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[ThunderTitan]

'Knight Rider' Trans Am up for sale

DUBLIN, Calif. - KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show "Knight Rider," is up for sale. Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car, officially called Knight Industries Two Thousand, on display for about a month.
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It is one of four documented "camera cars" used for close-up shots and scenes where
David Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight in the series, was behind the wheel.

Although it cannot achieve the 300 mph speeds that KITT reached, soar 50 feet in the air or throw smoke bombs, key features of the star car are intact. Perhaps most important, the red scanner light on the nose glows and makes a humming noise.

Most of the buttons don't do anything, Verhoek said. Nor can the car hold a conversation or drive itself.

I'm so glad he actually felt the need to clarify that one....

[Omega_Destroyer]

If it can't talk, what's the point?

[ThunderTitan]

Well he is a cylon, so i guess that will have some value once the toasters take over after the colonials lead the here.

[asandir]

well some people mighta thought they would get a talking car ....

Keith Richards 'snorted father's ashes'
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has admitted snorting his own father's ashes.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father, I snorted my father," he told British music paper New Musical Express (NME).

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow (cocaine). My dad wouldn't have cared.

"It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."

Richards, whose father Bert died in 2002 at the age of 84, has been notorious for his drug use since the Stones became worldwide stars in the 1960s.

But he also directed an angry tirade at fellow drug-user Pete Doherty, the frontman of British band Babyshambles currently dating supermodel Kate Moss, who he predicted could be killed by his love of narcotics.

"My advice for Pete Doherty is that he should ... leave her," he said.

"I don't know the man, all I know is he's pushing his luck and there it is, but so is Kate, who I know very well.

"Kate wants to play with bad boys and she's done one, and then another one, and then another one. Badabing, badabing, badaboom. She'll live, the boys will die."

As well as co-writing hits such as Brown Sugar and Satisfaction, Richards has become known in recent years as the inspiration for Johnny Depp's character Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

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Wow...just wow.

[asandir]

yep, he's a nutcase

Algae-munching biologist in underwater experiment
A 29-year-old marine biologist will live underwater for a fortnight and eat algae in a bid to prove a point about sustainability.

Lloyd Godson will submerge himself in a box in wetlands near Albury-Wodonga, on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, for a fortnight.

Mr Godson believes he will be able to survive by growing algae for food and to produce oxygen, and generate electricity by riding a stationary bike.

"I've always liked a challenge and I couldn't have picked a bigger one than this," he said.

"To build and live in your own underwater house - that's pretty cool."

He says the hardest thing will be using algae to produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the air in his cell.

"This is the very experimental part of the project. We've got some gas monitors and back-up air supplies to make sure that the air quality stays at a high standard.

"If it doesn't then that's when I'll implement my back-up strategy."

Similar experiments were carried out by NASA bioengineers in the late 1990s.

[ThunderTitan]

yep, he's a crackhead

Pretty much.

Oh course i nkow ppl that tried smoking paracetamol, so...

[Caradoc]

When I was young (and irresponsible) there was a popular song by Donovan called "Mellow Yellow". We took the line "electrical banana, bound to be the very next thing" to mean that you could get high by smoking the inside of a banana peel. So we scraped out a bunch of bananas, dried it out, and tried to smoke it. Needless to say, we did not get high.

[asandir]

smoking paracetomol??

crackhead indeed!

[asandir]

Firefighters remove wall to reach obese woman
A US woman weighing 318 kilograms has been rescued from her second-storey bathroom by firefighters, who cut away part of an exterior wall and removed a window before lowering her to the ground.

The woman, identified as Patty Brown, called emergency services in Trenton, New Jersey, late on Monday after falling in the bathroom and being unable to get up.

Medical personnel were unable to move her so they called the city's fire department, which eventually dispatched three fire engines and 25 officers.

After removing part of the bathroom wall, cutting the window down to the floor and taking out the toilet and radiator, firefighters moved her into a rescue basket.

Then she was lowered down a specially reinforced ladder to the ground outside, Battalion Chief Qareeb Bashir said.

With the help of around 10 firefighters, she was then moved on to a stretcher, transferred to an ambulance specially equipped for very large people, and taken to a local hospital.

Ms Brown, who was only slightly injured from her fall, was conscious throughout the five-hour operation, and was "very pleasant," Mr Bashir said.

He said even though firefighters are trained to perform difficult rescues, this provided an unusual challenge.

"This was a very unique situation," he said.

Chinese man wants Beijing free of flies for Olympics
By Stephen McDonell

A Beijing man hopes to rid the city of flies in time for the Olympic Games.

A retired restaurateur is buying flies for 30 cents each, to try and clean up Beijing in time for the Olympics.

His efforts follow recent Government campaigns to stop spitting in the street, littering and queue-jumping.

The fly eradication plan has echoes of Mao Zedong's "four harms" strategy in the 1950s.

Chairman Mao urged citizens to kill flies, mosquitos, rats and sparrows.

That campaign went wrong when a fall in sparrow numbers resulted in a boom in crop-destroying insects that the birds normally ate.

Today's 60-year-old fly killer says he was inspired when he noticed the mass of flies around the entrance to his old restaurant.

He reportedly said it was "extremely disgusting".

[Gaidal Cain]

smoking paracetomol??

crackhead indeed!

A couple of years ago, there were some kids here who tried eating soap, mistakingly believing it contained GHB...

[asandir]

AHhahahhahhaaa.a..... that's great, hope they liked the flavour!

