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<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->New Zealand Man Auctions His Soul <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Funny News (NEW ZEALAND) - A young man in New Zealand has put his soul up for auction and has already started to receive lots of interested buyers!

Walter Scott, 24, decided to put his soul up for sale on the New Zealand Internet auction site TradeMe.

“I can’t see it, touch it or feel it, but I can sell it, so I’m going to palm it off to the highest bidder,” he said.

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It was in “pretty good nick” except for a rough patch six years ago when he reached the legal drinking age, he added.

It is understood that the winning bidder would not be entitled to anything but Scott’s soul and would not be able to own or control him in any way, but would instead receive a framed deed of “soul ownership”.

Michael O’Donnell, business manager at TradeMe said the auction complied with the site’s rules because a physical object would change hands in the form of “the deed of ownership”.

“I think he has entered into the spirit of the (online) community (and) he’s also responded to our request to have a physical thing for sale and he’s put together a nice looking deed for ownership” he said.

Regular visitors to FunnyNewsChannel.com will remember the Australian man who recently sold his “entire life” on eBay for almost $384,000. Must be something in the water down under!

 

[morgan terror]

you know, i can see the humor of those funeral songs. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[Old Salt]

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>Weddings In Space </b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

Bizarre News (JAPAN) - Getting married soon? For $2.3million you could take your wedding vows in space!

Japanese firm, First Advantage, will arrange for you and your beloved to exchange your wedding vows 100 kilometres (60 miles) above the earth.

This amazing package could be yours for the bargain price of 240 million yen ($2.3million).

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In addition you can invite up to three guests to share your one hour “out of this world” flight during which time you will spend several minutes at zero gravity.

It is understood that First advantage are launching the deals in partnership with U.S. firm Rocket Plane.

Despite launching the offer in Japan, it is expected that most of the customers will be from China and the Middle Eastern Gulf nations.

So come on, what are you waiting for? $2.3million perhaps?

 

[Stallion]

Wonder what would happen if they decided to go at it? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> There would have to be no thrusting involved. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />



<b>Police: Woman pulled knife, gun from baby stroller</b>
1 day ago

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a woman out for a walk with her baby and another child in Utica, N.Y., was packing more than diapers in her stroller.

Police say Stephanie Wilson pulled a knife and a sawed-off shotgun out of the stroller to threaten another woman in an ongoing argument over money.

Wilson is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon.

The 29-year-old Wilson is being held in jail without bail pending a court appearance. Her baby was turned over to social workers, while the older child was taken by a relative.

Utica Public Safety Commissioner Dan LaBella says he's never seen anything like it in his 20-year law enforcement career.

 

[Old Salt]

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<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>ATM User Arrested For Cautiousness </b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

Strange News (GERMANY) - A man in Germany was so cautious whilst using an ATM machine, that he was eventually arrested under suspicion of identity fraud!

40-year-old Hans Mauer had avoided ATM machines for years because of fears of identity fraud, but when he finally used one he spent so long checking the machine that other users grew suspicious and called the police.

Mr. Mauer had inspected the ATM in the city of Muenster, for hidden cameras, fingerprint powder on the keyboard, and signs of tampering with the screen.

He then continued with his “suspicious” behaviour by putting on a pair of surgical gloves so he wouldn’t leave fingerprints as he entered his details into the keypad.

A police spokesman said: “He explained he had never used a cash machine in his life for fear of thieves and while his behaviour did appear very suspicious we soon had the matter cleared up”. He added: “It is unlikely he will ever use a cash machine again though”.

 

[Stallion]

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> I'll never use an ATM now!

<b>Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A dissertation in education research shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based knowledge is created.</b> “Can’t ‘splain sump’n to somebody who doesn’t understand it”; “my legs think faster than I do” (Swedish alpine skiing champion Ingemar Stenmark).
“Skate where the puck´s going, not where it´s been” (Wayne Gretsky).

Lars-Erik Björklund uses these quotations in his dissertation to illustrate what we mean by intuition, tacit knowledge, hands-on knowledge, or practical wisdom.



