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For those who had heard and were worried, I'm surprisingly okay. The Ford F-150 is a remarkable machine. 130-mph head-on speed (NASCAR crashes are sometimes slower than that), and the seatlbelt caused most of my injuries (which is FAR better than any other alternative!!!). Happened 14 hrs ago, and I'm mostly just sore and bewildered. Sadly, the other driver did not survive. I actually didn't see much of her until she was trying to get in the front seat of my truck... while still in her Saturn. The female minivan in front of me said she (the Saturn driver) swerved...

A Croatian man got a nasty surprise when he tried to get out of his deck chair and found his testicles had got stuck. Mario Visnjic had gone swimming naked in the sea at the Valalta beach in western Croatia. His testicles had shrunk while in the cool sea and slipped through the wooden slats when he sat back down on his wooden deckchair. But as he lay in the sun they expanded back to normal size and got stuck between the slats. He was eventually freed after he called beach maintenance services on his mobile phone and they sent...

Tuesday, May 16, I was wakened from a deep sleep at 5:30 am by something biting me, I leapt out of bed and turned on the closet light to see a large rat run under the covers. I was later informed by a lady two streets over that we are under a sudden rat invasion. I had never seen a trace of a rat in my home. I took my bloody thumb to the sink and washed the wound throughly and put alchol on it, then repeated about ten mins later. I called my physician who told me to go...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - A former church minister and Boy Scout leader who cut off another man's genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery in a hotel room, pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license. Jack Wayne Rogers, 59, of Fulton, Mo., admitted he performed the grisly operation about two years ago. Circuit Judge Gary Oxenhandler followed the recommendation of prosecutors, sentencing Rogers to 17 years in prison for assault and seven years for the illegal surgery. The prison time is to run concurrently with a 30-year sentence handed to Rogers in April after he pleaded...

NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Stocks are set to plunge at Wednesday's open after Wall Street was stung by yet another accounting scandal -- this time from phone group WorldCom Inc., which said it improperly booked nearly $4 billion in expenses. In what could be one of the biggest cases of accounting fraud in U.S. history, WorldCom (NasdaqNM:WCOM - News), the No. 2 U.S. long-distance telephone and data services firm, said it would restate its results for 2001 and the first quarter of 2002 to show net losses. The news sent stocks reeling around the globe: Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei...