WTF News - July
 

What a way to start off this month's WTF...

You've heard of the tinfoil hat, this lady takes it even further:
Tinfoil wallpaper????

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According to complementary medicine specialist Dr. David Dowson, Dacre's allergy is known as electrohypersensitivity or EHS.

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What exactly is a 'complementary medicine specialist'? Could this possibly be for real???

So if your face starts going numb and you find yourself falling over a lot, you're allergic to WiFi....good to know.

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Tests have been done with people supposedly suffering from EHS; put them in a room with a micowave tansmitter, turn it on/off and see if the can tell which is which. They can't. The whole thing is bunk.

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What exactly is a 'complementary medicine specialist'?

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Someone who cannot prescribe Haldol or other appropriate anti-psychotic drug. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

From the World Health Organization

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Conclusions

EHS is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual. EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure. Further, EHS is not a medical diagnosis, nor is it clear that it represents a single medical problem.

Physicians:
Treatment of affected individuals should focus on the health symptoms and the clinical picture, and not on the person's perceived need for reducing or eliminating EMF in the workplace or home. This requires:

* a medical evaluation to identify and treat any specific conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
* a psychological evaluation to identify alternative psychiatric/psychological conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
* an assessment of the workplace and home for factors that might contribute to the presented symptoms. These could include indoor air pollution, excessive noise, poor lighting (flickering light) or ergonomic factors. A reduction of stress and other improvements in the work situation might be appropriate.


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Old lady comes second in a cake-making contest. And she's the only entrant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/6274044.stm

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Old lady comes second in a cake-making contest. And she's the only entrant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/6274044.stm

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AND she has a history!!!!
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"About 11 years ago I entered a show with some fruit scones. I was the only entrant but I came third."

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Perhaps she needs to stay out of the kitchen...

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Old lady comes second in a cake-making contest. And she's the only entrant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/6274044.stm

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lol! You Brits crack me up. British judging is ridiculous. I hope your teachers over there aren't as harsh as your judges. "What in the bloody hell was that?" (must be spoken like Simon Cowell) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Well, this is a bit more depressing...

Have we become so immune to crime that this is what happens??

From Fox News

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Kansas Store Video Captures Five Shoppers Stepping Over Dying Stabbing Victim

Tuesday, July 03, 2007


WICHITA, Kan. — As stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.
Police have refused to release the video, saying it is part of their investigation.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
The woman was stabbed during an altercation that was not part of a robbery, Bassham said. It took about two minutes for someone to call 911, he said.
Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.
Two suspects have been arrested. A 19-year-old woman was charged with first-degree murder. Another suspect who turned himself in had not been charged as of Tuesday, the Sedgwick County prosecutor's office said.
The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.
It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car accident.
Eagle columnist Mark McCormick told The Associated Press he learned about the video when he called Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams to inquire about a phone call he had received from a reader complaining about a Police Department policy that requires emergency medical personnel to wait until police secure a crime scene before rendering aid. McCormick said Williams then unloaded on him about the shoppers in the stabbing case.
"This is just appalling," Williams told the newspaper. "I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"

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Old lady comes second in a cake-making contest. And she's the only entrant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/6274044.stm

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lol! You Brits crack me up. British judging is ridiculous. I hope your teachers over there aren't as harsh as your judges. "What in the bloody hell was that?" (must be spoken like Simon Cowell) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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The bottom of the story reveals a hilarious topper/capper:

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"About 11 years ago I entered a show with some fruit scones. I was the only entrant but I came third."

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New Belgian dish, the "Horror Popsicle"

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Scroll down a few stories to the one about the old man and the cow...

http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/arti...p;Category=845

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Scroll down a few stories to the one about the old man and the cow...

http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/arti...p;Category=845

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I like the one about the Indian guy who purified his lower caste students by peeing on them.

India's social system is so unrepentantly preposterously backwards it's amazing. Compared to them, Al Qaeda seems democratic.

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Wait, what????

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

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Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks -- and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.

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I have found a new hero! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Wait, what????

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

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Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks -- and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.

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I have found a new hero! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Another Lawnchair Larry! Larry's story is so funny because he thought he would sail up about 100 feet...oops. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

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Not sure if this qualifies as WTF? but I didn't know where else to post it. This particular activity never struck me as that much fun. Maybe it's a guy thing?



Running of the Bulls Can Be Dangerous!


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"We will definitely be back again," Lawrence Lenahan said. "My brother will never run (in the festival) again, but he would like to come back to celebrate."

Lol.

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Wow, I didn't realize they still wore these things in all the courtrooms. I thought it was just Parliament or something.


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"However, the idea of abolishing them has met with disapproval from some lawyers who feel the wigs give them an air of authority as well as anonymity."


Wigs off as Britain ends courtroom tradition

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Woman's kid dies when she treats his fall with popsicle stick instead of trip to hospital:

Death by dumbness

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Woman's kid dies when she treats his fall with popsicle stick instead of trip to hospital:

Death by dumbness

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Sadly this does not really surprise me. There are so many parents that over react to the slightest things and obviously others that do not. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

This story really saddens me
(from Fox news)


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Baby Born Drunk: Blood Alcohol Six Times Legal Limit to Drive



A baby boy in Poland was born drunk.

Doctors decided to check his blood-alcohol level because his mother was drunk when she arrived to give birth.

What they saw frightened them.

A doctor tells the PAP news agency that 12 hours after he was born, the boy had a blood-alcohol level six times the legal limit for driving. That means he was drunk before he was even born. He weighed five pounds, seven ounces at birth.

Doctors say the baby will likely suffer permanent neurological damage from his mother's drinking.

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Yeah I saw that one too. It's a shame that society seems completely at a loss as to how to prevent things like this.

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Check out this form of punishment. Somebody got 3 strikes too many over in Singapore. Lol at the parents filing for compensation.


Picture is a demonstration of a caning using a dummy.


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OWW! That looks like it would hurt.

Caning sentence

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Wow, three million, that's a million a stroke. That's Jessica Alba money!

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Pygmies put up in zoo

http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/outr...438190499.html

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Oh dear, check out this story. Internet feud gets out of hand.

Man Burns Down Trailer Teaching Another Guy a Lesson


Wow, seven years in prison for being a thin-skinned idiot. Well I guess he meant business!
Do you think this could ever happen with a 2+2er or are we just too mature for this kind of thing?



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Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Tavares, aka "PyroDice."

Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign.

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lol.

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Sounds like a typical afternoon over in bbb4l...

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I did just go post them the link. They probably have more readers who'll laugh louder than we do in here.