News of the Weird - this just in!

[Nereus]

Ohhh, Lincoln Austraaaalia, now it all makes sense!

Sorry, not this time:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -23458048/

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/ ... se/Lincoln

[dtaai-maai]

I stand corrected! But the West Australia Chronicle must have been pretty desperate for news! Or maybe they just like their blondes BIG!

[pharvey]

World's hottest chilli contest leaves two in hospital

A 'world's hottest chilli' competition at a curry restaurant left two people in hospital.

Emergency services were called to Kismot Restaurant's curry-eating challenge, on St Leonards Place, Edinburgh, after competitors started writhing on the floor in agony, vomiting and fainting during the contest.

One participant, Curie Kim was so ill after sampling the "Kismot Killer" that she had to be taken by ambulance to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary twice in a matter of hours.

Today, the Scottish Ambulance Service said it wanted the restaurant to review the way the event was managed.

Paramedics attended the event on Saturday - the busiest day of the week for the ambulance service - costing the service several hundred pounds.

Participants were required to sign a legal disclaimer prior to taking part in the competition, and two members of the British Red Cross were on hand, but they could not cope with the nature of the injuries sustained.

Curry house owner Abdul Ali admitted that he would have to "tone down" the contest, but said the challenge had raised hundreds of pounds for charity CHAS.

He added that half of the 20 people who took part in the challenge had dropped out after witnessing the first 10 diners vomiting, collapsing, sweating and panting.

Previously the restaurant's Kismot Killer dish has caused diners to suffer nose bleeds and one elderly man had to go to hospital.

Curie, 21, a Korean exchange student at Edinburgh University, came second in the competition, but she admitted the accolade "came with a price".

She said: "I've always enjoyed spicy foods and thought this was for a good cause. But it came with a price, I had to be taken to the ERI twice.

"I first went to hospital at around 4pm and the second time was at 9pm. It got really bad. I have never endured such pain in my life."

Mr Ali said he felt the competition had gone well, but that he had overestimated how much heat the competitors could take.

Beverly Jones, from Newington, was crowned curry queen after she managed to finish nine spoonfuls of the chilli-filled dish.

Mike Lavin, from Polwarth, came fifth, but he, too, had to be taken to the ERI.

Local councillor Gordon Mackenzie branded the event a "shambles" and said: "The owners owe a debt to the ambulance service, and I hope they'll find some way of making it up to them."

A spokesman for the ambulance service said: "We would urge the organisers to review the way in which this event is managed in future in order to avoid another situation where emergency ambulances are required to treat their customers."

[dtaai-maai]

Curie Kim KO'd by Kismot Killer Chilli...

[STEVE G]

Killer Sharks Invade Golf Course In Oz

Water hazards are a challenge for anyone who plays golf, but on the 14th tee at the Carbrook Golf Club in Brisbane there is another reason to be concerned.
Half a dozen man-eating bullsharks live in the lake in the centre of the course where their fins poking through the water have become a regular sight.
The sharks got onto the Queensland golf course when it flooded some years ago after a river broke its banks.

They became stranded when the water receded, but now they are thriving and even breeding.
"You can't believe how close you are...just six feet away," club general manager Scott Wagstaff said.
"There's no drama, it's become a positive thing for the golf course. They are amazing. I've become a shark lover since working here."


Although the lake is well stocked with fish, Mr Wagstaff sometimes throws in meat to encourage the sharks to come near the surface.
"I'm sure they are aggressive when you are in the water but when you are out here feeding them they are beautiful to watch," he told Sky News.
The sharks have become renowned in the region and there is even a monthly tournament called the "Shark Lake Challenge".


Golfers often pause during games for a few minutes to see if they can spot the sharks before they head off to the next tee.
The sharks, which are between 8 and 10ft long, have proved quite a hit at corporate events and their fins have even been spotted during wedding ceremonies held on the course.
Local children once jumped in the lake to retrieve lost golf balls for extra pocket money - but it is something they have not done for a while.
(SKYNEWS)

[PeteC]

Just be thankful we live in Thailand and only have to worry about the odd stray dog chasing our bikes! Pete

[migrant]

Just be thankful we live in Thailand and only have to worry about the odd stray dog chasing our bikes! Pete

Here in Southern California we've had some mountain lion attacks on bikers and joggers. Hard to believe in such a populated area, but the mountains that we back up to are large.

[Nereus]

Boy caught driving armed and towing dead donkey

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... ad-donkey/

Northern Territory Police say a Central Australian man will face court after his 13-year-old son was caught driving a damaged vehicle with a loaded rifle in the front seat and towing a dead donkey.

Police pulled the vehicle over on Coniston Road, about 160 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, about 1.30pm on Thursday.

They say the donkey carcass was being towed with a chain.

Two other firearms, a 20-gauge shotgun and a high-powered .243 rifle, and 100 rounds of ammunition were found on the back seat of the dual cab utility.

Police say the boy's 52-year-old father was at a nearby cattle station and will be summonsed to appear in court on firearms charges.

Sergeant Conan Robertson said members of the Southern Traffic Operations Unit were conducting a rural patrol when they pulled over the ute for a roadside breath test.

"Police found a 13-year-old boy driving the unroadworthy vehicle, with a loaded .22 bolt-action rifle in the front seat," he said.

"The rifle had nine rounds in the magazine and one round in the chamber.

"The vehicle was unroadworthy, with severe damage to the front end and the bonnet was held down with a tie-down strap."

Police took the boy back to a nearby station and spoke to his father.

Sergeant Robertson says the man will be summonsed for numerous offences, including delivering a firearm to an unlicensed person, failing to secure a firearm and permitting an unlicensed shooter to possess a firearm.

