No Soliciting
by T D Wolf on Aug.30, 2010, under Consumer
The Original Automato
by T D Wolf on Aug.28, 2010, under Food, Technology
It still needs some work.
Fish Story
by T D Wolf on Aug.26, 2010, under Animals, Nature, Recreation
When the fisherman feels that tug on his line, he’s hoping to reel in a beautiful tasty fish.
You never know what will take the bait.
Sometimes you get lucky.
Sometimes you go home disappointed.
You might catch something completely unexpected.
That’s what happened to Bruce Chandler of Holmen, Wisconsin. He was hoping to catch some bass with his new Ish’s Phat Frog fishing lure in a Mississippi River slough near Goose Island.
A coyote leapt from the tall grass on shore, grabbed the frog lure, and held on.
“All I thought was that coyote had my $9 frog that I had just bought and I wanted it back,” said Chandler, who used his trolling motor to pull the coyote into open water. ”Once I got it out of the weeds and into open water, it became pretty submissive.”
He called a friend who helped him remove the hook from the coyote and recover his lure. The exhausted coyote latched onto his friend’s trolling motor so he used his boat to push his friend’s boat to shore.
“The coyote shook itself, rested a minute or so and then just walked away,” Cbandler said.
Parking in Zurich
by T D Wolf on Aug.26, 2010, under Culture, Health, Pornography, Recreation
You can take care of a lot of things while staying in your car. There are drive-up windows for fast food.
You can do your banking.
Drop off or pick up your dry cleaning.
You can even go grocery shopping by drive-through.
Paradoxically, there are even drive-through liquor stores.
You can pick up your stuff at the drug store.
Zurich police chief Daniel Leupi loves the idea of drive-up convenience, so he’s adopting a model that’s already being used in Essen and Cologne, Germany: Drive-in prostitution.
Discreet spot for a quick one
The idea is to let prostitutes ply their trade more discreetly. Zurich has a thriving red light district, and local homeowners have lodged thousands of complaints about the activities.
‘They get up to all sorts in broad daylight – and we’re sick to death of looking at it,’ said one.
Police spokesman Reto Casanova said: ‘We can’t get rid of prostitution, so have to learn how to control it.’
Always know the height of your vehicle before you use the drive-up
A Roll In The Hay
by T D Wolf on Aug.26, 2010, under Miscellaneous, Recreation
Day Camp Activities
by T D Wolf on Aug.25, 2010, under Games, Kids, Recreation
Camp is an experience that will last a lifetime. For the older kids there are camps that specialize in just about every activity from archery to zoology. Everybody’s heard about what goes on at music camp (literally, nothing of note). And for the younger kids there’s day camp.
The days activities may include story readings and performance games, sports, acting, dancing, and singing. But today’s kids want more.
The mother of one six year old in Leesburg, Florida wasn’t happy with the activities her kid was participating in. Her son and another six year old were caught performing oral and anal sex at a day camp run by the city.
The incident occured under a piece of playground equipment, just large enough for the kids to get underneath and conceal what they were doing from counselors. Another camper noticed what was going on.
When counselors caught on to the unscheduled activities, they followed their standard procedure. ”We immediately contacted law enforcement, we brought in the Department of Children and Families and the Children’s Advocacy Center to see if we’d determine where this inappropriate contact originated,” said Deputy City Manager Jay Evans.
According to both 6-year-old boys, an 8-year-old boy at camp taught them what to do and this wasn’t their first time.
“They believe that it happened between eight and 10 times over the course of three weeks,” the mother said.
All three children who were involved in the incident no longer attend camp, and the city has since boarded up all access under the playground equipment.
What’s In The Wheelie Bin?
by T D Wolf on Aug.25, 2010, under Animals, Crime
The new occupants were moving into the semi-detached house in Cobham, Surrey when they noticed a human foot protruding from the wheelie bin (I know, it’s a British term, but I like it) in front of the house. The body had probably been there at least three weeks, since the previous resident had moved away.
The former occupant, Peter Wallner, moved to the house on Hamilton Avenue four years ago with his wife Melanie. The couple reportedly broke up two years ago, and Wallner was involved in a new relationship.
Peter Wallner
Wallner, who was born in Germany, sold the house for around £200,000.
Peter Wallner with unknown child
“Surrey Police were called by a woman at around 3:20pm on Saturday, after a human foot was seen protruding from the bin.
“Scenes of crime officers carefully emptied the bin to preserve forensic opportunities, recovering the full intact body of a white woman believed to be in her 30s, which had been surrounded by rubbish.”
Wallner was recently arrested and charged with the murder of his previous wife, who hadn’t been seen since the breakup. He was not caught stuffing his wife into the wheelie bin by surveillance camera.
Old Family Recipe
by T D Wolf on Aug.25, 2010, under Consumer, Food, Miscellaneous
Sleeping With One Eye Open
by T D Wolf on Aug.25, 2010, under Health, Media, Technology
Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
When Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence decided to have his badly damaged eye removed from its socket, he chose to replace it not with a prosthetic eye, but with a wireless camera. The decision was easy for him.
”Every person I know who’s lost an eye immediately thinks, ‘I should think about getting a camera,’ ” he said.
Rob Spence with conventional prosthetic eye
Spence has been legally blind in his right eye for years. He injured the eye as a child while mishandling a gun. Several operations were attempted to restore sight, but doctors eventually suggested he have it removed.
”As soon as I knew the eye was coming out, I thought about the camera and I started making the calls,” Spence, now 36, says.
We have the technology. It just needs some refinement.
Spence and a team of engineers and eye specialists developed an eye-camera, a miniature camera and wireless transmitter fitted into his eye.
Spence, also known as Eyeborg, sports a 1.5 millimetre-square low-resolution video camera, a round circuit board, a video transmitter and a three-volt rechargeable battery, all contained in the clear acrylic used to make prosthetic eyes.
Development is progressing on other space age prosthetics.
Until everyone on earth can enjoy them.
Universal health care.
Proposed Community Center Near Historic Site Inflames Survivors
by T D Wolf on Aug.22, 2010, under Culture, History, Kids, Recreation, Religion, War and Terrorism
One of the most controversial issues in the news today involves the proposed location of a community center near a historic location that still is of fundamental importance to a group of survivors.
When a terrible tragedy has happened, the appearance of religious symbols in close proximity to the site can make survivors uncomfortable.
That someone would consider operating such an institution in the vicinity shows extreme insensitivity.
And that’s why the families of early settlers buried in the historic Miami Cemetery are angry about city plans to build a skatepark nearby.
Many of the early settlers from Miami history are buried there. It includes an exclusive “colored section”, representing the culture of Miami Beach from the beginning.
Family members and preservationists who have labored for years to improve the once-neglected, city-run cemetery are opposing a $2 million city plan to build a skateboard park just over the cemetery fence.
Extreme skaters threatening dead people at Miami Cemetery
They say they can’t imagine why the city thinks the historic locale is an appropriate setting for extreme sports. And they cringe at the thought of holding burials while skateboarders perform a few yards away.
“If your family buried you there, they buried you there peacefully. And they meant for you to stay there peacefully,” said Dorothy Graham, whose cousin Bernie Mackie, a member of the legendary Ink Spots quartet, lies under a restored headstone in the city cemetery’s black section along with other family members.
The city asserts that these skaters are in no way connected to anything that has happened at the cemetery, and that they are entitled to use the land as they want subject to zoning ordinances. Right now there’s no place for them to go.
As for the skaters, they don’t have any problems being next to a cemetery.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/21/1786592/skate-park-slated-for-site-next.html
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