Stranger than Fiction

[NOV]

Share true stories, which are often more amusing and stranger than fiction!

[NOV]

Darwin Awards ...... 2005

Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.....

And now, for the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the
snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.


A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

[NOV]

A news in todays Tamil Nesan, reports a priest of a naaga kOyil (snake temple) in Tampin who was bitten by a snake.
The snake died.

[NOV]

apparently the above incident happened in India, not Malaysia.
full story........

INDIA, Jarkant State, Tumbak District, Parabagar Village

Visvanath Kumar , 35 years, was bitten by a cobra Saturday and the cobra died instantly !

The villagers took the dead snake and Visvanath to Tumka district Hospital, where Dr Nirmal Singh examined him and said he is OK, and throughout the ordeal he never lost consiousnes.

He said the priest was probably on drugs or alcohol and that is why he was alive and the snake died. The villages ' addithu solgiralgal' ( vehemently insist ) the priest has no such habits and it was the " nagathevethai" (snake angel) who saved him !!!

[Kaaththaadi]

He said the priest was probably on drugs or alcohol and that is why he was alive and the snake died. The villages ' addithu solgiralgal' ( vehemently insist ) the priest has no such habits and it was the " nagathevethai" (snake angel) who saved him !!!

I knew it already. This makes a good case for to legalise the above :lol:

Or was the snake absolutely drunk and stoned? Circulatory collapse ?

[Thiru]

indha news rama. narayananukku theriyaama paathukanum..

[Anoushka]

Thiru, intha varam Junior Vikatan padicheengala? There is a news about this guy eating lizards as a snack!!!

[Thiru]

Thiru, intha varam Junior Vikatan padicheengala? There is a news about this guy eating lizards as a snack!!!

ju. vi ellam padikkaradhillai since it became a pay site.. :)

[Nerd]

A news in todays Tamil Nesan, reports a priest of a naaga kOyil (snake temple) in Tampin who was bitten by a snake.
The snake died.



In a tamil movie, a snake bites senthil, senthil faints, gets up to see the snake, lying dead... That was hilarious :rotfl: dont know the name of the movie..

[ssanjinika]

Japanese customers must apologize for their country's wartime occupation of China before getting a seat at a restaurant in former Manchuria or find another place to eat, Japan's Kyodo news agency said Tuesday.

No Japanese had tried to enter the restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin since it started the new apology policy and hung a sign that read "Japanese people barred from entry."

"We totally welcome those Japanese customers who can correctly view history," the manager, surnamed Tian, was quoted as saying.

"But as for those customers who still refuse to admit to history, we want to say we don't like them."

Staff at the Western-style restaurant were told to ask Japanese customers who walked through the door to give their views of Japan's 1931-1945 occupation of parts of China, including the northeast, and to turn away those who did not apologize and share the owner's opinions, Kyodo said.

Many Chinese feel Japan has never owned up to atrocities committed during its occupation, including the 1937 Rape of Nanjing in which Beijing says as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women and children were slaughtered by Japanese troops.

The 1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal found Japanese troops killed 155,000 people, mainly women and children.

China has repeatedly asked Japan to "take history as a mirror" and "correctly" view history to repair ties between the two countries, which this year have sunk to their lowest point in decades.

[ssanjinika]

[tscii:917dcf7e28]BANGKOK, Thailand - Farmer Amphol Wangboon was hesitant to give up his beloved Thong Khaow for marriage until he found her the perfect match and a dowry he couldn't refuse: truckloads of fresh grass, hay, maize and $2,400.

So Thong Khaow and her new mate, Thong Kham — a pair of rare dwarf Brahman cattle — were married Sunday morning in a traditional Thai ceremony featuring a banquet for more than 2,000 human guests in central Sa Kaew province.

The animals wore silk outfits and jasmine garlands. Other beasts, including goats, also attended the wedding.

Amphol said Thong Kham's owner, Krachang Kanokprasert, offered him the cash and the feed dowry as part of the wedding festivities.

"I wasn't going to sell her — she's a special find — but Krachang said he would take care of her and wanted the couple for a display in front of his restaurant," Amphol said. "If he takes good care of her, I don't mind giving her to him."
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[Querida]

Ireland's justice ministry proposed rules changes for its prison system in June, banning such "inhumane" treatments as restricted diets and corporal punishment. On the other hand, among the current practices that would soon be prohibited are inmates' bringing in their own furniture, hiring maids, and ordering food and alcoholic beverages, according to a dispatch from Dublin published in The Australian.

In May, Councilman Manfred Juraczka in Vienna, Austria, proposed, in order to alleviate the city's growing problem with pet droppings, to collect DNA samples from all registered dogs so that the soilers can be identified and their owners fined. According to an Associated Press report, a similar proposal was made in Dresden, Germany, 1996, in the English village of Bruntingthorpe, which at the time had a population of 200 people and 30 dogs. (Vienna has about 50,000 registered dogs.) [Sydney Morning Herald-AP, 5-25-05]

[NOV]

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654,
321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

[rajraj]

51. NOV knows more trivia than any other hubber! :lol:

Thanks NOV ! :)

[S.Balaji]

[tscii:597e91493b]Do you all recollect Lord Ganesha…. Drinking milk heavily …on one fine evening…everwhere in India and I was in Dubai at that time ( probably in 1995 or 1996 ??) even in Dubai…. It happened ….

There were big queues for offering milk to Pillayar!!! The milk vendors had a field day…. Heavy sales…..

