Did Bigfoot Crush Roof of Town Manager’s Car?starexponent - In an unconfirmed report, Bigfoot visited the town of Culpeper last week, leaving a massive dent on the top of the town manager’s work car.
On a more serious note, someone — or something — flattened the top of the 2000 Ford Contour as it sat parked in the lot at town hall.
Culpeper Town Manager Jeff Muzzy, contacted Monday, was at a loss as to what happened.
“It looks like something fell or jumped up and down on it for several minutes,” he said. “I do not think this is personal. In fact, I had not even thought of that as a possibility.”
Though the older model car is assigned to him for work use, Muzzy said he rarely drives it. Instead, the car is more often used by other town hall staff members, he said.
The car is parked farthest out from town hall and closest to Main Street — within a stone’s throw from 7-Eleven. It sits not far from the back entrance to the law offices of Monica Chernin as well.
The car is not identifiable as the town manager’s work car and is parked in a spot reserved, more generally, for town staff.
Muzzy said the town filed an insurance claim for the damage, but he doubted it would result in much money due to the vehicle’s age. The Contour, is still drivable, he said, and was away from its parking spot and in use Monday morning.
“To me, someone just wandered over there and said, ‘Boy, wouldn’t it be fun to jump on that car?’ I hate to even give them credit for it,” Muzzy said.
He acknowledged town staffers are still talking about the strange incident. Many theories — including the Bigfoot one — have been tossed around.
Or maybe it was a bear, some have jokingly speculated.
The damage was reported to police, and the incident is being investigated as vandalism.
NOTE: I blame Billy Willard for this...LOL Virginia Man Says He's on Verge of Bigfoot Discovery...Bigfoot Is Alive and Well, Says Bigfoot Expert Billy Willard...Lon
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Extinct Huia Bird Feather Fetches £4,000 at Auctiontelegraph - A single plume from the extinct huia bird has sold for a record sum at auction in New Zealand making it the most expensive feather ever. The brown and white feather fetched NZ$8,000 (£3,800), far exceeding the NZ$500 that it had been estimated to reach. The feathers were traditionally used to adorn Maori chiefs.
The huia bird is thought to be extinct and has not been seen since 1907. The feather went under the hammer at Webb's Auction House in Auckland. Neil Campbell, the managing director of Webb's, said that the auction room had been "spellbound" as the bidding mounted.
"Starting in $100 increments, that quickly leapt into the thousands and came to rest at a world record price (for a single feather) of $8400 ($6,787)". The huia feather was bought by a family from the city of Wellington who declined to be identified. A spokesman from Webb's said that the family own a large collection of Maori artefacts. It was sold by an unidentified vendor who had had the feather in his family for generations.
The feather that sold in Auckland had been verified as authentic by experts from New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa. The previous record price for a single feather was reached when one from a bald eagle sold at a US auction for $US2,800 (£1,900). Numbers of huia birds declined rapidly after predatory mammals were introduced into New Zealand in the 1890s. Populations also suffered from hunting and deforestation.
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Bigamist's Wives Battle Over Corpse
foxnews - A Bangladeshi court summoned friends of a dead man in an effort to end a six-month wrangle over his corpse by his two wives - one of whom is Hindu, the other Muslim, police said on Monday. When Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty, alias Sazzad Hossain, 42, a vice-principal at a Dhaka college, was stabbed to death by muggers last December his secret double life was exposed and his two wives have since fought over his body.
"His friends will testify about whether he converted to Islam as his second wife claims," policeman Delwar Hossain said, adding that the friends would appear in court on June 29. His Muslim wife, who said she married him a year ago, wants Chakrabarty to be buried in line with traditional Muslim rites.
His Hindu wife, who was married to him for 15 years, said the body must be cremated, and accuses the second wife of being a "fake.” "If we still can't decide, the court will then see if we need to re-examine the body and see if he had been circumcised," Hossain said.
Circumcision is mandatory for Muslim men but Hindu men are not required by their religion to undergo the operation. Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority country but has a secular criminal system inherited from the British, who formerly ruled the Indian sub-continent.
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Dumb and Dumbass: Aussie Men Shoot Each Other in the Ass to Find Out if it Hurts
smh - Police are investigating two men who allegedly shot each other with air rifles while intoxicated to experience the sensation.
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. But for two mates, it led only to trouble with the law - and a massive pain in the butt.
On Sunday evening, the 34-year-old men were sharing a few beers when they thought it would be interesting to shoot each other with an air rifle to see if it would hurt, or if the slugs would penetrate their skin.
Sergeant Brendan Khan from Horsham Police said the the two men took it in turns to shoot one another in the buttocks and leg.
Other than experiencing a bit of pain, the two men, who live at the base of the Grampians, thought they were fine.
Two days later, it was a different story, with both men admitted to hospital for surgery to remove slug pellets from their buttocks and legs.
‘‘Basically it was two mates in a shed having a drink,’’ Sergeant Khan said.
‘‘They have admitted that it was just stupidity and they wanted to see if it was painful or not.’’
And now it appears they will be permanently stuck with a memento of the night, with surgeons opting to leave the slug pellets embedded in the men’s skin.
‘‘They’re not going to remove the slugs, they’re going to leave them in there,’’ Sergeant Khan said, after speaking to one of the men this morning.
‘‘Apparently the surgeon said they’d make more of a mess by trying to get them out, because they’re so deep. They believe that by putting them on courses of antibiotics something will hopefully form around them and they’ll be all right to stay in there.’’
Both men will be interviewed by police at a later date due to their medical condition and Horsham police will continue to investigate.
Sergeant Khan said both men could be facing firearms charges. One of the men will have his firearms licence withdrawn and his firearms confiscated.
Both men have been released from hospital and are returning to work today.
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DENVER...REMINDER TO SEPARATE YOUR RECYCLES
NOTE: no disrespect intended...just a very odd and disturbing image...Lon
Fortean / Oddball News - 6/23/2010
