Thinking that it was just a pot hole that had damaged the buses suspension, 48-year-old driver Shi Shao continued puttering along until worried passengers rang the bell and notified him that the entire back end was scraping along the ground. With sparks flying from the undercarriage Mr Shi immediately stopped in the middle of a busy road to wait for a tow truck. However, as a result the bus brought rush hour traffic in the city of Shaoyang to a standstill. When police arrived at the scene naturally they couldn't believe their eyes and found the two detached wheels a considerable distance behind the brightly coloured bus.Luckily no one was hurt in the accident, but there may have been some pride lost by the driver and the mechanics located back at the depot.
Bad-Australian police pepper spray angry kangaroo
SYDNEY - Australia police used pepper spray to overpower an aggressive kangaroo after it attacked a 94-year-old woman as she tended to the laundry in her backyard.Kangaroos rarely stray into urbanized areas, and Police Sergeant Stephen Perkins said on Tuesday two officers were sent to assist the woman, who was attacked by a “Big Red” in the town of Charleville in southwest Queensland earlier this week.“Upon alighting from the car the kangaroo approached one of the officers, the kangaroo was aggressive and the officer had to deploy his capsicum spray to subdue the animal,” Perkins told Reuters.The kangaroo initially retreated but spotted the second police officer and bounded towards him, and was sprayed a second time.Perkins said it was common to use pepper spray to subdue aggressive dogs but unusual to be used on an angry kangaroo.
LOL-Topless men banned from Brighton buses
The no-sweat rule, introduced by the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, aims to keep hygiene at a high standard.Roger French, managing director of the transport company, told The Argus : 'We started this during a very hot summer because it was unhygienic having people getting on buses a bit sweaty, and the sweat gets on the seats.'We thought it was common courtesy to the other passengers.'With the potential for there to be upset passengers, alternative bus company The Big Lemon Bus has opened its seats to all men who enjoy going topless. 'People don’t have to be lemon fresh to get on our buses,' explained finance manager, Richard Marsh. 'Toplessness is welcome as long as it doesn’t contravene the law about public decency – fancy dress and breast feeding is also fine.'
Why-Professor wins bad writing award
A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh associate professor has won top prize for her cringe-inducing prose.
Sue Fondrie won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest -- an annual award that challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. The contest takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his Paul Clifford with, "It was a dark and stormy night."
At just 26 words, Fondrie's submission is the shortest grand prize winner in the contest's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy," officials said.
"Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories," Fondrie's offending sentence reads.
Fondrie is the 29th person to win the price since it was started at San Jose State University in 1982. There are also winners named in separate categories including fantasy, romance, adventure and sci-fi.Most entrants are Americans, but two Canadians were given "dishonourable mentions" this year. Vancouver writer Basil McDonnell was recognized in the crime category.
What-Bride's kin spark booze-fuelled bedlam
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT. - Thanks to her father and brothers, a Blind River, Ont., woman's wedding day was marked by a boozy brouhaha and street mayhem that police needed pepper spray and a Taser gun to quash.The problems began at the Sept. 26, 2009, nuptials when James Burke and his boys arrived at the wedding “somewhat intoxicated.”They were “hooting and howling,” prosecutor Michael Varpio told Ontario Court Justice Andrew Buttazzoni.Chevy Burke was tossing over chairs and yelling, “You look f---ing beautiful” to his sister, the assistant Crown attorney said.Things went from bad to worse during the wedding reception at the former Shark Tank pool hall.The Burkes were drinking and “for no apparent reason,” Chevy jumped the man who was preparing the meal.His father and brothers joined in, but then the situation simmered down.
How-Tourists find loaded gun in rental car
A tourist from Texas called Victoria, B.C., and police after discovering a gun and ammunition in his rental car. Police said the man had rented the Chrysler 300 in Seattle and drove across the border. The man had to change a flat tire in a hotel parking lot Sunday morning and that's when he found the Glock 27 .40 calibre pistol and three loaded magazines in the wheel well of the car. The man and his wife, a Dallas couple in their 50s, called police. The gun didn't register in the Canadian database and police alerted their Seattle counterparts. Victoria police said the Glock 27 is a subcompact pistol commonly used by law enforcement, but it is also favoured by criminals because it's smaller and easily concealed. The handgun is a prohibited firearm in Canada due to its shortened barrel length.
Strange-'Dead' man wakes inside morgue refrigerator (video)
