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Johnny Wild


July 18, 2003
Fossil Discovery Provides New Evidence in Loch Ness Monster Mystery

A Scottish pensioner may have found a 150 million-year-old ancestor of the Loch Ness Monster.

Gerald McSorley, 67, from Stirling, found a fossil of a plesiosaur submerged in shallow water near the bank of the loch.

The 35ft long-necked carnivorous sea reptiles lived in the Jurassic era - and scientists admitted they bore a remarkable resemblance to the legends of the Loch Ness Monster...

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Einstein's Constant Speed of Light Theory Isn't Holding Up

Read this story carefully, and think about all of the possible implications !!! ~Johnny Wild

                                                                        
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July 11, 2003
Man Wakes From Coma After 19 Years, Greets Mother & Starts Speaking Again


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Arkansas (AP) - The words began tumbling out - at first just a few nouns and eventually a torrent of phrases.

Terry Wallis, who had been in a coma since a 1984 car accident, regained consciousness last month to the surprise of doctors and the delight of his family, including his mother, who heard his first word in 19 years ...

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May 20, 2003
Lightning Strikes Home In Bulgaria 9 Times 
At Same Time Of Day

The Bulgarian president has personally asked experts to investigate why a house has been struck by lightning nine separate times and always at the same hour of the day.

President Georgi Parvanov said that the house in the southern Bulgarian village of Truncha needed to be looked at after the latest lightning strike this week ...

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April 23, 2003

Hong Kong Tourism Officials Accidentally Run Ad Campaign With The Slogan: 

              
" Hong Kong Will Take Your Breath Away. "

... they tried to pull the ads or get the headline changed to "There's no place like Hong Kong" but it was too late for some magazines ...
                                                    
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Man Loses His False Teeth Down Woman's Cleavage

A man who tried to flirt with a woman in a German nightclub dropped his false teeth down her cleavage.

Shop assistant Tina Lange, 37, who met the man in a disco in Mannheim, said: "I wasn't very interested in him but when I was leaving he whispered in my ear: 'I hope we'll see each other again.'

"He then dropped something down my cleavage, which I thought was his phone number ...

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Man Bites Police Dog

A man has been charged after allegedly biting a police dog during a fight outside a bar. The 33 year old has been charged with injuring a police animal, resisting arrest and obstruction ... 

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March 12, 2003

Man Fakes Choking To Attract Women

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - A short, dumpy man has been going around town faking choking episodes, apparently to get attention from women.

He flails his arms, coughs and sputters. After a woman rushes over to help ...

                                                                     
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Light Bulb Still Glowing After 65 Years

A light bulb nicknamed 'Old Faithful' is still glowing in a house after 65 years. The Swan Edison bulb illuminates the first-floor landing of Mo Richardson's home in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

It's made of hand-drawn glass, has a carbon filament and was bought in 
Redhill, Surrey, in 1938 ...

                                                                     
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February 22, 2003
Re-Write The Science Books:
It Turns Out That Oil & Water Do Mix !!

Oil and water do not mix - the mantra is familiar to every schoolchild. You have to shake them to overcome the forces that hold the oil together. Now teachers may want to rewrite their lessons ...

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The Once Bizarre Concept of Extra Dimensions Now Showing Hints of A Scientific Revolution

The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and gravitational physics, according to a panel of experts ...


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January 23, 2003
Hair Samples From Eastern Canada Cougar Sighting 
Turn Out To Be From A Cow

FREDERICTON (CP) - Skeptics who have long regarded cougar sightings in Eastern Canada as just a lot of bull will be gloating after hair samples taken from the scene of the latest big cat encounter turned out to be from a cow ...
                                                     
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Hundreds Of Strange Objects Are Captured On Film By The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory in England

Officials originally dismissed the images as being the result of a camera fault, and will not now comment on them. The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were apparently moving in a way that suggested intelligent control ...

                                                                   
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October 14, 2002
Mysterious City-Like Forms Discovered In 
Deep Waters Off The Coast of Cuba


HAVANA, Cuba -- Sonar images have revealed unusual symmetrical square and pyramid shapes in the deep-sea darkness off the coast of Cuba.

It may not be Atlantis, but it's big, 2,000 feet down and not natural ...

                                                            
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October 7, 2002
Extraordinary Claim: Cities Found On Moon !!


The presence of reasoning beings has been detected close to our home, on the Moon. However, this discovery was immediately classified as secret, as it is so incredible that it might shake the already existing social principles, reports Russia's newspaper Pravda ...

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New Planet Discovered in the Solar System ???


Astronomers have discovered a ball of ice half size of Pluto, lurking roughly 4 billion miles from Earth at the edge of our solar system... 

                                                                     
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October 3, 2002
Man Breaks Record By Clipping 153 Clothes Pins 
To His Face


Mr. Turner told the crowd his success was due to his elastic skin and large pain threshold ...

                                                   
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Man Has Permanent Blue Skin From Using Silver Supplement

                                                   
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September 13, 2002
California Fisherman Catches 
Rare 815 Pound Mako Shark

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - A fisherman spent nearly six hours battling an 815-pound mako off Santa Monica Bay before he hauled in the shark with the help of a friend.

John Miller said at first he hooked the female shark alone. But during the hours he spent fighting, he placed a radio call to a friend for assistance.

Using a small boat, Mike McNamee sailed about 25 miles offshore to where Miller was to help him.

"We both held on for dear life," McNamee said.

Once they secured the shark, they tied it to the side of the boat and towed it back to a Redondo Beach yacht club.


September 11, 2002
Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon Conspiracy Theorist

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Detectives are investigating a complaint that retired astronaut Edwin ``Buzz'' Aldrin punched a man in the face after being asked to swear on a Bible that he'd been to the moon.

Officers were called to the Luxe Hotel on Rodeo Drive Monday and took a report from Bart Sibrel, 37, who said the former Apollo 11 astronaut had attacked him...

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September 4, 2002
102 Year Old Man Drives On Wrong Side Of Road;
Refuses To Give Up License

He's still got a good eye for the road; he swears by it. After all, he has been driving since Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, back when some people were still getting around by mule.

His birth date is 10-2-99 and the computer kept processing it as if he were 2 years old, said La Taunya Green, assistant supervisor of the Inglewood Traffic Division.


August 28, 2002
'Meteorite' Hits Girl In UK


The odds against being hit by a meteorite are billions to one - but a teenager in North Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot.

Siobhan Cowton, 14, was getting into the family car outside her Northallerton home at 1030 BST on Thursday when a stone fell on her from the sky. Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father...

                                                     
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August 27, 2002
Baseball Is Striking Out With Fans

With a strike looming, baseball is striking out in the arena of public opinion: Americans overwhelmingly say they wouldn't miss the game and its fan base has shrunk to a seven-year low. 

In the latest ABCNEWS poll, 75 percent say they would not miss baseball if there is a strike this season. And only 28 percent now call themselves fans of professional baseball, down to its lowest level since the last strike ended in 1995 ...

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August 10, 2002
Smartest Animal Other Than Humans ??

It is said to be the first time any animal other than a human has shown a clear understanding of cause and effect, and fashioned a tool for a specific task using new materials not encountered in the wild.

Chimpanzees ???    Nope...    Dolphins ???    Guess again !!

                                                                   
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August 8, 2002
Inconstant Speed of Light May Question Einstein

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - A team of Australian scientists has proposed that the speed of light may not be a constant, a revolutionary idea that could unseat one of the most cherished laws of modern physics -- Einstein's theory of relativity !!

[E=MC2 is on the ropes ??? ~Johnny Wild]


EPA Says Toxic Sludge is Good For Fish !!

The Army Corps of Engineers' dumping of toxic sludge into the Potomac River protects fish by forcing them to flee the polluted area and escape fishermen, according to an internal Environmental Protection Agency document.

"It's ludicrous," said Rep. George P. Radanovich, California Republican and chairman of the subcommittee on national parks, recreation and public lands. "This is one of the most frightening examples of bureaucratic ineptitude and backward logic I have ever seen ...

