News from June 2009

Naked Pair Plan To Row Across The Atlantic Ocean

27 year old Rich Hume and his friend 30 year old Tom Barnes are currently preparing to take part in The Atlantic Rowing Race from the Canary Islands to Antigua a distance of a staggering 2,800 miles in a little rowing boat. The crossing is likely to take around two months, most of this time [...]

The Flaming Lips Announce UK Tour

The Flaming Lips have announced a five date UK tour for the autumn.
The band will be hitting the road to promote the release of their brand new double album entitled Embryonic. The album is set for release in September, and the band will be following that up with five dates around the UK in November. [...]

North Africa Braces Itself For The Black Death

Countries in the North African territories, particularly those that share a border with Libya are preparing themselves for a bubonic outbreak.
Libya was first to be hit with cases of the plague, and they have now seen two deaths from the disease. Now Algeria has reported 50 cases of the infection at locations close to the [...]

Four Arrested For Eating Corpse At Funeral

Four men are being held in custody in India after they were discovered eating the partially burned remains of a woman, straight off the funeral pyre.
The Times of India reports that a night watchman at the cremation ground in Palwal spotted the four cannibals pulling the half burned body off the fire and eating parts [...]

Yob Shits On Pensioners Doorstep

A pensioner in Devon woke yesterday morning to find someone had deposited an oily loaf on her doorstep.
The woman who wishes to remain anonymous told the Sidmouth Herald how she almost stepped in the turd.
“How I wasn’t sick I don’t know. I’ve got a bad knee and a bad heart, having to scrub my doorstep [...]

Jim Reeves Eats His Way To Hot Dog Final

Buffalo Jim Reeves has earned a place in the Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island by chomping his way through 22 wieners in under ten minutes at the Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Atlanta, GA yesterday.
Reeves from Boston, NY, who’s speciality is actually chicken wings will now face Sonya [...]

God Botherers Crucify Teenager

Four members of the Celestial Church of Christ in French Guiana, S. America have been jailed for up to 12 years for “wilful violence that caused death”.
15 year old Roger Bosse suffered from epilepsy. His mother took him to the church for help and they told her he was possessed by demons. In an attempt [...]

The Flying Car

American aeronautical engineering company Terrafugia have developed a street legal flying car.
The Transition® should become available in 2011 and is expected to cost around £120,000, but Terrafugia already have orders for 60 vehicles on their books. The two seater vehicle runs on petrol and can travel up to 450 miles through the air at a [...]

The World’s Ugliest Dog

Yesterday saw the 2009 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest being held at at the Marin-Sonoma Fair in California.
The contest has become hugely popular, and in recent years the competition has been dominated by the striking Chinese Crested breed. Most internet users will probably be familiar with the face of last year’s winner Gus.
Gus had only three [...]

Cow Attacks Farm Worker

A farm worker who was once seriously injured by a bull was this week attacked a second time by a cow.
46 year old Mike Scriven was walking across a field on the Dyrham Park estate near Bristol when he realised the cow was stalking him. He began to run from the cow but unfortunately slipped [...]

News from June 2009

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