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Friday, November 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Mystery metal ball an outback space oddity
AN outback farmer is on a mission to identify a strange ball of twisted metal - purported to be fallen space junk - which mysteriously turned up on his remote property.
James Stirton of Cheepie, 130km from Charleville in southwestern Queensland, was heading out to feed cattle on his 40,500-hectare property when he came upon the bizarre-looking blackened ball.“It was just off the road and I had been going up there every couple of days to feed cattle so I would be surprised if it had been there more than a week,” Mr Stirton said.
Basil Brush probed over race slurs
A POPULAR children's TV puppet show starring Basil Brush has been accused of racially abusing gypsies.
British police have launched an investigation into claims that an episode of the Basil Brush Show that screened on the BBC was racially offensive because it showed a gypsy woman trying to sell the puppet fox wooden pegs and a bunch of heather.
"This sort of thing happens quite regularly and we are fed up with making complaints about stereotypical comments about us in words that we find racist or offensive," Joseph Jones, vice-chairman of the Southern England Romany Gipsy and Irish Traveller Network, told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Dead man says he feels pretty good
AN Oklahoma man who was about to have his organs removed by doctors after they declared him brain dead says he feels "pretty good" four months on.
Zach Dunlap, 21, was pronounced dead at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas on November 19 after he was injured in a quad bike accident.
His family gave approval for his organs to be removed for donation.
But, as family members were paying their last respects, they were shocked to see him move his foot and hand, the Daily Mail reported today.
After 48 days in hospital, he was allowed to return home



