Student finds 'brain' in KFC meal



Fast food giant KFC has apologised to a UK student after he came across what appeared to be a chicken's brain in his meal.

Ibrahim Langoo, 19, of Essex, was eating at the Colchester restaurant in December when he came across the brain-like organ in his chicken, The Sun reports.

Horrified by the sight and unable to bring himself to pick up the object, he photographed the food and complained to staff at the counter.

"I have a habit of picking the chicken off the bone with my fingers and as I pulled the second piece apart, I saw this horrible wrinkled foreign body," he said.

"I threw it down onto my tray immediately. It looked like a brain. I suddenly felt grim and really sick."

Mr Langoo posted the picture to his Facebook page where it was shared almost 500 times.

"For all those that wanted to show their friends and families, here is the reason to never go to KFC ever again," the caption read.

KFC had the photos analysed and do not believe the object was a brain.

"Although we haven't received the product, it appears from a photograph that unfortunately on this occasion a kidney, and not a brain as claimed, was not removed in the preparation process," a KFC spokesperson told The Sun.

"We're very sorry about Mr Langoo's experience and while there was no health risk, we agree it was unsightly."

The apology fell a little short with Mr Langoo who said he will not be eating at the restaurant anytime soon.

"KFC say they are sorry and are concerned to hear of my experience as they have 'rigorous standards' but I'm still not impressed," he said.

"I never want to eat KFC again - in Colchester or anywhere else. I'll eat chicken at home, where I can see how it's been prepared."

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8589722/student-finds-brain-in-kfc-meal

Police were tonight holding two groups of men at bay after a tense racial stand-off in a suburban street south of Brisbane erupted in violence this afternoon.

Dozens of men believed to be linked to two families, one Pacific Islander and the other indigenous, were involved in an angry confrontation in Douglas Street, Woodridge.
Queensland Police said the disturbance was reported just after 5pm and at 8pm there had been no reports of arrests or injuries at the scene.
A Nine News cameraman captured men ripping palings from a nearby fence to use as weapons against the other group while police stood in the middle.
A spokesperson for Queensland Police said the operation was ongoing at the street with "multiple crews" in attendance.
An all-out brawl appears to have been averted with police quelling the stand-off, Nine News reports.

Landlord says no to everything: Amazing list of rules greet prospective tenant From:
News Limited Network January 11, 2013
1:29PM

NO loud music, or parties, or drugs and no stealing.

These are pretty reasonable requests for a landlord in a share flat to make when interviewing prospective tenants.

But no pork?

And no visitors?

And any personal items left in communal areas will be thrown away?

My, that's just plain inhospitable.

Tenants expect rules, but Laura Evelyn didn't expect to be handed a list of increasingly bizarre house rules, before even signing a contract.

The 31 instructions include limiting showering to 15 minutes, having visitors approved two weeks in advance and never using somebody else's shampoo.

Any personal belongings left in communal areas of the flat in Wood Green, north London, would be "thrown out as junk'" the list says, and no food is to be eaten in bedrooms.

. Laura was so amazed by the list, she did the only sensible thing: she posted the entire thing on the internet.

Her tweet has since gone viral.

You can see the demands below.

If shes a squirter she could get her dildo and yeah you can figure out where im going with this

If a guy finishes early and falls asleep there's not much a girl can do.
If a girl finishes early and falls asleep the guy has a wank and blows in her hair.

Couldn't she just let him sleep?

This story is fantastic. Nothing like beating up a man for finishing early :lol:

Relatives in court over three-year-old's 'bomb' shirt
Published: December 20, 2012 - 8:36AM

[size=6]AVIGNON: The mother and uncle of a three-year-old boy named Jihad have appeared in a French court for sending him to school in a top bearing the words "I am a bomb".[/size]

The long-sleeved T-shirt had the words "Jihad, born on September 11" emblazoned on the back when he turned up at his nursery school in the southern town of Sorgues near Avignon on September 25.

His mother and uncle are charged with condoning a crime over the alleged reference to the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. The uncle bought the top and the mother dressed her son in it when she sent him to school that day.

The judge at the court in Avignon agreed to a request by their lawyer for the trial to be postponed until next year for technical reasons and set March 6 as the date for the next hearing.

The accused made no comment to reporters as they left the courthouse.

Jihad's teacher alerted the authorities after he turned up in the top and a few days later the town mayor, Thierry Lagneau of the conservative UMP party, asked prosecutors to investigate.

"I condemn the attitude of the parents who shamefully took advantage of the person and the age of this child to convey a political message," Mr Lagneau said.

The mother and uncle of the boy, who official records show was born on September 11, 2009, and was given Jihad as his first name, were not known Islamists, prosecutors said.

The mother was astonished at the reaction to her son's top and at the proportions the affair had taken on, they added.

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This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/relatives-in-court-over-threeyearolds-bomb-shirt-20121220-2bo1h.html

Rabid beaver bites swimmer

LILLIAN Peterson is recovering in hospital after she was attacked repeatedly by a rabid beaver while she was swimming in a Washington lake.

Peterson was knocked off her feet as she got out of Lake Barcroft on Tuesday evening and turned round to see the two-foot animal biting her leg.

She and a friend repeatedly hit the beaver using canoe paddles, a walking stick and their bare hands but it refused to let go of her leg.

Ms Peterson even tried to gouge the animal in its eyes with her stick in a desperate attempt to fend it off.

She told the newspaper: “It bit me so bad. I started kicking it with my other leg, but I wasn’t sure what I would do.”

She was left with severe bites on her left leg, hands and bite marks all over her arms and legs.

A former colleague who was giving a fishing lesson at the lake came to her rescue, but the animal had to be beaten three times with a canoe paddle before it could finally be captured in a net.

Animal control officers destroyed the beaver after arriving at the scene. Fairfax police said it tested positive for rabies.

Ms Peterson is recovering at Inova Fairfax Hospital and has received injections for rabies.

Is that technically cannibalism?

Locals fed suspected killer crocodile

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ALYSSA BETTS IN NHULUNBUY From:
The Daily Telegraph December 03, 2012


THE 4m crocodile suspected to have taken a nine-year-old boy in East Arnhem Land was being fed by the community, police and locals said.

The tragedy at the Dhania outstation has not come as a surprise in the town of nearby Nhulunbuy. Several locals said it had been a disaster waiting to happen.

"It was just a matter of time before someone got taken," one local resident said.

The boy was attacked while swimming with other children just in front of the outstation about midday on Saturday. Sergeant Alex Brennan said the community, which sits by Port Bradshaw and is home to indigenous leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu, was distraught.

He said the crocodile believed to be responsible was about 4m long and was "known" to the families living at Dhania, about 100km south of Nhulunbuy.

"It's believed that the community from time to time fed the croc - it's believed to be an older croc," he said.

. Adults tried to save the child by spearing the crocodile, but it dragged the boy out into deeper water.

Search parties - consisting of Nhulunbuy and Darwin police, Parks and Wildlife and rangers - were last night preparing for a third day of combing the waters. Sgt Brennan said there were up to eight saltwater crocodiles living in the search area and the suspected killer was sighted several times by search parties on the first day.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/locals-fed-suspected-killer-crocodile/story-fndo317g-1226528448244

Man blinded by vodka has sight saved by bottle of whisky

From: News Limited Network December 02, 2012 10:37AM

A BOTTLE of whisky has saved the sight of a New Zealand man who went blind after a couple of vodkas.

Denis Duthie, 65, suddenly went blind when vodka he had been drinking reacted with his diabetes medication.

Mr Duthie, a catering tutor at New Plymouth's Western Institute of Technology, had been celebrating his parents' 50th wedding anniversary in June by having a few vodkas from a bottle his students had given him as a present, The New Zealand Herald reports.

When he walked into a bedroom in his home everything suddenly went black.

"I thought it had got dark and I'd missed out on a bit of time but it was only about half-past-three in the afternoon. I was fumbling around the bedroom for the light switch but ... I'd just gone completely blind," he told the paper.

Mr Duthie was rushed to Taranaki Base Hospital, where doctors thought he might have formaldehyde poisoning, which is associated with ingesting methanol and can be treated by administering ethanol - the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages.

There wasn't enough medical ethanol available in the hospital, so the registrar nipped down to the local bottle shop and picked up a bottle of whisky.

"Johnnie Walker Black Label. It was good whisky, yeah," Mr Duthie said.

They dripped the whisky into his stomach through a tube, and hoped for the best.

"I woke up five days later and I could see as soon as I could open my eyes," Mr Duthie said.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/man-blinded-by-vodka-has-sight-saved-by-bottle-of-whisky/story-e6frev20-1226528260814

In the beginning there was the game and the game was Pong

DateDecember 2, 2012
Vince Chadwick

BEFORE Super Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Lara Croft and World of War Craft, there was Pong. The arcade game batting a ball between two paddles on either side of the screen was launched 40 years ago this week.

