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Posted on 7 June 2010 by LynThomas in Humour
Police in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina fined an elderly disabled man caught speeding down a busy highway in a self-made motorized wheelchair. Eyewitnesses said he easily overtook cars and trucks on the BR-101 highway.
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.
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