A Swedish man, Arndt Persson, was stopped at the Norwegian border with about 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of raw, frozen chicken.
This is the ninth time the chicken smuggler has tried to take the poultry across the border in his Volvo. The Norwegian customs officers were less than shocked.
"He can count on getting a fine and we've confiscated the goods," Gro Lene Gundelsby, the Norwegian head of customs, told Dagens Nyheter newspaper Monday.
It is only legal to transport 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of poultry across the border.
Next month Persson is thinking about driving a Saab.
Do not snort the water.
A rare and deadly brain-destroying amoeba was found in a
parish water supply in Louisiana ,
officials said early today, although there were no reported illnesses. The
Naegleria fowleri bug was found in the water system serving 12,577 people in
the towns of Reserve, Garyville and Mt. Airy , St.
John the Baptist Parish representative Paige Falgoust
said in a statement.
The water, which is now being treated with chlorine, is
safe to drink but the infection can pose a risk if it enters the nasal passage.
"Families can take simple steps to protect themselves from exposure to
this amoeba, the most important being to avoid allowing water to go up your
nose" said
Louisiana State Health Officer Jimmy Guidry.
The bug thrives in warm, untreated fresh water as well as hot springs and hot
water heaters. It has also been found
in untreated swimming pools. Infections with Naegleria fowleri are rare, but
they are almost always deadly.
The CDC reports some 132 people are known to have been infected
in the more than 50 years from 1962 to 2014, but only three survived.
A Utah woman was ordered
to stand trial on arson charges after she allegedly used bacon to ignite a
house fire in her ex-boyfriend's home.
Cameo Adawn Crispi's ex-boyfriend was away from his home when he received a barrage of calls and text messages from his embittered
ex. Crispi told her former lover that she was in his home, prompting him to
call police.
Police arrived to smoke coming from house's front door.
The responding officer reported, "I asked to come in and observed a wood stove left open
with a fire burning inside and hot coals on the floor." I also noticed sizzling bacon. The setting was on 'High' and the bacon severely burned and smoking badly."
Crispi was arrested, and following medical clearance, taken
to jail. The 32-year-old's blood alcohol content was 0.346, over four times Utah 's legal limit.
She
is charged with arson, burglary, assault by a prisoner,
interfering with an arresting officer, electronic communication harassment, ruining a perfectly good pound of Harmon's Best Bacon and
intoxication.
A man in Michigan with a
100-pound scrotum successfully raised enough money to undergo surgery to have
it removed.
When Dan Millhouse was in his late 20s, he noticed his scrotum
was swelling to an abnormal size. After doctors told him to simply lose
weight, he dropped 50 pounds, but his scrotum kept growing.
A decade later, Millhouse now 39, can only move 40 feet at a
time and is the unwanted center of attention whenever he leaves the house.
"I haven't had marital relations in seven years"
lamented Millhouse. He suffers from scrotal lyphedema, a rare condition that
he thought was untreatable.
But a TLC documentary about a man with an even larger
scrotum inspired Millhouse to return to the medical community that failed him and
undergo the expensive and dangerous surgery to have the growth removed.
"With the surgery, my life, and worse, my
penis is on the line. I guarantee
almost all men would go for the best doctor."
After raising $28,000 on GoFundMe,
Millhouse will indeed see the best, Dr. Jeffery Gellick of UC Irvine, the same man who
treated Wesley Warwick Jr., "The Man with the 132-Pound Scrotum."
Millhouse goes under the knife later today.
A Virginia man whose last name is Stoner faces numerous drug charges after police seized over $10,000 in cannabis plants from his home.
An Australian hospital was forced to issue an apology after it faxed out death notices for 200 patients who are still breathing.
Austin Hospital of Melbourne accidentally sent the erroneous death notices to the family doctors of its patients.
The notice was supposed to report that the patients had been discharged.
According to the Herald Sun, at least one doctor informed family members that their loved one had died.
It is believed that human error is to blame.
"In the process of inserting the template which notifies a GP of his or her patient's discharge, the changes were saved to the standard death template," Austin Health said in a statement. "We apologized unreservedly to affected clinics that, for the most part, were very understanding about the error."
Victoria opposition leader Daniel Andrews said the mistake was an example of the problems that exist with the health system that is currently in place. "It is unacceptable that an error like that was made," he said, according to the Guardian.
"We need to spend more time and develop ways to ensure we have a better understanding of our computer and business center, especially the billing department. Once we do that we can focus on keeping these people alive. It's important to know exactly when our patients die."
A study published in The American Journal Of Medicine determined that it is highly detrimental to the physical and mental health of human beings for them to spend any more than five consecutive hours in each other’s company.
“Our research shows that humans are not evolutionarily equipped to handle being together for extended periods of time,” said the study’s lead author, Mark Hughson, adding that the findings applied equally to both casual acquaintances and immediate family members.
“We found that, optimally, people should limit themselves to between three and twenty minutes in another person’s company, with five hours representing the absolute maximum amount of time that anyone should allow themselves to be in the presence of others. In addition, they should permit at least three days to elapse in between human interactions, preferably a week. We simply weren’t constructed to put up with more than that.”
Hughson went on to say that while humans had the capacity to withstand each other’s company in five-hour increments, it was ideal for them to isolate themselves permanently as early in life as possible.
Right Source, my prescription carrier now has a mobile app. When I'm out and about I can; Scan to refill prescriptions, check order status, track shipments and set refill reminders.
While this may come in handy for the street dealer I doubt anyone actually needs to know precisely when their oxybutynin arrives.
Yesterday I was minding my own business when I heard a tapping at the door. Against my better judgment, after all, who would be visiting me at 11:00 a.m., I went to check the source of noise.
Two nice ladies wanted to give me a pamphlet entitled "Where can we find answers to life's big questions?"
Are the answers in...science? philosophy? the Bible?
They were Jehovah's Witnesses and wanted to tell me about the new app for the Bible and all my answers to the meaning of life.
What's next...Gideon's placing smart phones in motel drawers?
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