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Banana Art

Queuebot — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:06:38 +0000

What happens when you take an ordinary piece of fruit and start to doodle on it? Banana Art! “Bananastein” shown here is just one of many examples.

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Man Robs Store with Banana, Eats Evidence

Miss Cellania — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:10:28 +0000

John Steven Szwalla was arrested for attempted armed robbery of a computer cafe in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He approached the store owner, Bobby Ray Mabe while pointing something that was under his shirt. Mabe and a store customer jumped on Szwalla, held him down, and called police. The “weapon” turned out to be a banana! Szwalla ate the banana before the police arrived.

“And the deputy said, ‘Ah hah! He ate the evidence,’” Mabe said. “But we had the banana peel and they took a picture of it.”

John Steven Szwalla, 17, was charged with one count of attempted armed robbery. Warrants and records with the sheriff’s office list different addresses for him, with a most recent address in Clemmons.

Deputies joked about charging him with destroying evidence, said Major Brad Stanley, a spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s office.

Szwalla is in the Forsyth County Jail with bond set at $50,000.

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(image credit: Flickr user Jason Gulledge)

No-Slip Banana Peels

Miss Cellania — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:55:28 +0000

Here’s an appropriate way to keep from slipping in the shower -banana peels! These peels are non-skid stickers, available from Mortimer Snodgrass. Link -via J-Walk Blog

An Alternative Hammer

Stacy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:43:55 +0000

It’s so cold in Minneapolis (-21), you can pound nails with bananas, both peeled and unpeeled. This meteorologist does the frozen bubble trick as well, and tosses hot water into the air to watch it instantly evaporate. I actually tried the hot water thing myself when I got home from work tonight (it’s -14 right now). It was pretty cool; I felt like Mr. Wizard.

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Say Goodbye to Bananas: Panama Disease is Coming Back

Alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:01:30 +0000

The banana we know and love today actually suck when compared to the one our grandparents ate. That cultivar, called the Gros Michel, was bigger and tastier but alas it was hit by a blight called the Panama disease and went extinct by 1960.

Now, the banana we all eat, a variety called the Cavendish, may face the same fate: Panama disease, caused by the fungus Fusarium, is back and spreading fast!

Panama disease – or Fusarium wilt of banana – is back, and the Cavendish does not appear to be safe from this new strain, which appeared two decades ago in Malaysia, spread slowly at first, but is now moving at a geometrically quicker pace. There is no cure, and nearly every banana scientist says that though Panama disease has yet to hit the
banana crops of Latin America, which feed our hemisphere, the question is not if this will happen, but when. Even worse, the malady has the potential to spread to dozens of other banana varieties, including African bananas, the primary source of nutrition for millions of people.

Panama disease is so virulent that a single clump of dirt tracked in on a tire tread or a shoe can spark a country-wide outbreak.

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Previously on Neatorama: We’re Bananas About Bananas!