A Welsh View

Peculiarosities

Naked Man Fires Gun at Traffic
Stowaway Cat To Fly Business Class
Man Accused of Deliberate Finger Severing
Judge Makes Public Urinators Apologize
Pensioners Form Rap Group
Man Falls To Death During Spitting Contest
Woman Sues Pizza Hut Over Burned Chin

Police Nab Naked 'Bank Robbers'

BBC: Police nab naked 'bank robbers'

Police in El Salvador say they have exposed a planned bank heist after finding two naked would-be robbers digging a tunnel towards the vault.

The two men, covered in nothing but dust, were caught after part of the tunnel collapsed, leaving a gaping hole in the street near the bank.

They had apparently stripped off because of the heat inside the tunnel.

...the tunnel, which led to an abandoned house, had been worked on for several days and was nearing completion.

When part of the tunnel collapsed, near to the bank, the two men ran out in to the street to escape, but were arrested by a police patrol.

Video: Knife vs Hand

This guy is almost as quick as Bishop from Aliens. [via]

The Top 10 Hacks Of All Time

DNA Evolutions presents the top ten hacks of all time.

Game: Snow Storm

Clear as much snow as you can in order to proceed to the next level. [via]

Man's Lotus 'Polished Off'

Dan Gould took his £32,000 Lotus Exige to a valet company to be cleaned and this is how it was returned to him.

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Woman Has First Face Transplant

BBC: Woman has first face transplant

Surgeons in France have carried out the first face transplant, it has been reported.

The woman had lost her nose, lips and chin after being savaged by a dog.

In the controversial operation, tissues, muscles, arteries and veins were taken from a brain-dead donor and attached to the patient's lower face.

Doctors stress the woman will not look like her donor, but nor will she look like she did before the attack - instead she will have a "hybrid" face.

Come Back Skippy!

Click picture for the full series of this kangaroo venturing out into the ocean. [via]

Video: Snake vs Monkey

I know it's part of nature but it's still sad to watch a snake attacking a monkey. [via]

Teen Steals Buses, Picks Up Passengers

A Dutch teenager has stolen three buses and picked up/dropped off passengers along the way. The teenager took the first bus in the north-east Dutch town of Apeldoorn and drove it 40 miles down the motorway - where he stole another to drive the return journey.

Along the way he stopped several times to pick up passengers and dropped them off at their destinations. He was finally stopped while driving a third stolen bus the next day. [via]

Related: Man stole car with no brakes

Video: Car vs Cameraman

A cameraman tries to get a perfect shot but the car he's filming can't stop in time and hits him. [via]

World Porridge Making Championships

I'm disappointed that I missed this year's World Porridge Making Championships. Oh well, there's always next year. [via]

Peculiarosities

Longer Needles Needed For Fatter Buttocks
Mom Allegedly Spikes Macaroni With Bleach
Girl Finds 'Nut' In Bag Of Nuts
Man Accused Of Kidnapping Girl In Order To Perform Demonic Ritual To Bring Back Girlfriend
Inmates Process Train-Killed Moose For Charity
County Jail Is Being Sold on EBay

LaCie Brick Hard Drives

Make storage fun with the stackable brick desktop hard drives from LaCie. [via]

Video: Car Bomb

Footage of a car bomb exploding at a checkpoint. [via]

Optical Illusion

Look at this pic and then move about 10 feet away. Notice anything different? Click on the pic for a bigger version. [via]

Welshman Invents Device To Repel Teens

A Welshman has created a device that can repel teenagers. The device, called the Mosquito , emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

So far the device has only been tested in one place - the local Spar in Barry (a great place to find hoards of chavs). According to the shop owner the results were instantaneous and there are now no scrotes to be found.

Video: Name That Tune

Does anyone know thename of the track that accompanies this video? Whilst you're listening to the music don't forget to check out the hot chick dancing. [via]

Update (21:49): Thanks to Mina for identifying that tune. I was really surprised by the quick response. I know where to turn in the future when I get stuck.

Inside Symantec's Security Bunker

I posted info about Symantec's security bunker back in March but the article I linked to didn't have any pictures. C|Net have written about the bunker and have posted four pictures including the one above. The picture shows a glassed-off room that is Symantec's Security Operations Center. Workstations are constantly manned by up to 15 analysts. Threats are monitored on the four flatscreens on the facing wall.

Firefox 1.5 Released

Firefox 1.5 has been released. Go get it!

Photo: Pigeon Attack

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Daleks Star In Porn Flick

Beeb bosses have gone ballistic after discovering the Daleks are starring in a porn flick.

Dr Who's foes capture three naked “disco babes” in the 18-rated DVD. They chase the girls around their spaceship and grope them with their plungers.

Abducted By The Daleks — which features grey, red and black pepper-pot baddies watching a lesbian scene — was “five years in the making”, says the sleeve.

But after a tip-off, the Beeb had it barred from eBay — where copies have been selling for up to £30. - The Sun

Looks like the DVD is still for sale on eBay. [via]

The World's Largest Diamond Mine

Located in Siberia, the mine in the picture is apparently the world's largest diamond mine. BLDGBLOG has pictures.

Shoutwire

Shoutwire is a social bookmarking site similar to Digg. It looks good but I don't think it can beat the auto updating Digg Spy plus it's quite sparse on the links.

Video: Security Contractor 'Trophy' Video in Iraq

A video showing private contractors in Iraq randomly shooting at Iraqi civilians with automatic rifles. The Telegraph has more info about the video. [via]

Last Words Of Executed Prisoners

The last words of people executed in the state of Texas such as...

