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A dream realized. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
Hmmm, doughnuts... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/love.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":luv" border="0" alt="love.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbs1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2up" border="0" alt="thumbs1.gif" />
 
<b>Police nab teen who put himself on cell</b>
Associated Press
July 2, 2009, 9:39AM

SUFFOLK, Va. — Suffolk police say they now have a suspect to go with an image of a person who snapped a photo of himself with a cell phone belonging to the owner of the home he burglarized. (See the photo of the teen here.)-----> <img src="http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x172/oldsalt_bucket/emoticons/doof.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Police say a 17-year-old Suffolk resident faces charges of burglary and larceny. They're not identifying him because he's underage.
The burglary happened in early June. Detectives think the person unsuccessfully tried to make a phone call using the phone, then used the camera function to photograph himself. People who saw the photo in news stories helped detectives identify the suspect.
 
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<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->65-Year-Old Woman Faces Jail Time For Feeding Cats <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

Amanda Peabody

Katherine Varjian, 65, had been feeding feral cats, or felines that are not under her ownership, in her <b>Beverly Hills</b> neighborhood for the past 12 years. The Beverly Hills Municipal Court will now decide whether or not her actions are within the confines of the law.

Varjian was feeding between 20 and 30 cats daily in the alley behind the 100-200 blocks of Palm, Maple and Oakhurst Drives. She was issued citations twice for this behavior – first in January of this year, then again in February. The violation is considered a misdemeanor by the City and will be heard by Beverly Hills criminal court. The charge carries with it a possible six months of jail time and a $1,000 fine.

<b>The problem lies in a deleted code (5-2-104, subdivision B and C).</b>

In an effort to streamline practices when handling animal control, the City retained the City of Los Angeles’ Animal Services Department for certain animal care and control services, consequently adopting their ordinances.

“As part of the adoption of the Los Angeles animal control regulations, provisions of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code that were designed to prevent the feeding of animals, including stray and feral cats, in such a manner that attracts coyotes and other predatory animals or otherwise endangers the health, safety and welfare of the general public, were inadvertently deleted,” said Cheryl Burnett, City spokesperson.

The code explicitly prohibits the feeding of feral cats and dogs on any public property, any property that is open to the public or any private property is not completely enclosed by a secured wall.

<b>It is under this omitted code that Varjian has been charged.</b>

Although Varjian has taken what is argued as excellent care of these cats – routinely spaying, neutering and adopting out kittens through various local organizations – her actions have also created a nuisance in the neighborhood, said local residents.

“(Varjian’s feeding of the feral cats) is a big problem that is not being looked at realistically,” said resident Darian Bojeaux. <i>“The food brings coyotes to the neighborhood. Neighbors have had to clean up excess food. It brings roaches and I am afraid for my own pets.”</i>

Bojeaux and several other neighbors organized a petition against Varjian, asking her to stop feeding the alleged feral cats; 30-40 signatures were secured.

“Varjian has spayed and neutered at her own expense countless feral cats and has probably done more in the City to control the homeless cat population,” said Ben Lehrer, president of Kitten Rescue (www.kittenrescue.org), an organization that rescues stray, abandoned or sheltered cats and kittens that are slated for euthanasia from the surrounding area.

According to Lehrer, Varjian has adopted out over 120 cats and kittens, a vast majority from her neighborhood, he says.

The court will now decide whether or not to proceed with charges against Varjian in a hearing slated for Aug. 7 at 1:30 p.m. Counsel for Varjian has requested dismissal of the case (two counts were dismissed at Wednesday’s preliminary hearing) based on the grounds that Varjian has been charged against a non-existent code. <b>(OK, Justice just might rule....)</b>

The City Council will be addressing an urgency ordinance either correcting the omission or clarifying its non-presence at the July 7 meeting.

<i>Something Rotten in Beverly Hills.. </i>
 
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When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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<i>Delusions of Grandeur, Megalomania...???</i>

<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Suspect IDs himself as dead U.S. president, <i>tells deputy he's under arrest</i><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

July 6, 2009 - 4:33 PM
Kimberly White

DESTIN - A man who alternately identified himself as a long-dead United States president, a police commissioner, a police chief or an undercover FBI agent told a deputy to "arrest yourself" when he was told he was under arrest.

