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High Dyke

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No wonder bureaucrats won't do much about potholes when you get this happen...
A group of Russian grandmothers grew so tired of waiting for the local authorities to fix their road that they hired the necessary equipment and did the job themselves, it's reported.

According to Urals-based Ura.ru website, the group - including a 90-year-old babushka - chipped in 500 roubles ($8.50; £6.50) each for a truckload of gravel and set to work with the help of two men.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41107836
 
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Just when you thought it couldn't get even more bizarre...
A woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it "would not flush" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.

The amateur gymnast was on a first date with Bristol student Liam Smith when she "panicked" and threw the faeces out of the window.

It did not land in the garden, but became wedged between two non-opening windows.

After climbing in head first after it, she became wedged.

Mr Smith had to call the fire service for help.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296
 
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The council have launched an internal investigation into how the website was displayed on the public sign amid concerns that it could have been hacked.
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I think it would be much more worrying if it hadn't been hacked.
 
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On a US tv station, the weather forecaster got it wrong, forecast snow did not happen, so on the following day he was asked by the female presenter "Say Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?"

Entire crew collapse in laughter
 
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Another moment at a regatta (Henley) where the presenter became overcome in the prescence of HRH and did a Spoonerism "with their punts and canoes" By all accounts, HRH, completely unflustered asked what a panoe is

America also saw SINA the Society against Indecency of Naked Animals. It's president claimed that naked animals were corrupting the nation's morals and displayed pictures of animals with their private parts covered. Members protested at the depiction of naked animals. However, a reporter from CBS Fox recognised the president of SINA, going under the name of Mr Clifford Trout. With his cover blown, Mr "Trout" was identified as a well known as a practical joker. SINA was in fact a spoof and the idea came from watching the reactions to a bull mounting a cow
 
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Walking with an acquaintance of mine through london towards Trafalgar Square, she genuinely said "are we going to pass that place with Napoleon on a stick?"

This is also the person who said "I wish there was more food with handles"

"Eh?"

"Y'know, like that Cornish Thing...."

"Do you mean a pasty?!"

"That's it!!!"
 
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321446 said:
Walking with an acquaintance of mine through london towards Trafalgar Square, she genuinely said "are we going to pass that place with Napoleon on a stick?"

This is also the person who said "I wish there was more food with handles"

"Eh?"

"Y'know, like that Cornish Thing...."

"Do you mean a pasty?!"

"That's it!!!"
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On the second one, she's not wrong!
 
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Dyson have admitted they've been working on an electric car for the last two years...

I don't get all the fuss, they made electric trains locomotives in the 1990s. :D
 
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I see that Henry Bolton has been elected as the new leader of UKIP.
Last year his wife gained fame due to giving birth to their daughter on platform 13 at St Pancras station.
The thing is though, they named their daughter Victoria and I think that this is giving out confusing messages...
 
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This must be worthy of a Darwin award, when foreign student Hyewon Kim visited the Seven Sisters cliffs near Brighton and wanted a picture of herself near the cliff edge - jumping. She landed awkwardy and fell over the cliff edge, sadly to her death. While posing, she had her back to the cliff edge and apparently did not check how close she was

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/student-p...g-photos-sussex-cliff-090132570.html#comments


Eastbourne senior coroner Coroner Alan Craze recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.

‘She landed with one foot beyond the cliff edge and only her other foot landing on the cliff edge,’ he said.

‘Every one of the photos shows her looking away from the cliff edge. A lot of South East Asians like to visit because the Seven Sisters refer to the seven daughters of the Chinese deity, the Jade Emperor.’

The stranger who took the photos was also South Korean.

Another South Korean witness, Jin Gyeong Jang, said: ‘I saw her standing then heard sound of a bang, then she was not there.’

The incident took place on June 22]
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Domino's pizza shop sex couple spared jail
A couple who had sex against the counter of a pizza delivery shop have been given community orders.

