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Mahk
Apr 17th, 2009, 05:13 PM
It was hardly "a tree", more of a sprout or baby sapling really. When a seed grows under ground it also is light free so no photosynthesis can occur. I suspect the little sprout/sapling found in this guy grew for a few days/weeks, never found any sun it was hoping for, and then died.

I checked out your link. Pretty cool, thanks.

jimmeh
Apr 17th, 2009, 08:06 PM
Hey Mahk, I think you now have cause to click my thanks button :p

Mahk
Apr 17th, 2009, 08:34 PM
:p

A single "thanks" button press by me however could have been misinterpreted as "Mahk agrees photosynthesis can't occur inside a body so this story is suspicious" though.

I have used the button already in another thread, BTW, and reserve it for "I wholeheartedly agree 100% to what you just wrote in that entire post; you read my mind." Or in lieu of a post which would read simply 'Thank you.'

jimmeh
Apr 17th, 2009, 08:44 PM
Ha ha ok I will let you away with it this time!

Risker
Jun 13th, 2009, 01:33 PM
Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash

An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, it has been reported.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.

All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.

The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.

It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6479203.ece

Ring any bells? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/)

RubyDuby
Jun 13th, 2009, 01:53 PM
wow. creepy.

cobweb
Jun 13th, 2009, 02:43 PM
This is something that particularly interests me (in a kind of gruesome and morbid way). I tend to get drawn to those kind of stories, and have read of quite a few cases over the years where people escape one calamity only to die in another, quite soon afterwards. There also seem to be some unfotunate families where all the members have disasters, or get seriously ill.

It's really awful but it does make you wonder about destiny, etc......

puca
Jun 13th, 2009, 03:29 PM
Tickled apes laugh (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8083230.stm)

lol

Gorilla
Jun 15th, 2009, 02:55 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8099561.stm

Carrots cause Swedish bomb scare

A Swedish art project caused a bomb scare when people mistook carrot "explosives" for the real thing.

Artist Conny Blom set up The Bunny Project: Bombs, at 15 locations near the southern Swedish city of Orebro.

He taped bunches of carrots together with black tape and attached blue and red wires and a clock to them.

Police received worried calls from members of the public who thought they were real bombs. Mr Blom was forced to remove his art - and may face charges.

The carrot bombs had been placed around the city at the request of a local art gallery, as part of an open-air arts festival.

They had only been in place for an hour before police received their first call.

"We received a call ... from a person who said they saw two real bombs placed outside the public library," Ronny Hoerman from the Orebro police force, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

"It was hard to tell if they were real or not. We find this inappropriate," he said.

Mr Blom described it as a harmless stunt.

"After all, it is just carrots with an alarm clock and nothing else... this is just a caricature of a bomb," he said.

Buddha Belly
Jun 17th, 2009, 02:30 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148030406

Saw this little beauty on the MSN homepage today. the thing I found weird was how many people saerch for hen night strippers on websites that show porn?

Lord Perennialist
Jun 18th, 2009, 02:40 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8092942.stm

Found this at the BBC the other day. A lady threw away a mattress in which she had stored her life savings, around a million dollars! She threw away the mattress forgetting her life saving were hidden inside it. So now she's digging through a bunch of trach trying to find it.

bradders
Jun 18th, 2009, 04:16 PM
What happened was she bought the mattress as a surprise present for her mother who had stuffed the old one with money over her life. Of course she put the old mattress out with the rubbish unaware of this and now they have sanitation workers combing the landfills looking for it. However the mattress was probably taken by a homeless person who will no doubt still be unaware of what they are sleeping on

gogs67
Jun 18th, 2009, 04:44 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8092942.stm

Found this at the BBC the other day. A lady threw away a mattress in which she had stored her life savings, around a million dollars! She threw away the mattress forgetting her life saving were hidden inside it. So now she's digging through a bunch of trach trying to find it.
It just doesn't really pan out, that story.
For a start what kind of income did she have to be able to stash away a million dollars?????

Secondly, a million dollars in anything other than $100's would not fit into a matress, unless it was for 6 people or something!:D


Would she not have Israeli currency anyway? That would be even bulkier!!!!


Urban Myth!:thumbsup:

bradders
Jun 18th, 2009, 06:00 PM
not to say that it is definately true but it would fit. you would only need the equivalent of about 10-15 reams of paper in terms of how much space. Assuming she had used the largest denominations and converted upwards over time, she had stuffed all of the empty spaces in the springs then she could easily do it with a double mattress.

If they had a comfortable living and she had been saving all her life then again it could have been enough. There are huge alarm bells ringing loud but there are no single things that say it is definitely a big fat fib, still unlikely though.

gogs67
Jun 18th, 2009, 06:16 PM
not to say that it is definately true but it would fit. you would only need the equivalent of about 10-15 reams of paper in terms of how much space. Assuming she had used the largest denominations and converted upwards over time, she had stuffed all of the empty spaces in the springs then she could easily do it with a double mattress.

If they had a comfortable living and she had been saving all her life then again it could have been enough. There are huge alarm bells ringing loud but there are no single things that say it is definitely a big fat fib, still unlikely though.
Exactly!
Possible, but highly improbable!:D

Lord Perennialist
Jun 18th, 2009, 08:03 PM
Maybe Israel has the equivalent of 1,000 dollars bills. The U.S. used to... and it could have been a queens of king sized mattress. Yeah... it does sound a bit fishy; this sounds exactly like something an attention seeking person would pull.

bradders
Jun 18th, 2009, 08:08 PM
nope the highest is about the same as $50 USD

gogs67
Jun 19th, 2009, 12:11 PM
This isn't really that bizzare or weird but it just goes to show how having that last pint can change yer life!!!:D


Two-hundred-and-seventy people died in the Lockerbie plane bombing nearly 20 years ago. As new questions are raised over the conviction of the bomber, one man continues to marvel at his lucky escape from the doomed flight.

At Heathrow Airport on 21 December 1988, Jaswant Basuta checked in for Pan Am flight 103 to New York in plenty of time.

"After all," he thought, "you can't be too careful - what with the Christmas rush and everything."

Tomorrow was an important day. The next morning, the 47-year-old car mechanic was due to start a new job and his wife, Surinder, was coming to the airport to collect him.

He had come to the UK to attend a family wedding in Belfast, but now he was looking forward to going home.

Some relatives from nearby Southall had come to see him off at the terminal and they decided to take Jaswant for a drink in the bar upstairs.

Jaswant was by no means a heavy drinker but on the odd occasion when there was cause for celebration, he was partial to a Carlsberg Special Brew.

And what with all his relatives here, today certainly was a special occasion. No doubt about it. One drink led to another. And another. And slowly Jaswant wasn't in such a rush anymore.

"When his glass is empty, make sure you pour him another," his brother-in-law said to the barman. The barman duly obliged.

Row at the gate

Finally, he insisted he really must be going and it was only as he tore himself away that he realised the time was rapidly approaching flight time: six o'clock.

"Pan Am 103, New York, Gate Closing," was flashing on the departure screen.


It was one of those awful, sinking, slow-motion moments when one suddenly becomes very sober, very quickly. Or at least one tries to.

He said a hurried farewell, grabbed his bag and ran for the departure gate. An Olympic athlete wouldn't have made it in time but that didn't stop Jaswant trying.

He made it quickly through passport control and security and thundered down the travelator, only to arrive at the gate to see the room empty except for the Pan Am ground crew breezily tidying up at the desk.

They were not impressed with his athletic prowess. No matter how much the slightly tipsy Jaswant pleaded, begged and argued the ground crew didn't give any, well, ground.


Voices were raised on both sides, but it was no good. Through the window he could see the 747 jumbo jet gently push back from the gate and slowly taxi away under the sodium lights towards the end of the runway. It was just after six o'clock.

A thoroughly dejected Jaswant drifted away and prepared to spend a fitful night on a row of seats in the departure lounge. He felt unable to call home and face the music.

