If you can't trust Bigfoot experts, who can you trust...
Bigfoot -- that bashful, large lug of a hairy monster -- is causing trouble among his believers.
Not that he -- or she, or whichever -- ever did anything to anyone except pose for really fuzzy pictures, leave mammoth footprints in remote areas and never get caught.
But late last week, C. Thomas Biscardi, a Redwood City man who bills himself as a ```World Renowned Bigfoot Researcher,'' sued the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization, its president and vice president. The group was established last year ``to track, study and learn about the Bigfoot creatures that are believed to inhabit North America.'' Hmmmmmmmm...Who to believe...who to believe...
Biscardi, who's been in the Bigfoot business for 33 years, says he was supposed to be paid $250,000 to ``lend his experience, knowledge and reputation,'' to conduct ``Bigfoot expeditions,'' and to provide the group with use of his library -- which consists of things such as plaster footprint casts, films, photos and sound recordings. There he is! Did you see him!! Oh, well, maybe next year. Will that be cash or charge?
The group, the lawsuit claims, paid him only $65,000 and won't give back his stuff. Only 65 grand for all your Bigfoot research stuff? That's friggin highway robbery!
Dennis Kazubowski, the San Jose lawyer representing Biscardi, said he'd been negotiating with the attorney for the defendants, North Bay residents Carole Rubin and Robert Shorey, for the return of Biscardi's library, but then ``the attorney quit because he wasn't getting paid.'' Maybe Bigfoot ate all the money?
Neither defendant could be reached for comment.
``They return Tom's property and the lawsuit is dismissed in a minute,'' Kazubowski said.
For the uninitiated, Bigfoot -- sometimes also known by the American Indian name Sasquatch -- supposedly roams the wilds, can be as large as 8 feet tall, 800 pounds . . . and is believed by most of the adult world to be a myth. Nonetheless, there is a core of true believers, including Mike Rugg, who runs a Bigfoot museum in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Is that listed in Roadside America?
The big bipeds are a wily bunch. No human has ever been able to catch one. But somehow, the opposite sexes of the species seem to be able to find each other, fall in love and produce little Bigfeet. They must have, like, a seventh sense...
Last year, Biscardi led an expedition to find Bigfoot at Happy Camp, in the Klamath River Valley, in far Northern California. He had a pay-per-view Webcast. The seemingly sure-fire plan was to nail the big fellow with a stun gun, keep him in a zoo for 90 days so a medical team could study him, then release him back into the wild. Pay-per-view? And I missed it?
No luck. Damn!
The Mercury News reached Biscardi by cell phone Monday. He was Bigfoot hunting just outside Paris, Texas. He didn't much want to talk about his lawsuit, which he considers his ``private business.'' Sorry, but I'm really busy here. Bigfoot huntin's an intense business...
But he was in a high state of excitement. The crew had a Bigfoot sighting Sunday night. Biscardi said they had found a spot that looks like ``Jurassic Park,'' and saw -- guess who? -- yep, Bigfoot. Biscardi said he's had five ``close encounters'' with a Bigfoot in his career, but nothing like this. I saw Bigfoot! Again! In Jurrasic Park! In Texas!
``I gotta tell you something,'' he said, ``this is the largest thing I've ever seen in my life.'' Ya just missed it! If you wuz here five minutes earlier...
Biscardi said television captured its image and he figures the find will hit the national news today or Thursday. Damn! Bigfoot must've got in there and erased the tape, because I never saw the story!
He he, you're the real deal. How do you deal with your cousin Bill-Bob the skunk ape at family reunions, by the way, if that's not too private to ask? I've always wondered about that.
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We haven't been holding family reunions since guys like Biscardi started running around.
Makes sense. But there must be a way... Haven't you ever thought about holding them in convention centers, and pretending you're a club of Demis Roussos impersonators? Just thinking out loud.
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Klamath .... hmm...
The Historic Requa Inn in Klamath was a Scottish Malt tasting in for a few years after the french style chef ladies sold it. Now its something different but if they had a few too many Scottish Malts before Bigfoot Tracking... anything would be possible...
heh.
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Well, to be honest, it's more the excuse than the real reason. The main reason is that everyone's been kinda put off by Manbearpig's body odor the last couple years.
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wow. It is sad - but there is much to be learned about both human nature and about dogs from her. If she has a good agent, she could make an ok living from books and having scientists pay for the privilege of working with her.
