3 Inch Long Leech Makes A Home Inside Young Lady's Nose

(Turns out the leech was just hoping for a cocaine fix)

Mr. Curly. That's the name Daniela Liverani gave to the 3-inch leech that doctors found living in her nostril last week. With that tone of creepiness established, we can now provide more details to a story that might have you giving the old schnozz a closer look the next time you see a mirror.

It took a medical team about 30 minutes to remove the leech; Liverani believes it had been living in there for about a month.

Four weeks might seem like a long time to have a not-small leech living in one's nostril. But Liverani, who lives in Glasgow, tells BBC Radio Scotland that she initially thought the invader was a clump of clotted blood, the result of a motorcycle crash she had while traveling in Vietnam.

Liverani, 24, had nosebleeds; her attempts to get the foreign object out of her nose failed. She says the best clues that she had an animal, not a blood clot, in her nose came in the shower. Here's her description:

"Obviously my nasal passages would open up because of the steam and the heat and the water, and it would come out quite far, about as far as my lip.
"So I could kind of see it out of the corner of my eye but still didn't think it was a worm because it just looked like a blood clot.
"On Thursday I jumped out the shower and I unsteamed the mirror and I had a proper good look, and I could see little ridges on him."

Read more about the leeching nose leech over at NPR

Giant Squid Attacks Submarine

(Nemo would know what to do)

The video was released by Greenpeace on Vine and shows the squid spinning around and squirting black ink at the sub.

The shocked crew pointed a light at the squid to try and scare it away. The squid continued to thrash around and whip the sub with its tentacles.

The incident occurred in the Bering Sea which is between Russia and Alaska although it is unclear when exactly it happened.

The squid apparently swam away unharmed and did not cause any damage to the submarine.

The only details accompanying the video was a message that said: “It’s a squid attacking a submarine during a #BeringSea expedition with @GreenpeaceUSA!

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Man Upset Over The Death Of His Cat Goes On Veterinary Clinic Stabbing Spree

Charles Anthony Smith, 57, of Bellingham, blamed veterinarians for the cat’s deteriorating health and eventual death, said Bellingham Detective Sgt. Mike Scanlon. The cat was briefly treated at Fountain Veterinary Hospital for urinary tract problems about a month ago. Smith learned another clinic in town, Maplewood Animal Hospital, specializes in urinary problems so he started taking the cat there. Then, earlier this week, the cat died, Scanlon said.

Smith walked into the animal hospital at 2869 W. Maplewood Ave., around 8:15 a.m. Thursday. He whipped out a steak knife and stabbed at one of the veterinarians, a woman in her 20s, Scanlon said. She suffered a cut to one of her thumbs and a small wound to her upper chest but didn’t need emergency treatment. The vet tore the knife away from Smith and escaped to the back of the building.

Smith pulled out a second knife, Scanlon said, and brandished it at front desk workers as he fled the building, shouting something to the effect of, “You need to leave!”

He hopped into his white pickup and drove off. About 10 minutes later, the same white truck rolled up to the other clinic at 2430 Meridian St. in the Fountain District. Smith walked inside Fountain Veterinary Hospital and, without saying a word, stabbed one of the employees in the neck, according to police. The puncture wound, just above the woman's collarbone, near her trachea, wasn’t critical. Someone called 911. By the time police arrived, Smith had driven away again.

Police phoned vet clinics throughout the city, warning them of the stabbing spree, as they searched for Smith or his pickup.

An officer pulled over the westbound truck at 8:44 a.m. at East Bakerview and James Street roads. Smith surrendered. He confessed to the stabbings, police said, and claimed he’d been on his way to the police station to turn himself in.

“He decided the (doctors) were either at fault, or they needed to … to pay for it, for lack of a better way of saying it,” Scanlon said.


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Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/10/09/3903928_police-bellingham-man-goes-on.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

Man Breaks Into Shed For Teddy Bear Sex

A randy burglar was caught after he had sex with a teddy bear while raiding a shed - and police discovered his DNA inside the toy.

