Oh oh. I am so glad I was not that officer. Or even worse, that man.

"The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."

This is the funniest line ever to appear in a serious news report (it was in the BBC one too).

And the moral of the story is: Don't get caught drunk in your underwear.

Or a better moral would be, don't ever get so drunk that you don't know what you are doing. And the person who needs to hear this, is currently out of station.

http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/artic ... s/19407420
http://www.gumwrapper.com/

Sentynel wrote:"The accused got to his feet and was standing over the police officer exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face, forcing her to take evasive action to avoid getting struck."

Yeah that's a classic. I think I'll sig it. =p

That, is a lot of gumwrappers.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kangaroo_kn ... _id=165221

PWNED

wrote:He was a former Australian rules footballer, and says he had never been in a fight, until being hit by the kangaroo. He had seen kangaroos box each other before but didn't know they would box people. He said he would not have thrown a punch back if he had the chance because of their status as a national symbol, and he has no hard feelings against kangaroos

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I laughed a lot at that.

Just trying out a few emoticons, I have never tried before:

And was this hammer one put up because of Post?

Not exactly Weird News, but pretty interesting:

Possible Discovery of a New Species of Ancient Human.

From just a fingerbone. It's pretty amazing that they can do that now.

That is interesting. I wonder how humans would be like in a million years from now. For e.g. let's take technology. I think in 500 years, every human being on Earth would have a computer. And then, many things would be computerized too. And all computers could have touch-screen features (or better). So would our fingers evolve in a different way? We wouldn't write much so....?

Okay, that was stupid reasoning. Seeing that for centuries humans have never written. But new species evolved because they were separated from their main kind mainly because of formation of geographical boundaries. And there was no inter-mingling at all. So, suppose there is a human tribe which, currently, is separated from the rest of us humans. And shall be so for the next millennium or so. They would evolve into something very different.

I figure finger coordination becomes less important, if only in average. It'll still be incredibly important for any instrument or fine work, but the general populace will probably see a reduction.

Our attention span has been steadily getting worse, a trend I see continuing for about fifty years until it flatlines.

Look who's higher spirit now. ;)

It'd only be altered if it became a problem. We still have appendixes; evolution doesn't remove unnecessary abilites unless they get in the way.

This is only from a 12th Grade Biology perspective; I'm sure it's a lot more complicated.

Appendices will go away in the future, I think. But I read that some researches have shown that appendixes actually guard us from the loss of symbiotic bacteria that help in digestion. And it doesn't necessarily disappear if it is a problem. Lack of use and change in conditions matter. And a few things which we consider of no use, could actually have some function. I wrote about appendix, but that has not really been proved. But junk DNA is. It was named so because they thought it had no utility, but now it has been proven to have a function.

Dansariki wrote:Our attention span has been steadily getting worse, a trend I see continuing for about fifty years until it flatlines.

Lolwut?

Datsyuk assumes a lot.

Er... the average attention span spirals until it finds a new low, where it's only as long as absolutely necessary for normal interaction? It won't be much, maybe ~20%.

Normal interaction? I don't think the attention span will fall all that low. And where did you get the 50 year figure?
A lot of assumptions. And all wrong, possibly.

I can sort of see what he's getting it, even with the weird wording. Our society goes a little too fast, has a little too many distractions... I don't think it's a physical thing, more cultural, if that makes any sense.

Couple Let Baby Die While Raising Virtual One

Yeah, I read that the day they came to know about her death. No surprises there on them pleading guilty. Little option they had. There was another one about how a man stabbed a person to death as that person's online character had killed his online character in a video game. But such cases are a rarity.

Turns Out, the Earth Hates Life

It's a pretty interesting idea, if not very encouraging.

The only comment trails off into suggesting we all move underground for unknown reasons.