News Of The Weird

[Sandra]

What a touching story.

When his owner died, a heartbroken dog in China refused to leave his side.
The golden, floppy-eared dog disappeared after the death Lao Pan, 68, in the village of Panjiatun in early November.
He was discovered a week later guarding his owner’s grave.
The loyal dog, who was Pan’s only companion, had stood watch for seven days without food or shelter.
Even when a man tried to coax the dog from the grave with a steamed bun, the dog refused to leave, the man told the BBC.
The dog ate the bun before running back to the tomb and staying there, the man said.
Touched by the dog’s loyalty, villagers have taken to bringing the dog food and water. They even have plans to build a kennel at Pan’s graveside so the dog can continue to mourn his beloved owner.
A video of the dog’s story, reported by the BBC, has been viewed more than 400,000 times on YouTube.

 

[wife of]

Ahhh another wee greyfriars Bobby

 

[KP the nut]

Unfortunately for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida's Everglades National Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to bust a gut—literally.
Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead, headless python in October 2005 after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake's gastrointestinal tract.
The gruesome discovery suggests that the python's feisty last meal might have been simply too much for it to handle.

 

[Marie E.]

Eww KP you are so bad! But that stuff is crazy!

 

[KP the nut]

A very English accident - Marmite lorry crashes on the M1


A Marmite lorry has shut the M1 in South Yorkshire today after the vehicle crashed with a caravan caused a major spillage between junctions 32 and 33.
The incident happened last night at around 10:15pm.
The spillage caused a widespread response on Twitter with many thousands of tweets about the incident.

 

[amethist]

I heard about this on the radio KP.

Hubby and I decide that the police should use it to slow down speeding traffic. :roflmao:

 

[KP the nut]

You either love it or hate it. Imagine hating it and having to do the clean up - youck

 

[Sandra]

Last year we had a truck rollover that had a bunch of pigs heading to be slaughtered. 60 of them went onto the VERY busy Toronto area highway.

 

[The Albatross]

Kansas Man Sues Couple He Took As Hostage...

It's an AP Story so I got to just link it here: [DLMURL]http://www.kmbc.com/r/29882156/detail.html[/DLMURL]

Incredible and disturbing... these victims have to go through this after what he did to them?

 

[Sandra]

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This didn't fall about 10 years ago but was found then. They figured the meteorite at that time was worth about $95,000.

 

[Tessa]

A nurse over here lit a fire in 2 rooms of a nursing home causing a massive fire -so far 11 have died. He put himself in front of the TV cameras after the event trying to make himself look like a hero -thats wierd (and scary)!!!

 

[Sandra]

A bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.

Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Utah man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed out of the boat to move decoys.

Potter says the man left his 12-gauge shotgun in the boat and the dog somehow pulled the trigger. It wasn’t clear whether the safety on the gun was on at the time.

Potter says the man was hit from about three metres away with 27 pellets of birdshot. He wasn’t seriously injured, in part because he was wearing waders. The man was treated at a nearby hospital.