Paul Mountain, 38, said he was coming down from amphetamines and felt an 'overwhelming need' for sexual relief, the Lancashire Telegraph reports.

It is believed he cut a hole inside the defenceless bear before getting down to business.

Blackburn Magistrates Court heard that the owner of an allotment found a shed had been broken into and the contents were spread all around.

On the floor among the wreckage she found the teddy bear - used and abused.

Prosecutor, Domenic Howells said: "The teddy bear was passed to the police and semen found inside came back to this defendant.

"He told officers he was coming down off amphetamine and felt overwhelming need for sexual relief."

MIRROR

The Caturday Report! Homing Cat Cleo Finds Her Missing Human

Nancy and her homing cat Cleo

"If home is where your heart is, then Cleo the cat definitely belongs with her owner Nancy Cowen.

Several weeks ago, the fluffy feline was separated from Cowen when the elderly woman was moved from her home in Westcott, England, into the Bramley House Residential Home in the same town.

Somehow the cat, who was left in the care of a neighbor, found her way to the nursing home – where she had never been before – presumably in an attempt to find her beloved owner.

Bramley House employee Laura Costello told the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, which first reported the sweet story, "About two weeks after Nancy moved in, this cat just started turning up and sleeping on the benches outside the home. It was very strange."



Staff at the home became friendly with the kitty, whose identity wouldn't be revealed until Cowen spotted the cat hanging out around the grounds a few weeks later.

"One of the other carers picked her up one day, and Nancy said, 'That cat looks like my cat,' " Costello recalled. "Then she said, 'But my cat lost part of her tail in a traffic accident.' The carer looked at the cat she was holding and realized part of its tail was missing. Then Nancy's sister came 'round and said she definitely was Cleo."

Clearly inseparable, Cowen and Cleo will now stay together at the facility, where staff have agreed to care for the cat and find her a home in the future if she needs one. For now, everyone is curious about how exactly Cleo found her way there.

"I have no idea how she's found her," Bramley House employee Fiona Collins told the Advertiser. "It's quite spooky in a way." 

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Protip! Never Yell "I HAVE EBOLA, YOU ARE ALL SCREWED!" On A Crowded Airliner

"A US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, was held upon landing yesterday after a sneezing passenger joked about having been to Africa. 

"I have Ebola, you are all screwed," the 54-year-old man said, according to the Dominican news site Diario Libre. Fox News reported he also screamed, "I've been to Africa!" 

The director of operations of the airport in Punta Cana confirmed a medical team boarded the plane in hazmat suits and took the passenger to a separate medical health area, where he was examined and found not to have the lethal disease. The Ministry of Public Health also confirmed the scare was a false alarm."

GAWKER 

"Once we landed in Punta Cana we were told by the flight attendants that there was a situation and that a passenger may have been in Africa and had Ebola. She was certain it was a hoax but they did not take any chances and had a full hazmat crew board the plane and take the passenger off. It was later confirmed that the passenger was never in Africa and after 2hrs we were finally able to get off the plane."

Grease Fire Burns Up Crematorium When They Try To Cremate 800 Pound Body

(Note the Chicken McNuggets sign)

"The body was so obese that the actual body fat came off and went straight up the sack and hit the roof material, the rubber roof we have up there and that's what made it go up like it did…It was no negligence involved in it. My guys, we did all we could. 

Once it started, the grease hit the roof and started the fire, the only thing we could do is dial 911 and get the fire department here,” Hendrix said. 

Three people were inside of the plant at the time of the fire. All were able to get out unharmed.

There were also three bodies on site at the time of the fire, but the manager says none were damaged in the process.

Later on Wednesday afternoon the crematorium received the go-ahead to resume cremating the body. The family was not present during the cremation, Hendrix said.

The business will be closed for a few days to repair damage to the roof and furnace.

