Thursday, October 4, 2007

Aphrodite's Child

Do it yourself...or not!

Mike Harstad of Jamestown, Calif., attempting to eliminate a wasps' nest with a can of Pledge and a cigarette lighter, ultimately burned down his mobile home and contents and destroyed an outbuilding, a truck, a boat and a trailer.
A Whitehall, Pa., man, William Sekol, 82, attempting to destroy a yellow jackets' nest beneath a storm sewer grate in his front yard, put a dried tree over the grate, doused it with gasoline, and lit it (supposedly to suffocate the yellow jackets underneath). However, some gasoline ran into the sewer, where its fumes combusted. In the resulting explosion, Sekol's mustache and eyebrows were singed.

Blanka - European Queen in Sports


Blanka Vlasic, a Croatian high jumper is the winner of the “Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year”. She surely deserved this award because she lost only one out of 19 competitions. She jumped over 207 cm in Stockholm and she won the world league title in Osaka. In history, only the world record holder Stefka Kostadinova managed to jump higher than Blanka, and considering the young girl’s performance of this year, even this could change. The audience loves her because of the contagious enthusiasm she carries with herself on the competition, dancing after every jump.