Red Mosquito

dimejinky99 wrote:This is really sad and I don't know why. The last ever telegram was sent today.
It was 6pence to send 9 words back in the day. It's weird that its gone.
Will the Internet to the same way be issue of some new tech in 100 years?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 075946.cms

vegman wrote:Canadian Man Sorry for Chugging Eight Beers and Swimming to Detroit



John Morillo, a 47-year-old Canadian man, apologized today for causing an international incident last night when he drank eight beers and then swam across the Detroit River, just to prove to his friends he could.

Speaking to the Windsor Star after being released from jail this morning, Morillo said in retrospect it was "really stupid" of him to drunkenly swim across the river, but not without adding that he wanted his incredulous buddies to know he'd pulled it off (emphasis ours):

If I’m going to be in the paper, I’d at least like them to say I actually made it, even though I got in trouble and everything. I gotta pay fines and stuff. But I don’t want it to sound like I didn’t make it, because then my buddies are going to say 'ha, ha, you didn’t make it.' Because that was the whole thing, to show them I could do it.

Morillo's stunt launched a joint search mission between the Canadian and U.S. coast guards when his neighbor called the police after losing sight of him in the water. Rescue efforts included three boats and a helicopter. Morillo, who calls himself a "strong swimmer," had made it across the river and was on his way back when the U.S. Coast Guard found him floating on the Canadian side at around 1 AM, two hours after he'd initially entered the water.

Windsor authorities have banned Morillo from all waterfront city property and will fine him $5,000 for swimming in a shipping channel. Exacerbating everything, Morillo, who was ultimately charged with being intoxicated in public, says his mom is very mad at him. "She just hung up on me," Morillo told the Star. "She said 'you’re just so stupid.'"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/19 ... d-tornado/

Three-year-old girl ‘mad at the wind’ after cherished play house is torn to pieces gets a welcome surprise






The three-year-old Saskatchewan girl whose playhouse was destroyed in a suspected tornado this week will soon have a new place to call her own.

Canadian Tire has offered to donate a new playhouse, complete with a white picket fence, to Isabelle Webster after reading about her misfortune in the National Post.

“Oh my goodness. Well that’s nice,” said Isabelle’s mother Elizabeth Webster when she learned of the donation.

Ms. Webster said her daughter was still upset about her smashed playhouse on Thursday, telling her mother, “I’m not happy. I want my house,” as they drove by the wreckage that morning.

Dan Leroux and Joe Cayen, the Saskatchewan Canadian Tire dealers donating the home, said they hoped Isabelle would enjoy the new playhouse.

The new playhouse is similar to the destroyed home and has a working rooster weather vane, a flower box and a white picket fence.
ELIZABETH WEBSTER

“I think she’ll be pretty excited,” Ms. Webster said, adding that Isabelle wasn’t aware of the “15 minutes of fame” she was receiving in the media.

Ms. Webster and her husband, Neil, were planning on rebuilding the house but weren’t sure it was salvageable. Mr. Webster told the National Post on Wednesday that he was considering just buying a new one.

Debris from the playhouse had been strewn more than 30 metres across the family’s farm located south of Regina.

“I thought, my God, did a semi plow through the yard?” Ms. Webster said.

There was no other damage to the property but her parents suspect a tornado destroyed the playhouse. Environment Canada confirmed several tornadoes touched down in Saskatchewan that day.

“I’m glad I wasn’t there to see it happen because I would have been terrified,” said Ms. Webster, adding that some people had joked it was a big bad wolf who had blown down the house.

Isabelle considered the house to be her property and she was shocked to see it smashed to pieces when she returned home from daycare on Monday.

“Somebody broke my house. I’m mad,” Isabelle said to her parents at the time.

“I’m mad at the wind.”

broken iris wrote:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/19 ... d-tornado/

Three-year-old girl ‘mad at the wind’ after cherished play house is torn to pieces gets a welcome surprise






The three-year-old Saskatchewan girl whose playhouse was destroyed in a suspected tornado this week will soon have a new place to call her own.

Canadian Tire has offered to donate a new playhouse, complete with a white picket fence, to Isabelle Webster after reading about her misfortune in the National Post.

“Oh my goodness. Well that’s nice,” said Isabelle’s mother Elizabeth Webster when she learned of the donation.

Ms. Webster said her daughter was still upset about her smashed playhouse on Thursday, telling her mother, “I’m not happy. I want my house,” as they drove by the wreckage that morning.

Dan Leroux and Joe Cayen, the Saskatchewan Canadian Tire dealers donating the home, said they hoped Isabelle would enjoy the new playhouse.

The new playhouse is similar to the destroyed home and has a working rooster weather vane, a flower box and a white picket fence.
ELIZABETH WEBSTER

“I think she’ll be pretty excited,” Ms. Webster said, adding that Isabelle wasn’t aware of the “15 minutes of fame” she was receiving in the media.

Ms. Webster and her husband, Neil, were planning on rebuilding the house but weren’t sure it was salvageable. Mr. Webster told the National Post on Wednesday that he was considering just buying a new one.

Debris from the playhouse had been strewn more than 30 metres across the family’s farm located south of Regina.

“I thought, my God, did a semi plow through the yard?” Ms. Webster said.

There was no other damage to the property but her parents suspect a tornado destroyed the playhouse. Environment Canada confirmed several tornadoes touched down in Saskatchewan that day.

“I’m glad I wasn’t there to see it happen because I would have been terrified,” said Ms. Webster, adding that some people had joked it was a big bad wolf who had blown down the house.

Isabelle considered the house to be her property and she was shocked to see it smashed to pieces when she returned home from daycare on Monday.

“Somebody broke my house. I’m mad,” Isabelle said to her parents at the time.

“I’m mad at the wind.”

Fuck You Jobu wrote:
Onion?

broken iris wrote:

Fuck You Jobu wrote:
Onion?

Canadian National Post, so basically the same level of journalistic value if not lower.