They include the Basket Tree, Giant Sequoias of California, Circus Tree, Chapel-Oak. Tule Tree and Baobab Trees – including one with a toilet built inside it.

If you have any other weird and wonderful tree shapes email them to us at admin@youmesupport.org

They thought the neighbourhood kids were watching for them to leave their home, then dashing in and making use of the swimming pool. Whey the couple asked their neighbours if they had seen anyone around their home while they were out, the answer always came back negative.

Totally mystified, the couple set up a video cam recorder, determined to find who the culprits were.

Imagine their surprise when they discovered it was a neighbour’s dog from across the street. He would run down the slippery slide, flop into the pool, then repeat the process over and over again, until he became exhausted.

However, not all dogs enjoy water, but for those who do, Hong Kong has created pools just for dogs. In Mexico, the Eldorado Dog Club has an annual swim day for dogs.

Pool For Dogs

Australia is also in the forefront of the doggy business. In Melbourne, Kepala Pet Resort is a five star luxury resort for pets, which includes a full size swimming pool.

Dogsoverboard, in New South Wales, specializes in dog therapy, with its in-ground in-door heated pool. They offer day/stay swim packages for overweight dogs, or dogs recovering from an injury, or surgery, or dogs who just enjoy frolicking in warm water.

However, it is estimated that more dogs drown in swimming pools than people. It is assumed that dogs are naturally better swimmers than people. While most dogs have a natural instinct to swim, dogs are not able to swim very well. While keen to plunge into a pool, many have difficulty getting out again.

Just as the authorities insist on ‘child-proofing’ swimming pools, so special precautions must be taken around pool, as protection for dogs.

Ever felt someone was watching you while you were in the bath?

Or wandered in the forest to see a tree in shock, or stumbled upon a hungry looking house, or spied a very angry kayak.

Unexpected Faces

Masked Barbecue

We have all heard of the classic film ‘Man in the Iron Mask, but not too many have seen the iron mask barbecue.

There was a time when telephones used to look like this. These phones are now antiques and collectors items.

Antique Telephone

Smiley Kitchenware

When it comes to kitchen ware, you can’t beat having a Smiley Face coffee pot to greet you first thing in the morning, and a cheese grater wondering if you ‘Are being served’.

Ghostly Tower

As children we have all listened to ghostly stories and loved to watch cartoons such as Casper the Ghost. The tower looks as if it had some ghostly stories of its own to tell.

Sad Food

Now not everything that comes from the oven can be declared a rip roaring success. This cup cake tells a very sad story, as does the anry green pepper.

Scarey Hands

But the best of all goes to these wonderful hands, that have been created into a really scarey face.

Police detained the man and fined him for ‘driving a vehicle of an unknown type without relevant permission’, the police press service said.

The detainee, who had both legs and one arm amputated, said he was simply testing his new invention.

The Painting Horse

A museum of a working horse opened in the Yaroslavl Region, south-central European Russia, in mid-May on the basis of a shelter for horses. The main attraction among the sheltered animals will become an 18-month-old pony named Orlik, who can draw. However, the horse is too shy to draw in front of strangers.

Orlik was due to head for the ‘butcher’, when he was rescued by an animal shelter. One of the shelter owners noticed that Orlik liked to hold things in his mouth, so he trained the horse to hold a paint brush in his teeth and move it across the canvas.

Now the shelter has dozens of canvases painted by Orlik. Some have been purchased by visitors and the proceeds used to support other animals.

Surfing Alpaca

A citizen of the Latin American state, Domingo Pianezzi, 44, said “I’ve surfed with a dog, a parrot, a hamster and a cat, but when I was at a competition in Australia I saw people surfing with kangaroos and koalas”.

Peruvians raise alpacas, a species of South American camelid, primarily for their warm wool and occasionally for food.

“So I thought that as a Peruvian, it would be interesting to surf with a unique animal that represents Peru,” said Pianezzi.