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July 23, 2002
Second Law of Thermodynamics " Broken "

One of the most fundamental rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time been shown not to hold for microscopic systems.

The demonstration, by chemical physicists in Australia, could place a fundamental limit on miniaturisation, because it suggests that the micro-scale devices envisaged by nanotechnologists will not behave like simple scaled-down versions of their larger counterparts - they could sometimes run backwards ...

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July 16, 2002
Eating and Driving Is Definitely Hazardous to Your Health

Strangest case? [Mr.] Bridges recalls an accident on Interstate 15 in Rancho Cucamonga: The person driving a motor home had put it on cruise control, got up from the driver's seat and went to the back to check on a meal in his microwave !!


July 15, 2002
Swarming Locusts May End Up in Beijing Woks

BEIJING (Reuters) - Swarms of locusts have invaded the Chinese capital, littering busy walkways and prompting gourmets to reach for their woks, Chinese newspapers reported Sunday.                                                                        

Couple Reels In Bag Containing $80,000 While Fishing Off The Florida Keys

KEY WEST, Florida -- ''They saw a baseball cap floating out there, and they were going to retrieve the baseball cap, and they found a little leather bag,'' said George Rogers, head of the U.S. Customs Service in Key West ...

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July 10, 2002
NASA Scientists Study Ketchup To Better Understand The Universe

Some fluids have a mysterious property: one moment they're thick, the next they're thin. Physicists aim to find out why with the aid of an experiment in space ... 
                                                                         
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July 6, 2002
Courthouse Love Affair Nets Prison Time

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian man who had an affair with a juror during his murder trial was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly six years in prison for obstruction of justice in what a judge termed "almost unimaginable .


July 4, 2002
Freakish Fish Causes Fear in MD

Carnivore Moves on Land, Can Survive 4 Days Without Water !!

At first, reports of the strange-looking creature with the head of a snake and a gaping saw-toothed maw were dismissed as just another fish tale. A bowfin, most likely. Or some other kind of exotic fish that outgrew its tank and was tossed into the pond by its owner.

But two weeks after an unidentified angler caught the thing in a drainage pond behind a Crofton shopping center, state officials solved the mystery. An exotic fish expert in Florida identified the creature from a photo as a northern snakehead, prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are concerned.

Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins !!


July 3, 2002
Scientists Estimate 30 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy Alone !!

Astronomers can now estimate how many planets exist in the Milky Way galaxy and also speculate on how many planets could be like Earth; the answer to both is in billions !!

Of the 1,000 stars currently counted within 100 light-years distance from Earth, nearly 10% possess planetary systems. In fact, there are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way and so there are probably 30 billion planetary systems out there as well. Researchers estimate 10% of the planetary systems would include Earth-like worlds. 

[Amazing !! ... Billions of other "Earths" with the right conditions for the development of life forms probably exist in our galaxy alone ... Johnny Wild]

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July 2, 2002
Cow Falls On Car

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Drivers in farming regions know to be on the lookout for animals that stray onto the road, but even the most cautious seldom scan the heavens for livestock.

A 36-year-old woman should have been doing that Thursday when a cow strayed from a hillside pasture to the top of a tunnel entrance and then fell onto her car.

The woman was hospitalized with minor chest and foot injuries. Her husband, in the passenger seat, was unharmed. The cow died after being hit when it fell 4.5 metres just as the car was leaving the tunnel.


NY Manhole Covers Pop
(Note: This happened on May 29,2002)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Underground explosions caused several manhole covers to pop near the Empire State Building on Wednesday, causing some jitters and forcing police to close area streets...


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June 29, 2002
Colombian Mountaineer Is Saved By Telemarketer

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- A hiker is stranded in South America's Andes mountains when a blizzard begins. He reaches into his backpack for his cell phone -- only to find his prepaid minutes are up.

