World's Top Five Weird, Funny and sizzling News of July 18, 2013
Woman hit tree while trying to run down ex-boyfriend
IMMOKALEE, Fla., July 18 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said an intoxicated woman who crashed a sport-utility vehicle into a tree was allegedly trying to hit her ex-boyfriend. Collier County Sheriff's deputies said investigators responded to a call from the Immokalee neighborhood around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday and saw Veronica Doctor, 45,
walking away from the driver's side of the vehicle and appearing to have trouble balancing, WINK-TV, Fort Myers, Fla., reported Thursday. Deputies said Doctor smelled strongly of alcohol and refused to speak to them.A friend in the passenger's seat of the black GMC SUV told deputies Doctor had driven to her ex-boyfriend's house, where the former couple argued. The ex-boyfriend was contacted and told deputies Doctor started driving in circles in his front yard when he refused to answer the door around 2 a.m. and he went out to confront her about being drunk.
Gold for shedding pounds
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 18 (UPI) -- Dubai officials announced overweight residents of the emirate are being given the opportunity to win gold by losing weight. Dubai Municipality said its "Your Weight in Gold" promotion will reward overweight residents with .04 ounces of gold for every 2.2 pounds lost provided they lost at least 4.4 pounds during the event, The National reported Thursday. Officials said participants who weigh in between 8 p.m. and midnight Friday must be overweight and must commit to abstaining from unhealthy weight loss methods. Medical and nutritional experts will be on hand at the weigh-in stations to advise participants on how best to shed their extra pounds. Hussain Lootah, director general of the municipality, said the government has not yet determined how much gold will be distributed. "It depends how much the people are expecting to lose. We have not set a limit," he said. The final weigh-in for participants will be Aug. 16, Lootah said."The more you lose the more you will gain," he said.
Contractor tears down wrong house
A Texas couple came home from vacation this week to find an empty lot where their house once stood. A contractor in Fort Worth, Texas, sent to demolish the condemned house next door instead mistakenly destroyed David Underwood's home, which had been in his family for decades. The contractor mistook the house for the condemned one because it was vacant with no electricity. Underwood and his wife had just purchased his grandmother's old house from his aunt and planned to move in after some renovations.
They discovered their future home was gone when they dropped by to mow the lawn Saturday after returning from holidays. The house next door, which was supposed to have been demolished, was still standing. "I can literally remember sitting on the counter when I was a little kid, and my grandmother would cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, whatever," Underwood told the Star-Telegram newspaper. The city says it's investigating the error.
Scientists claim to power phone with urine
The power of urine has been harnessed to charge a mobile phone with enough electricity to send texts and surf the Internet. Researchers from England's University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory said Tuesday they had created a fuel cell that uses bacteria to break down urine to generate electricity. "No one has harnessed power from urine to do this so it's an exciting discovery," Ioannis Ieropoulos told the U.S.-based trade publication Industry Week. "The beauty of this fuel source is that we are not relying on the erratic nature of the wind or the sun; we are actually reusing waste to create energy." The technology relies on passing urine through fuel cells made of microbes. As they feed off the urine, they produce electricity.
"So far the microbial fuel power stack (MFC) that we have developed generates enough power to enable SMS messaging, web browsing and to make a brief phone call," Ieropoulos said. "The concept has been tested and it works -- it's now for us to develop and refine the process so that we can develop MFCs to fully charge a battery."
Why Virginia's attorney general wants to ban oral, anal sex
Blow jobs, cunnilingus and anal sex would all become illegal in Virginia if gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II gets his way. Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general, has made the reinstatement of the Crimes Against Nature Law a focus of his campaign, according to his website.
The law, struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2003, states: "If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony." While that includes everyone, gay or straight, young or old, married or single, Cuccinelli insists it's all about the kids. His site names 90 child molesters prosecuted under the law. But, according to the Washington Post, he voted against a 2004 measure to amend the law so it would no longer apply to consenting adults because he said "homosexual acts are wrong."
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