On July 1, a deputy saw the 36-year-old man standing in the roadway in front of Buddy's Food Mart on U.S. Highway 98, where he was obstructing traffic and jeopardizing his own safety, according to the arrest report. When the deputy tried to engage him, the man began walking backward while staring at the deputy.

Eventually, he turned and ran across the road, the report continues.

When the deputy finally caught up with him near the entrance of the Target store, the man told the deputy to "get out of the roadway."

Asked for identification, he said he was John Quincy Adams, born on the 4th of July, 1892.

Told that he would be arrested unless he provided his real name, the man then said he was the "Commissioner of Police."

The deputy told the man that he was under arrest, but the man told him, "You are under arrest. Arrest yourself!" according to the report.

He refused orders to place his hands behind his back and began walking backward, then "began acting as if he was speaking on a police radio, stating, ‘I need back up, send me back up.' "

The man was taken into custody with the help of another deputy who arrived at the scene.

Once in custody, the man again was asked his real name, but he again refused to comply, instead identifying himself as "Commander Chief 492," then as a "secret operative of the FBI."

Once he arrived at the courthouse annex in Shalimar, however, another deputy who recognized him provided his real name.

The man has two previous arrests for impersonating a law-enforcement officer. The first time, he claimed he was an FBI agent, and the second, he tried to book a hotel room as a representative from the Department of Agriculture.
 
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Too many people occupying that head. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
<b>A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said.</b>

A motorist called police near the central town of Goslar to report a dead badger on a road - only for officers to turn up and discover the animal alive and well, but drunk.

Police discovered the nocturnal beast had eaten cherries from a nearby tree which had turned to alcohol and given the badger diarrhoea.

Having failed to scare the animal away, officers eventually chased it from the road with a broom.
 
ever heard of Mad Jack Churchill?

<a href="http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-profiles.html" target="_blank">http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/ju...l-profiles.html</a>

crazy brits. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> to both of them.
 
<!--quoteo(post=337213:date=Jul 14 2009, 12:29 PM:name=Old Salt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Old Salt @ Jul 14 2009, 12:29 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=337213"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> to both of them.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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The "Wacky" part of this this story is the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99EAOH01&show_article=1" target="_blank">Comments section to this article</a> Scroll down to the Show Comments/post comments link

<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->North Dakota could have a huge new oil field <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--> </b>
Jul 14 12:03 PM US/Eastern
By JAMES MacPHERSON
Associated Press Writer Comments (85) Share on Facebook



BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Dozens of fruitful wells beneath the rich Bakken shale in North Dakota continue to fuel a hunch among oilmen and geologists that another vast crude-bearing formation may be buried in the state's vast oil patch.

Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources, said recent production results from 103 newly tapped wells in the Three Forks-Sanish formation show many that are "as good or better" than some in the Bakken, which lies two miles under the surface in western North Dakota and holds billions of barrels of oil.


"I think it's a big deal and we're pretty fired up about it," Helms said.

Companies have reported some Three Forks wells recovering more than 800 barrels daily, considered decent by Bakken standards.

Denver-based Whiting Petroleum Corp. has drilled two wells in the Three Forks formation, with one that recorded more than 1,000 barrels of oil a day, said John Kelso, a company spokesman.

"We are excited about Three Forks but it's early on in the play," Kelso said. "I do know a lot of companies are redirecting focus from the Bakken to Three Forks."

Whiting has one Bakken well that recorded more than 4,000 barrels a day last year, thought to be a record for the formation and about double the highest Three Forks well drilled to date.

Kelso said Whiting's primary focus at present is on the Bakken. The company has more than 300,000 acres under lease in North Dakota.

"With the turbulence in crude oil prices, we've kind of backed off Three Forks for the Bakken," Kelso said. "We will very likely get after Three Forks in 2010, depending on oil prices.

The Bakken formation encompasses some 25,000 square miles within the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. The U.S. Geological Survey has called it the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.

The Three Forks-Sanish formation is made up of sand and porous rock directly below the Bakken shale. But geologists don't know whether the Three Forks-Sanish is a separate oil-producing formation or if it catches oil that flows from the Bakken shale above.

