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VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:41 am

125th St? <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /> Well, doesn't this make you feel safe?  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> No body can derail trains from schedule October 17, 2005 A disheveled man landed on the floor of the uptown D train the other morning. His Boston Red Sox cap came to rest near his feet. "Yo, he went down mad hard," said a young man standing nearby. "That boy is out." An off-duty transit worker standing in the car said he had already notified the train operator. Police and paramedics, he said, were on the way. Another train idled in the tunnel, its lights visible from the platform beneath Rockefeller Center. The passengers, nearly two or three dozen of them, took seats and waited patiently. Some read, a few nodded. Others reinserted earphones. Several minutes later, with help apparently still on the way, the train operator hurried into the car. "We have to get help en route," he said. "We can't stand here." He returned to the cab, slamming the door behind him. "Sir, are you all right?" a stranger asked the man on the floor, who was indeed out cold. He asked again and again, nudging the man with his hand. There was no response. "He appears to be breathing," the stranger said. Two or three people standing around the man sat down. "What are you going to do?" one of them asked. The doors closed. The train pulled out, with the man still stretched out near the back of the first car. The train made its regular stop at Seventh Avenue. Passengers boarded. A few glanced at the poor guy on the floor before moving in the opposite direction. One rider, with his foot, slid the Red Sox cap closer to the man's head before sitting down. The doors closed. At Columbus Circle, the scene was repeated: People came in; people left; the man just lay there. On the platform, the stranger walked up to the motorman's window and inquired about medical assistance for the man. "Help is waiting at 125th Street," the motorman said. "Be there in no time." "At 125th Street?" the stranger asked. "No worries," the motorman said. "We're running express." These days, few things seem to slow down the trains - not torrential rains or foreign-based terror plots or even unattended knapsacks with bits of red and black wire protruding from them. One recent Friday afternoon, a bunch of rowdy schoolkids were hanging around the fourth car of a Manhattan-bound E train out in Queens. One kid was swinging from the bars. Others were pushing and shoving. This was one day after the mayor and police commissioner went public with information that terrorists were planning to attack the New York subway with exploding suitcases and babby carriages. Life seemed normal underground. One kid pulled a pair of black and red wires, probably computer cables, from his knapsack and left them dangling from the bag's side. "Check this out," he told his friends. The teen then placed the bag on the floor near the door to the next car. At Queens Plaza, the kid popped his head out of the car and told the conductor that there was a suspicious package on board the train. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are being temporarily delayed," the conductor announced moments later. "We are sorry for the inconvenience." A man on the train, aware of the prank, jumped from his seat and snatched the kid's knapsack from the floor. He hurried to the door, pushed the kid out of the way, and hurled the bag across the platform. Textbooks, notebooks, pens and pencils, an iPod and strands of wire burst from the bag on impact. "That's my bag," said the young man who planted the allegedly suspicious package, running after his belongings. "Are you crazy?" "Not crazy, just tired!" the man answered before turning to the conductor in the booth. "We found the owner of the unattended bag - false alarm," he informed the conductor, then jumped back on the train. "Ladies and gentlemen, 23rd Street-Ely Avenue is the next stop," the conductor announced. " Sorry for the delay. Watch the closing doors." Email: ray.sanchez@newsday.com </td></tr></table>

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:42 am

Not really...

