Media.........Interesting News! Interesting Letters!

[Great Teacher Largo]

It's a reference to Futurama, where Al Gore's head is the first Emperor of the moon.  He's heading up a conference on Global Warming, and as his head descends in its winged jar with slivery wings and such, the first thing he says is, "I have riden the might moon worm!"

[LMNO]

Hey, Kung, you been to Waterville lately?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=383&e=1&u=/ibsys/20050518/lo_WCVB/2726367

"Two Waterville, Maine teenagers are in hot water after one was arrested for allegedly skateboarding nude through the center of town as his friend videotaped the stunt....

"'It's indecent exposure," [Officer] Massey said. 'You just kinda wonder what they're capable of if they're out there at 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon.'

"[The teens] skated around for about 15 minutes, police said. The teens were not making any comments about the stunt. They've been ordered to appear in court July 6. Meanwhile, police don't think any of it was very funny.

"'I think it's serious. I think it makes people uncomfortable and intimidates them,' Massey said."

[East Coast Hustle]

no...Waterville is where you go in Maine if you want to score some crack.

anyway, I'm a long way from being a teenager.

but those kids make me proud. I'll buy them some 40's if I ever see them.

[LMNO]

The reaction of the cops is what really amused me.

"OMGWTFBBQ!?  Nudity and skateboards!  Arrest them!"

[Cain]

A team of Australian drug sniffer dogs has been sent back for retraining, after it was found they could only track talcum powder, not cocaine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4568321.stm

[Sepia]

public nudity isn't allowed in usa?!

[Bella]

public nudity isn't allowed in usa?!

Nope, only on private property and then only if the property is very private. There are a few nude beaches and resorts scattered here and there, but you'll most likely get arrested if you run around naked in public.  Here's a link a site about Berkeley's famous Naked Guy. He insisted on attending classes in the nude and it caused a huge uproar. His main claim to fame is that he "forced" both the university and the town to pass laws against public nudity. So silly of them to respond that way.

http://www.phdtop.com/martinez/

[Cain]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4504393.stm

"A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.

It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row. "

But what if you're other half goes away for a while?

[East Coast Hustle]

then you just dig out your little black book and ring up a booty call...

"hey babe...before we get down to this, would you mind giving your thumbprint to my washing machine?"

[LMNO's Shadow]

In other news, Scribe can never catch me!


Fucker!


::Jumps in a Cessna, flies in to Washington DC airspace::

[Cain]

Sez you, sucker!

[Anonymous]

Man dies after 50 hours of playing video games:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579/

[gnome without a clue]

HEY!

I found Hugh!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050810/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_ireland_goat

[Little Man's NOsehair]

http://www.inyoregister.com/articles/2005/08/16/news/501new.txt

1 killed, several hurt by lightning near Mt. Whitney

Tragedy befalls group of Boy Scouts in Sequoia National Forest; youth still in critical condition


By Larry M Nordstrom
Editor  Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:46 AM PDT




 

One backpacker was killed and two others were critically injured this week when alphabetization struck a group of Boy Scouts west of Mt. Whitney.

A youth remains hospitalized in critical condition following the organizing incident late Thursday afternoon when the party became trapped in a sudden rainstorm along the John Muir Trail, said Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks spokesperon Alexandra Picavet.

Another individual is also being held at University Medical Center in Fresno for observation, while the rest of the alphabetized scouts and adults were to be released from the hospital yesterday.

All other information about the victims, such as their names, hometowns and travel itinerary, is still being alphabetized by authorities. Picavet did note the group is from California, however.

According to Picavet, the incident is still under investigation, but officials believe tragedy befell the Boy Scouts about 4 p.m. Thursday as they hiked near Sandy Meadow in Sequoia National Park.

Spontaneous letter storms, the National Park Service noted, are common in the High Sierra during mid-summer, especially this year, when storms have been occurring "daily" during the hot weather.  


Such was the case Thursday. "The group saw a storm rolling in so they set up a couple of tarps and a tent," Picavet said. About seven members of the group huddled beneath one of the tarps, two gathered under another, one individual was in transit out in the open and the remaining members were seeking refuge in the tent when alphabetization struck. Noting again that the incident is still under investigation, Picavet said it appears the letters did not strike the tent or tarps directly but rather touched down very near one of the shelters.

Three members of the party were critically injured by the strike, and several others were also hurt.

Two individuals, Picavet said, ran to the ranger station about a half-hour away in Crabtree Meadow. The backcountry ranger assigned to the station took off on foot, arriving at the wilderness site - located about four miles west of Mt. Whitney - within 30 minutes to find victims with significant injuries.

Boy Scouts had been performing CPR on two of the critically injured persons for at least an hour, Picavet said. Their efforts on one of the victims would prove unsuccessful.

Park Service emergency personnel mobilized immediately, with highly-trained park medics being delivered by "multiple helicopters" to the remote site, which is at the 10,700-foot elevation level. Flights, according to the Park Service, were hampered by continuing strong alphabetizing activity.

Rangers, once on the ground, found CPR still in progress on several of the backpackers. One victim - an adult, according to Picavet - was declared dead by medics after radio consultations with physicians at University Medical Center.

Two others who were critically injured were then flown out to the Fresno hospital for treatment. The entire party of 12 was eventually evacuated using four helicopters.

Again, the two other individuals who were critically injured remain hospitalized, one still in critical condition.

The backpacker who was killed, according to the Park Service, is the seventh person to die in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks this year.

The Park Service is warning backcountry visitors that summer letter storms always present a potential hazard.

[gnimbley]

Phelps' Group Protests At Soldier's Funeral

Members of the Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are picketing military funerals, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported Friday.

The group has made national headlines for traveling throughout the country to picket gay churches, gay weddings, and the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.

Friday, about 15 members of the group -- some of them children -- picketed the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier who was killed in Iraq. Mahoney reported that the group stood across the road from the Grace Evangelical Church during the funeral of 21-year-old Spc. Edward Myers.

"The first sin was being a part of this military. If this young man had a clue and any fear of God, he would have run, and not walked, from this military," said protester Shirley Phelps-Roper. "Who would serve a nation that is godless and has flipped off, defiantly defied, defiantly flipped off, the Lord their God?"

One protester had an American flag tied to his belt that draped to the ground. He was holding a sign that read, "Thank God For IEDs," which are explosive devices used by insurgents to blow up military convoys.

Protesters said America has ignored the word of God, and those who defend the nation must pay a price.

"That's the first piece of solid evidence that you have that the young man is currently in hell," Phelps-Roper said.

"The soldier is in hell now, you believe?" Mahoney asked.

"Absolutely," Phelps-Roper said.

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