Welcome To The Future: Swiss Man To Make First Public Jet Suit Flight In U.S.

A Swiss adventurer is making his first public flights in the United States this summer with his custom-built jet suit.

Yves Rossy (eev RAW'-see), also known as "Jetman," is making appearances at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture in Wisconsin. On Monday he demonstrated his carbon-Kevlar jetwing with four engines.

His first public flight in the U.S. is set for Tuesday.

Rossy says he hopes to inspire people with his flight.

He's able to propel himself through the sky at upward of 190 mph, controlling his jet suit with a throttle in his hand. He can go as high as 12,000 feet.

AirVenture runs through Aug. 4 in Oshkosh. His flights will be part of the air shows during the week.

He'll also fly at the Reno Air Races in September.

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Woman Arrested For Vandalizing Washington Landmark With Green Paint

A woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral, and police were investigating her in connection with two similar incidents on the National Mall, authorities said.

Jiamei Tian, 58, was arrested inside the cathedral shortly after the paint was found and charged with defacing property, police and cathedral officials said. Investigators were hoping to question her about the vandalism on the Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial, but a language barrier was complicating those efforts, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said soon after the arrest.

It was not immediately clear if Tian had an attorney. Police believed she was homeless. No motive was given.

Green paint was found early Friday morning on the Lincoln Memorial, and symbols were found painted in green later Friday on another statue on the Mall. The

Lincoln Memorial was closed temporarily but reopened later Friday.

Officials at the cathedral discovered the paint inside two chapels Monday afternoon. It was still wet, which led them to believe the vandalism had just occurred. Officials called police immediately and closed the cathedral to visitors while authorities searched the grounds. The paint was splashed onto an organ and on the floor inside the cathedral's historic Bethlehem Chapel on the basement level, officials said. It was also found inside Children's Chapel in the nave of the cathedral.

Also Monday, U.S. Park Police said green paint was found on the statue of Joseph Henry outside the headquarters of the Smithsonian Institution on the Mall. Henry was the Smithsonian's first secretary.

Meanwhile, crews continued working Monday to remove the paint from the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service said progressively stronger substances would be used until all the paint is gone, which could take several days. The memorial was scheduled to be power washed Tuesday.

Sgt. Paul Brooks, a U.S. Park Police spokesman, said it was too early to tell whether the same person was responsible for the vandalism at the two Mall landmarks. He noted that while the paint appeared to be splattered indiscriminately on the memorial, the statue appeared to have been deliberately painted. The symbols on the statue were not immediately decipherable.

Cleanup and restoration work at the cathedral was expected to cost $15,000, cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg said. Crews were there late Monday, and events at the cathedral were going on as scheduled. Some of the paint was splattered onto the decorative wall behind the altar in the Children's Chapel, which has ornate wood carvings that required some restoration, Weinberg said.

Bethlehem Chapel was opened in 1912 and is the oldest section of the cathedral. It was the site of President Woodrow Wilson's burial rites, and his remains were entombed there for more than three decades. Wilson's remains were later interred in a memorial bay on the cathedral's main level.

Washington National Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral that serves as the nation's spiritual home. It has hosted inaugural prayer services and the state funerals for presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.

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See Military Kindergarten School Where They Toughens Up Preschoolers With Marine Drills

At the Albert Kindergarten, in Taichung, Taiwan, children aged three to six don camouflage outfits and take part in a mandatory exercise program modeled after marine drills. Their parents hope the rough training will prepare them for the hardships of life, but there are those who criticize the preschool for pushing the kids too hard and exposing them to injury.

For one to two hours a day, the children enrolled at Taichung’s Albert Kindergarten perform a series a series of physical exercises inspired by military drills. Principal Fong Yun believes Taiwanese kids lack confidence and courage compared to youngsters from other countries, so over 10 years ago she teamed up with pediatric professor Chen Yi-

hsin to develop a special program that  combined military drills and gymnastics to boost their physical and mental strength. Yun is convince her training will help the students deal with hardships like tough college admission exams, job hunting and even marriage. Many Taiwanese parents seem to share her beliefs, as all the classes at Albert Kindergarten are full and parents drive from over half an hour ever day just to drop their kids off here. The children climb ladders, do handstands, backflips and all kinds of other exercises that even hardened marines sometimes find difficult. In order to graduate, they must prove they’ve mastered the entire routine by passing a challenging test.

