A park ranger was struck by lightning 7 times and survived!

Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them. For this reason, he gained a nickname "Human Lightning Conductor" or "Human Lightning Rod". Sullivan is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being.

Mother gets call from ‘Satan’ and decides to ring him back

When a mother got a missed call from Satan, she was so concerned she rang him back to see what he wanted.

Jenn Vest was in the middle of breastfeeding her son at her Colorado home when she received what turned out to be a rather disturbing missed call.

After checking her phone to see who had tried to contact her, she saw the number 1-666-666-666‘.

If the creepy missed call wasn't enough, Vest then received 48 text messages with ‘Satan’ the only word included in them.

After this she was unable to sleep and spent the rest of the night asking for God's help.

‘I stayed up the rest of the night praying and hoping nothing would happen,’ she added.

It later turned out the phone call and subsequent messages were most likely a well-orchestrated prank as Ms Vest had recently handed out lots of flyers with her number on when starting a new business.

America's 'Longest Married Couple' Celebrates 81 Years Of Marriage

In February, John and Ann Betar were named America's longest married couple by Worldwide Marriage Encounter. And on Monday, the Connecticut lovebirds will celebrate an incredible 81 years of marriage. The pair eloped in Harrison, N.Y. in 1932.

The Betars have been together for decades and have five children (two are now deceased), 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
"We have watched the world change together," John said. "The key is to always agree with your wife."

Man Passes Out Drunk In England, Wakes Up In Paris

Luke Harding started out drinking in a few pubs in Manchester, England. Around 4 a.m. when he was heading home, Harding found his passport in his pocket and decided to make a detour to Paris, which was a 500-mile plane flight away

"I found my passport, which I’d been using for ID, and an app on my phone was saying something about cheap flights to Paris," he told the Metro. "It was a spur of the moment thing and seemed like a good idea at the time."

Harding told the cabbie to head to Manchester Airport, and, using his iPhone, booked a 6 a.m. flight for $161, according to the Daily Star.

He somehow made it onto the plane, but doesn't remember landing in Paris or going through customs. It wasn't until he woke up a few hours later in a public toilet at Charles De Gaulle Airport, that Harding realized the full extent of his drunken decisions.

Harding had to spend $247 for a return ticket and needed to kill eight hours in Paris. He did it by walking near the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe and getting croissants at a cafe.

If you think what his feat is LEGENDARY, you can tweet him @LukeHarding1994

Man calls 911 to ask for sex

A man called 911 to request a female officer with whom he will be able to have sex with, according to police reports.

There is nothing wrong with being attracted to women in uniform, but do not take it too far.

A Florida man repeatedly called 911 and asked for female police officers to come over to his house to have sex with him, according to press reports.

It was an emergency that Joshua Basso, 32, of Dover called the 911 hotline seven times before police arrived at his home, according to a statement released from the Office of the Hillsborough County Sheriff.

Police officers put him under arrest but that was probably not the way he wanted on Thursday and charged him with seven counts of making false 911 calls. Basso allegedly confessed to the misuse of the system.

Man's 'I cheated' prank goes sour when girlfriend admits she's been unfaithful too

What better way to celebrate your five-year anniversary than by fooling your girlfriend into believing you’ve cheated?
Professional YouTube prankster Roman Atwood did just that while he and his partner Britney vacationed in Aruba, thinking the stunt could live among his many others posted online.
But Atwood was in for the shock of his pranking career when his sobbing girlfriend admitted she’d been unfaithful, too.

He says he’ll never do it again and apologizes profusely. But then the tables turn.
‘I cheated on you,’ Britney admits.
Atwood flips out and paces in stunned disbelief. His prank has gone terribly wrong.
Most of Atwood's jokes end with a laugh. But most don't involve Brittney.

A few tense moments appeared to put a damper on what had been a wildly popular YouTube prank career for Roman.
Then, before his anger can go too far, Britney smiles. 
She was pranking him. ‘I saw you set up your camera, you idiot!’

