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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 24, 2009 6:54:23 GMT -5
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510262,00.html This is a story about one guy who managed to survive BOTH A bomb attacks at the end of WWII. Could you imagine the week that guy had? He's in Hiroshima on business, gets A bombed, SURVIVES, and after such a terrible experiences, goes back to his hometown of Nagasaki only to get bombed again! Could you imagine the facial expression when he realized, "aw crap, not again."
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 24, 2009 7:28:14 GMT -5
LOL! I was just coming on here to post that same story. That one sure caught the eye.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 24, 2009 8:25:04 GMT -5
It's hard to decide if this is the luckiest or UNluckiest guy ever.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 24, 2009 8:33:45 GMT -5
Balls, remember that guy who died falling into the vat of chocolate at the chocolate factory? THAT was a funny story. Way to die.
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Post by Lindsey on Mar 24, 2009 8:34:42 GMT -5
at least he didn't turn into an oversized blueberry. Whoops!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 24, 2009 8:50:27 GMT -5
I knew we had this documented somewhere.....from Balls' account to our 2002 Coney Island Trip, as found in the Road Trip section!.....
For a Friday afternoon, a hell of a lot of people were in that bar. But Tom correctly pointed out that it was lunch time. We saw a construction worker enter the bar to cash his check and have a beer, and noted that perhaps being drunk is the reason these people keep falling off buildings and into manholes. In fact, Capone brought up a story about how this one guy died by falling into a vat of chocolate. Can you imagine the look on his face just as he realized that he was going to die like that? Would it be fear, or just a look of disgust that he was going to drown in a vat of chocolate? Tom wanted to know if there was an open casket and whether as a tribute they all ate a piece of him. I wondered if he came out of the chocolate as a statue.
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 24, 2009 9:15:21 GMT -5
Interesting you brought that up, because I actually WAS thinking about the chocolate guy when I was writing out that update. It's the "you have got to be kidding me" moment that the second bomb must have been for this guy.
It also reminds me of the Wacky Wall of Death in Toronto.
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Post by 46fan4evr on Mar 24, 2009 11:02:15 GMT -5
"Could you imagine the facial expression when he realized, "aw crap, not again."
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time TWICE in one day..........holy crap....
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 24, 2009 11:19:18 GMT -5
It sounds suspicious to me that he was on hand both times. Maybe he had a hand in it.
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Post by 46fan4evr on Mar 24, 2009 11:23:48 GMT -5
ya never know....
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Post by 9 on Mar 24, 2009 11:40:17 GMT -5
I think the same guy recovered in time to fire the fatal bullet into JFK.
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Post by 46fan4evr on Mar 24, 2009 12:56:17 GMT -5
ROTFLMAO....
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 25, 2009 15:41:24 GMT -5
School Warns Parents Dead Daughter Can't Go to Prom
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The parents of a British teen, who died suddenly two months ago, received a disturbing letter from the girl's high school saying she needs to improve her attendance or can't go to the prom, the Manchester Evening News reported.
The letter said Megan Gillan's attendance was 60.4 percent and the school requires its students to keep a 92 percent attendance record.
"I screamed when I first saw it," her mother Margaret Gillan told the newspaper. If they want her to attend that much I'll take Megan's remains. It's disgusting."
Gillan was found dead Jan. 19 in her bedroom at her parent's home. The letter was dated March 16.
"Megan would have loved going to the prom," her mother said. "She planned to go with a group of friends, she was really looking forward to it."
A school spokesman apologized and told the Manchester Evening News, "that letter should not have gone out," and blamed it on a "software error."
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Post by crazilyz on Mar 25, 2009 16:12:30 GMT -5
Damn, that outranks the vets office who sent me a vaccination reminder for my dead dog. Those fools were the ones that took Rocky's body for cremation.
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Post by 9 on Mar 25, 2009 16:57:47 GMT -5
"that letter should not have gone out," [/i][/quote] Ya THINK???
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Post by Lindsey on Mar 25, 2009 19:16:38 GMT -5
That's one hell of an apology!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 26, 2009 22:33:55 GMT -5
World Trade Center Building Not Called Freedom Tower
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Freedom Tower is out. One World Trade Center is in. The agency that owns ground zero confirmed Thursday that the signature skyscraper replacing the towers destroyed on Sept. 11 will be more commonly known as One World Trade Center. The building under construction at the site was named the Freedom Tower in the first ground zero master plan. Officials at the time said the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the country's triumph over terrorism. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman Anthony Coscia says the agency refers to the building as One World Trade Center. He says it's the building's legal name and ``the one that's easiest for people to identify with.''