Most of the kids who go at Taichung’s military kindergarten love practicing the drills and proudly show off their trophies – bruises, calluses, etc. – but some educational organizations have expressed their concern about the effect these tough methods may have on them. They fear the excessive training could affect their development or cause serious injuries. However, Fong Yun says the exercises actually help both physical and mental development and since the drills are conducted by professional instructors, the risk of injury is minimal.

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US Doctors Create Head For OkikiJesu Olawuyi, Child Born Without A Skull

With much expectation, the world is waiting to see OkikiJesu Olawuyi grab a fitting place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Many across the world want to see this happen. And what that means is that a Nigerian child is well on her way to making history once she scales the mountain of surgeries standing in her path of life.

OkikiJesu Olawuyi was born without a skull but not without a will to live. Bones from her hands are being
obtained to construct a skull bone to help her live. Amazingly, she is winning this battle for her life at John Hopkins University in far away

United States of America. There, the best hands the world can assemble are with her every passing hour fighting a medical war to give life to a miracle child who has announced to the entire human community that she has something different to offer. First grade surgeons – irrespective of colour, race and tongue are tasking their expertise to see that this wonder of the 21st century lives to tell her story and reports say that they are doing a great job to save her.

OkikiJesu is getting moral and material support from across the world to help her live. An avalanche of support is coming her way. Her parents are carrying the burden of pain and anguish with stoic patience. They are fighting to remedy a medical case they cannot tell how it all started. The child needs a lot more financial assistance to pull through, her father, Mr. Caleb Olawuyi, says. He disclosed that she needed an additional $500,000 to undergo the final operation that would enable her live a normal life. Experts say that is possible and they can achieve that. While appealing for generous support from government, corporate organizations and private individuals to help the baby live, Mr. Olawuyi, has equally urged government to set up funds to assist babies afflicted with critical ailments. Speaking straight from the heart, he noted that one needed to be close to a child in pains to know how it feels.

Since news of the child’s medical condition was disclosed, the world has been aghast. She was born on May 11, 2010 with a rare birth deformity which means over 50 per cent of her skull doesn’t exist. The world has not seen anything of this stuff. In recorded history, Sunday Sun gathered that this medical condition has never been reported anywhere. The child’s condition is one that appears to have turned medicine on its head, having thrown up tremendous professional challenge to the human race. Now, the very best the world has known are fighting a crunchy battle to overcome this, leaving many – particularly those with hearts of stone- wondering if there is nothing they can offer to help.

Now from the home sector, help is coming for three-year-old Okiki and her parents. Since the condition of the baby became public knowledge, a non profit organization had stepped in to assist. Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC) has been doing all it can to give life to the child whose medical condition is not traceable to her parents. With the assistance of the organization’s Coordinator and Project Manager, Mr. Nuhu Kwajafa, the child and her parents were on May 4, 2013, flown to the United States.  There, she is currently undergoing skull reconstruction surgery at the John Hopkins University Medical Centre.

Now, the child’s and her father’s cry for help comes ringing through the airways asking Nigerians to help her live. Here is a child the world is interested in. The non-profit organization is doing its best at that level to help her survive. Sunday Sun gathered that while the world was a short while away from screaming uhuru at the wonderful breakthrough, an unforeseen complication arose after over 14 hours of surgery. This followed inconsistencies in her medical history. Besides, her case marked a maiden attempt in paediatric neurosurgery. This, therefore, led to a further accumulation of medical bills totaling over US$500,000. This bill is spiraling every passing day OkikiJesu and her parents spend at the Johns Hopkins facility.

Specialists in the USA have identified the rare birth deformity which OkikiJesu is suffering, as Congenital Cranial Deficiency. Before now, she had been to several hospitals but not cured, but luck flashed on her pathway when GIPLC, which is based in Abuja took up her case. Sunday Sun learnt that since then, the organization has recorded significant success in efforts to get medical care for her. Within just a week, it raised about $234,000, an equivalent of N37 million through kind gestures from individuals and groups for her treatment at John Hopkins Hospital.

Kwajafa , just back from the United States, told Sunday Sun that “prior to the complications which arose, what made a determination of the full cost of Okiki’s surgery difficult is that in modern times, it is an extremely rare (perhaps singular) medical condition with no precedence to draw estimates from.

“This latter fact also means that it is equally difficult to tell what other medical complications may arise. An example are fluids that were retained in her cranial cavity which have posed an unforeseen challenge and may have led to a fatal infection.”

