I read the news today, oh boy ...

[ShamelessFlirt]

So what news item shocked you today??

Yesterday there was a forty something pound cat named Garfield put up for adoption, today was a bunch of fishermen in Brazil who killed 83 dolphins

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/world/BO57653/

Brazil fishermen caught on video killing 83 dolphins
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A crew of Brazilian fishermen was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about their illegal haul, Brazil's Ibama environmental protection agency said Tuesday.

The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because they could not surface to breathe.

The researcher was contracted by the agency and sent undercover aboard the fishing boat to monitor hauls of other fish. The dolphin kill was filmed while the boat was off the coast of Amapa state, near the point where the Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

As the dolphins were hauled from the sea and piled on the boat's deck, fishermen on board laughed after someone said, "Everyone's going to jail after this filming!"

No one has been charged or fined because authorities were still trying to identify the fishermen caught on video, Globo reported.

Ibama confirmed the Globo report that aired Monday night, but said Tuesday that no one was immediately available to provide additional details. It was not immediately clear whether the researcher or a crew member filmed the dolphins being killed.

Fishermen who illegally snag dolphins usually sell the meat to other boats that use it to haul up sharks, Globo TV said.

Dolphin jaws complete with all the teeth are sold in an open air market in the large Amazon city of Belem, and the eyes are also sold as fetishes to men who believe they have magical powers attract riches and women. Dolphins penises are ground into a powder thought to make men more virile.

Killing dolphins is a crime in Brazil punishable by up to 1.5 years in prison. Ibama is working on a plan to ban fishing in the areas where the dolphins were killed.

 

[allium]

I'm curious: were you shocked by the fact it was called Garfield (shockingly unoriginal), the fact it weighed 40 pounds (shockingly obese) or the fact that they put it up for adoption (shockingly irresponsible)?

 

[veryblueeyes]

Sao Paulo has had it rough lately...

CNN reported today. So sad.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNN) -- Recovery workers picked through smoldering wreckage Wednesday, searching for victims of a fiery Brazilian plane crash that officials said left at least 200 people dead.

Passengers' relatives grieve Wednesday after the plane crash, which may be Brazil's deadliest.

1 of 2 more photos » The TAM Airlines Airbus A320 was attempting to land in a driving rainstorm Tuesday night at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport when it struck an airline building and exploded into flames.

The airline said Wednesday that 186 people were on board the plane. It's unknown how many might have been inside the building, which served as a depot for TAM's express courier service.

Victims' loved ones were seen in the airport weeping and clutching each other in their grief brought on by the disaster, which has renewed lingering questions about the airport's runways.

Witnesses said the plane skidded across a major road during the city's rush hour.

"We saw the plane go straight down the runway," said witness Paulo Barros according to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. "It didn't manage to stop and went into the avenue. It went by so fast that we thought it was taking off."

Authorities have ruled out any chance that anyone on board the airliner survived. It will be difficult to recover the bodies because of the massive destruction caused by intense fire that officials said reached 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1000 C).

Investigators will look into whether Brazilian aviation authorities rushed to reopen the airport's recently resurfaced runway, which had been closed for several weeks for repairs.

Flight JJ3054 was arriving at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, the airline said. TAM Airlines said there were 186 people on board -- including 18 TAM employees, 6 crewmembers and 162 passengers. Watch commercial pilot explain why the airport makes for a difficult approach


Another witness, Deisy Oliveira, told O Globo that the crash startled her. "I was surprised by a ball of fire in front of my window," said Oliveira, who lives near the airport. "The atmosphere is tense and nervous, because nobody really knows what happened."

Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport is notorious for having short, slippery runways, reported CNN's Miles O'Brien, who is an amateur pilot. Runways at Congonhas were recently resurfaced, but the cutting of grooves to channel rainwater off the pavement had not been completed.

Just Monday, a small plane skidded off a runway at Congonhas airport, which is designed to best handle short commuter flights for Brazil's large domestic air market.

Tom Hennigan, a reporter from The Times of London in Sao Paulo told CNN that flying into Congonhas airport "is like you are literally flying past people's living rooms in apartment blocks. Then you land on the runway. It is completely surrounded by the central part of Sao Paulo city. This is not an airport out on the edge of the city. This is right in the city."