It was not the first video game. It was the first commercial success. Back in 1972, people began queueing outside the bar in California where the game first appeared, until one day the machine broke down. Pong's designer, engineer Al Alcorn, arrived and quickly diagnosed the problem as coin overload.

Three years later, the company Atari began selling Pong, with its minimal instructions such as ''avoid missing ball for high score'' - into homes as a console game connected to the television, and a fledgling industry took flight.

''Pong is a small game that has had a big impact,'' said Conrad Bodman, curator of international projects at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

''It established the sports game genre. It used sound to create tension and excitement in the game, and it also introduced a two-player format and the notion of competitive one-on-one play.''

Last year, Australians spent $1.5 billion on interactive gaming, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Worldwide, $54.7 billion was spent on console, handset, computer, online and wireless games. And this figure was expected to reach almost $77 billion by 2016.

The rules established by Pong, including the one-on-one or ''versus'' play using the language of today's generation, apply for such modern developers as Mark Boulton, who worked at the Australian video game company Blue Tongue Entertainment before it folded last year.

''Most game developers strive to create a product with high replay value, hoping the player will find it addictive,'' Mr Boulton says.

Pong's influence can be seen in any game in which friends' high scores are used to spur players' competitive instincts. But the paddle game nearly did not happen, with the creators at Atari fearing the project was too expensive.

''The integrated circuit boards by themselves cost almost $200, so that was clearly never a consumer product,'' Atari boss Nolan Bushnell said at the time.

Decades later the issue of the cost of gaming technology has not gone away.

Mr Boulton also welcomed the federal government's announcement last month of a $20 million Australia Interactive Games Fund to help local developers, saying the high dollar had made it difficult to compete in an industry already shaken by the global financial crisis, and its reliance on discretionary spending.

This year's Entertainment and Media Outlook released by PwC predicted that the future of the game industry was in mobile devices. While established gamers would continue to invest in traditional consoles and home computers, the report estimated that Australians would spend $400 million on games for smartphones and tablets this year, and that this would increase by more than 11 per cent annually up to 2016.

Melbourne University academic Daniel Golding, who writes and lectures on video games, says games for mobile devices require a huge amount of downloads to turn a profit.

But, he says, designing blockbusters is risky as well, given high production costs and risk of failure.

For ACMI information communications technology manager Paul Cuthbert, it all started with Pong.

The 60-year-old built his own games console from scratch in the mid-1970s, even extending the controller's cord so he could play from the couch. Five years ago he decided to try playing with his children.

''They weren't overly impressed,'' he said. ''They said 'yes dad, but I can do all of that on my iPhone'.''



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:lol:

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Apparently if they ever catch McAfee the trial will last 30 days.

Germany to ban sex with animals: report

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THE German government is about to reintroduce a ban on bestiality, after pressure from animal welfare groups.

Newspaper die Tageszeitung reports that the governing coalition are soon to amend the country's Animal Welfare Act to make sex with animals punishable with a fine of up to 25,000 euros ($31,000).

Bestiality was legalised in Germany in 1969, the same year that gay sex was also removed from the criminal code. After that, sex with animals was only punishable if the animal was severely injured.

However animal welfare groups have pushed for the ban to be reinstated, in an advertising campaign that used dramatic examples of "animal rape".

Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner has agreed to change the law to make it illegal for people to "use (animals) for their own sexual activities or sexual acts of third parties" - which also bans the 'pimping' of animals to others.

However the move has aroused the ire of zoophile group ZETA.

Lobbyist Michael Kiok, who lives with his dog Cassie, told the newspaper there were more than 100,000 zoophiles in Germany.

"Mere morals have no place in law," he said.

Mr Kiok said he was worried that if the law took effect the authorities would try to take away his dog.

The amendment to the law will be debated in the German parliament in mid-December.

Man jailed for five days after he beat estranged wife with his penis when she refused sex

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A MAN has been jailed after he struck his estranged wife with his penis when she refused him sex.

Fred Thomas, from Cushing, Maine, will spend five days in jail after pleading guilty to the assault, which happened in July.

The 62-year-old offered her $20 for intercourse and, when she refused, he took out his penis and struck her with it, according to the prosecution, The Bangor Daily News reports.

Defence Attorney Justin Andrus said Thomas was tremendously upset that his marriage of 39 years was ending. He said his estranged wife was planning to go to Pakistan to meet a man she met online.

“This was not his normal conduct,” Andrus told Justice Jeffrey Hjelm during the sentencing hearing in Knox County Superior Court.