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July 18, 2013

Snake Bites Israeli Man's Penis

After going to restroom to relieve himself, man reports 'burning sensation on penis' as result of a small snake which slithered out of toilet, bit him in sensitive area. Snake reportedly not venomous, man feeling well

A 35-year-old man from northern Israel was bitten on his penis Friday by a snake that slithered out from inside his toilet. The man sustained light injuries.


MDA paramedics who were alerted to the scene evacuated the man to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where he received medical treatment. An examination revealed the snake was not venomous.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4404382,00.html
July 18, 2013

Man Faces $102K Tab After Drinking Gallons Of Pre Prohibition Era Booze

That's one hell of an expensive hangover.

A live-in caretaker faces a $102,000 bar tab for allegedly drinking 52 bottles of rare pre-Prohibition Era whiskey.

John Saunders, 62, is accused of glugging the liquor he found hidden behind a basement staircase at the mansion where he was living in Scottdale, Pa.
Saunders told police the liquid probably evaporated — and because it was so old, it probably wasn’t any good anyways.
KDKA

Homeowner Patricia Hill had planned to donate the booze — which was part of a 104-bottle stash — to a local museum and had asked Saunders to keep it safe.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-allegedly-drinks-52-bottles-prohibition-whiskey-article-1.1402511#ixzz2ZQuAa6Tc


July 18, 2013

Charlie Sheen & Friends Fly To Scotland In Search Of The Loch Ness Monster

Charlie Sheen is well known for his madcap missions.

But the Hollywood hell-raiser still managed to raise a few eyebrows when he turned up in Scotland trying to find the Loch Ness Monster last week.

The 47-year-old star spent four days hunting for the mythical creature, rumored to live deep below the water in the loch, reports the Mirror.

With a reputation for hard drinking and drugs, locals would have been forgiven for fearing the arrival of the A-list actor, who flew in on his private jet.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/charlie-sheen-sought-loch-ness-monster-article-1.1395894#ixzz2ZQPiEILI
July 18, 2013

Woman Allegedly Has Sex With Cat Before Threatening Neighbor With Knife

An Oklahoma City woman is accused of threatening her neighbor with a knife before announcing she had sex with her cat.

Kristina Michelle Brown, 23, allegedly brandished a pocket knife at her neighbor, 72-year-old Elmer Morrison, Monday afternoon and asked if he wanted to die, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

Morrison called the cops, and when a responding officer asked Morrison why she was threatening her neighbor, she allegedly replied, "Because of what he did to me… I had sex with my cat and everyone knows."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/kristina-michelle-brown-cat-sex-stab-neighbor_n_3616837.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news


July 18, 2013

NYPD Launches Investigation Into Which Cops Are Using Star Wars Imperial March As Entrance Music

Two days ago, Daily Intelligencer reported that, on at least two occasions over the past few months, an NYPD vehicle was witnessed blasting the "Imperial March" — also known as the theme song of Darth Vader — in or around Prospect Park. The NYPD has taken notice, and it is not thrilled.

Both of our sources for the story, musician Tyler Sargent and TV editor Scott Rosann, were contacted by NYPD investigators yesterday. In both cases, the investigators were looking for details that might help them identify which officers were responsible for what seems like, at the least, a PR faux pas.

Rosann's wife was at home when two plainclothes cops showed up. She says the officers told her that the "chief" was highly displeased by the story, although it's not clear whether "chief" was a reference to Commissioner Ray Kelly or, say, the local precinct captain. Rosann himself later spoke to an investigator on the phone and tells Daily Intelligencer that, from his tone, it didn't seem like "they were planning to make a big stink about it; they just want to determine who the officers were."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/nypd-investigating-star-wars-darth-vader-imperial-march.html


So does this mean they are the evil empire?
July 18, 2013

Austrian Man Keeps Collection Of 56 Skulls In His House - Dug From Actual Graves

An Austrian man is to be charged with disturbing the peace of the dead after police found 56 human skulls and 55 other bones at a museum he had created in his home.

Police in the province of Burgenland said the relics were taken without authorisation from a church cemetery and had now been returned.

