One Los Angeles County inmate claims in a lawsuit that he was shot with a ray gun.
Andrew Lars Fuchs says deputies blasted him with a military-style heat ray.
“The device fires an invisible electro-magnetic radiation heat beam, causing unbearable pain to inmates,” he claims.
Fuchs has been diagnosed with schizophrenia — although the county had, in fact, announced plans to use the devices.
Weird facts which are true!
maandag 25 augustus 2014
18 facts about qeers
1. FACT: People of the Rainbow persuasion don’t have friends. They have prides. Like lions, but gayer, and prouder.
2. FACT: The quality of a bisexual’s gaydar is inversely proportional to the degree to which it’s needed.
33 “Facts” Everybody Knows That Are Actually Total Lies
1. Drinking alcohol doesn’t kill brain cells.
2. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb.
3. You do not use only 10% of your brain. You use 100%.
4. You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space. (For a start, it’s the same colour as the surrounding landscape.)
5. Twinkies do not last forever. Their shelf life is about a month and half.
6. Nobody ever said, “Beam me up, Scotty” in the original Star Trek TV series. Also, nobody says, “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”
7. Vitamin C probably won’t stop you from getting a cold.
8. Toilet pioneer Thomas Crapper’s name isn’t where we get the word “crap” from.
9. Goldfish don’t have a memory of three seconds. They can actually remember things for quite a long time.
2. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb.
3. You do not use only 10% of your brain. You use 100%.
4. You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space. (For a start, it’s the same colour as the surrounding landscape.)
5. Twinkies do not last forever. Their shelf life is about a month and half.
6. Nobody ever said, “Beam me up, Scotty” in the original Star Trek TV series. Also, nobody says, “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”
7. Vitamin C probably won’t stop you from getting a cold.
8. Toilet pioneer Thomas Crapper’s name isn’t where we get the word “crap” from.
9. Goldfish don’t have a memory of three seconds. They can actually remember things for quite a long time.
sunxsand/Thinkstock
77 Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely True
1. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
2. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
3. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
4. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
6. Cashews grow like this:
2. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
3. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
4. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
6. Cashews grow like this:
Via hort.cornell.edu
7. And pineapples grow like this:
hiyori13 / Via Flickr: hiyori13
8. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
9. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
10. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
11. Hippo milk is pink.
9. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
10. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
11. Hippo milk is pink.
Via factslist.net
12. The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
13. Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride.
14. And while we’re at it, Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.
15. Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
16. Carrots were originally purple.
17. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.
13. Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride.
14. And while we’re at it, Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.
15. Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
16. Carrots were originally purple.
17. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.
Via geekosystem.com
18. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
19. Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.
19. Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.
20th Century Fox
20. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
21. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.
21. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.
zondag 3 augustus 2014
All hail the Wife Carrying Championships!
IN Finland, they’ve clearly got the same bizarre approach to boredom that us Brits have. While we nearly kill ourselves chasing cheese down a hill or trying to throw boots over viaducts, the people of Sonkajärvi partake in the annual Wife Carrying Championships, which we just happen to have the highlights of.
Man killed in bed by falling cow
JOAO Maria de Souza, 45, was killed when a cow squashed him in his bed.
Mr de Souza was in bed with his wife Leni in their Caratinga, Brazil, home when the cow fell through the ceiling.
The cow did not live upstairs. It is thought that the cow had escaped from a farm and made it on to Mr de Souza’s corrugated iron roof via a hill.
Indonesia bans sexy female secretaries – men must hire only old unattractive women
“I received inputs that many government office heads here are involved in extra-marital affairs with their female secretaries,” Rusli Habibie, the governor of Gorontalo province on northern Sulawesi island, Indonesia.
Want to see a bee give a pub drinker a high five – here you go!
If you wanted official confirmation of the British summer, then look no further than the fact that bees have started giving high-fives to shrieking, drunk humans.
Now, this may sound like some kind of hallucination, but there’s video evidence!
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)