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Jack & Coke
05-12-2004, 06:56 PM
from:http://www.wftv.com/index.html

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PALMERTON, Pa. -- Bandit, the world's heaviest raccoon, rests in the lap of Deborah "Pepper" Klitsch on Jan. 30, 2001. Bandit, a junk-food crazed critter billed as the world's weightiest raccoon, died Saturday, May 8, 2004. Klitsch denied the occasional charge that she overfed the rotund raccoon, whose weight ballooned to nearly 75 pounds, three times the average for his breed. He was born with a bad thyroid gland, Klitsch said. (05/12/04 AP photo)

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Police on motorscooters attempt to pull over an ostrich who escaped from a children's petting zoo. The ostrich eluded capture. (05/09/04 AP photo)

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ATLANTA -- An Atlanta firefighter leans from a parking deck with a BMW protruding over the street below in downtown Atlanta. A valet trying to park a sports utility vehicle accidentally hit the parked BMW, sending the unoccupied car halfway off a deck and dangling over the street and a parked SUV below. No injuries were reported. The SUV and the front end of the BMW were intertwined in the collision. (05/05/04 AP photo)

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LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (05/05/04 AP photo)

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WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -- A horse looks out a window of the trailer its being hauled in after a Dodge Neon collided with it. The accident occurred after high winds blew dust from a freshly plowed field across the roadway severely limiting visibility. As a result, there was a six-car pileup that ended with the vehicle in the back of the horse trailer. The horse, Crimson Agent, escaped the accident unharmed. (05/04/04 AP photo)

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CROMWELL, New Zealand -- Shrek the 9- year-old merino wether is photographed before he has his fleece shorn at the Golden Gate Lodge. Shrek's fleece is believed to be 6 years old after the animal was found on the Bendigo Station hilltops during a muster on April 15. (04/28/04 AP photo)

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MEXICO CITY -- A man takes a piece of the world's biggest sandwich. The cheese, ham, mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich which measures 3.50 x 3.50 meters (11.5 x 11.5 feet) holds a Guinness Record. (04/24/04 AP photo)

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MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Louis Volpe, acting regional supervisor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's safeguarding intervention and trade compliance program, holds two Giant African Land Snails in the USDA's Milwaukee office. Federal health officials have seized several of these dangerous pests from Wisconsin classrooms and have started a national search for the creatures. Many of the snails, which are illegal to possess in the United States, were being used as teaching tools in some classrooms where school officials don't know they are dangerous, said Willie Harris, eastern regional director of the USDA's intervention and trade compliance bureau. (04/21/04 AP photo)

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AHMADABAD, India -- Devotees offer flowers to Tapawsiary Bapu, 37, an Indian Hindu holy man who has buried himself neck down in the ground for meditation for 10 days at Pathapur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ahmadabad. Bapu began his meditation on March 20 and will emerge from the hole on March 29. (03/26/04 AP photo)

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ALEXANDRIA, Ind. -- Rick Barker, left, an arborist, uses an incremental borer to retrieve a core sample from Michael Carmichael's giant ball of paint. Carmichael, right, is having the core sample sent to the Guiness Book of World Records in London, UK to have his creation officially recognized as the largest ball of paint in the world. Carmichael began the project by painting a regulation size baseball in 1977 to arrive at the current 111-inch in circumference ball after 18,000 coats of paint. (03/13/04 AP photo)

Rob218
05-12-2004, 07:10 PM
Woah...And I thought I had no life

UltimatePaintballer
05-12-2004, 07:28 PM
that racoon is the coolest
:D

TeamNausea
05-12-2004, 07:32 PM
Ouch a nail gun...

RoadDawg
05-12-2004, 07:36 PM
Those are some big snails.

CaptaiN_JacK
05-12-2004, 08:37 PM
whats so dangerous about those snails? i thought snails were harmless...

Python14
05-12-2004, 08:49 PM
The danger of the snails is what if they are released into the wild. A breeding pair of Giant African Snails could mate without even a hint of a threat from a predator. The millions of babies they'd make would be able to survive and out compete the native species.

coolcatpete
05-12-2004, 10:12 PM
That is the craziest news sight I just checked it out.
Pete

cphilip
05-12-2004, 10:17 PM
that racoon is the coolest
:D

not only dat but dems good eatin!!!! :D

Jack & Coke
05-12-2004, 11:41 PM
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Jack & Coke
05-13-2004, 12:05 AM
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WASHINGTON -- Image released by the FBI of the the letter containing ricin sent last year to the White House that threatened to turn Washington into a "ghost town" if new trucking safety regulations went into effect. (02/23/04 AP photo)

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DALLAS -- This billboard in Dallas on Feb. 2, 2004, is a campaign by Dallas- based nonprofit software company by NetAccountability, a nonprofit software company that aims to help Christians confront the "secret sin" of pornography. The company is urging men to give their wives a special gift for Valentines -- abstinence from porn. The billboards are scheduled to be displayed on Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, the day before Valentines Day. (02/12/04 AP photo)

