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Carne Seca said:

In a rare and a first-of-its-kind phenomenon, a Silver Pheasant, a bird belonging to the peacock family, has changed its sex from female to a male.


Confirming this and terming it a kind of “sex dimorphism”, zoo director Renu Singh told IANS that the phenomenon had surprised most of the staff in the zoo.


The change was noticed by her some time back when she found the female in the bird enclosure shed not only her diminutive shape and size but also change her dull brown colour to a more vibrant colour of a male, which is often used by the polygamous male to win over female species.


The female has also stopped laying eggs and has undergone all “phenotypic changes” though from a distance there seem to be no changes anatomically, Renu Singh said.
She said that secondary sexual characters in the bird had definitely changed.


Zoo officials are now tinkering with the idea of seeking expert opinion on whether the lone ovary that this bird has is functioning normally or is it also in for some change.


The other sign of the sex conversion is the fact that her male partner is now seen fighting with her, now him, as no two male pheasants are known to co-exist in peace.

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Boy Carne, kind of gives a new meaning of the classic cut down "go fuck yourself" doesn't it! This one could make it's own babies if it did that.

bowlfullofbliss said:

Boy Carne, kind of gives a new meaning of the classic cut down "go fuck yourself" doesn't it! This one could make it's own babies if it did that.

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So far the "change" is only superficial. She still has girl plumbing.

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​ A Mississippi cop and his dog, Branco, pulled over a driver for following too closely on Tuesday, in what probably seemed like a typical traffic stop at first. However, the suspect, Christopher Conyers, came out fighting, and the cop called in a backup officer, who was promptly bitten on the wrist. Then Branco got set loose on Conyers and while the dog was chewing on the man, Conyers started biting the dog. "It was a totally disgusting scene," said Dick Hackett with the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office. Now Conyers is in a heap of trouble. He's been charged with two counts of assault and one count of attempted auto theft. The backup cop visited the hospital with his bitten hand. Branco, though, was uninjured.

We all know that playing on a cell phone while driving a car is a no-no. So, it stands to reason that commercial airline pilots would abstain while flying. Never assume, folks. Never assume.

In a story that is sure to cause no small amount of outrage, a Jetstar pilot was forced to abort his Singapore landing when he realized at the last moment (the plane was 392 feet from the ground) that he'd forgotten to put the landing gear down. His excuse: He was distracted by incoming text messages to his phone.

http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/distracted-pilot-forgets-to-lower-landing-gear.html

Someone just lost a high-paying job. cn

APRIL 20--A man suspected of a years-long public defecation spree in his Maryland neighborhood is facing a criminal rap after he was caught on videotape relieving himself in the driveway of a former police officer.

When confronted by cops, Kelly Ervin, 48, offered a bizarre explanation, according to police. Ervin reported that he goes running almost every day around 4 AM, and when he hits the two-mile mark, “he has to have a bowel movement.”

As such, Ervin said he carries toilet paper with him and “defecates wherever his 2 mile mark is,” according to a court filing.

Ervin, who was questioned by police at his residence on March 23, said that he was “embarrassed about the fact that detectives were there for this reason,” adding that he “had been doing this for over 20 years.”

Before departing, cops “told Kelly to stop defecating in people’s yards.” They also told him that, at the time, “there was not a criminal investigation.”


the link has a link to the police report
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/maryland-defecator-arrested-769234

However, that changed several days later when police received a complaint from a Salisbury resident who reported that someone had defecated on his property on “at least seven occasions” since January. The witness, Robert Bryan Robinson, an ex-cop, noted that he “found toilet paper left with the feces.”

Robinson told detectives that he had installed a video surveillance system due to his concerns that an individual had been trespassing on his property. Footage, cops allege, showed Ervin exiting his Jeep, unfastening his pants, and squatting in Robinson’s driveway.

