Well… not technically the first: they used to sell cocaine in Harrods, but the only one open now! It’s called Route 36 and it moves from location to location in La Paz, Bolivia
The world’s first cocaine bar | World news | The Guardian.
A neat little trick!
Basically, all you need to do to estimate a distance using this classic method is hold your arm out and stare at your thumb with an eye closed. Silly, yes, but it makes sense, because you’ll switch which eye you look through and sort out how far the object appears to have “jumped” to the side:
How far did it move? (Be sure to sight the same edge of your thumb when you switch eyes.) Let’s say it jumped about five times the width of the barn, or about 500 feet. Now multiply that figure by the handy constant 10 (the ratio of the length of your arm to the distance between your eyes), and you get the distance between you and the barn — 5,000 feet, or about one mile.
Estimate Distances with Your Arm and This Rule of Thumb – measurements – Lifehacker.
A law professor explains why you should never, ever talk to the police.
Don’t talk to the cops. Part I
.. and then a police officer explains why he’s absolutely right.
Don’t talk to the cops. Part II
A judge has demanded a Darth Vader impersonator be dragged before him after he succumbed to the Dark Side, attacked two Jedi with a metal crutch, and failed to show up for the resulting court appearance on an assault rap.
According to the Telegraph, Arwel Wynne Jones interrupted an outdoors TV interview* with brothers Barney and Michael Jones – the former aka Jedi Master Jonba Heho and founder of the UK’s Jedi Church – by jumping over a garden fence in Holyhead dressed in a black bin liner and “shiny black helmet” while shouting “Darth Vader” and quickly getting busy with the aforementioned crutch.
However, although Wynne Jones intially turned up at court earlier this week to receive justice, by the time his case was up he’d disappeared. Accordingly, District Judge Andrew Shaw ordered police to hunt down the miscreant, and concluded: “I hope the force will soon be with him.” ®
Protecting Big Cats is one hell of a thing. Each cat eats around 230 lbs of meat per day, making them very expensive to support. Me, I love tigers, lions, cheetah’s, panthers etc etc. and am glad that some of these cats are saved from underestimating pet owners, hunters and circus breeder wannabe’s and given a place they can prosper.
If you want to touch a tiger, there’s no better place than the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi
In the UK the Wildlife Heritage Foundation protects tigers, lions, leopards and cheetah’s in Kent in the UK
The Tiger Haven is huge – around 50 acres in Tennessee and around 250 cats.
Big Cat Rescue in Florida has around 100 cats, including lynx, cougars, ocelots, bobcats and more.
EARS – Endangered Animal Rescue Sanctuary is smaller and also located in Florida
The International Exotic Animal Sanctuary has 58 felines and 7 bears living in Texas.
All of these places have a sponsorship / adoption scheme and will sell stuff to you to keep the project going. They are all non-profit and the fact that they are sanctuaries means the animals won’t be sold, released into the wild, hunted in canned hunts, etc. They are given a home and these homes are expensive to keep. Most welcome volunteers and some have guided tours, allowing you to come into close contact with the cats.
My family was planning a vacation to Europe, so I purchased this item to teach my twins about what to expect at the airport and hopefully, alleviate some of their anxiety. We also downloaded the actual TSA security checklist from the American Airlines website and then proceeded with our demonstration. Well, first we had to round up a Barbie and a few Bratz dolls to play the other family members, so that cost us a few extra bucks at the Dollar General and it is aggravating that the manufacturer did not make this product “family-friendly.” Of course, since the playmobil Dad could not remove his shoes or other clothing items, unlike the Barbie, the playmobil security agent became suspicious and after waving her wand wildy a few dozen times, called her supervisor to wisk the Dad into a special body-cavity search room, (which incidentally led to quite an embarasing and interesting discussion with my twin daughters about personal hygiene and a slight adjustment to the rules we had them memorize about touching by strangers). But worst of all, since the suitcase did not actually open, the baggage inspector made a call to the FBI and ATF bomb squads which then segregated the family’s suitcase (which btw was the only suitcase they provided for our educational family experience) and according to the advanced TSA regulations, had to blow it up, (since they could not otherwise mutilate the luggage, break off the locks and put one of those nice little advisory stickers on it), which we had to simulate out in the backyard with a few M-80s and other fireworks. The girls started crying. They became so hysterical by the whole experience that we could not even get them in the car when the time came to actually take our trip, and so we had to cancel the whole thing at the last minute, losing over $7,000 in airfare and hotel charges that we could not recoup do to the last minute cancellations. We’ve now spent an additional $3,000 to pay for the girls therapy and medication over the past year since this incident occurred, and the psychologists have told us that this will affect them for life, so much for their college fund and our retirement. Then, to top it all off, when we tried to use to playmobil phone to call the company to ask for reimbursement, as you might expect, of course the damn thing didn’t even work; neither did our efforts to e-mail them using the computer screen on the baggage checkpoint; and our real-life efforts to contact them to obtain re-imbursement have also likewise been ignored. Worse yet, we had the product tested and found out that it was positive for both lead paint and toxic chemicals, having been manufactured in China by workers holding formerly American jobs, so now we all have cancer and have been given only another year or so to live. My advice – educating your kids about airport security with this toy may actually be more harmful to them than just packing them in the damn luggage with some bottled water & hoping they survive. :
And there’s loads and loads more – tears came to my eyes!
Design your own suit using the handy templates
It’s crime fighting time!
It’s a chinese replica of a US aircraft carrier at around 7/8ths scale and is used as a
“Military Education Center” at the “Orient Green Boat After-School Camp for Youngsters.”
Near Shanghai it’s worth visiting with a $6,- surcharge…
Not only do they do this, they’ve been doing it for years, and have popular photo competitions as well…