After a couple of dozy hours, things went from bad to worse. Across the hall Jaswant saw two policemen walking purposefully towards him. "Are you the passenger who missed the Pan Am flight?"

Confused, he was bundled away. The police station at Heathrow airport is not a friendly place if you're just suspected of having caused Britain's worst terrorist attack.

Near-miss

For although Jaswant wasn't aware of it, 38 minutes after take off, Pan Am flight 103 had blown up over the Scottish borders town of Lockerbie killing all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground.

The Heathrow police had quickly discovered that one passenger - a certain Basuta, J, Mr - was a no-show at the gate. Pan Am ground crew had been anxious not to delay the departure of the flight and admitted that - in a breach of security regulations - his suitcase had been left on board.

There was more to come. Jaswant is a Sikh. Just three years before, Sikh terrorists had blown up an Air India jumbo jet over the North Atlantic, killing all 329 on board. And to make matters worse, this Sikh had come to London from Belfast just two days before. The police could be forgiven for thinking they had the case cracked before the fires of Lockerbie had been extinguished.

But when the officers started to question their befuddled suspect on suspicion of having caused Britain's biggest mass murder, it became clear he was innocent. When the desk officer got through to the Basuta home near New York, there was much wailing in the background and when Mrs Basuta finally came on the line, he came straight to the point.

But before he could explain, an inconsolable Surinder sobbed down the line, "Yes, I've heard on the TV. My husband's plane has crashed."

The officer told her that her husband was in fact sitting beside him, but it took some moments for the truth to sink in.

'God had mercy'

"It was the happiest moment of my life," says Jaswant, now 67, with tears welling up in his eyes. "We cried and cried and cried."

It proved to be a turning point of his life.

"Why me? Why was I saved? I should have been the 271st victim and I still feel terrible for all the other people who died." That day, I was given the gift of life


Even now, nearly 20 years on, the experience continues to have a profound effect on this life. He has become a more humble and spiritual person.

"I keep thinking why did God have mercy on me? I hadn't even been very religious up until that point in my life. God gave me a second chance."

Jaswant doesn't often talk about that night he escaped death.

"That day, I was given the gift of life... all over again. It was as if a voice in my head said: 'Now do something good with your life!' It is my duty to repay that gift by helping others in any way I can - and this is what I try to do."

Months after the crash, the FBI showed him a photograph of a battered and partially-burned suitcase which they believed was his. It had been recovered from the wreckage at Lockerbie.

"They asked me if I wanted it back. But what would I do with that? I have my life and my family, what more do I need?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7586498.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7586498.stm)

IwannabeKate
Jun 19th, 2009, 01:51 PM
buddha, that is an excellent question. why can't people just admit they get their rocks off to online porn?

i just read what i wrote and that would be a bit uncouth i suppose... but still.

beanstew
Jun 25th, 2009, 09:47 PM
Wallabies get high on opium and trash crops.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8118257.stm

:lol:

Lord Perennialist
Jun 29th, 2009, 10:00 PM
This is one of my favorite bizarre stories ever, even though its old:

http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=9169

On June 12, 1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. While pitching a no-hitter is quite a feat in itself, Dock pitched this no-hiter while tripping on LSD.

According to Ellis, it was easy. All he had to do was guide the ball down the multi-coloured path...:D

bradders
Jun 29th, 2009, 10:04 PM
so funny

Elahiya
Jul 9th, 2009, 02:31 PM
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148454266&ocid=today



Fatal fall into vat of chocolate


A man has died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.
The accident happened on Wednesday as 29-year-old Vincent Smith, a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services plant, was loading chocolate into a vat where it is melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into sweets.
A co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull Mr Smith out of the 8ft-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitator that mixes the chocolate.

beanstew
Jul 14th, 2009, 08:01 PM
Bride's Bouquet Brings Down Plane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8149910.stm

beanstew
Jul 17th, 2009, 12:43 PM
Flat blown up in air-bed accident.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8153387.stm