When speaking with cops, Ervin recalled having been caught on camera. He claimed that he was on his way home when he “got a pain in his stomach at which time he pulled into a driveway to defecate.” He added that he “saw a camera and realized he was probably going to be seen on camera.”

Ervin was charged with littering or dumping under 100 pounds, a misdemeanor. Ervin, who works in medical sales, has also coached a girl’s team at the Salisbury Lacrosse Club. The squad is known as the “Scoopers.” (4 pages)

Three Drunk Brits Steal Penguin from Sea World During Hangover-Style Night of Hijinks

Three British men who broke into an Australian Sea World while intoxicated, swam with dolphins and stole a penguin, claimed they had no memory of the incident when the woke up hungover the next day.

According to police, the three young men from Wales, who are currently residing on Queensland's Gold Coast, unlawfully entered the marine park last Saturday night, and proceeded take a semi-nude dip inside the dolphin tank. They then moved on to the penguin enclosure, where they helped themselves to a 7-year-old Fairy Penguin named Dirk.

Upon awaking the next day and discovering an aquatic bird roaming around their rented room in Surfers Paradise, the men struggled to piece together the events of the night before.

They eventually decided to ditch Dirk in a nearby shark-infested lagoon, where he was luckily spotted Sunday after being chased out of the water, possibly by a predator. The frightened animal was returned to Sea World and reunited with its mate, Peaches.

The police were able to track down the men thanks to a Facebook status update in which one of the perps allegedly bragged about kidnapping the penguin.

"Still a bit fuzzy about the whole thing but on behalf of the three of us we are very sorry and it was just a prank which went way too far," said one of the men, Rhys Jones, in an interview aired on Australian television.

Jones provided 7News with video he recorded of the penguin inside the men's apartment, which he says proves they meant Dirk no harm.

The trio are due in court May 2nd to face a number of serious charges, including trespassing and stealing a protected animal.

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The talented hackers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have pulled off an impressive feat with what they call the "Holy Grail" of hacks: turning the campus' Green Building into a giant, 21-story version of the classic video game Tetris. On Friday night, a tech-savvy crowd gathered in the dark to play the live game, replete with a small controller and increasing levels of difficulty. A scrolling illumination of the word "Tetris" kicked things off before participants began moving enormous, multi-colored blocks side to side, rotating them, and dropping them to the first floor. In 2000, a group from Brown University did a similar stunt on the 10-story Sciences Library, but that was with permission from university authorities.

This is disgusting. It's bigger than we grow in the D!


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This morning I saw a glint of light through my north-pointing shades ... thought maybe a dazzle off an airplane or something. Minutes later there was a *hellacious* thud ... i thought someone had run into the house. The gold mine a mile from here blasts on some days ... i thought maybe a charge had gone off "on top". I stepped out to look for a smoke cloud or anything, but the sky was clear in all directions. I did see a partial contrail of some sort but dismissed it as "normal".
But there was rumbling after the thud, and it traveled west to east. "Big meteor, maybe", i thought and returned to the serious business of Posturepedic Biathlon (reading while napping while reading).

But then I found this. cn
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20455599/explosion-heard-nv-ca-traced-meteor

cannabineer said:

This morning I saw a glint of light through my north-pointing shades ... thought maybe a dazzle off an airplane or something. Minutes later there was a *hellacious* thud ... i thought someone had run into the house. The gold mine a mile from here blasts on some days ... i thought maybe a charge had gone off "on top". I stepped out to look for a smoke cloud or anything, but the sky was clear in all directions. I did see a partial contrail of some sort but dismissed it as "normal".
But there was rumbling after the thud, and it traveled west to east. "Big meteor, maybe", i thought and returned to the serious business of Posturepedic Biathlon (reading while napping while reading).

But then I found this. cn
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20455599/explosion-heard-nv-ca-traced-meteor

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You better watch out you don't want to be made history by a piece of space rock.

Edit: If its a tiny piece would it still be a meteor or is meteor measured by size or make up? Being hit by a meteor would be much more press worthy than a space rock, don't you think?

