Greek Olympian Booted For Racist Comment

“With so many Africans in London…at least the West Nile mosquitoes can eat homemade food!!!”


Statuesque Blonde Greek Women's Triple Jumper kicked out of the Olympics and off the Greek Olympic team for posting the above tweet, which was deemed racist by Olympic officials.  Volou was pissed off for being expelled and said so in no uncertain terms.

The Association of Male Olympians (AMO) lodged an informal protest to gain her reinstatement because she was one of the 'hottest' female athletes in London.


In an informal vote conducted by BizarreStuff, how many of you think Volou's comment was racist?

Chinese Man Loses World's Largest Dick

July 27, 2012

Thieves stole a man's penis while he slept, according to police.
Fei Lin, 41, of the Niqiao village near Wenling City, in east China’s Zhejiang province, told police he was asleep when the thieves burst into his room and put a bag over his head, according to CEN/EUROPICS and as reported in the Daily Star.
"They put something over my head and pulled down my trousers and then they ran off," Lin said. "I was so shocked I didn't feel a thing - then I saw I was bleeding and my penis was gone."
Police believe the attackers were jealous lovers of several local women whom Lin was having affairs with, the Austrian Times reported. Lin denied taking part in any infidelity.
Emergency workers and police searched for Lin's anatomy but turned up nothing, according to TNT Magazine. The penis thieves are nowhere to be found, but police said they're looking for the jealous lovers.

The photo below uses a piece of surgical bandage to demonstrate the length of Lin's former penis.

Faith Takes Numerous Faithful To The Hospital With Severe Burns

21 burned in walk over hot coals at Robbins event

Published - Jul 21 2012 03:51PM CST

JOHN S. MARSHALL, Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fire officials said 21 people at an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins suffered burns while walking across hot coals and three of the injured were treated at hospitals.
The injuries took place during the first day Thursday of a four-day event at the San Jose Convention Center hosted by Robbins called "Unleash the Power Within." Most of those hurt had second and third degree burns, said San Jose Fire Department Capt. Reggie Williams.
Walking across hot coals on lanes measuring 10 feet long and heated to between 1,200 to 2,000 degrees provides attendees an opportunity to "understand that there is absolutely nothing you can't overcome," according to the motivational speaker's website.
Robbins Research International said in a written statement that 6,000 attendees of the event walked across the coals Thursday.
Requests for additional information from The Associated Press were not immediately returned.
Organizers had an "open burn permit" and medical staff at the event, and there was also a fire inspector on the scene, Williams said.
"Once they (the medical staff) became overwhelmed, our inspector called for us," Williams said.
Witness Jonathan Correll was not attending the event, but when he saw a large crowd gathered on a closed-off surface street near the convention center, he got off the light rail he was riding to see what was going on.
"I just heard these screams of agony," he told The Associated Press. People were in pain. It sounded like people were being tortured."
Correll, 25, of San Jose, said he saw three ambulances, about 10 to 15 people on the ground being treated by paramedics and some people being wheeled away on stretchers.
"It was really just chaos," he said.
Participant Sahar Madani told KTVU-TV that attendees were warned that they might get burns or blisters.
"The intention of the event is to get your focus and your attention away from that and look into the power within yourself and focus on just walking on the fire," she told the station.
Robbins, 52, who bills himself as an entrepreneur and "peak performance strategist," has written five books that are published in 14 languages, and has sold more than 40 million audiotapes of a professional development system dubbed "Personal Power," according to his website.
His infomercials have continuously aired on average every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day somewhere in North America since their initial introduction in April 1989, the website says.
Robbins Research International said Friday, "We have been safely providing this experience for more than three decades, and always under the supervision of medical personnel ... We continue to work with local fire and emergency personnel to ensure this event is always done in the safest way possible."

Williams did not have any additional details, such as the ages or names of those hurt.

Saturday Night Fish Fry

A Little While Ago

A truck driver for a South San Francisco fish company who skipped his regular delivery route and sold most of the fish for crack cocaine, avoided jail Thursday by agreeing to head to rehab, San Mateo County prosecutors said.
Byron Duane Bates, 43, of South San Francisco had earlier pleaded no contest to stealing Newport Fish Co.’s truck in October 2011. His three-year prison sentence was suspended on the condition he attend Delancey Street Foundation’s residential drug treatment program in San Francisco.
Bates was supposed to drive a $10,000 load of fish to Sacramento. He got as far as San Francisco and Oakland, where he sold most of the fish for just $400 worth of crack, said Steve Wagstaffe, district attorney for San Mateo County.
The company owner called police when calls started coming in from customers wondering where their fish was. The truck was found four days later in Oakland with 90 percent of the fish gone and the rest rotten, prosecutors said.