“In studies from the 1980s on nurses, it was shown that those who had been in the profession for a long time saw more and made better judgments more quickly,” says Lars-Erik Björklund, who devoted his thesis to a review of research in various fields involving this knowledge.

The fact that people with long experience are often better at what they do, that practice makes perfect, is nothing new. But no good explanations have been put forward as to why this is the case.

A few years ago neuroscientists discovered that the human brain has dual systems for receiving and analyzing sensory impressions, one conscious and one unconscious. In the unconscious, that is the non-declarative system, our sensory impressions are compared with previously stored images. We all have an inner picture book of stored experiences based on what has happened to us previously in life. We also remember the outcome - did it end well or badly? With the aid of these stored sensory impressions, we unconsciously assess the situation at hand and can predict the outcome.

The more variations of a situation we have experienced, the richer our picture book will be and the more probable it will be that we recognize the situation at hand.

“It can be a matter of smells, gestures, an ineffable combination of impressions that makes what we call intuition tell us something,” says Lars-Erik Björklund. “We have a memory that needs to be filled up with sensory impressions.”

However, these memories are stored only if they affect us. In other words, for experience to be built up, there must be commitment.

This means, according to Lars-Erik Björklund, that we can never read or calculate our way to all the knowledge and abilities we need in our professional life. Practical experience is indispensable and needs to be revaluated. An uncertified teacher with ten years of experience in the profession can be a much better teacher, assuming that this person is committed to the job, than a newly certified teacher, no matter how knowledgeable he or she is in terms of subject matter knowledge.

He also argues that components involving practice and lab work need to be expanded rather than cut in professional programs for engineers, teachers, and physicians. “We need to see, feel, smell, hear, taste, and experience with our senses. This collection of data can’t be replaced by studying course literature,” he writes.

“Experience is under-evaluated today, and this is perhaps because we haven’t understood this type of tacit knowledge. Now we know, thanks to brain researchers.”

Lars-Erik Björklund defended his thesis at Fontd, the Swedish National Graduate School in Science and Technology Education. Online: <a href="http://www.liu.se/en/news-and-events/startpage?newsitem=19689" target="_blank">LIU.SE</a>

 

[Old Salt]

<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>Man Sets Sights on Eye-Popping Record. </b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

The Associated Press reports that Claudio Paulo Pinto, who can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets, is trying to break the eye-popping record in the Guinness Book of World Records. According to Guinness, eye-popping is measured in terms of how far out of the sockets the eyes are popped. The current record belongs to Kim Goodman of Chicago, who was measured at an incredible 11 millimeters, or almost half an inch. Mr. Pinto has been measured at 0.3 inches, which is close but still a little short. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" />

 

[Stallion]

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />  Have you ever seen them do that on TV? It's disgusting!!  <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

<b>Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair 

</b>By KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press Writer 
Sun Jul 6, 6:46 AM ET

CAMBRIDGE, Idaho - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho. 

Kent Couch created a sensation in this tiny farming community, where he touched down safely in a pasture after lifting off from Bend, Ore., and was soon greeted by dozens of people who gave him drinks of water, local plumber Mark Hetz said.

"My wife works at the City Market," Hetz said. "She called and said, 'The balloon guy in the lawn chair just flew by the market, and if you look out the door you can see him.

"We go outside to look, and lo and behold, there he is. He's flying by probably 100 to 200 feet off the ground.

"He takes his BB gun and shoots some balloons to lower himself to the ground. When he hit the ground he released all the little tiny balloons. People were racing down the road with cameras. They were all talking and laughing."

Couch covered about 235 miles in about nine hours after lifting off at dawn from his gas station riding in a green lawn chair rigged with an array of more than 150 giant party balloons.

Sandi Barton, 58, who has lived her whole life in this town of about 300, said she and her brother-in-law were the first ones to reach Couch and shook his hand.

"Not much happens in Cambridge," she said, adding that about half the town turned out.

"He came right over our pea field," she said. "He was coming down pretty fast."

She said Couch gave some of his balloons to local children.

