Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Wedding Turns Into Fight

It started out as a lovey dovey Czech wedding party before turning into a fight, complete with bruises.


"The bride and the groom attacked each other," said police spokeswoman Jana Mazourova.

"They were both drunk, and they both ended up with bruises."

The incident between the 31-year- old bride and the 22-year-old groom happened in Havlickuv Brod, about 100 kilometers southeast of Prague.

"The bride, who refused a breathalyzer test, ended up in a drunk tank," said Mazourova. "The police were afraid she would keep attacking her husband."

The couple are facing a fine over the incident, which is considered a minor offense.

Mazourova said has no information about whether the couple will divorce.

Perhaps, someone should inbox cupid?

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Now you can play while you pee




British company Captive Media has developed a urine-controlled games console for use in urinals.

The device sits above the ceramic bowl of the urinal, with the console using infra-red to detect where the urine is falling.

The games are controlled by the direction of a man's pee stream.

Users aim at one of three infrared sensors - to steer themselves down a ski slope, knock down penguins or even answer quiz questions.

The games include a pub quiz and a skiing challenge, with customers able to use their phones to upload their high scores to Twitter and a leaderboard.

The device is equipped with a reinforced 12-inch LCD screen as well as an Intel Atom dual-core processor.

A trial run at a Cambridge pub saw some interesting results, with toilets being cleaner due to improved accuracy.

Another finding was that competitive customers started and stopped their stream to improve accuracy.

The inventors say more urinals like these are due to hit bars and clubs across the UK in the months to come.

And they'll be hoping their hands-free gaming will be this year's hottest release.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Man suing dating website over ugly girls


A bachelor in China is suing a dating agency for sending him "ugly girls" as potential brides.

Li Zing, 27, claims the company has airbrushed the women's pictures on the website so much that they are "beyond recognition".

According to The Mirror, Li wants his RM390 fee refunded and RM2,450 compensation from the website, based in Hubei province, central China.

The dating agency told a court: "We sent women that we thought would be suitable. He's no film star himself and we are still trying to find a bride for him."

The case continues in the Chinese court.

Husband for sale

"Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours" was Alyse Baddley's sales pitch in the ad she placed in online classified website Craigslist. It also reads, "He enjoys eating and playing video games all day".

The Utah woman told ABC News that she "didn't see much him at all" ever since her husband got his hands on the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 video game.

Kyle Baddley, 22, who was recently discharged from the military after sustaining a back injury in Afghanistan, was said to have been playing the game for three-days straight since he bought the game on Nov 8.

According to ABC News, 21-year-old Alyse created the ad with her mother-in-law as a joke and never expected to garner so much response from concerned citizens and guys who were willing to trade places with Kyle.

"The ad was all just a joke, and I love my husband and he loves me," Alyse said. "I didn't ever think anyone would reply to this, but it's gotten so much attention, which is kind of cool."

Kyle said he loves his wife and that Alyse was supportive when he wanted to purchase the game. Alyse is just happy that her husband is home.


Source: ABC News

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Executioner says job not "complicated"


BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China's executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.

The rare glimpse into the ranks of China's executioners appeared in the Beijing Evening News newspaper Monday.

Hu, a veteran judicial police officer, described the routine of shooting prisoners convicted of murder and other capital crimes in China, which rights groups say carries out more judicial killings each year than anywhere else in the world.

"In fact, it's not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that's that," Hu told the newspaper.

Most prisoners taken for execution are so terrified they collapse on the ground and cannot stand, Hu said. The exception was an ex-soldier convicted of homicide, he said.

"At the time of execution, the criminals kneel on the ground, but this former soldier actually stood up and ran forward. The result was a moving target that was taken down," said Hu, himself a former soldier who has worked as a police officer for 19 years.

"These people all deserved what they got for their crimes."

China does not publish statistics of the number of people it executes. But human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have said it executes more prisoners than any other country -- thousands in 2010, according to Amnesty.

The United States executed 46 people, nearly all by lethal injections, in 2010, said Amnesty.

China has been moving toward using more lethal injections, which are less prone to mishaps than guns, but Hu spoke only of his routine of shooting convicted prisoners.

When he first took the job of judicial police officer, Hu told the newspaper, older officers made him watch two executions and inspect the fresh corpses. Then it was time for Hu to do it himself, and the newspaper said he was not nervous.

"Yet the second time he was carrying out the task he did become nervous. Not because he was afraid, but out of fear of not shooting straight and becoming a laughing stock among his colleagues," said the report.

Younger police officers take longer to become used to executions, said Hu.

"For the older judicial police, carrying out executions became a routine task long ago,"

Friday, November 11, 2011

Man Undergoes Extensive Plastic Surgery to Look Like Superman





The plastic surgery-obsessed aren’t just in America. Philippines resident Herbert Chavez has undergone a drastic change to look like…Superman?

Mr. Chavez, 35, lives in Calamba City, has undergone the following procedures to transform into the Man of Steel:

- Chin augmentation to achieve Superman’s strong cleft
- A nose job (rhinoplasty) to make his schnozz look more like Christopher Reeves’
- Silicone injections into his lips to make them bigger (which always looks weird)
- Implants into his thighs to make them bigger, because apparently lifting weights won’t do

These procedures, and probably many more in the future, have been going on since 1995, and there’s really no telling when might stop. His home is filled with memorabilia such as posters, movies, and action figures, so if his appearance wasn’t enough of a tipoff that he’s obsessed with Superman, then his crazy appearance definitely will.

It’s only a matter of time before he tries to fly. Only then will he realize just how foolish he’s been. He should just try and be Batman. At least that way he can wear a mask.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Man Stuck in a Kiddy Swing


Some bets just shouldn't be made.

Just ask a 21-year-old Vallejo man who made a $100 bet with his friends that he could fit into a baby swing at a local park.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the unidentified man -– who should be thanking police for not releasing his name –- lubed himself up with liquid laundry detergent and jammed himself into the kiddie swing's leg holes about 9 p.m. Friday.

But he got stuck, his legs swelled and he couldn't get out.

To make matters worse, his friends abandoned him.

The newspaper reported that nine hours passed before a groundskeeper heard him screaming for help at 6 a.m. the next morning.

Vallejo firefighters tried to free him, but ultimately took him to a hospital –- still in the swing.

"The man sustained non-life-threatening injuries to his body, but there's no word yet on the condition of his ego," the Chronicle reported.

Let's hope he collected his $100.