You will not believe it thread is for everyone.Your welcome to post video links as well as news articles.


To start off here is one you will not believe!! I have watching this video as least twice!

A man with a hole in his face

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Chang Tzu Ping

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Oregon man takes off for Idaho in a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 party balloons
By Jeff Barnard
Associated Press
Article Launched: 07/05/2008 09:51:08 AM PDT


BEND, Ore. - Riding in a green lawn chair rigged with a rainbow array of more than 150 giant party balloons, Kent Couch took off with the sun Saturday, hoping to ride the wind from his gas station in Central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Clutching a big mug of coffee, Couch kissed his wife and kids goodbye, and patted their shivering Chihuahua, Isabella, on the head.

With a push from the ground crew so he could clear surrounding light poles and a cheer from the crowd, he soared over a coffee cart from the parking lot of his gas station, over U.S. Highway 20, and into the bright blue sky.

"If I had the time and money and people, I'd do this every weekend," Couch said before getting into the chair. "Things just look different from up there. You've moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity.

"You can hear a dog bark at 15,000 feet."

Couch had to spill some of the 45 gallons of cherry Kool-Aid he carried as ballast in three drums, but then he quickly disappeared into the distance.

He hoped to ride prevailing winds to the area of McCall, Idaho, about 230 miles east. He travels at about 20 mph.

"He's crazy," said his wife, Susan. "It's never been a dull moment since I married him.

"I did tell him next time he went up he had to take me, but he said no, he didn't want anything to happen to me."

This was Couch's third balloon flight. He was inspired by a TV show about the 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles of
truck driver Larry Walters, who gained folk hero fame, but was fined $1,500 for violating air traffic rules.
In 2006, Couch had to parachute out after popping too many balloons. And last year he flew 193 miles to the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon, short of his goal.

"I've not stopping till I get out of state," he said.

To that end, he ordered more balloons. Dozens of volunteers wearing fluorescent green T-shirts with the slogan "Dream Big" filled latex balloons 5 feet in diameter, tied them to strings with a zip tie, and tied clusters of six balloons each to a tiny carabiner clip. A few popped, and one got away before they could be tied on.

"I think it's wonderful he's got guts enough to do it," said retired commercial pilot Bob Banta. "I've owned 12 little airplanes, but I've never done anything like this."

Each balloon gives four pounds of lift. The chair was about 400 pounds, and Couch and his parachute 200 more.

"I'd go to 30,000 feet if I didn't shoot a balloon down periodically," Couch said.

For that job he carried a Red Ryder BB gun and a blow gun equipped with steel darts. He also had a pole with a hook for pulling in balloons, a parachute in case anything went wrong, a handheld Global Positioning System device with altimeter, a satellite phone, and two GPS tracking devices. One was one for him, the other for the chair, which got away in the wind as he landed last year.

Each cluster of balloons was clipped by a heavier line to the aluminum tube frame underneath the chair. The ballast tanks filled with the cherry Kool-Aid were attached to the bottom of the frame.

"We wanted some color, and it kind of reminded me of kid days," Couch said.

For food he had some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate.

Couch flew hang gliders and sky-dived before taking up lawn-chair flights. He said he imagined being a child holding a balloon and taking off.

Couch estimated the rig cost about $6,000, mostly for helium. Costs were defrayed by corporate sponsors.

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

Shocking story of Half Man Half Tree

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Shocking story of Half Man Half Tree

Wow ! Excellent one Dune!!

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Girl without A face

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Siamese Turtle

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A bus service that shuttles gamblers from Colorado Springs to nearby mountain-town casinos has been awarded $382,000 in Homeland Security anti-terrorism grants, according to a May report by the Colorado Springs Gazette. Federal officials said the grants were part of the Infrastructure Protection Activities program, with the money used for "vehicle security," GPS systems and training drivers, which means, according to a bus company official, teaching them "to be aware of their surroundings, of what's unusual and the people on board." [Colorado Springs Gazette, 5-23-08]