The 47-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, came to the attention of police when he tried to sell three skulls and two thigh bones at a flea market.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/austrian-man-arrested-skulls-found


Wow, talk about a morbid obsession...
July 18, 2013

Ted Nugent Claims He Knows How To "Fix The Black Problem"

Of course, Zimmerman was able to figure out that Martin was a “17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe” by the way he walked home, Skittles and iced tea in hand, wearing a hood… in the rain.

Nugent is an obvious master of racial sensitivity, something he demonstrates by describing the first black president as a “Black Panther” running a “gangster” government.

On July 17th’s episode of Alex Jones’ radio show, Nugent predicted the Zimmerman verdict could lead to riots. He also kindly offered some advice to African-Americans. Media Matters‘ Tim Johnson explains:

Nugent said that African-Americans could “fix the black problem tonight,” if they would put their “heart and soul into being honest, law-abiding, [and] delivering excellence at every move in your life.” According to Nugent, “I would like to reach out to black America and tell them to absolutely reject the lie of Al ‘Not So’ Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, and the Black Panthers and Eric Holder and Barack Obama. They are enslaving you and the real shackles on black America, 100 percent of the time come from black America.”

Nugent concluded by claiming that, “racism against blacks was gone by the time I started touring the nation in the late [19]60s” and by the 1970s, “nothing of consequence existed to deter or compromise a black American’s dream if they got an alarm clock, if they set it, if they took good care of themselves, they remained clean and sober, if they spoke clearly, and they demanded excellence of themselves and provided excellence to their employers.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/listen-ted-nugent-says-trayvon-martin-emboldened-by-obama-knows-how-to-fix-the-black-problem/


Keep talking Ted, let the world see what a blathering, racist idiot you are. Just join the KKK and get it over with already.
July 18, 2013

Satanists Claim They've Turned Deceased Mom Of Westboro Founder Gay

The Satanic Temple, a burgeoning community of worship devoted to the Dark Lord, has performed a “Pink Mass” over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps Jr.’s mother. The Pink Mass is a Satanic ritual performed after death that turns the deceased's straight spirit into a homo one—it’s not unlike the Mormon practice of baptizing the dead, only much gayer.

On Sunday the Satanic Temple, which first came into the national spotlight last January when the organization announced its support for Florida Governor Rick Scott, went to the Phelps family graveyard in Mississippi to perform the ritual. (Two Pink Masses were performed, one with a female couple and another with men.) I contacted Lucien Greaves, the Temple’s spokesperson and officiator of the ceremony, to find out what exactly the Pink Mass entials. While he didn't get into specifics, he told told me via email that "there were, in fact, scriptures recited, candles lit, and a ceremonial proceeding that we may eventually post the details of at our website, westboro-baptist.com. That is, if the Pink Mass generates sufficient interest to the point that other responsible parties, respectful of the graveyard, wish to perform their own."

http://www.vice.com/read/satanists-turned-the-founder-of-the-westboro-baptist-churchs-mom-gay


July 18, 2013

Siberian Cult Believes Their Chosen Leader Is Jesus

If you need a backup plan for the end times, or if you're just looking to retire in an idyllic country setting that doesn't allow alcohol, tobacco or decisions made by women, this Russian cult has got you covered.

Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop is the charismatic leader the Church of the Last Testament, a so-called cult numbering more than 10,000 people, about 4,000 of whom live in a rustic religious settlement in southern Siberia. His followers claim that he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, but he calls himself Vissarion.

The leader's beliefs, which according to travel site Atlas Obscura blend "elements of the Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism and ecological values," came to fruition around the fall of the Soviet Union, after he was fired from his job as a traffic cop.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/siberian-jesus-vissarion-russian-cult_n_3612265.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
July 18, 2013

Dumb Criminals: Another Butt Dialing Burglar Joins The Growing List

An accused burglar is behind bars after accidentally calling 911 from his pocket while discussing a crime with his partner.

Pittsburg County Sheriff's office say Payton Brewer and his accomplice were discussing what to steal from a home, while dispatchers were listening over the phone.

Deputies headed out to the home, but the two suspect had already left before they arrived. Sheriff's office say Brewer did take jewelry from the home.

Brewer was later caught when he tried to sell the stolen jewelry to a local business. There is no word on the other suspect.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/accused-burglar-accidentally-dials-911-while-discu/nYryN/


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