 But there may be more shenanigans in store for the serial trickster and his sly girlfriend, who admits at the end of the video: 'I thought you were going to propose!'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510949/Mans-I-cheated-prank-goes-sour-girlfriend-admits-shes-unfaithful-too.html#ixzz2lRdbOWDI

Two men agree to marry same woman because ‘she can’t choose between them’

Duelling Kenyan lovers Sylvester Mwendwa and Elijah
Kimani settled their differences after finding out they had
both unknowingly been seeing the same woman for more
than four years, the Daily Nation newspaper reported
.
Rather than one of them leaving, or both departing
altogether, they agreed to a rota system where they would
get to see the woman on different days.
‘We have agreed that from today we will not threaten or
have jealous feelings because of our wife, who says she’s
not ready to let go of any of us,’ the agreement said,
according to Kenya’s NTV.
‘Each one will respect the day set aside for him. We agree to
love each other and live peacefully. No-one has forced us to
make this agreement.’

They will also have to live in the unnamed widowed
woman’s house in Mombasa County and act as fathers to
her two current children, and any others she gives birth to.

A British woman is allergic to cell phones and computers

 The 39-year-old is so sensitive to the electromagnetic field (emf) or 'smog' created by computers, mobile phones, microwave ovens and even some cars, that she develops a painful skin rash and her eyelids swell to three times their size if she goes near them. As a consequence, Mrs Bird, a health spa manager, has transformed her home into an EMF-free zone to try and stay healthy. 'I can no longer do things that I used to take for granted,' Mrs Bird said. "My day-to-day life has been seriously affected by EMF".

Baby given "MESSIAH" name, rejected by Judge

A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ."

Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change last week. The boy's parents were in court because they could not agree on the child's last name but when the judge  heard the boy's first name, she ordered it changed, too.

"It could put him at odds with a lot of people and at this point he has had no choice in what his name is," Ballew said.

It was the first time she ordered a first name change, the judge said.

Messiah was No. 4 among the fastest-rising baby names in 2012, according to the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.

Tenn. judge changes infant's name from 'Messiah'Play video."

PayPal Accidentally Credits Man $92 Quadrillion

One man, Chris Reynolds, a 56-year-old man who sells auto parts on eBay, was accidentally credited $92,233,720,368,547,800 by PayPal

The Media, Pa., resident became both the world's first quadrillionaire and the richest man in the world for all of one minute, before logging into his account to find that his balance had already returned to the correct amount, $0.

Man Kicked Out of Saudi Arabia for Being ‘Too Handsome

Omar Borkan Al Gala, as you'll see in the photos below, is just too damn handsome. The man from the United Arab Emirates was visiting Saudi Arabia for a festival. But he and two of his colleagues were asked to leave for fear they would corrupt the country's women. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices thought he was too hot for the ladies to handle. Which he is. I mean, imagine what could happen!

Women would wake up to the handsome possibilities and start nagging their own husbands. "Why can't you trim your beard like (SIGH) Omaaaaar does?" "Couldn't you grow your hair out just a little bit like (hand over heart) Omaaaaaar does?" "It's hard to tell from his clothing, but it appears Omar (mmmm) performs some sort of regular exercise to keep his figure so trim. I like that!" There would be no end to it! Men would start feeling bad about themselves. We can't have that.

And with Omar's handsome visage burned into these women's memory, what's to stop them fromthinking about him all day, every day, in various states of undress? Nothing! Nothing at all. So if you're trying to curtail the lustful thoughts of an entire population, it's clear that you cannot allow a man like Omar Borkan Al Gala into your country.

Obviously you'd like to see what this man looks like, yes? Here you go. Enjoy your impure thoughts. I'll get you started. He's driving while you caress his arm and inhale the warm scent from his collar. He pulls over. It's a country road and there's nobody around ... Omar, I think I speak for all of us when I say: YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT OUR COUNTRY ANY TIME.

Romanian player sold for a chunk of meat

A new transfer record was set in Romania back in 2010 - for the most expensive footballer sold in return for pork.
Defender Marius Cioara was sold to Regal Hornia for 15kg of sausages. He retired a day later after 24 hours of taunts. Regal Hornia demanded a refund, and Cioara went to work on a farm.

