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[Major Fuckup]

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The engines on loan to the museum and been stored outside and were waiting to be collected by the owner.
So when an unidentified man turned up on October 27 and claimed to be the owner, the Deutsches Technikmuseum handed over the keys and the two engines were driven off onto a local railway.
When the real owner turned up to collect his engines a few days later he was told: 'Sorry, we have already handed them over.'
The two engines and the carriage were last seen being driven off on a train track into the neighbouring state of Brandenburg.
German police say they have currently no leads to go on and are appealing for witnesses.

Heard that on the radio this morning and i lost it

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/846122-two-lo...len-from-museum

[Sgt. Rho]

What happened to German Bureaucracy!?

[SquigPie]

:facepalm:

[Rich19]

My college, according to the Mail.

[SquigPie]

:facepalm:

Is it for real?

Edited by SquigPie, 10 November 2010 - 20:34.

[CJ]

Oh god, if that's the photo of dean on that article, then the student better had to be extremely drunk D;

[Rich19]

The whole "indecent proposal" thing is a huge misquotation (no such thing actually occurred). But the thing involving people "indecently exposing themselves" in the library occurred (they were having sex in Winston Churchill's chair), as did the incident involving the guy who bottled someone at the ball then got mauled by the police dog two weeks later before smashing the doors. I don't know about the "casino" or the jumping out windows, although it's likely. We have fun.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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Girls severed arm grafted to her leg then reattached



Surgeons in China saved a little girl’s hand – by grafting it on to her leg for three months. Nine-year-old Ming Li lost her hand when she was run over by a tractor on her way to school in July.

But her arm was too badly damaged to reattach it to her wrist so doctors temporarily attached it to her right calf instead. Dr Hou Jianxi, spokesman for the hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, said the hand had now been transplanted back on to her arm.

“When she came in, her left hand was completely severed from her body. It was very scary,” he told the Zhoukou Evening Post. ”But Ming Li can now move her wrist again and her left hand is a healthy pink colour proving that the blood is circulating well.”

Li will need two more operations over the next year. One to improve her hand functions and some plastic surgery to remove her scars. But Dr Hou said: “After surgery, and with plenty of physiotherapy, we are confident her left hand will be capable of doing most things.

“We can’t give a precise percentage of how much movement she will get back but she should be able to look after herself and even drive a car.”

http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/11/girl...leg-reattached/

Now that's what I call using SCIENCE! D:

[SquigPie]

Kinda like some of the things my sister described (she's studying medicine). Insane, what they can do today.

[Ghostrider]

She must've had trouble putting pants on... and when she did have them on, I wonder how people said "Hey you, get your hand out of your pants... oh, I'm sorry."

[Alias]

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A motorist caught speeding in London two years ago moved to New Zealand only to be booked by the same police officer for again exceeding the limit, reports said.

Former London bobby Andy Flitton ticketed the man in Britain two years ago, shortly before migrating to New Zealand - then caught him again in September on a highway on the South Island, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Mr Flitton, who now works for the New Zealand traffic police, said he had forgotten about the original booking until the man approached him while he was writing out the ticket.

"He asked if I had worked in London, I said 'yes'. He asked if I used to operate the laser gun on the A5 in North London, I said 'yes'," Mr Flitton told the newspaper.

"And he said 'I thought it was you, you gave me my last speeding ticket there two years ago'."

Mr Flitton said the man told him he had moved to New Zealand two weeks before his latest booking, unaware his nemesis was also in the same country.

"We must have some sort of connection," he said. "He only ever broke the law twice and both times I was the one to give him a ticket... it just shows what a small world it really is."

http://www.abc.net.a.../08/3087742.htm

[Pav:3d]

Weird, a third ticket would begin the apocalypse?

[Destiny]

'Long arm of the law', hahaha

[Major Fuckup]

WIN!

[Kichō]

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Man wants to marry Christmas tree

According to the Web.orange.co.uk on December 22, a Wiltshire man famous for celebrating Christmas every day is now planning to marry his Christmas tree.

Andy Park, 47, has eaten Christmas dinner every day for the past 17 years.

"I love my Christmas tree more than anything else, so that's why I want to marry it. I've already got a ring, although I'm not sure yet which branch I'll want to hang it on," said Park.

Park said that although he'd only had the plastic tree for two years, he felt it was like "his best friend" and never got tired of seeing it sitting in his living room.

However, he is having problems finding a vicar who will perform the service.

http://language.glob...-12/604105.html Everyday..?

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Biscuit city!

A photo shows a "biscuit city" was being built with nearly 100,000 biscuits for Christmas and the New Year on December 23 at a shopping center in Shanghai.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/www/english/lang...-12/604299.html click link for picture.

edit: missed a piece from first article

Edited by Kichō, 25 December 2010 - 13:27.

[Alias]

LOL

[Destiny]

Oh wow and I thought...was bad...now there's trees?!

[n5p29]

some kind of faggoTREE?

[SquigPie]

Wonder what the guy whose birthday he's celebrating would've thought about it.

Edited by SquigPie, 25 December 2010 - 14:53.

[Kichō]

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West Yorkshire Police list 'ridiculous' 999 calls

Police in West Yorkshire have revealed a list of "ridiculous" 999 calls which they say put lives at risk by diverting resources away from real emergencies.

One person dialled 999 to report a packet of rice missing from a cupboard while another called for advice about a snoring dog.

And one woman from West Yorkshire decided she needed police help when a black cat got into her house.

A police spokesman said: "These calls are so ridiculous it's astonishing."

The woman with the cat in her house spent almost two minutes telling a 999 operator she needed police assistance.

'Life or death'


Emergency operators in the county have also taken calls about a broken freezer and a dead pigeon in a garden.

Ch Insp Michael Quirk, of West Yorkshire Police's communications division, said: "Each call often takes minutes to deal with as our staff have to clarify the situation.

"It might not sound like much but if someone is trying to get through to report a genuine life or death emergency then a minute is a very long time to wait.

"I cannot stress enough that the 999 number is for emergencies only."

'Silly calls'

He said that was defined as a situation where there was likely to be danger to life, the use of or immediate threat of violence, serious injury to a person or serious damage to property.

Mr Quirk said: "Typically we receive over 1,000 calls a day to the 999 number and our operatives have to deal with each one accordingly.

"Demand for our services often increases when we have issues such as the recent heavy snowfall to contend with.

"With more snow forecast, and the festive season to deal with, it is more important than ever that we are able to deal with emergencies as quickly as possible and not have our time taken up with silly calls."

... I'm speechless

edit: forgot link http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-12076300

Edited by Kichō, 25 December 2010 - 21:37.

[Destiny]

Heh, seems like a pretty common thing here too. People callin' the cops over McDonald nuggets and stuff...

[GuardianTempest]

Hey where's the news about

Spoiler

the UK banning pornographic input

? I've seen it on Data Realms.

[BeefJeRKy]

What's with people wanting to marry inanimate objects?

[Ion Cannon!]

Scope, on 2 Jan 2011, 12:30, said:

What's with people wanting to marry inanimate objects?

Because they're not right in the head. Maybe they should be told that instead of certain psychologists saying It's "normal" behavior.

[SquigPie]

Ion Cannon!, on 2 Jan 2011, 15:52, said:

Scope, on 2 Jan 2011, 12:30, said:

What's with people wanting to marry inanimate objects?

Because they're not right in the head. Maybe they should be told that instead of certain psychologists saying It's "normal" behavior.

Well, everyone's got a fetish, wether you're insane or not depends on how you act upon that fetish.