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Sane Americans can rejoice with the news that mentally ill people will no longer be able to buy guns in the United States.
Reuters carried the story about the new bill that will create additional background checks to keep guns away from insane people.p
However, anti-gun lobbyist Mr Hank Ingtoodi said the new legislations will do little to prevent further gun deaths at the hands of the insane.
The New York Sun reports how an ultra-conservative student who could get no satisfaction from a column in the student paper, beat himself senseless in an attempt to get noticed:
A Princeton University student who claimed he was beaten unconscious by two assailants after receiving death threats for his morally conservative views admitted yesterday to fabricating the attack and sending the e-mail death threats to himself, other students, and a prominent conservative professor, police officials said.…
…Mr. Nava, 23, is a politics major and a junior at Princeton who this semester has become an outspoken member of the Anscombe Society, a morally conservative student group that speaks out against same-sex marriage and pre-marital sex. Mr. Nava claimed that he has been receiving death threats since October after penning a column in the student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, criticizing the university’s campaign to distribute free condoms on campus as “tacit sponsorship of hookup sex.” On Friday, he claimed he was attacked by two black-clad assailants and rendered unconscious after they repeatedly hit his head against a brick wall.
Human evolution may not be it is all cracked up to be with research from Duke University in the United States showing that two chimps were as smart as typical students.
While both humans and chimps answered mathematical addition questions in almost the same time, it seems chimps will ultimately make better students.
Student welfare adviser at Duke, Mr Steve Caringdale, said the chimps had many attributes that made them very appealing as members of the student community.
There will be some red faces around Washington tonight caused by apoplexy with news that Russia is shipping nuclear fuel to Iran.
The fuel will be used in the Bushehr power station to secure stable electricity supplies to the country.
It seems that the USA is not pleased - there have been claims that the power station is just a cover for a secret nuclear weapons program.
A New Zealand man feels as though he is up shit creek after a complaint was made about his use of the efficient composting tiger worms - in his composting toilet.
Seems a zealous official thought the poor worms would be suffering psychological stress having to deal with human waste.
A vermiculture consultant found that the worms were healthy, breeding and in fact just as happy as pig in…well, you know.
While on the topic of sharks attacking kangaroos and stupid surfers thinking a busted board tether is a better reason to stop surfing than having just been attacked by a shark come another amazing shark tale…
Seems Scott Wright was being dumb and swimming in the surf at night (when sharks are renowned for coming closer inshore) at South Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, when he was raked on the arm by a shark.
The New Zealand herald reports on a Finnish woman who has appeared on TV seeking to let the father of her baby know he hit the mark during their one night stand:
And your name is? Finnish tourist Piia Makila is looking for someone she had sex with in Dunedin on August 29 while travelling around New Zealand. “Evidently that broken condom we had had some consequences and now the baby is on the way,” she writes. “I have made these kind of ‘advertisements’ all over Dunedin. I find this very important and at least I had tried to find the father.
I’m sure the kid is asking me later if I even tried to find him. I don’t want any money but it would be great to know your name or if there is anything I should know about your family (like mental illness or diseases that I may now carry). It would also be great to know your blood type if something happens when I am giving birth.”
A surfer who was attacked by a tiger shark on Hawaii’s North Shore has been labeled as ’stupid’ by a world renowned shark expert.
The shark, suspected to be a tiger shark, attacked Tino Ramirez’s board and became tangled in the leg rope.
After struggling with the board the shark’s teeth finally severed the leash and swam away.
Red tape has caused problems for an injured woman in Australia.
Ms Jill Aroo, 28, from Eden on the NSW South Coast, who is a strict environmentalist and an anti-hunter, was climbing a large tree on her new property to get a good view of the natural splendour of her land.
“As I neared the top I encountered a tawny frogmouth owl that started to attack me.
In a shock announcement, old timers like Medusa, Stumpy and Twister are at risk of death from age, disease and wind.
That is the news from Izi Banton, chief ranger of the UK’s famous Sherwood Forest, where Robin Hood and his band of merry men are reputed to have hung out, making robbing forays against the local rich.
It seems odd that the trees are dying - after all they only live for 900 years of which the last 300 they spend dying. In addition to age and disease, wind common to many oldies , is also a treat as it blows the trees over.