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[Redondo]

 

'IT NEVER SLOWED DOWN'
1 dead, 108 injured after NJ rush hour train crash

 

[Redondo]

• Docs To Operate On Boy Born With 31 Fingers, Toes

 

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[Tank]

too bad. i'll bet he'd be able to throw a ridiculous curve ball.

[mrwicked]

3 hours ago, Tank said:

too bad. i'll bet he'd be able to throw a ridiculous curve ball.

he's got plus control, and a decent changeup.

but it's the 8-seamer fastball that really leaves hitters in the dust.

[Tank]

yeah, the 8-seamer is pretty much unhittable anymore by these pampered college ball players.

[Redondo]

5 bizarre accidents that people survived against all odds

[Redondo]

What Is a Geothermal Heat Pump? A Genius Way to Heat and Cool Your Home

[Redondo]

• Man Bitten On Penis By Venomous Spider For The Second Time

A 21-year-old Australian man has been bitten by a venomous spider on his penis – for the second time in five months, according to a report.

“I’m the most unlucky guy in the country at the moment,” the man who only identified himself as Jordan told the BBC.

Jordan, a tradesman, was using a portable toilet at a work-site building in Sydney Tuesday when the redback spider bit him on “pretty much the same spot” he was bitten the first time in the same location while going to the bathroom.

“I was sitting on the toilet doing my business and just felt the sting that I felt the first time,” he told the BBC. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe it’s happened again.’ I looked down and I’ve seen a few little legs come from around the rim.”

[Redondo]

 

[arch stanton]

Of all the incredible sights to be seen around the world I chose to go watch a Chinese kid drop a deuce. 

[Tank]

So why even build walls if you're going to use semi-transparent glass? I want my privacy, and I want you to have your privacy, too. 

[gotbeer]

It's like China saw some Japanese Porn and said, how can we one up them?

[JAHV76]

21 hours ago, gotbeer said:

It's like China saw some Japanese Porn and said, how can we one up them?

I bet Matsui handed it over 

[Redondo]

Nike releasing self-lacing shoes through public lottery

The first pairs of the famous self-lacing MAG shoes from "Back to the Future II" will be made available this month to the public, but you won't be able to buy them.

You'll have to win them.

Nike announced that only 89 pairs will be available through an online draw that begins Tuesday and ends a week later, with winners being informed on Oct. 17. Entries to the raffle are $10 each, with the proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fight for a cure to Parkinson's disease. Four additional pairs will be auctioned off in Hong Kong, London and New York during the next five weeks.

Nike recently developed the technology to have laces wrap around a foot to give it that perfectly snug feel. A running shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0 will be sold in November.

On Oct. 21, 2015, the very day Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly traveled to in the 1989 film, Nike presented him with a working, self-lacing Air MAG pair of shoes.

"Though it initially shared only a few seconds of screen time with Michael, the idea behind the Nike Mag unlocked something much bigger at Nike," Nike CEO and president Mark Parker said in a statement. "It sent us down an uncharted path of innovation, but it also opened our eyes to our ability to fight some of the world's biggest challenges. We feel privileged for the opportunity to raise even more awareness for the fight against Parkinson's."

Click here for full article

[mrwicked]

f*cking yahoo. what an absolute joke of a company.

sad fall from grace. yahoo is what happens when you can no longer keep good engineers around, and you end up with a company of sh*tty MBAs. 

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/04/yahoo-scans-email-for-nsa/

[Tank]

9 hours ago, Redondo said:

Nike releasing self-lacing shoes through public lottery

The first pairs of the famous self-lacing MAG shoes from "Back to the Future II" will be made available this month to the public, but you won't be able to buy them.

You'll have to win them.

"Though it initially shared only a few seconds of screen time with Michael, the idea behind the Nike Mag unlocked something much bigger at Nike," Nike CEO and president Mark Parker said in a statement. "It sent us down an uncharted path of innovation, but it also opened our eyes to our ability to fight some of the world's biggest challenges. We feel privileged for the opportunity to raise even more awareness for the fight against Parkinson's."

Click here for full article

the technology behind these shoes is indeed impressive, but i think the practical side to these shoes is that they're going to be so expensive only phil knight will be able to afford them. 

[Redondo]

Couple mistakenly charged almost $10,000 at the gas pump

[Blarg]

On 10/1/2016 at 7:44 AM, Redondo said:

• Man Bitten On Penis By Venomous Spider For The Second Time

A 21-year-old Australian man has been bitten by a venomous spider on his penis – for the second time in five months, according to a report. 

“I was sitting on the toilet doing my business and just felt the sting that I felt the first time,” he told the BBC. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe it’s happened again.’ I looked down and I’ve seen a few little legs come from around the rim.”

 

 

 

[Redondo]

• Woman Caught Having Sex With Model Dinosaur At Playground Identified

Sergeant Richard Stonecliffe, from Exmouth Police, said: “We are still continuing our investigations and we have now identified the woman in the photographs who we will be speaking to.”

Officers are yet to charge anyone related to the horrific images.

East Devon District Council have deep cleaned the dinosaur statue with “strong disinfectant”.

A spokesperson for the authority told the Express and Echo: “We are shocked and dismayed at this appalling act of gross indecency to one of the dinosaur models in the dinosaur trail organised and installed by Exmouth Town Council in collaboration with Exmouth Town Team & Tourism Forum and ourselves.

 

 

[JAHV76]

WTF. I guess she named it Rex?

[Redondo]

IG: Top Pentagon aide used gov't credit card at strip club

[Redondo]

• Florida Groom Reportedly Learns He Married His Granddaughter; No… 

Newlyweds have vowed to stay together – despite the bride discovering her new husband is actually her granddad.

The couple made the shocking discovery three months after tying the knot while flicking through a photo album when they realised the man’s estranged son was also the bride’s father.

But the 68-year-old millionaire has said he has no plans to divorce his 24-year-old wife because he already has two failed marriages behind him.

The man, who doesn’t want to be named, proposed his granddaughter on New Year’s Eve after they met through an online dating website.

He had apparently became estranged from the children in his first marriage and had moved away after his second marriage ended in divorce when he scooped “several million dollars” as a lottery prize.

The Miami-based pensioner had signed up to the site looking for companionship and struck up the relationship with the 24-year-old, from Jacksonville, who said she had been kicked out of her family home.

He told Florida Sun Post: “It was like a sense of deja vu, but at the time I couldn’t figure out why she seemed so familiar.”

Three months after they tied the knot, the couple reportedly discovered their family connection while looking through family pictures.

The bride said: “When I saw my father in that photo album, I just felt an overwhelming sense of despair.”

Shockingly, the pair have no plans to divorce and will instead try to make their marriage work.

The man said: “I’ve already had two failed marriages, and I’m determined not to have a third.”

His bride added: “Every couple is different and special in their own ways. I feel our bond is so strong that even something like this is not enough to make us give up.”

[Tank]

Florida . . . LOL

[Redondo]

• Rhode Island man squashes son's giant pumpkin record with 2,261-pounder

[Tank]

that's a lot of pie.