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| Denovissimus | May 14 2008, 12:32 PM Post #81 |
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They should have been ticketed too! |
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| Auntie Maine | May 14 2008, 12:35 PM Post #82 |
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And their beer taken away too.
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| Auntie Maine | May 14 2008, 09:54 PM Post #83 |
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YANGON, Myanmar - The Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000 — a much higher figure than the government tally. The U.N. warned a second wave of deaths will follow unless the military regime lets in more aid quickly. ADVERTISEMENT The grim forecast came as heavy rains drenched the devastated Irrawaddy River delta, disrupting aid operations already struggling to reach up to 2.5 million people in urgent need of food, water and shelter. "Another couple of days exposed to those conditions can only lead to worsening health conditions and compound the stress people are living in," said Shantha Bloemen, a spokeswoman for UNICEF. A tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal added new worries, but late in the day forecasters said it was weakening and unlikely to grow into a cyclone. Still,more rain that they so do not need.It is just too tragic
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| Denovissimus | May 14 2008, 10:18 PM Post #84 |
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This is ri-damn-diculous! __________________________________________________________ Harried family forgets tot in Vancouver airport Air Canada staff took care of boy while father flew back from Winnipeg updated 9:54 a.m. CT, Wed., May. 14, 2008 VANCOUVER, British Columbia - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy's father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents of the child, J.M., were scrambling between their arrival in Canada and a connecting flight to Winnipeg on Air Canada. Running late after having to unpack and repack all their luggage, "we had 10 minutes before boarding," said Parreno, who was emigrating with his family from the Philippines. "We were running for the gate." Story continues below ↓advertisement He said he thought his son was with the three other adults, who were running to the gate ahead of him, and they thought the little boy was with him. Instead, in a scenario similar to the movie "Home Alone," the toddler was wandering alone between a security checkpoint and the flight gates, said Angela Mah, an Air Canada representative. "We were called by (security) who told us one of the security people had a toddler in tow," Mah said. "He doesn't speak English, so we found a Tagalog-speaking agent who has been looking after him." There was no boarding pass for the youngster because he did not have a separately assigned seat, so there was no indication in the airline's computer system that someone had missed a flight, nor had there been any panicked calls from anyone on a flight missing a child, Mah said. That's because the family was scattered in different parts of the plane to Winnipeg and still didn't know the child had been left. Air Canada staff began checking flights that had left, and "we eventually determined who his parents might be ... and the flight crew talked to them," Mah said. "They didn't realize until then that the baby had been left behind. "We're not aware of this ever happening on an Air Canada flight before." The parents were put into telephone contact with the little boy, and Parreno was put on another Air Canada plane to return to Vancouver to get him after the family's flight arrived in Winnipeg with the airline covering the cost of the two additional flights, she said. Parreno had tears in his eyes when he returned to Winnipeg holding his son. "I am relieved everything is OK ... but I was shocked," he said. "The staff at Air Canada took good care of him." |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 15 2008, 03:46 AM Post #85 |
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that is craziness! See this is why I dont do connecting flights. I only do direct flights when I fly, which is almost never. I havent flown since before 9/11! |
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| Auntie Maine | May 15 2008, 12:35 PM Post #86 |
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That story is so "Home Alone".
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 15 2008, 01:31 PM Post #87 |
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life imitating art
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| Auntie Maine | May 16 2008, 07:59 PM Post #88 |
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YANGON (Reuters) - Torrential rain lashed victims of Cyclone Nargis on Friday as Myanmar's junta admitted more than 130,000 people were dead or missing, putting the disaster on a par with a 1991 cyclone that killed 143,000 in neighboring Bangladesh. In a shock update to a death toll that had consistently lagged behind international aid agency estimates, state television in the army-ruled former Burma said 77,738 people were dead and another 55,917 missing. The May 2 storm has left another 2.5 million people clinging to survival in the delta, where thousands of destitute victims are lining roadsides, begging for help in the absence of large-scale government or foreign relief operations. In the storm-struck town of Kunyangon, around 100 km (60 miles) southwest of Yangon, men, women and children stood in the mud and rain, their hands clasped together in supplication to the occasional passing aid vehicle. "The situation has worsened in just two days," one shocked aid volunteer said as crowds of children mobbed his vehicle, their grimy hands reaching through the window for scraps of bread or clothing. Their desperate entreaties expose the fragility of the military government's claims to be on top of emergency aid distribution for victims of the cyclone, which flooded an area of delta the size of Austria. Aid groups, including United Nations agencies, say only a fraction of the required food, water and emergency shelter materials is getting through, and unless the situation improves thousands more lives are at risk. Given the junta's ban on foreign journalists and restrictions on the movement of most international aid workers, independent assessments of the situation are difficult. |
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| Julesy | May 16 2008, 10:53 PM Post #89 |
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those parents are assholes. I dont see why they werent watching him. Hes a fucking toddler. Damn, that cyclone killed alot of folks.
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| Auntie Maine | May 17 2008, 03:28 AM Post #90 |
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And going to kill a lot more with disease.Cholera has already sprang up. |
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| Denovissimus | May 22 2008, 09:03 PM Post #91 |
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Pilots run out of fuel, pray, land near Jesus sign Men able to glide powerless microlight to a safe landing on grassy strip updated 7:26 p.m. CT, Wed., May. 21, 2008 WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, "Jesus is Lord." Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country's South Island, were flying up the sloping valley of Pelorus Sound when the engine spluttered, coughed and died. "My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God's help," Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday. He said he prayed during the ill-fated flight Sunday that the tiny craft would get over the top of a ridge and that they would find a landing site that was not too steep — or in the nearby sea. Wilson said that the pair would have been in deep trouble if the fuel had run out five minutes earlier. "If it had to run out, that was the place to be," he said. "There was an instantaneous answer to prayer as we crossed the ridge and there was an airfield — I didn't know it existed till then." After Wilson glided the powerless craft to a landing on the grassy strip, the pair noticed they were beside a 20-foot-tall sign that read, "Jesus is Lord — The Bible." "When we saw that, we started laughing," Stubbs said. Nearby residents provided them with gas to fly the home-built plane back to base.
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| Auntie Maine | May 22 2008, 10:26 PM Post #92 |
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| Rodney | May 23 2008, 09:52 PM Post #93 |
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Jesus has taken over airport control! Guess we can all expect airlines with a 100 strike rate on on-time arrivals and take offs and no lost luggage. Im gonna ask Jesus to do some work at heathrow |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 24 2008, 04:04 AM Post #94 |
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Jesus Fucking Christ! give me a break! |
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| Taman | May 24 2008, 05:31 AM Post #95 |
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I wish they had landed near sign "But Satan takes it in the arse without the moans". What, you do not have those signs? Must be only in Finland. |
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| Denovissimus | May 24 2008, 05:48 AM Post #96 |
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| Rodney | May 24 2008, 01:02 PM Post #97 |
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. Ah, that explains the Finnish Eurovision entry. With all that leather and bare chestedness and Pantene hair/flicking whilst screaming like a pig from hell... Very homosexual and evil....kinda sexy |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 24 2008, 01:05 PM Post #98 |
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| Rodney | May 24 2008, 01:09 PM Post #99 |
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I´m serious! Look them up on youtube. It reminds me of this leather bar I once went too. |
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| Taman | May 24 2008, 01:34 PM Post #100 |
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80s metal bands were in fact very gay with all the leather and such. Teräsbetoni is bit in the Tom of Finland style as well though without the muscles.
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