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Weird News
Sucking out the Hurricane
A Florida Inventor believes he can suck the power out of hurricanes.
Businessman Peter Cordani has spent four years researching a way
to drop absorbent particles into the eye of a storm to disrupt its
spin and suck out the moisture. The U.S. government's Hurricane
Research Division studied Cordani's plan and dismissed it along
with other ideas including blasting a hurricane with a nuclear weapon.
Hugh Willoughby, a research professor with the International Hurricane
Center at Florida International University stated that ideas such
as Cordani’s are unrealistic because they lack a basic understanding
of meteorology. Yeah. That or they just lack basic mental health.
From Fox 7 News, WSVN TV in Florida.
Way to ruin a proposal
A man leapt to his death from the Eiffel Tower - as beneath him
a girl took a picture of her lover who was about to propose to her.
Joanne Bean, 24, snapped boyfriend Tony McElwee moments before he
planned to ask her to marry him at the top of the 990ft Paris landmark.
He had to postpone his romantic gesture because the tower was closed
after the tragedy. And it was only after the couple's photos were
developed that they discovered their innocent picture of private
bliss had also captured a stranger's private hell. I guess this
one ain’t a story for the grandkids.
From The London Mirror.
I thought they ate dogs
Chinese authorities have identified the patient who started the
SARS epidemic that has killed at least 770 people around the world.
Huang Xingchu, 36, a cook who prepared wild animal dishes in a restaurant
in Shenzhen on the Hong Kong border, survived the infection, but
now lives in hiding for fear of retribution. Medical experts believe
that the SARS virus was passed from the civet cat, a favourite on
menus around Hong Kong, to human beings. From the London Times.
Another reality TV show
Though he promised us he would never start another Christian TV
ministry, televangelist Jim Bakker is at it again. 'The New Jim
Bakker Show' debuted 16 years to the day of his last broadcast of
the 'PTL Club,' which crashed amid headlines about financial and
sexual scandal, and saw its head jailed for five years. ... After
his release in 1994, Bakker vowed to CNN’s Larry King that he would
not return to television because 'When you put your hand in a fire
and get burned, the body reacts to that, and it remembers that.'"
Sure. If by fire, you mean the church secretary, and by hand you
mean your…
From charismanews.com.
One way to curb crime
A naked vigilante stopped a midnight break and enter by stopping
the teenaged burglar and forcing him to strip to his underwear,
tying him up and whipping him with a belt on June 1. ... After the
teen was stripped, tied and whipped, he was duct-taped and held
for about five hours, police say, then driven to a street and let
go.
From canoe.com
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