Obama’s Old Car For $1 Million
Posted on 2 February 2012 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society
As a junior United States senator, the now President Barak Obama, hired a 2005 Chrysler 300C to drive around the streets of Chicago, during 2005 and 2006, prior to beginning his presidential campaign in 2007. Owner of the car, Tim O’Brian says he has the original Illinois title, showing that the president actually used the [...]
Exploding Recipe Costs Thousands
Posted on 1 February 2012 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in food and wine, Society
It took seven long years for 14 people to win a lawsuit against a Chilean newspaper. The paper had published a recipe for cooking a fried doughy snack of churros, which obviously had a typing error in it. (At least that is what most people are trying to believe.) The recipe, which was instructions to [...]
Captain In Serious Trouble
Posted on 19 January 2012 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Travel
The captain of the capsized tourist ship, the Costa Concordia, appears to be getting into deeper and deeper water (unlike the ship he piloted). It is now reported that Captain Francesco Schettino wanted to ‘show off’ to his top chef, whose family live on the island, where the ship capsized, after hitting a rock, ‘that [...]
Stitched Up Pockets
Posted on 29 December 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Humour, Society
A rich New York tailor went to extraordinary lengths to make sure that his money was left to the poor people of the city. In his will he stipulated that over 70 pairs of old trousers should be auctioned off and the proceeds go to the needy of the city. However, the will also stipulated [...]
Deadly Recipes
Posted on 29 December 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in food and wine
Some recipes can prove fatal if the ingredients or instructions are misleading, or left untried by the author. It took seven years for a judge to rule that a Chile daily paper should compensate readers who tried out a published recipe for churros, a popular American snack of dough fried in hot oil. Thirteen people [...]
North Korea Threatened By Christmas Lights
Posted on 12 December 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society
South Korea plans to put 100,000 Christmas lights on a 100 foot tall steel tower in the shape of a Christmas tree, only two miles from the border with North Korea. North Korea has threatened to shoot out the lights if South Korea goes ahead with its Christmas celebration. Officials from North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, [...]
Losing Weight The African Way
Posted on 28 November 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Health
The African Mango has quickly become America’s hottest new method of losing weight, much to the chagrin of the $40 billion-dollar diet industry. No more outrageously expensive surgical procedures, drugs, machines and diets, since Dr. Mehmet Oz called it a ‘breakthrough supplement’ and a ‘miracle in your medicine cabinet’ on his Dr. Oz show. According [...]
Passengers Held To Ransom
Posted on 21 November 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Travel
A Comtel Air flight on its way to Birmingham, England, was grounded in Vienna, due to financial issues. Passengers were then asked to pay a total of £23,000, for refuelling the plane, if they wanted to continue their journey. Comtel Air operated chartered flights on the lucrative Birmingham-Amristar sector. The major shareholder of Comtel, Bhupinder [...]
Life After Fukushima
Posted on 21 November 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society
Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster for 25 years, has dramatically impacted on the Japanese way of life. The disaster was triggered by a magnitutude-9 earthquake, on March 11, 2011, when a nuclear power plant was damaged by the ensuing tsunami. While the Fukushima incident leaked only one-sixth of the radiation levels spilled by the Chernobyl [...]
More Pepper Spraying Police
Posted on 21 November 2011 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Society
Photos of 84 year-old, Dorli Rori, went viral, when they showed her being sprayed in the face with pepper spray, during an Occupy Seattle Protest. A 19 year-old pregnant woman and a priest also reportedly hit by pepper spray. “Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse, [...]
