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I do not see anything in that link blaming the wife: "Detectives in Cabo Frio are now trying to establish who fired the gun"
How this happens though:
Mateus Facio, 21, thought he had been hit in the head by someone throwing a stone while he was partying on New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro and didn't think anything of it after the bleeding stopped quickly.
Facio spent the following four days partying with friends and swimming in the ocean - totally ignorant of the fact he had been shot.
He finally sought medical help because his right arm was spasming. After running a CT scan, medics were horrified to find a bullet lodged in Facio's brain.
There are more questions that answers there.
The prominence of the pic is possibly due to a similar (but much older) story. I found this ABC source for the latter (or is it the former? ^^ )
Florida man shot in head, complains of headache
A Florida man woke up with a severe headache and asked his wife to drive him to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged behind his right ear.
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some horror story or whatever from WW 2 . German U-boat attacked on the surface by Allied planes , emergency dive , the usual . A week passes or at least some time and one of the crew sees the officer responsible for medical stuff on the submarine , says he has a terrible headache . It is discovered a machine gun bullet was stuck in the guy's head . The officer asks the sailor whether he had any ideas about that . And the guy say his comb lost a lot of broken pieces whenever he combed his hair . Had not believed it at the time ; seems it is weirdly common .
Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
A man has been caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority.
The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Upon inspection, customs officers discovered that the pockets of the trousers the passenger was wearing were packed with six canvas drawstring bags and sealed with tape,” the statement said.
“Once opened, each bag was found to contain living snakes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours,” it added.
The statement said officers seized 104 of the reptiles, including milk snakes and corn snakes, many of which were non-native species.
A man has been caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority.
The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Upon inspection, customs officers discovered that the pockets of the trousers the passenger was wearing were packed with six canvas drawstring bags and sealed with tape,” the statement said.
“Once opened, each bag was found to contain living snakes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours,” it added.
The statement said officers seized 104 of the reptiles, including milk snakes and corn snakes, many of which were non-native species.
Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
A man has been caught trying to smuggle more than 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country’s customs authority.
The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Upon inspection, customs officers discovered that the pockets of the trousers the passenger was wearing were packed with six canvas drawstring bags and sealed with tape,” the statement said.
“Once opened, each bag was found to contain living snakes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours,” it added.
The statement said officers seized 104 of the reptiles, including milk snakes and corn snakes, many of which were non-native species.
Your overconfidence will be your undoing Snake-Man!
Two wandering cows touched off a culture war in New York.
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That really escalated.
Is it right to rescue animals from cruel farmers?
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Is it right to rescue animals from cruel farmers?
Burryman Andrew Taylor parades through South Queensferry, Scotland encased in burrs. The annual burryman event, in which a local man is dressed head-to-toe in burdock heads, ferns and flowers, dates back to the 18th century and is believed to bring good luck and strengthen community spirit.
Burryman Andrew Taylor parades through South Queensferry, Scotland encased in burrs. The annual burryman event, in which a local man is dressed head-to-toe in burdock heads, ferns and flowers, dates back to the 18th century and is believed to bring good luck and strengthen community spirit.
Burrs, the original Velcro.
I saw him in the Paris olympics opening ceremonyBurryman Andrew Taylor parades through South Queensferry, Scotland encased in burrs. The annual burryman event, in which a local man is dressed head-to-toe in burdock heads, ferns and flowers, dates back to the 18th century and is believed to bring good luck and strengthen community spirit.
Snail farm in city office sparks tax avoidance probe
A city centre office building has been home to a snail farm for more than a year, in what council bosses allege is an attempt to avoid tax.
About 15 covered crates - containing as few as two snails each - have been kept on the lower ground floor of 9 Dale Street, in Liverpool, since 2023.
Under current law, this could qualify as "agricultural use" and this part of the building would arguably be exempt from business rates.
The firm renting the space said it was a legitimate snail farming operation.