Man on the Run from cops for nothing for 20 years

Bennie Wint was convinced that the cops were after him for drug-related charges when he faked his death in 1989. So convinced, that he staged his drowning death in Daytona Beach, Fla., leaving his fiancé and then-four-year-old daughter completely oblivious to his plan and, ultimately, heartbroken. He then took off to Alabama (is that really the best you could do, Bennie? Alabama?) and began a new life under the name of William Sweet. He married another woman and had a son, and spent his days running a flea market stall in North Carolina (better).

About 20 years later, he was pulled over by the cops in the good ol' state of NC for a blown-out light bulb on his car. When he gave his fake name, nothing came up on the computers, so Bennie was forced to give his real name and tell his whole story—only to find out that he was never wanted for anything. That's right, Bennie threw his whole life away for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

And this, kids, is why you shouldn't do drugs.

Newscaster commits suicide Live on Air

On the morning of July 15, 1974, Christine Chubbuck confused co-workers by claiming that she had to read a newscast to open her program, Suncoast Digest, something she had never done before. That morning’s talk show guest waited across the studio while she sat at the news anchor’s desk.

Her news copy actually contained a speculative report of her impending suicide, wherein she conjectured she would be declared dead eleven hours later. She placed a .38 revolver in her bag of puppets and put it beneath her desk. During the first eight minutes of her program, Chubbuck covered three national news stories and then a local restaurant shooting from the day before. The restaurant was the Beef and Bottle Restaurant at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport on U.S. 41.

The film reel of the restaurant shooting had jammed and wouldn’t run, so Christine shrugged it off and said:“In keeping with Channel 40′s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.” She drew out the revolver and shot herself behind her right ear. Christine fell forward violently and the technical director faded slowly to black.

Camerawoman Jean Reed later recalled that she thought it had been an elaborate prank, and it wasn’t until she saw Chubbuck’s twitching body that she realized it was genuine.The station quickly ran a standard Public Service tape, and then a movie. Some television viewers had phoned 9-1-1, while others phoned the station to inquire if the shooting was faked.

Chubbuck was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital and was pronounced dead 14 hours later. Upon receiving the news, a WXLT staffer released the information to other stations using Chubbuck’s copy, as she left it for just that purpose.

TV reporter curses on air on the 1st day of work and gets fired

A TV news anchor for a North Dakota station started his first ever on air broadcast cursing, according to a report on April 23 by ABC News.

A.J. Clemente was being introduced by co-anchor Van Tieu when he swore audibly during the 5 p.m. edition of the KFYR-TV news in Bismarck. He then stumbled through an introduction while trying to recover from his flub.

Because of his first words on air being curse words, he was first suspended and later fired. He was a weekend news anchorman for a North Dakota TV station and was fired on Monday.

A SCHOOLBOY aged eight ties the knot — with a woman aged 61.

Little Sanele Masilela got hitched in front of 100 guests to
mum-of-five Helen Shabangu, who already has a husband.

The couple swapped rings and kissed in the ceremony in
Tshwane, South Africa, which Sanele claimed his dead
ancestors ordered him to arrange.


But he and his bride did not sign a marriage certificate and
do not live together.
His family, who forked out £1,500 on the wedding, insisted
it was only a ritual and was not legally binding.
Sanele said: “I told my mother I wanted to get married as I
really did want to.
“I’m happy that I married Helen. When I’m older I will
marry a lady my own age.”


The boy’s 46-year-old mum Patience said: “Sanele’s
grandfather asked him to get married before he died. He
chose Helen because he loves her.
“By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn’t,
something bad would have happened in the family.”
Helen said: “It is what the ancestors wanted.”

Award for "Worst" rather than "Best"

Everyone knows about the apex of movie awards which every actor/actress on the planet will give anything and everything to have in their collection, “Academy Awards” a.k.a. ‘The Oscars’, but a very few people know about an award that gives the “Worst” instead of the “Best” that’s usually given.

Interestingly, this award known as “Golden Raspberry Award” a.k.a. ‘Razzie’ has a massive publicity of its own and the ceremony is typically held one day before the Academy Awards (its model). Most winners do not attend the ceremony.

The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31, 1981, at John J. B. Wilson's (founder) living room alcove in Los Angeles to honour the worst in film of the 1980 film season, and the latest, the 33rd ceremony was held on February 23, 2013. Its categories includes; Worst Actor, Worst Actress, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Screen Couple/Worst Screen Ensemble, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.

