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Dead humans during the zombie apocalypse are useless, especially to a hungry hoard of zombies. As they scare a poor woman to death, these thoughtful zombies resurrect her. To kill her. Here’s a public service announcement to learn and perform CPR, whatever your final intentions might be…
WATCH and LEARN CPR
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/zombies-teach-cpr-public-announcement-video-204425430.html
The foreclosed house for sale on the up-and-coming street pined for fresh paint and other fixes, but the Hankins family saw its potential.
Plus, at $36,000, the price was perfect for a young family trying to make ends meet in small-town Klamath Falls, Ore.
“We said, ‘It needs a little bit of love, but it’s got good bones,’” Jonathan Hankins recalled. “We just had no idea that those bones were poisonous.”
Within days of moving in this past summer, Beth Hankins, an ER nurse, started experiencing breathing problems. Then Jonathan got migraine-like headaches and nosebleeds. By the third week, their 2-year-old son, Ezra, developed mouth sores.
“He couldn’t even drink water without being in pain,” said Jonathan, 32.
They were about to schedule doctor visits when a neighbor shared the bad news: 2427 Radcliffe was a former meth house.
The family ordered a $50 testing kit and had the lab expedite the results, which revealed a contamination level nearly 80 times above Oregon Health Authority limits.
Buying a foreclosed house from government-sponsored Freddie Mac meant the family was informed about being responsible for detecting hazards like lead paint and asbestos, but there was no warning from real estate agents or Freddie Mac about drug activity. The realtor had no idea what this address had been used for prior to its sale.
It’s a Catch-22 that Joe Mazzuca of Meth Lab Cleanup, a national remediation and training company, predicts others could find themselves in. Based on national and state data, Mazzuca conservatively estimates there are 2.5 million meth-contaminated homes in the U.S. “The signs and indicators aren’t always there,” he said. “You don’t always see the meth residue. It’s extremely dangerous stuff.”
Decontaminating a former meth lab can run anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000, according to experts. Jonathan says he’s been quoted a clean up cost more than his house is worth.
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mystery-illness-solved-family-discovers-home-meth-lab-184815233.html
A delicioius meal fit for a king is served in style. Freshly sauteed veggies, green salads, diced fruit, it’s all good and it’s all from garbage cans.
To fight waste, this group of environmentalists in Spain occasionally gathers for a “junk food” dining experience, open to the whole neighborhood.
The previous evening, dragging their shopping carts, they ferreted through the waste bins of food shops on the hunt for discarded ingredients that are still good to eat.
After a fruitless first hour, they finally hit pay dirt in a rubbish container outside a fruit and vegetable store.
They harvested pounds of Swiss chards, apricots, tomatoes, carrots, bananas, medlars, half a pineapple, plus cabbages, cauliflowers, peppers, celery and cherry tomatoes.
“It is a good haul. Most of it’s in good condition,” said 50-year-old Txomin Calvo.
With a nearly 25% unemployment rate and one in five persons living below the poverty level, Spaniards are resorting to extreme measures to put food on the table.
In addition to the ingredients found in bins, shopkeepers donated some food that had gone past the expiration date.
It had all been disinfected.
The movement started off in the United States in the 1990s as “freeganism”. But it has taken on a new meaning in Spain, which is in a deepening recession and suffering a financial crisis.
In May 2011, a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report said too many shopkeepers and consumers were throwing out food that was perfectly fit to eat because of excessive attention to outside appearance.
The price is right. If you are willing to swallow your pride in order to swallow some “fresh” produce, this may be the way to go. I mean, it’s still good, right?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/spaniards-dish-tasty-garbage-fight-waste-192931657.html
Depraved behavior is NOT limited to the human species. Is this Happy Feet, unedited? Remind me not to pass out face down in a penguin colony.
According to George Levick, a surgeon and the medical officer on Captain Scott’s famous 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole, called the Terra Nova expedition, his account of the penguins’ seemingly odd behaviors are detailed in a four-page pamphlet “Sexual Habits of Adélie Penguins” in 1915.
Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too “graphic,” a report of “hooligan” behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott’s 1910 polar expedition has been uncovered and interpreted.
The naughty notes were rediscovered recently at the Natural History Museum in Tring, in England, and published in the recent issue of the journal Polar Record.
“As it was boldly headed ‘Not for Publication’ it immediately caught my eye,” Douglas Russell, who discovered the pamphlet, told LiveScience. “As the curator of birds eggs and nests at the Natural History Museum and having had a long-standing interest in polar research, I knew of George Murray Levick and that this was, as the header suggested, fascinating but totally unpublished work.”
“Some of the things he noticed profoundly shocked him,” Russell said. For instance, Levick noted the penguins’ autoerotic tendencies, and the seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex and homosexual behaviors.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/penguins-explicit-sex-acts-shocked-polar-explorer-125137476.html
Canadian police launched a hunt Wednesday for a male porn star after a human hand was found in the mail at an Ottawa post office, and a decomposing foot was sent to Canada’s ruling Conservative Party.
A nationwide warrant has been issued for Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov.
Police in Ottawa had previously disclosed that both packages were sent to Ottawa from Montreal.
The gruesome discoveries, described by Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews as “very disturbing,” were made hours after a severed torso was also discovered by a janitor in Montreal early Tuesday in a suitcase in a pile of garbage.
The finds are thought to be linked after an investigation brought them to a Montreal apartment that is believed to be scene of the dismembering.
The torso, he said, belonged to a white male and it is believed that the victim and the suspect knew each other.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, citing sources, said the second parcel was addressed to the Liberal Party headquarters in Ottawa.
Several websites describe Magnotta as a washed-up porn star and hooker, and say that he has denied ties to Homolka.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/human-foot-mailed-canadas-conservative-party-013058306.html
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