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Rumours of gold lying buried beneath a Malaysian beach have sent scores of villagers digging in the sand in hopes of striking it rich. People have flocked to a beach in the Mersing district of southern Johor state since residents reported finding gold deposits there last week. Police say the prospectors, including housewives and children, are combing the beach with flashlights at night.
District police chief Harun Idris told The Associated Press “people are really excited.” Harun said natural gold deposits have been found in Mersing in recent years.
But another police officer, who didn’t want to be identified, said people were exaggerating the size and value of gold discoveries. He said “it’s gold dust actually,” and not worth the time and trouble to search for. I bet there is gold there and these rumors of dust were just started by some big company that want to get their greedy hands on it.
December 6th, 2007
I thought this was a very funny cartoon and it sure fits the ’strange but true’ category.
December 1st, 2007
Cash raining down from the heavens might have seemed like a Christmas gift, but anyone in this western Massachusetts town who grabbed some of it is being asked to please give it back. The money, totaling $1,100 belonged to 83-year-old lady, Mary Olive Corbiere, who was banking on it to buy Christmas presents and lost it after a freak accident.
Corbiere had left a drugstore Tuesday and was putting her bags in her car when a wind gust pushed her shopping cart — still containing her purse and cane — into the back of a nearby delivery truck.
The cart somehow became stuck in a rear wheel well before the truck pulled away and disappeared into traffic. “Everything was normal, then I turned around and the cart had taken off,” said Corbiere, a retired English teacher and nurse.
The cart was dragged for blocks along one of the town’s busiest thoroughfares as the driver, oblivious to what had occurred, headed to the next delivery. Witnesses told police that when the purse finally burst open, strangers stopped and grabbed the fluttering currency, which Corbiere had withdrawn for holiday shopping and bills.
Officers found Corbiere’s tattered checkbook and cane — but little cash. They are urging people not to be Grinches and return any of the money they might have found. “We’re hoping people will do the right thing,” police Sgt. Charles Dodge said.
Corbiere, though, isn’t waiting around for the money’s return. She headed to the bank Wednesday to get a new checkbook and make another withdrawal. She didn’t even bother to retrieve the battered purse from police.
“That’s no use to me now,” she said. “What I really needed badly is my cane, and I am lucky I did get that back.” Well eventhough the season is upon us I don’t think much of this money will be returned.
November 30th, 2007
Bathroom Break - More amazing videos are a click away
I guess this is his last day, eh? I bet every life guard dreams of this one.
November 8th, 2007
And here is yet another intersting internet based story. It’s a dream-come-true for web addicts: you can now earn a college credit for watching YouTube. Pitzer College began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site this fall . About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling. Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she was “underwhelmed” by the content on YouTube but set up the course, “Learning from YouTube,” to explore the role of the popular site.
Class members control most of the class content and YouTube watchers from around the world are encouraged to comment, Juhasz said. She hopes the course will raise serious issues about YouTube, such as the role of “corporate-sponsored democratic media expression.” YouTube is “a phenomenon that should be studied,” student Darren Grose said. “You can learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general.” I gotta get me one of those weird and strange degrees.
September 21st, 2007
Here is some really strange - odd - weird news shorts from around the world.
-A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of having posted a video of himself on YouTube driving at speeds of more than 140 mph.
-Real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley left $12 million in her will for her dog Trouble but cut out two of her four grandchildren entirely. I love that one.
-China’s Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported.
-Hungry visitors to next summer’s Beijing Olympics won’t have to choose between “steamed crap” and “virgin chicken” if Chinese authorities succeed in ridding restaurant menus of mangled English translations.
September 1st, 2007
Here is a bit of weird news involving WalMart. Judge Kenneth Robertson of Attalla, Ala. recently ordered two convicted shoplifters a bit of a embarassing sentence. They are to stand outside of the WalMart store they stole from with signs reading “I am a thief, I stole from Wal-Mart.”
In a strange decision WalMart is arguing that this type of sentence is not good for business and if they really want to embarass these criminals they should just have them work as WalMart greeters.
May 11th, 2007
Not sure this is really PC but it sure as heck is funny.
April 3rd, 2007
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