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Sorry all, but I'm thinking: we're gonna need a new Group at the Westminster show.
Yeah, I'm going straight to hell.
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Those who start life without love have been shorted of the basic human emotion.
A strong family life with love and respect, with dicipline and clean morals. That is how we should all grow and that is how we should all prosper.
Character thrives in such surroundings, all else falls to selfishness.
A man who cut off his own penis in a drunken bet had it stitched back on by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country's history.
"Jazeps, have you seen my sewing kit?"
"Ilona has it. She popped another button."
While heavily under the influence of alcohol, the 30-year-old made a bet with his friend for 1000 lats ($2360) that he would cut off his penis, according to a Latvian public television report.
"Yeah, sure. I'm so numb, I could cut off my doinker an' not feel it!... Here! Hold my beer!"
He was brought to hospital bleeding severely yesterday.
"Owwww... Where's my beer?"
"We have had a few cases with penis traumas, when it was half-cut or damaged, but this is the first time that it was totally cut off - and brought to hospital in a plastic bag," said microsurgeon Aivars Tihonovs from Gailezers hospital in the Latvian capital, Riga.
"Hi, Zuzanna! Whatcha got in the baggy?"
"Nothin' special. Just a bloody doinker."
The operation lasted three and a half hours as doctors had to sew six nerves back together, according to media reports.
"Scalpel... Clamps... Stapler... Crazy Glue..."
"The first operation of this kind in the world was carried out in 1977, and it is still very rare," Tihonovs said, adding that such surgery was sometimes needed after bomb explosions. The surgeon said that he was proud of his work but also "really angry that he (the patient) did it to himself".
I think "dumbass" is the word you're looking for, Doc...
Doctors said that it would take four or five days to assess if the operation was successful. It would take about half a year to be sure that the man's penis was functioning properly.
A Motel 6 had some unlikely guests Wednesday when a customer's luggage included a large alligator, snakes and other wildlife. Police were called about 5:30 p.m. after someone saw a man carry a 6-feet-long alligator into a hotel room at 4130 N. Black Canyon Highway. Several officers entered the room to discover nearly a dozen caged snakes, several desert tortoises, a possum, and spiders. The alligator was lying in a bathroom tub.
The owner, who was not present when police arrived, later provided permits for the animals, Sgt. Mike Gurry said. He said the animals were used as educational tools. "If you're the next person to use that room, I'm sure they'll do a really good job of scrubbing the tub," Phoenix Lt. John Humphrey said.
An officer from the Arizona Game and Fish Department had also been dispatched but no further details were available, an agency spokeswoman said. It was not clear whether hotel management was aware of the man's companions when he checked in. A call to the hotel office was redirected to Motel 6's parent company, Accor North America, which did not return calls by deadline.
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AZ doesn't need any frickin' alligators. We've already got more than enough native toothy & stingy denizens.
We had a problem with geese and goose poop when I worked at Goddard. Vicious little beasts, but tasty.
You hit on the obvious (and delectable) solution, of course, but just try proposing that to all the greenies and animal lovers.
New technology may allow peaceful coexistence with Canada geese, whose daily 5-pound poop production has had officials here and in other cities killing them by the thousands. "It's basically a carpet sweeper for grass," said Ed Zylstra, inventor of the patent-pending Goose Goo Gone machine and co-founder of Naturesweep, based in Victoria, British Columbia.
Seattle is the first U.S. municipality to try Naturesweep's device, a boxy little trailer with rotating bristles. The company is providing a free test run for the city Parks Department, which has an agreement with the Progressive Animal Welfare Society to look into nonlethal means of controlling the problem.
The geese don't migrate if there's food year-round, causing problems in urban parks. In addition to lethal removal, geese in the Puget Sound area have been herded by dogs, shipped to rural areas and prevented from multiplying by "addling," or oiling, their eggs. According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington state has about 70,000 resident Canada geese -- each producing as much as 5 pounds of waste per day.
Zylstra, a welder, said he came up with the machine after goose droppings on Victoria play fields got in the way of a kids' soccer team he coached. The 4- by 4-foot trailer is towed behind a small lawn tractor. A gas-powered motor turns the nylon bristles to "tickle" the grass without damaging it. Droppings and other debris go into a hopper made of a special plastic that can hold up under nitrogen-laden droppings.
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The geese don't migrate if there's food year-round
They do too so migrate...to the next-most-southernest golf course.
