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The Vancouver SPCA says it will cost more than $5,000 to treat almost two dozen neglected cats and kittens seized last week from an animal hoarder in East Vancouver.

Ryan Voutilainen, manager of the Vancouver branch, describes the condition of the home the felines were taken from as unsanitary for animals and humans alike.

“The filth and diarrhea was piled high on floors, carpets, walls and other items in the home,” he said, adding the residence was filled with urine, feces, mould and garbage.

Investigators, who had to wear masks to protect themselves from the ammonia smells, reported only finding one water source for the animals: a bucket with a steel wool scrubbing pad floating in it.

Marcie Moriarty, general manager of provincial cruelty investigations, says criminal charges will be considered against the owner if she doesn’t agree to stop keeping multiple animals at the home. She says priority is getting people treatment for what is often a debilitating mental condition.

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The MapOfStrange website is a way of recording strange, wacky, weird and wonderful anomalies, sights and oddities from Google Maps and Google Earth.

Seems a bit low on content but hopefully this site keeps chugging along. Some interesting very high resolution satellite images in Africa of wildlife on this page.

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Responding to 102 Ledge St. on Friday after a pit bull bit a 4-year-old boy on the lip, city officials discovered dog excrement on bedding, furniture and the floor, city health officer Heidi Peek said.

Peek detailed what she claims to have seen Friday when inspecting the residence:

It looked as if the children had been walking through dog waste and tracking it throughout the house for some time.

The stairs to the second floor had a film of dried dog feces. Animal excrement was found in all three rooms upstairs.

In what appeared to be a playroom, fresh piles of dog feces and puddles of urine were on the floor. Again, the smell of dog waste “was overpowering.”

The mother, who wasn’t identified in the news report, denied that the residence was unsanitary and said the dog bite was an accident. The pit bull loves the boy and his two younger brothers, she said.

The dog was probably trying to kiss her boy when its teeth caught his lip, she said. The boy was playing in the dog’s water bowl, police said.

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RideAccidents.com is the world’s single most comprehensive, detailed, updated, accurate, and complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news.

The site includes a record of fatal amusement ride accidents in the United States since 1972, and, for the past ten years, has recorded all types of accidents, including many from outside the United States.

The number of injuries and fatalities recorded at this site does not reflect the total number of injuries and deaths that have occurred as a result of amusement ride accidents.

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The buttered cat paradox is a joke paradox based on the tongue-in-cheek combination of two adages:

• Cats always land on their feet.
• Buttered toast always lands buttered side down.

The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. In 1993, OMNI magazine announced the winner of Competition #54. The paradox, submitted by John Frazee of Kingston, New York, was the grand-prize winner.

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Many people asked what it was like to spend 16 hours in the home depot. For those who want to know I provide you with a transcript of the journal that I kept during the event. It is raw and unedited so be warned. Due to the state of insanity that I was in on this strange day I take no responsibility for what I wrote. With all that said – enjoy a trip into my mind via my home depot journal. (Thanks to Batman for typing the majority of this out.)

7:00 PM
I need to purchase something to commemorate this day before I leave. I am thinking a block of wood. I will write on it, “16 Hours in Home Depot. June (whatever day it is) 2001, 6 AM- 10 PM. The word boring now has new meaning.” I will staple a picture to it and put it right next to my fenced-in toilet in my room in Poughkeepsie.

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Scott Biram, aka Scott H. Biram or SHB, (born April 4, 1974) is an American blues, punk & country musician from Austin, Texas.

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The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship, fully loaded with wartime explosives, which accidentally collided with the Norwegian SS Imo in “The Narrows” section of the Halifax Harbour. About 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, or collapsed buildings and it is estimated that over 9,000 people were injured. This is still the world’s largest man-made accidental explosion.

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The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday 11 May 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.

The fire broke out during a football match between Bradford City (the home team) and Lincoln City, on the day that Bradford City were supposed to have celebrated their winning the Football League Third Division trophy. A total of 56 people died and more than 265 others were injured.

This is raw footage from the Bradford football disaster. Most of you have seen some footage of it, mostly in tributes and other compilations. This is pretty rare and raw footage from that tragic day.

The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday 11 May 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.

The fire broke out during a football match between Bradford City (the home team) and Lincoln City, on the day that Bradford City were supposed to have celebrated their winning the Football League Third Division trophy. A total of 56 people died and more than 265 others were injured.

This is raw footage from the Bradford football disaster. Most of you have seen some footage of it, mostly in tributes and other compilations. This is pretty rare and raw footage from that tragic day.

No, seriously. Just read this in its entirety, from the top. Because if you haven’t yet seen “Why never to ask favours from the designers,” from David Thorne, you need to. Right now.

Story goes :

Shannon (the secretary) has lost her cat and has asked David (the graphic designer) to help with a lost poster. This is their email correspondence…

Read from top to bottom….

(Probably made up but funny nevertheless)

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The tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Frequently heard phrases from the millions of people who have been on these terrible rides include: “Ohhhh noooo”, “S&%t!” and the classic “We’re gonna die!”.

Watching the videos is a must.

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A 65-year-old armless woman in China has been named the best embroiderer in her village. And while this seems like an unimaginable achievement, given her disability, it is not.

Ren Jiemei, of Haiyang, Shandong province, is a modern-day armless wonder who, like many before her, demonstrates skills that are seemingly impossible.

Ren is said to be able to thread a needle without fail and works quicker and better than all her fully limbed peers. She holds the needle with her right foot and threads it with her left.

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Donna Simpson became the world’s fattest woman who gave birth to a child in 2007, because she was weighing around five hundred and thirty pounds at the time of her delivery. During her pregnant period, she was suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes. However, she decided to gain more weight after her baby. Presently, she eats food worth 580 US dollars in a week. Though the doctors are concerned about her eating habits and her strange desire to become the fattest woman ever in the history, yet she is adamant to achieve her goal.

Here are some new photos of the woman while she continues her quest.

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