Who ever they are, they ought to be shot...

Evil Ella just emailed me this little gem:

"In a revised version of the nursery rhyme that aired recently on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s children's channel CBeebies, the tale – which first appeared in print in 1810 – no longer ends with “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again”. Now, a crack squadron of His Majesty’s finest hard-boiled military personnel has found the recipe to "make Humpty happy again”. How eggsellent."

The full article is here.

How do we stop this madness??????

Then look no further than this:

A genuine, antique, vampire killing kit.

This is not a joke. It's a legitimate antique being offered at auction by Steven Auctions in Mississippi.

It's described in their catalogue as:

Vampire killing kit, Rosewood case with mother of pearl cross inlay, pistol, silver bullets in coffin case, Holy water vials, cleaver, prayer book, looking glass - close-up

I am so tempted to email a bid for this, except I reckon every other wacko vampire enthusiast out there is probably thinking the same thing.

Dear God... can you imagine the history behind that thing?

It's enough to make we want to write vampire stories...

Yesterday's blog didn't go up apparently... not sure why.

Oh well, it was just a word count, and this is way funnier.

Yet another gem from the NT News. And what's more, this isn't the first time they've jailed a croc up here, either!

TERRITORY police were forced to arrest a grumpy crocodile and throw it in jail after it was discovered loitering in a town.

Gunbalanya police were called out recently after the 2m female saltie turned up at Arrkuluk Camp, in town.

Police said they found it loitering near a fence, trying to look innocent.

It had ventured into Middle Camp - right in the centre of the town, which is 300km east of Darwin - then lost patience and picked a fight with the fence, going into a death roll with it.

Brevet Sergeant Adam Russell said the latest four-legged offender, although dangerous, wasn't about to give anyone much trouble.

"She was pretty tired - pretty knackered at that point," he said.

Sgt Russell said intrigued residents had gathered around to watch the arrest - but any dreams he had of nabbing the gnasher in style were promptly voted down.

"I wanted to jump on it Steve Irwin style," he said. "But (the rangers) wouldn't let me."

Instead she was bound and bundled into the back of an ute, and taken to the police cells.

She was held in custody for three days until folks from a Top End croc farm came to pick her up.

"We cut the ropes on her legs just so she could move around (in the cell) ... we couldn't have her tied up for all that time," he said.

"We just hosed her down every couple of hours."

He said the saltie was a fairly good prisoner, although she got grumpy with her curious audience.

"She got a bit cranky when she was in the cells - started hissing when people came near."

Sgt Russell said it was the first time he'd ever put a croc in the lock-up.

"She would have to be the most interesting clientele we've had in that cell," he said.

But, this being the Territory, it has only been two years since the last saltie was reported to have spent the night in a jail house.

In 2007, Nhulunbuy police threw a saltie in the slammer after it lunged at a fisherman.

The 2.75m croc spent the night in the clink before being taken to a crocodile farm the next day.

If you remember, a few days ago, I blogged about three women who tried to break into the Alice Springs Gaol.

We're different here in the Outback...

Well, after reading this latest item in the NT News, I've decided our relationship to law enforcement here in the Northern Territory, is probably not what it is in other places around the world.

No, really... I mean very different...

This was in Friday's paper:

AN arrested couple have been sprung shagging in the back of a police paddy wagon while being driven to a Territory cop station.

Hannah Walker was driving behind the police car and said she was shocked to find the couple bonking in the back when she pulled up behind them at a red light.

Police said last night they had no idea about their randy rendezvous... more

Go on... tell me you'd hear about something like that anywhere else in the entire world. LOL

Love it... and so were the couple under arrest, apparently... hehehehe

This should come under the category "Some people have way too much time on their hands" but is intriguing, none the less.

A team of bored geeks statisticians at Kansas State University has just mapped the 7 Deadly Sins in the US plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy), number of takeaways (gluttony) and STDs (lust).

Interesting to note that the most "religious" areas of the US are also the most "sinful"


I would love to see a similar map done of Australia. Actually, one of the whole world would be kinda fun, too.

The one shown here is for Pride (the root of all sin according to the survey), which is a conglomerate of all the other maps.

The rest of the maps are here.