A drunk man who fell into a tiger enclosure in a southern Ukraine Zoo had his ear bitten off, the zoo administration said.
The 33-year-old climbed on the bars surrounding the enclosure to pose for photographs and fell into the cage holding the tiger and her cubs … .
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The tiger attacked the man, biting off his ear and scratching his neck.
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“The man, his sister and their friend drank a bottle of vodka and then came to our zoo for entertainment,” Mr Kyrychenko said.
Vodka Does Bad Things
The World’s Largest NES Controller
The most entertaining part of this is watching the guys try to play the first level of Super Mario Bros. with it.
Fun Games To Waste Your Night Away
This games have been killing off far too many hours lately
- It’s a marketing campaign for Altoids, but The Great Flying Mintini is stupidly fun.
- I was so dang close to completely filling the board on Picto.
- Like Smack the Penguin, Ice Slide is another fun winter-time “How far can you launch the animal?” game. I launched the seal 343 meters.
- You have to install this one, but Armadillo Run is a fun little game as are many of this year’s IGF Finalists.
- A simple game called Tilt (thanks Dave).
- Mission in Snowdriftland has a classic retro feel that I just love (reminds me of Super Mario Bros. 3).
- Jardinains 2 is way better (and way more stable) than the previous version of this stupidly fun Breakout-clone.
- And here are 25 others to kill off your day.
Enjoy!
A Much Better Patent Search
In case you didn’t already know, Google has unvieled yet another tool: Patent Search. As somebody who had to spend a great deal of time doing patent research on the official patent search site, let me tell you that the Google search kicks the crap out of the government’s attempt. It makes it so much easier to find gems like this, or pretty much anything on this sex toy patent list like the talking vibrator or this dildo exercise system.
Some Locals Just Aren’t Too Bright
Bad: Losing control of your car.
Worse: You did it because you were drunk.
Just Plain Stupid: You were transporting your three two-foot tall marijuana plants.
Does Anybody Feel Sorry For Congress?
US Democrats, who will take control of Congress next month, have outraged some of their colleagues by their decision to work five days a week, which will almost double their workload.
According to an announcement made by the next Democratic majority leader, Steny Hoyer, representatives will have to be present to vote Monday through Friday.
What’s more, instead of waiting for the traditional State of the Union address by the president at the end of January to begin legislative work, the House of Representatives and the Senate will put themselves to work as early as January 4.
A Republican member of Congress immediately complained.
“Marriages suffer. The Democrats couldn’t care less about families — that’s what this says,” Congressman Jack Kingston told The Washington Post.
Boo-frickin’-hoo, you cry babies. Now you can work like the the rest of America instead of nearly setting a record low for work days like you did last year.
You May Be Proud Of Your Kids, But Don’t Advertise It
You know those signs and bumper stickers you put up on your car or house saying how proud you are of your honor student/cheerleader/quarterback/pot smoking son or daughter? They’re helping sexual predators stalk your kids.
del.icio.us will eat itself
Linking unto itself is the one problem with a social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, and eventually it’ll just eat itself.
Shame On You, KOIN
So news breaks that they may have found the climber’s snow cave on Mt. Hood (Fort Hood, according to some CNN folks) as well as equipment. So at my office I flip on to KOIN, the only Portland news station that we get in Bend, they cover a noon-time news conference for a few minutes, and then go back to their precious NFL football game — and it wasn’t even a close game
So I flip to CNN, and they’re using video from KOIN. So KOIN is still covering it, but doesn’t want to lose NFL advertising revenue. Fox News is using the same video.
Shame on you, KOIN. There’s a chance that these guys may be found — dead or alive — within the hour or so, and you can’t even sacrifice your precious revenue for the good of the community. Instead, I’m forced to watch CNN’s version of this, where they’ve been known to call it Fort Hood.
Truly a sad day in Oregon news coverage for those of us that live outside the Portland area.
Update at 2:20: Oregon Media Insiders has a good thread about this, but the thread seems to be the same. KATU and KGW are putting news online, but God-forbid they preempt their crappy Golf and Ice Dancing (NFL’s just a tad more popular than that).
But some sad news: Rescuers reached the cave, but nobody was inside. So back to the drawing board, and let’s hope they find another cave as that’s really about their only chance of survival at this point.
Update at 4:30: One climber found dead.