Daniella Hirst, 29, and Craig Smith, 31, were captured on CCTV in a Domino's shop in Scarborough in February.

Hirst, of Bridlington, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency and Smith, also of Bridlington, was found guilty in his absence in September.

Magistrates in Scarborough said the couple were "very close to going to prison".
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What were they thinking? It's pizza after sex...
 
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Q If you are travelling at 80mph, how long will it take you to travel 80 miles?
A 10 minutes?

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It should be an easy enough question, 'If you're travelling at 80 miles per hour, how long will it take you to go 80 miles?'. It's not that easy for Stephanie.
She doesn't quite understand what miles per hour means, and she doesn't get it when her friend doesn't accept her answers of ten minutes, 8 minutes or 80 minutes.
This video was uploaded in 2012 but just started going viral, and we're shocked it didn't come up sooner

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...tand-what-miles-per-hour-means_n_7643532.html
 
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War enthusiast collector blows up WW1 shell by cutting hole in it.

Having been previously cautioned for taking a grenade to a pub with the intention of selling it, he finds a shell washed up at a local beach. So he takes it home and later, after doing an online search and believing that as it was marked "P" this stood for "practice", so it was not live. So he takes an angle grinder to the bomb which starts fizzing and banging like a firework, concerned neighbours called the police

Another Darwin Award contender

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/156...ar_enthusiast_blows_up_device_in_back_garden/
 
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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/bookham-man-attempting-sue-network-13944979

"Bookham man attempting to sue Network Rail after pigeon poo scratched his brand new Jaguar"

A Bookham motorist says he is going to sue Network Rail after "a large clump of pigeon poo" fell and caused damage to his brand new Jaguar.

Geoffrey Beech, of Green Acres, says that he was driving underneath the railway bridge on Guildford Road, Fetcham when a "large clump of the bird’s droppings" fell and scratched the bonnet of his car.

The 74-year-old says he has been left frustrated by Network Rail failing to take responsibility for the damage to his car and has now resolved to take the company to court.

He said: “I asked them to pay for the damages but they wouldn’t take responsibility for it.

“Now they’ve employed solicitors to fight the case in court. They are paying money out to them but they won’t pay the less expensive damage costs for my brand new Jaguar.”

Mr Beech, an ex-general manager for a construction firm, said that the faeces fell from underneath the bridge where pigeons are known to settle.

He said: “I rang them about three months ago to tell them it was a dangerous situation and make my claim.

“If a clump of droppings like the one that fell on my car fell on a cyclist or a motorcyclist it could cause some serious damage. It is a dangerous situation.

“You’ve only got to go there and see the amount of pigeons and the amount of droppings to realise that."

The bridge in question is situated on Guildford Road, near to Domino's Pizza, between Bookham and Leatherhead .

Mr Beech says that he has an understanding of health and safety law from his work on construction sites and says that he believes that Network Rail has a duty to pay his claim.

He said: “Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, they have a civil duty to protect the public.

“I suggested they put some netting up under the bridge like they have on the section covering the public footpath but they said they won’t.”

A court date for Mr Beech and Network Rail has not yet been set but the Bookham resident is hopeful to get one for December.

Mr Beech said: “They have a health and safety responsibility. It only takes one little accident before there’s a serious incident.”

A Network Rail spokeswoman said: “We are aware of the claim and it’s with our legal team.”
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Interesting; there's a railway bridge in Epsom - one of the three in Waterloo Road - which has a foot high pile of pigeon poo on one edge directly above the middle of the carriageway.
 
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Interesting; there's a railway bridge in Epsom - one of the three in Waterloo Road - which has a foot high pile of pigeon poo on one edge directly above the middle of the carriageway.
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Suggest Mr Beech avoids it. I'm interested as to how he intends to prove his claim. Will the offending "clump" of poo be produced in court along with forensic evidence that it did indeed cause the damage?
 
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