A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals.
The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn't be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon.
But minutes after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack, Moscow police said.
"We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do," said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.
While a lot of his news cohorts are beginning to overshare a bit on Twitter, Keith Olbermann is backing away from the popular text service. We'll just have to soldier on without you, Keith. Come on, lads, buck up, stiff upper lip and all that!
"Enough of my life has been consumed by electronics that have been invented during my life that I may have actually reached my absolute far end of my ability to handle new electronics, new ways of communication," he told us at the Empire State Pride Agenda's "Defying Inequality" event at the Gershwin last night. "I may have hit a wall with an iPhone." Now that he's promised not to Twitter, I look forward to the day we can extract promises from him not to blog, blather, pontificate, or rant, ever again.
FLORIDA wildlife managers have launched an experiment to see if they can keep crocodiles from returning to residential neighbourhoods by temporarily taping magnets to their heads to disrupt their "homing" ability. "No, you tape the magnet to the crocodile's head!" Florida? Pay em in beer. You'll have volunteers around the block.
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"Hey, Jim Bob! Let's you and him go stick some magnets on that gator's head."
"No problemo. Here, hold my beer."
Pedantic note: most of the big toothy reptiles in Florida are alligators. The American crocodile is found in Central America, but rare in Florida except for a small population in the south.
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Taping magnets?
Hell, just use non-magnetic lead applied with a large caliber gun. Stick the manager into a cage with a gator and let him pick which method he'd prefer.
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I live in a community with "beaucoup" lakes, ponds and canal infested with 'gators. The one about 200 yards from me has a family of 6. The poppa is a big boy - about 10 feet and he likes to roam at night (as most gators) from one water source to another. If you are out playing golf on the course late at dusk it is not unusual to run into one walking down the cart path. The neat thing about this idea of putting a magnet on their heads is that maybe I could pick up his location on my GPS driven Sky Caddie and be able to avoid this particular hazard:)
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Maybe they meant a .44 Magnet applied to the forhaed of the critter?
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Just remember we are talking American crocodiles here not gators. Problem gators are handled by trappers that are allowed to sell off the gator parts. Crocs are covered by the ESA and being endangered you can't off them. So IIRC correctly there was one female croc that kept showing up at a Fort Meyers golf course. The problem was there was no place far enough away she could be relocated to that she wouldn't find her way back.
Of course if they let me start a IR fire ant control program way back when at turkey point they would be "threatened" by now.
As for paying them with beer, that is the preffered medium of payment for most reptile people. My buddy Joe would do it for beer, see: http://www.natselections.com/index.htm
They keep records for scorpion eating? Do they have a league?
A Saudi man set a new world record last month after he ate 22 live scorpions in 20 seconds at a show in Riyadh. The 39-year-old earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records but told AlArabiya.net that is not why he did it.
"It's always been my hobby to eat scorpions."
"It's always been my hobby to eat scorpions," Majid al-Maliki told AlArabiya.net, adding that he once ate 50 live scorpions in one meal.
When asked how he eats the scorpions, Maliki replied that he treats them like any other type of food, he chews and then swallows. ...and they taste like chicken, I'll bet.
The Riyadh-based civil servant said he enjoys eating all types and sizes of scorpions, but especially relishes in the yellow species known as Palestinian. So...it's yellow and known as Palestinian? Heh heh heh...
Maliki said he has been eating scorpions for 22 years and said he also eats snakes, small crocodiles and lizards. "I can eat 10 snakes at a time," he said. So...what's for lunch, Majid?
Maliki explained he has never been poisoned and said he cuts part of the scorpion's spike so that the sting is mild. "Even if it stings, the poison won't affect me," he said, adding that it is not the sting that kills but the person's fear as people tend to panic causing the temperature to rapidly rise, which causes death.
"I advise everyone to stay calm after being stung since it is fear that kills," he said. "Scorpion poison has many benefits and as long as there are no ulcers, it is ok if the poison reaches the stomach."
The previous Guinness record holder was an American man, Dean Sheldon, who ate 21 deadly Chinese golden scorpions in 2004. Damn. And I was so proud. USA! USA!
Maliki said he had a contract with an American program to perform his shows, but said he stopped after the September 11 attacks.
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There's a great big puddle west of LA how much would it cost to start tapping into that? I've heard that nanotech is coming up with some much better ways at de-salinization.
If they want to live in a desert, what do they expect?
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If those costs are right, then Nevada is suffering from a serious water pricing error. It sounds like their residential water costs are *lower* than what the utilities charge up here in rainy, green, wet central Pennsylvania. That's absolutely nuts. No wonder they're sucking their reservoirs dry!
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Colorado river water heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer. It goes to show you can't kill free government money even after 70 years and several times growth in per capita prosperity.
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I can hear Sam Kinnison now, "Its a fucking Dessert"
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I just moved to Las Vegas from the Bay Area. I bought one of those foreclosed properties. I'm replacing my front lawn with a xeriscape (the bank let my whole yard die.)
Every drop of water used inside in Vegas is cleaned and returned to Lake Mead.
This is a great place to live. If you are single or if you have a family. I love living here.
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#2, Mitch H; I suspect the expenses of the utilities in Pennsylvania are higher. Except perhaps in California, LV or Phoenix itself the wages in the West would be considered poverty level in much of the East. And ed is correct as well. However since the Feds control so much of Western lands they were required to chip in for lands that were locked out from being tax providing private land similar to the East.
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I will make it a priority to take a hard and close look at the disturbing trend that is the disappearance of journalism.
It happened a long time ago when the paper editors decided that their political agenda takes precedence over honest reporting and that the masses must be led by the nose.
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RMN had some very good reporting for a long time. Haven't read much of them lately, but I think they'll be missed. They seemed more like a local version of the WaPo than the NYTimes.
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While I don't condone folks buying more than they can afford I still get a kick out of this! If you need that explained to you then you wouldn't understand. (grin)
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Every home sale that I have been involved in had a "if you pay you stay, if you don't you won't" clause. And I'm pretty sure the title company had a copy of a signed version of the original.
Colorado's oldest newspaper will publish its final edition Friday. The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, will be closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful, the E.W. Scripps Co. announced today.
"Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges," Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, said in a prepared statement. "The Rocky is one of Americas very best examples of what local news organizations need to be in the future. Unfortunately, the partnerships business model is locked in the past."
The Rocky has been in a joint operating agreement with The Denver Post since 2001. The arrangement approved by the U.S. Justice Department allowed the papers to share all business services, from advertising to printing, in order to preserve two editorial voices in the community.
However on December 4 Scripps announced it was putting up for sale the Rocky and its 50 percent interest in the Denver Newspaper Agency, the company that handles business matters for the papers, because it couldnt continue to sustain its financial losses in Denver. Scripps said the Rocky lost $16 million in 2008.
One possible buyer emerged by the mid-January deadline to express interest in acquiring the paper, Scripps said. But the buyer was unable to present a viable plan for the paper, the companys press release said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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Colorado's oldest newspaper will publish its final edition Friday. The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, will be closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful, the E.W. Scripps Co. announced today.