It was not clear where Couch went after he landed.

It began after Couch, clutching a big mug of coffee, kissed his wife and kids goodbye, then patted their shivering Chihuahua, Isabella, on the head.

After spilling off some cherry-flavored Kool-Aid that served as ballast, Couch got a push from the ground crew so he could clear light poles and soared over a coffee cart and across U.S. Highway 20 into a bright blue sky.

"If I had the time and money and people, I'd do this every weekend," Couch said before getting into the chair. "Things just look different from up there. You've moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity.

"Originally, I wanted to do it because of boyhood dreams. I don't know about girls, but I think most guys look up in the sky and wish they could ride on a cloud."

Couch's wife, Susan, called him crazy: "It's never been a dull moment since I married him."

This was Couch's third balloon flight. He realized it would be possible after watching a TV show about the 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles of truck driver Larry Walters, who gained folk hero fame but was fined $1,500 for violating air traffic rules.

In 2006, Couch had to parachute out after popping too many balloons. And last year he flew 193 miles to the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon, short of his goal. 

"I'm not stopping till I get out of state," he said. 

To that end, he ordered more balloons. Dozens of volunteers wearing fluorescent green T-shirts that said "Dream Big" filled latex balloons 5 feet in diameter, attached them to strings and tied clusters of six balloons each to a tiny carabiner clip. 

Each balloon gives four pounds of lift. The chair was about 400 pounds, and Couch and his parachute 200 more. 

"I'd go to 30,000 feet if I didn't shoot a balloon down periodically," Couch said. 

For that job, he carried a Red Ryder BB gun and a blow gun equipped with steel darts. He also had a pole with a hook for pulling in balloons, a parachute in case anything went wrong, a handheld Global Positioning System device with altimeter, a satellite phone, and two GPS tracking devices. One was one for him, the other for the chair, which got away in the wind as he landed last year. 

For food he carried some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate. 

Couch flew hang gliders and skydived before taking up lawn-chair flights. He estimated the rig cost about $6,000, mostly for helium. Costs were defrayed by corporate sponsors.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Man rips head from Hitler wax figure <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Sat Jul 5, 8:08 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said. 

Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the figure before ripping off the head in protest at the exhibit, a police spokesman said. The police were alerted and arrested the man.

The waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life was criticized as being in bad taste. A media preview of the new branch of Madame Tussauds Thursday was overshadowed by a row over the exhibit.

Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes.

Dressed in a grey suit, the figure of Hitler gazed downwards with a despondent stare, his arm outstretched on a large wooden table with a map of Europe on the wall of his gloomy bunker.

About 25 workers spent about four months on the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material and also guided by a model of the "Fuehrer" in the London branch of Madame Tussauds where he is standing upright.

It is illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler and the exhibit was cordoned off to stop visitors posing with him.

Unobtrusive signs asked visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler "out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two." Camera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behavior.

Institutions such as the foundation for Germany's central Holocaust memorial site condemned the idea of the exhibit as tasteless, saying it had been included to generate business.

The wax figure is the latest in a gradual breaking down of taboos about Hitler in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war and the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed.

The 2004 film "Downfall" provoked controversy as it portrayed the leader in a human light during the last days of his life and last year a satire about Hitler by Swiss-born Jewish director Dani Levy was released in Germany.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Restaurant makes meal out of war <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Tue Jul 1, 3:52 PM ET

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At "Buns and Guns" you can order a "Kalashnikov" sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions as background music. ADVERTISEMENT



This new fast food restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs, where the Hezbollah movement holds sway, was the brainchild of co-owner Ali Hammoud. He said the war theme was a novel concept that had nothing to do with Lebanon's bloody recent history.

"It's just an idea I had, nothing more, nothing less. I could have put toys in place of the sandbags and teddy bears instead of guns. But it was just an idea," Hammoud told Reuters.

"You could say that the situation in the country made people pay attention," added Hammoud, sitting outside his restaurant, which has become popular with teenagers.