The awards themselves are enough joke of their own. They typically cost $4.97 each, in the form of a "golfball-sized raspberry" which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray-painted gold.



The amazing thing is that top Hollywood actors/actresses actually acknowledge this award either satirically or otherwise, e.g. Bill Cosby, Ben Affleck etc.; and some have even attended the ceremony in person to actually accept their award and also give an acceptance speech. Examples include; Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock etc.

Bill Cosby became the first recipient to claim an award in 1988. His trophy was worth $1.97. He accepted to receive the award, on the condition that it must be real gold. Arrangements were made to present Cosby with his awards which was remodeled and made out of 24-carat gold and Italian marble, which cost almost $30,000.

In 2004, after winning the ‘Worst actor’, Ben Affleck joked on the radio, complaining he was "stiffed" because he had not been given his Worst Actor trophy. He was presented with his trophy in an appearance on Larry King Live. He commented, "It's a little cheap," and proceeded to pull the trophy apart while on the television program.



Ironically, Halle Berry went on stage to accept her award for ‘Worst actress’ in 2005 for her role in Catwoman holding her Academy Award for her performance in Monster's Ball in one hand and her Golden Raspberry Award trophy in the other. She parodied her performance when she accepted her Academy Award.



After her Worst Actress nomination for All About Steve in 2010, Sandra Bullock expressed interest in coming up to pick up her award. She brought DVD copies of the movie to the audience, declaring that the voters should watch the movie to see if she was really the worst performer, implying the Razzie voters cast ballots for her just to see if she appeared at the ceremony. The following night, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Blind Side.

In case you’re curious, log on to their website www.razzies.com for more information.

Highest Scoring Football Game: AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne

AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne is the world record for the highest scoreline in association football, recognised by The Guinness Book of Records, set on 31 October 2002. AS Adema, of Antananarivo, in Madagascar, beat their arch-rivals Stade Olympique de l'Emyrne (SOE) as the result of a pre-determined protest by SOE over refereeing decisions that had gone against them during a four-team playoff tournament. The match surpassed the previous record for the highest scoreline of 36–0, set in 1885.

Baby Girl Dies as Doctors Fight Over Delivery

A baby girl died while doctors fought over who should deliver her.

A newborn girl died after two doctors fought over who was going to deliver her while the mother was in labor, it has emerged.

The young mother begged the doctors to stop fighting and help her, she told a Brazilian television station.

But her pleas appear to have fallen on deaf ears. Her baby daughter suffocated to death, witnesses have said.

The two doctors were fired by the public hospital in the small city of Ivinhema near the border with Paraguay.

Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation over whether the delivery room fight caused the death or contributed to it.

Brazil’s Globo TV said witnesses reported one doctor got angry early Tuesday morning because the other doctor was summoned to deliver the baby for 32-year-old Gislaine de Matos Rodrigues even though he was not scheduled to be on duty.

Rodrigues, a seamstress, said she was terrified when the fight broke out.

‘I asked them to stop fighting and help me,’ she told Globo TV. ‘One of the nurses came to protect me and console me.’

A third doctor took over the delivery after hospital security guards removed the fighting doctors, Rodrigues said.

She said her baby girl was dead upon delivery.

Witnesses said the baby died of asphyxiation following complications, Globo TV reported.

One of the doctors admitted to Globo TV there was a fight in the delivery room, but blamed his colleague.

‘I didn’t get in a fight with him,’ said Dr. Sinomar Ricardo. ‘He got into a fight with me.’

The network said it was unable to interview the second doctor.

Police said they will investigate, and the regional body that oversees doctors in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul also launched a probe.

The two doctors were given 10 days to report their versions of what happened in the hospital’s delivery room.

The autopsy report on the baby’s death is expected to be released next week.

FOOTBALLER who left the PITCH to answer the CALL OF NATURE

JASON PUNCHEON is getting a bum deal at Southampton after becoming the butt of his team-mates’ jokes.
The Saints midfielder had to dash off the pitch at St Mary’s during the second half of their 0-0 draw with Everton on Monday to answer the call of nature.