It happened to Ann Hodges on 1954 Nov 30 ...

...and gave her quite a bruise.


It's a meteor while moving in the atmosphere. Before that it's a meteoroid. After it landed it's a meteorite. The earth receives over 100 tons of space dust every day; some of it is so fine that it doesn't even get hot upon slapping air. The recovered bits of space fluff are also classified as meteorites ... so, in this instance, size doesn't matter.

Now the REAL embarrassment would have been to be nailed by a Lean Finely-textured Space Rock. They almost made a movie about it, but I don't think the slime was pink. cn

(Newser) – A pair of Mexican fisherman cast their net wide, and captured a monster: a 2,000-pound great white. The 20-foot long shark was nabbed in the Sea of Cortez off Guaymas. "We were amazed when we realized that we had a huge, dead, great white shark, and then we thought, what are we going to do?” one of the fisherman told Pisces Sportfishing. Their boat had to be towed to shore with the extra weight, and more than 50 bystanders helped the men drag the shark onto the docks. The shark then "fed the whole town."

A UFO investigation team has claimed to have filmed 'Men in Black' on a hotel's security camera.

The footage appeared online a few days ago and has appeared on several websites, a voiceover in the video describes the events surrounding the incident. "Aerial Phenomenon Investigations" describe themselves as a team of UFO investigators, intelligence analysts and scientists.

[video=youtube;6GHh04oepbI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GHh04oepbI[/video]

Carne Seca said:

A UFO investigation team has claimed to have filmed 'Men in Black' on a hotel's security camera.

The footage appeared online a few days ago and has appeared on several websites, a voiceover in the video describes the events surrounding the incident. "Aerial Phenomenon Investigations" describe themselves as a team of UFO investigators, intelligence analysts and scientists.

[video=youtube;6GHh04oepbI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GHh04oepbI[/video]

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For those only familiar with the 1997 Movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black

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Close encounters of the Home Counties kind: Two 'alien aircraft' sightings in one week in 'UK's UFO hotspot'

By CHARLES WALFORD
UPDATED: 16:16, 17 January 2012

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They hover in close formation against the backdrop of a cloudy Kent sky.
The two mysterious bright lights were photographed on January 6 floating over Chatham.Less than a week later four similar lights were seen over Essex, shining brightly against the dawn.
The remarkable sightings were made just 30 miles apart in an area now dubbed the country's UFO hotspot.The first image was captured by Ernestas Griksas, 21, who was taking a picture of a cherry-picker outside his home in Chatham at around 1pm.

Unexplained: These two bright discs were seen over Chatham in Kent on January 6

Double trouble: A week later these four glowing discs were seen 30 miles away in the sky over Essex

When he looked at the image afterwards he saw the bright disc-shaped objects.
He told the Sun: 'There are two white discs I can't explain. I'm nowhere near a flightpath. One is slightly fainter as if it is further away or going at a different speed.'
The second sighting came last Friday at 7am when car salesman Josh Cummins spotted four bright objects in the sky as he drove to work through Loughton, in Essex.
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Mr Cummins, 21, told the newspaper: 'I nearly crashed. I stopped to take this picture with my mobile. It was like the UFOs were surfing the clouds. They were there for 15 seconds then vanished.'I wasn't a believer in UFOs but this made me think again.'ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

There have been a number of other recorded UFO sightings in recent years
October 5, 2000: A woman named Sharon Rowlands from Bonsall, Derbyshire claimed to have seen a large luminous pink object hovering and rotating over a nearby field.
26 May, 2004: a 60 metre long cigar-shaped object was seen over Torquay.
November, 2007: Numerous people from the West Midlands conurbation reported sightings of a silent triangle shaped object in the skies in the evening which the press dubbed the Dudley Dorito.

