Opps, see wrongly: Police in Wales were called to investigate a mysterious flying saucer, only to discover it was the moon.
Moon mistaken for UFO
The moon was mistaken for a “bright, stationary” UFO which had been loitering for at least half an hour, by a confused local in South Wales who made a 999 call to the police.
Today officers released a transcript in order to highlight the time wasted by unnecessary 999 calls.
Control: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”
Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”
Control: “Right.”
Caller: “If you’ve got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It’s been there at least half an hour and it’s still there.”
Control: “It’s been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?”
Caller: “It’s in the air.”
Control: “I will send someone up there now to check it out.”
Caller: “OK.”
After the police patrol car arrives, the script reveals the exchange between the control room and the police officer sent to the scene.
Control: “Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?”
Officer: “Yes, it’s the moon. Over.” (Source: Telegraph)
Is there something Dubai can’t and won’t do? Lots of architectural wonders there are being built or have been built in Dubai. Many of them looked beautiful in pictures, but this, this is a little different - this one moves:
Dubai plans ‘moving’ skyscraper
The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.
“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York.
“This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime,” he added.
The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building’s apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor. (Source: BBC)
Go to BBC’s page for a video too. Probably a waste of money in the sense where we don’t really need a building that moves.
It redefines a ‘living thing’. My primary school taught me that living thing is anything that could move, hahaa…
Man named God arrested for selling cocaine - near a church
TAMPA, FL — Whether his name is a blessing or curse the man named God Lucky Howard was arrested by undercover detectives for selling cocaine in his neighborhood.
If the delivery of cocaine charge isn’t enough Howard is charged with the delivery of cocaine near a church, a school and public housing near North Avon Avenue in Tampa.
After obtaining a warrant Police searched Howard’s home and found an additional 22 grams of cocaine and a scale. (Source: ABC)
Names are getting stranger these days. I prefer the traditional names like Tom, Jack, Bob and John. It’s simple.
Well, if you perform out of the requirements of your job and benefit the community in China, you might just get a nice promotion.
China cop promoted for breastfeeding quake babies
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during last month’s earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should be awarded on merit, not merely for good deeds.
Jiang Xiaojuan, 30, left her own baby with her parents and took part in the disaster relief work, breastfeeding nine babies, earning her the nickname of “the police mum” in the press.
She has since been awarded titles of “hero and model police officer” and “excellent member of the Communist Party”, was appointed to the Communist Party of China Committee of the Jiangyou Public Security Bureau and became the bureau’s vice commissar, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. (Source: Yahoo)
While it does seemed strange, I kinda think she deserves it.
Mixed Messages is a shop dropping intervention that critiques absurd and manipulative advertising language by re-labeling products in supermarkets and stores.
Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Beginner’s Guide to the Subversive Urban Art of Reverse Shoplifting
Shopdropping was probably the last kind of giving on most people’s minds as they shopped during the holiday season. Shopdropping, also known as droplifting, is the incredible act of reverse shoplifting: going into stores and putting things onto the shelves. Banksy is probably the best known shopdropper, famous for putting out his own subvertised versions of Paris Hilton’s CDs and hanging his subversive art in galleries.
It might not surprise you to learn that reactions to shopdropping or droplifting vary as much as approaches to it and reasons for doing it. Some people find it harmless and amusing while others find it shocking and disturbing. Shopdroppers who are caught are variously freed by confused police or held on charges related to destruction of property or even fraud. Reactions, criticisms or other shopdropping thoughts? (Source: Web Urbanist)
Well, it would be interesting to see this in my country although it is illegal.
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr shares how he quit drugs.
Some addicts say they reach “rock bottom” when they lose their health or their family — but Robert Downey Jr hit his lowest ebb when he ordered a Burger King!
The Iron Man star has publicly thanked the fast food chain for helping him get on the road to recovery by serving him a cheeseburger so disgusting that it forced him to reassess his entire life, according to Britain’s film magazine Empire.
“I have to thank Burger King,” he told the magazine. “It was such a disgusting burger I ordered.
“I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen.”
Downey Jr. says he went and threw all his drugs into the ocean right there and then. (Source: OK Magazine
Well… I don’t know if Burger King would be pleased about it.
Well, you can find Osama in the US$20 bill. Something interesting.
I get a little irritated when I see the elliptical stroke not elliptical enough. I just want to let that Photoshop user know that you could have set your stroke blending to ‘Outside’ instead of ‘Inside’ or ‘Center’.