Kwajafa’s worry is that, “OkikiJesu may not be released from hospital until all outstanding bills have been paid. We and her parents are desirous of her condition being fully remedied before she leaves the hospital.” Against this backdrop, he said “We would like to appeal to the global public to support our cause in ensuring that OkikiJesu Olawuyi lives.”

Medical analysts believe she will be a living testimony if she recovers. According to GIPLC, her case remains the only one of its kind in the world.

When OkikiJesu’s father, Mr. Olawuyi spoke to Sunday Sun on telephone from John Hopkins Hospital, he expressed optimism that the girl was doing well and had remained in stable condition. He said “We thank God that she is responding positively to every operation performed on her. The doctors attending to her are also pleased with her present condition. They said she is a miracle child,because she is so far the only child in the world with this kind of health condition.

“They told us that there is no case of her type in medical history at their disposal the world over. There are three renowned doctors attending to OkikiJesu and the experience is so great.

“They keep assuring us that everything will be fine soon. We are also hoping positively and asking God to deliver our child.”

In a voice laden with emotion, he appealed to Nigerians to assist the child to live through their generous donations, pointing out that with money available, the baby was sure to survive.

“But our greatest challenge here is the cost of her treatment in the hospital. It’s indeed a very tough experience for us as parents.

The medical bill keeps increasing daily and has since been piling up. The treatment has over-shot the initial bill that was given to us before we came, because her condition exceeded their estimation.

The major issue is the hospital bill and not really our up-keep, that is, myself, my wife and our 15-month old baby, (Okiki’s younger sister). She is currently at the intensive care unit (ICU). This costs between $6,000 and $10,000 daily. Sometimes, two nurses are stationed to take care of her daily and it costs a lot of money.

“The good thing is that they are not taking any chance. They are all over her all the time. They are monitoring her regularly especially as she is an international patient. The bill is growing higher,” he lamented.

Okiki’s father further stated that for “every parent of a child with this critical health challenge, one only manages to sleep and to wake up hoping that the next day would be different. We have gone through this trauma all this while. Though, we have faith in God but every passing day, we are afraid for her life. Here in the hospital, as critical as her condition is , we are living and sharing her pains more so that the bills pile up every moment.

“ We appeal to Nigerians not to give up on Okiki. With their support, God will not disappoint us because she keeps improving daily. All the operations have been very critical. They took bones from her hand and leg to construct her skull. And she is doing fine.

“We appreciate efforts by all Nigerians including individuals, groups and corporate organizations. Everybody has been very supportive. We thank the Nigerian government, the National Assembly, and particularly the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal and other kind-hearted people and members of our family for their support.

“On behalf of our daughter Okiki, and other children and parents in this condition, we urge government to institute a Special Trust Fund to take care of such rare and critical cases in the country. This fund should be adequately funded to cater for such critical needs.

“For us, Okiki’s parents, we are in this condition but hope that one day God will deliver us.

“In this situation, we repeat our appeal for quick intervention from the government and other Nigerians. Our wish here is that others should be spared this experience. We plead further with government to establish a fund to cater for such children in this condition.”

•Your donations go directly to Okiki’s account with John Hopkins Medical International.
For more info call GIPLC on 08089693240, 08163183797, 08085101664

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47-Year-Old Grandmother Wants Cosmetic Surgery to Make Her Look OLDER

Grandmother Anne Bolton says she is tired of being mistaken for a woman half her age. The 47-year-old mother of four says being constantly mistaken for a 20-year-old is ruining her life. She is even considering plastic surgery to look closer to her age.

The market stall worker in Bristol, England told UK’s Daily Mail she believes her jealous friends abandoned her because she makes

them feel older. Her eldest son Arthur, who recently became a father, no longer shops with his mother because other shoppers mistake her for his girlfriend.

Bolton says she is forced to socialize with women in their twenties so she looks the same age as them.

She says her youthful looks ruined her relationship with her last boyfriend, a man 2 years older than her. Bolton said he left her because people often stared at them. “At first he loved it and complimented me on my appearance. He said he was proud to be with me,” said Bolton.

“But soon the looks from younger guys triggered arguments. But what could I do about it?”

“When he was 42 I still looked 22,” she said. “People didn’t believe I had four children. He hated people asking if he was my dad or brother. I could see the way things were going again.”

The couple had two sons — Joshua, now 13, and seven-year-old Jacob. Bolton said she is so desperate to look her age that she considered drastic measures such as surgery.

