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Have you ever thought that microwave popcorns can make you sick? Neither did Wayne Watson.

When Watson came to Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center complaining about lung problems last September he went trough a series of tests and biopsies and in the end was put on inhalers and steroids.

After the doctors realized that none of the treatments were helping he was referred to pulmonary specialist Dr. Cecile Rose.

She took him trough a 90-minute interview, trying to figure out which one of his habits is making him ill. After realizing that his symptoms matched those of workers in popcorn factories she said, ‘I’ve gotta ask this question, it’s going to seem weird, but do you ever eat microwave, butter-flavored popcorn?”

Watson recalled. “It was like lights went off, marching bands started to play. I said, ‘How did you know to ask that? I am microwave popcorn. I eat two bags of it a day every day.”

He’d been eating that much, for at least a decade. He said, He noticed some funny changes while singing that he could not explain.

“Several years ago during choir rehearsals, whenever I’d do a solo, I would notice my lung capacity was diminishing, and I wasn’t able to sustain the notes like I used to be able to,” he said. “Slowly my lung capacity went from the high 80s down to about the low 50s.”

Hospital investigators found that factory workers were exposed to diacetyl levels between 0.75 and 4 parts per million. Tests in Watson’s kitchen showed crazy amount between 0.5 and 3 parts per million, according to the hospital.
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80-year-old D.P.James from Shri Lanka has been released from prison after spending 50 years on delayed trial.

Arrested in August 1958 for attacking his father, he was sent to jail, than moved to mental hospital for treatment and finally went back to jail in mid-80’s, until the court had finally forgotten his case.

James, who was never put on trial, was a victim of prison bureaucracy in Sri Lanka explained his lawyer.

“James went to jail when he was 30. He has been robbed of his youth and is now a grey-haired man of 80 with failing eyesight,” Dharmavijaya Seneviratne said.
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Oslo police announced that a secondary school near Oslo was closed after a video warning of a high school massacre was discovered on YouTube.

Creator of the video, a 15 year old Kjenn school student whose name has not been disclosed, has admitted posting the video.

“He has not been arrested (and) he is not in police custody. We will speak with him and his father during the day,” said Loerenskog police chief superintendent Jens Bruun.

The 50-second video, posted on YouTube on Saturday, was removed late yesterday.

With music playing in the background, it showed a picture of the school, Braun said. Pictures of six teachers then popped up, as a voice said: “It will happen one day, it will be a bloody machine, one day you will die.”
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When Larry Jones noticed a foul odor coming through a vent in his apartment, he chalked it up to dead mice and spoke to his landlord. But it was not until Wednesday, when U.S. marshals delivered an eviction notice next door, that Jones learned the real source of the stench. It was something way more crazy than a dead mouse. The smell came from the decomposing bodies of four young people.

Banita Jacks, 33, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and appeared in District of Columbia Superior Court. She did not speak during the hearing and superior Court Magistrate Judge Karen Howze ordered her held without bond.

When investigators came Jacks told a crazy story about children being possessed by demons. She said they began dying in their sleep, one by one, within a seven-day period, and added that she had not fed them for a substantial time before their deaths.

According to the police she said that the deaths occurred before a utility turned off her electricity, which prosecutors said was in September 2007, according to charging documents.

“I don’t think anyone in the city can remember a case involving this many young people who have died in such a tragic way,” Mayor Adrian Fenty said.

Medical examiner Dr Marie-Lydie Pierre-Louis said that Investigators believe the bodies had been there at least two weeks based on the insects that were found, but it was unclear exactly how and when the victims died. Authorities have said the children might have been dead since May.
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Colleen and Jim Mesler moved into a rented apartment on July 1st 2007. But in early December, the fridge’s self-defrosting freezer wasn’t working right, so Colleen decided to clean the refrigerator and made one crazy discovery.

“I pulled this tray out. It was wrapped in tin foil and plastic, but it was moldy,” Colleen said of the package she found.

“I said, ‘Why don’t you throw it out?” Jim said. “I thought it was old meat, stale meat.”

“But it didn’t smell like bad meat,” Colleen said. “I pulled it apart and found $100 bills. I was more shocked. ‘I’m not throwing this away,’ I thought.”

They’ve spent the day trying to separate the bills apart with a pair of tweezers.

“About $2,000 of it was torn up, or we couldn’t get the mold off it,” said Jim.

They took it to the M&I Bank, hoping to exchange the moldy, broken-up bills for fresh ones. The M&I bank employee advised them to call the police.

Unfortunately, the previous renters of the apartment had been charged with drug trafficking. In a February raid, police uncovered crack cocaine, marijuana, a scale, and other piece of evidence that pointed to drug sales. About $1,100 was also found on purpotrators.

The Meslers are still waiting the official word on whether they would be allowed to keep the money.
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An Arizona-based electronic company has unveiled a new gadget which integrates a Taser stun gun with an mp3 player at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This crazy new device known as the Taser Music Player Holster – has already earned the nickname the iTaser.

It fires a 50,000-volt electric charge, but the ampage of the shock the victim receives is as low as 0.00.21 amps. The built-in MP3 player can store 1GB of songs.

The manufacturers hope that it will be popular among women. They’ve already made it available in “red-hot” red, “fashion” pink and even leopard skin print for customers who are as style conscious as they are safety conscious.

Rick Smith of Taser International said that this new product is a result of listening to the customers and stated that “Personal protection can be both fashionable and functionable.”

“A lot of women aren’t going to go into a gun store and feel comfortable enough buying a Taser, so now we have some outdoor companies and dealers – some cell phone places are starting to carry them and hang them next to phones.”
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Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, made the 2,600-mile trip in a cool truck, using bio-diesel made from waste chocolate.

The BioTruck is a “recycled” 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo flatbed that was rescued from the scrap heap.

The trip was fuelled by 2,000 litres of bio-diesel made from 4,000 kilograms of chocolate – the equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars. The fuel was made from cocoa butter extracted from waste chocolate.

They Set off from John’s home at Poole, Dorset on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing day.

They overcame crazy sand storms and corrupt customs officials and drove through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.
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