Man Tricks family into Thinking He Won the Lottery.
August 17, 2007
Not so fast mate…
A 46-year-old man told his family and the local media that he had won the £35.4 million jackpot in the Euro-Millions, despite the fact that he never won a dime.
Fergus Frater was so convincing he promised his son and daughter a large share in the winnings, prompting the son to quit his job, blow a huge slice of his savings on drinks and expensive meals and planned with his girlfriend a new life in Australia.
“One minute I was a multi-millionaire, the next I was back to having nothing. I was going to buy a Bentley and emigrate with my family to start a new life.
“I could kill him. But he’s gone to ground and I’ve no idea where he is,” the man’s enraged son, 25-year-old Jordan told British media.
After spending much of last weekend celebrating with freinds, who even bought him drinks, Frater disappeared from his one-bedroom flat and hasn’t been seen since.
Frater even posed for pictures with a Euro Millions ticket for a local newspaper.
But obviously nobody thought to have a look at the ticket, because it was only realized that the “win” wasn’t a win after all when the real winner of the draw came foward, a 40-year-old postal worker from Scotland, Angela Kelly.
The winning ticket was Britain’s biggest-ever lottery win.
The real winner.
Doggy-Dog Dog…
Legendary, some would say a little crazy, celebrity bounty hunter Duane Lee “Dog” Chapman, is out with a new book on his eventful life. After accusations that he’s a womanizing racist and a hypocritical, “crack head,” the Dog says he wants to set the record strait.
Dog has a well defined macho, cavalier, rough and tumble, tough guy image. Yet, he also paints himself as a good family man, and says he is a ‘devout Christian, who sees his job as a way to help people find the right path’. He will stop at nothing to chase down the ‘bad guys’, and get ‘em off the streets.
But other’s, including some members of his extended family, say his not the guy he makes out to be.
“Everyone is jumping on the ‘hate Dog’ bandwagon. They’re all lying. I’ve made a lot of enemies in my life, and I’m sorry I’ve done that. I guess if one person comes after you, they all come after you,” he angrily told the National Ledger.
The former convict also has a weak spot, and if he ever happens to be on your tale, you might want to find somewhere high up for safety.
Dog and boob’s, AKA his wife Beth.
Dog has a hardcore fear of heights.
When doing interviews for his book in New York City this week, he refused to head out to the roof of a 61-story building for a photo shoot.
So there it is, if ever being perused by bad ass Dog the Bounty Hunter, seek higher ground. Too easy.
In his biography, Chapman talks about his troubled childhood, joining a motorcycle gang, “run-ins” with the law, his five wives (juts like Mit Romney’s relatives), 12 children, and his devotion to God.
Once, after hunting crims in Mexico, he himself was arrested, as bounty hunting there is illegal (as it probably should be in all sane places).
He had gone there to capture Andrew Luster, a heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was wanted for rape in the US, not realizing what he was doing was an illegal act. Or did he?
Tough guy behind bars.
He was taken into custody in September 2006 by US authorities, but luckily for him, the charges were dropped.
“I’m going to keep bounty hunting in the U.S., but not in Mexico,” he tells media.
He also said that a book on his life would help clear up misconceptions about his personality.
“I come across sometimes as not the average bloke so this will help people understand me.”
Bloke? Is not that word of the Aussie variety… Trying to sound fair dinkum, ey. (Note: Don’t say the phrase fair dinkum on any US domestic flights, you may be arrested and questioned, for meaning on that word, click here).
The Dog the Bounty Hunter reality TV series is shown in more than 100 counties.
Click to see an excerpt from the book.
Watch an outtake from another wacky episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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Is too much sex bad for the economy?
August 4, 2007
Let’s talk about sex!
“The less sex you have, the more work you seek”, and those who are not getting any action “often take on more commitments and work.”
Or in the words of the studies author, Ragnar Beer of the University of Göttingen:
“Sexual frustration prevents you from being able to reduce your stress”
“One commonly takes on obligations out of sexual frustration that aren’t easy to let go of, like leadership positions in a club, for instance. That takes away from the time spent on the relationship, which again negatively contributes to sexual satisfaction. Unobserved, the frustration often becomes deeply ingrained.”
Beer’s team found that 36 percent of men and 35 percent of women who have sex only once a week take on extra work to compensate for their wanting sex life. It’s even worse for the hapless couples who have altogether lost their eye for one another. Forty-five percent of men and 46 percent of women who no longer have sex with their partner seek out other activities to salve their wanting libidos.
So, you could conclude that the more active participants in an economy getting no or little sex, the more productive that nation’s economy would be.
How could economic policy makers use this information to their advantage?
I blog, you decide.
Meanwhile….
In other studies of sex related news…
A world-wide study on women’s sexual satisfaction has found that Saudi Arabian women were the most sexually fulfilled, followed by Mexican, Spanish, Italian and Venezuelan women.
How nice.
Now, lets talk about sex…
Quick, watch it before Universal records deletes it!
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In what could be a major breakthrough, scientists from the United States have been able to wake a man from a near vegetative state, and he can now talk to his family, watch TV and chew.
The 38-year-old from Ohio had been in a coma like state for 6 years, after being mugged and bashed, but when neuroscientists from New York and News Jersey used a pacemaker and two electrodes to send impulses into a part of the brain regulating consciousness, the mans quality of life was dramatically improved.
Unable to chew or swallow, the Cleveland patient, who has been identified only as an artist with two brothers, was fed by tube and could communicate solely through slight movements of his eyes and fingers.
Although he still does not initiate conversation, the surgery has allowed him to respond to questions with answers of up to three words. Several weeks ago, he recited the first half of the U.S. oath of allegiance without help.
The patient has also regained some movement in his limbs.
Electrodes were inserted into his thalamus, the region believed to be key in consciousness, to boost its speech and movement signals.
His mother said: “My son, as well as the entire family, had little hope of further recovery. Now he can eat, express himself and let us know if he is in pain.
“He can cry and he can laugh and, most importantly, he can say, ‘Mommy’ and ‘Pop’ and he can say, ‘I love you Mommy’. I still cry every time I see my son but it is tears of joy.”
The story is detailed HERE in the journal of Nature.
See related story on Jan Grzebski who suddenly woke up from a 19 year coma earlier this year.
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