Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: February 26, 2009
BRADENTON, FL. – A 19-year-old man is arrested after stealing a laptop computer so he could check his Facebook page online.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, at around 4:45 Gary Lyman was inside Starbucks on the 5500 block of Factory Shops Blvd.
Lyman was using his laptop computer when 19-year-old Corey Kinney approached him and asked if he could use his computer.
Kinney told Lyman that he wanted to access his Facebook internet website. Lyman told Kinney he was busy and he would not let him use his computer. Kenney then turned away as if he was going to leave, then suddenly turned back around and grabbed Lyman’s laptop computer. Kenney then ran out of the business with the laptop.
Lyman took chase and followed Kinney to the parking lot where two unknown bystanders saw Lyman chasing Kinney. The two bystanders tackled Kinney in the parking lot and held him until the Ellenton Mall Security Guard arrived.
Lyman was given his laptop back valued at $4,000.00.
While Kinney was being transport to the Port Manatee Jail, Kinney told the Deputy he just wanted to do a crime that did not hurt anyone. He said he couldn’t find work and needed money to get back to Texas. He also said he knew people had computers while at Starbucks and it would be easy to grab one.
Kinney was charged with Robbery By Sudden Snatching.
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: February 11, 2009
Barack Obama, in his book Dreams From My Father, mentions a friend he had when he was younger, Ray.
Ray, a fellow classmate of Obama’s, was also bi-racial, and also trying to define himself. But what set him apart was his colorful manner of self-expression. Ray cursed like a motherfucker.
What makes this funny is that Obama read his book aloud for the audio version, and that means he read Ray’s quotes, too.
Enjoy!
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: February 9, 2009
From Youtube.com
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: February 5, 2009
John Alfred Sharkey, who calls himself the “The Impaler,” ran as the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party candidate for Minnesota governor in 2006.
The 16-year-old girl’s complaint claims the pair struck up a friendship in 2007 after she wrote a message of support on his MySpace page. She told police they began dating online, and the threats began when she tried to break off the relationship, according to the Post-Bulleting newspaper.
She told police that “in a desperate attempt” to get him to leave her alone, she had e-mailed him that she was a member of an elite vampire hunter society and that continuing their relationship would put him in danger. Her father told police he talked to Mr Sharkey, 44, but he continued to call the girl and write letters to her parents.
He was charged with felony harassment and two misdemeanors: coercion with a threat to inflict bodily harm and coercion with a threat to expose a secret or disgrace. He is in jail after being unable to raise bail.
Rick Smith, his lawyer, has asked that the charges be dismissed for lack of probable cause.
He was supposed to appear in court in August, but got a delay by saying he had been hurt in a pro wrestling match. He then missed a September hearing and a warrant was issued.
The complaint says Mr Sharkey told a Rochester police sergeant who called him last August that he was a vampire “who needs to drink human blood for strength.” It says he referred to the girl as his wife and princess. Last August he also wrote a letter threatening to sue the county attorney’s office for wrongful and vindictive prosecution.
From The Telegraph
This isn’t a very nice story, I’ll admit. The reason it made me smile was more the mention of a “Vampyres, Witches and Pagan Party”.
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: February 4, 2009
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: January 31, 2009
A wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was observed going through a series of complicated steps to prepare cuttlefish for eating in the Spencer Gulf, in South Australia.
Study co-author Tom Tregenza, from the University of Exeter, said the behaviour exhibited between 2003 and 2007 was unlikely to be a rarity.
“In addition to our observations, individual bottlenose dolphins feeding at these cuttlefish spawning grounds have been observed by divers in the area to perform the same behavioural sequence,” they said in the study.
“The feeding behaviour reported here is specifically adapted to a single prey type and represents impressive behavioural flexibility for a non-primate animal.”
The research team, writing in the science journal PLoS One, said they repeatedly observed a female dolphin herding cuttlefish out of algal weed and onto a clear, sandy patch of seafloor.
The dolphin, then pinned the cuttlefish with its snout while standing on its head, before killing it instantly with a rapid downward thrust and “loud click” audible to divers as the hard cuttlebone broke.
The dolphin then lifted the body up and beat it with her nose to drain the toxic black ink that cuttlefish squirt into the water to defend themselves when attacked.
Next the prey was taken back to the seafloor, where the dolphin scraped it along the sand to strip out the cuttlebone, making the cuttlefish soft for eating.
“It’s a sign of how well their brains are developed. It’s a pretty clever way to get pure calamari without all the horrible bits,” Mark Norman, the curator of molluscs at Museum Victoria.
A separate 2005 study provided the first sign dolphins may be capable of group learning and using tools, with a mother seen teaching her daughters to break off sea sponges and wear them as protection while scouring the seafloor in Western Australia.
From Digg
This story not only made me smile, but I think it could affect science greatly too…
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: January 31, 2009
Ali Moeen Nawazish also took another two AS-levels, General Studies and English Language, and achieved the top mark in them as well.
Ali, 18, said of taking the exams: “I didn’t find it particularly stressful. I enjoyed it. I’ve a thirst for knowledge.
“Some of subjects were trickier than others – such as psychology.
“I only began studying for the subject three days before the exam so there was a lot to get in. I was pleased to get an A.
“Physics, maths and computing are my real strong point.”
He has since started a degree in computer science at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
From The Daily Telegraph
Wow, this guy is amazing!
The rest of the article contains more surprises too.
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: January 31, 2009
Jeremy Awdry, 60, was deprived of his ancient right to graze sheep in Bream, Gloucestershire, after they were reported straying into gardens and damaging fences.
The 500-strong flock was “used as a means of intimidating or causing difficulty for people he had reason to fall out with”, prosecutor Brendon Moorhouse told Gloucester Crown Court.
Awdry, who lives just outside the zone subjected to the order, previously pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching the five-year Asbo between January and July 2008.
Judge William Hart sentenced Awdry to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, and imposed a curfew order between the hours of 10pm and 4.30am for the next two months.
Awdry is a “sheep badger” – someone who has the right by birth to graze sheep anywhere in the Forest.
For 500 years Forest of Dean-born commoners have been able to let their livestock graze freely, but in recent times the district and parish councils have received complaints relating to sheep mess, damaged property and the animals becoming a highway hazard.
From The Daily Telegraph.
I love the term “sheep badger”.
Posted by: newstomakeyousmile on: January 29, 2009
Hi there, and welcome to News To Make You Smile!
As the name suggests, this is a place to find news stories that’ll put a smile on your face.
All too often the news is filled with depressing stories that make it seem like nothing good ever happens in the world. Sometimes you come across a story that makes you smile, but it’s generally hidden among the ones that make you frown.
So, this blog is intended to collect all the happier news articles, videos and stories that I can find, in order to spread the love a little and cheer pessemists up a bit!
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