Bates, who was already on felony probation for burglary and narcotics possession, pleaded no contest to one count of felony vehicle theft.

Man With Large 'package' Encounters Airport Security Problems

Turns out it's legal to have a weapon of "mass conception" at the airport.
Jonah Falcon was stopped and frisked by the TSA at the San Francisco International Airport on July 9 because of a bulging package hidden in his pants. But the 41-year-old New Yorker wasn't packing a dirty bomb, drugs or a Costco-sized tube of toothpaste. The New Yorker has the world's largest recorded penis.

In an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post, Falcon described his hard times with security guards after his extra carry-on became suspect.
"I had my 'stuff' strapped to the left. I wasn't erect at the time," said Falcon, whose penis is 9 inches flaccid, 13.5 inches erect. "One of the guards asked if my pockets were empty and I said, 'Yes.'"

Falcon said he knew that his interview was about to get a lot more personal when he was led through one of the X-ray body scanners and passed a metal detector.
"Another guard stopped me and asked me if I had some sort of growth," Falcon said, laughing.

Indeed he did have a growth.

By the age of 18, Falcon knew he had something special when his manhood reached a whopping 12 inches. His family jewel was hailed as the world's largest on record after an HBO documentary featured him in 1999. The Guinness Book of World Records does not record such feats, but Falcon did show his standout feature to Huffington Post Executive Crime/Weird News Editor Buck Wolf.

has been contacted by porn companies but so far has declined offers to 'go commercial' with his wares.

Falcon has come up with a new game plan for airport security.  To make things clear from the outset, he is wearing running shorts when boarding.  Falcon says he  never has been patted down by a female TSA guard.

Amazingly Immense Dude

The heaviest living athlete in the world is Sumo wrestler Emmanuel 'Manny' Yarborough, of Rahway, New Jersey, USA. He stands 2m 3cm, 6ft 8in tall and weighs a colossal 319.3kg, 704lb. He was introduced to Sumo by his judo coach and seven years later, he is ranked number one in the Open Sumo Wrestling Category for Amateurs.

Mr. Yarborough also might have been the scrawny character made famous in the Charles Atlas comic book ads, who had sand kicked in his face by the beach bully until he took the Charles Atlas body building course and became a hunk himself.

Cost Of Child Care Increases

A Kentucky woman is accused of selling her baby for a pickup and methamphetamine, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.
Heather Kaminskey, of Corbin, Ky., traded her infant for a 1999 Dodge Dakota pickup and some meth, Laurel County Sheriff John Root told the paper.
The couple accused of taking the child, Jeremy and Jamiee Brown, were arrested Thursday on charges of human trafficking. Both have pleaded not guilty,
according to WLEX-TV.

The baby, whom police found with the couple and their three biological kids, is now 6 months old and has been placed in the care of state child-welfare workers.
Kaminskey and the Browns allegedly made the trade soon after the baby was born. Root's office started looking into the incident based on information from a confidential source, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.
Officers tracked down the pickup and the current owner told police he bought the truck from Kaminskey for $800.
Police have not located Kaminskey but tell the paper they plan to charge her. If convicted, Jeremy and Jamiee Brown could face up to 20 years in prison.

Woman Resents Insults To Her Mom

GLENDALE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Glendale woman was arrested Saturday after police say she used her SUV to run over her ex-boyfriend because he insulted her mother.

Witnesses tell Glendale police that Tangik Khodaverdian, 25, tried to run down Ludvig Gharabeigi, 32, twice on Saturday in a Smart and Final parking lot. She was traveling 30 miles per hour when she slammed her vehicle into Gharabeigi, pinning him against a wall.

Gharabeigi was taken to L.A. County USC Medical Center where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries to his legs and back, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz tells KTLA.

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Sgt. Lorenz said Gharabeigi was able to snap a picture of the vehicle's license plate with his cell phone during the attack. That's when he was struck a second time.

Witnesses say they tried to follow the vehicle as it fled, but were unsuccessful.

Police traced the license plate to Khodaverdian and found her at her home on Raymond Avenue. They also discovered hand prints and a foot print on the bumper and hood of her SUV that matched Gharabeigi.

Khodaverdian said she backed into him when she noticed he was taking a picture of her license plate and was afraid of him, police say. She was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Later, Khodaverdian admitted she was upset with Gharabeigi because he had insulted her mother, Sgt. Lorentz told KTLA.                    

Just Another West Virginia Husband - Sort of...

