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[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.

He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.

The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.

An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.

The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.

The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions.

http://news.bbc.co.u...fic/8551122.stm

Speechless.

[Chyros]

No, but seriously.

WHAT.

I know some people kind of lose themselves online, but letting your baby starve really does it.

[SquigPie]

JRK, on 29 Nov 2009, 18:22, said:

Necrophilia? I've heard some stories here as well.

I know I'm a little late but..

I didn't know that you were allowed to talk about necrophilia around these forums???

I got warned for just mentioning that once....

And about the internet couple.

I'm to disturbed to make a crappy joke about that, AND THAT MEANS SOMETHING!

Edited by SquigPie, 06 March 2010 - 20:06.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

SquigPie, on 6 Mar 2010, 20:01, said:

I didn't know that you were allowed to talk about necrophilia around these forums???

I got warned for just mentioning that once....

I highly doubt you've ever been warned purely for mentioning necrophilia.

[Libains]

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Man used penis to assault female police officer

A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined.
Marium Varinauskas, 28, tried to strike the officer on the head with his penis when she was called out to his flat, but she got out of the way.
Lithuanian Varinauskas admitted a charge of assault at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was fined £600.
The court heard he had been drinking heavily and could not remember committing the offence at his home in Aberdeen.
Police were called to his home by his girlfriend, who had complained about him being drunk last November.
They arrived to find the self-employed engineer sitting on the sofa wearing a pair of underpants.

He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed
John Hardie
Defence solicitor
Fiscal depute Elaine Lynch said: "The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."
Defence solicitor John Hardie said: "He was sitting on the couch drunk with his pants on.
"He can't remember anything but accepts that if that's what the police say then that's what happened.
"He has never been so drunk before that day and accepts he has to take full responsibility. He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed."
His not guilty plea to committing a breach of the peace by uttering offensive and sexual remarks was accepted by the Crown.
Sheriff Annella Cowan was told that the Lithuanian had now quit binge drinking because of the incident.

Some odd people out there these days....

http://news.bbc.co.u...8570398.stm?lsm

[Ion Cannon!]

AJ, on 16 Mar 2010, 20:59, said:

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Man used penis to assault female police officer

A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined.
Marium Varinauskas, 28, tried to strike the officer on the head with his penis when she was called out to his flat, but she got out of the way.
Lithuanian Varinauskas admitted a charge of assault at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was fined £600.
The court heard he had been drinking heavily and could not remember committing the offence at his home in Aberdeen.
Police were called to his home by his girlfriend, who had complained about him being drunk last November.
They arrived to find the self-employed engineer sitting on the sofa wearing a pair of underpants.

He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed
John Hardie
Defence solicitor
Fiscal depute Elaine Lynch said: "The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."
Defence solicitor John Hardie said: "He was sitting on the couch drunk with his pants on.
"He can't remember anything but accepts that if that's what the police say then that's what happened.
"He has never been so drunk before that day and accepts he has to take full responsibility. He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed."
His not guilty plea to committing a breach of the peace by uttering offensive and sexual remarks was accepted by the Crown.
Sheriff Annella Cowan was told that the Lithuanian had now quit binge drinking because of the incident.

Some odd people out there these days....

http://news.bbc.co.u...8570398.stm?lsm

Well at least he seems to have wisened up once he sobered up. I'm sure some nutjobs would deny everything and accuse the police of lying.

[Pav:3d]

Omg, what a "once, when i was really drunk" story

[Destiny]

Well technically a penis is weapon, you know...he just...weaponized it further

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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The American card-stacking master has just beaten his own previous world record, by completing a model of the Venetian Macau hotel and casino, made completely out of playing cards.

Brian Berg, the man behind the famous key-card hotel, spent 44 days working on the amazing model, using a total of 218,792 playing cards. The fragile piece of architecture, which is now on display in the heart of Macau’s Cotai Strip, was Berg’s most challenging project yet.

The playing card model of the Venetian Macau weighs an impressive 272 Kg, is 35 feet long and 10 feet tall. The most impressive thing about Brian Berg’s masterpiece is it contains no glue of tape.

Click for more pics

[Destiny]

Holy shit man, that's quite some dedication and fine motor skills...I'd love to throw a ball at them

[Warbz]

All I can say...

[Chyros]

Holy shit, that thing actually DWARFS the guy too Oo .

[deltaepsilon]

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A Chinese teenager has survived being stabbed through the head with a 14cm blade after being accused of cheating in a computer game.

Xiao Wei, 16, was playing the online game Counter-Strike at an internet cafe in Mishazi, Jilin province, when he was dragged outside and brutally attacked, the Daily Mail newspaper reports.

Hmm, I guess this might prove a lot more effective than current anti-cheat software...