Warden Okay I've been hanging around this popsicle stand way too long. Before I leave, I want to tell you all. When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, put some headphones on my head and rock and roll me when I'm dead. I'll see you in Heaven someday. That's all Warden. - Douglas Roberts

I'm sure i've posted this site before but it's worthy of a repost. [via]

The Banana Bunker

Protect your banana with the banana bunker. Available in four colours, the flexible banana bunker should fit most bananas and is available online for $4.99.

Single Letter Domains May Be On The Way

Back on December 1, 1993, IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, explicitly reserved all single letter and single digit second-level domain names in the TLDs .com, .net, and .org (e.g. a.com, b.com, c.com)* in order to "help ensure stable operation of the Internet". However, ICANN, which controls IANA, is now considering releasing the single letter and single digit domains. Of course these would be worth a fortune and would net ICANN a lot of extra funds but how will they go about selling them and will they become the most expensive domain names ever sold? [via]

* It's worth noting that some single letter domains were registered before the restriction was put in place.

Photo: Satellites For Sale

"Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign refering to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire." [via]

Splog Search Engine

SplogSplot is a splog search engine containing nothing but splogs. No blogs to be found here. [via]

Blackbird Travels 300 Miles Between Gardens

A blackbird has amazed ornithologists by flying 300 miles between the same two gardens three years in a row.

The experts said it is a rare bird indeed — as the species hardly ever strays from its home patch.

The adventurous blackbird was ringed as a juvenile in July 2003 by Allison and Jeff Kew — members of the British Trust for Ornithology — at their home in Thetford, Norfolk. - The Sun

Tesco Tells Woman She Has Bad Taste

When a woman complained to Tesco to ask why her favourite choclate was no longer available in her local store, she received a letter telling her that she had bad taste and should go elsewhere. The letter said:

"We have come to the conclusion that you and a select few have an astonishingly bad taste in chocolate and Tesco is not prepared to accommodate the less sophisticated market. We suggest you try Sainsbury's as their food is especially bland and may satisfy your plain palette (sic)."

The letter was signed Mrs S Upyours.

Welsh University Drills World's Smallest Hole

The Scotsman: British scientists drill the smallest hole in world

British scientists have developed machinery which they claim can drill the world's smallest hole.

Cardiff University scientists said they can drill a hole "narrower than a human hair".

They are drilling holes as small as 22 microns (0.022mm) in stainless steel and other materials. The human hair varies between 80 microns (0.08 mm) down to 50 microns (0.05mm) in thickness.

Children Banned From Saying Christmas

A primary school headteacher has banned children in her school from talking about Christmas before December 7th. The reason for the ban is that the children could get too excited which could then affect their work.

Peculiarosities

Angolan Wins Biggest Brazil Prison Beauty Pageant
Pensioner Buys Third Coffin
Taunted Girl's Breasts Reduced From 36K To 36D On The NHS
Town Erects World's First Bruce Lee Statue
Armed Robbers Snatch Lion Cub From Zoo
Ronald MacDonald Charged in Wendy's Theft
Longer Needles Needed For Fatter Buttocks - Study

Video: Man Punches Preacher

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Singapore's Only Executioner Dismissed

According to The Times, Singapore's only executioner has been dismissed just a few days before he was due to executed an Austrian who was convicted of carrying drugs. Darshan Singh, 74, is said to have carried out more than 850 hangings in 46 years in Singapore and is thought to be the only executioner in the world to have executed 18 men in a single day - 3 at a time.

Man Picks Up 5,000 TV Channels On 12 Dishes

Despite picking up over 5,000 channels on his 12 satellite dishes, Al Jessop still can't find anything good to watch.

Al Jazeera Has Started Blogging

The staff of Al Jazeera have started their own blog. It looks like it was started after it emerged that George W Bush had wanted to bomb the station. [via]

USB Beverage Chiller

Keep your beer cold whilst viewing AWV with this handy USB beverage chiller. [via]

Chicken Processing...Chinese Style

Take a look inside a Chinese dead chicken processing plant. Mmmm. [via]

Gollum: The Wikipedia Browser

"Gollum is an open-source, AJAXy web app that strips away all the cruft and minimizes Wikipedia to the bare essentials: a toolbar, a search bar, and the article. Gollum also makes some tweaks to article presentation, such as bigger headings and moving the category list to the top of the page. There's also a bookmark facility for keeping track of important pages, a "Recommend this Article" button to send e-mail links to articles, and a big Print button." - DownloadSquad [via]

Innocently Dirty Art

OMG! What are they making? [via]

Sign My Name

Paul Schmelzer likes to collect celebrity autographs. However, these celebrity autographs are different to your regular celebrity autographs. Instead of getting celebrities to sign their own name, Schmelzer gets them to sign his! So far he's got Noam Chomsky, Frank Gehry, Yoko Ono and a load of others that I've never heard of to sign his name. [Thanks Cameron Jalama]

Video: Sideways Landing

A 747 lands in Zurich during high crosswinds. Now that's some good flying. [via]

Video: Van Almost Kills Policeman And Woman

The last clip on this mini-montage of clips showing police dealing with the public is the best. The officer acts s calmly when the van crashes into the car that he's standing next to. [via]

Video: Snowball Attack On Weatherman

A bunch of Welsh kids attack a weatherman whilst he's reporting on live TV. [via]

Video: Criss Angel vs Chipper

Criss Angel tries to escape from a nailed coffin before it goes into a chipper but fails...sort of. [via]

Brick Style Mobile Phone Revived

The Motorola 8900x, originally released in the 80s, has been given a new lease of life by shops in China. The brick style phones have been hacked to include a 4,096 colour LCD screen. Offering just basic functions, the phone costs $230. A snip compared to the $3,995 that it cost when originally released. [via]

The Creation of The THX Sound

A post about how the famous THX sound was created way back in 1982. [via]