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:46 pm

<a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/ebay_mp3_sale/' target='_blank'>Psst . . . anybody wanna purchase a political party?</a>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> UK political party flogged on eBay MP3 yours for [Pound currency symbol here, because the board doesn't like it]2k By electricnews.net Published Tuesday 18th October 2005 15:41 GMT The MP3 Party, a UK political party which aimed to simplify British government and civil administration, has put itself up for sale on eBay. The party, which was officially registered as a political party in 2002 by the UK Electoral Commission, is currently on sale on the online auction site for a starting bid of [Once again, insert British pound currency symbol here]2,000. The political party has been for sale on eBay for the past three days and has yet to attract a single bid. The founders of the party, who include Russian-born Ruslan G. Fedorovsky, have decided to sell up, saying they are "too preoccupied with their own projects to make MP3 Party into real political force". They say they hope the new owner will be someone who can take the party forward. In addition to becoming the new owner of the MP3 Party, a successful bidder will get all rights to existing party logos, the party domain names - www.theMP3Party.com and the www.MP3Party.co.uk - and all current party officials will be replaced by the lucky bidder's new party officials at the UK Electoral Commission. The inspiration for the party's name is drawn from the MP3 community, who swap digital media files online. Based on the mathematical theory of complex systems, the party's philosophy states that complex systems of any kind are inherently dysfunctional. Therefore when social, legal and administrative systems reach a certain level of complexity they cease functioning. The MP3 Party wanted to apply this mathematical theory to politics and government. In addition to attracting voters from amongst the MP3 community, the party was also targeting young voters were uninterested in old-fashioned political process and systems. The party sought to implement its simplification policy into all aspects of life in the UK, including taxation, law, economics, foreign policy, immigration and the monarchy. One of the proposed slogans for the party read: "Elect us and we will delete one regulation per day, one law per week, one subsidy per month and one tax per year." Copyright © 2005, ElectricNews.Net </td></tr></table>

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:49 am

The MP3 party? I take it one thing they support is free music files for everybody. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />

Joe3210 · Postby **Joe3210** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:15 pm

Dressing up your ipod? That's as mad as cosplaying your favorite character.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:00 am

Folks! How'd we miss this one?  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Squirrels on crack Oct 7 2005 South London Press NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes. The furry animals are thought to be behind a new drugs turf war in Brixton - stealing rocks of crack hidden in front gardens. Tough police action to rid the town centre of dealers and addicts has seen crackheads abandon their usual drug stash hideouts. But the blitz has displaced some dealing into nearby residential streets. Drug addicts are known to be hiding small stashes of crack rocks in people's front lawns late at night. Squirrels have been spotted in the same front gardens, seemingly hunting out the buried narcotics. The discovery has led some residents to speculate that the squirrels are already in the grips of addiction. One resident, who asked for his name to be withheld, told the South London Press. "I was chatting with my neighbour who told me that crack users and dealers sometimes use my front garden to hide bits of their stash. "An hour earlier I'd seen a squirrel wandering round the garden, digging in the flowerbeds. "It looked like it knew what it was looking for. "It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging. "It was almost as if it was trying to find hidden crack rocks." Crack squirrels are a recognised phenomena in the US. They are known to live in parks frequented by addicts in New York and Washington DC. The squirrels have attacked park visitors in their frenzied search for their next fix. An RSPCA spokesman said he was unaware of the squirrels taking crack in Brixton. </td></tr></table>

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:30 am

I've seen a squirrel carry a chicken wing up a tree so this doesn't seem too unlikely.

DesertFoxCat · Postby **DesertFoxCat** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:17 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Bocaj Claw @ Oct 24 2005, 04:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I've seen a squirrel carry a chicken wing up a tree so this doesn't seem too unlikely.  </td></tr></table>  lucky! all they do is plant corn around my house.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:55 pm

I once saw a squirl eat an entire bird.

Rooster · Postby **Rooster** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:37 pm

Was it either a very small bird or a large squirrel? Because otherwise I find that hard to beleive <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ailwag.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tailwag.gif' />

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:39 pm

It was a babby ird. IT's mtoehr kicked it out of the nest and it fell. I coudlnt; fly yet. I squril came up to it, killed it, and ate it. *snif* Isn;t nature beautifull.

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:00 pm

You were observing the Great Circle of.... Ssssstuff. I always thought squirrels were sorta herbivores though. And now I know. And knowing is some percentage of the battle.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:21 pm

I once saw a squirrel eat me.

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:16 pm

And now, the morbid weird news of the day.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said. The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles. State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later. "They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal. "It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.</td></tr></table>

Rooster · Postby **Rooster** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:48 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Jacob @ Oct 26 2005, 06:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I once saw a squirrel eat me.  </td></tr></table>  How? Are you Tom Thumb, and were you experiencing an out of body experience?

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