US : Pigeons 1 Hipsters 0 Rock band the Kings of Leon have been forced to end a concert early after pigeons defecated on them from the rafters of a US venue.
The rockers abandoned the gig in St Louis after three songs when bass player Jared Followill was hit in the mouth and face by pigeon droppings.
Drummer Nathan Followill later apologised to fans via Twitter, saying "it was too unsanitary to continue".
Their publicist added the band found it hard to carry on after the incident.
BBC News - Pigeons force Kings of Leon to abandon concert
PK : Ket ket ket anyone speak Pashto and know what the other dude is saying?
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US : CO : bear trashes teenagers car caused bear damage innit..
Ben Story, 17, said he and his family were asleep in their home south of Denver when the bear managed to open the unlocked door of his 2008 Toyota Corolla and climbed inside.
A peanut butter sandwich left on the back seat is probably what attracted the bear, Ben said.
It is not unusual for bears to open unlocked doors to cars and houses in search of food, Tyler Baskfield, a spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife said.
"It happens all the time," he said. "They're very smart."
Once inside, the bear must have knocked the automatic transmission shift into neutral, sending the car rolling backwards down the inclined driveway and into the thicket, Ben said.
The door apparently slammed shut when the car jolted to a stop, he said, trapping the bear inside.
Neighbours had called emergency police dispatchers, and deputies freed the bear by opening the door with a rope from a distance. The bear then ran into the woods.
But Ben says he will need a new car because the bear trashed the inside trying to get out
JOYRIDING BEAR LEAVES TEEN GRIZZLY - Yahoo! News UK
UK : East : Keep Clea if read in the traditional local accent its not that far wrong :laugh_at:
Residents in Manningtree have been chuckling at the high-profile error after “Keep Clea” – rather than “Keep Clear” – was painted on a town centre road in large white letters.
Essex County Council has pledged to sort out the problem.
A spokeswoman said: “Essex County Council Highways Department have been made aware of the error on South Street in Manningtree.
“The council can confirm that this will be fixed as soon as possible.”
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/weird-wacky/council_red_faced_over_keep_clea_road_marking_1_545800
AU : Drunk man survives attempt to ride crocodile A drunk man who climbed into a crocodile enclosure in Australia and attempted to ride a 5m (16ft) long crocodile has survived his encounter.
The crocodile, called Fatso, bit the 36-year-old man's leg, tearing chunks of flesh from him as he straddled the reptile.
He received surgery to serious wounds to his leg and is recovering in hospital, police say.
He had been chucked out of a pub in the town of Broome for being too drunk.
its not 100% clear whether this last line refers to the man or the croc..
"strewth! no more Fosters for you mate, you're getting too snappy with other people in the bar. I think you've had enough now and should go back to the Zoo!" :laugh_at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10611973.stm
UK : East : Felixstowe – seal bites dog OWNERS have been warned to keep their pets on leads on a coastal nature reserve after a seal bit a dog.
Tim Diaper was watching the seal on the beach at Landguard when his dog Ruby, a Staffordshire bull terrier, escaped and ran off to investigate the creature on the shore.
But the scared seal lashed out - prompting a warning to dog walkers to ensure that their animals are kept on the lead.
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/seal_bites_dog_in_bizarre_beach_attack_1_540856
UK : East : A local village for local people From a local history site about Bures (a village on the Suffolk/Essex border) explainng how electricity was brought to this area. I think EDF still use the old cables!
This was in 1923 when memories of the first world war were still vivid. Which probably accounts for the time when a man from Norfolk was working at the station, and having a strange accent, was mistaken for a German! He was tormented to the point of having a brick thrown through the front window of his house.Electricity in Bures
UK : East : Another ashes to ashes moment.. another random (and somewhat spooky thing)
last night I rode back from work, down Norwich Road (Ipswich) past Whitton and Whitehouse estates back to where I live. Just before the Ferodo Bridge [1](a well known local landmark), I passed a young British Asian lad cycling in the other direction.
nothing remarkable about this in multicultural Ipswich, but the lad was wearing almost exactly the same fashions I would have done two decades ago. he was riding a 1980s style hybrid bike (700c wheels, straight handlebars, sensible tyres for the road) - these first appeared around that time as mountain bikes aren't exactly that practical for East Anglia. of course he wouldn't have been on a ebike, they weren't invented then! :laugh_at:
there are probably rational reasons for this to do with todays "retro" culture but it was sort of like I was looking at myself 20 years ago, and this stone cold sober..