Guns, bullets and pictures of other weapons decorate the interior. The slogan "A sandwich can kill you," with a picture of a gun superimposed on a burger, is displayed outside.

Completing the war motif, sandbags surround the outdoor seating area. The menu features sandwiches and burgers with names such as "Terrorist meal" and "RPG," as well as "Kalashnikov."

"First time I came here, I thought it was a weapons shop. When I looked at the names of the dishes, I still thought so. I only realized it was a restaurant when I went inside," said 15-year-old Hussein al-Hajj Ali.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Manure thief falls into dung, flees naked <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Fri Jun 27, 10:23 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday. 

Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings with manure.

"One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck," said a spokesman for local police. "The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her underwear."

Police said it was unclear what the women had intended to do with the "manure bombs," but added the incident could be linked to victory celebrations surrounding the Euro 2008 semi-finals on Wednesday evening, when Germany beat Turkey 3-2.

"The women can get their clothes back from the local police station -- unwashed," the spokesman added.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Fri Jul 4, 9:25 PM ET

WAUKESHA, Wis. - A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares. 

Police say the Waukesha (WAWK'-uh-shaw) man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack. The cab driver left unpaid.

Authorities say the man then ran up a $23 bill when he had a steak dinner at Applebee's. He again pretended to have a heart attack.

This time the fire department took him to a hospital. A doctor there recognized the man as having pulled the same stunt in the past few weeks.

He was charged Thursday with defrauding a restaurant as a habitual criminal. He could get up to nine months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Couple maintain Portugal's ceramic penis tradition <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
By Axel Bugge 
Fri Jul 4, 8:27 AM ET

CHAO DE PARADA, Portugal (Reuters) - Husband and wife Francisco and Casilda Figueiredo are among the last exponents of a traditional Portuguese handicraft -- making ornamental ceramic penises. 

For more than three decades, the couple have carefully shaped thousands of ceramic male organs, moulding them into upright shapes and painting them in life-like colours for export to Germany, France and North America.

Francisco and Casilda, aged 68 and 65, still toil away in a humble village workshop in the Caldas da Rainha region, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Lisbon, but say the tradition is dying out.

"The days of the ceramics trade here are numbered, I see no possibility of survival," Francisco said as he prepared moulds of the couple's top-of-the-range two-foot phallic-shaped bottles in his workshop. "It will never be like it was in the past."

The bottle sells for 15 euros (11.8 pounds)

The tradition is said to have started in Caldas da Rainha

when King Dom Luis, who ruled from 1861 to 1889, suggested that local potters make something more interesting.

A renowned caricaturist, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, gave the initial inspiration, prompting Caldas da Rainha to expand on its tradition as a pottery centre.

"Nobody knows exactly what started the tradition, they say it was Dom Luis, but I don't know if it's true or not," said Francisco.

The traditional craft has faced a slow decline as buyers in Portugal and beyond become more liberal and the figures lose their ability to provoke.

The couple produce ceramic mugs with a penis sticking out of the bottom or the side, penis-shaped bottles and ceramic soccer figures with the male organ popping out from under a flag.

Francisco said that during the peak of their business they were producing 1,000 bottles a month.

"There were many people making ceramics, but now locally there is just us," said Casilda. "We exported to Germany, Canada and France. Today we just sell to visitors and local shops."

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Polish bank rejects Walesa commemoration coin <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
By Dagmara Leszkowicz 
Thu Jul 3, 12:19 PM ET

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's central bank confirmed on Thursday it had turned down a request to mint a coin with the image of ex-president and Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa, but denied suggestions that its decision was politically motivated. 

Walesa led the Solidarity trade union that toppled communism in Poland in 1989 but is now embroiled in a row with rivals, including President Lech Kaczynski, over claims he worked for the secret police in the early 1970s, claims he denies.

The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, asked the central bank last year to mint the Walesa coin to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

"The anniversary is a great opportunity ... to commemorate Poland's role in the fight for freedom and independence," Adamowicz was quoted as saying in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza.

The bank issued a statement explaining its refusal.

