Oddities and Humor

There are ways of making a buck that are behaviors that aren't eat-up-with-a-dumbass. He picked an illegal one and the wrong one. Gator behavior was a known thing to this man. He tempted fate and now he's called Lefty.

"She's a trampire" ha

Best Will performance I have seen.

Maybe big hair..

Show, that's show. . .

A Surprise in a Hot Dog Cart
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/business/media/trojan-vibrations-giveaways-in-manhattan-via-hot-dog-carts.html?_r=2&ref=business

The Twelve Most Egregiously Stupid Fast-Food Employee Mishaps
http://boston.grubstreet.com/2012/08/fast-food-firing-burger-king.html#photo=1x00002

Christy Moore - Weekend in Amsterdam. (Not for the easily offended)

One of my favorite people..
I learned about him from you, Euro.
And, egads, I love his voice (and playing).
Terrific, that was.

"Yeah, boss, hey, I found a bag outside, kinda heavy, but I took care of it."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/us/bag-mishandled/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Joe K. Nation

that's

Joe(KABOOM)Nation

This one's nice and odd:




Rome airport staff find unexpected item in bagging area: a sleeping man
Security staff were shocked to see human outline appear on monitors as suitcases trundled along conveyor belt

John Hooper in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 August 2012 15.00 BST

A Norweigan tourist being carried into the x-ray security check after falling asleep on the luggage carousel at Italy's Fiumicino airport. Click to see full picture. Photograph: www.repubblica.it
Airport security officials monitoring bags for loading at Rome's Fiumicino airport were shocked to see the outline – and several of the internal organs – of a human being on their X-ray screens. Minutes later, they found a 36-year-old Norwegian fast asleep in the collection area, having spent about a quarter of an hour trundling peacefully, if perilously, through Terminal 3.

The man was on Thursday facing charges – and undergoing medical checks – in connection with his unauthorised ride. Police said he had entered the terminal to catch a flight back to Oslo.

According to a report in the Italian daily La Repubblica, the man, who appeared to have been drinking heavily, dumped his rucksack on the luggage belt of an unoccupied check-in point, then lay down and went to sleep on the main beltwhere checked-in baggage is deposited. When the belt was activated by the ground attendant at another desk the Norwegian he was carried, fast asleep, through the powerful XX-ray machinery. Police said his unscheduled journey had not exposed any security risk."There is a security system – a sort of roll-up blind – which can only be opened by the member of staff who loads the baggage," a police officer said. "[The Norwegian] could have carried on going round the main belt, but he could never have ended up in sensitive areas of the airport."

The paper said the failsafe system was introduced about 10 years ago after a tramp found his way on to the conveyor belt and was carried off on a similar journey.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/09/norweigan-tourist-xray-rome-airport

Teddy bear air drop still roils in Belarus


For the rest of the article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0809/Teddy-bear-air-drop-still-roils-in-Belarus

This photo provided by Sean McAfee from Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, shows a dead raccoon that McAfee saw with the road dividing line painted over it before he stopped his motorcycle to take the picture on Franklin Rd. in Johnstown, Pa.

According to PennDOT traffic engineer John Ambrosini, paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually have a foreman on the job to clear any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn't have a foreman that day, and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic on the curvy, narrow road, so the line could be repainted without the carcass in the way.

And now a report about 10,000 square miles of rocks floating in the ocean:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/10/10000-square-mile-volcanic-rock-cluster-found-floating-near-new-zealand/<br />
Joe(That's a lot of pumice if you ask me.)Nation

I got a big fat "page not found"

Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/tv-amazon-assault-rifle/

It's well-known that there were shortages of many items during World War II---and caffeine was one. It was such a problem, in fact, that the chemists at Coca-Cola tried to find a substitute, even experimenting with a derivative of bat guano. The idea was nixed by an executive who was afraid of the public backlash.

Now I know why I don't order anything I can't physically touch!

Gee, I don't know why they thought there could be any backlash?