Posted by on Dec 16, 2008 in
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Foolery “Obviously they are not wearing clean outer clothing,” Poor sweet silly lil gals. just learned a valuable lesson in privacy and discretion. If they were of legal age be SURE a men’s magazine would ask them to pose.
Girls fired after soak in sink
By Dylan Darling | Thursday, December 11, 2008 | www.redding.com
Hijinks in the sink at an Anderson fast-food restaurant have cost three girls their jobs.
After closing the Anderson Kentucky Fried Chicken one recent night, the girls stripped to their underwear or changed into bathing suits and took a bath in the dishwashing sink. One of them posted the photos of the event on her public MySpace Web page.
The girls’ manager said she first learned of the photos on Tuesday and suspended the trio.
On Wednesday, they were fired, said Rick Maynard, a KFC spokesman.
“KFC has zero tolerance for violations of our operating standards, and our franchisee has taken immediate action by terminating the employees who were involved,” he wrote in an e-mail.
Asked whether there had been similar situations at other KFCs, he replied, “Of course not.”
Having seen the photos circulated by the media, Fern Hastings, senior environmental health specialist for Shasta County’s Environmental Health, said she’s going to talk with the restaurant’s owner.
D&D Food Management of Hanford owns the KFC, one of about 80 in the company’s fold, said the woman who answered its phone Wednesday. She declined to give her full name, saying only that her first name was Jennifer.
The restaurant had passed its last health inspection in September and is due for another next month. Looking at the pictures, Hastings said the girls are violating state Health Code 113971 – which details that restaurant workers are required to wear clean clothes.
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Posted by on Dec 16, 2008 in
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Forteana I did some digging and I found this op-ed about the first report of a boy, Timmy Novotny, in a prize machine. These machines are apparently irresistible to young boys. Here’s links to not one, but two Aussie boys who got in the same jam.
Child Gets Stuck In Stuffed Animal Game Machine
Timmy Never Did Get Toy
POSTED: 10:52 am EST January 6, 2004 | UPDATED: 1:10 pm EST January 7, 2004 | www.wlwt.com
MILWAUKEE — A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith Sunday after crawling into a Sheboygan, Wis., supermarket’s stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone.
Shift Cmdr. Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department said the boy was sitting in the glass enclosure with the stuffed animals when rescuers arrived.
He said Timmy Novotny somehow crawled through about an 8-by-11-inch opening to get into the machine. The stuffed animals are prizes that can be hooked with a cranelike device.
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Posted by on Dec 13, 2008 in
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Forteana SEE, I told you this was common in my last post about an aussie boy stuck in a prize machine.
Toy Story 2: Another boy stuck
www.news.com.au | December 11, 2008 12:32pm
OUR story of a two-year-old boy trapped in a vending machine after crawling up the prize chute caused a sensation – and now we can reveal another toddler caught in the same pickle.
Firefighters had to use a hacksaw to cut the padlock on the skill-tester machine and free a two-year-old boy in Darwin on Saturday.
And now Adelaide mother Samantha Bishop has told how her son Joshua also managed to climb into a toy-vending machine at a local play cafe about two months ago.
Even though the cunning three-year-old scored the Pokemon toy he was after and climbed out without any help, Mrs Bishop said the two close calls raised questions about the safety of the machines.
“If somebody had pulled on his legs on the way out, it could have crushed his windpipe,” she stormed.
“The company that makes these machines needs to look at their design. As we found out, if you try and pull the kids out the slot, the door comes down – cutting into their body.”
Back in Darwin, the Northern Territory News today revealed the vending machine in wich the two-year-old was trapped is still operating despite safety fears.
Posted by admin on Dec 12, 2008 in
Farewell,
Fashion 
Former model, Bettie Page has passed away at age 85. Though moderately successful during her working career she attained notoriety and cultural icon status as later generations discovered her timeless sensuality and beauty. Irving Klaw took some of her naughtiest photos and the very idea of spanking and bondage existing in the 50s was titillating as well.
As time passed she lived a private life and found solace as a born again Christian. Jesus washed away the stains of being photographed spanking a vixen with a hairbrush. Her photos will live on.
Posted by on Dec 11, 2008 in
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Forteana This HAS happened before with as cute blond boy in the USA. My pics of that incident aren’t handy and I have no info about when or where, but they were great-better than these.
