Google Maps has an aerial view of what looks like a plane on a runway on a building.
[Maybe it employs those sling-shots on aircraft carriers]
Also, check the buildin to the left and also the one directly north to see a weird change in perspective…

A Kenyan woman died in her sleep after placing a curse on God. The woman accused the Almighty of sending a famine to the drought-ravaged Kangundo district.
She completed the curse at 10am and awaited the outcome. However, God waited until she slept before unleashing his fury. The Kenyan Times reports that she died peacefully in […]

Not knowing how the money became irradiated, Kazakhstan is on a mission to find around $4,000 in $100 and $50 bills brought into the country in November.
“(The dollars) pose a direct threat to people’s health,” said Kazakh central bank in a letter obtained by Reuters.

Unfortunately, Free Willy has died after a seven hour attempt to get him back to deep waters. He died on Saturday evening after suffering breathing problems and muscle spasms [I thought only people got butt cramp?]
Millions around the world, including thousands at the riverside, watched the rescue attempt.
“We believe that if the whale would have […]

A northern bottle-nosed whale was seen swimming up the Thames in London today, the first of its species since 1913.
“It was on this side of Westminster Bridge and 10 minutes ago it was near the House of Commons. It was an amazing sight.”
They have a bulbous forehead and look like a very large bottle-nosed dolphin […]

The last thing you expect from a hired gun is failure to complete the job, especially if that job is you.
Christine Ryder, who suffers from depression, paid Kevin Reeves £20,000 to hire a hitman to kill her, after they met in hospital after a previous suicide attempt.
Later, Reeves said he had to kill the hitman […]

Complaints from parents in Cleveland, Ohio, resulted in the cancellation of a homework assignment on internet porn.
Superintendent Jeff Lampert said that although the teacher’s apparent goal to discuss the harmful effects of pornography was well-intentioned, he agreed with parents that the assignment was inappropriate for 14- and 15-year-old freshmen at Brooklyn High.
The assignment asked students […]

An elementary school in Kansas suffered an incursion by two deer as they crashed through classroom windows.
As one deer engaged an occupied fifth-grade class room, students were evacuated to the hallway only to encounter the second deer; obviously anticipating the escape route and using its military training at Camp Santa to ambush the pupils.
The deer […]

Whilst in court for traffic offenses, John Ridgeway insisted on shaking the hands of three people: a prosecutor, a bailiff and a police officer. Unknown to them, however, he has previous smeared a liquid on his hands - thus contaminating those he touched.
All three were suffering fron headaches, nausea and numbness within an hour.
Mr Ridgeway […]

I wonder what I could get for One Yellow Piece of Cheese…

‘Great Flood’ log ride and the ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ experience in jeopardy.

Bags of fun

That spin cycle can be a killer

This guy has as much finesse as a really bad mariachi band

Hilarity ensues

Would you book Caprice? Well some officer did during the early hours of December 10th.
The model was charged with driving with excess alcohol and arrested. She denies the charge and her legal brief has pleaded not-guilty on her behalf.
Her trial date is pending.
Story at Sky News

Complaints from viewers are behind an Indiana TV station from refusing to air a new TV show in which Jesus Christ features as a supporting character.
The NBC show is about a priest who speaks to Jesus … in the flesh.
WTWO-TVs General Manager Duane Lammers said: “If my action causes people in our community to pay […]

Johnath has neat collection of some readable photos from pages of the 1920s encyclopaedia the “Book of Knowledge”.
Quite an interesting (and at time hilarious) read. Oh, how far we’ve come … and how far we still have to go …
On apes:
“These apes have brains not so good as those of the lowest savages, the wild […]

3. While it’s an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it’s not an offence to throw it over someone’s garden wall.
I’ll remember that one on the way home tonight.
7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to […]

You can Hypnotize Chickens
A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trance by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken.
If the chicken is hypnotized in […]