In February, a Brazilian court banned large jets at the busy airport because of safety concerns. But there was an outcry about limiting the convenient, busy airport, and an appeals court reversed the ruling.

The Sao Paulo fire department reported at least 200 people had died in the crash, including some on the ground, which would rank it as Brazil's deadliest air disaster. Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning.

TAM Airlines said it could not immediately confirm the extent of the damage or the number of victims. Family members of those on the plane were being given assistance, it said.

Investigators prepared to open a probe into the cause of the crash, which took place less than a year after a midair collision between an Embraer Legacy 600 jet and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 that killed 154 people.

September's disaster set off a widespread debate about the country's air-traffic-control system, including whether the military should remain in charge.

In 1996, a TAM jet plowed through a densely populated neighborhood just after takeoff from Congonhas,

 

[Roman_Maroni]

I was shocked they found steroids in that dead wrestler's system.

 

[veryblueeyes]

I was shocked they found steroids in that dead wrestler's system.

You were shocked? Really? He had 10 times the testosterone in his system, plus antidepressants, etc. It was no surprise to me.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

I'm curious: were you shocked by the fact it was called Garfield (shockingly unoriginal), the fact it weighed 40 pounds (shockingly obese) or the fact that they put it up for adoption (shockingly irresponsible)?

The fact that it hit over 40 pounds. If it wasn't the NY Daily news I would have thought it was a fake but they even had a pic of the cat which looked a lot like the fake report that's flying around the net of an almost 80 pound cat.

 

[Roman_Maroni]

You were shocked? Really? He had 10 times the testerone in his system, plus antidepressants, etc. It was no surprise to me.

Professional Wrasslers are just that -- PROFESSIONAL.

They don't juice.

They leave that to the fake sports stars like baseball players and football players.

 

[veryblueeyes]

Professional Wrasslers are just that -- PROFESSIONAL.

They don't juice.

They leave that to the fake sports stars like baseball players and football players.

*laughing* You just had to quote my typo. *wink*

You have to be kidding me. They are above using "juice".

Actually, I don't follow wrestling, so I wouldn't know, but the fact remains, he juiced it up. I just was not shocked by it.

Now, the fact that Sao Paulo doesn't have enough runway for a plane to land; the amount of plane crashes there and the fact they slid into a gas station at the end of the runway; shocking.

 

[Absolut]

Professional Wrasslers are just that -- PROFESSIONAL.

They don't juice.

They leave that to the fake sports stars like baseball players and football players.

LMAO, funny. Truly funny and just slightly delusional.

 

[apexpark]

"Dolphins penises are ground into a powder thought to make men more virile"


and to think, when I first starting reading the article, I was AGAINST killing dolphins!

 

[Roman_Maroni]

*laughing* You just had to quote my typo. *wink*

You have to be kidding me. They are above using "juice".

Actually, I don't follow wrestling, so I wouldn't know, but the fact remains, he juiced it up. I just was not shocked by it.

Now, the fact that Sao Paulo doesn't have enough runway for a plane to land; the amount of plane crashes there and the fact they slid into a gas station at the end of the runway; shocking.

Yes they are above using it.

But the Football and baseball players, let's just say, "THEY LIKE-AH DUH JUICE, HEH"

As for the dumbasses in Mexico and their short runway (code for "short wieners"), how dare you bring up triviality on a day when the liberal media takes aim at PROFESSIONAL wrestling and gives it a black eye.

Your priorities are sooooooooooooooo fucked.

 

[Roman_Maroni]

"Dolphins penises are ground into a powder thought to make men more virile"


and to think, when I first starting reading the article, I was AGAINST killing dolphins!

Would one of those penises belong to Larry Csonka?

If so, I am in. That dude was a bruising menace in the red zone.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

LMAO, funny. Truly funny and just slightly delusional.

I said something like this to a pal of mine just to piss him off. He was going on about how you know wrestling is fake, you can't smack someone on the head with a chair or drop on them from a ladder like that and not kill them.

