stuck in a storm sewer trying to retrieve a cell phone, police said.
The man weighed more that 300 pounds and wedged with his head and shoulders underwater in a vertical storm drain in front of his home, said police Lt. Tim Eirich.
The man's identity was not released pending notification of relatives.
Neighbor Chris Van Erem said he saw the man kneeling over the sewer before he fell in. Police said the man pulled the iron gate off trying to get the cell phone.
Then, a child from the neighborhood ran toward Van Erem frantically. Van Erem said he then saw the man's feet sticking up out of the grate.
``I ran over and tried to pull him on out,'' Van Erem said. ``Absolutely helpless was the feeling. I couldn't budge him.''
Van Erem said it ultimately took six firefighters to pull the man from the sewer. Sheboygan County Coroner David Leffin ruled the man's death as an accidental drowning.
The man's cell phone was later found at the bottom of the sewer, police said.
The man weighed more that 300 pounds and wedged with his head and shoulders underwater in a vertical storm drain in front of his home, said police Lt. Tim Eirich.
The man's identity was not released pending notification of relatives.
Neighbor Chris Van Erem said he saw the man kneeling over the sewer before he fell in. Police said the man pulled the iron gate off trying to get the cell phone.
Then, a child from the neighborhood ran toward Van Erem frantically. Van Erem said he then saw the man's feet sticking up out of the grate.
``I ran over and tried to pull him on out,'' Van Erem said. ``Absolutely helpless was the feeling. I couldn't budge him.''
Van Erem said it ultimately took six firefighters to pull the man from the sewer. Sheboygan County Coroner David Leffin ruled the man's death as an accidental drowning.
The man's cell phone was later found at the bottom of the sewer, police said.
Violinist in global charity busk
A Proms violinist is planning to spend five months busking his way around the world to raise money for charity.
David Juritz is travelling across 25 countries over the next four-and-a-half months, after setting off from a London Tube station yesterday.
The 60,000 mile trip, called Round the World and Bach, will be paid for by the money he earns from passers-by.
Any further money raised will be donated to a music charity that helps people in the developing world.
He will be seeking sponsorship for a new fund, Musequality, which is intended to support communal music projects in poor areas.
Full story here.
David Juritz is travelling across 25 countries over the next four-and-a-half months, after setting off from a London Tube station yesterday.
The 60,000 mile trip, called Round the World and Bach, will be paid for by the money he earns from passers-by.
Any further money raised will be donated to a music charity that helps people in the developing world.
He will be seeking sponsorship for a new fund, Musequality, which is intended to support communal music projects in poor areas.
Full story here.
Irish miracle man emerges from the dead
Declared dead by doctors, then rescued from the mortuary, Freddie Maguire has made such a strong recovery that he has been nicknamed Jesus Christ.
Mr Maguire, 47, from Dublin’s north inner city, was pronounced dead by doctors at the Mater Hospital after they fought for 30 minutes to save his life on Easter Day.
Mr Maguire, who has learning difficulties, was being treated for a separate condition when he suffered a heart attack. He was moved to the intensive care unit and treated by a team of medical staff, who pronounced him dead.
Mr Maguire’s relatives were coming to terms with their loss when they were informed that he was, in fact, alive. A member of staff saw his hand move as he was about to be put into a mortuary refrigerator.
Frances Maguire, his aunt, said: “He’s all right now and he’s back the way he was before this terrible thing took place."
Mr Maguire, 47, from Dublin’s north inner city, was pronounced dead by doctors at the Mater Hospital after they fought for 30 minutes to save his life on Easter Day.
Mr Maguire, who has learning difficulties, was being treated for a separate condition when he suffered a heart attack. He was moved to the intensive care unit and treated by a team of medical staff, who pronounced him dead.
Mr Maguire’s relatives were coming to terms with their loss when they were informed that he was, in fact, alive. A member of staff saw his hand move as he was about to be put into a mortuary refrigerator.
Frances Maguire, his aunt, said: “He’s all right now and he’s back the way he was before this terrible thing took place."
Pampered dogs get their teeth into gourmet food
As a healthy gourmet snack they have to take the biscuit – dog biscuit, to be precise.
For a bakery company has come up with a range of dog treats that owners can share with their pets.
With names such as Liver Love and Carob Crunch, the new delicacies are unlikely to replace the digestive or rich tea as Britain's favourite biscuits.
And at £6.50 for 200 grams, they're more expensive than lumpfish caviar, (£2.35 per 100g at Waitrose), Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, (72p per 100g), or even Prince Charles's entire Duchy Originals Organic collection.
The Alldog Bakery range is stamped proudly with the label "Made with human quality ingredients", many of which it says are organic.
The bakery's chief taster Leila Konig said: "They are much harder than human biscuits to suit dogs' teeth and the sweet range are best taken with a cup of tea. There are no unnatural ingredients, no preservatives and no additives. And they're really quite moreish."
For a bakery company has come up with a range of dog treats that owners can share with their pets.
With names such as Liver Love and Carob Crunch, the new delicacies are unlikely to replace the digestive or rich tea as Britain's favourite biscuits.
And at £6.50 for 200 grams, they're more expensive than lumpfish caviar, (£2.35 per 100g at Waitrose), Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, (72p per 100g), or even Prince Charles's entire Duchy Originals Organic collection.
The Alldog Bakery range is stamped proudly with the label "Made with human quality ingredients", many of which it says are organic.
The bakery's chief taster Leila Konig said: "They are much harder than human biscuits to suit dogs' teeth and the sweet range are best taken with a cup of tea. There are no unnatural ingredients, no preservatives and no additives. And they're really quite moreish."
Man threatened with police for attempting to buy eight pasties
Tesco staff threatened to call cops when Andrew Williamson tried to eight pasties.
Taxi boss Andrew, 48, was told to put two back because there was a six-pasties-only rule.
And when he argued, staff at the supermarket warned they would call police.
The Ginster's pasties had been reduced from around £1 to 36p for two after reaching their sell-by date.
Dad-of-four Andrew picked them up for a family tea for eight people. He said: “I was stunned when the till girl said I could only have six.
“They were pasties, not paracetamol — so it’s not like I can overdose on them.”
After half an hour staff at the store in Batley, West Yorks, relented and sold him all eight — along with £45-worth of groceries.
Taxi boss Andrew, 48, was told to put two back because there was a six-pasties-only rule.
And when he argued, staff at the supermarket warned they would call police.
The Ginster's pasties had been reduced from around £1 to 36p for two after reaching their sell-by date.
Dad-of-four Andrew picked them up for a family tea for eight people. He said: “I was stunned when the till girl said I could only have six.
“They were pasties, not paracetamol — so it’s not like I can overdose on them.”
After half an hour staff at the store in Batley, West Yorks, relented and sold him all eight — along with £45-worth of groceries.
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