Things that make you go What the F**k?

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German police dogs to wear shoes

Police dogs in the German city of Dusseldorf are being trained to wear shoes to protect them against injuries from broken glass.

Dusseldorf's team of 20 German and Belgian shepherds are at risk from smashed bottles in the city centre, a police spokesman said.

Training to help the dogs get used to the shoes, which arrived two weeks ago, is said to be going well.

It is hoped that dogs will be wearing them on patrol next month.

Minor injuries

The dogs perform routine protection duties and are also trained to find drugs and explosives.

Police spokesman Gunter Herring said the main risk was in Dusseldorf's old city centre, known for its late-night drinking.

"There are many people and sometimes in the late evening or during the night we have drunken people and they throw their bottles or glasses away," Mr Herring told the BBC News website.

The dogs have picked up minor injuries in the past, he said.

"Now we are conditioning the dogs to wearing their shoes to protect them in these areas from the glass and cuts."

The dogs are also at risk around the city's large football stadium, Mr Herring said.

The plastic shoes are freely available on the market and were not made specially for Dusseldorf police.

Sourced BBCi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7264680.stm

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I heard last night that there was a rumour doing the rounds up East Tyrone that I had died the weekend before. 

[The Real Laoislad]

I heard last night that there was a rumour doing the rounds up East Tyrone that I had died the weekend before. 

Whats Heaven like 

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Where I was, was a little hotter.

[The Real Laoislad]

Where I was, was a little hotter.

Don't worry Ziggy you'll be back with us soon enough there is such a thing as Reincarnation ya know!

[Puckoon]

Where I was, was a little hotter.

Letterkenny?

[ziggysego]

Where I was, was a little hotter.

Letterkenny?

No, Crossmaglen.

[johnneycool]

Don't watch if you intend flying any time soon

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1307726&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/plane_landing_030308.flv

[gawa316]

Just on the web checking flights for a mate to Chicago (one way) from London.

Ebookers had a quote of 253 quid flying with Virgin Atlantic.

Thought I'd check out Virgins on website and they quoted me 550 quid!!!

What the f**k!!

[man in black]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7277674.stm

[Donagh]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7277674.stm

Aidan Mackle ('the washing machine man'). Fecking clampit. Great harmonica player but an awful mouth on him with the drink. Plenty of time to practice now. 

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DJ forgets to hit 'live' button

A radio DJ spent an hour talking on his breakfast show without realising that listeners could not hear him.

Andy Greener, a volunteer DJ at Radio Teesdale, forgot to press a crucial button to make his show live.

Instead of his show, listeners heard 60 minutes of music and jingles as an automated back-up system kicked in to prevent radio silence.

He was alerted to his mistake when his station manager, listening at home, tried to call in.

Peter Dixon repeatedly tried to alert his DJ to his mistake.

But the former police officer, known to listeners as Mr Andy, was too busy presenting his show to answer the phone.

Eventually, Mr Dixon got through and Greener began broadcasting again.

Media attention

"I've been involved with community radio for about four years and I've been doing this three days a week for 10 months and have never done it before," Greener told the BBC News website.

He said he felt "a bit uncomfortable" with the media attention his mistake had attracted but that any publicity for the station was "absolutely brilliant".

"I'm starting to get to the stage of being a bit sick of it all, but I look forward to getting back on the air on Monday," he said.

"After this, I don't think I'll be forgetting again," he added.

The independent station, which broadcasts to 25,000 people in rural County Durham from the market town of Barnard Castle, has a community licence to broadcast locally.

Sourced BBCi: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7283999.stm

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Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years - so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The boyfriend called police on February 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

She was reported in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.

Police have declined to release the couple's names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number.

The case has been the buzz of Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbour.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," he said.

Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up. At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

AP

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WTF? I thought nothing could surprise me anymore!

[Square Ball]

How in under god could that happen? did no one realise that this woman wasnt about?