Office Gardener, Japan

The trend of growing your own vegetables has become popular among Japanese workers.

In many Japanese offices employees grow cherry tomatoes and beans in flower pots right at their working places.

The plants have only a small harvest, but serve mostly to help an employee deal with stress from routine work.

Unlike flowers and usual office plants, growing vegetables helps the employee see all the stages and enjoy the result of his or her work.

Roof-gardens have proved an effective measure for aiding the cooling of buildings during the summer months. Tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, pumpkins and watermelons, can all be harvested on the rooftop.

Space Strawberries

A new variety of strawberries called ‘Seascape’ requires little maintenance and energy that makes them perfect for growing in space, in places such as the International Space Station.

Seascape strawberries are not sensitive to the length of available daylight, in order to flower and fruit and produce fruit constantly for around 6 months.

Most Stressful Jobs

Careercast.com, a U.S. job search portal, published the list of most stressful jobs for 2010. Firefighters were named as having the most stressful job, followed by senior corporate executives and taxi drivers.

These were followed by surgeon and police officer, commercial pilot and highway patrolman.

The top least stressful jobs were, musical instrument repairer, medical records technician, actuary and forklift operator.

Saudi Arabian spinster Khadidja asked a national committee for family solidarity for help. She promised to pay 60,000 Saudi Riyals (or $16,000) to the person who finds a decent fiance for her. Khadidja said the main qualities of her future husband are religion and morals.

Seeking Arab Husband

No North Pole Ice

Ecologists say the Arctic climate changes much quicker than on the planet in general in the next few decades ice in the Arctic could completely disappear in summer.

If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above.

Dr Ron Lindsay, a polar scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, says, “There’s a good chance that it will all melt away at the North Pole, it’s certainly feasible, but it’s not guaranteed,” Dr Lindsay said.

Inuit natives living near Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland are also reporting that the sea ice there is starting to break up much earlier than normal and that they have seen wide cracks appearing in the ice where it normally remains stable. Satellite measurements collected over nearly 30 years show a significant decline in the extent of the Arctic sea ice, which has become more rapid in recent years.

Throw Out The Cat

The U.S. authorities have launched a criminal probe into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

RSPCA Tasmania, Australia, says physical inactivity ranks second only to tobacco smoking in terms of the burden of disease factors.

The annual direct health care cost attributable to physical inactivity is estimated to be around $377m, and physical inactivity is associated with about 8,000 preventable deaths each year in Australia, alone.

Obesity in pets is associated with a number of medical complaints including osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, liver disease and insulin resistance.

“Pets love to spend time with you and check out the sights and smells. They will really look forward to spending time with you,” says the RSPCA website. “There’s nothing like an exercise partner who’s waiting by the door, to keep you motivated.”

However, we doubt that the RSPCA had these pets in mind.

Cat on Shoulder; Goldfish in Tank

You have all heard of peramulators for babies, but how about taking a dog for a walk in a’dogulator’. After all, why bother to walk if you can get your exercise being pushed along the streets of New York in a pram?

Dog In Pram

Walking the fox and the lion

You can’t help but wonder if the ‘big cat’ is just biding its time, waiting patiently for supper to stroll by.

We couldn’t work out just which one was the fashion statement here.

Some might call these faces handsome, while others are still waiting for the ‘Prince transformation’ kiss.

Handsome Faces

Bite and Perfume

Now there are some pets you simply want to give a wide berth to. One of these for its razor sharp teeth. The other for its unpredicable perfume letting.

Then finally, it’s really too far to walk. Don’t you think we’d be much better waiting for the next train?

Waiting for Santa to arrive?

This is a case of where the presence of ‘big brothers’ saved the day. Small is Good!!!

Small Can Prove To Be Best

The train was carrying hundreds of passengers at the time, on a line just south of Taichung city in the centre of the island.

