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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the “imminent” spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west’s most senior military officers and strategists.
Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US, Nato and the European Union together in a “grand strategy” to tackle the challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a “first strike” nuclear option remains an “indispensable instrument” since there is “simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world”.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Ex-warlord confesses to 20,000 deaths
One of Liberia’s most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked, has returned to the nation his troops terrorized to confess, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths.
Joshua Milton Blahyi, who now lives in Ghana, returned this week to face his homeland’s truth and reconciliation commission, this time wearing a suit and tie. His nom de guerre is derived from his platoon’s practice of charging naked into battle, a technique meant to terrify the enemy.
Other warlords, though, have refused to ask forgiveness, dismissing a commission many in Liberia see as toothless. Blahyi is urging other former killers to come forward as the country founded by freed American slaves in 1847 struggles to recover from past horrors.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
‘Filipino Monkey’ behind threats?
The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”
Since the Jan. 6 incident was announced to the public a day later, the U.S. Navy has said it’s unclear where the voice came from. In the videotape released by the Pentagon on Jan. 8, the screen goes black at the very end and the voice can be heard, distancing it from the scenes on the water.
“We don’t know for sure where they came from,” said Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for 5th Fleet in Bahrain. “It could have been a shore station.”
While the threat — “I am coming to you. You will explode in a few minutes” — was picked up during the incident, further jacking up the tension, there’s no proof yet of its origin. And several Navy officials have said it’s difficult to figure out who’s talking.
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Man drinks liter of vodka at airport line
A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt.
New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked as cargo.
Hat tip to Joey!
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Taxi for Schumacher
A taxi driver in Germany was left shaken and stirred after handing his keys over to seven-times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher.
Schumacher, 38, asked to take the wheel as he was running late for a flight.
“I found myself a passenger, which was strange enough, but having ‘Schumi’ behind the wheel was incredible,” said taxi driver Tuncer Yilmaz.
“He drove at full throttle around the corners and overtook in some unbelievable places.”
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After giving the cabbie an unforgettable experience, Schumacher also gave him a 100 Euro tip.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Max Speed on Lamborghini Sets New Record
Authorities have confirmed they are investigating a viral Internet video that shows a driver in a Lamborghini who claims to be driving at 219 mph on an Arizona highway.
“This is still an ongoing investigation,” Lt. James W. Warriner, a spokesman for the Airzona Department of Public Safety, told ABC News. “We will not be commenting until the investigation is complete.”
The video, originally posted on YouTube, runs more than four minutes long and appears to be professionally produced.
In the nighttime footage, an unidentified thrill seeker in a gold Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 appears to be pushing the vehicle to within 1 mph of the its 220 mph maximum. At the tail end of the clip, an unseen man is heard claiming the achievement as a new record.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Iconic Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies at 69
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel’s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundel said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital.
“It’s been coming for years, but you just don’t expect it. Superman just doesn’t die, right?” Rundel said.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
‘Satan brainwashed me,’ claims Mayor
Politicians quit their posts all the time, citing predictable reasons for stepping down.
Either they want to spend more time with their family or they have had a fling with someone instead of spending time with their family.
So respect then to the former mayor of a town in Arkansas, who has resigned because he was brainwashed by worshippers of Satan.
Ken Williams left his position in Centerton, claiming the devil lovers kidnapped him nearly 30 years ago.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Marilyn Manson Accused Of Buying Girl’s Skeleton
Shock rock singer Marilyn Manson has been accused of squandering his band’s profit on a child’s skeleton and masks made of human skin.
Keyboardist Stephen “Pogo” Bier filed a breach of contract lawsuit in August in which he accused Manson of taking cash belonging to the rest of the band to pay for the “sick and disturbing” purchases.
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Swastika wall tiles with matching custom rugs and Nazi government coat hangers owned by Adolf Hitler are allegedly on display in Manson’s Californian mansion, according to legal papers.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Surgeons Remove Ten-Pound Hairball From Teen Girl’s Stomach
Surgeons removed a massive 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old girl suffering from a psychological condition in which she ate her own hair, according to a report in this week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The teen went to her doctor after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting. She had also lost 40 pounds over a five-month period, according to a UPI report.
Doctors at Rush Medical Center in Chicago carried out a scan and were amazed to find the huge mass of hair blocking her entire stomach, according to NEJM.
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Video Fix: Shaolin Monks, Tough All Over on Danger Room
I’ve never respected — or feared — the Shaolin monks more than after watching this NSFW video.
Hat tip to Steve!
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Neither man nor beast
…On Sept. 5, a government agency (called the Human Fertilization and Embryology Agency or HFEA) decided to let scientists, mad or otherwise, create human/animal hybrids. Let me repeat: Science fiction will become science fact very soon; and man and beast will be combined into one.
A bill will be introduced in the British Parliament this fall to make this a positive right under English law, rather than simply the consequence of an administrative interpretation (which the HFEA issued). It is likely to pass, but even if it does not, the administrative interpretation of the HFEA will permit creation of human/animal hybrids to go forward. And go forward it will, for this is no hypothetical possibility — two teams of scientists have already applied to the HFEA to create human/animal hybrids.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
German historian publishes chilling read: Hitler’s fan mail
For around three generations, the enormous bulk of Adolf Hitler’s fan mail remained hidden from the public’s eyes. Some of the contents of this postal multitude have recently been published in a new book by Henrik Eberle, a German historian.
