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An irish man has won a strange competition: Oyster Opening Champonship. The proud man, who's farther won it as well in 1970s declared he was proud to win it for Ireland.

The competition consists of opening 30 oysters as fast as you can and this year 17 countries participated.
At 2 minutes 35 seconds, Irish restaurateur Michael Moran was five seconds ahead of Sweden's Hasse Johannesson and 46 seconds faster than Britain's Frederick Lindford.
"I put in a big effort and it paid off. I can't believe it," Mr Moran, 23, said.
The secret, he said, was a steady hand with the oyster knife.
"It has to be a smooth movement or you risk crunching the shell and then you get points taken off for grit."

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Montana mother who allowed her 18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.

Jessica Durham was photographed allowing her toddler Michala to suck from a marijuana water pipe, also known as a bong, in 2004 by a friend upset about the activity.
"Ms. Durham allegedly remarked that smoking improved Michala's appetite and left Michala lethargic and mellow - a manner she found consistent with her own experience smoking marijuana," Judge Louis Pollak of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in summarizing the case.
In 2005, a lower court sentenced Durham to five years in prison for unlawful marijuana distribution. She appealed both the conviction and the sentence.
In its ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld the conviction but said the sentence exceeded the applicable federal law which calls for punishment of no more than two years in prison.

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I always thought being nice was not always nice! Here is the proof!
Reuters-An Chinese man who tried to give a panda a hug at Beijing Zoo found himself biting back in self defense after his clumsy attempt at affection was wildly rejected, local media reported Thursday.
Zhang Xinyan,was only trying to be nice the Gu Gu, a 7yr old the Panda at a Zoo in Beijing. However, 4 pints of beer played a huge role in the generosity act as reported by the local press.
The funny part was, this man was trying something similar he saw on TV, where a man was hugging a panda and shaking his hands."When I was in there, the panda was eating bamboo. Then, it seemed some people shouted, which startled the panda. He rushed over to bite my leg," Zhang said.
Zhang tried to play self defense and bit the panda back. "I took the opportunity to bite the panda's back, but its fur was too thick," Zhang said. lol. In addition, it was reported that the panda refused to eat for the whole day as he was still upset by the incident.
The poor man was rushed to hospital to receive treatment.
Zhang, who tried in vain to push the panda away, was bitten twice and forced to the ground, the paper said.
"I took the opportunity to bite the panda's back, but its fur was too thick," Zhang said.
Eventually, a zoo worker sprayed water from a hose to rescue Zhang from the panda's clutches, the paper said.
Both were worse for wear after the tussle. Zhang was rushed to hospital and given tetanus and rabies shots, while Gu Gu lost her appetite, Xinhua news agency reported.
"It was scared by the intruder and refused to eat for one and a half days," a zoo spokeswoman, surnamed Ye, told Xinhua.
The zoo, which plans to install cameras to monitor the enclosure, would not prosecute, Xinhua said.
But Zhang had already been tried and found guilty by Chinese Internet surfers.
"The man should be fined for the trouble he made," an anonymous commentator said in a posting on 163.com.
"He deserved to be bitten."
Now who wants to be nice??

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Increadible story!
How low can you get? This is becoming common in a Central African country where fortune tellers are telling families to sacrifice and eat their current children to have some more!! A local Radio reported that a woman was taken away by the police to have cut one leg of her own 5 year old son, cooked it and ate it...Really sick!!
They should try and read their horoscope to find some hot dates...!!

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This happened in China where a school had to close its doors because all teachers were getting divorced.
Some 40 teachers at the Tongxing Centre Primary School in Dandong have signed divorce papers in a bid to keep their jobs, reports Beijing News.

Teachers started getting divorced due to the local authorities announcing job cut! The only survivors would be the divorced and the wodowed...since only few could kill their partners...they filed for divorce...Really some funny stories out there!!

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Worried about the police seeing you in the wrong? Not anymore...beware Talking Big Brother on your streets.

In a bid to curb anti-social behaviour, Middlesbrough Council has installed CCTV cameras fitted with microphones to yell at people up to no good.
The seven cameras, which cost £50,000 to set up, cover the whole of the town centre and the local authority hopes they will act as a deterrent to anyone about to commit an anti-social offence.
May be it is time for portable high tech radars and GPS that could vibrate if you get closer to a camera or even rend you invisible!! Possible??

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Sept 16: Breaking News in Shanghai: A new type of blind date: you don't have to talk! You sit there silently and you write to each other on small pieces of paper and pass this to each other. Supposedly it really worked and allegedly love is blossoming in China, Reuters reported

It was also reported that the body work and the drawing on those small sticky notes was the best part!

Recently, I was listening BBC Five live and one of the presenters thought writting your number down on a piece of paper with a chat up line like:"I think you are hot, wanna go for cofee?" and passing it to someone you fancy ...say on a tube in London worked...free info for the shy ones!!

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This man, Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Pinto pops his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records that lists Brazilian records, Reports AP.

A former driver, Pinto got a job scaring visitors in a commercial haunted house in Belo Horizonte, 210 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. But he recently was laid off, and now he seeks international recognition for his ability.
"I was measured by an opthamologist on television in January. I could pop my eyes out 7 millimeters," Pinto said by telephone Saturday. "Since then, my capacities have improved over 50 percent."
That could put Pinto close to the record. The title of "furthest eyeball popper" in the Guinness Book of World Records currently belongs to Kim Goodman of Chicago, who can pop her eyeballs 11 milimeters (0.43 inches) out of her sockets.
Pinto's ability is called "globe luxation." Doctors say it can strain blood vessels and nerves between the eyes and the head and feels unpleasant but usually doesn't cause lasting damage.
Pinto says he's been luxating his globes since he was 9 years old and "it doesn't hurt a bit."

Imagine if he was wearing any eye glasses, they will jump and fly miles and miles before they break!! Odd enough!

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A mayor has let movie makers use his office to shoot a nudity movie, reports Reuters in Nashiville. The mayor was told the movie was about a heroine and did not contain any nudity or obscene material. The next day , surprise surprise, he made the headline with the movie title called:"Thong Girl 3" which was shot in his office.
Mayor Don Wright commented that he was not aware of it.
Isn't that the question? How could a mayor hand his own office without any supervision? Oddly enough!!

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