Obama may have given the Queen a real lifesaver with that goofy gift of an iPod.
An Essex teenager who was hit by lightning in a storm says that her life was saved by her iPod – and the fact that she was holding her boyfriend’s hand at the time. Sophie Frost and Mason Billington, both 14, took shelter under a tree in King George V Playing Field, in Rayleigh during a thunderstorm on Monday night when they were hit by the 3,000-volt lightning bolt.
Haylie Hocking, 27, only found out that strapping 30-year-old fitness fanatic Jason Brake made adult films just weeks before the big day. A friend organising her hen night searched online for a male stripper and spotted Jason with a woman in a porn movie. [Hen night? Must be an English thing…ed]
The world’s oldest man falls asleep for the last time.
Tomoji Tanabe, the world’s oldest man, died in his sleep at his home in southern Japan on Friday, a city official said. He was 113. “He died peacefully. His family members were with him,” said Junko Nakao, a city official in Miyakonojo on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. Tanabe died of heart failure, she said.
Meet the new oldest man in the world.
At the age of 113 Henry Allingham, the oldest surviving veteran of the first world war, has officially been proclaimed the oldest man alive by Guinness World Records, after the death today of Tomoji Tanabe in Japan. His friend Denis Goodwin, a founder of the First World War Veterans Association, who has escorted Allingham to innumerable parades, memorial services and presentations, said: “It’s staggering. He will take it in his stride, like he does everything else. He withdraws in himself and he chews it over like he does all the things he has done in his life. That’s his secret, I think.”
Man saves son from drowning then winds up under the waves for good himself.
A man drowned Thursday after saving a child at Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri. The Missouri Water Patrol recovered the body of Jose Sanchez, 33, of St. Paul, Minn., about 2 p.m. Thursday in Kimberling City, Mo.
The country’s natural gas reserves are much bigger than previously thought, according to a report released Thursday. Thanks to new technology that allows producers to drill for gas in shale rock, the Potential Gas Committee in Golden, Colo., said the country’s estimated reserves are 35 percent higher than just two years ago and have reached the highest level since the group started tracking the information 44 years ago.
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Nestle recalling all Toll House cookie dough products over E-coli fears.
Nestle USA says its baking unit has voluntarily recalled Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number or illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw. The company said the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related to the ingestion of raw cookie dough.
The wife of Connors State College’s head baseball coach has been banned by college administrators from school baseball games next season after she allegedly attacked umpires last month during regional play. Sheri Lee Keith, 45, the wife of coach Perry Keith, is charged in Washington County District Court with two misdemeanor counts of assaulting umpires during the National Junior College Tournament.
Taking a shot at unraveling this stupid “cash for clunkers” Congressional boondoggle.
With the Senate’s passage of the provision on Thursday, a cash-for-clunkers trade-in program now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. Here’s what you need to know:
Mother of the year candidate tries using ‘voodoo’ to drive ‘evil spirits’ from daughter.
Determined to drive evil spirits out of her daughter, a Queens mom performed a bizarre voodoo fire ritual that left the 6-year-old girl scarred for life, prosecutors say. While young Frantzcia Saintil was “engulfed in flames,” Marie Lauradin let the screaming girl burn, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Thursday.
Burglarizing train cars turns out to be a fatal career move for this guy.
A South Side man found dead along train tracks in Burnham might have been burglarizing train cars when he was killed, police said today. Anthony M. Bernard, 31, of 2252 W. 54th Place, was found Wednesday lying between a set of tracks beneath the Torrence Avenue bridge, about 14300 South, Burnham police said.
If it feels like your trip around town is getting a little bumpier, it is. Since Adrian Fenty became mayor in 2007, the number of speed bumps in the nation’s capital has jumped from 157 to 691. The Fenty administration has authorized twice as many speed bumps in 2 1/2 years as the Williams administration authorized in five.
A 79-year-old man has died after a confrontation outside his home with a phone company technician. The 79-year-old homeowner was unhappy with the work completed at his home on Ayrhill Avenue on Wednesday, Vienna Police spokesman Bill Murray says.
A replay of the nation’s only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry. A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song.
Digital conversion renders battery powered analog TVs useless in the event of an emergency.
Without power for 12 days during Hurricane Ike, Houston secretary Donna Clanton relied on her battery-powered TV for news updates, road closings and notices of flooded intersections. “Actually seeing what was happening made me feel more connected and a little less isolated,” Clanton said. But portable sets, which played an instrumental role in connecting Houstonians to the outside world during Ike’s lengthy power outages, are now useless, thanks to the digital conversion.
Officer resigns after charges brought for unprovoked ‘stun gun’ attack on Waffle House employee.
A former Gwinnett County police officer has been arrested after he apparently used a stun gun on a Waffle House employee, according to police. Gary Miles Jr., 33, is accused of going into the diner in Loganville in February while on duty, according to David Schiralli, Gwinnett police spokesman. The use of a stun gun on the restaurant employee apparently was “without provocation.”
Those studly Brits. Vicious kitten attack may cost family their home mail delivery service.
A family has been warned their mail could be halted after postmen refused to deliver to their house – because of a vicious kitten. Royal Mail chiefs wrote to Ken Ridge claiming that his kitten Illy had attacked a postal worker.
A Covington woman who was already in court Thursday morning faces more charges after an alleged incident with her 1-year-old daughter. Ranisha Jones, 22, was in Judge Richard Bernat’s courtroom at the Hamilton County Courthouse when her daughter began to cry. Jones was ordered to leave the courtroom and tend to her daughter.
Teenager driving down the road chokes to death on a hot dog.
A bizarre death involving a Buffalo motorist who choked on a hot dog earlier this week has raised warnings to avoid driving while distracted. Marlin Walker, 18, of East Delavan Avenue, had purchased a hot dog just before leaving the Juneteenth Festival late Sunday afternoon and was eating it as he drove on East Ferry Street, authorities said.
Quote of the day.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
-Daniel P Moynihan, Democrat and former U.S. Senator from New York