Inflight Entertainment => The missing link => Topic started by: Baradium on January 12, 2008, 01:55:45 AM
Title: So many stories, so little time... (interesting links)
Post by: Baradium on January 12, 2008, 01:55:45 AM
Just links and a description for these.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080111/96287753.html <--- "Man in russia dies after warming his bed with irons."
http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801110310&7 <--- "peta requests vegetarian diet in jail for cannibalism suspect." (peta seems to care more about the cows than the victim)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/tram_hack/ <--- kid takes over train system using a tv remote control. Quote: ""He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507651&in_page_id=1770 <--- British coastguard rescuer fired for a rescue because he failed to follow "health and safety regulations" (which might have resulted in the death of the person he rescued).
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=83537&in_page_id=34 <--- Couple finds out they are twins.... after their wedding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7182496.stm <--- A380 rolls into grass when brakes on tug fails. In other news, apparently they are tugging these things all the way to the runway for the passenger flights?
Title: Re: So many stories, so little time... (interesting links)
Post by: Frank N. O. on January 14, 2008, 06:38:55 AM
Totally wild news. Especially the train remote control is alarming, and interesting it was near the same time the news about the jetliner came out.