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People With Issues

Since 2004 the Palmerton Area (Pa.) School Board has paid $45,000 for the special education of Rebecca Maykish, 17, who has an apparently devastating fear of "school," dating back to fourth grade. The mere act of spending time in a classroom, her mother says, causes her to cry nonstop for hours. The board, acknowledging her "generalized anxiety disorder," agreed to accommodate her illness by specially funding things broadly educational or therapeutic, and so far that includes not only tutors and software but modeling classes and travel, to build her self-esteem. The Morning Call of Allentown reported in May that, with the board's funds depleted, and Rebecca's continuing to drop out shortly after each school year begins, the government has begun to impose truancy fines on her mother. [Morning Call, 5-18-08]

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Portuguese Racing Sardine Club - Race 1

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I don't believe it... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

I don't believe it... ;)

Me either! ;o)

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Can't Possibly Be True
In the 1920s, when inmate "chain gangs" were in their heyday, Alabama sheriffs were allotted a prison meal budget of $1.75 per prisoner per day, with thrifty sheriffs allowed to pocket any excess for themselves. According to a May Associated Press investigation, the policy, and the amount, are unchanged to this day in 55 of the state's 67 counties, and also unchanged is the fact that sheriffs have cut the menus so cleverly or drastically that some sheriffs still make money on the deal. (The per-meal fee under the National School Lunch program for low-income students is $2.47.) [Boston Globe-AP, 5-17-08]

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

Can't Possibly Be True
In the 1920s, when inmate "chain gangs" were in their heyday, Alabama sheriffs were allotted a prison meal budget of $1.75 per prisoner per day, with thrifty sheriffs allowed to pocket any excess for themselves. According to a May Associated Press investigation, the policy, and the amount, are unchanged to this day in 55 of the state's 67 counties, and also unchanged is the fact that sheriffs have cut the menus so cleverly or drastically that some sheriffs still make money on the deal. (The per-meal fee under the National School Lunch program for low-income students is $2.47.) [Boston Globe-AP, 5-17-08]

That dispicabble(Mr.D.Duck)

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

I don't believe it... ;)

Neither do I. Seeing is believing.

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Vendors in Qingdao, China (where Olympic sailing events will take place in August), were reportedly selling, as unofficial Olympics souvenirs, key rings with heart-shaped plastic charms that contained live (at least temporarily) goldfish suspended in water. Animal protection advocates were incredulous, according to a June report in the Sydney Morning Herald. [Sydney Morning Herald, 6-10-08]

Anything to make A Buck!

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Yikes!

The Panda Chinese Restaurant in York, Pa., was already in trouble in an early June city sanitation inspection, with demerits piling up because of accumulated grease, insects in the seating area and rotting lettuce, according to a York Daily Record report. Then, in the middle of an inspector's visit, he came upon a live snapping turtle in the restaurant's main sink. Said the inspector, "I had to sit down and gather myself before I could speak." The manager said he had seen the turtle outside and had brought it in for safety: "It was wrong that we put it in the sink." [York Daily Record, 6-11-08]

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

A scheduling accident at the Eagle Trace Golf Course in Broomfield, Colo., in June caused insufficient time between the end of an early morning junior golf association event (kids age 7 to 12) and a noontime charity tournament sponsored by Shotgun Willie's strip club, with scantily clad dancers cavorting around the course. One mother told WUSA-TV that her little golfer asked, "Mom, why is she only wearing underwear?" [KUSA-TV (Denver), 6-25-08]

ONLY IN AMERICA LOL

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

To design, build and test the systems, Nasa needs nearly eight gallons of urine every day - about the total daily output of 30 people.

2 pints a day each then? So who is peeing more than me then ???

That is probably ultra top secret information :o)

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Fine Points of the Law

The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed in June that defendants have a constitutional right to cross-examine witnesses against them and must get a new trial if denied that right. The challenger was Dwayne Giles, who had tried during his trial to keep incriminating statements by his girlfriend out of court, in that she was not available for him to cross-examine. The reason for her unavailability was that she is dead, and Giles was being tried for her murder. Hence, her statements suggesting Giles' motive cannot be used in court. [USA Today, 6-25-08]

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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.