Lawyer: W.Va. man denies enslaving, torturing wife

Jul 11 2012 

VICKI SMITH, Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — While her husband returned a rototiller to a West Virginia rental shop, a limping woman sneaked into another part of the building seeking help. Soon, she was at a shelter with a horrifying tale: She had been held hostage for the better part of a decade — beaten, burned and even shackled during childbirth.
Investigators have 45 photographs showing burns on her back and breasts from irons and frying pans, and scars on her wrists and ankles. Now her husband is in jail and authorities are investigating what Jackson County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Tony Boggs called one of the most terrible cases he's seen.
"This appears to go beyond abuse to what I would consider torture," he said Wednesday.
Peter Lizon, 37, was in jail on $300,000 bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Friday on a malicious wounding charge.
The criminal complaint says 43-year-old Stephanie Lizon told another woman at a Parkersburg shelter that her husband smashed her foot with a piece of farm equipment, among other things.

But Shawn Bayliss, Peter Lizon's attorney, said the allegations are "the fabrication of a fertile imagination or a feeble mind, one of the two."
"The alleged victim didn't make these accusations. It was a third party," Bayliss said. " ... Stephanie would say this story is absolutely untrue, and the charges levied against her husband are blatantly false."
He compared it to the childhood game of "telephone," where something whispered from one person to another ultimately bears no resemblance to reality.
"This is a situation where a person has taken a nugget of information, taken an acorn and tried to turn it into a tree," he said. "And the tree won't support this story."  (Shortly after making this argument in court Lizon's attorney was charged with congenital lunacy.)

The details of the alleged abuse came out after the wife fled July 2. Stephanie Lizon entered another part of the building while her husband was inside Bosley Rental & Supply in Parkersburg and told the staff, "I'm trying to get away from my husband. I just need to hide for a few minutes," one employee said.
The employee declined to give her name, citing concern for her safety and that of her co-workers.
In an office, the wife "seemed pretty calm but kept looking out the window to see if he was looking for her," the employee said.
Stephanie Lizon told the staff she didn't want to involve police, but she accepted the number for the domestic violence shelter and called it. She also called family to ask for money, and the employees gave her cash and called a cab to take her to a Western Union office and the shelter.
The woman was limping and had appeared to have some sort of injury, the employee said. And while her clothing was clean, she smelled bad. The husband did not come inside looking for his wife and police didn't come until several days later.
At the shelter, however, Stephanie Lizon told another woman about the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her husband, a native of the Czech Republic. The wife said her family was from Alexandria, Va.
Stephanie Lizon's father declined to discuss the case when contacted by The Associated Press. Relatives of her husband didn't immediately return messages.
The witness at the shelter described Stephanie Lizon as "gaunt and filthy," and covered in scars, bruises and burns. She had "mutilated and swollen" feet, a scar in the shape of a clothes iron on one breast, and burns on her back that the victim said came from a hot frying pan.
The witness said the wife was called a "slave" and ordered to kneel before her husband every time she entered a room. The wife also said she had delivered a fully developed, stillborn child while in shackles, and her husband buried the corpse on their farm.
Another child survived a similar delivery, but Stephanie Lizon said it had never received medical attention.
Boggs said state child-welfare authorities have been notified, but Peter Lizon's attorney said the child — a 1-year-old boy — remains with his mother.
The complaint says investigators confirmed that the wife was treated in the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital in June and that photographs were taken at the shelter to document her injuries. A Sunbeam iron was among the items seized during a July 5 search of the couple's home. Lizon was arrested that day.
Both Peter and Stephanie Lizon were arrested in Maryland in 2004, accused of cutting up Bush-Cheney campaign signs with a bayonet. The couple was apparently living in Randallstown, Md., at the time.
The Baltimore Sun reported that Peter Lizon was sentenced to a year of probation and 32 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $328 in restitution to the Howard County Republican Party.
Wayne Kirwan, a spokesman for the Howard County state's attorney's office, said Stephanie Lizon entered a plea agreement that resulted in 40 hours of community service, plus restitution and fines.
Kirwan said Maryland court records also show that Stephanie Lizon was arrested on drug charges a few months later in Baltimore County, in December 2004. She pleaded guilty to a drug manufacturing and distribution charge in May 2005 and got probation.
The West Virginia Division of Corrections said it had no history of criminal actions by either spouse, and Boggs said the sheriff's department had no previous contact with them, either.
Boggs said he hoped that the wife's escape would give courage to other people who may be trapped in abusive relationships.

"There's all kinds of people out there who are willing to help," he said.

BBQ Bites Back

Published - Jul 10 2012 11:30AM CST

Associated Press

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Tacoma man needed emergency surgery after eating a steel bristle from a grill brush he used during a barbeque.

Doctors found a metal bristle on a CT scan and performed surgery to get it out.

KING 5 reports that (http://is.gd/J7Tivj ) Adam Wojtanowicz (woh-TAN-oh-witz) went to the hospital Sunday complaining of abdominal pain that wouldn't go away despite his taking medication. (what, a metal solvent?)