[ThunderTitan]

smoking paracetomol??

crackhead indeed!

No, just idiots....

[ThunderTitan]

Student attempts to join ancient Chinese army

HONG KONG - A German art student tried to join a Chinese dynasty’s army — but he volunteered centuries too late.

The 26-year-old man — identified only as “Pablo” or by his Chinese name “Ma Lin” — made a dusty brown suit of armor, a tunic and a helmet, and attempted to blend in with the ancient warriors of the terra cotta army in the western city of Xi’an, the Hong Kong newspapers Ming Pao Daily News and Wen Wei Po reported on Monday.

The outfit matched the uniforms worn by the thousands of terra cotta soldiers buried in the tomb of the Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, who ruled between 221-210 B.C., the papers said. The soldiers—one of China’s greatest archaeological discoveries—are displayed in a Xi’an museum.

Pablo entered the museum Saturday with his uniform packed in a suitcase, the papers said. Once inside, he quickly changed into the outfit, jumped over a barrier and joined the soldiers, who stand in hundreds of rows.

He blended in so well that security guards had difficulty finding him, Ming Pao said.

“I got to the area where he was supposed to be, looked around a bit and didn’t see Ma Lin,” the paper quoted a guard as saying. “He just looked too much like a terra cotta warrior.”

[ThunderTitan]

Couple fights to name baby 'Metallica'

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.
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Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.

"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."

Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."

Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."

The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.

The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.

"We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.

[asandir]

this one will open the eyes up!

US man arrested for feeding homeless
Police in the United States city of Florida have arrested an activist for feeding the homeless in downtown Orlando.

According to police, Food Not Bombs charity group spokesman Eric Montanez was charged with violating a controversial law against feeding large groups of destitute people in the city centre.

Mr Montanez was filmed by undercover officers on Wednesday as he served "30 unidentified persons food from a large pot utilising a ladle," an arrest affidavit said.

The Orlando area is home to Disney World and Universal Studios Florida.

The Orlando law, which is supported by local business owners who say the homeless drive away customers, has been challenged in court by civil rights groups.

It allows charities to feed more than 25 people at a time within 3.2 kilometres of the Orlando City Hall only if they have a special permit.

They are able to receive two permits a year.

Police have collected a vial of the stew Mr Montanez was serving as evidence.

Police spokeswoman Barbara Jones says it is the first time anyone had been arrested under the feeding ban.

Mr Montanez has been charged with a misdemeanour.

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WHAT?!

Why would you imprision someone who is trying to help those in need?

This world is coming to an end I tells ya!

[asandir]

it's just ridiculous!!

Four-time Tokyo poll loser plans to run 16 more times
An eccentric 78-year-old inventor who was thwarted in his fourth attempt to become governor of Tokyo is undaunted, saying he plans to run 16 more times and will win by outliving his opponents.

"I'm going to live to 144, so I'm still only middle-aged. I can run for Tokyo governor 16 more times," the Sports Hochi newspaper quoted Yoshiro Nakamatsu as saying.

"In that time, all the others will die off, so I will be elected."

Mr Nakamatsu is the self-proclaimed inventor of the floppy disk and the oldest candidate in the race.

He came fifth in Sunday's election, which gave 74-year-old Shintaro Ishihara his third term as Tokyo Governor.

Mr Ishihara won 2.8 million votes, according to national broadcaster NHK's website, while Mr Nakamatsu polled 85,946 or 1.6 per cent of the total.

Mr Nakamatsu had promised to lower taxes and safeguard Tokyo's 12.6 million residents from missile attacks with an invention that would make North Korean missiles do a U-turn.

[ThunderTitan]

Why would you imprision someone who is trying to help those in need?

This world is coming to an end I tells ya!

No, it's always been like this.

There can't be any rich ppl if no one's poor you know.

[asandir]

Fans seek Florida pardon for Doors' Morrison
Two fans have asked Florida to pardon rock bad boy Jim Morrison, the late lead singer of The Doors, who was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert nearly 40 years ago.

The two men, Kerry Humpherys of Utah and David Diamond of Ohio, sent a letter to Florida Governor Charlie Crist last month asking him to issue a full pardon to Morrison on two misdemeanour charges of indecent exposure and using profanity.

"I'm a big Doors' fan. There are thousands of Doors' fans out there who look up to Jim Morrison. It was all trumped up and he shouldn't have this hanging over him," Mr Humpherys, who runs a Doors' fan magazine, said.

Morrison's trouble with the law stemmed from his notorious appearance at a Coconut Grove concert in 1969 at a time when Miami was a conservative southern city. Police said Morrison rolled down his leather pants and simulated masturbation on stage.

Some witnesses disagreed, saying Morrison had only simulated exposing himself.

Morrison was sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine, but was released pending appeal.

The appeal had not been heard when he was found dead in the bath of his Paris apartment on July 3, 1971, apparently of a lethal mix of alcohol and drugs.

The Doors were one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s, with hits like Light My Fire, Hello, I Love You and Riders on the Storm.

Any pardon for Morrison would be decided by Mr Crist, a Republican, and members of Florida's Cabinet.

The Miami Herald noted that both Morrison and Mr Crist attended Florida State University, where sports teams are nicknamed the Seminoles.

"He's a 'Nole'? Well, given that fact, I'm certainly willing to review it," Mr Crist was quoted as saying in Tuesday's Herald.

The newspaper said Crist then sang a few lines of Light My Fire.

what a waste of time