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A seven-year-old boy broke into a Northern Territory reptile farm and sadistically fed a stream of its main exhibits to the resident 3m crocodile.
He also bludgeoned three lizards to death in their pens.
Police cannot charge the boy because of his age.
Security camera video footage clearly shows every move of the youngster’s 35-minute rampage.
One CCTV image [...]
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman assures the Pentagon that weapons-grade electric lasers will actually come by the end of 2008. Which means 100-kilowatt lasers that can knock mortars and rockets out of the sky — just like in your favorite video game! Fo sho!
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Barbecued seahorses are weird delicacies that can be found being sold in the streets of China. But now that the 2008 Olympics are being held there, these poor sea creatures might invite international palates to even threaten more of what remains of their marine solitude.
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Remember when we talked about the US military’s new fancy dispersal weapon call the Heat Ray Gun? CBS; David Martin tests how that ray gun without any cool Star Wars sound effects could actually force you to flee.
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Badaltearing Safari Park in China has something very titillating for its visitors — pay for one of the cute goats in a pen, and the zoo will happily toss the live goat into a pack of hungry lions, for you to savor the sight of how cute goat is turned quickly into no-longer-cute-goat.
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How to make a lockpick like a pro. Balls required.
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“State wildlife officials on Santa Catalina Island (California) said today that they were investigating the beheading of a deer in downtown Avalon by a city employee who dressed the carcass and left the head in a soccer net near a preschool and City Hall.”
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What you see here are members of the gallant Belgian police from the French-speaking part of Belgium, showing how to grab a politician’s balls just the way God intended it. Especially if the politician’s Flemish and comes from the Dutch-speaking part of that country.
On the other hand, the man who so willingly and enthusiastically offered [...]
