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Frustrated that a neighbor's kid's ball kept on landing in her front yard, Edna Jester decided that she wasn't going to give it back - so the neighbor called the police on her!
Cops arrested the 88-year-old grandmother and charged her with petty theft!
A frustrated Edna Jester took the football last Thursday evening after it landed, once again, in the yard of her Blue Ash home, where she has lived since April 1949. When Jester refused to return the football, neighbor Paul Tanis, 40, called the cops. Though police warned that she would be arrested unless she returned the football ...
Link - Thanks Land Tat!
Remember Pan, the exercisin' chimp we featured on Neatorama not long ago? Here's another clip of the versatile simian ... on a Segway!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Japan Probe
When you got to go, you got to go - even in a football field.
Here's the story of how several New Berlin Eisenhower High School's varsity football players got into trouble when they satisfied the urge in a rival high school's football field!
"I was very mad and I thought it was completely rude and uncalled for," said Michele Bellows, whose son plays for Pewaukee's junior varsity team. "I thought that they were making a statement like 'the heck with you guys.' "
Pewaukee Athletic Director John Maltsch admonished the boys and their coach over the public address system, saying "Coach, we do have facilities for your players to use."
One Eisenhower player told Newsradio 620 WTMJ that his teammates' actions were not malicious in nature. "The coaches told us before the game that the bathrooms were locked and at halftime we just told them that we were going to the bathroom," he insisted.
Half a decade century ago, US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres got the order he'll never forget: fire all rockets on a UFO flying over England! Here's the story:
On the night of May 20 1957, Dr Torres, then aged 25, was on standby at RAF Manston in Kent when he received an urgent order to scramble.
He was told to intercept a UFO with "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia that ground radar operators had been tracking for some time.
It was so cloudy he could not see anything, but the object showed up clearly on his radar as similar in size to a B-52 bomber. He was then ordered to fire a full salvo of 24 rockets at the object - something that came as a sobering shock to him. But before he could carry out this instruction the UFO suddenly darted off and disappeared from his scope in a matter of seconds.
The next day a man claiming to be from the US National Security Agency threatened him with losing his flying status if he told anyone what happened.
Dr Torres, now 77 and living in Miami, Florida, said he was flying at about Mach 0.92, while the UFO was travelling at over Mach 10.
The following is an article from Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader, by Kathy Kemp, author of Welcome to Lickskillet: And Other Crazy Places in the Deep South Plan to hit the road next summer, but don't know where to go? We don't mean to be rude, but have you considered Hell? Hell, Michigan, that is. (And you thought you had to drive south.) For a different kind of vacation, check out this tour of off-road America, where unusual names are the main attraction: Photo: David Ball [Wikipedia] 1. Hell, Michigan If you've always wanted to see Hell freeze over, visit this place in winter, when the Highland Lake dam often gets icy enough to stop the water flow. In summer, when temperatures are moderate, the town has a "Satan's Holidays" festival and a road race called "Run to Hell." In October is the "Halloween in Hell" Celebration. The town got its name in 1841, when George Reeves, an early settler in this low, swampy place in southeast Michigan, was asked what the thought the town should be named. "I don't care," Reeves said. "You can name it 'Hell' if you want to." 2. Slapout, Alabama Oscar Peeples, the town grocer in the early 1900s, was forever waiting on customers who asked for things he didn't have. "I'm slap out of it," Peeples would say. This central Alabama community, north of Montgomery, is now little more than a crossroads, with a church, bank, barber shop, and the tumbledown remains of Peeples' old store. 