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Categories: Between the Piles
A Norwich woman’s encounter with an “alien” are among the secrets revealed in official UFO files.
The woman’s report is within the third set of UFO documents to be released by the Ministry of Defence, reports the BBC.
The “completely terrified” woman contacted RAF Wattisham in Suffolk to report her close encounter with a man claiming to be an alien in November 1989.
She said she met the fair-haired man with a Scandinavian-type accent as she walked her dog on a sports field.
He told her crop circles were caused by others like him who had travelled to Earth and that the purpose of his visit was friendly.
He then said he had spoken to her because he felt it was important to have contact with humans even though he had been told not to.
As the unidentified woman ran home she heard a loud buzzing noise and turned to see a large, spherical object, glowing orange-white, rise steadily until out of sight.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
A student made a secret addition to his family’s mansion home – by painting a 60-ft penis on the roof.
Andy and Clare McInnes were delighted when builders finished the new flat roof on their £1million house, reports The Sun.
But it gave their son Rory, 18, who had just watched a documentary about Google Earth, an idea to make the property stand out.
He grabbed a tin of white paint and climbed up to the roof, where he spent half an hour reproducing the best-known feature of the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, pictured.
For the next 12 months only Rory knew about the giant manhood on the roof near Hungerford, Berks, but his secret was out when a helicopter pilot spotted it.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
DENVER (AP) – A parrot whose cries of alarm alerted his owner when a little girl choked on her breakfast has been honored as a hero.
Willie, a Quaker parrot, has been given the local Red Cross chapter’s Animal Lifesaver Award.
In November, Willie’s owner, Megan Howard, was baby-sitting for a toddler. Howard left the room and the little girl, Hannah, started to choke on her breakfast.
Willie repeatedly yelled “Mama, baby” and flapped his wings, and Howard returned in time to find the girl already turning blue.
Howard saved Hannah by performing the Heimlich maneuver but said Willie “is the real hero.”
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) – An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day.
Polk County school officials said there’s no rule against flatulence, but there are rules against causing a disturbance on the bus.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) – Police in Connecticut say a woman attempting to reconcile with her husband handcuffed herself to him as he slept and then bit him on his torso and arms.
Police say 37-year-old Helen Sun told them she wanted to have a conversation with husband Robert Drawbough without him leaving. Police say she changed the locks on their bedroom and handcuffed herself to Drawbough while he was sleeping Monday.
Drawbough used a cell phone to call police. Officers heard his screams when they arrived at the couple’s Fairfield home. He was treated at a hospital.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
DENVER (AP) – The manager of a Blackjack Pizza outlet in Denver got a start when he discovered a man’s legs hanging from a vent above the restaurant’s oven. Police said the dangling legs were accompanied by a voice yelling, “help me, help me” Friday morning. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said the 5-foot-10, 170-pound man told officers and firefighters he’d been stuck in the duct for five or six hours.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A man was accused of walking out of a downtown Domino’s pizza restaurant with $117 – then handing almost all of the money right back. Police said a 55-year-old man threatened a cashier on Saturday night and said he had a gun. The cashier handed over the money and the man left on foot toward his nearby apartment.
But two Domino’s managers followed the man and confronted him, despite his gun threat. Police said he handed over all but $20 of the money.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Residents of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials: You’re not doing anything with that old electric chair, are you?
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled last year that the state’s use of the electric chair was unconstitutional. Some people in McCook – population just under 8,000 – think “Old Sparky” could be a tourist attraction and have offered to take it off the state’s hands.
Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
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Categories: Show Pile 3/24/2009
A US flight attendant has been entertaining passengers – by rapping the pre-flight safety announcement.
Clips of David Holmes doing his routine on Southwest Airlines have been viewed nearly 100,000 times on YouTube, reports The Sun.
He said: “I take them by surprise. I usually don’t tell them I’m going to do it. People were telling me, “That’s the first time I ever listened to the emergency instructions’.”
Brits Tom Dobson and Wayne Short, both 23, from Barrow-on-Humber, North Lincs, caught the 80 second rap on a flight from Washington DC to Las Vegas.
Wayne said: “It was brilliant. Everyone was clapping and cheering at the end. I’ve definitely never seen it happen on British Airways.”
Categories: Show Pile 3/19/2009
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Here’s a job opportunity you won’t need to buy a new wardrobe for. Hoping to take advantage of Rhode Island’s floundering economy, owners of the Foxy Lady strip club in Providence plan to hold a job fair on Saturday.
