WD-40 coke war backed

By SUN ONLINE REPORTER

POLICE are backing pub and club owners who put WD-40 on toilet seats to deter cocaine snorters.

Carl Brown began spraying the solvent around the lavatories of his Swindon bar after finding that it causes nose bleeds when mixed with cocaine.

His inventive use for WD-40, more commonly employed to loosen screws, stops addicts from sniffing the drug off flat surfaces and so keeps them out of his nightspot.

Now Avon and Somerset Police officers are encouraging other pub and club managers to follow Mr Brown’s lead – claiming that WD-40 also makes cocaine unusable.

From blueyoohoo

2 arrested in MLK Day melee

Rotten mackerel set off explosion

More than a thousand of these exploded in a warehouse in Fredrikstad. PHOTO: Breian, Åshild

Canned mackerel filets in tomato sauce are a dietary staple for many Norwegians. While part of the national heritage, the product is fondly nicknamed "plane crash" because of the silvery fish's appearance in the red sauce when opened.

Food producer Stabburet uses a heating technique in the canning process to help preserve the fish, but somehow, the 1,650 cans that blew up missed out.

That meant the fish started rotting in the cans, which in turn set off gases that caused the cans to swell until they eventually burst.

"It was a highly unfortunate accident," Robert Rønning of Stabburet told VG.

Extra crews had to be called in to help clean up.

 

Many terrorists come to America legally and hang around on expired visas (some for as long as 10-15 years). At Blockbuster you're two days late with a video rental and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of US immigration. -Kindred_Spirit

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From ahhyee

Student Editorials Yanked by Principal

Gymnastics stunt on balcony gone wrong leaves Cape woman dead

By THE NEWS-PRESS
Published by news-press.com on January 17, 2005

A Cape Coral woman attempting to do a gymnastic stunt on the railing of a second-floor hotel balcony died after she slipped and fell to the ground early Sunday morning.

Lee County sheriff's deputies do not expect foul play in the death of Molly Jerman, 23, of 1040 SW 20th Ave., who investigators said got a room at the Best Western in North Fort Myers with her friend Saturday night.

After Todd Evans and Jerman went into the room, she headed for the lanai, where she yelled out, 'Watch to see what I can still do,' according to police reports. That's when Jerman attempted a hand stand on the balcony railing, Evans said.

She then slipped off the railing and fell into the patio below. Jerman was pronounced dead at the hospital.

I-80 crash claims UNL student's life

BY BUTCH MABIN / Lincoln Journal Star

Derek Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle. Derek, who was thrown from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt.

In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.

"It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take," he wrote. "There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group."

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.  Whoever reflects on these matters can only be surprised by how little attention has been paid, in our tradition of philosophical and political thought, to their significance, on the one hand for the nature of action and, on the other, for the nature of our ability to deny in thought and word whatever happens to be the case.

Hannah Arendt
    --Lying in Politics