“The driver had taken sleeping pills and was not fully conscious while on duty,” Ted Chai, spokesman for the Taiwan High Speed Rail said.

Train controllers had noticed that the driver did not appear to be handling the controls and immediately alerted the cabin crew.

They managed to control the train, using the train’s automatic systems, for about 13 minutes, before bringing it to a gliding halt at Taichung station.

Taiwan’s 207-mile (345-kilometer) high-speed system links the capital Taipei in the north with Kaohsiung city in the south using Japanese bullet-train technology.

Sleeping problems, however, can come in many different forms.

A British teacher, Kris Lines, 31, who had fallen asleep on an Air Canada long-haul flight between London and Vancouver, woke up to discover he was sitting in an empty hangar. The cabin crew had failed to spot he was still on board, before they deplaned.

Long after the plane had been emptied, Lines was woken by a tap on the shoulder, from a baffled mechanic. Lines panicked thinking he was just behind all the other passengers.

“Don’t worry, chill out and take all the time you want. The flight landed an hour and a half ago,” the mechanic told him.

“I’m quite a heavy sleeper and I’d been awake for 24 hours, so as soon as I dropped off I was out for the count,” said Lines. He was able to reclaim his baggage, which was still at the baggage claim area.

Lines sent a complaint to Air Canada and got an email back from customer services, apologizing and promising him 20 percent off his next flight.

Ramesh Advani, 63, faces up to three years in prison for allegedly reaching under a blanket of a woman sleeping next to him, to sexually abuse her, on a flight to Hong Kong. Passengers sitting behind the victim kicked her seat to alert her. She instantly informed the flight crew.

Studies now say there are grave dangers from sleep deprivation, just as there are dangers from too much sleep. To say nothing of sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep-related hypoventilation, idiopathic hypersomnia and heavy snoring. At the end of the day, it seems that sleeping is dangerous, full stop.

• Lawyer: “Was that the same nose you broke as a child?”
• Witness: “I only have one, you know
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• Accused, Defending His Own Case: “Did you get a good look at my face when I took your purse?”
The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in jail.
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• Lawyer: “What is your date of birth?”
• Witness: “July 15th.”
• Lawyer: “What year?”
• Witness: “Every year.”
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• Lawyer: “Can you describe what the person who attacked you looked like?”
• Witness: “No. He was wearing a mask.”
• Lawyer: “What was he wearing under the mask?”
• Witness: “Er…his face.”
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• Lawyer: “This myasthenia gravis — does it affect your memory at all?”
• Witness: “Yes.”
• Lawyer: “And in what ways does it affect your memory?”
• Witness: “I forget.”
• Lawyer: “You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you’ve forgotten?”
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• Lawyer: “How old is your son, the one living with you?”
• Witness: “Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which.”
• Lawyer: “How long has he lived with you?”
• Witness: “Forty-five years.”
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• Lawyer: “Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?”
• Witness: “No.”
• Lawyer: “Did you check for blood pressure?”
• Witness: “No.”
• Lawyer: “Did you check for breathing?”
• Witness: “No.”
• Lawyer: “So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?”
• Witness: “No.”
• Lawyer: “How can you be so sure, Doctor?”
• Witness: “Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.”
• Lawyer: “But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?”
• Witness: “Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.”
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• Lawyer: “Now sir, I’m sure you are an intelligent and honest man–”
• Witness: “Thank you. If I weren’t under oath, I’d return the compliment.”
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Lawyer: “Were you alone or by yourself?”
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• Lawyer: “I show you Exhibit 3 and ask you if you recognize that picture.”
• Witness: “That’s me.”
• Lawyer: “Were you present when that picture was taken?”
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Lawyer: “Do you have any children or anything of that kind?”
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Lawyer: “You don’t know what it was, and you didn’t know what it looked like, but can you describe it?”
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• Lawyer: “You say that the stairs went down to the basement?”
• Witness: “Yes.”
• Lawyer: “And these stairs, did they go up also?”
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• Lawyer: “Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?”
• Witness: “No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.”
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• Lawyer: “Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?”
• Witness: “All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.”

