Now here is a right proper balls up!!!!

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday.. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog-catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's pickup truck headlights malfunctioned.

The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.

After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exited the pavement, and struck a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended..

Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might be dead," stated Wallis.

I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder.

Rugby league and the dog's it makes a piece by David J Smith

Why are Rugby League players so dumb?

I know it is not right to judge sportsmen by their intellect, or their ability to string a sentence together. You’d never do the reverse to an astrophysicist. You’d never say: Einstein, genius, but awful ball skills. That would be stupid. But with all that said, one would like to hope that our sports heroes at least have some semblance of a brain. It really helps in your everyday life. But with Rugby League that may be one wish too many.

Somehow league manages to attract the thickest of thick to its ranks. Again and again NRL players find themselves yellow-carded in real life for a wide array of the stupidest acts ever. This week a player from Canberra thought it would be a good idea to get some snapshots of him “simulating” oral sex with his dog. I put simulating in speech marks because it looked pretty real. Google image search it. But be warned, it’s graphic.

Beyond the questionable morals of the man, how stupid do you need to be to do this? At what point does it seem like a good idea? Even if you have sucked back a caseload of booze, surely your “career alarm bells” start to ring when your knob is in a dog’s mouth? Surely at some point you must think: Is oral sex from a bull terrier really worth millions in club salaries and sponsorship deals?

Oh well, that’s probably the last we’ll hear of Joel Monaghan. Or maybe he will reinvent himself as a heavyweight boxer like John “Stinkfinger” Hopoate did. Hopoate got the name stinkfinger after he stuck his finger up another player’s ass during a game. Hopoate, in true numpty fashion, didn’t seem to understand what the horde of men on the sideline with the funny little black boxes were doing. Yes, John, they were taking your photo. In the blink of a camera, your career can disappear just like a finger up a man’s a-hole.

League stars have come up short so many times that there is an entire section on Wikipedia called: List of off-field incidents involving rugby league players. If you try avoid the dark stories of gang rape and sexual crimes (NRL players have an evil streak too), you will see some seriously dumb things there. A man who shat in his mate’s shoe. A guy who pissed under the table in a casino. A player who tried to set fire to a kid’s foam costume while the kid was in it. And another who succeeded in setting a friend’s pants on fire. But probably the most telling thing on the list is the warning at the top of the page: This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. (What I think they are trying to say is: leagies are a bunch of thick bastards and will be keep cocking up until kingdom come).

Rugby league is a hard game and it is guaranteed that you will take a few hard knocks to head. But surely players are not left that retarded that they lose all sense of right and wrong? And if that is the case, maybe we need to consider new living arrangements for them. Cages at the stadiums may not be a bad idea.

PS. I know that every code of sport, every walk of life, has its morons (our old Springbok friend, Joost, springs to mind) but Rugby League defies belief.

Original Story http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/davidjsmith/

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Get paid to pee. That's the deal on offer in the South African city of Durban, where the city is looking to buy liquid waste to encourage residents to use dry toilets.

Aiming to improve hygiene and save money, the port city has installed in home gardens about 90,000 toilets that don't use a single drop of water.

Now Durban wants to install 20-litre (quart) containers on 500 of the toilets to capture urine -- rich in nitrates, phosphorus and potassium, which can be turned into fertiliser.

A municipal worker would collect the jerry cans once a week and could pay around 30 rands (four dollars, three euros) to the family -- not a small sum in a country where 43 percent of the population lives on less than two dollars a day.

Currently the tanks are emptied by each household, and the waste often ends up getting dumped into the environment.

Swiss lab Eawag and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are backing a study to draw up the modalities for the scheme, which is already winning fans.

"If we can turn the toilets into a source of revenues, then they will want to use the toilets," said Neil MacLeod, Durban's head of water and sanitation.

Most people are reluctant to use the dry toilets. In the sprawling township of Inanda, residents have ripped doors and roofs off the outhouses, annexed them to the main house, or completely stripped them away.

Discussing bodily fluids is so taboo that people are reluctant to explain their discomfort. One young mother accused thieves of stealing "the door and the toilet" from her outhouse, which she now uses as a garage.

"When the (city) council brings the toilets to them, they look at it as an inferior system," said Lucky Sibiya, an outreach officer with the water department.

"People don't understand how important it is," he said. "There is a belief saying that touching the faeces brings misfortune."

As soon as they can afford it, people invest in a septic tank and abandon the dry toilets, which require spreading a layer of sand after each use and using separate sections for the urine and the solid waste. The tanks then must be emptied regularly.

Dry toilets were invented in Yemen centuries ago.

"They work well in rural areas because the fertiliser produced from the urine and the faeces is used locally," said Pierre-Yves Oger, a water and sanitation consultant based in South Africa.

"But in urban areas, there's a dissociation between the producer (of the waste) and the user of the recycled products, and it's very hard to overcome the psychological block," he said.

That's why few cities have launched large-scale dry toilet projects. Durban began its programme in 2002 when a cholera outbreak revealed the lack of hygiene in a city where more than a quarter of the four million residents have no sanitation.

To avoid having to install an entire sanitation system, and to save water, Durban opted for dry toilets. The city remains convinced that was the right choice.

"South Africa is a water-stressed country," said Teddy Gounden, who heads the project. "With the increase in demand for drinking water, we cannot afford to flush this valuable resource down the sewer."

(c) 2010 AFP