Ancient Torture Devices You Would Not Want To Find Yourself In........Brazen Bull - Designed in Ancient Greece, this device was a hollow bull made entirely of brass. Criminals were sealed inside. The bull was then heated up over a fire. The conductive metal would literally roast the victim alive. As if that weren't enough, a series of valves in the bull's snout would muffle the screams of the victim, creating a sound like an angry bull.Crocodile Shears - A medieval torture device that consisted of two blades. When clamped together, the blades formed a tube. Inside the tube were several sharp spikes. The crocodile shears were clamped down on an an erect penis and after enough force was exerted, the penis was torn from the body. Reserved for those who attempted to assasinate members of the royal family.Instep Borer - A device of German engineering, that was essentially a metal boot that was worn by the victim. A crank on the boot dug a blade into the victim's instep.Iron Maiden - An awesome metal band that when listened to would literally "rock your socks off". Not exactly a good torture, but the cause of many lost socks.Scavenger's Daughter - Using the opposite principle of the boring-old-stretching rack, this device compressed the victim. Shaped like an "A" the victim was strapped to the device and the head was swung down to the knees causing blood to pour out of the ears and nose.Shrew's Fiddle - Used against woman caught nagging and bickering. This version of a yoke, strapped around the woman's neck, the hands both locked in in front of her face. Primarily used to parade the woman throughout town.Spanish Tickler - Not to be confused with the French Tickler, this claw-like device strapped to the torturer's hand and tore strips of flesh from the victim. Vega from Street Fighter wore a version of the Spanish Tickler, which made him look like a "vicious gay man".Wooden Horse - This saw-horse shaped device had a pointed edge across that top. The victim was forced to "ride the horse" putting full body weight on the genitals. Used on both men and women.
RAF Regiment uses condoms for advertising Posted: 7 hours ago by mutil8or
The Royal Air Force is using instructions on the many uses of condoms as a tactic to lure young British men to sign up for the RAF Regiment.
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Butler teens face torture trial Posted: 7 hours ago by mutil8or
After her alleged torturers were ordered to be tried as adults, a mentally disabled teen asked her mom over the phone: "Are they getting out?"
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Christian Group Calls for Boycott Over New Starbucks Logo Posted: 7 hours ago by mutil8or
Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte. A Christian group out of San Diego has found grounds for outrage over the new logo for Starbucks Coffee.
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Is American beer any good? Posted: 1 day ago by mutil8or
Ask most people where the best beer in the world comes from, and they'll probably say Germany or England. More worldly folks might mention Belgium.
But ask a beer aficionado these days, and odds are you'll get an answer that might surprise you – the good old U.S.A.
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The Swedish Bike Masturbationist Is Found GUILTY! No Comment From Bike On Verdict. Posted: 5 days ago by mutil8or
Sweden seems to have been gripped in a furious spurt of public masturbation recently. They had the serial masturbator, then there was the ‘bus incident’, and now this in which it was earlier reported that the man explained “that he felt an overwhelming calm wash over him when he approached women’s bicycles and smelled the handlebars.”
He claimed that he was suffering from a confused state of mind following a separation in the spring of 2007.
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Pelican Spears Tourist Posted: 5 days ago by mutil8or
Debbie Shoemaker was wading in waist-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico when she felt something like "a big hard punch in my face."
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Naked stranger on toilet asks to 'finish business' before arrest Posted: 7 days ago by mutil8or
Lisa Bess could not figure out why the front door to her home on West Silver Springs Boulevard was locked and the key was missing Tuesday afternoon. She couldn't figure out why her bathroom door was locked and water was running. She called the police.
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What's Bugging Locusts? It Could Be They're Hungry -- For Each Other Posted: 7 days ago by mutil8or
Since ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 billion critters can suddenly swarm the air and carpet the ground, blazing destructive paths that bring starvation and economic ruin.
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MLB talks to White Sox about Sex Dolls in Dugout Posted: 7 days ago by mutil8or
Officials from commissioner Bud Selig's office contacted the White Sox on Tuesday to discuss the team's controversial display of two inflatable dolls in their clubhouse over the weekend in Toronto, but no punishment is expected to be handed down, according to team and Major League Baseball sources.
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Biologist Names ‘Neil Young’ Spider Posted: 7 days ago by mutil8or
An East Carolina University biologist has brought his admiration of Neil Young to a whole new class.
Or species, to be exact.
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FBI withdraws digital library's national security letter Posted: 1 week ago by mutil8or
A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.
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Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree Posted: 1 week ago by mutil8or
A draft sequence of the platypus genome reveals reptilian and mammalian elements and provides more evidence for its place in the ancestral line of animal evolution.
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Ramsey: Police beating 'certainly does not look good' Posted: 1 week ago by mutil8or
POLICE COMMISSIONER Charles H. Ramsey yesterday asked Philadelphians not "to rush to judgment" when watching a video showing baton-wielding cops repeatedly striking, kicking and stomping three young men whom they had stopped after a triple shooting in Hunting Park.
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Grandparents to dad: Take $125,000 and give up your kid! Posted: 1 week ago by mutil8or
A tattooed father sporting body piercings and a criminal record turned down a $125,000 "walking check" from grandparents fighting for custody of his son. The dad's lawyer says: "It's subjective, their dislike of him. Body piercings and tattoos are not the basis for terminating parental rights."
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Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites Posted: 1 week ago by mutil8or
Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces – sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a Brigham Young University study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones.
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Police: Mother shot 8-year-old daughter in leg to win $1 bet Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
A Sheboygan woman[what an a**hole} shot her 8-year-old daughter in the leg with a BB gun to win a $1 bet with her boyfriend[whatana**hole}, authorities said Friday
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Zion mans hopes judge will let him change his name to 'In God We Trust' Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
A local artist says the only way he can truly express himself is by legally changing his name to "In God We Trust."
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After Seven Months of Agonizing, Student-Employee Found Guilty of Racial Harassment for Reading a Book Now Cleared of All Charges Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
Administrators at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have revoked their finding that a student-employee was guilty of racial harassment merely for publicly reading the book Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan.
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Absinthe Uncorked: The 'Green Fairy' Was Boozy -- But Not Psychedelic Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
A new study may end the century-old controversy over what ingredient in absinthe caused the exotic green aperitif's supposed mind-altering effects and toxic side-effects when consumed to excess.
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Found: the missing circuit element Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
Described in 1971, made in 2008: 'memristors' promise a computer revolution.
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Expensive Santa Cruz Mountains search finds stoned teen Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Rosenberg had used his cellular telephone Monday night to call his mom and tell her he tripped, broke his leg and was lost.
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Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.
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Where have all the seals gone? Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
The latest salvo has been fired in a rancorous battle over the cause of steep declines in the north Pacific’s marine mammals.
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The Lingerie Football League Holds Tryouts Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
A group of young, attractive women wearing skimpy workout gear gathered at Speed Source Athletics to put their football and sports skills to the test.
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'Tiny Radio Antennas' Under Skin Could Act As Remote Sensors Of Humans' Emotional, Physiological State Posted: 2 weeks ago by mutil8or
Scientists at the department of Applied Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a method for remote sensing of the physiological and emotional state of human beings.
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