CLOVIS, N.M. Apr 29, 2005 — A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
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Two people have been hospitalised after a flying BMW inexplicably left the A30 in Basingstoke, Hants, and impacted with the first floor of a nearby house.
The incident - described by a neighbour as “just absolutely incredible” - left a gaping hole in a bedroom wall of Joe and Joyce Harman’s house but, as the couple were asleep in another room at the time of the crash, they escaped unscathed.
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Joyce Harman told the BBC: “It was just horrendous. My husband thought the dog had knocked something over downstairs but as he got to the bedroom door he could see the hole in the wall and all the furniture moved. That’s when we came downstairs and saw the car there.”
Police are trying to work out exactly how the vehicle came to acquire aerobatic capabilities after the driver apparently lost control on a bend of the A30, hit the kerb and “launched through the air, colliding with the first floor of a house in Rainbow Close”, as a Hampshire Police spokeswoman put it.
A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.
The 26 year-old German claimed he was the baddest hacker in town and threatened to attack a moderator on #stopHipHop’s RC Channel because he thought he’d been thrown out.
He demanded the moderator cough up his IP address and prepare to be hacked.
The moderator sent back a bunch of numbers and there then followed a period in which the moderator assumes all manner of hack tools were unleashed at the IP address.
Finally the hacker declared success.”I can see your E: drive disappearing, he gloated, “D: is down 45 percent!” he cried, before disappearing into the ether.
It seems he’d been hot enough to hack his own address.
From The Inquirer
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 27, 2005; 5:55 PM
BERLIN — More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what’s causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.
Both the pond’s water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment.
“It’s absolutely strange,” she said. “We have a really unique story here in Hamburg. This phenomenon really doesn’t seem to have appeared anywhere before.”
The toads at a pond in the upscale neighborhood of Altona have been blowing up since the beginning of the month, filling up like balloons until their stomachs suddenly burst.
“It looks like a scene from a science-fiction movie,” Werner Schmolnik, the head of a local environment group, told the Hamburger Abendblatt daily. “The bloated animals suffer for several minutes before they finally die.”
Biologists have come up with several theories, but Kloepper said that most have been ruled out.
The pond’s water quality is no better or worse than other bodies of water in Hamburg, the toads did not appear to have a disease, and a laboratory in Berlin has ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South America, she said.
She said that tests will continue. In the meantime, city residents have been warned to stay away from the pond.
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In an update to my earlier post regarding Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner vowing to swim the atlantic if the browser was downloaded over a million times in the first 4 days of release.
Sounded like a tall tale but Opera exceeded that target and News.com is now reporting Tetzchner has entered the water and started swimming. More when we have more.
I well placed banner behind the president makes can really set the scene but a bad angle can tell you one thing …
According to The BBC, brand new Pope Benedict XVI prayed not to be pope.
“Pope Benedict XVI has revealed at an audience with pilgrims that he prayed to God during conclave to spare him the “destiny” of becoming Pope.”
If the pope can’t get his own prayers answered what hope do the rest of us have ?
AN 18-year-old who got himself trapped head first in a rubbish bin in front of late night revellers in Melbourne has earned himself a new nickname - Oscar the grouch.
The hapless teen went rummaging in the bin early this morning when one of his friends threw his mobile phone into it, then couldn’t get out.
“He was trapped in the bin with his arm and head through the stainless steel top of the bin, a bit like a lobster trap,” said Peter Yeoman of the fire brigade’s rescue squad, which was called to St Kilda to free the young man.
Police, an ambulance crew and local firefighters all added to the 3.40am (AEST) spectacle for a large crowd, which soon built up on the busy bar strip of Fitzroy Street.
Firefighters unscrewed the stainless steel lid from the body of the bin and then tried unsuccessfully to free the man by lubricating his head to slide him out.
“He was just wearing it like a big Elizabethan collar - like a dog would have when it got its stitches out,” Mr Yeoman said.
The jaws of life would not cut through the marine grade stainless steel, so firefighters had to use an air powered hacksaw to cut him free.
From The Daily Telegraph
AN INDIAN who became a man to marry a female relative was dumped after the surgery, a newspaper reported today.
Twenty-nine-year-old rubber tapper Kuttiyamma, born with both male and female genitals, had been in love with the relative, Laura, 25, for 15 years before having surgery to become a man and change her name to Binu, the Hindustan Times reported.
But Laura became engaged to another man and Binu is suing her for breach of trust after spending 50,000 rupees ($A1,485) on the sex change in southern Kerala state.
“She had agreed to marry me after the surgery,” the paper quoted Binu saying in the petition. “I took loans to pay the hospital bills.”
Laura’s fiance has since backed out of the weeding after hearing of Binu.
Source: News.com.au
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie - the super-rich childhood chums who made The Simple Life a hit for Fox — are feuding.
“It’s no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends,” Hilton, 24, sniped in a statement released Tuesday, offering no explanation. Pretending to be best pals on the show would be unfair to fans, Hilton says, adding, “I don’t want to be fake.” The lanky heiress says, “Nicole knows what she did, and that’s all I’m ever going to say about it.”
For the time being, Richie, 23, is staying mum. Calls to her L.A. spokeswoman weren’t returned Wednesday.
For the full story, its at USA Today
From the ABC. India’s intelligence department is investigating reports that a fraudster sold an American businessman the Prime Minister’s residence in the heart of New Delhi recently, a leading daily reported on Sunday.
The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($A1.02 million) for the house that was up for sale on a website as a “huge sprawling mansion in the heart of Lutyen’s Delhi with running water and electricity”, the Hindustan Times said.
He soon received the title deed for the house and arrived in the Indian capital late in March to take possession of the house for an office he planned to set up only to discover he had been cheated.
Straight from this Tampa Tribune.
LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA - A man with car trouble is in trouble after shooting his 1994 Chrysler LeBaron.
John McGivney, 64, pumped five rounds from a .380-caliber semiautomatic into the hood, Broward County sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday.
When the property manager at his apartment complex asked what he was doing, McGivney said, “I’m putting my car out of its misery.” He tucked his gun in a pocket and went back inside.
Deputies responding to a report of gunshots April 15 ordered McGivney to come out of his apartment and arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in public. He posted $100 bail.
McGivney said the car has been giving him trouble for years and has “outlived its usefulness.” He called the shooting “dumb” and worries he will be evicted. He doesn’t regret it, though.