They say they’re looking to fill around 30 positions, from strippers and waitresses to disc jockeys and bartenders, at that club and two others in Massachusetts. “I need more managers, I need more competent staff, and I need more attractive waitresses to go along with the ones I have right now,” said co-owner Tom Tsoumas.
Categories: Show Pile 3/19/2009
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Two robbers leaving a Milwaukee jewelry store with cash and gems didn’t get far with the loot – another group of thieves robbed them as the pair left the crime scene. Police Lt. Thomas Welch says a fight broke out in the street Wednesday before the groups got in vehicles and a chase ensued.
Welch says officers pulled over both vehicles and arrested four people, including the original two robbers, ages 40 and 31, and two men from the second group, of ages 22 and 27. All four are from Illinois.
Categories: Show Pile 3/19/2009
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) – A woman accused of taking more than $73,000 from the Arlington church where she was an administrative assistant blames the devil. Papers filed with a theft charge Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court say the 62-year-old Arlington woman told detectives “Satan had a big part in the theft.”
Categories: Show Pile 3/19/2009
APEX, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina family’s dog didn’t eat the children’s homework, he ate mom’s money. Kelley Davis said she had an extra $400 in cash to deposit after working extra hours as a physical therapist. She told the News & Observer of Raleigh that on Friday she planned to deposit the money, but it wasn’t in her pocket.
She remembered leaving it in the bedroom and it occurred to her that the family’s 2-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog, Augie, might have eaten it.
Categories: Show Pile 3/19/2009
A Finnish computer programmer who lost a finger in a motorcycle accident had it replaced with a USB drive.
Jerry Jalava built a special prosthetic finger which contains computer storage for photos, movies and other useful files.
It looks like a normal finger but he can peel it back from the ‘nail’ and plug it into the USB slot on his computer, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
A US man told his boss he was quitting his job by writing a resignation letter on a cake.
Neil Berrett announced he was leaving the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco in icing.
He posted a picture of the huge baked message on Flickr , the photo sharing website, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Mr Berrett wrote: “Dear Mr. Bowers – During the past three years, my tenure at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been nothing short of pure excitement, joy and whim.
“However, I have decided to spend more time with my family and attend to health issues that have recently arisen. I am proud to have been part of such an outstanding team and I wish this organisation only the finest in future endeavors.
“Please accept this cake as notification that I am leaving my position with NWT on March 27. Sincerely, W. Neil Berrett.”
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
Priests married two frogs in Guwahati, northern India, in a ritual to please rain gods.
More than 2,000 wedding guests attended the ceremony as frog bride Bijuli, which means ‘Thunder’, and groom Barun, ‘Wind’, tied the knot.
The amphibians were then fed a special celebratory lunch of flies and mosquitoes.
The “wedding” was held because the region is suffering problems with chronic drought.
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations.
Marcel Fournier, 19, shot the deer the evening of Nov. 22 and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said. He then checked in the kill as lawful game at Barnie’s Market.
It’s illegal to kill an antlerless deer, and it’s also illegal to hunt at night.
The Concord resident admitted to the killing and led a game warden to the deer’s remains after an anonymous caller alerted authorities. Fournier said he had “quite a time” drilling and fastening the antlers, authorities said.
Game warden David Gregory said the antlers didn’t look or feel right.
“When you grabbed them, you’d feel movement,” he said.
Col. David LeCours, chief warden of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the size of the antlers relative to the size of the deer seemed off.
“Something wasn’t natural about them, in addition to the fact that they weren’t natural,” he said.
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
PHARR, Texas (AP) – A bank robber in South Texas held up the place from the comfort of his car. Police said a man used the drive-thru lane Monday morning to rob Lone Star National Bank. Police said the driver slipped a note to a female teller, who provided an undetermined amount of cash, then he drove away.
Lt. Guadalupe Salinas said the man was alone in the car and did not appear to display a weapon. Salinas told The Associated Press there’s no indication that the robbery was an inside job.
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
MANSFIELD, La. (AP) – Authorities arrested a 32-year-old Texas man on drug charges on Thursday after construction workers saw him on his hands and knees, eating mud and growling like a dog. A woman who accompanied the man from Texas told investigators he had been wandering around the complex and eating dog food.
Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
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Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
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Categories: Show Pile 3/17/2009
A Chinese woman says she has been howling like a wolf for 26 years – but can’t help it.