Fort Worth, Texas-based XTO Energy Inc. has reported to the state that one of its Three Forks wells pulled more than 2,100 barrels a day. An ETO Energy spokeswoman said the company does not comment on its operations publicly.

State and industry officials are conducting a study to determine whether the Three Forks is a unique reservoir. The plan is to compare results from closely spaced wells, one aiming for the Three Forks, and the other at the Bakken. Researchers will look at pressure changes in the formations to determine if they are connected.

Results from the study could be ready later this year, officials say. It already is spurring some speculation that the state has billions of barrels more in oil reserves.

"Eventually it could equal the Bakken, which is remarkable, and that's an understatement," Helms said.

"Is it the same or is it a separate formation? I think everybody is hoping for the latter," Harms said. "That could literally double the potential we have—a Bakken 2, if you will."

Kelso, of Whiting Petroleum, said his company's drilling activity shows that Three Forks likely is a separate formation. He said core samples taken from the Bakken and Three Forks show more hydrocarbons in the latter.

"From the core samples, Three Forks looks better for us than the Bakken," he said.

Promising production results from the Three Forks could mean that companies that come up empty in the Bakken could use existing leases to drill in the same area for Three Forks oil.

"It's another target," LeFever said. "If the Bakken doesn't pay, maybe the Three Forks will."

Most companies working in the state's oil patch continue to focus solely on the Bakken, said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, a Bismarck-based group that represents about 160 companies.

"I think it's a huge deal," Ness said of the emerging Three Forks play. "But it is still vastly unknown and overshadowed by the urgency to develop the Bakken."

Donald Kessel, vice president of Houston-based Murex Petroleum Corp., said his company was among the first to get a producing well in the Bakken in North Dakota about four years ago. The company now has 26 producing wells in the Tioga and Stanley areas of northwestern North Dakota.

Kessel believes that not all of the Three Forks is laden with oil.

"Right now, we're doing Bakken, and in those areas it doesn't look like the Three Forks is going to work," he said.

"With Three Forks, you have got to find a sweet spot where it develops," Kessel said. "It is not sandwiched like the Bakken between two shales producing oil."

Oilmen and others had known for years that the Bakken held oil. High oil prices and demand in the past few years spurred technology enough to begin tapping it.

Kessel said techniques learned from the Bakken are now being used at other oil shales in the U.S. and internationally. But he said advances in technology have slowed with lower oil prices that have idled drill rigs.

"Technology is not moving at the same pace because there are fewer well bores to do it at," Kessel said.

State geologist Ed Murphy said researchers will know more about the characteristics and potential of the Three Forks formation once more wells are tapped into it.

"One-hundred wells is not that many wells when you're trying to look at overall trends," Murphy said. "Everyone will feel a lot safer with 100 or 200 more wells down the road."

Drilling and well completion technology developed for the Bakken formation likely also could be used in the half-dozen formations above the Bakken and the dozen or so that reach 4,000 feet below it, he said.
 
<!--quoteo(post=337311:date=Jul 14 2009, 05:14 PM:name=Lazarus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lazarus @ Jul 14 2009, 05:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=337311"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The "Wacky" part of this this story is the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99EAOH01&show_article=1" target="_blank">Comments section to this article</a> Scroll down to the Show Comments/post comments link<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
yeppers, quite whackey

Looks like all of them are trying for the Summer replacement of Bill 0' in FOX

um

err

Fiction.
 
People are quite wacky, don't you know?

Could have found the Holy Grail, and yet, many people would not know how to react other than to criticize and berate the founder/messenger.
 
OMFG <a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090714/wr_nm/us_china_electroshock_life" target="_blank">http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090714/wr_...ectroshock_life</a>

the link ain't the newsworthy part

Its that they even had to place the ban.

"There but for the grace of God go I"

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The Ministry of Health announcement followed recent media reports about a controversial psychiatrist in Linyi, Shandong Province, who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers in an attempt to rid them of their Internet habit
. . .
"Electroshock therapy for Internet addiction...has no foundation in clinical research or evidence and therefore is not appropriate for clinical application," read the notice, posted on the ministry website ( www.moh.gov.cn ).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
 
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