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Trolling through the blogs today for use of a better word i found nothing new or of interest so I decided to post this blog of useful and or useless information.

Feel free to add your own bits as I intend to update this blog on a regular basis.


"In certain circumstances, a hedgehog may froth at the mouth, twist its head backwards over its shoulder and throw a vile-smelling foamy saliva onto its back. This behaviour is known as self-anointing."
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Prosecutors in Costa Rica said they have arrested a man and four women who posed as nuns to accept donations for false charity clinics, but used some of the money for trips and other purchases.


Randall Zúñiga, the head of the Central American country’s judicial investigative agency, said the five claimed to represent a missionary order of nuns and recruited and abused novices.


The novices weren't paid, never were able to take their vows as nuns, and were sometimes forced to dress up as medical personnel to fool authorities, who gave the charity government money.
A Kiwi woman suffered burns to 70 per cent of her body when a dispute over loud music led to an Aussie neighbour setting her ablaze with a blowtorch
Some Labradors and flat-coated retrievers can't help being fat, scientists say, due to a genetic mutation that makes them constantly hungry while burning fewer calories.


The mutation was found in one-in-four Labradors and two-thirds of flat-coated retrievers.
The mother of a six-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged with kidnapping and selling or trafficking her daughter, a shocking twist in a case that has seized the country's attention and sparked deep anger in the small, poor coastal community where the family lives.
Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region today and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
A Pentagon study that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century found no evidence of aliens or extra-terrestrial intelligence, a conclusion consistent with past US government efforts to assess the accuracy of claims that have captivated public attention for decades.
A Kansas man with a string of prior domestic violence and child abuse cases could get life in prison for brutalising his two young daughters, including an eight-year-old whose heart ruptured when she was viciously stomped last year, prosecutors said.
A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including a 2 1/2-month-old baby girl and three other kids from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday.
A cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment in Hong Kong, police said.


A man and a woman, believed to be the parents, have been detained.


The bottles were 30 centimetres tall and the bodies had no obvious signs of injury, Chief Inspector Au Yeung Tak of the New Territories North division told reporters.


He said an autopsy would be conducted to try to determine the age of the babies and whether they were dead at birth.


A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were detained on suspicion of illegal disposal of bodies
Some attendees of frigid Chiefs game forced into amputations following severe frostbite, Kansas City hospital says
The Jan. 13 wildcard victory over the Miami Dolphins might have come at a terrible price for some spectators who endured sub-zero cold.
Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalised, authorities said.


Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar's people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.
Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital.
Spark NZ has sold a blind man an ultra-high-definition television he says he does not need and cannot afford, raising questions about the company’s sales tactics.
An Adelaide burglar nabbed after hurting himself and calling for help

A person using a hammer to break into a store.
A person using a hammer to break into a store.

A would-be criminal has been arrested after injuring himself and calling an ambulance during an alleged break-and-enter gone wrong.




South Australian Police say the 22-year-old man suffered a cut to his leg while trying to kick in the glass door of a bike shop in Unley in Adelaide's inner south in the early hours of this morning.


He called an ambulance and was taken to hospital where he received sutures and then was arrested

head banger
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office.


The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalisation for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014. The law excludes Muslims, who are a majority in all three nations.
A Pakistani court sentenced a 22-year-old student to death and gave a teenager a life sentence in two separate cases after finding them guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a defence lawyer and officials said today.
Two dead after 'absolutely extreme' US house explosion

A massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River, authorities said.


Aerial images from the scene in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs showed smoking ruins with the structure reduced to rubble and some large pieces lodged in trees above.


The blast was "severe, absolutely extreme" and "you could feel it in your chest," said Chief Andrew Tomer of the Crescent Township fire department. It was heard and felt throughout Crescent and nearby townships and even across the river.
Eric Carmen, the Raspberries frontman and All by Myself and Hungry Eyes singer, dies at 74

bouquet
Thought the sheriff would be all over this one, his pet subject after all...

Miami-born adult film actress Sophia Leone was found dead on March 1 in her apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Her Los Angeles-based agency, 101 Modelling, has said her death was being investigated as a “home invasion homicide”.

The agency initially posted on X: “Our hearts are broken by the untimely and tragic passing of our beloved Sophia Leone. A beautiful spirit who touched many of us. RIP

wow
Two top Kansas Republican Party officials are facing internal calls to resign over a viral online video showing people at a fundraiser kicking and beating a mannequin wearing a mask of President Joe Biden, underscoring the national GOP's deep divisions and problems winning over suburban voters.
A woman troubled by her young boarder’s mental state approached her room to offer solace, reassuring her of her worth as a person.

However, the situation took a dire turn when 28-year-old student Jian Di suddenly attacked her landlord with a sharpened kitchen knife, inflicting multiple stab wounds to her upper body.

The injured woman was able to flee but Di, who was also known as Jane, barricaded herself inside the room.

That’s the last time her worried landlords saw her alive.

When emergency services forcibly entered her room later they discovered the Chinese national unresponsive on the floor. Her death has now been ruled a suicide by a coroner
A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and who built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died.

Paul Alexander died on Monday at a Dallas hospital, said Daniel Spinks, a longtime friend. He said Alexander had recently been hospitalised after being diagnosed with Covid-19 but did not know the cause of death.
Thanks for the update.
I hope he gets a healthy body in his afterlife, he do deserve that.
Can't even imagine living in a tube your whole "life" for use of a better word.