June 8, 2008: A number of UFO sightings took place in Wales which involved a police helicopter following a UFO over Cardiff near MoD St Athan and the Bristol Channel.

September 10, 2009: Three people in a car claimed to have been struck by a colourful beam of light near Lennoxtown, ten miles north of Glasgow. The event reportedly lasted for more than two minutes.


UFO fanatics will no doubt lay claim to the sightings as evidence to support their theories of alien life.Expert Nick Pope said: 'Assuming the images are genuine, they're interesting, though the smaller objects (in the first picture) weren't seen at the time, which raises the possibility of some glitch with the camera.'As for the large one, I'm not sure. It might be some sort of atmospheric plasma phenomenon, but it's difficult to say.He added: 'The South-East does seem to be a hotspot at present. I'm not sure why.'One possibility is that it's a self-fulfilling prophesy, where one media report smokes out more from the same area.'Another is that it's a consequence of population density as there are more potential witnesses if there's anything odd in the sky.'Both sightings were about 75 miles, as the crow flies, from Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, which became known as the UK's Roswell after a group of servicemen went into the forest to investigate some mysterious lights and came out convinced they had seen seen an alien spacecraft.Meanwhile, TV presenter Chris Evans reported an unexplained sighting yesterday.
He tweeted: 'Approx 40 mins ago went out to walk the dog. Something passed overhead - alight, too low for a shooting star and then disappeared. Berkshire.'He added: 'Looked too fast for a Chinese Lantern. Hope it was something exciting.'Sightings of strange objects in the sky are often explained away as aircraft, reflections in camera lenses, satellites, flares and ball lightning, among other phenonmena.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tham-Kent--UKs-UFO-hotspot.html#ixzz1ssDbAgPl​

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The Daily Mail is full of shit but I just wanted the article. I myself have seen a UFO. I can't explain anything about them myself but I saw so I believe. That's about it.

I saw one while visiting relatives in Gallup. It was in the news. It was a bright light that traveled from north to south. It was so bright it illuminated the clouds as it passed through. No one knew what is was. It was traveling too slow for a meteor. I'm not saying it was an alien ship, I'm just saying it was something no one could explain.

It makes me all warm inside knowing the US govt is still improving on these things.....

[h=2]Australian Law, A-Cup Pornography & the Big O[/h] The world seems to be going a little crazy over the last few decades with the rise of religious fundamentalism and the equally prolific rise in the availability of legal and illegal pornography. The latest additions to Australian pornography laws, bordering on the ridiculous, are a ban on A-Cup breasted women in print and film and a ban on female orgasm (via BoingBoing). These both exceed the X Rating and meet the Refused Rating for Australian censorship.
This is kind of crazy not only because of the bizarre way we’re treating A-Cup women as though they have a physical deformity that will bring predators out of their shells, but also because it assumes the statistics are normally distributed. By that I mean the statistics represent as a bell-curve with equal tails on either side – the conclusion, if that were the case, would be that the problem sits with the majority of men who, exposed to A-Cups, will become predatory pedophiles. That’s an interesting assumption.



http://stevenclark.com.au/2010/01/31/australian-law-a-cup-pornography-the-big-o/

Shannon Alexander said:

This is kind of crazy not only because of the bizarre way we’re treating A-Cup women as though they have a physical deformity that will bring predators out of their shells, but also because it assumes the statistics are normally distributed. By that I mean the statistics represent as a bell-curve with equal tails on either side – the conclusion, if that were the case, would be that the problem sits with the majority of men who, exposed to A-Cups, will become predatory pedophiles. That’s an interesting assumption.

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I generally dislike large breasts, because generally its some obese bitch thinking she's all that because her tits are huge. But banning a certain size? Next they'll ban men with little penises for the same reasons! (but they won't because if they're so concerned about A-cup breasts, they probably have little penises themselves)

Those luminous UFOs look remarkably like reflections of indoor lamps on plate glass. I see (apparent) reflector and bulb, in pairs. cn