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Could have been one like this:

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updated 11:28 a.m. ET, Thurs., Feb. 12, 2009
MUMBAI, India - Thousands of Indians, many fuming over a recent assault on women in a pub, are vowing to fill bars on Valentine's Day and send cartons of pink panties to a radical Hindu group that has branded outgoing females immoral.

A "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women," founded by four Indian women on social networking Web site Facebook has, in a matter of days, attracted more than 25,000 members with over 2,000 posts about the self-appointed moral police.

The women said their mission was to go bar-hopping on February 14 and send hundreds of pink knickers to Sri Ram Sena, the militant Hindu group that has said pubs are for men, and that women should stay at home and cook for their husbands.

The same Hindu group was blamed for attacking women in a bar in the southern city of Mangalore in January, an incident that sparked a national debate about women's freedoms in India.

Collection centers have sprung up in several cities, with volunteers calling for bright pink old-fashioned knickers as gifts to the Sri Ram Sena as a mark of defiance.

"Girl power! Go girls, go. Show Ram Sena... who's the boss," reads one post on Facebook from Larkins Dsouza.

There is a separate campaign to "Walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink (and) raise a toast," that has found supporters from Toronto to Bangkok to Sydney, with even teetotalers saying they will get a drink on Saturday to show solidarity.

"Though I don't promote smoking or drinking for both sexes, we definitely don't need hooligans telling us what to do and what not. Best of luck!," reads one post from Iftehar Ahsan.

There are more heated discussion threads as well that range from the limits of independence to religion and politics, reflecting the struggle facing a country that has long battled to balance its deep-rooted traditions with rapid modernization.

Growing numbers of young and independent urban women have become an easy target for religious fundamentalists and aging politicians trying to force traditional mores on an increasingly liberal, Western outlook.

Not to be outdone, the Sri Ram Sena, which has cautioned shops and pubs in southern Karnataka state against marking Valentine's Day, has promised to gift pink saris to women and marry off canoodling couples to make them "respectable."
 
<b>US Cops Fooled By Teen Trooper</b>

6:15am UK, Wednesday January 28, 2009
A 14-year-old boy has managed to fool police officers in the US after dressing up in police uniform and reporting for duty at a Chicago police station.


The 14-year-old boy has been charged with impersonating a police officer
The teenager went on patrol in a squad car for five hours before he was detected.
He was only caught out when his stint alongside an actual police officer ended and another officer noticed his uniform was missing a regulation star.
Force spokeswoman Monique Bond said the local teenager was a member of a youth programme for those interested in police work.
He did not have a gun, issued no tickets and did not drive the vehicle at any time, said Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan.
The boy looks older than 14 and was motivated by a desire to be a cop and not by "ill intent", he added.
Officers are investigating what they describe as a serious security breach.
The teenager, who has not been named for legal reasons, has been charged with impersonating a police officer.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> Somebody really dropped the ball here.
 
Texas "Justice": As far as the state of Texas is concerned, Andre Thomas, 25, was and is sane and was and is competent to assist his lawyers. Thomas was convicted of murdering his wife and two kids in 2004 after a judge ruled him competent despite the fact that after the killings, Thomas had carved out the victims' hearts, put them in his pocket, and later tossed them in the garbage. In addition, before trial, Thomas had plucked out his right eye and eaten it. In October 2008, Texas' highest criminal court upheld the conviction and sentence, endorsing the trial judge's view of Thomas' sanity. In January 2009, on death row in Livingston, Texas, Thomas plucked out his left eye and ate it. [Houston Chronicle-AP, 1-9-09]
 
<a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes" target="_blank">http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-an...-chair-explodes</a>

sounds more like a "hit"
 
<b>Dictionary helps crack case of notorious Polish serial offender</b>

HE WAS one of Ireland’s most reckless drivers, a serial offender who crossed the country wantonly piling up dozens of speeding fines and parking tickets while somehow managing to elude the law.

So effective was his modus operandi of giving a different address each time he was caught that by June 2007 there were more than 50 separate entries under his name, Prawo Jazdy, in the Garda Pulse system. And still not a single conviction.