Be like the paste in a toothpaste tube

No existence ??
Armed police have raided a home in Germany searching for a man described as Christian Brueckner’s “partner in crime”, who could have vital information about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, more than 17 years after she went missing.

At least 10 officers armed with machineguns swarmed a house owned by a man named as Ralph H, a 56-year-old who has connections to paedophile and main suspect Brueckner.
Parasitic tapeworm larvae discovered in a US man’s brain, which caused worsening migraines, were likely consumed when he ate undercooked bacon.


The 52-year-old’s ordeal was detailed in a report by the American Journal of Case Reports. It came after he complained of weekly migraines that were unresponsive to medication.


The report says he “lived at home with his wife and cat” in a modern house – which made the discovery of tapeworm larvae strange as he’d not travelled to any risky food areas.


He did, however, indulge in “lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon” for most of his life.
A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the US to breed “giant” hybrids for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, according to court documents and federal prosecutors.


Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana pleaded guilty to felony charges of wildlife trafficking and conspiracy to traffic wildlife during an appearance before a federal judge in Missoula. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine.


Beginning in 2013 Schubarth conspired with at least five other people in "a decade-long effort to create giant sheep hybrids" that would get higher prices from hunting preserves that allow people to kill captive trophy game animals for a fee, prosecutors said.


Schubarth used flesh obtained from a hunter who had killed a sheep in Krgyszstan belonging to the world's largest species of the animals — Marco Polo argali sheep — and used the genetics to procure cloned embryos from a lab, according to court documents.
Looking to make the move and live in a new place for a while? If you pick sensibly, you might just get paid to do it.

Smaller cities and towns in the US are offering relocation packages to lure new people to come and live in them.

Also referred to as worker relocation incentive programmes, these financial schemes can be found across America and all share a common goal: attract people with geographically flexible jobs by offering them money and other perks, such as free gym memberships, co-working spaces and even a sit-down meal with the mayor, reports CNN.
Anthony Daniels has sold his C-3PO head for a staggering US$843,750 (NZ$1.36 million).


The 78-year-old actor, who has spent more than 40 years playing the uptight robot in Star Wars movies and TV show spin-offs, sold off various items of memorabilia from the sci-fi franchise via Propstore Auctions today and the fibreglass head proved to be the star of the sale, having lived up to its expected price tag of between US$500,000 (NZ$809,730) and US$1 million (NZ$1.6 million).


It was currently unclear who bought the head, which Daniels wore in 1983’s Return of the Jedi and consists of a faceplate, backplate, and neck-ring.
This is the shocking moment a toddler was seen vaping in a car, while causing another child to have a coughing fit from the smoke.
This is the shocking moment a toddler was seen vaping in a car, while causing another child to have a coughing fit from the smoke.

Shocking footage has captured the moment a toddler in nappies was vaping in the back seat of a car, as another toddler off-screen went into a coughing fit from inhaling the smoke.

The incident, believed to have happened in Ireland, shows a toddler with a vape in its mouth while strapped into a baby seat.

The toddler, allegedly 2 years old, is seen puffing away on the disposable vape before calling out “Nanny” and referencing the vape in his hand.

Off camera, another child can be heard having a coughing fit before telling the toddler “You’re choking me with the vape”.
French serial killer appeared on game show during 35-year manhunt
By 1News Reporters
12:06pm
Fracois Vérove appearing on Everyone Wants to Take Their Place in 2019.
Fracois Vérove appearing on Everyone Wants to Take Their Place in 2019.

During a 35-year police hunt, one of France's most slippery serial killers appeared on a game show.


In 2021, Francois Vérove committed suicide after police summoned him. They had discovered DNA in the case which detectives believed may match his, The Telegraph reported.


His wife spoke to investigators after his death, and said she didn't know about her husbands secret life of killing. She added Vérove never attempted to hide or cover his identity, and said he even appeared on a game show, but was unable to tell police when it took place.


On Wednesday, weekly French magazine Marianne found the 2019 show, where Vérove appeared along with five others, and was knocked out in the first round.
Wayne Brady's DMs have been "popping" since he came out as pansexual.


The 51-year-old star revealed that he's pansexual - meaning he's attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender
Talking of which- did you know the sister of our crown prince Haakon,
princess Märtha Louise, is enganged to an american called Durek Verrett.
Apparently he's been with both female and male partners in the past,
so I suppose he is pansexual as well.
I thought pansexual was getting off by beating your genitals with a frying pan,seems i been doing it wrong my whole life

rolling on the floor laughing
You never really know how it's gonna pan out rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing beer
The Micheal Jackson song comes to mind

"Beat it just beat it... "
A volcano in Iceland erupted this morning for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.

Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a fissure in the earth about 3km long between Stóra-Skógfell and Hagafell mountains on the Reykjanes Peninsula.
A man suspected of killing three people in their Philadelphia-area homes Saturday (local time) was later arrested in New Jersey's capital city following a major police response and hourslong standoff, authorities said.
Man killed after falling from a hot air balloon in Melbourne; body found on street

doh
Useless info, something you learn when you get old.

"Stop trying to impress other people....
They're more screwed up then you think"
wave head banger teddybear
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