Eberle found the Nazi fan mail in a government archive in Moscow. Excerpts from Dr. Eberle’s book, “Letters to Hitler – a People Writes to its Leader,” were published this week in the German daily tabloid Bild.
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“Dear good Uncle Hitler,” wrote one ethnic German woman, Annelene K., from northeast Prussia, which is today in Lithuania.
“We’ve been waiting so long for you, when are you coming to our region? We would be very happy if we could belong to Germany again. The Jews and the Lithuanians would all then have to leave, wouldn’t they? The Jews not only take our bread – they also slaughter Christians for Easter.”
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Adventurer ends 13-year human-powered world trip
Adventurer Jason Lewis on Saturday arrived in Greenwich, ending a 13-year round-the-world trip using only the power of the human body.
The 40-year-old completed the final leg of his 46,000-mile odyssey by pedalling his 7.9-metre boat Moksha up the River Thames.
Ending a journey that included capsizing in the Atlantic, breaking both legs, being chased by a crocodile and being arrested on suspicion of spying, Lewis then disembarked and carried Moksha across the Greenwich Meridian line at the Royal Observatory with the help of supporters.
Lewis set off from the same spot — zero degrees longitude — bound for Portugal in July 1994. The 16-leg journey included hiking, kayaking, mountain biking and hiking.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Police Investigate Bizarre Emergency Call From Bishop
Gallup police reported a bizarre set of circumstances following a recent emergency call to the home of Roman Catholic Bishop Donald Pelotte.
The most recent event happened Thursday when Gallup police reported receiving an emergency call from Pelotte, 62.
An incident report from the McKinley Metropolitan Dispatch Authority reported that Pelotte told operators “…gentle little people, about 3 to 4 feet tall, and wearing Halloween masks” were in the hall. The dispatch log reported that Pelotte said he hid in a closet while the people were in his home.
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing
A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.
After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukovo Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said.
The airport did not confirm the report. “We have no information on this,” the Vnukovo press service told RIA Novosti.
However, Moscow’s air and water transport control department said the radio’s claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy’s parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Man Bitten After Putting Snake in Mouth
Snake collector Matt Wilkinson of Portland grabbed a 20-inch rattler from the highway near Maupin, and three weeks later, to impress his ex-girlfriend, he stuck the serpent in his mouth.
He was soon near death with a swollen tongue that blocked his throat. Trauma doctors at the Oregon Health and Science University saved his life.
“You can assume alcohol was involved,” he said. Actually, not just beer. It was something he called a “mixture of stupid stuff.”
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Is this the real reason for the overflights and the silence that followed?
Advanced Russian Air Defense Missile Cannot Protect Syrian and Iranian Skies
Western intelligence circles stress that information on Russian missile consignments to Syria or Iran is vital to any US calculation of whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program. They assume that the “absolute jamming immunity” which the Russian manufactures promised for the improved Pantsyr missiles was immobilized by superior electronic capabilities exercised by the jets before they were “forced to leave.”
Syria took delivery in mid-August of 10 batteries of sophisticated Russian Pantsyr-S1E Air Defense Missile fire control systems with advanced radar, those sources report. They have just been installed in Syria.
Understanding that the Pantsyr-S1E had failed in its mission to bring down trespassing aircraft, Moscow hastened Thursday, Sept 6, to officially deny selling these systems to Syria or Iran and called on Israel to respect international law. This was diplomatic-speak for a warning against attacking the Russian-made missiles batteries stations where Russian instructors are working alongside Syrian teams.
Western intelligence circles maintain that it is vital for the US and Israel to establish the location and gauge the effectiveness of Pantsyr-S1E air defenses in Syrian and Iranian hands, as well as discovering how many each received.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Surfer Rides Alaska Glacier’s Giant Wave
As the newest extreme sport, it is more “Titanic” than Olympic. Ice surfing gives you the chance to dice with death while enjoying the planet’s ultimate chill-out.
It is not the easiest of pastimes to enjoy. First you have to find a glacier about to “calve,” then wait for up to two weeks for a house-sized iceberg to break off before catching the monstrous wake after it hits the water from 500 feet high.
The reward: Sixty seconds of sheer exhilaration as you ride a 25-foot wall of ice-cold water filled with millions of shards of razor-sharp ice, mud, boulders and debris.
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Charged in Smoke Detector Theft
A man who became the subject of a book called “The Radioactive Boy Scout” after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials.
David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond in the Macomb County Jail after he was arraigned Thursday on felony larceny charges. Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle said Hahn denied the charges.
From the mugshot, it looks like he is suffering from radiation poisoning.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Illegal and heading here: ‘Killer’ 20mph petrol-driven rollerblades
They look like great fun, and would certainly take the sweat out of skating.
But these motorised rollerblades could cause serious injury and death, safety experts warned last night.
The Chinese-made boots are illegal across the world, but trading standards chiefs fear the UK black market is about to be flooded with them.
With a 25cc engine attached to the right boot along with a small fuel tank, they carry the wearer along at up to 20mph.
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Princess says she talks to angels | Metro.co.uk
In a move that makes the misadventures of our own beloved Royal Family look positively amateurish, Princess Martha Louise of Norway has announced that she is clairvoyant, and wants to help people by teaching them how to talk to angels.
The 35-year-old Princess – the daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja, and a trained physical therapist – said on a Web site for her alternative education centre that she has been communicating with angels since childhood.
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