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Bed bugs on public transport!
Rentokil, the UK's biggest pest control people, has reported a 40 per cent increase in the number of transport-related call-outs in the last year!
But don't worry, only two thirds of their call outs are related to bed bugs, the other third are related to FLEAS AND OTHER BITING INSECTS!
David Cain, managing director of Bed-Bugs.co.uk, a dedicated bedbug obliteration service, said: "The number one reason for the spread of bedbugs is the lack of public awareness. People simply do not know how to detect them in the way they would have done in the 1950s and 1960s.
"They are a problem on buses, trains and subway systems, and on cruise ships too – any form of transport where there is a high turnover, really. Recently, on an overground train in south London, I pulled at the parting of the upholstery and found at least four months of dirt and debris."
Nice. Rentokil, the UK's biggest pest control people, has reported a 40 per cent increase in the number of transport-related call-outs ... more -
Bedbugs invade college dorms
Just as they've made an itchy, scratchy comeback in hotel rooms, bedbugs increasingly are appearing in dorm rooms, say college officials and pest-control experts, who are busy devising ways to eradicate the bloodsuckers.
"They're taking off right now," says Dan Mizer, associate director of residence life at Texas A&M University.
Bedbugs are everywhere, he says. "They're finding these things in public transit, in movie theaters, in cruise ships, in all the hospitality accommodations."
Blame an increase in international travel, bigger bedbug populations worldwide, new protocols that discourage widespread spraying and possibly even tougher bugs that are resistant to pesticides.
The size of an apple seed, the nocturnal six-leggers hitchhike on luggage, old furniture and clothing and can live up to a year without a blood meal. So a dorm room left empty over the summer poses but a brief nutritional challenge.
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Go to link to see what schools have bedbug problems. If you go to one of those schools.. bring your own mattress. Just as they've made an itchy, scratchy comeback in hotel rooms, bedbugs increasingly are appearing in dorm rooms, say college of... more -
Can I get some eel soda??
Japan Tobacco Company has launched a new drink translated as ‘Surging Eel’. The fizzy drink contains extracts from the head and bones of eel with five vitamins found in the fish.
“It’s mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer’s heat.”
Not my number one choice to beat the summer's heat. Actually it's just above bleach. Japan Tobacco Company has launched a new drink translated as ‘Surging Eel’. The fizzy drink contains extracts from the head and bones ... more -
Cool Jobs: Forensic Entomologist
Discovery-News.com: Maggots? Flies? Corpses? All in a grisly day’s work for a forensic entomologist. James Williams gets the gritty details. Discovery-News.com: Maggots? Flies? Corpses? All in a grisly day’s work for a forensic entomologist. James Williams gets the gritty de... more
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Meat spaghetti - the new food fad?
My friend Erik posted about this on Vegan.com This stuff sounds disgusting!
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Pelican eats pigeon
Brings a lump to your throat, really it does.
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Family wins $40,000 over urine-tainted food
A police officer and his family have won $40,000 in their lawsuit against a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employee's spit and urine.
A jury on Friday ruled in favor of Sidney police Officer Keith Andrew, whose two sons, then 4 and 7, were sickened by the food they ate at a KFC/Taco Bell in October 2005. Sidney is a town of about 6,000 in western Nebraska. The younger boy became violently ill with gastroenteritis and dehydration, vomited for hours and was forced to spend time in a hospital, the family's lawsuit said.
The jury found the restaurant negligent, said the family's attorney Andy Snyder. He said of the restaurant owner, "I'd advise them to get a better class of employees." A KFC spokesman, Rick Maynard, said KFC is committed to the highest levels of food safety.
"Our franchisee does not agree with the court's verdict, and they are looking at their legal options," Maynard said Monday.
Workers who saw a fellow employee taint the family's food reported it to management, but the managers didn't inform the family, the lawsuit alleged. The suit also alleged that Andrew, his wife and their children were victims of an employee scheme that targeted police officers. "Employees maintained 'special servings' of food reserved for ... officers," the lawsuit said. "The 'special servings' had been urinated in or spit in by KFC/Taco Bell employees."