“I would have changed it if I could, only there is no operation to make you look older.”

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Woman Is Offering $10,000 to Whoever Finds Her Future Husband

Finding true love can be pretty tough for a lot of people, but a female management supervisor from a fairly well-known San Francisco advertising agency seems to think money helps. According to a leaked email, she is offering $10,000 to any of her friends who can introduce her to Mr. Right.

The unnamed husband seeker who sent out the email obtained by Agency Spy had just finished reading the best-selling feminist book “Lean In” by Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg. It was 11 PM on a Sunday night and she realized this was the second self-help book she had read in month, she was still single and she had just sprinkled dish soap on leftover

pizza so she wouldn’t eat two more slices.

 Things were not looking well, but there was hope for her still. If Sandberg’s book had taught her anything it was that she needed take a more proactive role in finding love. After all, if she wanted to get a better job, she wouldn’t just sit in the lobby of an employer’s building and wait for someone to offer it to her, so why should finding a husband be any different. But instead of going out and meeting new people she decided to write an email to all her friends, offering to give them $10,000 on her wedding day if any of them manage to introduce her to her future husband.

“I’m writing you today because I’ve decided to make an aggressive action plan on finding that one fella that I get to hang out with forever,” the woman writes in her email. “And I’ve recognized two things that are important to this plan: (1) a great percentage of marriages are the result of introductions by friends and (2) most people do not give a lot of thought about introducing one of their single friends to another one of their single friends. I get it. Introducing me to my husband is just not high on your to-do list. But I think I have an idea that might change that…” You guessed it, this is where she offers to reward her “closest friends” with cold hard cash.

“I will personally give ten thousand dollars to the friend who introduces me to my husband.

Here is how the referral program works:
Step 1: You set me up on a date with a man
Step 2: I marry that man
Step 3: I give you $10,000 on my wedding day

I know you’re thinking that this is nuts. Just plain crazy. “[Redacted], you can find a husband without dishing out $10,000.” Well for starters, thank you – I’m flattered. And secondly, I totally agree. But the reality is finding a husband always costs money. I just collected 1,000 insider points from Sephora and this isn’t because I buy beauty products to impress my 4-year old nephew.”

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Freedom Of Speech: Being Rude To French President No Longer An Offense

Being rude to the French president is no longer an offence after parliament agreed on Thursday to amend legislation dating back to 1881 in favor of freedom of speech.

Whereas before any rude remark risked an automatic fine for "offending the head of state," the president is now reduced to the same category as ministers and parliamentarians and would need to have a judge prove there had been slander or defamation.

The change came after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in March that France violated a demonstrator's right to freedom of expression when

it fined him for holding a banner up to former President Nicolas Sarkozy reading: "Get lost, jerk."

That slogan has been infamous in France since Sarkozy used the same words in 2008 to insult a man in a crowd who refused to shake his hand, and the court judged that left-wing activist Herve Eon was being satirical with his protest banner.

It said his conviction and 30-euro ($40) fine were out of proportion to his protest and that his right to freedom of expression had been violated.

Anyone found by a judge to have slandered the president still runs the risk of a fine of up to 45,000 euros.

President Francois Hollande has so far shown a thick skin, however, as critics have given him a string of unkind nicknames like "Flanby", a brand of wobbly caramel pudding or "Mr. Little Jokes".

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Who Wants To Win A Baby? Bizarre TV Game show Gives Away Orphans

A TV gameshow has tried to win the world’s most extreme ratings war ... by giving away BABIES.

Amaan Ramazan, dubbed Pakistan’s answer to The Price is Right, usually awards washing machines or laptops.

But when viewing peaks during the holy month of Ramadan it has twice offered newborns to winners.

The stunts have been roundly condemned ... but they may have actually helped save the children who had been abandoned at birth.

Last week the prime time show’s host Aamir Liaquat

Hussain showed off a baby girl to the cameras.

He then told the studio audience: “This girl was thrown on pile of garbage by somebody. See how beautiful and innocent she is.”

The ‘jackpot prize’ was then handed over to Riaz-ud-din and his wife, who had strugged to conceive.

A shell-shocked Riaz-ud-din gasped: “These 14 years were full of hardships, people asked to go for second marriage but I remained patient and also asked my wife to be patient.”

His wife added the girl was a ‘Gift of Ramadan’.

The babies used were presented by the Chhipa Welfare Association, a charity which rescues abandoned babies.

