It All Started With a Fence...

    Gijsbert Rider claimed that he and his wife felt "threatened" by two of the residents at a mobile home park near his home in the south of the Netherlands. He proceeded to build a fence around his property. A dispute arose with the local building council. Ultimately a judge ruled that the fence had to come down.

     That's when things began to...escalate. Mr. Rider evidently took to heart the expression, "a man's home is his castle." and prepared to repel boarders with a bow and arrows and several Molotov cocktails.

   
     In spite of his attempts to set several policemen afire, the Dutch SWAT team managed to take him into custody without loss of life.

     A video clip can be found here.

     So much for "Good fences make good neighbors."


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     www.rnw.nl

No Pants, No Shirt: Free Groceries (NSFW)

     When the owner of a new supermarket in the city of Süderlügum, near the German/ Danish border, offered a basket of free groceries worth  €270 to the first hundred shoppers willing to shop naked, he really only expected a few hardy souls to respond. Instead however, so many prospective naked shoppers turned out that he had to admit them in batches of twenty. 

     Markets on the German side of the border are already very popular with Danes because of lower prices on sweets and alcoholic beverages.


     Your move, Wal-mart.


    Very NSFW video clip at the link.


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Give Peace Rabbit a Chance

          In Dedham, Mass. a series of sculptures, eventually to total fifteen, of large rabbits have been commissioned. Evidently the rabbit figures in the town's history as well as being emblematic of the local pottery. A local veteran who is an accomplished artist decided to create "Leroy", seen above, to honor the memory of a local vet who had died in January.

     The project was begun as an attempt to raise funds and generate local interest in the arts.

     Then a local veterans group became upset over the fiberglass rabbit's proximity to the local veteran's memorial...even though it was created by a vet to honor the memory of another vet.
    The artist has re-named the bunny "Peace".

     More, including a television clip at the link.

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Not a Crime Scene, Just My Rec Room

     Last week a couple of men were walking a dog in the Swedish woods on their way to a fishing competition when they happened upon an abandoned bunker from the Second World War. When they explored inside they found a bed, several candles, a bag full of rope, and another bag full of leather restraints and sex toys. Fearful that they had happened upon a crime scene they notified the police.

The purple satin sheets should have been a clue.

        After about a week a single mother in her 40s, whom the press calls "Lena" in an attempt to preserve her privacy, came forward and informed the police that the bunker was simply a hideaway she had set up for a little BDSM experimentation.

     "I just want to test my limits." she said.

     Presumably the abandoned bunker lent a certain verisimilitude to some of the role playing...not to mention the assurance of privacy.

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     Mystery and Sex Bunker

     

   

The Strawberry Milkshake Lake

     The picture above was taken at Lake Retba in Senegal. The lake gets its vivid pink color from cyanobacteria that are present because of the high salt content-50% higher than in the Dead Sea.

Like the Dead Sea, it is very easy to float in the water there...if one does not mind the layer of salt crystals that form on the body when you dry off.

bangstyle

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Craps Again!

   

     The town of Webster, Texas found itself in the unusual position of having an exact tie in their runoff City Council election. The two candidates for the council seat, Diana Newland and Edward Lapeyre, each received 111 votes. The contest was decided by rolling dice, with Ms. Newland being the winner.

    I think they may be onto something here. Considering the quality of leadership the voters of Texas have been giving us lately, why not just skip the election and go directly to the dice? It's not like they could do any worse.

Besides, the high-rollers have been deciding our elections for years anyway.

Why not make it official?

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Belt-fed Badminton

Russian police have a new "non-lethal weapon" for crowd control at protests. Tear gas and pepper spray sometimes are lethal and tasers kill at an alarming rate here in the states. Water cannons would kill by the hundreds in the Russian winter...if they didn't freeze solid first. Thus the Russian weapons designers have come up with the 22mm fully automatic, pneumatic, birdie launcher.

It launches birdies with a 300 atmospheres of pressure blast of air either one at a time or fully automatic. This ought to give the Russian constabulary the upper hand...unless the Russian tennis team joins the protests.

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