The employee accused of urinating and spitting in the Andrew family's food, Casey Diedrich, pleaded guilty last year to violating the Nebraska Pure Food Act and fined $100, according to court records. A company spokesman said last year that Diedrich eventually was fired for missing work but not for any of the incidents the lawsuit cited.
(Excerpts / SFGate) A police officer and his family have won $40,000 in their lawsuit against a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employe... more -
Raw: The Maggot Mass
Discovery-News.com: James Williams gets up close and personal with a maggot mass in Michigan at a dead pig farm.
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Middle-aged women find sex easier on Craigslist
It takes a woman about a thousand words and a condom to get laid on Craigslist. But for a woman to be laid properly -- by a passionate lover who knows what he's doing -- well, that's a whole different ball game.
We are both middle-aged women who have spent the past 11 months sleeping around Craigslist. At an age when most women were sending their firstborns off to college, we found ourselves -- through chance and circumstance -- single, tumescent and ripe for adventures. Those adventures have spanned 10 counties and four states and involved roughly 45,000 e-mailed words, 27 phone calls, 36 face-to-face initial dates and 13 actual lovers -- and re-aggravated our carpal tunnel syndrome from all the typing.
Years before embarking on Craigslist, both of us had experienced sexual abandonment. We were both hungry for intimacy and physical touch after years of wandering in the desert. Our lives were on similar trajectories. It takes a woman about a thousand words and a condom to get laid on Craigslist. But for a woman to be laid properly -- by a passionate... more -
Monkey pees in his mouth!
There is really nothing we can add to this. I know it is really juvenile and gross. It is like watching a train wreck. I can't look away! Help! There is really nothing we can add to this. I know it is really juvenile and gross. It is like watching a train wreck. I can't l... more
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'Modern Toilet' Restaurant Sounds Awesome
"As a man who frequently blogs and eats his lunch on the john, I know all about the benefits of canning your food (!). And now there's a restaurant in Taiwan that is cashing in on what I've known for years -- eating on the throne is the shit (!).
Patrons sit on toilets for seats and eat food off covered sinks and bathtubs. The food is served in a mini-toilet bowls and patrons drink out of mini travel potties. To finish the atmosphere, toilet paper is provided in the place of napkins.
"It's really unusual, so special that it doesn't gross me out," said Betty Tsai, 16, a Taipei high school sophomore trying Modern Toilet for the first time on a friend's recommendation.
But for a few customers, the toilet humor is too much. "My son thought it was disgusting and didn't know if he could finish his food," said Taipei mother Lin Li-ju.
Wow, Lin Li-ju, it sounds like your son has a problem. Namely that he was born with a vagina and doesn't know how to appreciate the finer things in life. Seriously, if I had one of those oldschool TV-dinner stands I don't think I'd ever leave the bathroom. So yeah, I once saw a little kid at Home Depot urinate in one of the unplumbed toilets they had on display. I wonder if they have similar problems here. Well, my legs are going numb, time to get up.
Several more pictures and a video news report about the place, after the jump." "As a man who frequently blogs and eats his lunch on the john, I know all about the benefits of canning your food (!). And now th... more -
Why not to eat fast food
check out the McDonald's 4-year old cheeseburger and fries...i wish i aged like that! pretty crazy.
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Eating champ downs 35 dozen oysters
New Orleans, Apr 13 : Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti looked down at the litter of empty oyster shells in front of him and savored the sweet taste of victory. For Crazy Legs Conti, the bitter taste of defeat could be washed away only by beer.
The Acme World Oyster Eating championship belt — leather, with a silver dish featuring an oyster on the half-shell — hung on Bertoletti’s skinny hips. The 22-year-old Chicago resident took the title Saturday by slurping 35 dozen of the big bivalves in eight minutes.
“I could probably do a couple dozen more, especially if they were charbroiled,” said Bertoletti, who holds the endurance oyster-eating record, having downed 53 1/2 dozen in 2007 before calling it quits. “Although they’re great raw.”
