Drunk Latvian had twice lethal alcohol level

A drunk Latvian had a blood-alcohol content more than 17 times the legal driving limit in the Baltic state when he was run over and killed, police said on Tuesday. The 50-year-old unnamed pedestrian, who also had more than twice the alcohol level considered lethal for most humans, was lying drunk on the road near his home in a remote part of eastern Latvia in the early hours.

Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors

The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents. Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia’s top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.

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Depressed and dejected, an anonymous donor left an engagement ring with a note reading: “Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you.”

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Locksmith makes key from X-ray: “David Pescovitz: Last week, Arthur Richardson of Denver, Nebraska was teasing his buddy Andrew Allen by putting the key to Allen’s new 1977 Chevy truck into his mouth. The joke ended as soon as Richardson accidentally swallowed it. After being unable to vomit the key, even with the aid of Milk of Magnesia, Richardson visited a physician. The hospital took an X-ray and apparently told him he’d have to wait a few days for the key to emerge from the other end. So the two took the X-ray to John Somers of Al’s Lock and Key. From The North Platte Telgraph:

Somers said the X-ray was unlike anything he had ever seen. The key was clearly outlined in the picture, located just to the right of the spine.

‘I’ve seen all kinds of things. This is the most bizarre,’ Somers said Thursday afternoon as he held up the X-ray to the light.

‘It’s a perfect silhouette.’

Using the image, Somers made two new keys in just a few minutes, based on the visible notches in the original key and the type of keys used for the vehicle.

Allen grinned as he fit the first key in the ignition and started up the pick-up truck.

‘I can drive my truck,’ he said, gleefully.

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Make PCR out of a VCR - The VCRVO: ” Neat project, uses a VCR as a computer case. I decided gut the VCR and use it as a computer case. This would replace the functionality of the DVD player and video recorder with one unit that looks more like a VCR than a computer (thus keeping the wife happy). My initial goal was to get Freevo running on it, so during the build I affectionately referred to it as my ‘VCRVO’ project. Here are the steps I took… Link. “

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Priest crucifies nun: Romanian Orthodox priest Father Daniel Corogeanu and four nuns have been charged with murder after ordering another nun who was ‘possessed by the devil’ and ‘beyond salvation’ to be crucified. The nun, Maricica Irina Cornici, was found dead and chained to a cross last Wednesday. A member of the Holy Trinity order in the village of Tanacu, Sister Irina reportedly was imprisoned after arguing with the priest during a Sunday mass. From the Telegraph:

During a short funeral service at the weekend attended by 13 nuns who showed no emotion, Father Corogeanu said: ‘God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil.’

Romanian reporters present at the ceremony said strangle marks were clearly visible on the corpse, which lay in an open casket.

Claps of thunder were heard as the coffin was lowered into the ground, a sign ‘that the will of God has been done’, Father Corogeanu said…

Sister Irina joined the order three months ago, after visiting a friend who lived there.

According to medical reports she had been treated for schizophrenia.

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