[1] this is the bridge http://www.freston.net/stuff/ip-ferodo.html
UK : East : Haverhill was speaking to my mum about Haverhill and the goings on there (pissheads, random vandalism etc)
She's only just been back in England and didn't realise it was a place round here and thought it was some chavette's name :laugh_at: and that she had been doing all the crime (smashing in the windows of a Fiesta and torching two England flags) I wonder what a girl called Haverhill would be like? probably doesn't bear thinking about :yakk:
UK : S : Cat-gull :) loads here, they aren't the most popular of birds but I reckon they are quite smart..
He was just a baby gull at the time, albeit an ash-covered baby after falling down the chimney.
"We put him back on the roof, but it was a bit of a windy day and he fell back off.".
Instead of getting into a flap, June and Steve Grimwood calmly nursed him and fed him cat food.
He ate it alongside some unlikely companions - the family cats.
"He slept in the cats' basket, mingled in amongst the cats and was happy as Larry,"
Then, one day, Pooh flew the nest.
But he still returns for six months every year. In fact , in a sense , he's still at home with Mum and Dad, because he and his partner nests on their roof.
BBC - Seagull that 'thinks' it's a cat
UK : East : Naked man shock for 92-year-old enjoying the sun She had spotted the man walking along the shore behind Landguard Fort, Viewpoint Road, Felixstowe, without a stitch on a few minutes earlier and thought it was a little strange but took no more notice until he sat down next to her. She spoke to him briefly before gathering up her things to move away – but then saw that he was acting in an indecent manner.
The woman visited Felixstowe police station in High Road West to report the incident.
Naked man shock for 92-year-old enjoying the sun - News - Evening Star
TW : Taiwanese bust their jaws on giant burgers This doesn't suprise me one bit.
Oriental people (when not full of stimulant drugs) whose ancestry from the hotter SE Asian countries are often permanently hungry and eat fast, despite their smaller physical stature.
I know this for a fact as I am one of these people :laugh_at:
This is from the early days when you had to eat your food quick before giant rats / monkeys / invading Japanese stole it - and you had to keep energetic to elude things like tigers/bears who see you as food, but can cause problems when faced with "super size" western portions. there are good reasons why Chinese food is in small bite size chunks.. :wink:
Dentists urged fast food restaurants to label signs on their gigantic burger products to warn consumers against over-extend their mouths to eat such food, local media reported yesterday.
Many diners had to see dentists for jaw-related issues after consuming beef burgers served by two fast food chains, whose sizes are larger than normal, said Hsu Ming-lun, associate professor of the School of Dentistry of National Yang-Ming University.
Some of them faced sore jaws and some even had difficulties opening their mouths; both are typical symptoms of Temporomandibular dysfunction, an injury related to jaws, added Hsu.
Restaurants urged to put labels on giant burgers - The China Post
After life promise! Two lovers interested in spiritualism and reincarnation vowed that if either died, the other one remaining would try to contact the partner in the other world exactly 30 days after their dying. As luck would have it, a few weeks later the young man died in a car wreck. True to her word, his sweetheart tried to contact him in the spirit world exactly 30 days later. At the seance, she called out, "Bill , dear Bill; this is Lisa. Do you hear me?
A ghostly voice answered her, "Yes Lisa, this is Bill, I can hear you." Lisa tearfully asked, "Oh, Bill, what is it like where you are? "It's beautiful. There are azure skies, a soft breeze, sunshine most of the time." "Well what do you do all day,"Asked Lisa.
"Well, Lisa, we get up before sunrise, eat some good breakfast, and there's nothing but making love until noon. After lunch, we nap until two and then have more love making until about five. After dinner, we go at it again until we fall asleep about 11 p.m."
Lisa was somewhat taken back. "Is that what heaven is really like?" "Heaven?? I'm not in heaven Lisa."
"Well then where are you?"
"I'am a jack rabbit in Arizona." :crazy:
UK : East : Norfolk is cool for fat cats.. This kitty had been straying for over a year (thus not guaranteed regular food supplies) and was yet still overweight when the rescue took him in!
A cat which had been missing for almost a year has been reunited with its owner thanks to a pet charity.
Claire Seymour, from Keswick, near Norwich, spent months searching to find her missing cat who had escaped through a window. Without any leads she began to think she would never find him.
Feline Care Cat Rescue received reports about a heavily pregnant female that had been a stray in Poringland for six weeks. When the team rushed to admit the supposed expectant mother they realised they were in fact dealing with a very overweight neutered male.
Molly Cutmore, from the charity, said: “We were really relieved to find that this gentle giant was microchipped so somewhere a loving home was missing him.”
By using the National Microchip Reunification Database, Junior, who had been missing for 11 months, was reunited with his stunned but ecstatic owner.
It remains a mystery how Junior managed to find his way six miles from Keswick to Poringland but without his microchip he would never have found his home again.
Miss Seymour had kept her chip up to date so even after almost a year she was still able to be reunited with her three-year-old cat Junior.
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