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From BBC News

A wheelchair user has been taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a lorry.

The back of the 21-year-old man’s wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan state police said.

The truck driver drove off, completely unaware that he had a new passenger.

Passing motorists told police, who found the man unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck.

He had been kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.

Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said the unidentified man told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.

The truck reached speeds of 50mph (80km/h) as it drove down the Red Arrow Highway.

After several miles the driver pulled over at the depot of a trucking company where police then told him about the man on his front end.

He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said.

This made me laugh..  Ripped off straight from BoingBoing:

 The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.

…Reasoning that a one-second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad….I decided to give myself a one-second burst just for the heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and … HOLY MOTHER ..WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION…@!@$$!%!@*!!!

I’m pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs. The cat was standing over me making meowing sounds I had never heard before, licking my face, undoubtedly thinking to herself, "Do it again, do it again!"

It is the 40th anniversary of (IMO) The Beatles greatest album.  I’m sure that over the coming weeks there will be plenty to read on this, but this is the first article I have come across, and pretty good, considering it was done by a yank.

Check it out

"What these songs don’t contain is autobiographical musings on the loneliness of stardom, or the pressures of life on the road, or the avaricious spending habits of ex-wives. No pontificating from the celebrity pulpit, either. (Lennon would get there soon enough.) Nope. These songs are about people who get up to go to jobs and catch buses and wait at turnstiles and drink tea and read newspapers; folks who mend roofs and dig weeds and knit sweaters, who come home for tea and meet the wife. (Except, er, for “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite” – that one bears no resemblance to anyone’s reality, not unless you are a Victorian circus geek.)"

Google have added a new feature to Maps.Google.com called "Street View", which you can use to view photographs of various places, pan them,  zoom in, etc.  There is a fascinating post over on BoingBoing (as there usually is) here  which starts off with a woman complaining that you can see her cat in her window– is this invasion of privacy or not, I mean, you could gain access to all this information by simply walking dow the street..  anyway, you have to pity this guy, the google van just going past as he ducks out of a strip club…

theres some nice pics of Vegas up, this is worth 10 minutes of your life.  I look forward to seeing it come to the UK.

UPDATE:  Another article HERE highlights some of the best finds, including this guy breaking into an apartment:

Saw this film the other night, was a random selection, It kinda in the vaguest sense of the word put me in mind of Breakfast club, its like a gangsta film, but set in a school, with teens.

I’m still undecided if I liked it, however at least it made me think, and was not a complete pile of crapola……

This emmeding thing Sucks, I follow the guide, never frikkin works, heres the emmbeded link , Fix it Jim

I’ve just been reading over this fantastic article about "The Long Take".  A long sequence in a movie which is shot all in one go, and was amazed to see just how many of my favourites were in their list– Goodfellas, Carlitos Way, Children of Men (anyone seen this by the way?  its awesome!  beautifully filmed), and, WinningStyle favourite, OldBoy (Whoop, theres my Google Keywords stats scrambled).

I’ll embed the Children of Men clip here, coz its awesome.  Check out the guy on the motorbike.  and check out that article!

Check out the link here,

Its nice to see a small company competing with the likes of Evesham etc; made me all warm inside

Crap case though …..

From BBC News

not actual penis

A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant. Police were forced to use CS gas to restrain the man when they entered the Zizzi restaurant in The Strand on Sunday evening. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said the man was aged between 30 and 40 and that his injuries were self-inflicted. The man was then taken to hospital in south London where his condition is stable. It is understood surgeons were unable to reattach his penis.

A spokeswoman for Zizzi said the man was not thought to have any connection with the restaurant.

Inside Lucas Films Rendering Farm Check out the link at BBC News