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//Zylstra, a welder, said he came up with the machine after goose droppings on Victoria play fields got in the way of a kids' soccer team he coached.//
poosees. we never let litter shiat get in em way wen playin smeer da kweer when we were kidz...
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I miss my goose Gussie. She got stepped pn by one of the horses a few weeks ago. She liked to sleep with the dogs and would chase cars with them. Very tame, too. She liked me to pick her up and rub her neck.
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Big difference between tame domestic geese and wild geese, who have even been seen fighting moose and winning, in streams, when the moose ended up falling and being drowned.
PARIS - Saudi Arabia has ordered 76 artillery howitzers from the French armaments manufacturer Giat Industries, sources close to the purchase told AFP on Friday. Giat Industries announced a sale of its 155 millimetre Caesar artillery systems but did not give the name of the client nor the amount of money to change hands.
The order came as Saudi Arabias defence minister Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz was in France on a two-day visit. He saw President Jacques Chirac on Thursday and was to hold talks with his counterpart Michele Alliot-Marie later Friday.
"Here's your envelope, Madame Defense Minister."
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Artillery is not just tubes. It is your artillerymen and their guidance systems that make them the queen of battle. Let's see the Saudis even try to pull off a simple TOT.
A moderate earthquake shook southwestern China, killing 13 people, injuring 41 people and toppling 56 houses, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The quake, which measured 5.2 magnitude on the Richter scale, struck at 9:10 a.m. Saturday (0110 GMT) about 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the mountainous region of Sichuan located in southwest China, the U.S. Geological Survey Web site reported.
Houses in Yanjin, a county on the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau with a population of 350,000, were mostly built near hillsides and therefore are vulnerable to earthquakes, Xinhua said.
Rescue teams headed to the affected areas shortly after the earthquake.
Who knew that undercut anchor bolts could make such gripping television? Ten cameras were trained on Governor Mitt Romney at the State House yesterday as he dropped the latest Big Dig bombshell: He had ordered an immediate shutdown of the eastbound side of Ted Williams Tunnel.
Since falling concrete killed a woman in the I-90 connector 11 days ago, Romney has become the undisputed king of the news cycle. Yesterday was his seventh press conference on the crisis, not counting numerous press availabilities after striding into the tunnel for a look, clad in a hard hat and safety vest. The former corporate titan has portrayed himself as the Captain of the Ship of State, exuding confidence and promising a ``stem to stern,' independent investigation of the tunnels. He has mastered the basic engineering concepts of the repairs, and he seems seized with an almost evangelical desire to explain it to the public.
He's doing a Rudy -- demonstrating that if you want to be President, you take charge and make things happen when things are going bad. If he does a good job here, there are going to be a lot fewer Republicans wondering about his being a Mormon ...
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I do find it refreshing to find an executive who, when faced by a monumental and v-e-r-y public agency failure, steps up to the plate and demands heads. No weasel words like: "Monsieur le Agence Directeur has my full confidence". No sir. "I want resignations, and I want them now."
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Yep, I've been watching him on the evening news. He looks great: competent and in charge. No talking down; he explains clearly what the problem is and how and when it will be fixed.
I caught him on Boston talk radio a year ago, he was the same. Strange, since I consider Mormonism to be an intelligence test.
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He's going after Fat Matt Amorello (chief of the Mass. Turnpike Authority) on Friday in order to remove him from that position. You'll see more of this in the upcoming weeks.
If he 86's that character, he'll have done the Commonwealth an immense service.
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I do find it refreshing to find an executive who,.....steps up to the plate and demands heads.
That's one of the things I dislike about Bush. He gives everyone too many chances. After 9-11 he should have demanded the heads of FBI and CIA be nailed to the White House gate.
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That's who I had in mind, Steve. There should have been a conveyor belt of heads out of all the agencies by 9/14/01.
And an inspection report dated Nov. 25, 1994, noted that some bolts had fallen out before the epoxy set and workers were ``using duct tape" to hold bolts to the ceiling until it set .
Ryan's memo asked Walsh to address the workmanship problems and noted that the cold weather procedures had already been modified. Ultimately, Walsh finished the Ted Williams ceiling and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff signed off on the quality of the work, clearing the way for the opening of the 1.6-mile-long tunnel in December 1995.
Walsh Northeast did not return a call seeking comment.
