The unimportant news thread

[Wendell_E]

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

....

"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

Complete article:  http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html

[knight66]

When I was in Scotland last week, it was publicised that one police force had been called using the emergency number, by a woman who wanted to complain that the floppy-eared rabbit she had bought via a newspaper advert was defective in that its ears were not as floppy as she had expected. She wanted to know what the police were going to do about it.

Possibly look for their recipe for bunny stew?

Mike

[bhodges]

When I was in Scotland last week, it was publicised that one police force had been called using the emergency number, by a woman who wanted to complain that the floppy-eared rabbit she had bought via a newspaper advert was defective in that its ears were not as floppy as she had expected. She wanted to know what the police were going to do about it.

Possibly look for their recipe for bunny stew?

Mike

I would love to have heard that telephone conversation...

--Bruce

[knight66]

Yes, 'Go and boil yer bunny.'  might have been in there somewhere. The same force in highlighting the abuse of the emergency number also reported that they had two calls within a few minutes from different people complaining that a car had driven past them through a puddle and soaked them.

Into each life a little rain must be sprayed.

Mike

[Lethevich]

When I was in Scotland last week, it was publicised that one police force had been called using the emergency number, by a woman who wanted to complain that the floppy-eared rabbit she had bought via a newspaper advert was defective in that its ears were not as floppy as she had expected. She wanted to know what the police were going to do about it.

It's a shame that these people can't be fined

[knight66]

I think a split lip would be more effective.

Mike

[karlhenning]

Truth squadding floppiness in advertising.

[knight66]

Well, that is society for you these days, floppyness all round; almost.

Mike

[Lethevich]

This is absolutely insane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636577.stm

[M forever]

Indeed. Were they on drugs? Why did they behave like that?

[Lethevich]

Indeed. Were they on drugs? Why did they behave like that?

I was wondering the same, but none of the news reports even begin to explain it...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I was wondering the same, but none of the news reports even begin to explain it...

I can only imagine they are/were psychotic and were very determined to take their lives. Twins do things together. They can build their own shared delusional reality.

[M forever]

So you are saying that all twins are delusional?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

No. I am saying that identical twins can form a unit.

[Sorin Eushayson]

Here's the key phrase that everyone should have noted: "...twin sisters from Sweden..."  Explains everything!    Crazy Swedes... 

[Anne]

http://video.aol.com/partner/animalplanet/untamed-and-uncut-bull-jumps-into-crowd/d6ea7dd332b58771ede97ef1b00d3b5dba65c860/?icid=VIDURVPET04

[Lethevich]

Tattoo clue led police to thief (click for video)

A car thief who had his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck was caught after CCTV images of him were used to track him down.

Aarron Evans, 21, pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates' Court to breaking into a covert capture car in the city.

The car had been left by Avon and Somerset Police officers with a covert camera concealed inside, which took pictures of Evans.

Evans, an illiterate man of no fixed address, was sentenced to seven months.

Supt Ian Wylie said: "Criminals won't be tolerated in Bristol and we will keep catching them and bringing them before the courts.

"We get such excellent images from these cameras that there is often, and never more so than in this case, no doubt who the criminal is."

[knight66]

He only got seven months, so could be out in three and a half. Time enough for his Mum to knit him a balaclava. I suppose with this one there was no point even in having tats of 'left' and 'right' on the appropriate knuckles.

Mike

[karlhenning]

A car thief who had his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck . . .

". . . if found, return to this address: . . ."

[Lethevich]

I am impressed that the "Avon and Somerset Police" still haven't changed their name after the country of Avon became defunct in 1996...