TINY MINDS

Archive for January, 2007

A reason, beyond the obvious ones, not to swim drunk in the Black Sea during winter.

Murderous Crimean cetaceans mar New Year dip
By Chris Williams

RZSL Ukrainian emergencty workers saved a drunken swimmer in the Black Sea from an attack by a pod of killer dolphins who were trying to drown him.

The man was reportedly “heavily under the influence of alcohol” at the time. He had braved the near-freezing dolphin-infested waters in the belief they would be good for his health. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.

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Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

ATLANTA – A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth’s fragility, made its point a bit early — just three months after its unveiling, it collapsed.

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Now, if only the Baathists in Iraq would take a page from this poor deluded soul’s book:

Kolkata, India – A 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in response to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, police and family members said on Thursday.

“She said they had hanged a patriot. We didn’t take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain Saddam did during the execution,” the girl’s father, Manmohan Karmakar, told AFP by phone from the town of Kharda.

He said his daughter, called Moon Moon, had become extremely depressed after watching Saddam’s execution on television.

“She kept watching the scene over and again and didn’t take food on Saturday and Sunday to protest the hanging,” he said.

Police superintendent Pravin Kumar confirmed the suicide, saying the girl had strung herself up from a ceiling fan and was found dead early on Wednesday.

The communist-ruled state of West Bengal has condemned Saturday’s execution of Saddam, with thousands of people taking to the streets.

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It’s one thing to be a dumpster diver — it’s quite another to use one as a bedroom. In fact, it can be downright dangerous:

OAK PARK, Mich. — Authorities said a man who fell asleep in a trash container awoke inside a garbage truck, but was saved after making a frantic call to police.

The truck was about to compact its load. The man told 911 operators that he’d dozed off in a trash container and woke up in a garbage truck. That call came in to police in Oak Park, Mich., outside Detroit. An officer said the guy didn’t know where he was.

Police said they had to stop all garbage trucks in the area after the call came in, but they were not able to locate the man right away. As police began checking on garbage trucks, they lost contact with the man, whose cell phone battery fell out. But in the nick of time, one officer spotted a truck that was stopped, with the driver compacting a load. The officer banged on the side — and someone responded. The driver emptied his trash into the parking lot and out fell the man, who said he’d been looking for bottles to collect the deposit on. He wasn’t hurt.

Police said the man was not homeless, but unemployed and was trying to make ends meet.

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