In the end, the vital clue to his identity lay not with Interpol or the fingerprint database but in the pages of a Polish-English dictionary. Prawo jazdy means driving licence.

(<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0219/1224241418104.html" target="_blank">Irish Times, Thursday 19th February 2009</a>)
 
<!--quoteo(post=302830:date=Feb 22 2009, 11:31 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ Feb 22 2009, 11:31 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=302830"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes" target="_blank">http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-an...-chair-explodes</a>

sounds more like a "hit"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Was it some other type of gas perhaps that caused the explosion? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
A masked man escaped in December after trying unsuccessfully to rob the Washman carwash in Portland, Ore. In the middle of the job, the man's gun literally broke apart and fell to the ground. As he continued to demand money, it became clear why robbing a carwash is tricky. The employee grabbed the nearest tool, which was the wand of a pressure washer (2,000 pounds per square inch) and hosed the robber, sending him fleeing. [KGW-TV (Portland), 12-30-08]
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Has not this this guy heard of duck tape. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b><u>Woman with world's longest fingernails loses them in car crash</u></b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

<b>Sunday, February 15, 2009</b>

A woman who held the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" target="_blank">Guinness World Record</a> for having the world's longest fingernails has lost them in a four-car accident in her hometown of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City,_Utah" target="_blank">Salt Lake City</a>, <a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Utah" target="_blank">Utah</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">United States</a>.

66-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Redmond" target="_blank">Lee Redmond</a> was seriously injured after she was ejected from the sports utility vehicle (SUV) she had been a passenger in. It had collided with one car, causing it to collide with two other cars on Tuesday February 10. She is expected to make a full recovery.

"[Her nails] were damaged beyond repair," reported the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_Online" target="_blank">BBC</a>, quoting Guinness World Records, who also said that Redmond's nails were "a fundamental part of her life and unique character". The cause of the crash is not yet known and an investigation is ongoing.

Redmond is credited by the Guinness Book for having a combined fingernail length of 28 feet, the longest on record. She has been growing all eight fingers and two thumbnails since 1979. Her longest of all nails was her right thumb, which was 2ft and eleven inches long.

Before Redmond was named as the record holder in 2006, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar_Chillal" target="_blank">Shridhar Chillal</a> from India had the longest at a combined length of just over twenty feet.
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
By Adam Frucci, 2:44 PM on Fri Feb 20 2009, 359,955 views
Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him.

The alleged explosion came from the gas cylinder that was in the base of the chair, the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down. The canister gets compressed when you sit on it, but can it actually create enough energy to make the seat cushion explode like that and kill a man? I doubt it, but this is what people are reporting.

In other news, I am working from a beanbag from now on. Sweet merciful crap.

<a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes" target="_blank">The rest of the story</a>
 
<!--quoteo(post=303226:date=Feb 25 2009, 11:05 AM:name=Stallion)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stallion @ Feb 25 2009, 11:05 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=303226"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Redmond is credited by the Guinness Book for having a combined fingernail length of 28 feet, the longest on record. She has been growing all eight fingers and two thumbnails since 1979. Her longest of all nails was her right thumb, which was 2ft and eleven inches long.

Before Redmond was named as the record holder in 2006, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar_Chillal" target="_blank">Shridhar Chillal</a> from India had the longest at a combined length of just over twenty feet.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That sucks. I guess she doesn't have time to grow them back.
 
<!--quoteo(post=303329:date=Feb 25 2009, 07:00 PM:name=Lazarus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lazarus @ Feb 25 2009, 07:00 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=303329"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->]Boy Killed . . .<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
previously reported

this thread

<!--quoteo(post=302830:date=Feb 22 2009, 09:31 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ Feb 22 2009, 09:31 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=302830"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes" target="_blank">http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-an...-chair-explodes</a>

sounds more like a "hit"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
 
<!--quoteo(post=303551:date=Feb 26 2009, 06:00 PM:name=Lazarus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lazarus @ Feb 26 2009, 06:00 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=303551"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Sorry for the duplication.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> was expecting you to say

"Ouch"
 
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