A disabled Austrian man was eaten to death by maggots in his bed while his partner slept beside him According to Austrian-speaking sources, the victim had a severe necrosis on his back and maggots ate their way through to his lungs
The 61-year-old retiree died in an ambulance on his way to hospital in Vienna on Tuesday with the maggots having partly devoured his back
Paramedics notified police after discovering the shocking state of hygiene in the man's home, and his 34-year-old partn
Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa
Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council MUI issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country [quote]But it has been decided that actual
A Lamington is a sponge cake in the shape of a cuboid, coated in a layer of traditionally chocolate icing then desiccated coconut Lamingtons are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream and/or strawberry jam between, and are commonly found in Australasian outlets such as cafes, lunch bars, bakeries, and supermarkets
The Lamington is named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901 According to legend, Lamingtons
Here’s an Tic Tac Toe trick to impress your friends
You play a game of Tic Tac Toe and the game ends in a draw You pull out a piece of paper or napkin that you drew in advance that shows exactly what the ending board would look like
How did you know Did you control their mind and force them to make the moves you wanted them to
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Read more about the guy who created this http://enw
Six workers drowned after falling into a giant vat of sauce, at a tomato sauce factory in India The horrifying incident unfolded Wednesday evening when a female worker slipped and fell into the 6m deep tank As five colleagues dived in to grab her they were all overcome by fumes given off from fermenting vegetables and drowned
Two more workers were in a hospital following the tragic incident at the Akansha Food Products unit in Lucknow, in the Uttar Pradesh region of northeastern India
A couple from Italy got a taste of Cape Breton hospitality Wednesday when they unexpectedly arrived in Sydney, NS, instead of Sydney, Australia It was the absence of kangaroos on the runway that gave the Italians the idea they might have been at the wrong place
Valerio Torresi, 26, and Serena Tavoloni, 25, had never travelled outside Europe until Tuesday night when they found themselves in Nova Scotia instead of Australia where they had planned to fly
At first, they assumed they wer
Russell Ash has trawled mountains of official records to find the world's most comical names - and found thousands including Ima Gay, Ada Poo and Fanny E C Lay
His new book lists 3,000 of the most unfortunate titles including:
Ben Dover,
Anna Sassin,
Pete Sake,
Rusty Pipes,
Rhoda Broom,
Joy Rider,
Justin Case,
John Thomas Willy and
Sandy Beach
Pat Fenis is a just a spoonerism away from vulgarity
Eva Faithful,
Bonk Register,
Booby Ogle,
Wiggy Piggy and one Lancash
One of the more fascinating facts about near-death experiences is that they are sometimes reported by very young children somewhat confounding the 'cultural expectation hallucination' explanation
Here's an interesting short clip featuring the near-death experience research of Dr Melvin Morse which focuses on the NDEs of children:
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Justin Bieber is going on a world tour, and his management want the people to decide where he performs They set up a page where fans can vote on which countries they'd like to see the doe-eyed wonder do his thing So, of course, 4chan has loosely organized a poll bombing operation in order to send Bieber to the land that time forgot, North Korea
From: http://wwwurlesquecom/2010/06/30/send-justin-bieber-north-korea/
Vote here: http://tweeterfaxocom/Justin_Bieber_My_World_Tour
He has still managed to write two more books Howard Engel is an accomplished Canadian novelist One day, he had a stroke and lost the ability to read — that is, his brain could no longer process text as a fixed reference
But Engel found that he could still write, even though, shortly after writing a piece of text, he was unable to read it So Engel devised a way to use this remaining ability to regain his literacy Cartoonist and animator Levni Yilmaz produced this video for National Publ
Charles Domery was a Polish soldier, noted for his unusually large appetite
While serving in the Prussian Army against France during the War of the First Coalition, he found that the rations of the Prussians were insufficient and deserted to the French Revolutionary Army in return for food
While generally healthy, he was voraciously hungry during his time in the French army, and ate any available food While stationed near Paris he was recorded as having eaten 174 cats in a year leavi
In 1970 a 45-foot-long sperm whale washed onshore in Florence, Oregon People couldn't remember how to dispose of it, so the authorities decided that the whale carcass was too big for burial and that blowing it apart would convert the hulk into smaller, more manageable pieces
Fine in theory, but they used a full twenty cases of dynamite for the job
The resulting explosion hurled unwieldy pieces of blubber high into the air, one 300-pound chunk crushing an Oldsmobile 88 when it landed
Fourteen internet addicted detainees overpowered their guard and fled a boot camp designed to cure their addiction, shouting "Give us the internet or give us death"!
The group, aged 15 to 22, staged their mass breakout by grabbing a duty supervisor when he was in bed and immobilising him in his quilt
He shouted for help and they apologised before tying him up They then made their way in groups of three to the home town of the leader of the group
The addicts made their break from t
Someone recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is used and reused in shows This is probably to get around copyright issues It would be interesting to see just what the newspaper says
From: http://wwwslashfilmcom/2010/06/04/lol-the-reoccurring-prop-newspaper
Fox News host Greta Van Susteren hits the stupid button in asking her viewers to vote on how stupid she is
In a move that Fox executives probably would have tried to discourage had they been consulted, Van Susteren urged her blog readers to weigh in on an email argument she is involved in that she is, well, stupid
It all started when Brian of Tahlequah, Okla, told Van Susteren she had a "mind like a seive" yes, it should be "sieve" Brian didn't stop there: He also wanted the h
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