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    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.

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    Hey Mahk, I think you now have cause to click my thanks button

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    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.'

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    Ha ha ok I will let you away with it this time!

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    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.
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    wow. creepy.
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    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......

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    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.

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    http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.as...ntid=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?

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    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.
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    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
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    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!


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


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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    nope the highest is about the same as $50 USD
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    This isn't really that bizzare or weird but it just goes to show how having that last pint can change yer life!!!


    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?"

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    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.

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    Wallabies get high on opium and trash crops.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8118257.stm

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    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...
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    so funny
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    http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...266&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.
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    Bride's Bouquet Brings Down Plane

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8149910.stm
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    Flat blown up in air-bed accident.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8153387.stm
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    dunce
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    Wonder if he would be covered on the insurance? His poor little girl ouch!

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    Don't think this is bizarre or weird in this day and age, but it's still shocking.

    Boy, 5, Finds Gun,
    Shoots Himself in Las
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    Updated: Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009, 10:46 PM CDT
    Published : Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009, 2:16 PM CDT
    Las Vegas police are investigating how a 5-year-old boy apparently found a gun inside a car and accidentally shot himself in the head.
    Police say the boy and his father were going through a drive-through window at a Walgreens on Monday night when the boy found a gun.
    They say he fired it once, hitting himself in the head, and that his father then rushed him to a hospital.
    The boy is at the University Medical Center's trauma unit in stable condition.

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    ^ All too common sadly.
    These arn't up to date, just a random search and the first outcome!

    FIREARM DEATHS AND INJURIES
    • In 2001, 72 children ages 14 and under died from unintentional firearm-related injuries. Children ages 10 to 14 accounted for 54 percent of these deaths.
    • In 2002, more than 800 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for unintentional firearm-related injuries; 35 percent of these injuries were severe enough to require hospitalization.
    • The unintentional firearm injury death rate among children ages 14 and under in the United States is nine times higher than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
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    I think it was just the place that shocked me more than anything. I know that people who have arms in their homes have more casualties with their children. But at a drive thru?

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    http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/arti...145&ocid=today

    Girl hospitalised by falling tortoise


    A Chinese girl has lost her memory after being struck by a falling pregnant tortoise as she walked with her aunt along a street.

    Unsuspecting 12-year-old Cheng Cheng was struck by the plummeting creature as she walked with her aunt Ling Lang in Chongqing, central China.KUTV reports that the owner of a grocery store who witnessed the incident said Cheng was hit by a falling black object travelling at speed and fell to the ground unconscious. When he ran over, he realised the object was a tortoise.

    According to Metro, a police spokesman said: "Given the force of the blow, this tortoise must have been thrown from a reasonable height. We have questioned 16 flat owners all of whom have denied responsibility."Shell shocked

    After being taken to a local children’s hospital, Cheng was diagnosed with concussion. The Sun reports that Zhuo Xuan, the doctor treating Cheng, said "she does not have any memory of what happened to her or anything about her. We believe the amnesia will only be short lived but at the moment she can't remember anything".

    KUTV reports the injured girl's father, Liu Xingbing, said: "I am furious at this irresponsible behaviour. If I do not have a confession from the guilty tortoise thrower I will sue everybody in the building."

    Although the tortoise initially survived the fall, it later died from its injuries. It has been frozen and is being examined while police continue to question residents in a nearby apartment building.
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    Two great stories which illustrate why people shouldn't keep guns or tortoises.

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    I think it was just the place that shocked me more than anything. I know that people who have arms in their homes have more casualties with their children. But at a drive thru?
    A drive thru in VEGAS.
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    Yeah, I get that Matt, but was thinking a parent would think it was a pretty safe place to be..or not...

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    ^ They were in the car, it was almost definately the parents gun. Where the car was doesn't matter.
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    Oh I read it as found a gun in a car, didn't know it was the parents different story altogether in that scenario. It does say that in the clip though.

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    Vegas
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    ^How embarassing to us they were Vegans. Doesn't show us in a good light.

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    Who were vegan Mahk?
    Or are you messing?

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    Quote *live*&*let*live View Post
    Who were vegan Mahk?
    Or are you messing?
    Think about it......................
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    vegans as in 'guns' duh no sorry absolutely cream crackered my brain is toooooooooooo tired. Please explain. I need to go home now...........

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    L&LL, a person from Las Vegas is refered to as a "Vegan".


    [Also in the Jodie Foster movie/Carl Sagan book Contact aliens from the star system Vega are referred to as "Vegans"]

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    ^ cheers Mahk but I still wouldn't have 'got it' no matter how hard I 'thought about it' as I am not into Sci-Fi and I didn't know they called Vegas peeps Vegan.....

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    Not bizzare or weird, but very relevant to the last story!

    http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...ntid=148772456
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    I was just about to post that same story. Vegas again. And why is there a picture of an American flag?
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    I was just about to post that same story. Vegas again. And why is there a picture of an American flag?
    I guess because it happened in America? Sort of like when in the news they show a map of the country they're talking about, I guess.

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    Not bizzare or weird, but very relevant to the last story!

    http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...ntid=148772456
    And again, in that story another five year old boy shot himself from a gun which was in his dads car outside a pharmacy!! Oh, my, what is the world coming to? Poor children Three in a week....and they say gun possession is on the increase in the States.

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    Obviously there seems to be some problem with Pharmacies. Perhaps we should ban them

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    Science takes the very real threat of Zombie invasion seriously at last.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8206280.stm
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    Science takes the very real threat of Zombie invasion seriously at last.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8206280.stm
    Interesting and fun spin on experimenting.

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