He said the facility is known across Virginia for handling large people."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786560/Crematorium-set-ablaze-800lb-body-created-flames-caused-ceiling-catch-fire.html#ixzz3FmCC2DTo
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Arrested Couple Have Sex In Cop Car

Travis Husnik, 33, of Luxemburg, Wis., and Heather Basten, 29, of New Franken, Wis., were being transported Aug. 3 to Oconto County Jail after a traffic stop when they began having sex in the back seat. The deputy stopped the car, told Husnik to pull his pants back up, then put Husnik in the front seat.

"What do I sentence a guy who has sex in squad car to?" asked county Circuit Court Judge Jay Conley during a Sept. 24 sentencing. "It's not like you have a lot of law-school courses or training on what do you sentence a guy who has sex in a squad car to."

Assistant District Attorney Robert Mraz asked Conley to sentence Husnik to time served of nine days, the amount of time he was held until posting $1,500 bond.

"You would hope people would have more self-respect for themselves and have a better character than to do this behavior in the manner in which this defendant and his female friend did," Mraz told Conley.

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Invasion By 6,000 Brown Recluse Spiders Run Family Out Of Half Million Dollar Home

Covering the infested home

"Susan Trost testified she was walking through her new home, exploring it on her first day there, when she noticed a large, stringy web wrapped around one of the light fixtures.

It hadn’t been there on the walk-through date.

Neither had the webs in the bar area in the basement. In the kitchen, she tugged on a piece of loose wallpaper, and a spider skittered behind it.

She thought the home probably just needed a thorough cleaning, so she got to work.

In the following days, she saw spiders and their webs every day. They were in the mini blinds, the air registers, the pantry ceiling, the fireplace. Their exoskeletons were falling from the can lights. Once when she was showering, she dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

A month after living in the home, her 4-year-old son screamed frantically from the basement, and Trost saw a spider, about the size of a half dollar, inches from his foot.

Instead of smashing it, Trost trapped it in a plastic bag and looked it up on the Internet. It was a brown recluse.

Trost testified she contacted a pest control company that came in on a weekly basis, spraying the interior and exterior and setting down sticky traps.

Since brown recluse spiders often live behind walls, she hired someone to come in and remove drywall so the exterminator could spray behind it.

She hired another company to remove the insulation from the attic and put down a pesticide powder.

“After the attic treatment, it seemed to help for quite a while, although we were still capturing them,” she testifiedd. “It just was a decline; they weren’t gone.”

 At a jury trial in St. Charles County in October 2011, Jamel Sandidge, a biology professor at the University of Kansas, described the brown recluse problem at the Trost home as “immense,” between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders.

Most troubling was the fact, Sandidge testified, that those calculations were made in the wintertime, when the spiders are least active."

This is a story about how they got majorly screwed by State Farm Insurance as well. Go here for the rest of the story:  http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/extreme-case-of-brown-recluse-spiders-drives-owners-from-weldon/article_02e0dcb3-a772-5c47-84ce-ede4e21df346.html

Floating Bicycle "Superhighway" Proposed For London Cyclists

The streets of London are often crowded, making it difficult for cyclists to maneuver through the traffic. But now a group called the River Cycleway Consortium Ltd. made up of engineers, artists, and architects have proposed the solution of building a floating highway for bicycles along the River Thames.

The streets of London are often crowded, making it difficult for cyclists to maneuver through the traffic.

But now a group called the River Cycleway Consortium has proposed a solution which entails building a floating highway for bicycles along the River Thames.

The Consortium released a statement saying: "The river Thames, London’s main transportation thoroughfare from Roman times up to the 19th century, is overlooked today as a major travel artery except for a handful of passenger boats."

The project would reportedly cost around 960 million dollars, which would be covered by private investors and could be recouped by charging people the equivalent of around two dollars and forty cents for a single ticket.

There are still a few issues with the floating highway idea that need to be solved.

Obstacles like the HMS Belfast, a museum inside of a sunken battleship on the river, along with conditions like storms or waves might be cause for safety concerns.

The announcement of the project also says that the floating bike path will be able to generate its own power harnessing wind, solar, and tidal energy.