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The Paranormal blog If you want to read some strange stories!
The current post is about Vampire Lore in an area very near my childhood cottage! Maybe that’s why I’ve always been fascinated with the thought of Vampires?
Darrell Rodgers, 40, was treated at Bloomington (Ind.) Hospital in August after shooting himself in the left knee because he felt he had to try something to end the pain there, pain possibly from having shot himself in that knee 10 years earlier.
Electrician Paul Trotman, 51, was arrested in Clay County, Fla., in August for rigging an electrical device to shock a 3½-year-old boy who lived with Trotman and his wife, after Trotman got fed up that the boy was constantly urinating on electrical outlets just to see sparks fly.
The New South Wales state government in Australia will soon propose to install voting booths in bars, according to an Australian Associated Press dispatch. The booths would have to be put in non-serving rooms, with entrances separate from the bar, but the government said that in small towns, bars are popular community gathering points.
In an attempt to raise environmental awareness, two concerned citizens of Walpole, Mass., gave a “pump-out party” in June, with wine and cheese, to encourage neighbors to keep their septic systems in good order. The hosts allowed their own tank to be publicly cleaned as a demonstration, although the drinking and eating portion of the party came to a halt at that point, according to The Daily News Transcript of suburban Boston.
Rav`N says
Speaking as someone who lives there… Only in Australia, mate.
Sue says
Serving food at a “pump-out party†??? That is nauseatingly funny!
Beth says
These people so belong in my Stupid Person Sightings Category.
Shelli says
Eww that smell…BlogMad hit.
Ben the Bar Man says
Yeah that’s how we do it in Australia… Keep in mind though that voting in Australia is compulsory… so its a good excuse to go to the pub…!
Mike says
Wine and cheese and the smell of septic tank waste. Good intentions don’t always go hand in hand with good ideas I guess.