Posts Tagged ‘UK’

Man Mistakes Moon For UFO, Calls The Police

Saturday, July 5, 2008 9:00 1 Comment

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A man in Wales, UK, saw a bright stationary light on the sky and got scared. He thought this was a UFO. As a concerned citizen, he called the police to notify them of the eminent alien invasion. The police upon arrival discovered that the bright object was the moon!
The police released the official [...]

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StarChaser Builts Nova 2 Rocket For Space Tourists

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 17:45 1 Comment

2013 should be a very exciting day for Britain and for space tourists world wide as another entrepreneur, Steve Bennett joined the race. He has built the Nova 2 (I wonder what happened to Nova 1), a three seater capsule that is expected to take tourists 60 miles up in space. Lifting you up at [...]

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UK Supermarkets Are Rationing Rice Supplies

Monday, June 2, 2008 21:45 No Comments

Panic and mass hysteria have caused UK supermarkets to rationing rice supplies. Customers feared of a global rice shortage and rushed to buy as much as possible.
Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and many more have placed rationing quotas on rice hoping to control the citation. The panic has started since the price of rice increased 70% [...]

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Man Puts His Wife On Auction (eBay)

Friday, May 16, 2008 14:48 1 Comment

Paul Osborn, from Bletchley UK, decided to put his wife Sharon, for sale on an eBay auction. In his advert he gives us the reason for doing so:

Here is my lying, cheating, adulterous whore of a wife of 26 years

The bid started a £0.01 and after hundreds of bids it ended up to £750,000, until [...]

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Man Cuts Car In Half As A Reaction To Police Ticket

Monday, May 12, 2008 18:00 No Comments

Ian Taylor is now a local hero in Tredworth, UK, when he cut his car in half with an angle grinder. He did this when law enforcement officers gave him a ticket because his Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) declared car was having a small part of its rear tyre on the road. As this [...]

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Legoland UK Builds World’s tallest LEGO tower

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 21:30 No Comments

500,000 blocks was all it took to make the worlds tallest LEGO tower in Windsor’s Legoland theme park in the UK. The tower, constructed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of LEGO, reaches 29.30 meters in the air (couldn’t they round it up to 30?). The tower is not freestanding. It is supported by stabilizing [...]

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