Conti, the defending champion, tied for third, sucking down 24 dozen.
“They’re supposed to be an aphrodisiac,” said Conti, whose real name is Crazy Legs. “But I think that’s only true for about the first three dozen. When you get up higher than that, you don’t want much activity for a while.”
Juliet Lee, 43, of Germantown, Md., formerly a Ninjing University chemistry professor, methodically polished off 31 1/2 dozen for second place.
A dozen professional eaters who compete in Major League Eaters events year-round squared off at the French Quarter Festival on Saturday.
Major League Eating describes itself as a sports franchise that oversees all professional competitive eating events and competitive eating television specials. It puts on the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest, as well as other events, such as the World Deep-Fried Asparagus Eating Championship and the National Sweet Corn Eating Championship.
Rules for the oyster tournament forced contestants to use forks, not lift the shells to their mouth, and to finish all the oysters from a tray before starting a new one.
Officials in striped shirts stood beside each contestant and flipped a counter as each dozen was consumed.
Many of the competitors wore gloves to handle the shells; all carried several bottles of water, cold drinks or beer to help them keep their mouths and throats lubricated. Lee carried a thermos of hot water but said she didn’t feel the need for it. New Orleans, Apr 13 : Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti looked down at the litter of empty oyster shells in front of him and savored the ... more -
Roseanne Barr reconstructs her vagina
Comedienne Rosanne Barr is so sarcastic that it’s hard to tell when she’s being truthful. However it seems that she was telling the truth last night on the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson when she told Craig that she’d had vaginal rejuvenation surgery. Craig asks her what it’s like being out there as a single woman, and she mentions that she had the surgery and she now has a ‘vajunior’ instead of a vagina.
TMI Roseanne...TMI Comedienne Rosanne Barr is so sarcastic that it’s hard to tell when she’s being truthful. However it seems that she was telling the tr... more -
Dell Breaks Your Laptop, Sends Replacement Full Of Pubes
Reader K's call to Dell tech support for his laptop resulted in the tech helping him break a different computer, then sending him a replacement laptop full of human pubic hair. After diagnosing a faulty power adapter with K's laptop, the Dell technician asked him to plug the malfunctioning adapter into his other, out-of-warranty Dell to confirm the problem. K was reluctant, but complied, and fried his old laptop in the process. To their credit, Dell offered a replacement; unfortunately, it had a full bush. Reader K's call to Dell tech support for his laptop resulted in the tech helping him break a different computer, then sending him... more
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Father, daughter have child together
Mrs Deaves said the physical relationship with her father was like "a sexual relationship with any other man".
ummm....I feel a bit sick. Mrs Deaves said the physical relationship with her father was like "a sexual relationship with any other man". ... more -
Chinese man eaten by escaped zoo tiger
A tiger has devoured a mentally ill man who entered the animal's zoo cage in northeast China, local media reported.
Zhang Yachun disappeared from his home in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, on March 24 and five days later police told his parents he had been eaten by a tiger in a nearby zoo, the China news service reported, citing a Harbin newspaper.
"Only two legs and his skull were left," the report said. A tiger has devoured a mentally ill man who entered the animal's zoo cage in northeast China, local media reported. ... more -
Woman sues American Airlines over masturbating passenger
New York, Mar 19 : A woman has filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging the flight crew failed to protect her from a passenger who moved into the seat next to hers while she was sleeping, then “masturbated to her” and—well, you’ve seen “There’s Something About Mary”? Yeah, that. New York, Mar 19 : A woman has filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging the flight crew failed to protect her from... more
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What's fallen off the back of a lorry lately
Mind that alligator! Every day trucks pass us on the motorway and we are completely unaware of what they may be carrying. But when one overturns, we get a peek into what is being carted around right under our noses. Sometimes, it's just a common item that we're not accustomed to seeing spilled on the road. Sometimes, it's a truck full of things we never thought about being hauled around by the truckfull. Mind that alligator! Every day trucks pass us on the motorway and we are completely unaware of what they may be carrying. But when on... more
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