3. Noodle, Texas In the late 1800s, Texans often used the word noodle to mean "nothing," which is exactly what they found when they arrived at this locale near Abilene. Now there are two churches, a store and an old gin. For nearly a century, the population has held steady at about 40 people. (Photo: Jack Williams via TexasEscapes.com) 4. Joe, Montana When quarterback Joe Montana signed on with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1993, a Missouri radio station urged the folk of Ismay, in southeast Montana near the North Dakota border, to change the town's name to "Joe." The sports-minded citizenry, all 22 of them, voted in favor of the change, and a new industry was born. In fact, money raised from selling, "Joe, Montana" souvenirs enabled the town to build a new fire station. Photo: digitalhooligan [Flickr] 5. Lizard Lick, North Carolina Since 1972, the residents of this town, 16 miles east of Raleigh, have held lizard races every fall to herald the farming community's unusual name. It dates back to the days when the area was home to a federally operated liquor still, and lizards were brought in to cut down on the insects. Traveling salesman noticed the creatures and dubbed the community Lizard Lick. Downtown Chicken Alaska Photo by J. Higgs - via Wikipedia 6. Chicken, Alaska The village, in the Alaskan wild near the Canadian border, is named for a bird, but not the one you think. In the late 1800s, gold miners found a reliable meal in the abundance of ptarmigan, a grouse-like critter whose white feathers make it look, from a distance, like a chicken. When the townsfolk decided to incorporate in 1902, none of them knew how to spell ptarmigan. So they went with the look-alike Chicken to avoid the jokes of misspelled name would incur. Unfortunately, poultry jokes now abound. The town has a full-time population of about 30 people and mail delivery every Tuesday and Friday. There's a saloon, but no telephones or central plumbing. Incidentally, the ptarmigan is now the Alaska state bird. 7. Spot, Tennessee A dot in the road about an hour west of Nashville, Spot was named by a sawmill operator who was always writing folks about business. One day, pen in hand, the sawmill operator sat at his desk, worrying over a letter from postal authorities wanting to know what to call the town. A spot of ink dropped onto the sawmill operator's white stationery, and the town had its name. By town, we mean a couple of houses and a ramshackle store. 8. Peculiar, Missouri In the spring of 1868, Postmaster E.T. Thomson decided to name his town "Excelsior," but postal officials told him it was already taken. Thomson reapplied with new names, and received the same response time after time. Exasperated, he finally told postal officials to assign the town a unique name, one that was "sort of peculiar." Peculiar, near the Kansas border just south of Kansas City, is home to about 1,800 people. 9. Zap, North Dakota A Northern Pacific Railroad official, in charge of naming settlements on the line, named Zap after Zapp, Scotland, because both places had coal mines. The city, about 15 miles south of Lake Sakakawea, encompasses one square mile and is home to about 300. 10. Embarrass, Minnesota If faces are red here, it's only because the town - 205 miles north of St. Paul - is typically the coldest spot in the continental United States. The midwinter temperature often drops to -60 °F, and snow has been known to fall in June. The name comes from early settlers, who used the French word for obstacle - embarras - to describe the hardships they faced in the frigid territory. Today, the population is largely Finnish. They celebrate their thriving community with a Finnish-American Festival every summer. And Don't Forget ... Think the preceding towns have nutty names? Here are some more: - Idiotville, Oregon - Knockemstiff, Ohio - Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky - Satan's Kingdom, Vermont - Toad Suck, Arkansas |
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| The article above is reprinted with permission from Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out! | |
| See also previously on Neatorama: 10 Strangest Names EVAR! | |
Here's something for those of you who are afraid of snakes and spiders: a dramatic photo gallery at The Cairns Post of a redback spider eating a snake!
The email accompanying the images claims a receptionist at an electrical firm came in to work on Tuesday to find the snake caught up in the web. It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night.
Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it. She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it.
Redback spider, by the way, is considered one of the most poisonous spiders in Australia: Link | Gallery - via Quiddity
Having solved all of its problems like crime and poverty, La Quinta, California, is going after Ageda Camargo. The 83-year-old grandma may land in jail for ... an illegal garage conversion!
Camargo, a grandmother of six, has run afoul of La Quinta's code enforcement in a big way, big enough to put her behind bars.
The city near Palm Springs insists that one of her three bedrooms is really an illegally converted garage. She insists it's just a bedroom.
"What right do they have to call this a garage?" she asked, walking around the room with its cabinets, sink, bathroom and refrigerator. "I never called it a garage. How do they know it's not a bedroom? If this is a garage, then they owe me a bedroom."