Asked about the documents yesterday, officials at the inspector general's office said they show that epoxy bolts are only reliable if conditions are right and workers follow all the procedures. Romney has already said that he no longer has confidence in any of the more than 1,100 epoxy bolts in the I-90 connector and the state has hired Hilti USA to provide far more durable bolts. Those undercut anchor bolts are considerably more expensive than epoxy bolts, but they are designed to hold fast in high-sensitivity places, from roller coasters to nuclear power plants.
State officials have more confidence in the epoxy-and-bolt fasteners in the Ted Williams Tunnel, largely because the ceiling panels they hold up are lighter than in the connector. But so-called pull tests of those bolts will be conducted to verify that they can support the weight for which they are designed.
Rep. Diana DeGette will help give President Bush a less-than-warm welcome to her district on Friday. Just two days after Bush used his first-ever presidential veto to block her bill expanding embryonic stem-cell research, he's scheduled to be appear at a private home in Cherry Hills Village to raise money for 7th District congressional candidate Rick O'Donnell, a Republican. DeGette plans to lead a protest rally at 10:45 a.m. at First Universalist Church of Denver, 4101 E. Hampden Ave. DeGette will be joined by patients who, she says, would benefit from embryonic stem-cell research.
"She is just going there because the president has refused to meet with her on this issue, and to express her disappointment and outrage that he used his first and only veto on this potentially life-saving research," DeGette spokesman Brandon MacGillis said Thursday.
The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., would have created ethical guidelines but then expanded the number of lines of embryonic stem cells that can be used in federally funded research. Bush and other critics, including many religious conservatives, equate embryonic research to the destruction of human life, and they only want federal funds used on research into stem cells derived from sources other than embryos.
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She looks like she eats embryonic stem cells for breakfast.
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Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says the United States is engaged in a new world war against Islamic fascism. He says many Americans won't say so for fear of offending Muslims. Santorum says terrorist attacks worldwide, the war in Iraq and Israel's fight against Iran-backed Hezbollah are all battlefronts in a war that Americans will either win or lose, but cannot avoid. Santorum is opposed to the Iranian regime, but does not support military action against the country. He says he favors legislation would punish countries that aid Iran's nuclear program and that encourage pro-democracy groups in Iran.
Santorum is embroiled in a tough re-election fight against state Treasurer Bob Casey and has consistently trailed in the polls. A spokesman for Casey said Santorum's speech was him rubber-stamping President Bush's agenda.
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//Santorum is opposed to the Iranian regime, but does not support military action against the country. He says he favors legislation would punish countries that aid Iran's nuclear program and that encourage pro-democracy groups in Iran//
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I agree with the world war character of the conflict, but Santorum sounds too rigid. A Legislator should not be closing doors on escalation scenarios. However, I would toss a vote his way, if I could.
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Well, I can and I will. And while I'm at it, Casey, Santorum's opponent is more right wing than dhimmocrat. People like Casey are wired backward. Honest Americans should be trying to destroy the dhimmocrat party, not save it. Just when people should be coming together, uniting to face the future with a strong front, jerks like Casey muddy the waters for his own self interests and agenda. Another dhimmocrat asshole.
The government is working to make Hudood laws consistent with Islamic injunctions, Online quoted President Pervez Musharraf as saying at the first National Nursing Convention at Jinnah Convention Centre on Friday. "The government is working to completely Islamise the Hudood Ordinance so that it cannot be abused," Musharraf said and reiterated the government would eliminate all discriminatory laws against women.
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Perv is going to islamicise the islamic law?
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that's a jaw dropper. He certainly says some things we are all thinking, but I don't like the veiled (pun intended) threat toward women who do wear a veil. Just wearing a veil doesn't make them a target. It's as bad as Norway saying not to wear yarmukes cause they might be targets.
This is a list of known or suspected U.S. Underground Bases, the purpose of each (hey, I'm just passing on the reports...), how they're set up and any other info known about them. Although most of these are supposed to be a secret, this list is culled from publicly available records (is that good or bad?) and of course people who worked in them, live by them or those who have retired and offer info.
Some wish to remain anonymous. Some have written to me with stories that have been terrifying - just to tell me things - not meaning for me to put them up. I have a bad habit of keeping secrets, which is good. The map, which is large, has been made into a pop-up window so you can minimize it as you read the list, and not have to flip between pages. Mouse over the pins for the location.
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Got to schedule a trip hither:
http://www.greenbrier.com/site/bunker/default.aspx
but the timing must be flawless.....