Its organiser Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa explained: “We have lots of babies that are just abandoned, left in the garbage or other dirty places. Often we just find the bodies so our message is to tell people to bring their babies to us, don’t leave them.”

He said the show’s lucky couples had previously approached his organisation to adopt children, although he did not discuss how they were vetted.

Hundreds of babies are abandoned every month in Pakistan, where birth outside marriage is condemned and adultery can be punishable by death.

And girls are most at risk of being abandoned, as many Pakistanis see them as a financial risk because most are banned from work and families can be expected to raise more than £6,450 for their husband’s family.

The TV channel behind the giveaway, Geo News, has been blasted for allowing the human prize.

Bina Shah, a writer in Karachi where the show is based, said the stunts were driven by advertising and viewing figures.

“It speaks to the commercialisation of everything ... including religion,” she said. “Giving away a baby on television is the worst violation of media ethics I can think of.”

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Poll: Majority Of Brits Would Be Happy If Royal Baby Turned Out Gay

The majority of British residents would be comfortable if Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's firstborn child grew up to be gay, according to a new survey.

The International Business Times cites a poll conducted by lesbian, gay and bisexual advocacy group Stonewall which found that 83 percent of the British public would be "very comfortable, comfortable or neutral" if the as-yet-unnamed child were to identify as gay or bisexual.

Stonewall's Chief Executive Ben Summerskill was quick to point out that the poll's release comes on the heels of Britain's same-sex marriage victory last week.

"Millions of people will be celebrating today's news, just as millions last week celebrated the news of equal marriage in England and Wales," he is quoted by both the Times and Gay Star News as saying. "Happily, since last week every child born in Britain is born into a society where gay people are now equal in law."

Premature speculation over the royal baby's sexuality has also been a hot topic on Twitter. "I'm so excited for the new royal baby to come out as gay so we can look forward to having 2 kings," wrote one user.

Another joked, "The royal baby better be gay so he can fully appreciate sharing a birthday with Selena Gomez."

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Expert Opinion: 4 Signs You May Have Had A Past Life

If you've ever wondered why you have a fear of heights or look into the eyes of a stranger and feel as if you know them, the answers may be found in your past lives, says Brian Weiss, MD, the author of Miracles Happen.

1. That Old, Familiar Feeling
Through past-life regression, Dr. Brian Weiss says it's possible to heal -- and grow -- your mind,

body and soul, as well as strengthen your present-day relationships. He says one of the most common signs of a past life is déjà vu -- the sensation that you have met a person before or have visited someplace previously. Sometimes, this déjà vu feeling is a sign of a past life with a particular person or in a specific place.

For example, a patient of mine began having anxiety attacks while on her honeymoon in Greece. When she and her husband left for Rome, the anxiety attacks completely disappeared. When she saw me as a patient, we did a past life regression and found that she had been killed in ancient Greece. Her anxiety attacks stemmed from that lifetime even though she did not know why at the time.

2. Your Dreams Are So Real It's Like You're Actually There
Do you have vivid, detailed dreams of yourself in different times and places? That might be a past life memory emerging. As I've written in my book, past-life recollections aren’t always actual memories: they may also contain symbols and metaphors that need to be interpreted so that their meaning and message can become clear. These symbols are no less powerful than literal ones. Think of these past-life scenes more as a poem than a history text.

3. You Got An A In History (Without Even Trying)
Talents and abilities, likes and dislikes, and attractions and aversions can also be clues to past lives. You might feel yourself being drawn to certain people or to certain cultures, even if you've never visited them. You might find you are able to learn certain subjects or prepare for a profession more easily than others. For example, a particular foreign language might come quicker to you, while others are more difficult. Or you may have an intense interest in certain historical times and events, such as ancient Egypt or the Civil War period.

4. You Have a Soul Mate
It is very common to travel through different lives with the same group of souls -- I call these groupings, soul mates or soul companions, or soul families. We seem to learn our spiritual lessons and accumulate or resolve our karma with our soul groups. Relationships may change from life to life, but the souls are the same. For example, your grandmother might reincarnate as your grandson. In this sense we never lose our loved ones, because we are always being reunited either on the other side or back here in physical bodies. In Miracles Happen, I describe many cases of soul recognition. In one case, Michelle, whose mother died when Michelle was a small child, was comforted to find that she and her mother were together before in the Middle Ages. They were husband and wife at that time.

