UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

On 14th October 2009 in Aberdeen, a grandmother of 60 and her two granddaughters aged 8 and 2 were walking in a park.

Thereupon, unemployed Ryan Yates, 29, kitchen knife in hand, approached them, with the stated intention of killing the woman, in order to be able to rape the 2 girls. Later, his statement to police stated that as he walked out of his house that day, it was his specific plan to “look for some children to have sex with”.

Then, silently and methodically he stabbed the woman in the chest. In the ensuing struggle, Yates told her that “he’d let her go if she let go of the knife.” When she refused, Yates spat in her face.

Only 5 days earlier, he was released for another sex-related assault.

Fortunately, a passer-by intervened, and Yates calmly walked away.

He has admitted to all the charges & to be chemically castrated.

On 29th January 2010, his own mother, Ann, 50 was quoted by The Sun to be so disgusted that she’d said:

I brought him into the world – and I’d take him out of it.

She said that her son got started in the world of sex crimes at 14, would never stop, and that she’d willingly kill him with her own hands. His father had passed away.

Among other vile things Ryan had done were:
- at 15, he had tried to rape his own mother!
- he had stripped a female relative as he threatened her with a knife.
- had attacked women on many occasions
- at 14, he walked up to a stranger and asked her for a kiss!
- at 12, he was allegedly found in bed with an even younger girl

Incredibly, he always informed his mother of his misdemeanors, even though she never failed to make police reports.

One could argue that having a job, any job, like selling scales and keeping oneself busy could divert one’s energies from things like these, but perhaps for some individuals, the normal rules don’t apply.

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Humanity has long tried to explain the reason for earthquakes within their own cultures. In Norse mythology, the earth would tremble everytime the god Loki struggled to avoid a snake’s venom dripping on his face. In Greek mythology, Poseidon, the god of earthquakes would strike the ground whenever he’s in a bad mood, hence the shakes. While in Japanese mythology, whenever Namazu the giant catfish thrashes around, earthquakes would happen.

However, it was reported by the BBC on 20th April 2010 that according to Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, a cleric from Tehran, Iran, earthquakes are not caused by any of those, or sudden releases of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves, but rather women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously.

In other words, sluts are mass murderers.

He explains succintly thus:

…women should stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves. Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes. What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam’s moral codes.

I suppose that even includes advertisements showing scantily clad young women showing their new svelte bodies after a quick weight loss round.

In Iran, earthquakes have killed tens of thousands in the last 10 years, including 25,000 when a quake hit the city of Bam in 2003.

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The BBC, 20th April 2010

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Which people has the most powerful “pugai” (black magic charm) in the world, so much so that “Magic Charm Practitioner” could be included in their resumes?

Judging from the Malaysian experience that made the news, it would seem that it’s either one of Nigeria, Sumatera (Indonesia) or Lombok (Indonesia).

Nigeria – case study

It was reported in The Star on 19th April 2010 that Sofea, a fiftysomething grandmother was introduced to Fareed, a Nigerian 2 years ago. He was a smooth operator who whispered sweet nothings in her ear – even calling her “princess” – and cooked her traditional Nigerian food.

She fell madly in love with him, even though:
- by her own admission, he was “not handsome”
- Fareed cheated her of RM600,000.
- Fareed was arrested in Malaysia for using forged travel documents to enter the country
- saw for herself that the man was living in luxury with money she gave him.
- she knew that while Fareed was in Malaysia, he had other girlfriends and was also accused of stealing from them.

What did she do instead?

- demanded divorce from her crippled husband,
- bought Fareed an air ticket for his trip home back in May 2009
- flew to Nigeria to see him
- wanted to “live and die with him”
- paid the rental for his condo in KL

Lombok – case study

The Star reported on 30th October 2008 that Noor Fadilah Ahmad of Selangor was 15 when she first got to know Indonesian labourer Nasrudin Dahrom, 20+ who hails from Lombok, an area east of Java.

3 years later, on 6th September 2008 she eloped with him to his hometown.

Her mother said what’s usually said in a hushed tone: girls who run away with men from Lombok rarely, if ever, see their families again.

Her parents only managed to locate and bring her back in late October 2008, and Fadilah “regretted her actions.”

Nasrudin said they were married in Lombok Timur on 11th October but apparently that was not the case, as there were no supporting documents to back him up.

Nasrudin had the cheek to say: “This is our destiny. I ask for forgiveness from her father. If necessary I will kiss his feet.”

Sumatra – case study

It was reported by The Star on 16th April 2010 that for the past 5 months, an average of one Malaysian man have been marrying a woman from Sumatra daily, most of them as second wives.

And that was the reported ones: there could be “much more”, unreported such marriages.

The woman usually worked in Malaysia as maids, factory workers or cleaners, and many are divorcees with children.

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Nose-picking, or when compulsively done is called the almost unpronouncable “rhinotillexomania” is a universal habit, yet is considered somewhat taboo in most places in the world, meaning, like defecation, it’s not acceptable to be seen doing it in public.