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Moose, to put it gently, the website you kined is full of shit.
Its so inaccurate was literally laughing out loud at its description of the EW/ELINT school at Fort Huachuca. It screams of ignorance - and is howlingly funny to those of us who have been there. Every com in the miltary flowing thru backwoods Arizona, thats RICH! And its an NSA facility, wooooo! Scary. Its simply a training base with a reseve unit there, a base that concentrates on EW and SIGINT. Sheesh.
The rest of the entries are similarly ficitonal.
My favorite brief entry:
14. Mt. Lassen, California
Tunnels to: Probably connects to the Mt. Shasta main tunnel.
Notes: Two alien races living inside mountain.
Hah!
But this one is the best of all, considering how many times I've flown in and out of that place on my way to Colorado Springs.:
5. Denver International Airport (also a detainment camp)
Function: Military research, construction, detainment camp facilities
Levels: 7 reported
Tunnels to: Denver proper, Colorado and Rocky Mountain "safehousing", Colorado Springs, Colorado (Cheyenne Mtn.), Riverton, Wyoming Notes: Constructed in 1995, the government and politicians were hell bent on building this airport in spite of it ending up vastly overbudget. Charges of corruption, constant construction company changes, and mass firings of teams once they had built a section of their work was reported so that no "one" group had any idea what the blueprint of the airport was. Not only did locals not want this airport built nor was it needed, but everything was done to make sure it was, period. Masonic symbols and bizarre artwork of dead babies, burning cities and women in coffins comprise an extensive mural as well as a time capsule - none of which is featured in the airport's web site section detailing the unique artwork throughout the building. DIA is reported to serve as a cover for the vast underground facilities that were built there. There are reports of electronic/magnetic vibrations which make some people sick and cause headaches in others. There are acres of fenced-in areas which have barbed wire pointing into the area as if to keep things in, and small concrete stacks that resemble mini-cooling towers rise out of the acres of nowhere to apparently vent underground levels.
Someone was way off their medcation when they wrote that.
The real truth is much more mundane. Aside fromthe obviously nutter stuff liek the above, most of the actual installations mentioned are areas with restricted zones because we dont want our enemies to know anything more than is already out there. that includes mission, capability, EM emissions, etc. OPSEC saves lives.
I mean really - this is a government that couldn't keep a Presidential blowjob secret - how in the hell would it hide all of these huge non-sensical operations?
Do peopel actually beleive this crack-headed stuff? If so, we are in the middle of e mental health crisis in the nation - schizophrenia (not lving in reality) and paranoia are running rampant in those segements of US populace.
And I used the think the John Birchers were wierd... these guys take the cake. F**king nutters.
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Those "tunnels" are part of the interstate highway system which are part of the us defense department. That explains why there are Interstate Hwys.in Hawaii. Must be conected to the mainland by one of these secret tunnels.
Next time I start writing like this I will have to use the caps lock.
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TEHERAN - A strong earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted southern Iran on Friday, state television reported.
No casualties have been reported from the quake, which struck at 3:16 am (1146 GMT) with the epicentre outside the town of Shahr-e Babak in Kerman province. The earthquake hit an uninhabited area in the desert so there has been no damage, a local official identified only by his last name as Shojai told ISNA news agency.
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Ok, Jenkins. +.1 on the size, but 16 minutes off target time. Not too shabby, we'll call it a good test. Go ahead an' lock 'er down again...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A man who cut off his own penis in a drunken bet had it stitched back on by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country's history.
A Motel 6 had some unlikely guests Wednesday when a customer's luggage included a large alligator, snakes and other wildlife. Police were called about 5:30 p.m. after someone saw a man carry a 6-feet-long alligator into a hotel room at 4130 N. Black Canyon Highway. Several officers entered the room to discover nearly a dozen caged snakes, several desert tortoises, a possum, and spiders. The alligator was lying in a bathroom tub.
PARIS - Saudi Arabia has ordered 76 artillery howitzers from the French armaments manufacturer Giat Industries, sources close to the purchase told AFP on Friday. Giat Industries announced a sale of its 155 millimetre Caesar artillery systems but did not give the name of the client nor the amount of money to change hands.
Who knew that undercut anchor bolts could make such gripping television? Ten cameras were trained on Governor 
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TEHERAN - A strong earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted southern Iran on Friday, state television reported.
