That kid had it all wrong. What you do is you pay someone to kidnap your parents, and then you attend the conferrence dressed as one of them, and say the other couldn't make it.
A German roofer is facing a big bill after emergency services mistook him for a potential suicide jumper.
Police sealed off a busy main road and called out the fire brigade and negotiators to talk to Dieter Holmblutter, 30, who was on the roof of a five storey building in Saarbruecken.
But the roofer was so busy talking on the phone to his girlfriend he failed to notice the commotion below until she asked him what the sirens were for.
Once the mistake was realised, emergency services left the roofer to finish preparing his estimate.
But officials say he will be presented with the bill for wasting their time - reported to be several thousand pounds.
Three Argentinian football fans were thrown out of their team's World Cup clash with Holland for pretending to be disabled.
The fans bought wheelchairs and then bought special cheap tickets reserved for disabled fans to get into the match.
But their ruse was discovered when one of the trio got carried away by the game and started jumping up and down.
One of the three, who gave his name as only Gustavo, told Folha de SP: "Our friend couldn't stop jumping and a person near us thought there was a miracle happening."
Another of the group, Claudio, added: "We are embarrassed by what we did, but we had no alternative. We did not have the money to pay for a ticket."
I was watching Jimmy Kimmel last night, and they had a video of a guy setting the world record for most goals in the world cup, when he scored his 2nd goal.
I saw that guy make two goals. I thought it was cool. Didn't know it was a world record.
There's not much to get me jumping. I'll applaud at my TV when watching sumo when a little guy topples a Yokozuna, or when I see the Spider Man 3 trailer. Maybe I'm just not that enthusiastic about anything.
Which world record was that? Just I'm sure the world record for number of goals scored by a single player in a world cup is something like 13 in the whole tournament and 5 in a single match.
As I didn't see the show I just wondered which record they were on about.
Not likely, because the guy who scored five would have had to score more than 2 in one of the halves.
I think Kimmel was probably making a crappy joke about it being a low scoring game, which is because people apparently don't understand the draw of a game that ends with less than a hundred points on the scoreboard at the end.
Baseball's popularity is falling and has been for awhile now. As for the record, it's the most goals scored in all world cups he's been in. I think the guys played in 3 world cups and scored a total of 15 goals, which is a record.
A Morrisville teenager who broke into a tomb and used a hacksaw to cut the head off of a corpse was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to 1 to 7 years in prison.
Nickolas Buckalew, 18, pleaded guilty in Caledonia District Court to a felony charge of intentionally removing or injuring a tombstone and a felony charge of intentionally disinterring and carrying away the remains of a human body.
The Lamoille County case was transferred to the Caledonia courthouse in St. Johnsbury after a waterline failure left the Hyde Park courthouse without water.
On April 8, 2005, Buckalew went to a cemetery on the Washington highway in Morrisville and broke into an above-ground tomb, opened the lid of a casket and cut off the head of a corpse. He wrapped the head in plastic bags and took it home. He also stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the corpse.
Buckalew told witnesses he intended to leave the severed head out and would then bleach it, according to the affidavit of Senior Patrolman Ryan Bjerke of the Morristown Police Department. He told witnesses he intended to turn the skull into a bong, which is a type of pipe used to smoke marijuana or other drugs.
After removing the head from the corpse, Buckalew went to an apartment house where he told residents of an apartment what he had done and that he had done the crimes because he was bored, according to police, who did not identify the witnesses because they are juveniles.
Buckalew was described by witnesses as "Gothic," wearing all black clothing with spiked hair.
Witnesses went to the tomb to see if Buckalew did as he claimed and they looked through holes in the tomb and saw that the lid had been removed from a casket and there was a headless body in the casket.
On April 9 at 2:45 p.m., Morristown police executed a search warrant at Buckalew's residence located at 1591 Elmore St. in Morrisville. They found a human head wrapped in bags, a necktie, a hacksaw, crowbar, garden trowel and two small parts of the damaged casket.
During Wednesday afternoon's sentencing hearing, Judge Dennis Pearson upheld the plea agreement between the state and the defendant and sentenced Buckalew to a total of 1 to 7 years to serve in prison. Buckalew was given credit for the 14 months he's served in prison awaiting trial. He will be sent to Spring Lake Ranch in Cuttingsville, Vt., a therapeutic community residential treatment program, where he will obtain intensive counseling for mental health issues. He will remain there for an indeterminate period under a conditional community reentry program. He will be in the custody of the Department of Corrections for up to seven years under the conditional reentry program.
Dr. Philip Kinsler, a clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., testified that Buckalew suffered from a bipolar disorder that was described as "biologically based mental illness." He testified learning from Buckalew that "he has always felt extraordinarily out of place" and that Buckalew told him that in the fourth grade he attempted to hang himself.
The witness told the court Buckalew also engaged in self-mutilation behavior.
Dr. Kinsler told the court "the defendant can be rehabilitated" and that he supported the plan to place Buckalew at the Spring Lake Ranch for treatment.
Buckalew, with a short haircut and wearing black framed glasses, was dressed in a light brown suit. He was quiet and expressionless throughout the hearing. At the end of the hearing, he addressed the court saying, "It was a horrendous thing that I did -- what I did was appalling." He told the court, "I didn't think of the victim." Buckalew told the court: "I want to get help for my mental problems."
Which is why so many people fail the clay sculpting segments of art classes.
I had a whole class that was nothing but clay sculpting in highschool. I was too busy impressing the many ladies at my table by making stuff like a 2-headed ogre, and a big monster that was paired with a guy holding a broken sword to consider making a stupid device I'd never have a use for.
Lesson learned: It's better to be an artist than an addict.
FYI: Clay is a horrible substance from which to make a smoking device. It heats up far too easily, and makes any smoking experience far less enjoyable.
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Bah! The whole world is fucked up. It's really as simple as that.
"Disabled" fans ejected for dancing
And in my opinion, soccer isn't the kind of sport that gets me carried away into jumping. There aren't many, actually. I likes my sitting.
There's not much to get me jumping. I'll applaud at my TV when watching sumo when a little guy topples a Yokozuna, or when I see the Spider Man 3 trailer. Maybe I'm just not that enthusiastic about anything.
As I didn't see the show I just wondered which record they were on about.
Not likely, because the guy who scored five would have had to score more than 2 in one of the halves.
I think Kimmel was probably making a crappy joke about it being a low scoring game, which is because people apparently don't understand the draw of a game that ends with less than a hundred points on the scoreboard at the end.
There’s a lever on the statue of David which allows transformation into a 40-man bong.
Bongsmithing 101?
I had a whole class that was nothing but clay sculpting in highschool. I was too busy impressing the many ladies at my table by making stuff like a 2-headed ogre, and a big monster that was paired with a guy holding a broken sword to consider making a stupid device I'd never have a use for.
Lesson learned: It's better to be an artist than an addict.