Prize catch
www.ntnews.com.au | REBEKAH CAVANAGH | December 10th, 2008
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a bizarre rescue mission at an NT shopping centre after a little boy climbed up the prize chute of a claw vending machine and got stuck inside with the toys.
The toddler is believed to be just 2 1/2 years old.
A six-man crew from the Palmerston Fire Station rushed to the nearby Oasis Shopping Village after receiving a call that a child was trapped in a toy vending machine at 3.25pm on Saturday.
Shoppers watched on – most of them trying to control their laughter – as the firies used the jaws of life and then a hacksaw to cut the padlock on the machine.
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Posted by admin on Dec 11, 2008 in
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Forteana 
Random cut out.
Cardboard ‘man’ keeps cops at bay
BY GEORGE BERKIN AND JIM O’NEILL | Star-Ledger Staff | Friday, November 28, 2008
A cardboard figure of a person inside a Somerset County bank kept
police at bay for 90 minutes last night, authorities said.
The standoff at the PNC Bank on Routes 518 and 601 in the Skillman
section of Montgomery Township ended about 10:20 p.m., Somerset County
Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said.
Police said an alarm went off about 8:40 p.m.
When officers arrived, they saw what they thought was at least one
person through the windows of the bank, which had its blinds drawn,
according to authorities.
Police sealed off the area to traffic and evacuated residents in three
nearby apartment buildings.
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Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2008 in
Forteana Now before you go hating the babysitter, 3 year olds are so stealthy, energetic and dangerous they could be used by Special Ops and SWAT teams. This sort of incident that gave rise to the legend of Remus and Romulus. Gotta love a happy ending, admit it, that lump of coal in your chest is melting as we speak. I think this is the first I’ve ever heard the term “hero puppies.”
Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, with his family.
The two hero puppies who saved Jaylynn
Puppies save three-year-old boy lost in freezing Virginia woods
BY JANE H. FURSE DAILY NEWS WRITER | www.nydailynews.com | Monday, December 8th 2008, 1:57 PM
Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, with his family.
The two hero puppies who saved Jaylynn’s life.
A toddler lost in the Virginia woods was back home safe Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a harrowing night of freezing temperatures.
Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, wandered away from his baby-sitter at 4 p.m. Friday and was missing for 21 hours as hundreds of friends, family and law enforcement officials searched for him in the thick woods of Halifax County, fearing the worst.
“The only thing we wanted to do was just keep searching until we found him,” Halifax County Sheriff Stanley Noblin told reporters.
Jaylynn’s frantic family knew time was not on its side.
“We didn’t forget the issue that 17 degrees was almost unbearable,” said his father, James Thorpe.
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Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2008 in
Forteana Very very interesting story about an interesting medical case.
Henry Gustav Molaison, better known as H.M. in the hundreds of brain studies of which he was a subject, died Sunday. New York Times News Service
Brain of ‘most studied’ amnesiac will be evaluated anew at UCSD
By Scott LaFee | UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER | December 6, 2008
Henry Gustav Molaison, who died Sunday at the age of 82, will be remembered as the man who could not remember.
Better known by his initials, H.M., Molaison was unable to form new memories. Every face, every event was experienced anew. His amnesia – the unforeseen consequence of brain surgery – made him “the most studied individual in the history of science,” said Dr. James Brewer, a neurologist at University of California San Diego.
Over the course of half a century, H.M. (initials were used to protect his privacy) was the object of hundreds of studies, some of which fundamentally changed science’s understanding of brain structure, memory function and neurological disease. Even after his death, that work will continue.
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Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2008 in
Feloniousness Those Australians are creative.
Above is a random photo of a Bredl’s python.
Townsville road rage driver threatens woman with snake
By Malcolm Weatherup | Townsville Bulletin | December 02, 2008
A MAN brandished a snake at a terrified woman driver and her children, claiming it was a death adder and she was going to die, a court has been told.
Jeffrey Leon O’Keefe, a 22-year-old stonemason, pleaded guilty to a charge of public nuisance and a second offence of the improper transporting of wildlife.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Greg Mobbs told Townsville Magistrates Court the woman was driving along Palmerston St with her children when she saw O’Keefe’s vehicle begin to pull out from the kerb.
She honked her horn to warn him, and continued on her way, but O’Keefe took exception to the incident and followed her, the Townsville Bulletin reported.
