According to Moscow police, this is not the first time something like this happened. In 2007, the mummified body of a man was found in a sitting position in his apartment kitchen in the city of Tula, central Russia. He had been dead for 6 years in a sitting position no less, and was only found because authorities were making their rounds to collect payment from those who did not pay their utility bills for a long time. I guess 6 years of not paying the electricity bills would certainly be a large amount, if the electicity was still on in his apartment at the time of death.

The dead man was identified as Vladimir Ledenev, and police decided not to investigate further because they found no evidence that he died a violent death.

I think such is the symptom of society today that many ignore their neighbors and when this is widespread like today, such cases will probably occur again. Yikes!

Source: Pravda

Are we humans grateful to the dolphins? Apparently not.

Young dolphin with pacifier

Unfortunately, some countries have the tradition of killing dolphins for food, or even worse, for sport. Take the Faroe Islands for instance. Every November, the people of the Faroe Islands take their sons out to teach them to kill. All in the name of turning their boys into men.

I think this is a practice that is cruel, and has no place in our modern civilization. The dolphins are simply being killed for sport. Such intelligent and kind creatures being butchered for less than stellar intentions IMHO. If you feel this is a disagreeable event and want to express your opposition to it, sign your petition HERE.

This a public service announcement for the sake of the dolphins.

Thank you.

The 70 year old woman had a nose bleed for 5 days and her family took her to 2 hospitals but the doctors did not realize what was wrong with her and gave her nosedrops which of course did not work. Only after she was taken to the civic-run Sion Hospital that doctors found out she had maggots inside her nose!

Doctors cannot figure out how the maggots got in there, but the old woman told doctors that the day before the bleeding started, a housefly flew into her nose, and it looks like the fly laid eggs in there, the maggots hatched, started chewing her flesh, and that’s why she was bleeding from her nose!

Maggots hatch within 8-20 hours and immediately start feeding at the place where they hatched. Generally, maggots only infest open wounds, so this is a really odd case.

Source: Times of India

Her neighbor, Micheal Hibberd told the media that the woman told him she was stuck in the toilet for nearly a week when she got trapped by her toilet door which opens inwards. How she survived is hard to imagine, when you consider she was supposedly 67 years old.

It was not clear if the woman survived by drinking water from the toilet bowl and eating the toilet tissue paper and soap, but otherwise she was alright, just dehydrated. Now that must DEFINITELY suck….

Source: News.com.au

Santram, a municipal worker, and his son Sunil, plus two other guys, Ramesh and Kamal, were charged with trespassing on burial places with the intention of wounding feelings of any person, insulting religion, defiling a place of worship with intent to insult religion of any class and wanton provocation, and the local court sentenced these guys to be remanded for 5 days.

I wonder what makes these men stoop so low as to eat a corpse, when they surely would have money to buy proper food? Maybe they are just being cannibals for the sake of it!

Source: Times of India

The father of the young man along with 4 companions were arrested after he paid them to go find a wife for his son who died single. The father allegedly paid about $4450 to those guys who then dug up the body of a young woman who had recently poisoned herself after failing in university entrance examinations last year.

In rural China, many of the villagers believe that the afterlife is the same as this life, and part of the customs include burning paper money, cars, and even houses for the dead. This belief extends to marriage, and marriage ceremonies are conducted between deceased people who allegedly get married in the underworld.

Source: Telegraph UK

Kailash “Kalau” Singh, 63, even refused to dip in the Ganges River as was the custom, when his brother died five years ago, outraging his family.

“I still don’t remember how it all began,” he said.

“I just know it started about 35 years ago.”

Even his grocery store had to close, when all his customers stopped shopping there due to his “unclean personality,” forcing him to take up another job tilling fields near the Varanasi airpot.

“I’ll end this vow only when all problems confronting the nation end,” he said, saying it was a “commitment to the national interest.”

I just think he must smell, from a mile away….

A human who hasn't bathed for 35 years might smell like a skunk

Source: Yahoo News

India’s Hindu nationalist movement believes it has the answer to Pepsi and Coke – A soft drink made from cow urine.

The Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group is currently developing the soft drink.

Om Prakash, head of the department, says it is almost near final development and will be available “very soon.”

He says the “cow water” won’t smell like urine and will be tasty too

“Its USP will be that it’s going to be very healthy. It won’t be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins.”

Om is sure their drink is able to compete with the American cola brands, despite their huge budget. “We’re going to give them good competition as our drink is good for mankind,” he said. “We may also think of exporting it.”

The RSS is famous for being ultra nationalistic Hindus aiming to rid India of all foreign influence, which includes soft drinks  like Pepsi.

Source: Times Online