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| | From:  Opar5 (Original Message) | Sent: 12/17/2007 7:58 PM |
| A Chinese woman has opened a hotel that looks like a mausoleum, to give guests a foretaste of being dead. The hotel, in Jiangsu province, is located in a field full of ancient graves, and the beds in each room are shaped like coffins. Staying at the Mausoleum Inn, owner Jiao Meige brags, is uncannily like being dead. "There are no services at night," she says, "and the guests can go nowhere, since outside is just a vast graveyard." - From "The Week" magazine, December 21, 2007 edition, page 12. |
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the chinese have always been a bit weird............ |
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An interesting sense of fun though...
They were putting philosophy down in written form while the white breed was still figuring out how to eat with utensils... There has to be something respecable bred into a people of such early advancement, no?
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 12/20/2007 6:34 PM |
| "Marilyn Manson used his band's earnings on "sick and disturbing purchases" for his personal collection, according to a lawsuit filed by his former keyboardist. Among the items Manson bought, said Stephen Bier in a court filing last week, were Nazi memorabilia; African masks made of human skin; a skeleton of a man in a wheelchair; and another skeleton, of a 4-year-old Chinese girl, that he turned into a chandelier." "The Week" magazine, Dec. 7, 2007 edition. |
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 1/14/2008 7:48 PM |
Inspired by the rape and murder of a pregnant goat named Meg, Florida lawmakers are poised to make bestiality a first-class felony. State Senator Nan Rich says that she was shocked to learn that if Meg hadn’t died during the assault, the man who attacked her would have been charged only with animal cruelty. The new bill calls for a maximum penalty of 30 years in jail for anyone committing, or facilitating sexual contact with animals. "The fact that this happens is unconscionable, said Rich, "and it should be illegal." Page 6, The Week magazine, January 18, 2008 edition
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 2/10/2008 1:53 AM |
Well, He Was Wearing a Garter and Boots
From Associated Press - February 08, 2008
PORTLAND, Maine - The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man with a mustache who is pulling in front of female drivers and then jumping out of his vehicle while wearing women's underwear, a garter belt and black high-heel boots.
Since last spring, there have been six reports about the cross-dressing motorist. The most recent incident was last Sunday. The episodes have occurred in the Standish-Buxton area.
Sheriff Mark Dion said that while the man's behavior may not be criminal in terms of dress, the fact that he's jumping out in roadways and apparently targeting women who are alone is cause for concern.
The sheriff said women have had to swerve to avoid the man.
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Opar5,
Have the "Vampires" running around the big cities heard of this? Seems they could be a major source of income for this Chinese woman. |
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 2/20/2008 3:21 PM |
| Good thought Ken, but getting there before sunrise would present a very serious problem for those not feeding off the local Chinese. |
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 5/26/2008 9:59 PM |
From The Week magazine, May 30, 2008 edition
Penza, Russia
Cult holdouts are out of their hole: The last nine members of a doomsday cult that had been hiding in a cave awaiting the end of the world emerged this week after six months. Back in November, 35 men and women retreated into the hideout and threatened to blow themselves up if authorities attempted to remove them. Most abandoned their vigil in March and April, but the last holdouts didn't give up until two of them died. "We could smell the stench through the ventilation holes," said a local official. "As we pulled out the dead bodies, we suggested the others leave. They agreed." The leader of the cult, known as Father Pyotr, was hospitalized last month after beating himself over the head with a wooden stick in an apparent suicide attempt.
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| | | From: Opar5 | Sent: 6/9/2008 10:18 PM |
"A financial consultant and a financial analyst decided to hold a business meeting at Starbucks. No problem. Except they were in Saudi Arabia. And the consultant was a woman. Saudi vice police arrested the woman, took her to jail, strip-searched her, and forced her to confess to being alone with a man." July 2008, Reason magazine
Let’s not forget the Brits:
"Government health and safety regulations recently compelled the Carnon Downs theater group in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to register a gun with the police. It was a toy gun that produces a flag saying "Bang." The same rules forced the theater group to register several plastic and wooden swords and keep them locked up when they aren’t being used." July 2008, Reason magazine
And some of you folks thought the gun-control crowd weren’t nuts (see: Raging Against Self-Defense: A Psychiatrist Examines the Anti-gun Mentality, by Sarah Thompson).
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