So I said with a straight face, if wrestling is fake then baseball is fake too. After he picked his jaw up he asked me what the hell I meant so I said how can someone get hit by a ninety mile an hour fast ball and get up after that?

Yeah, I was joking but his reaction was priceless, I think he still wonders if I was serious or not ...lol

 

[veryblueeyes]

Yes they are above using it.

But the Football and baseball players, let's just say, "THEY LIKE-AH DUH JUICE, HEH"

As for the dumbasses in Mexico and their short runway (code for "short wieners"), how dare you bring up triviality on a day when the liberal media takes aim at PROFESSIONAL wrestling and gives it a black eye.

Your priorities are sooooooooooooooo fucked.

You have to be one stupid mother fucker.

First, Sao Paulo is in Brazil.

Second, a runway is where you land a plane at an airport which was too short to land a plane and completely break to a stop.

Third, if you think I am making trivial of the loss of over 200 people vs. finding out that a "professional" wrestler had shitloads of drugs in him, then your priorties are fucked up.

 

[Absolut]

You have to be one stupid mother fucker.

Really veebs, that was all you needed to write and even that's pointing out the bleeding obvious.

 

[Absolut]

I said something like this to a pal of mine just to piss him off. He was going on about how you know wrestling is fake, you can't smack someone on the head with a chair or drop on them from a ladder like that and not kill them.

So I said with a straight face, if wrestling is fake then baseball is fake too. After he picked his jaw up he asked me what the hell I meant so I said how can someone get hit by a ninety mile an hour fast ball and get up after that?

Yeah, I was joking but his reaction was priceless, I think he still wonders if I was serious or not ...lol

I got hit over the head with a chair once, smashed in the back of the head with a bottle and a pool cue shoved up my ass, all real and I swear I walked away just fine.

But then some kid threw a golf ball out me, hit me in the temple and knocked me out cold.

Now about the moon land I've got for sale ...

 

[Roman_Maroni]

You have to be one stupid mother fucker.

First, Sao Paulo is in Brazil.

Second, a runway is where you land a plane at an airport which was too short to land a plane and completely break to a stop.

Third, if you think I am making trivial of the loss of over 200 people vs. finding out that a "professional" wrestler had shitloads of drugs in him, then your priorties are fucked up.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, somebody gets an A in geometery and they think they own the world.

Well, la-dee-dah.

And you are wrong. The RUNWAYS were an all-girl rock band with Lita Ford and Joan Jett.

 

[Roman_Maroni]

But then some kid threw a golf ball out me, hit me in the temple and knocked me out cold.

You were assaulted with a Titleist while worshiping Yahweh.

That's just goddamn wrong.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, somebody gets an A in geometery and they think they own the world.

Well, la-dee-dah.

And you are wrong. The RUNWAYS were an all-girl rock band with Lita Ford and Joan Jett.

No, they were the Runaways. If you're going to correct someone please try and be accurate.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I read this article today:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_fe_st/odd_outhouse_artifacts


It's about an archealogy dig in an area that used to have outhouses.

When I got to this quote, I wondered if Flirt had a sister.

"These privies are archaeological gold mines."

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

I read this article today:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_fe_st/odd_outhouse_artifacts


It's about an archealogy dig in an area that used to have outhouses.

When I got to this quote, I wondered if Flirt had a sister.

"These privies are archaeological gold mines."

When they discovered that worms had damaged most of the artifacts by eating their way through them all they could say was "holy crap".

 

[veryblueeyes]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, somebody gets an A in geometery and they think they own the world.

Well, la-dee-dah.

And you are wrong. The RUNWAYS were an all-girl rock band with Lita Ford and Joan Jett.

First, I had a 4.0 in Geometry.

Second, Geography is what you should have said. And you didn't even know Sao Paulo was in Brazil.

Third, you are one stupid person.

Fouth, you have given me a huge laugh.

 

[Roman_Maroni]

No, they were the Runaways. If you're going to correct someone please try and be accurate.

I tried to be accurate. I just forgot the A.

You hurt my feelings.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

I tried to be accurate. I just forgot the A.

You hurt my feelings.

Man up and walk it off.

 

[Roman_Maroni]

Man up and walk it off.

Very well. I shall rise above and overcome.

Thank you.