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U.K. Based Sex Toy Company Releases New Sexvention - A Vibrating Bike Seat Cover

As if biking wasn’t sexy enough already.

A sex toy company based in the U.K. has released a new sexvention -- the Happy Ride, a vibrating bike seat cover.

The covers, created by SexShop365, position a small vibrator in the middle of the seat, offering the kind of “great pleasurable heights” more stimulating than a

beautiful view or endorphins from a long ride.

The Happy Ride comes equipped with a discreet control to either raise or lower the vibration. It's supposed to be relatively quiet, though the device's advertised light humming could be easily drowned out by some ... light humming.

Turning a bike into a pleasure mobile costs roughly $37.

Even though biking is the second most popular outdoor activity in the United States,according to a study by BikesBelong.org, it's about to get more of a buzz. It remains to be seen whether the Happy Ride will prove to be too big a distraction for bicyclists -- and the drivers and pedestrians watching them -- who are getting their pedal-twerk on.

In an interview with The Daily Mail, Claire Bowden of SexShop365 attributes the growing demand for exercise-related toys to the "Fifty Shades of Grey" phenomenon. Whatever the reasoning, the Happy Ride is bound to close the gap between bicyclists and orgasm enthusiasts everywhere.

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Australian Police Bust Man Driving Car With No Steering Wheel

Police in South Australia arrested a man who was found driving a car with no steering wheel and using a pair of vise grips to steer.

At about 8:25 a.m. Monday, police saw the driver of a white Holden sedan driving dangerously on two flat tires in the North Eastern suburbs, police say. When cops stopped the car, they found that no steering wheel was attached and the driver was using a pair of vise grips to guide and turn the car.

The car was unregistered and uninsured and was the subject of a defect notice not to be driven.

Further investigation revealed the car had been involved in a non-fatal hit and run minutes earlier.

The driver, 38, was found to be driving while disqualified and tested positive for methylamphetamine and cannabis, police said.

He was arrested and faces seven charges, including failing to stop at the scene of a crash and driving while disqualified

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Wierd Anger: Man Attacks Roommate With Machete For Changing Radio Station

If you assault your roommate because he changed the radio station, eventually you'll have to face the music.

Police say Josue Rodriguez, 40, attacked his roommate with a machete because the roommate changed the radio station, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

Rodriguez was allegedly taking a shower in his Lake Worth home when he heard the radio station change. When he confronted his roommate, the man gave him a push. In response, cops say, Rodriguez grabbed a nearby machete and began whacking at his roommate, hitting him in the cheek.

The roommate managed to get away and called 911. In the police cruiser, police say Rodriguez told them "I only had the machete because I was going to sleep in the woods for the night."

No word on what radio station the roommate made the mistake of choosing, but the wrong tunes have definitely driven people over the edge before.

In April, a Colorado woman was accused of assaulting her boyfriend after he played Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" 25 times in a row.

In October, a Florida man allegedly hit his boyfriend in the face with a plate because he listened to too much Alanis Morrissette.

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Subway Employee Puts His Penis On Sandwich Bread; Another Freezes His Urine At Work

A Subway "sandwich artist" admitted today to putting his penis on the store's sandwich bread and posting the photo on Instagram.

The bombshell comes after HuffPost Weird News received several photos posted by two men in Columbus, Ohio, who work for the restaurant chain. Their Twitter and Instagram pages are festooned with photos of their exploits (see below). In several photos, Subway's signature bread is shaped into penises.

One of the men, Cameron Boggs, admitted on Instagram that "today at work I froze my pee" in a water bottle.

Boggs posted -- and later deleted -- the most incriminating photo, which depicts a man rubbing his genitalia on foot-long bread. It was posted on Instagram by username "weedpriest" with a caption that reads, "My name is @ianjett and I will be your sandwich artist today."

In an exclusive interview with HuffPost Weird News, Ian Jett copped to defiling the footlong, but denied doing the dirty deed at work.

"I would never do that at work -- it was at home," he said. "This isn't something I'd ever do at Subway. It was totally a joke."

Boggs' other photo shows a water bottle full of a yellow substance that he describes as urine. Though you can't tell from the photo whether the frozen urine is inside a Subway restaurant, Boggs says it was.

Store employees confirmed that Boggs and Jett currently work at the Subway location at Tuttle Crossing Boulevard in Columbus. The chain's corporate office didn't return calls for comment by press time.

