The primary officer said the driver has a nervous demeanor. The officer referred the vehicle and occupant to a secondary lot for a more in-depth examination.
In the secondary lot, CBP officers discovered three undocumented migrants sewn into three seats of the conversion van, including the driver’s seat. CBP officers said they carefully extracted two men and a woman from inside the seats.
A newly born giant baby boy rests with a baby of normal size in a local hospital in Xiangfang, Central China’s Hubei Province August 10, 2006. The boy weighed 5.5 kg (12 pounds) and was 57 cm (1.9 foot) tall with 23 cm (0.7 foot) wide shoulders at birth. Doctors contribute the increase in the number of gigantic babies to a surplus in mother’s nutrition.
Apparently, vegetables can be made into fine musical instruments …
The sound of 90 pounds of finely tuned cucumbers, leeks, potatoes, radishes, peppers and other vegetables entertained a German audience at a weekend concert by the Viennese Vegetable Orchestra.
The nine-piece orchestra plays a range of original compositions on instruments constructed from vegetables — including a flute made from a carrot, a saxophone carved out of a cucumber and a pumpkin converted into a double bass.
"I would never have thought you could get sound out of a cucumber," a young woman at the concert said.
Today’s dramatic shutdown of the BP Alaskan oilfield was actually due to the work of inspection robots that, according to the Times Online, detected “signs of 16 anomalies, and areas where the pipeline wall had thinned by more than 70 per cent.”
The robots are known as intelligent PIGs, or pipeline inspection gauges. The PIGs are sent down pipelines, propelled by oil pressure, and employ a variety of tools including magnetic flux leakage, ultrasonics, and calipers to measure the internal state of the pipeline. The results of a recent inspection (”pigging”) were severe enough to merit today’s shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield, which supplies 8% of US crude.
Visitors watch a two-ton ball made of a bulk of jeans in an exhibition center in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian province July 13, 2006. The exhibition is themed " Fashion Slave" and every visitor has the chance to capture 5,000 yuan (US$625) cash reward if he or she works out how many jeans constitute the ball.
This unidentified Chinese presumably Korean-American woman took a photo of herself everyday for three years and stitched them into a movie. Watch as her expression doesn’t change – just like the infamous Paris Hilton clip.
Some instruction and advice for the young bride, written by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D. Smythers, Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.
Published in the year of our Lord 1894:
On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex. At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
Nate True hacked a neat little gizmo that uses LED strobe light to make it seems that droplets of water can be suspended in mid-air or even go backwards!
Our friends at YesButNoButYes have posted their Ten Creepiest Icons in Advertising History. Here’s no. 10:
Let’s start with a legend. You know Crazy Eddie. We all know Crazy Eddie. His prices were IN-SAAANNNNNE, and he’d nearly jump out of the tv to prove it. Only it was years later that we’d all find out the Crazy Eddie chain was so crooked, they were probably using the money they should’ve used to buy that guys meds to pay off the cops, instead. Can you imagine if we had 3D tv back then. I remember I’d always ask my dad…Father, is that guy nuts? And dad would slap me, and we’d laugh and laugh and…
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