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 27, 2009 10:31:03 GMT -5
Ejected Pilot Survives Crash, Dies During Rescue Accident
A fighter pilot who survived the crash of his training jet plunged to his death with a rescuer Wednesday after a cord broke as they were being pulled up to a helicopter, an Ecuador military official said.
The pilot, identified as Rafael Durango, and an unidentified co-pilot, had earlier ejected safely from their MK-89 Strikemaster before it crashed into a jungle near the Colombian border.
Ecuadorean military officials said two helicopters were sent to recover them.
But an air force official later said the rescue went awry as Durango and a rescuer were being lifted up to one of the hovering choppers.
"A cord that was attached to a helicopter broke and the pilot and one of the rescuers fell, dying in the rescue operation,'' the official said.
The second pilot was successfully rescued, the official said.
Colonel Hugo Lanas, an Ecuadorean air force spokesman, said earlier that the MK-89 Strikemaster was on a training mission in northeastern Sucumbios province when it crashed.
There is a heavy military presence in the area because of frequent incursions by Colombian guerrillas.
It was the Ecuadorean air force's second plane crash in less than a week.
On Thursday, a twin-engine Beechcraft 200 propeller plane crashed into an apartment building during a training exercise, killing seven people on board as well as two on the ground in northern Quito.
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Post by Lindsey on Mar 27, 2009 20:21:38 GMT -5
www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.htmlShamWow Guy In Slap, Chop Bust TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl MARCH 27--Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling).
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Post by 9 on Mar 31, 2009 10:19:22 GMT -5
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Freedom Tower is out. One World Trade Center is in. I'm hungry. I think I'll go get some One World Trade Center fries.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 31, 2009 10:36:06 GMT -5
Everyones just going to call it the Freedom Tower anyway.
If they ever get around to building the damned thing.
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Post by crazilyz on Mar 31, 2009 11:42:35 GMT -5
Man charged with drunk driving on bar stool Cops: 28-year-old wrecked stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower
NEWARK, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool.
Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Twenty-eight-year Kile Wygle was hospitalized for minor injuries.
Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers.
Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.
Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.
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Post by joetee316 on Mar 31, 2009 13:32:46 GMT -5
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Post by 9 on Mar 31, 2009 13:36:43 GMT -5
38 MPH on a bar stool?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 31, 2009 14:02:45 GMT -5
Ive done 38 MPH on the way OFF a bar stool, thats for sure.
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Post by 9 on Mar 31, 2009 15:55:19 GMT -5
You and me both.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 1, 2009 10:37:28 GMT -5
'Sorry' Note Left Near Texas Hit-and-Run Victim
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — Police in League City, Texas, say a hit-and-run driver in a fatal crash apparently left a note expressing remorse near the victim's body.
An investigator who asked to be identified only as Detective Aldridge said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the death of 34-year-old Maurice Jones.
The note was scribbled on paper from a spiral notebook. Aldridge says the note may have been written by a woman but he declined to reveal more details.
Jones' body was discovered in a ditch Sunday morning, hours after he got off work at a fast-food restaurant and was walking home.
League City is about 25 miles southeast of Houston.
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Post by baldvinny on Apr 1, 2009 11:55:11 GMT -5
lol @ the story joe tee posted
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 1, 2009 12:51:46 GMT -5
Oops! UCSD Sends Acceptance E-mail to Wrong List University Fails Basic Math, Gives Rejectees Hope
UC San Diego -- a school for the smart ones, supposedly -- mistakenly congratulated nearly 29,000 applicants on their acceptance, according to university officials.
Earlier this month, about 17,000 student were offered admission for the fall, leaving nearly 29,000 hopefuls out in the cold.
But on Tuesday, the school's communications office said an e-mail was sent Monday afternoon to all 46,377 students who applied for admission -- including the 29,000 rejects -- welcoming them to the campus.
A half-hour later, school officials said, they realized their mistake. Almost two hours after the first note went out, a second e-mail was sent, apologizing to 28,889 freshmen applicants for the mistake.
"No member of this department is more acutely aware of the emotional roller-coaster that this could cause for our applicants," Assistant Vice Chancellor Mae W. Brown said.
Similar incidents have happened at other schools -- including Cornell in the recent past, the paper reported, but the UCSD incident was the biggest "screw-up."
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Post by Chris on Apr 1, 2009 12:59:51 GMT -5
UCSD is a party school anyway...probably along with SDSU one of the most notorious party schools in the country.
Doesn't matter who they accept...they turn into drunken partiers anyway.
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