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• Lawyer: “Did you know him before?”
• Witness: “Yes sir.”
• Lawyer: “Before or after he died?”
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• Lawyer: “When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?”
• Other Lawyer: “Objection. That question should be taken out and shot.”
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• Lawyer: “And lastly, Gary, all your responses must be oral. Ok? What school do you go to?”
• Witness: “Oral.”
• Lawyer: “How old are you?”
• Witness: “Oral.”
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Lawyer: “Now, doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most cases he just passes quietly away and doesn’t know anything about it until the next morning?”
• Lawyer: “And what did he do then?”
• Witness: “He came home, and next morning he was dead.”
• Lawyer: “So when he woke up the next morning he was dead?”
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• Lawyer: “Do you drink when you’re on duty?”
• Witness: “I don’t drink when I’m on duty, unless I come on duty drunk.”
• Lawyer: “Officer, what led you to believe the defendant was under the influence?”
• Witness: “Because he was argumentary, and he couldn’t pronunciate his words.”
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Psychologist John Watson developed what would become known as ‘classical conditioning’. This is where an ‘unconditional stimulus’ elicits a response. When this is paired with a conditional stimulus enough times, it obtains an automatic response.

Watson used his knowledge to make people feel good when they saw certain products. For example, a sexy women photographed with a beautiful car is designed to elicit a certain response in the heart of the viewer.

The advertising industry, is a prominent and very powerful industry, that frequently engages in deceptive subliminal advertising which most people are unaware of.

By bypassing the conscious mind using subliminal techniques, advertisers tap into the vulnerabilities surrounding the unconscious mind, manipulating and controlling in many ways.

1950's 60's adverts

Since the 1940’s subliminal advertising blossomed until now, when you can find subliminal messages in every major advertisement and magazine cover.

1950's 60's ads

Legislation against the advertisers has had no effect, in curbing the use of subliminals. In this Information Age, it seems people are not always in control of what they view.

1950's 60's adverts

Take a close look at these adverts of the 1950’s and 60’s and discover just how much of the content and subliminal messages would not be acceptable today.

1950's 60's ads

Before you get carried away in judgement of the 50’s and 60’s, take a look at what we find an acceptable way to stop a tennis match in the 2000’s.

Game Stopper

Six stories up in an Oklahoma parking lot a car suddenly appeared through the brick wall.

The 67 year old driver of a white coloured Mercedes apparently got his foot stuck under the accelerator and shot across the parking lot, backwards. He not only slammed into the outer wall, but pierced it and continued on through, until the rear end of the car was left suspended high over the street below.

Vehicles parked outside the building, were also damaged as falling debri rained down on them. One vehicle had its back window completely smashed in.

Corporal David Crow, from the Tulsa Police Department said it was fortunate there were no pedestrians outside the building at the time.

Spectular Car Crashes

The driver of a white Fairlane car crashed over a nature strip in Melbourne, Australia and landed on top of a family car that contained three children and their mother, as they sat waiting at a Red Rooster fast food outlet.

The children and mother had to be freed from their vehicle by paramedics.

The impact of the collision pushed the woman’s silver Ford sedan into the back of a silver Mercedes, that was also in the drive-through lane at the time.

Bizarre Truck Crash

The driver of a New York tow truck was texting on a cell phone will talking on another cell phone, slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.

A 20-year-old woman lost control on the streets of Arrowtown at around 3am, plowing her vehicle through the fence of a residential property, outside Buffalo, after sideswiping the house.

The bizarre crash saw the four-wheel drive pirouette 180 degrees, destroy a garden shed and a concrete barbeque, then finish with a perfect landing in a frozen swimming pool.

Arrowtown Fire officer Garry Hall says the woman was lucky to survive after nearly being impaled by a piece of timber through her windshield.