The firearms have been seized and the boy will be considered for Youth Diversion for traffic and firearms offences.

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Meanwhile, back in Alice Springs, our coloured brethren are laying around drunk on every other street corner just waiting until the dole office opens to get some more cash to buy some more booze, or it gets dark and they can steal some.

The kid has probably been driving since he could reach the pedals, and using a gun since he was big enough to carry one.

[STEVE G]

Austrian flyer rescued twice in two weeks off same cliff

An Austrian paraglider had to be rescued off the same cliff for the second time in two weeks, after he tried to retrieve equipment abandoned the first time around, police said Sunday.

The 27-year-old man had had to leave his 4,000-euro ($5,500) paraglider behind when he was rescued by helicopter on October 2, after crashing into the cliff near Salzburg, where he was literally left hanging, although uninjured.

Hoping to retrieve the expensive equipment, the young man and a friend got stuck again Saturday on the same cliff and had to be rescued again... with the equipment this time.

[PeteC]

Could this be Rider on a mission of mercy in Issan? A feel good story for sure. Pete

[pharvey]

Fair excuse.......

Zimbabwean man claims prostitute turned to donkey

A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, according to state media.

"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.

Moyo, 28, was arrested in the town of Zvishavane, about 185 miles south of the capital Harare on Sunday.

He said he had paid $25 for a prostitute, and was surprised Sunday morning when he heard people accusing him of having sex with a donkey.

Moyo has been charged with bestiality and remanded in custody. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said.

[Nereus]

Five-year-old drives car in search of mother

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wo ... of-mother/

Ameleah Kegly's mother wasn't at her school bus stop on Monday afternoon like normal.

The five-year-old walked home and let herself into her Ohio home but three hours later, 31-year-old Christina Hunter still hadn't arrived.

At about 7pm when she was tired of waiting in the dark, the plucky kindergartener decided to take matters into her own hands.

She found the keys to her mother's SUV and got behind the wheel to go out searching. She worked out how to turn the headlights and put the key in the ignition, but couldn't start it.

The car rolled down the driveway into her neighbour's yard, where Ameleah decided she needed some help and called emergency services.

"Um, my mom’s car backed out on accident and I need the police to pull my mom’s car back in," she told the operator.

"The car is staying on running now you got to get here quick, my mom is going to be pissed at me."

"Where is your mom at? Is she in the car," the dispatcher asked.

"Umm, no, I don’t know where she is at and I’m lost," Ameleah said. "She gone and I miss her so much."

A police officer Ryan Grimshaw arrived at the home to find Ameleah unharmed, but scared.

"I just found a little girl standing in the doorway by herself on the phone," he told the Mansfield News Journal.

"She was scared, but she opened up pretty quickly. She said she came home from school and no one was there. She said she had been playing with her two cats and that she was hungry, so I made her some pizza rolls and gave her a juice box. She was pretty happy about that."

It turns out Ameleah's mother had been taken to hospital earlier in the day in an ambulance. Although she alleges she told Ameleah's father to pick the girl up from school, he denies receiving the message.

Although no charges have been laid, the Department of Children Services is looking into the incident.

[STEVE G]

(AFP)-A bloodied body caused a fright in an Austrian motorway rest area on Tuesday morning, before police raised it again from the dead.

Passers-by alerted the authorities at dawn that a body covered in blood lay in a rest area off the Tauern motorway near Salzburg.

As it turned out, the "zombie" was just a drunken young man in a Halloween costume and his face covered in fake blood, sleeping it off in his car, police said in a statement.

The 23-year-old driver in the living dead costume had stopped at the rest area after he damaged a tyre and could not continue on his way.

He had his licence suspended for drunk driving.

[STEVE G]

Hackers mistake French rugby club for German stock exchange

(AFP) A fansite for a French rugby union team is recovering after hackers mistook it for the website of the German stock exchange and launched an attack.

The allezdax.com website for second division Dax in rugby-loving southwest France was shut down for two weeks after its usual 700 daily page hits -- 1,200 on match days -- skyrocketed to 80,000 because of the attack.

"Our defences were certainly inadequate," one of the site's administrators who gave his name as Stephane told the France Bleu Gascogne radio station.

He said the hackers had "insulted us copiously in German" thinking they were something to do with the DAX, Germany's blue-chip stock market index.

"I only have one thing to say to them: leave us alone!" Stephane said.

"Having been attacked full-on by a young, spotty Teuton, the site is back with more security," the site's homepage said on Thursday.

The site notes that as a result of the attack, it is now twice as popular as the Dax club's official site.

[STEVE G]

More than a dozen suspected criminals have been arrested as part of an undercover sting operation after being duped into ringing the police to claim free beer.

Derbyshire Police said the suspects were detained after officers sent letters to a string of people who had evaded arrest for several months, urging them to claim a complimentary crate of beer from a marketing company.

'Free beer' offer snares suspects
(The Press Association)

A total of 19 suspects, wanted in connection with a range of offences including robbery, burglary and sexual assault, fell for the hoax and called the number on the letters, which put them through to officers based at Chesterfield Police Station.

Police then arranged a time and date for the free alcohol to be dropped off, but instead arrested those awaiting free beer at locations in Chesterfield, Staveley, Alfreton, Ilkeston, Sheffield and Nottingham.

Chief Inspector Graham McLaughlin, who led the operation, said: "These suspects are people who have managed to evade arrest for some time so we have used different tactics to find them.

"It has been very cost-effective as it can take a lot of time and money to track people down.

"We use a variety of methods to arrest those suspected of committing criminal offences and we will continue to use new tactics when necessary."