The Colombian mountaineer slowly begins freezing to death, surviving for 24 hours with his only warmth coming from carefully measured dozes of brandy. Then suddenly, at above 12,500 feet, Leonardo Diaz hears a familiar ring.

Out of nowhere, a phone company solicitor is calling on his cell phone, asking if he would like to buy more time !!


June 27, 2002
Nigerian Film Industry
Turns Out More Movies Than Hollywood

LAGOS, Nigeria
--
Franca Brown, a 1980s Nigerian soap opera starlet is now a leading female director. Hollywood, she claims, has run out of good ideas - and they, the video movie makers of Nigeria, can help.

"There is a dearth of stories in Hollywood, they keep repeating themselves," she argues.

"Over here we have too much to offer. We have too many ideas . "


June 6, 2002
Enron To Pay $140 Million in Bonuses to 1,700 Senior Managers and Employees

NEW YORK -- An Enron Corp. plan to dole out as much as $140 million in retention bonuses and severance to the 1,700 employees working for the bankrupt company was approved by a judge Tuesday.

Enron said the bonuses were critical to its plan to rebuild since the company continued to lose employees at a rate of more than 30 a week since the beginning of the year...

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May 22, 2002
Indiana Town Haunted By "Kokomo Hum"

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) -- It started as a low hum, barely noticeable. But within months, the endless throbbing was like a corkscrew twisting into Diane Anton's temple.

The walls of her home vibrated. Her bed shook. Bouts of nausea, short-term memory loss and hand tremors followed ...


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May 17, 2002
Hilarious New Way To Fool Fingerprint
Biometrics With Fake Fingers !!

BBC News UK -- Fake fingers made out of common household ingredients can fool security systems that use fingerprints to identify people.

The artificial fingers and prints were created with gelatine by Japanese researchers who used the digits to trick biometric systems into thinking they were seeing the real thing ...
                                            
                                                    
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April 9, 2002
Man Jailed Since 1991 Cleared of Charges on DNA Evidence

MESA, Ariz. -- A man serving a life prison sentence for the 1991 stabbing death of a bartender was released Monday after prosecutors said DNA tests indicated he wasn't responsible for the crime.

Ray
Krone, 45, was sentenced to death in 1992, but his conviction was overturned on a technicality. He was retried and convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life ... 
                                                     
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April 1, 2002
China's Unmanned Spaceship Returns to Earth


BEIJING -- China's third unmanned spaceship returned to Earth on Monday and was pronounced "technically suitable for astronauts," the government said - the latest step in its effort to become the third nation to put people in space.

The Shenzhou III landed on schedule at 4:51 p.m. in central Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It had taken off nearly seven days before from a desert launch pad in northwestern China's Gansu province.


China's Mysterious Spaceship
With no wheels ...
... how did it land on solid ground un-damaged ??


Reverse thrust ?? It seems like an inefficient idea. It would seem to take more energy to counter the effects of gravity than this ship could store.

Could a parachute slow the descent enough to land on ground without seriously denting the bottom ??

What do you think ???


March 28, 2002
13 Foot Long Giant Octopus Found In 
New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Scientists have identified what they believe is the largest octopus ever seen, a 13 foot long giant hauled from the depths near New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands.

The dead specimen, caught in a trawler's net, was badly damaged but it was clearly a massive animal, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) marine biologist Steve O'Shea.

"It would easily have been four-plus metres in total length and a weight of 70-75 kg (154-165 pounds), if not more - it's a very big octopus, the size of a fully mature male giant squid ... 
                                                          
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Psychiatric Patient Steals Ambulance 
To Attend Church


QUAKERTOWN, Pennsylvania -- A hospital patient "flipped out," stole an ambulance and led police on a chase to an Upper Bucks church, where a viewing was being held. One day earlier, the 19-year-old was arrested at the same church for pulling out a knife and confronting staff...                      
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March 27, 2002
Potbellied Pig Smells Smoke --
Saves Local Family as Fire Engulfs Their Home


POCA, West Virginia -- "Iggy the Piggy", a 240-pound potbellied pig, ostracized from a former community, may have been vindicated after alerting her human family to a fire that eventually destroyed their Poca home.

