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[Adam Wednesdays]

Lightning stikes kills an entire football team, leaves opposing team unscathed.

FOOTBALL FANS in the central African state of Congo were hurling accusations of witchcraft at each other yesterday after a freak blast of lightning struck dead an entire team on the playing field while their opponents were left completely untouched.
The bizarre blow by the weather to all 11 members of the football team was reported in the daily newspaper L'Avenir in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo.

"Lightning killed at a stroke 11 young people aged between 20 and 35 years during a football match," the newspaper reported . It went on to say that 30 other people had received burns at the weekend match, held in the eastern province of Kasai. "The athletes from Basanga [the home team] curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed."

The suspicion that the black arts might be involved arose firstly because the opposing team emerged unharmed and then again because the score at the time was a delicately balanced one all.

"The exact nature of the lightning has divided the population in this region which is known for its use of fetishes in football," the newspaper commented.

Much of the detail about the match remains obscure as the Congo - officially known as the Democratic Republic of Congo - remains stricken by civil war between the government of Laurent Kabila and rebel forces, backed by neighbouring Rwanda, in the east of the country.

Witchcraft is often blamed for adverse natural phenomena throughout western and central Africa. It is relatively frequent for football teams to hire witchdoctors to place hexes on their opponents.

In a similar, though less deadly incident in South Africa over the weekend, six players from a local team were hurt when lightning struck the playing field during a thunderstorm.

[Ogul]

Well, I mean, that was clearly an obvious case of witchcraft. Either that or the opposing team had better shoes.

[Steve Sensible]

Man trapped in snowed in car survives on nothing but snow for two months.

[ditta]

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Ever wanted to buy a custom made Michael McDonald ps1/ps2 arcade joystick controller?

Edited by ditta, 20 February 2012 - 11:21 PM.

[Mike]

This is one of the local newspapers at home; I was setting a fire yesterday evening and this story in the newspaper caught my eye as I was scrunching:



Many many moons ago, I used to live in the part of town that Darth is now roaming. The idea of a Sith Lord on the loose amuses me.

Tall, Germanic sounding Darth Vader ... hmm ...

[Christian U]

You can prove nothing! Nothing, I say!

[Mike]

I didn't even MENTION your name. A guilty conscience I feel.

[Christian U]

You didn't need to mention my name. I felt the disturbance in the force.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Are you waiting for the invention of the flying car? Well, you're too late, because two people already invented a flying Ford Pinto in the 1970s... guess how they died?

If you're one of those people who's always wondering why the flying car hasn't been invented yet, you're too late. The first flying car was already created back in the 1970s — but don't get too excited. It was literally a huge disaster.
Over the last year, scientists have been trying to perfect a real flying car — which is for the best, since an imperfect car has caused a lot of trouble in the past. Henry Smolinski was the inventor of the first flying car — and it killed him. But it was a beautiful dream while it lasted.

Henry Smolinski and his partner, Hal Blake, founded Advanced Vehicle Engineers in 1971, expressly to design and build a flying car. Their one and only product was the AVE Mizar — and it wasn't a design that allowed you to take to the air if you hit a traffic jam on the highway.Instead, it was a simply a car that a person could attach wings to, fly up into the air at a local airport, come down a few hundred miles away at another airport, stick the wings in the trunk, and head out down the road.

The prototypes of the car were made by sawing up a Cessna Skymaster airplane and a Ford Pinto, and putting them together. The controls were adapted so that they drove the car on the ground and the plane in the air. The fact that they managed it at all was an impressive feat, and even though the engine failed on their first flight, they landed the Mizar and drove it back to the airport. The combination of imagination, determination, and bravado was a hit — and in early 1973, the Mizar was considered to be the new automotive sensation.

It wasn't until late 1973 that Smolinski and Blake discovered there was a problem with a plane whose wings were designed to come off. The pair were going down the driveway on a routine flight of the Mizar, when the Cessna wings detached from the car. This left the two inventors in mid-air in a Pinto.

The two inventors were killed, and the idea was completely scrapped. The idea that today there could be Pintos swooping and turning over our heads like combustible pterodactyls is both wonderful and terrible. While hindsight is twenty-twenty, it is, perhaps, understandable to allow a moment of silence not just for the two men that died, but for the kooky idea that died with them.

[Todd Gambrel]

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[Ulf Imwiehe]

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[Christian U]

So, remember how David Hasselhoff thought he was the one brought down the Berlin Wall?

He's been taking his love affair with German history a step further, it seems:









Hasselhoff Hitler. I'm sort of glad I got to type that during my lifetime.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

"Heil Hasselhoff" does have a certain, imperial ring to it, doesn't it?

[Christian U]

And he's way more the Aryan type than Hitler was, really.

[Adam Wednesdays]

So, remember how David Hasselhoff thought he was the one brought down the Berlin Wall?

He's been taking his love affair with German history a step further, it seems:









Hasselhoff Hitler. I'm sort of glad I got to type that during my lifetime.

oh for... what the Hell?

[stephanie familiar]

remind me to never buy a song from the game. not like that will be a problem. what a despicable piece of shit, i hope someone takes a baseball bat to his face.

[Christian U]

oh for... what the Hell?

Beggars belief, doesn't it?

Still unable to find out whether at least he's performing a song from The Producers or something, or whether he just decided to put a Hitler costume on for I've Been Looking for Freedom or something.

Edited by Christian U, 07 March 2012 - 07:51 PM.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Were those pictures taken at his London show?

[brucegray666]

It was for a Producers number.Your google fu is weak, took me all of 15 seconds to find the answer:

http://www.thisislon...ew-7537294.html

http://www.thesun.co...-live-show.html

http://ca.omg.yahoo....-183653526.html

[Nicholas Taggart]

The details in those articles make it even better


"the finale which involved a tiny Berlin Wall being built on stage"

http://www.thisislon...ew-7537294.html


"The Hoff, 59, dressed as Hitler for a tune from Mel Brooks musical The Producers.

He forgot lyrics and invited fans for a limbo dance that became a stage invasion.

A fan at London's IndigO2 called the gig a "complete shambles".

Hasselhoff later tweeted: "GREAT crowd!""

http://www.thesun.co...-live-show.html