Wojtanowicz says he recently hosted a cookout, and he thinks a steel bristle from his grill brush fell onto his steak and he cooked and swallowed it without noticing. 

The Centers for Disease Control says it knows of at least six people who have recently suffered similar, potentially fatal, injuries. It doesn't blame a particular brand or type of brush.

Wojtanowicz is expected to recover.  The brush is in potentially critical condition but still could be used for post dining S&M.

Outdoor cooks are encouraged to clean their grills before cooking any food, rather than during cooking.

The Only "Just" Bullfight

Stop tormenting and killing these magnificent animals for entertainment!

    July 6, 2012 Russia

  There’s irony, and then there’s the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, pronounced "FagMuk" a 49-year-old Russian woman who woke up at her own funeral only to have a heart attack and die when she realized what was going on. Mukhametzyanov had been falsely declared dead after collapsing with chest pains, the Daily Mail reports. When she awoke, she was lying in a coffin, with mourners filing past and saying prayers. She screamed, and passed out again.

“Her eyes fluttered, and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital,” her husband says. “But she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.” The hospital says it’s investigating the incident. “I am very angry, and I want answers,” the husband says. “She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.”

The husband's brother pointed out that the casket had to be paid in advance and was no longer usable.  "Who wants a used casket?  And, the half dead woman would not want to use the same casket she was about to be buried in.

Free Meth At St. Louis, Mo. Walmart

Cops: Woman Shoplifted Ingredients and Cooked Meth Inside Walmart

•  Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY

6/10/12

CAPTION

By Associated Press

A woman in St. Louis, Mo. was arrested this week after police said she was caught shoplifting and cooking a small amount of methamphetamine inside a Walmart, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

The chemical concoction was found inside a soda bottle in the woman's purse after a Walmart employee confronted her about stealing cosmetics from the store.

Later the store's security and police discovered a 20-ounce bottle containing the drug. The Walmart was then evacuated. No one was injured.

A Walmart spokesperson said it was against company policy to cook meth on Walmart property.

A Walmart spokes-idiot emphasized Walmart would cheerfully refund the cost of any ingredients paid for by the customer prior to their use in making the meth.

The trend of cooking small quantities of meth for personal use--referred to as "one-pot" batches-- is on the rise, the paper reports.

"There are lots of one-pot cooks," St. Louis County police Lt. Mark Cox told the paper. "But taking it into Walmart is very unusual."

Alleged Record Claimed to be a Croc by Doubters

Guinness: Philippine Crocodile Said Largest in Captivity

 Jul 01 2012 

JIM GOMEZ, Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Guinness World Records has declared that a huge crocodile blamed for deadly attacks in the southern Philippines is the largest in captivity in the world. The giant reptile has brought pride, fear, tourism revenues and attention to the remote town where it was captured.

The saltwater crocodile named Lolong, which was captured last September in Bunawan town in Agusan del Sur province, measures 20.24 feet (6.17 meters) and weighs more than a ton, Guinness spokeswoman Anne-Lise Rouse said in a statement on Sunday. The reptile took the top spot from an Australian crocodile which measured more than 17 feet (5 meters) and weighed nearly a ton.
Bunawan Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde said the news sparked celebrations in his farming town of 37,000 but also fostered concerns that more giant crocodiles might be lurking in a nearby marshland and creek where villagers fish.
"There were mixed feelings," Elorde said by telephone. "We're really proud because it proves the rich biodiversity of our place but at the same time, there are fears that Lolong may not be alone."

Lolong has become the star attraction of a new ecotourism park and research center in the outskirts of Bunawan and has drawn thousands of tourists since news of its capture spread. Elorde said his town has earned 3 million pesos ($72,000) from the modest entrance fees at the park, with most of the money being used to feed and care for the crocodile and for park maintenance.
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje welcomed the Guinness announcement and the growing attention being given to the crocodile, saying it would help people realize the biodiversity of their surroundings and the need to protect it. He said he would recommend that the government help Bunawan become an ecotourism destination.

The crocodile was captured with steel cable traps during a three-week hunt after a child was killed in 2009 and a fisherman went missing. Water buffalos have also been attacked by crocodiles in the area, officials said.

About 100 people led by Elorde pulled the crocodile from a creek using a rope and then hoisted it by crane onto a truck. It was named after a government environmental officer who died from a heart attack after traveling to Bunawan to help capture the beast, Elorde said.

Elorde said he saw a bigger crocodile escape when Lolong was captured and villagers remain wary of fishing there at night. He said he has formed a new team of hunters and is seeking government permission to start hunting the second crocodile.  The captured croc doesn't look very comfortable in it's new apparel.

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