What actually happened that day….. Why its not happening now ??

Any scientific explanation for this pls ??

The so called Godman Chandraswamy also claimed that it was his magic....
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[dev]

Hi Balaji,

Did it really happen?... Unfortunately,the Ganeshas I saw didn't drink a drop of milk... Guess it was lactose allergic... :wink: :lol:

[Badri]

Hi Balaji,

Did it really happen?... Unfortunately,the Ganeshas I saw didn't drink a drop of milk... Guess it was lactose allergic... :wink: :lol:

:rotfl: :rotfl:

[S.Balaji]

Dev,

Just could get some url on this !!!


http://www.sciforums.com/archive/index.php/t-43000.html


http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_12/msg00155.html


http://home.no.net/rrpriddy/lim/Milk%20Miracles.htm


http://www.milkmiracle.com/html/guestbook.html


I wonder , how did it happen just for a day...


Vaguely remember someone interpreting as .... SURFACE TENSION.... ETC ETC..

[dev]

Balaji,

I heard many stories from ppl but when I wanted to see it myself,the Pillaiyar didn't drink a drop!!!... So,I still don't believe this... Did you see it happen personally?... :roll:

[dev]

Hi Balaji,

There was a videotape in one of the links you've provided...statues drinking milk!!!... I still couldn't believe this!!!... :?

[S.Balaji]

[tscii:8395cb890a]
Balaji,

I heard many stories from ppl but when I wanted to see it myself,the Pillaiyar didn't drink a drop!!!... So,I still don't believe this... Did you see it happen personally?... :roll:

No Dev.

I mentioned earlier that I was in Dubai at that time … Infact, this happened in one of my close friends residence in Dubai as well…My friend tried it when he got the news from TV channels and immediately experimented back home and it happened …. but I could not see it…

But my cousin in Chennai saw that and told me … It happened in a Ganesha temple close to his apartment in Kodambakkam ….

What I wonder is… why did this happen just for a day…. Even if it has some scientific reason….

Also, why Sri Ganesha's idol only drank milk that day... and not other idols.. ??
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[S.Balaji]

Probably some Chennai friends who are DFrs here can come out with their evidences for having witnessed that event...

It was a sensation that evening....

[NOV]

This was on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.
Jay went into the audience to find the most embarrassing first
date that a woman ever had. The winner described her worst first date experience. There is absolutely no question as to why her tale took the prize!

Marilyn said it was midwinter... snowing and cold...and the guy had taken her skiing to Lake Arrowhead. It was a day trip (no overnight). No, not Marilyn. They were strangers, after all, and truly had never met before.

The outing was fun but relatively uneventful until they were headed home late that afternoon. They were driving back down the mountain, when she gradually began to realize that she should not have had that extra latte. They were about an hour away from anywhere with a rest room and in the middle of nowhere! Her companion suggested she try to hold it, which she did for awhile.

Unfortunately, because of the heavy snow and slow going, there came a point where she told him that he had better stop and
let her pee beside the road, or it would be the front seat of his car. They stopped and she quickly crawled out beside the car, yanked her pants down and started.

Unfortunately, in the deep snow she didn't have good footing, so she let her butt rest against the rear fender to steady herself.

Her companion stood on the side of the car watching for traffic and indeed was a real gentleman and refrained from peeking. All she could think about was the relief she felt despite the rather embarrassing nature of the situation.

Upon finishing however, she soon became aware of another sensation.

As she bent to pull up her pants, the young lady discovered her buttocks were firmly glued against the car's fender. Thoughts of tongues frozen to pump handles immediately came to mind as she attempted to disengage her flesh from the icy metal. It was quickly apparent that she had a brand new problem due to the extreme cold.

Horrified by her plight and yet aware of the humor she answered her date's concerns about "what was taking so long" with a reply that indeed, she was "freezing her butt off and needed some assistance"!

He came around the car as she tried to cover herself with her sweater and then, as she looked imploringly into his eyes, he burst out laughing.

She too, got the giggles and when they finally managed to compose themselves, they assessed her dilemma. Obviously, as
hysterical as the situation was, they also were faced with a real problem. Both agreed it would take something hot to free her chilly cheeks from the grip of the icy metal!

Thinking about what had gotten her into the predicament in the first place, both quickly realized that there was only one way to get her free.

So, as she looked the other way, her first time date
proceeded to unzip his pants and pee her butt off the fender.

As for the Tonight Show... she took the prize hands down. or perhaps that should be "pants down."

Jay Leno's comment - - - - This gives a whole new meaning to being ............. "pissed off".

[Sandeep]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cannot help it

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The pissed of girl

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[pavalamani pragasam]

How befitting the title of the thread :shock:

[nirosha sen]

:rotfl: That was a nugget, Nov!!! :lol:

[Shakthiprabha.]

If it was about ganesha drinking milk.. yes

I SAW IT.

I was 200 percent sceptic, and kept ogling at that
idol (small one bought by my neighbour) from all end,
and the milk kept vanishing (We were around 25 of us
gathered around poor ganesha suffocating him for breath)

Most were emotional with bhakthi, Not that I dont have bakthi, but i DID NOT BELIEVE IT.

But, yes it did vanish. Dunno if its anythign to do with
the soil the ganesha was made out of (IT was a mud ganesha)

and almost 1/4 litre of milk vanished.

I did not blink my eye, to catch something somewhere(dunno what though)... but ganesha cheated me and drank all milk :))