For 18 months now, code enforcement officials have been after Camargo to turn the bedroom back into a garage. Insisting that her home is her castle, she has ignored more than a dozen warnings. Her resistance crumbled last week when a local judge ordered her to comply or face possible jail time.
"It's traumatic. It's like tearing my house down," she said. "I bought this place 30 years ago, and it was always a bedroom. And now they are trying to shove this down my throat."
Neatorama reader Sonia Zjawinski wrote to us about her blog, i heart tripods, which is dedicated to her dog Lulu who had a limb amputated because of bone cancer.
Her blog (with the catchy motto "four legs is just greedy") has since developed into a blog dedicated to pets who've had to get amputations. Check it out: http://www.ihearttripods.com/ - Thanks Sonia!
Yay! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog - can you guess what this strange contraption is for?
Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for bragging rights only.
For more guessing fun, check out the What is it? blog. Good luck!
Update 10/17/08 - Here's the answer:A rack lifter, this winch was powered by horses and was used to elevate a wagon box or rack of hay up to the second floor of a barn, where it was forked to the storage area. Patent number 379,693 has some drawings of a similar device.
Congrats to utron who got it right first!
Congratulations! You've got the answers right! This is the answer page for the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #5.
You're just one step away from winning the prize: one lucky commenter, chosen at random, will win a free Tokyoflash of his or her choosing. You can choose from any available watches from Tokyoflash, with exception of the Independent and Seiko brands.
Please login and use your Neatorama username (if you don't have one, please register). Please write your choice of watch (and what color) in the comment section. One entry per person only, please (duplicate entries will disqualify you on this and future games).
Thank you for playing and good luck (once again!). If you like Mike Jacobsen's shirt featured on this game (or any other shirts), please buy one! Your purchase helps support the blog.
Update 10/17/08: Wow, that was an awesome response, guys! We picked one lucky winner at random (by selecting a random comment using the algorithm at random.org). Congratulations to Cesareldorado who won the game!Hooray! It's time for our fifth Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt game here on Neatorama!
For those of you who don't know what it's all about, it's an online treasure hunt with an excellent prize: a free Tokyoflash watch of your choice, courtesy of the good folks at Tokyoflash. Here's how to play:
We'll announce 3 questions, for example:
1. What color is the "O" pebble in the Neatorama logo?
2. How many posts are on Neatorama’s homepage? (in numbers)
3. What’s the first insulting word in Neatorama’s article 10 Insulting Words You Should Know?
The answers (black, 30, frenchify) make a URL on this blog, like this: http://www.neatorama.com/black-30-frenchify (go ahead, copy and paste the URL in your browser's address bar). Easy peasy, right?
Okay! So let's go to it, then. Here are the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #5 questions:
1. What is the name of the Tokyoflash watch pictured above?
2. Mike Jacobsen designed a funny shirt for Neatorama's Online Store featuring a scene from the Elizabethan time. What is the first word uttered by the man on the left? Here's a shortcut to Mike's designs.
3. Tokyoflash makes a "rebel" watch that tells time through a series of green LED concentric circles. What is the name of this (very cool) watch?
Visit Tokyoflash and Neatorama's Online Store to find the answers, then put 'em together to make the URL (all words are lower case, separated by dash).
Good luck, guys!
Update 10/17/08 - We have a winner! A lucky commenter was picked using a random number generator at random.org: congratulations to Cesareldorado who won a black Oberon!(Links open in a new browser window/tab)
Wedding Ring Exchange FAIL Wait for it ... wait for it ... |
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CSI:NY Creates VB GUI to Track IP's Here's a perfect example: tracking down IPs using by creating a GUI (Graphical User Interface) using Visual Basic. As the VideoSift caption says, it made as much sense as "Get me some lettuce, and I'll count to potato, then we'll find grandma." |
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Japanese Games Shows Are So Much Better Than Ours Actually this explains Super Mario Bros. perfectly! Link |
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Saturn V Rocket Launch - Ultra Slow Motion Here's a fascinating clip of the launch of the Saturn V rocket like you've never seen it before: Link |
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Here Come the Fat One! Check out this "nature's crumple zone" clip here: Link (short and sweet, just 11 sec!) |
For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.
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