Hong, 42, of Ganzhashan Qian village, Fuzhou, told Straits News: “My howls are like sneezes or yawns, they can’t be controlled.
“Sometimes I can’t help howling on the streets. Passers-by jump far away staring at me, thinking I am a psycho.”
She says it all began when she began to suffer from back pains when she was 16: “Then I accidentally found when I howl the pain goes away.”
Hong says that when she howls, she feels a “release of gas” inside her, and “can’t stop it”.
At first she would howl only once every two or three months but now cannot stop herself from howling four or five times a day.
And she says her howls are getting louder and longer. Now she howls for more than 20 minutes at a time with each one lasting up to 20 seconds.
Categories: Show PIle 3/12/2009
PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother’s semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery.Pittsfield police responded to a call shortly before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the city’s Morningside neighborhood, where the assault allegedly occurred.
Stephanie K. Lighten, 26, was released on personal recognizance after denying the allegations in Central Berkshire District Court Wednesday morning.
Jennifer A. Lighten, 33, told police that Stephanie Lighten, her wife, was “all liquored up” when she returned to their Lincoln Street apartment, where the defendant then allegedly tried to use a syringe to inseminate her, according to a police report.
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That’s allegedly when Stephanie threw Jennifer on the couch, grabbed at her clothes and threatened to impregnate her, police said.
Jennifer broke free, ran into the bathroom and locked the door. Stephanie “then broke the bathroom door down,” police said, hurting her wrist in the process.
When Stephanie went to retrieve an ice pack from the freezer, Jennifer bolted from the apartment and attempted to get away in the couple’s sport utility vehicle, police said.
As Jennifer pulled away from the scene, Stephanie “jumped on the side of their vehicle, swung the door open and made (Jennifer) stop,” Steinman said.
According to Officer John Bassi, a witness at the scene claimed Stephanie “was hanging on the SUV door handle, trying to get into the car.” Amber Hunt told Bassi that Stephanie nearly caused an accident when the vehicle narrowly missed hitting a tree in the front yard of Hunt’s Spring Street home
Categories: Show PIle 3/12/2009
Fire crews have been called out four times to rescue a tiny pony – because its legs are so short people think it’s stuck in mud.
Two fire engines and a specialist lifting vehicle have been despatched four times at a combined cost of about £8,000 to save the horse, called Mayflower.
The animal’s stumpy legs are so out of proportion with its long body that people assume she’s sinking in the salty marshland where she grazes by the River Test in Southampton
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service have now nicknamed the 2ft 4ins tall pony ‘Shorty’, reports The Sun.
Categories: Show PIle 3/12/2009
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) – How do you make relish? That’s the question police said thieves used to distract an elderly woman in a Wal-Mart store as they stole her purse. Now they’re looking for the three suspects after hundreds of dollars in charges were made to the 79-year-old woman’s credit cards for beer, cigarettes and gift cards.
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PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) – Authorities said a fight in a car over $3 in gas money led to one passenger hitting another with a fish tank and then a beer bottle. The sheriff’s office reported that an 18-year-old driver and 30-year-old passenger picked up their 26-year-old friend from a strip club on Monday night. When the driver asked for gas money, the man who had been picked up from the strip club refused to pay. A fight between the three friends quickly escalated, and authorities said the 26-year-old man grabbed a fish tank from the back seat and began hitting the passenger. The passenger then managed to wrestle a beer bottle away and break it over the 26-year-old’s head.
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EASTON, Pa. (AP) – A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he’s his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old Scott Allan Witmer filed with the court claiming sovereignty, a Northampton County judge said Tuesday he cannot be released from jail until he gets a mental exam.
Witmer, who represented himself, said he believes police lack jurisdiction to pull him over. As he said in court: “I live inside myself, not in Pennsylvania.” He said there is no victim in the crime and asked to go to trial.
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SLIDELL, La. (AP) – Police said a woman made two false calls to 911 from an out-of-service cell phone – and told investigators she did it because she was bored. They booked a 20-year-old woman on Monday with false report of a fire and false report of a crime. They also booked her on two outstanding warrants for violating probation. Police Chief Freddy Drennan said the two calls gave different addresses in the same area. Police answered a burglary call and police and firefighters answered the fire call. Officers questioned a woman in a nearby yard. Police said she denied making the calls at first, then admitted making them out of boredom.
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