random/odd news of the day

[stryfe]

Originally posted by atomiclotusbox
so, how did the police find out where she lived?

i was wondering that myself...i was thinking she gave her name, but it seems a bit out of the ordinary for someone at a store to say "hi, i'm <insert full name>. do you have <insert product>?" maybe the clerk followed her out and copied down her license plate number

[stryfe]

Originally posted by liquid mass
I read that in the San Mateo paper yesterday. The decision was based on some previous illegal activity. Unfortunatley the paper is long gone, otherwise I'd post some of the article.

back to the massage parlors?

[liquid mass]

Naughty boy.

[stryfe]

Zurich's disabled to get sexual relief
April 8, 2003 10:37 AM

Project organiser Nina de Vries has already done similar work in Germany (Keystone)

Disabled people living in Zurich are to be offered professional sexual services, as part of a new trial project.

The organisation behind the scheme says the sexual rights of disabled people are currently being overlooked.

“There is a very big demand for this,” says Angela Fürer, director of the Zurich branch of the social welfare organisation Pro Infirmis. “We have been hearing about the problem for years, both from disabled people and from those working with the disabled.”

Pro Infirmis Zurich is looking to train ten “touchers” who will then offer their services on a private basis. More than 150 people have already expressed an interest.

Relief

After training, the successful applicants will be expected to offer sexual and emotional relief to Zurich’s disabled community.

Full sex and oral sex will not be included in the initial service, although Fürer says that the service could be widened at a later date, possibly by training registered prostitutes to deal with the specific needs of disabled customers.

“The people we are looking for should have very human personalities," adds Fürer, "and they must also be prepared to reflect those personalities in their work."

First for Switzerland

The scheme may be a first for Switzerland, but similar projects have been running for years in other countries, including Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.

One of the Dutch pioneers in the field, Nina de Vries, has been brought in by Pro Infirmis to run the training programme in Switzerland.

De Vries insists that careful vetting of applicants along with the intensive nature of the training programme will help eliminate any risk of abuse or exploitation.

“For now, we will just be offering massage, body contact, stroking, holding and bringing people to orgasm, if that is what they wish,” says de Vries. “But the main part of the training course will deal with the mental and emotional aspects of the job.

“It can be very difficult for some disabled people to take off their clothes and show a body which is deformed and I feel you can only expect people to put that kind of trust in you and offer their vulnerability when you yourself are willing to be vulnerable.”

Few complaints

So far, Fürer says that only a handful of complaints have been received. In recognition of the project’s controversial nature, however, Pro Infirmis will not use money from general donations to fund the training.

“Clearly there will be people who are offended, perhaps in terms of their religious or ethical beliefs,” Fürer admits, “so we have no intention of using donations that aren’t specifically given for this scheme.

“On the whole, though, the response we’ve had has been extremely positive with many disabled people calling us to say how happy they are.

"These are people who don’t just want to spend their lives breathing and eating and being cleaned up. They have souls and feelings like everybody else and sexuality is a part of their lives, just as it is with any other human being.”

swissinfo, Mark Ledsom in Zurich

[fmstlr]

if you get that job, you could tell people that you're a professional jerkoff.

[hannabarbarella]

This still cracks me up:

A 7-year-old boy watches as firefighters try to figure out how to get him out of a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine after he managed to crawl into the game while his father talked on a pay phone three feet away Saturday. Jamie Piontkowski / ASSOCIATED PRESS

[liquid mass]

^I just don't see how he did it.


It is nice to see that Billy Bob Thorton got a real job, though.

[fmstlr]

Originally posted by hannabarbarella
This still cracks me up:

A 7-year-old boy watches as firefighters try to figure out how to get him out of a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine after he managed to crawl into the game while his father talked on a pay phone three feet away Saturday. Jamie Piontkowski / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Let's hope that the firefighter has lots of quarters with him.

[zachariah]

Originally posted by stryfe
After training, the successful applicants will be expected to offer sexual and emotional relief to Zurich’s disabled community.

Full sex and oral sex will not be included in the initial service, although Fürer says that the service could be widened at a later date, possibly by training registered prostitutes to deal with the specific needs of disabled customers.

as long as they don't (god forbid) do it in Karaoke booths in San Mateo

[YelloKitty]

^ha!

[35ft6]

Originally posted by hannabarbarella
This still cracks me up:

The best dream Michael Jackson ever had.

[stryfe]

Russian girl claims x-ray vision

MOSCOW, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Moscow medical workers say a 16-year-old Russian girl possesses "dual vision" allowing her to see internal organs, Pravda reported.

Pravda said the girl, Natasha Demkina from Saransk, has already disproved several medical diagnoses without the benefit of x- rays or ultra-sound, and has not made any mistakes.

"Growing up, my daughter was just an ordinary child," Natasha's mother, Tatyana Vladimirovna, told Pravda. "Perhaps, she was just a bit more mature than other kids her age. Natasha started to talk when she was only 6 months old. At 1, she could already recite Pushkin and Nekrasov by heart. By 3, Natasha mastered the alphabet and learned to operate a snowmobile."

She added, "Overall, she was just a normal kid. Never was she able to see through humans!"

But according to Pravda, all that changed after she suffered complications from an appendectomy

Natasha said she hopes scientists will notice her and conduct all the necessary experiments.

"I have nothing to hide," says Natasha. "Let them experiment with me. Perhaps, they will be able to explain the nature of my secondary vision."

[zachariah]

Originally posted by stryfe
"Overall, she was just a normal kid. Never was she able to see through humans!"

sig'd

[ocd]

Drunken elephants die in accident

Four wild elephants drunk on rice beer have been electrocuted in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, wildlife officials report.

The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities across north-east India.

But this is the first time some of them have died after consuming the drink.

A herd of about 20 to 25 elephants went on the rampage in a remote area in the West Garo Hills district earlier this week after getting high on the beer.

As panicky villagers fled for cover, leaving behind their freshly brewed beverage, the elephants drank to their heart's content.

The inebriated elephants then struck an electric pole and brought it down.

But their trunks took the brunt of the shock from the high-tension wire.

Four of the elephants were killed instantly.

Assam's elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma, a lecturer, said these elephants frequently consume rice beer and cause devastation when they become intoxicated.

Wildlife officials say in the last two years elephants have killed at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya.

And more than 200 elephants have been killed by angry villagers during the last six years in the two states, in what is developing into a fierce conflict between man and beast.

[kamenriderv3]

Originally posted by hannabarbarella

use the claw!!!