He pulled alongside the woman at an intersection, and racially abused her, calling her a “black bitch”.
The woman was upset by O’Keefe’s confrontation so she followed O’Keefe to get his registration number.
But when she pulled over to write it down, O’Keefe stopped a little way down the road.
When he jumped out of his vehicle and started running towards the woman, he was holding a metre-long snake in his hands, yelling: “This a death adder and you’re dead”.
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Posted by admin on Dec 6, 2008 in
fatu·ous·ness,
Forteana I think this is an appropriate thing to say “hoist on his own petard” about.
Man Attacked by Deer
ozarksfirst.com | Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008 @03:47pm CST
(Sedalia, MO) — Man versus beast. It’s a common battle during deer season. But the tables were turned this deer season, for a man from central Missouri.
A man from central Missouri thought he had nabbed the biggest trophy for his collection. But that nine point buck led to seven staples in his head.
Hunting, for the Goodman brothers, is more than a hobby. It’s a tradition.
Two weeks ago, Randy Goodman became the hunted.
Goodman was on his deer stand when he spotted a large buck. Two good shots from his 270 Remington– and he thought the deer was a step closer to becoming summer sausage. “In my opinion, I’ve killed a lot of deer, that he was dead,” recalls Goodman.
So the hunter approached the prey. And that’s when the 240-pounder rose on it’s back legs… And attacked.
“He’s just starting to move those horns back and forth and I did my best to fight him off. It was 15 seconds of hell, I would say.”
The buck took off. An injured goodman went for his rifle, firing two more shots. His older brother was hunting about 35-miles away when Goodman called for help. “I thought I was going to find him dead,” he said.
And as for the deer that Goodman’s family has nicknamed “Killer”, well his tale ends in the freezer.
The brothers say this won’t keep them from hunting again next season.
“Don’t judge a person until you see it happen to yourself,” says Goodman. “I’m not saying im a great hunter… but I’m not a bad hunter.”
But both will be careful to check in with each other…To make sure this sporting ritual only ends with a dead deer.
(Leslie Carto for FOX News – Sedalia, MO)
Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2008 in
Forteana 
(random shot of a boy in a photo set dressed up to look like a chem lab)
Since this was done in Australia, hard to say if it’s accurate for the USA too. Also, maybe female arts students are more comfortable discussing their intimate life than male science students.
Science students ‘most likely virgins’
www.news.com.au | AAP | December 04, 2008 04:02pm
* Male science students ‘most likely virgins’
* Female arts stuents ‘most sexually active’
* Little knowledge of STD chlamydia
MALE science students are a university’s most likely virgins while females who study arts subjects are the most sexually active, Australian researchers say.
A pilot study conducted at the University of Sydney saw 185 students, aged 16 to 25, quizzed on their sexual history and awareness of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia.
It found arts students were “younger, more likely to be sexually active and to report having little or no knowledge of chlamydia”.
“Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group compared to the group of females in the sample,” said the study, published in the journal Sexual Health.
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Posted by admin on Dec 4, 2008 in
Forteana Very interesting discovery. The pot was free of stems, was green and leafy and is probably from the “mother” of all psychoactive pot plants. Those blond and ginger nomadic horsemen were quite a civilization.
Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it’s evident that the man was buried with a lot of it. David Potter / Oxford University Press.
Ex-Missoula neurologist pens paper on old stash
www.helenair.com | By MICHAEL JAMISON, Missoulian | 12/04/08
A 2,700-year-old bowl of marijuana, the world’s oldest pot stash, has been unearthed from a tomb in central China.
“The evidence all indicates that there was intent to utilize this cannabis for psychoactive purposes,” said Ethan Russo. “What we’ve found here is the oldest, clear-cut and proven sample of psychoactive cannabis in the world.”
Russo, who for 24 years worked as a neurologist in Missoula and still serves as a pharmacology faculty affiliate at the University of Montana was lead author on a paper describing the find, published this month in the peer-reviewed “Journal of Experimental Botany.”
The tomb, Russo said, belonged to “a shaman, or a chief, someone of extremely high stature.”
Found alongside the skeleton and the 2 pounds of marijuana were several other items, including horse bridles, archery equipment and a harp. (No pipes were found, however, and Russo remains uncertain as to whether the marijuana was to be smoked or ingested in the afterlife.)
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