To take it one step further, actually eating the extracted mucus (mucophagy) is considered a very disgusting habit.

But Dr Friedrich Bischinger, a lung specialist at Privatklinik Hochrum in Innsbruck, Austria takes a totally different view. He is probably the only doctor in the world who claimed that picking your nose AND eating the resulting bounty is good for the immune system!

What else? Probably his next paper will claim that applying mucus all over one’s face is even better than tazorac cream at treating acne…

Source
Damn Interesting, December 2005

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Now here’s a good reason to drink beer until you fall asleep

Location unknown – anybody know where this is?

Not that it’s advisable to drink too much, not just due to well-publicised health hazards of over-drinking, but I’ve heard whispered conversations among heavy drinkers that alcohol makes you visit the loo so much that in time you might need to rely on incontinence products just to stay 5 minutes at the bar.

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The Chachapoyas, or “The Warriors of the Clouds” lived in the cloud forests of the Amazonas region (now Peru). Before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, their civilization was conquered by the Incas.

The Spanish historian Pedro Cieza de León described what the Chachapoyas looked like:

They are the whitest and most handsome of all the people that I have seen in Indies, and their wives were so beautiful that because of their gentleness, many of them deserved to be the Incas’ wives …

These people had no known European ancestry. In pre Inca times, no European had ever reached that part of the world. They were good looking, had white skin and blonde hair, unlike other people living in that part of the world at that time.

So why did they look different?

An answer was offered by the Antisuyo expeditions of the Amazon Archaeology Institute:

Given that the terrain facilitates peripatric speciation, as evidenced by the high biodiversity of the Andean region, the physical attributes of the Chachapoyas are most likely reflecting founder effects, assortative mating, and/or related phenomena in an initially small population sharing a relatively recent common ancestor with other Amerind groups.

I suppose if one wants to carry out an anthropological experiment to see if the skin id of a group of people like the Chachapoyas of yore could be recreated, one could attempt what was outlined above.

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Wikipedia

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The BBC reported on 6th April 2010 that Gitta Jarant, 66 and Anke Anusic, 41 her step daughter, both German citizens, put Gitta’s dead husband Curt “Willi” Jarant, 91 put sunglasses over his eyes, then the three of them took a taxi from Oldham, Greater Manchester to Liverpool’s John Lennon airport, put him on a wheelchair, and then attempted to check him in as a passenger on a flight bound for Berlin.

With them were 2 young children.

An airport staff, Andrew Millea helped to put Curt into a wheelchair and was reported by the Daily Telegraph to have said:

I did my best to help by carefully lifting the man from his seat. To my horror, his face fell sideways against mine. It was ice-cold … but they reassured me that he “always sleeps like that.” I could see the driver of the taxi was shocked too, he was white as a sheet and looked very shaken, so I placed the body into the wheelchair and pushed the man to the back of the easyJet queue.”

He then alerted the police, who arrested the 2 women. The police reportedly thought he’d died the previous day.

Anyway what the women tried to do would’ve been impossible, because the Curt would’ve needed to give his passport and then answer a few security questions, like whether his luggage contained any banned substances. Even if he managed to bypass that stage, he’d still need to go through security and special carers assigned to wheelchair passengers. And he’d have to go through a similar cycle in Berlin.

Anke and Gitta speaking to the press

Gitta defended their actions and said:

I thought he was merely sleeping. [He was] the best man of the world – good man. I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years.

Anke Anusic was quoted to have said:

They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him. Of course we did not know he was dead. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and was in hospital for pneumonia. We’d waited until he was better before booking a ticket to travel. He was released from hospital. He was fine. If he was not fine the hospital wouldn’t release him. He was alive. He was pale but he wasn’t dead. A dead person you cannot carry to Germany, there are too many people checking and security. How can you bring a dead person to Germany?

But why would they do it? A possible reason is to avoid repatriation fees which cost a whopping UDS7,000.

Well, who do you believe? If he was really sleeping he could’ve consumed really effective sleeping pills beforehand: click here to learn more about sleeping pills.

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The BBC, 6 April 2010

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If there’s anything stranger than eateries serving mosquitoes, centipedes or scorpions, it must be a restaurant serving animal genitalia.

The Guolizhuang Restaurant, based in Beijing does so.

Apparently there are 4 franchises in that city itself, and it’s expanding even to the US, to the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

The menu explains why it’s good to eat the private parts of donkeys, dogs and other four-legged mammals, totalling more than 30.

The ox wee-wee cut into star shapes. How cute. Apparently good for male virility.

The following tube used to be attached to a yak, served with a dragon, no less.

Sheep schlangs on a stick.

Donkey wang ready to be devoured.

Apparently the schlongs are usually dipped in soy or hot sauce before being consumed.

For women especially, eating these things is supposed to be good for the skin, the best acne treatment I heard!

Bon apetit!

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