Iggy the Piggy rushed into the living room, grunted and barked about 1 p.m. Sunday after she apparently smelled smoke coming from a baseboard heater in the bathroom, beside her room ...
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March 26, 2002
Playboy Magazine Seeks Women of Enron !!


HOUSTON (AP) -- Playboy is hoping to entice some of the women who lost their shirts in the Enron scandal to reveal a little more.

The magazine is putting together a Women of Enron pictorial and is inviting employees past and present to send snapshots of themselves in bikinis if they wish to pose.

"This is an opportunity for them to do something fun in the midst of the turmoil that's 
going on in their lives. These are women who are out of a job," Playboy 
spokeswoman Elizabeth Norris said ...


                                                                      
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March 25, 2002
Man Registers Soldering Gun as Firearm !!

Manitoba resident protests new gun laws

OAK LAKE, Manitoba Canada. (CP) -- The Manitoba man who successfully registered his soldering gun as a firearm to protest new federal gun laws says he is not concerned he could go to jail.

Last Christmas, Buckley, who is opposed to the new gun laws requiring all firearms to be registered by 2003, mailed his registration form back to the government with information from his soldering and heat guns on it.

The "guns" were registered in the national database. On Wednesday, government officials said Buckley could be jailed for what he did ...
                                                                       
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March 22, 2002
Man Smashes Through Wal-Mart's 
Garden Department  

FREDRICKSBURG, Virginia -- Sheriff Charles Jett said several employees were in the garden section outside the main store off Garrisonville Road about 9:20 p.m. when Richard Wayne Flowers drove a 2001 Dodge Dakota through the cinder-block walls and wooden poles surrounding the garden area, causing $4,000 worth of damage and startling employees.

The wayward truck smashed numerous plants, flowers, tools and shelves. Jett said nearly 90 items were damaged by the careening vehicle...

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Man Accused of Stealing Treadmill From 
Holiday Inn Exercise Room !!

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- The treadmill: For some, the path to fitness, for others the road to riches.

The tale of the stolen treadmill begins at the Westlake Holiday Inn, the suspect, 49-year-old Jeffery Levine.
 
Two employees saw a thief take a $2,800 treadmill from the hotel's exercise room and put it into a white or silver older Chevy...

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Commercial Fishermen Demand Answers to 
'Black Water' Mystery in Naples, Florida !!


Commercial fishermen along the Southwest Florida coast are reporting a massive dead zone that is almost devoid of marine life in an area of the Gulf of Mexico traditionally known as a rich fishing ground.

They've dubbed it black water, and they're demanding that local, state and national government agencies find out what's causing it. Scientists who have heard of the phenomenon say they, too, need answers.

Fishermen with decades on the water say they've often seen red tide but they've never seen anything like this — it doesn't have a foul smell, it isn't red tide and it isn't oil. 

They describe it as viscous and slimy water with what looks like spider webs in it...
                                                                     
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I wonder if these stories are connected:
March 20, 2002

A Very Bizarre Prehistoric Fish Washed 
Ashore in St. Petersburg, Florida !!


Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers lineman Jeff Winans wasn't sure what had washed ashore.

Up close, it looked like some bizarre, armor-plated fish from a prehistoric era. It was white and about 5 feet long, with a flat snout and a sucker for a mouth. It had rows of bony yellow plates that appeared to be made of cartilage.

"When you turn it over, it's whole back side is hard as a rock," said Brandi Winans. "I grew up on St. Pete Beach. I've snorkeled a lot. I've never seen anything remotely like this."

The couple called the Florida Marine Research Institute in St. Petersburg, but no one was available to identify the mystery fish ...

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"Wow, I gotta admit, I can't stop laughing about this story... it's hilarious !!! "


MotoMan

Bank Teller Cashes A Fake $1 Million Dollar Bill !!

Dorothy Marie Livingston has been accused of passing a fake $1 million bill at a bank -- and the teller didn't see anything strange about the transaction


 

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