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MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho -- Seen in a photo released Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho in September 2003. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. This was only the second crash since the Air Force began using F-16 Falcons for its demonstration team in 1982. Nobody was injured in the crash. The Air Force blamed the incident on pilot error. The Thunderbirds are based at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. (02/04/04 AP photo)

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II presides over a performance of break- dancers from a cultural organization of Poland, during a special audience at the Vatican in this image from television. (01/25/04 AP photo)

VIDEO: Break- Dancers Perform For The Pope
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LAKE TEXOMA, Texas -- Cody Mullennix, left, and Jason Holbrook hold a 121- pound catfish caught by Mullennix on Lake Texoma. (01/18/04 AP photo)

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BANGOR, Maine -- Firefighters use a snorkel truck to put water on a stubborn blaze in an historic building. The building, which housed a Masonic lodge and three businesses was reported on fire Thursday night. Sub-zero temperatures and wind chill created ice and snow several feet deep at the base of the building. (01/16/04 AP photo)

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept customers from eating the deep-fried cow brain sandwiches at the Hilltop Inn in Evansville, Ind. The delicacy is traced back to a time when southern Indiana newcomers from Germany and Holland wasted little. Some families have their own recipes passed down over the generations. (01/13/04 AP photo)

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Couples kiss during a photo session. Orgnizers said more than 4,000 couples participated in the kissing session sponsored by a tooth paste brand. (01/11/04 AP photo)

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BUENOS AIRES -- Five of the sextuplet white tigers play at Buenos Aires Zoo. A captive white tiger gave birth to sextuplets - three males and three females - on Nov. 18, 2003, boosting these animals' endangered population. There are only 210 white tigers in the world. (01/06/04 AP photo)

Jack & Coke
05-13-2004, 12:06 AM
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith Sunday after crawling into a Sheboygan, Wis., supermarket's stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone. (01/04/04 The Sheboygan Press Photo)

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BRISBANE, Australia -- Australian Steve Irwin, famous for his TV show "The Crocodile Hunter" cradles his month-old son, Robert, under one arm and feeds piece of meat to a 13-foot crocodile in an image from television at his Australia Zoo reptile park in Brisbane, Australia. (01/02/04 AP photo)

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KENDAL, CENTRAL JAVA, Indonesia -- A reticulated python is taken care by his keeper Maryoto at Curugsewu recreational Park, in Kendal, Central Java, Indonesia. The 15-meter (49.21 feet) long, 447-kilogram (985 pound) snake was captured in Jambi province in Sumatera island last year but only recently put on public display. If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in captivity. (12/30/03 AP photo)

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TECUMSEH, Mich. -- Morgan Ford poses at his home in Tecumseh, Mich. with his family's 125-year-old fruitcake, baked by Ford's great-grandmother Fidelia Bates. Ford, 83, is taking the fruitcake to Burbank, Calif., to share a piece with Jay Leno on "`The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Ford is the caretaker of the fruitcake, which has been handed down through generations. (12/22/03 AP photo)

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NUREMBERG, Germany -- An eight-week- old Siberian Tiger shows his teeth during a media presentation at Nuremberg Zoo, southern Germany. Three tigers of the rare species were born Oct. 7, 2003 at the zoo, though one of them died soon afterwards. But male cubs Jenki and Gawan grow up well and were shown to the public for the first time Tuesday. (12/15/03 AP photo)

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ANCHORAGE -- What might be the largest Pacific halibut ever documented was pulled from the Bering Sea off St. Paul Island by the crew of the fishing boat Miss Mary. The 8-foot, 2-inch behemoth was estimated at 533 pounds -- based on its length, according to crewman Barry Davis of Anchorage. (09/12/03 AP photo)

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HENNIKER, N.H. -- It's the great pumpkin! At 1,458 pounds, Bruce Whittier believes he has grown a world-record pumpkin. About 50 friends and neighbors turned out for the weigh-in, with 20 of the onlookers helping lift the pumpkin onto the scale. (09/10/03 AP photo)

1stdeadeye
05-13-2004, 05:46 AM
Cute stories! Even better pics! :D

thecavemankevin
05-13-2004, 09:51 AM
those were good :)

these aren't from that site, but i figured they were deserving non-the-less
these are from ebaums world under insurance claim hall of fame

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OWNED!
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odd producst from other countries:
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and this one just plane out always makes me laugh:
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thecavemankevin
05-13-2004, 09:58 AM
you think that cat fish up top was big

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OWNED!!!!
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slateman
05-13-2004, 10:07 AM
FIrst off guys, Y'all need some kind of 56k warning on the title. Those pics took awhile for my pathetic dial up.

Second, that Racoon is just friggin scary man.
And the pic of the frozen house is pretty cool

Jack & Coke
05-13-2004, 10:18 AM
If there was a 56k warning, would you still have clicked on this thread? ;)

Fred
05-13-2004, 11:48 AM
those snails are dangerous because 1) they eat a TON of plants and reproduce faster than rabbits... and 2) their slime can carry Meningitis...

great pics!

---Fred

Chris42050
05-13-2004, 02:37 PM
That australian guy, steve irwin, was berating Michael Jackson about the baby dangeling insident a month before that picture was taken. What a fool.