UPDATE: Boggs and Jett were fired on Monday, and a representative from Subway public relations released this statement:

This isolated incident is not representative of SUBWAY Sandwich Artists™. These actions are not tolerated and the franchisee took immediate action to terminate the two employees involved.

The anonymous tipster who sent in the photos was horrified by the pair's handiwork.

"I saw the frozen piss picture and thought, 'What is this guy doing?'" the tipster said. "Then came the penis picture. They're stupid enough for doing this in the first place, but then to post it to the world? It was a dumb move.

"I didn't send these to be vindictive," he added, "But something needs to be done. It's disgusting."

He said he turned in the photos after reading about another case of tainted food on HuffPost Weird News last week. Giusepp Scire, owner of Jersey Joe's Pizzeria in San Diego, denied on Thursday that he masturbated in the eatery's kitchen, an act that was reportedly caught on security footage by users on 4Chan.

A picture posted last week clearly shows a man with white hair, handling his pepperoni in what appears to be a pizza kitchen, but Scire said he was the victim of disgruntled ex-employees' pranks.

In June, a Taco Bell employee became instantly infamous and was fired after he posted a picture of himself licking a stack of taco shells -- at work -- online. Taco Bell apologized and noted that the employee didn't intend to harm anyone by appearing to salivate all over the shells.

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Stole Human Ashes Thinking They Were Cocaine: Police

If cocaine is a hell of a drug, human ashes are one hell of a mistake.

William "Billy" Cantrell, 28, was arrested this week for allegedly stealing a box of human ashes from a neighbor in Tennessee. Family members believe Cantrell thought the ashes were cocaine.

"William thought it was drugs, he thought he'd done found him a box of cocaine is what he thought," Cantrell's grandmother, Wanda Allen, told News

Channel 5.

Cantrell was held on an aggravated burglary charge.

According to a police affidavit, Cantrell took an Xbox from his neighbor, Steven Medley, along with a small box, and fled to his grandmother's home in Nashville. The grandmother believes he wasn't sober during the incident. The ashes were that of Medley's mother.

"They just made it sounds like he's a bad, terrible person broke in this house and stole this woman's ashes. I'm not saying he's not guilty but he didn't know what he was stealing," his mother Kathy told News Channel 5.

The good news is Cantrell's grandmother believes he did not appear to have snorted the ashes.

"On the top of it, it had a white piece of paper taped over it with date of birth, date of death, name and the funeral home," she said.

Not all human ash theft stories have such a happy ending.

In 2010, three Florida men stolehuman and dog remains, similarly thinking the urns contained crushed-up drugs, so they tasted and snorted the contents.

After pleading guilty to the theft, one of the convicted men apologized to the court.

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Shocking Images: Passenger In Car Crash Pictured With Head Trapped In Windscreen In Miracle Escape

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. The woman - who wasn't wearing a seatbelt - was propelled forwards in the crash.

A passenger miraculously survived a horrific car crash despite her head smashing through the windscreen.

The car crashed into the back of a lorry and the woman - who wasn't wearing a seatbelt - was propelled forwards.

Her head broke through the glass and she became trapped in the accident in Guizhou in southern China.

Firefighters first removed the unconscious male driver before carefully enlarging the hole around the woman's neck so she could be pulled free.

Amazingly, according to doctors, both the passenger and driver are out of danger and recovering in hospital.

Lesson: Always use your seat belt!

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Mother Seeks Hooker Online to Take Son's Virginity

In the God-I-Hope-That's-Not-Real department is this nugget from Gawker.com, detailing a Philadelphia mother's ad on Craigslist's "casual encounters" section seeking a young woman who will, for a fee, claim her "socially awkward" son's virginity and turn him into a "cool college kid" prior to his entering Harvard this fall.

In an act of unimaginable maternal grossness, the woman posted that her son:

"... has never had a girlfriend and I'm sure he's a virgin. I want to find a cute young girl to date him and turn him from high school nerd to cool college kid. He's very handsome and extremely fit, he's on the varsity cross country team so I'd say there's almost zero body fat on him. You need to be 19 or under as 20+ would probably freak him out."

Twenty-plus might freak a nerd out, but not nearly as much as finding out that his mother hired a hooker online to help him stop being such a dork. Thank goodness for technology. In the old days a helicopter monster had to stand in line at the food court and ask passing hussies, "Excuse me, you look like a prostitute. Could I pay you to deflower my son?"