The 26-year-old then sheepishly returned in the 70th minute — and got a ribbing from his own fans. Now his team-mates have started teasing him.

Fellow midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin said: “All the players have given him some stick about it — but he said it was better he did it in the changing room than out on the pitch!

“It is the first time I have ever seen that and I am sure not many other players have seen that before.

“But he has taken it well. He loves giving the banter and he has a great personality.”

New Saints boss Mauricio Pochettino joked: “When there is a new manager, the players want to impress and sometimes nerves get the better of them!”

2012 in Retrospect

2012 started on a very bright note for me, as per love basis *winks*. Things fell into place.

Nigerians were shocked by President Goodluck Jonathan hiking the fuel price from =N=65 to =N=141 on the 1st of January. This really brought a protest and general shutdown in Nigeria for almost 2 weeks.

On the 11th of February, Whitney Houston (48) was found dead in the bath tub of her Beverly Hills hotel room.

The Nigerian Underwear attempted bomber 'Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab' was given a life sentence for his failed attempt to blow up a US bound plane from Amsterdam on 2009 xmas day.

In March, South Africa Football club Mamelodi Sundowns whooped another clubside Powerlines Fc (24-0). The highest scoreline i've ever seen or heard in my life, with a player grabbing 7 goals.

Big shout out to the Lana Del Rey. She made my year with her songs "Summertime Sadness, Radio & Blue Jeans".

I wont deny it, i was emotionally disturbed from March. Things didnt go the way i wanted it to go. But i still have high hopes. Believe me.

In April, i got admission into OAU for my Postgraduate in Management Studies, where i spent the rest of the year at.

In May, Manchester United lost the Barclays Premier League trophy to Manchester City on the final day of the season despite finishing with the same points. It was really heartbreaking as Man Utd lost it with only less than 2 minutes to go.

Chelsea won the Champions League for the first time defeating Bayern Munich in penalties, where Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba took the winning shot.

The President, Goodluck Jonathan on May 29 (democracy day) came with another shocker, renaming University of Lagos UNILAG to Moshood Abiola University. This brought about protest from the students.

In June, a Dana Airline Aircraft from Abuja to Lagos crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Iju, Lagos killing all on board. I remember vividly how horrid the pictures of the burnt victims i saw were. It shocked me as i had entered the same airline less than 2 years ago.

Things started becoming clearer to me as to my personal life. I got sick and tensed virtually everytime. I really needed clarity. I was dying inside silently.

Can't believe I had to wait till July 2012 to really connect to the music of James Blunt. Wish i had done that earlier.

London Olympics came calling. U.S swimmer Micheal Phelps became the most decorated olympian with 22 medals, 18 of them gold. South African double-amputee (aka Blade Runner) runner Oscar Pistorius became him the first Paralympian to compete in the able bodied Olympics. U.S gymnast Gabby Douglas became the first coloured to win a gold medal.

Why did i have to clock 23 years of age before my beards start to appear.

Precisely the 6th of August, NASA's rover "Curiousity" landed in planet Mars.

In August, I made the most stupid mistake and ended up regretting it, I think?

Had to wait till October before clarity came in, this was all I was clamouring for all along. October 30 precisely, I made and saw my love cry. I won’t deny it, it broke me, i hated myself for that. And I had to have my fingers crossed. I needed a 2nd chance.

November 7, U.S. first black president, Barack Obama was re-elected for a 2nd-term.

In December, Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi surpassed Gerard Muller's 86 goals in a calendar year. He went on to score a few additional goals before the year ended.

Dec, 21, 2012 was supposed to be the day the world ended, due to the end of the 'mayan calendar' but it never happened. Couldnt believe some actually believed that crap.

On the supposed doomsday, i heard an insightful story, that totally vindicated me. God knows i hate to be at fault in any situation. It just aches why some people believe owning up to a fault is demeaning, whereas the truth always prevails.

No doubt, 2012 was the most disturbing year for me. I drowned in my own tears. I lost myself in the process.

However, One thing ive learnt this year however is that "you can never force anyone to keep on loving you".

I totally look forward to 2013 with great expectations for me, with many fields to explore.

Big thanks to Temilade Oladipo, you really made my year.