[CJ]

I do have some difficulty to believe that news...
First I don't think that any sane person would stab another to death just because of cheating, and secondly because no human is capable of surviving a stab to the brain D; (Unless he's a no brainer )

[Warbz]

It's not that far fetched. People have tried to commit suicide with shotguns before. Blows of the front half of their head and all they can do afterwards is facepalm... kinda... until they bleed to death or something.

[Pav:3d]

Oh wow,
people still play counter strike?

[CJ]

W!, on 24 Mar 2010, 9:48, said:

It's not that far fetched. People have tried to commit suicide with shotguns before. Blows of the front half of their head and all they can do afterwards is facepalm... kinda... until they bleed to death or something.

Still, stabbing someone because you think he cheated is hard to believe D:

Pav3d, on 24 Mar 2010, 10:48, said:

Oh wow,
people still play counter strike?

Heh, you should come to our publinets (internet cafés) here. Apart from a single one near my high school which has games like MW, L4D, TF2 and such, all the other publinets I've been to only have games like Counter-Strike, Diablo, Command & Conquer Generals (yay!) and the Lord of the Rings : BFME D:
Let's not speak about the quality either, cathodic monitors FTW :o

[n5p29]

OMG, that can be classified as IRL temp-ban.
people can be so aggressive just because a game.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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A man from the West Midlands, who was believed to have debts of up to £50,000, had a sex change in a desperate bid to avoid debt collectors.

The man, who cannot be named, had got into so much debt that he decided to switch identities completely.

Actress Sarah Thom revealed that she found out about the man after speaking to workers at the Wolverhampton Credit Union to research her role playing a debt-ridden cleaner in a touring play called Forever in Your Debt.

She said that she met up with workers at the union – which provides financial advice and loans to members – who revealed its most extreme cases of debt to her.

One was the case of man from the West Midlands area who decided to have a sex change in a bid to dodge debt collectors.

The man is believed to have gone through with the operation, but is now thought to be in the process of sorting out his debts and paying off his creditors.

He is thought to have built up the massive debt – around £50,000 – after falling behind on his mortgage payments and credit card bills after losing his job.

It was also revealed that the owner of a 99p store in Wolverhampton had to shut down after penny-pinching customers demanded 1p change, while another man took a job as a debt collector only to have to hassle his own family for repayments.

Ms Thom, said: "The thing I picked up was the humour people have at the point of tragedy."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cri...collectors.html

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A 101-year-old woman in China has baffled doctors after growing a huge goat-like horn on her forehead.

Zhang Ruifang claims the growth first appeared only last year and has since expanded to be more than 6cm long, Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports.

PHOTOS: Woman's horn stuns family

Now her family in Linlou, Henan province, are concerned about a second mark on the other side of her forehead.

"[At first] we didn’t pay too much attention to it," said Mrs Zhang’s youngest son Zhang Guozheng.

"Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead — it’s quite possible that it’s another horn."

Mrs Zhang’s growth has not been officially diagnosed but the newspaper said it was most likely an extreme version of a cutaneous horn.

Cutaneous horns are made up of keratin — the protein found in fingernails — and are typically seen in elderly people who have had prolonged exposure to sunlight.

But the growths are usually only a few millimetres in length.

Cutaneous horns can be surgically removed but there is no way to cure the condition, meaning they may grow back.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1025048/w...orn-on-forehead

DEVIL WOMAN D;

Edited by Bob, 27 March 2010 - 22:32.

[Pav:3d]

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LONDON - A Chinese farmer has threatened to chop off his enormous man boobs after finding no solution to his growing “moobs” problem.


Guo Feng, 53, is forced to wear a heavy coat at all times, even in hot weather as locals take a dig at his condition.

And the distressed worker is tired of his breasts getting in the way of his labour.

“About ten years ago my chest started to get larger but I didn’t think much of it as I was putting on weight all over. But in the last few years it’s become unbearable and I have been from one hospital to the other with nobody able to help me,” The Sun quoted Feng as saying.

“I have spent all my money on examinations and tests and am still no nearer a solution - in fact my breasts are now bigger than ever. I sometimes think the doctors don’t want to help me with this because they find me a medical curiosity,” Feng added.

Doctors have cited Feng’s as the world’s biggest set of man boobs.

Dr Zhang Lilan at the Jinan Chest Hospital in Beijing said: “The man is in every way male except for his enormous breasts. He is a farmer and says they are extremely uncomfortable as he has to do a lot of manual work and they get in the way of everything.

“We wondered if he had eaten any poisons or contaminants but have found nothing after testing his blood. His genetic material is also normal. It is not a cancer.

“It seems to be fatty tissue. The best we can suggest is that it is the biggest case of man boobs ever.” (ANI)

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[WNxMastrefubu]

hmm, no piccs unluky

[Brad]

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Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon'

[CJ]

Brad, on 30 Mar 2010, 13:28, said:

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Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon'

So that's where Bob spends his vacations!

[SquigPie]

That's no Pacman!
That's a Squig!

[Sgt. Nuker]

^ I think not.