But that was then, this is now. Thanks to Craigslist we get:

"Here's my plan. I'll buy [four] tickets to some great concert coming up and give two to my son and [two] to you. He will know nothing about the other [two] tickets. He'll go to the show with one of his buddies... and you and your friend will be in the seats next to them."

It's a good thing they'll be sitting next to one another, otherwise she'd have had to describe her son as "the shy kid with the stiff gait, spotty complexion and hairy palms."

It goes on:

"Now you spring into action... you start talking to him during the concert and eventually pick him up. Ask him to take you somewhere after and ditch your friends. Then you seduce him and take his virginity. Keep dating him (and showing him different sex positions) til he goes to college and then let him go gently so he'll have the confidence to date other girls once he's there."

How many ways can this go wrong?

There are horror movies with less disturbing premises. This woman must actually want her kid to stuff her and stick her in a rocking chair in the attic.

I feel compelled to reach out to the motherly poster of this particular travesty of whoredom. Madam -- geek or no geek, no kid wants his mom mixed up in his chick chasing. You might not know this, but a boy's mother is what he thinks of when he's trying not to get laid. I'm 47 and if I heard that my mother spoke to my wife about sexual positions, I'd tie a "Born Loser" bandana round my head, strip down to my skivvies, shinny up a flag pole and scream like a banshee down at the Presbyterian church.

Seriously. Men are living in padded cells over less onerous instances of mothering. If you think your son needs to get some before going to college -- well first of all, stop thinking about your boy's sex life, right now! -- but beyond that, do what fathers do: loan him the car, give him a C-note and directions to the border. I'm sure that works better in San Diego than in Philadelphia. Tijuana is one thing; East Lansdowne is something else entirely.

Still, whatever you do, get a bit more subtle, please. The world's a mess of a place and we're all messed up in it. The very last thing we need is another man whose sexual achievements depend entirely on his mother's influence. We already have Prince Charles and Jack Osbourne. Well, actually, England has those and look at that place! The English take to sex like a duck takes to golf. There's Daniel Craig and Clive Owen, all right, fine, but show me a confident, butch Englishman and I'll show you two dozen squirmy, stammering Hugh Grants whose mothers were way too involved in their sex lives.

For sanity's sake, for decency's sake, for America's sake -- leave your virgin nerd boy alone!

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Mute Girl Can Finally Talk After Eating CREAM CHEESE Every Week

A child with a condition that left her mute has made an inspreadable breakthrough and spoken her first words – thanks to cream cheese.

Fields Taylor, three, suffers from GLUT1 deficiency, an incurable genetic disorder which affects her ability to speak.

But after eating a kilo of Philadelphia every week for three months, she said her first word: “Mum.”

GLUT1 deficiency is a rare condition which affects just 26 people in the UK.

It leaves the brain starved of energy because the

body cannot transport enough glucose.

After taking more than a year to diagnose Fields, medical experts put her on a high-fat ketogenic diet, which forces the brain to use this as its energy source rather than glucose.

Her delighted mum Stevie, 34, from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, said: “The first time I heard Fields say ‘Mum’ was just wonderful.

“I didn’t really believe that something so simple as changing her diet could make such a big difference.

“But within weeks you could see it working – she was more alert and her personality seemed to come out a bit more.

“Then, one morning I was in the kitchen and I heard this little voice. I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

"There have been times when I’ve thought I would never hear her speak.

“It’s fabulous to know that she does have a voice inside her and we can communicate.

"Now she’s started shouting for the dog and saying bigger words – she said ‘dinosaur’ the other day. I nearly cried.”

Stevie and husband David first noticed something was wrong with their daughter when she was 15 weeks old.

Stevie said: “I had a normal pregnancy and normal birth but when Fields got to 15 weeks, she started getting a twitch in her wrist.

“I took her to see the GP when all of a sudden she had a seizure in the waiting room. I was petrified.

"She went really vacant, like she was going into another world.”

Fields was diagnosed with epilepsy but it was another 12 months before medics realised she was suffering from GLUT1 disorder.

Her ketogenic diet is high in fat and very low in carbohydrates. Fields must also drink 50ml of a special oil four times a day to boost her fat intake.

Stevie added: “Sweets, cakes and fizzy drinks are out, but anything high in fat is great for her.

“The amount of Philadelphia she goes through is mad but worth it. It really has been our saving grace. She loves the stuff and piles it on crackers.

“It doesn’t affect her weight either as she uses up every bit of fat she eats – she doesn’t store any of it.”

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