ok, ok ... to be fair I'm only sometimes angry, but if I am it's because YOU make me angry!

July 04, 2005

Ok, Ok ... This the most Ewwww...

Police pull man from toilet waste tank

A US man was arrested after a teenage girl saw him staring up at her from a cesspit below a toilet seat. Police pulled the 45-year-old from the waste tank under a public toilet at a beauty spot in Albany, New Hampshire.

Captain Jon Hebert, of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, said firefighters hosed the man down before police handcuffed him.

"We had to decontaminate him. We treated him as if he were hazardous material," he told the Union Leader. "I started this business in 1980, and I have never in my career encountered anybody in this type of situation."

The man, from Gardiner, Maine, was arrested in the White Mountain National Forest after the 14-year-old girl's parents called the police. Police said the door to the waste tank was locked so he must have gone in through the toilet. He was wearing waders.

Police charged the man with criminal trespass, and say he could face more charges.

Sort of Ewwww...

Gravediggers held BBQ in cemetery

Gravediggers in a Belgian city have been criticized for holding a barbecue party in a cemetery. It follows a complaint from a couple who visited the cemetery at Merksem, Antwerp, to visit the grave of their son.

François and Magda Boljau were shocked to find the gravediggers holding a party in a shed at the cemetery, reports Het Nieuwsblad. Mrs Bolijau said: "It was happening only 15 metres from his grave. The music of 'Sex bomb, sex bomb' was coming very loud from the loudspeakers.

"Children were playing between the graves. I couldn't stand it and ran away in tears."
Alderman Erwin Pairon, who is responsible for Antwerp's cemeteries, said he was very annoyed with the gravediggers. The gravediggers insisted they held a party every year in the same shed and that nobody had complained before.

But Alderman Pairon said: "Next year, they have to move. I understand it is very upsetting for the parents to have to listen to a party when they came to mourn."

Ewwww...

Surgeon took flesh home to train dogs

A Dutch surgeon has been disciplined for taking human tissue home to train rescue dogs. The surgeon took home small samples from three patients he operated on at the Meander Medical Centre in Amersfoort.

His wife used the human flesh to train rescue dogs to find survivors during disasters such as earthquakes, reports Nu.nl.

A spokesman for the medical centre said the surgeon, who has not been named, had been given an official warning. "It was very unprofessional, unacceptable and against all ethical codes," said the spokesman. The Dutch Inspection for Health has been informed of the case and has launched an investigation.

July 03, 2005

after 3.14159 I'm lost

A Japanese mental health counsellor has broken the world record for reciting pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, from memory.

Akira Haraguchi, 59, managed to recite the number's first 83,431 decimal places, almost doubling the previous record held by another Japanese.

He had to stop three hours into his recital after losing his place, and had to start from the beginning.

Pi is an infinite decimal whose numbers never repeat in a pattern.

Mr Haraguchi, from Chiba, east of Tokyo, took several hours reciting the numbers, finishing in the early hours of Saturday.

"I thank you all for your support," he told reporters and onlookers at the public hall in Tokyo.

He hopes to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records to replace his fellow countryman Hiroyuki Goto, who managed to recite 42,195 numbers as a 21-year-old student in 1995.

Mr Haraguchi had already recited the ratio up to about 54,000 digits last September, but was forced to drop the challenge when the facility hosting the event closed for the night.

So far, pi haw been calculated to 1.24 trillion decimal places with the aid of a supercomputer.

Conventionally, 3.14159 is used as pi.

Pi is known for turning up in all sorts of scientific equations, including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from where a raindrop fell into water, waves, navigation and more.