The company, Snai1 Primary Products 2023 Ltd, shares its sole director, Terence Ball, with a company called BoyceBrook based in Ribchester, Lancashire.
BoyceBrook’s website says its team "has a proven track record of minimising the liability for empty property rates" and describes the company as the "Canceller of the Exchequer".
Each crate contains two snails, according to L’Escargotiere, another company operated by Mr Ball, also based in Ribchester.
Its website says the number of snails per crate is kept to a minimum to avoid "cannibalism, group sex and snail orgies".
Land Registry records show the building was bought by Finchley Land Ltd for £5.4m in 2014.
The company is registered in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and its main shareholder is Iraqi businessman Namir El-Akabi, a construction and logistics tycoon involved in the rebuilding of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A city centre office building has been home to a snail farm for more than a year, in what council bosses allege is an attempt to avoid tax.
About 15 covered crates - containing as few as two snails each - have been kept on the lower ground floor of 9 Dale Street, in Liverpool, since 2023.
Under current law, this could qualify as "agricultural use" and this part of the building would arguably be exempt from business rates.
The firm renting the space said it was a legitimate snail farming operation.
The company, Snai1 Primary Products 2023 Ltd, shares its sole director, Terence Ball, with a company called BoyceBrook based in Ribchester, Lancashire.
BoyceBrook’s website says its team "has a proven track record of minimising the liability for empty property rates" and describes the company as the "Canceller of the Exchequer".
Each crate contains two snails, according to L’Escargotiere, another company operated by Mr Ball, also based in Ribchester.
Its website says the number of snails per crate is kept to a minimum to avoid "cannibalism, group sex and snail orgies".
Land Registry records show the building was bought by Finchley Land Ltd for £5.4m in 2014.
The company is registered in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, and its main shareholder is Iraqi businessman Namir El-Akabi, a construction and logistics tycoon involved in the rebuilding of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Can't be having snail orgies.
Maybe that's where my gf gets her snail based skin cream from lol
Maybe that's where my gf gets her snail based skin cream from lol
WTH is a body farm?
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A body farm investigates human decomposition, which is important for forensics. There are eight body farms in the USA.
linky to "my afterlife on the body farm", an article in the New York Times by someone who did eventually donate their body to a body farm when they died.
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Postcard finally arrives 121 years after it was sent
An undelivered postcard has finally reached its intended destination - about 121 years after it was first popped off in the post.The Christmas-themed card was delivered to Swansea Building Society’s Cradock Street branch last week even though it was originally sent in 1903 - so only just over a century too late.
Staff say they hope to find relatives of a Miss Lydia Davies, who previously lived at the address and who the card was addressed to, to reunite them with it.
The Royal Mail said it is likely the postcard was "put back into" their system, rather than "being lost in the post for over a century".
The postcard is written by a man called Ewart, who, addressing "L", says he is "so sorry" that he cannot pick up a "pair" of an unknown item.
"I am so sorry, but I hope you are enjoying yourself at home," he adds.
Ewart goes on to say that he has about 10 shillings "in pocket money, not counting the train fare, so I am doing alright".
He ends the note by urging Lydia to "remember to meet Gilbert and John", signing it off with "love to all".
Henry Darby, marketing and communications officer for Swansea Building Society, said he was sorting through the post when the postcard dropped out, and that he had found limited information about the intended recipient online.
"So we thought we’d pop it on our social media and thought maybe someone locally may be connected to her, a few generations down," he said.
Andrew Dully, from West Glamorgan Archives, has established that a John F Davies was the head of the household at the address, where he lived with his wife, Maria, and six children.
"The oldest of them was Lydia. She would have been 16 when this postcard was sent," he said.
A spokesperson for the Royal Mail said: "It is likely that this postcard was put back into our system rather than being lost in the post for over a century.
"When an item is in our system, we are under obligation to deliver it to the correct address."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqzp2ejlzo
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