"The central bank has decided not to put images of living persons on coins," the bank, adding that the sole exception was Polish-born Pope John Paul II. The pope died in 2005.

The bank said it would not get involved in political rows.

Gazeta Wyborcza linked the decision to the fact that Central Bank Governor Slawomir Skrzypek is an appointee of Kaczynski.

Decisions on the minting of coins in Poland is taken by the central bank's executive board after a recommendation by a panel of historians.

The paper said the bank's management had restructured the panel by appointing five historians who shared Kaczynski's views.

Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, who served as prime minister until he lost last year's parliamentary election, have long been critical of Walesa's record, saying he failed while president in 1990-95 to rid Poland of communist officials.

Walesa, 64, called last month for Kaczynski to be removed from office for reviving the allegations that he had worked as an informer for the communist secret police in the early 1970s.

A newly published book by two historians chronicles what it says is new evidence about Walesa's past. Poland's centre-right government and other historians have leapt to Walesa's defence.



And here, all our textbooks go on and on about how great this guy is  <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Just how great is he?

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Crazy cat that frightened neighborhood mends ways <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Fri Jul 4, 6:54 PM ET

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - A combative cat named Lewis who frightened the neighbors and got his owner into legal trouble two years ago has done so well under house arrest that the case has now been scratched. 

A judge dismissed a reckless endangerment charge against Lewis's owner, Ruth Cisero, on Thursday, concluding she had met terms of a special probation for first-time offenders. Lewis is now an indoor pet, allowed outside only in a cat carrier.

"Unlike most of us, Lewis has learned to live with his limitations," said Eugene Riccio, Cisero's attorney.

The scratch-happy black-and-white cat drew widespread attention in 2006 when Cisero opted for a trial on the criminal charge rather than euthanize or declaw him. It became a national claws celeb, and some pet lovers even sported "Save Lewis" shirts.

A lot has changed in two years, though.

Neighbor Maureen Bachtig, whose February 2006 encounter with a nasty Lewis led to the criminal case, said Thursday she was satisfied with the outcome.

"She gets to keep her cat and the neighborhood is safe," Bachtig said.

Cisero's probation included community service as well as the restraining order to keep Lewis inside. Had he gotten out, she could have faced up to six months in prison and Lewis could have been euthanized.

 

[Stallion]

<b><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Miniature dachshund gnaws off diabetic owner's toe <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
Fri Jul 4, 12:35 AM ET

ALTON, Ill. - An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns. 

The 56-year-old says she has no feeling in her toes because of nerve damage from diabetes. She discovered the toe missing after waking from a nap Monday. She called her daughter, who phoned 911.

A veterinarian says the toe had been bandaged because of a healing hangnail. That might have somehow attracted the dog.



How the f*ck did she not feel that?!!  <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[Old Salt]

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<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Man Plummets 50 Feet to Grab Missing $20<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

Another Associated Press story says that Mark Giorgio of Florida was counting his money while on a walk across a bridge over the Manatee River when a $20 bill slipped out of his hands and went over the rail. To get his $20 back, Mr. Giorgio jumped over the rail, falling 50 feet into the river below. He then swam about 100 yards to retrieve the bill. Giorgio, who was pulled from the water by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Officer, was quoted as saying, “Twenty bucks is a lot of money when you’re broke.” On a side note, Mr. Giorgio declined treatment for cuts and bruises resulting from his fall.

 

[Stallion]

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />  That's insane!!

 

[Old Salt]

Must have been the first twenty he ever made. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

 

[Stallion]

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<!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>New Zealand television channel switches porn for rugby </b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

2 hours, 33 minutes ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Rugby fans in New Zealand who tuned into a mid-afternoon highlights show got more than they bargained for Sunday when they were treated to four minutes of hardcore pornography.

A spokesman for Prime Television blamed a mixup in "distribution processes" for the error which inserted the hardcore segment in the regular program "Grassroots Rugby."

The segment was intended to air on an adult pay-per-view channel. 

Rival television channels reported some viewers were "shocked and disgusted" by the mixup, which occurred around mid-afternoon.

Prime has apologized for the error.