MIAMI – Never mind ants in your pants, what about snakes and tortoises?
That’s what authorities at Miami’s international airport said they found inside the trousers of a passenger as he tried to board a flight for Brazil.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said the man had seven exotic snakes and three tortoises wrapped in nylon bags that had been stuffed into his pants.
He was discovered as he went through a body scanner at one of the airport’s security checkpoints on Thursday and arrested by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials for violating animal trafficking laws.
Authorities declined to identify the man or offer any explanation for his botched attempt at reptile smuggling.
A New Zealand man struggling with depression cut off his own finger, cooked it with vegetables and ate it, doctors reported in the latest issue of medical journal Australasian Psychiatry.
It’s only the eighth identified case of self-cannibalization, and is particularly rare because of the patient’s lack of severe psychosis, the article abstract says.
The patient, a 28-year-old man, amputated and ate the finger without any evidence of impaired reality testing or substance abuse.
“Mr. X,” as he was referred to in the report by forensic psychiatrist Erik Monasterio and clinical psychologist Craig Prince, suffered from bouts of low mood, and sometimes thought of suicide, the New Zealand Herald reported, citing the report.
Once while depressed, he was attacked by two men, and fantasized about killing his assailants and eating them, the report said.
“He believed that by doing so, he would ‘rob them of everything.’”
In late 2008 after “another personal crisis,” Mr. X went into a state of depression.
“He experienced significant insomnia and suicidal ideation, and ruminated for days about cutting off his fingers,” the report says. “In an effort to seek reprieve from these thoughts, he tied a shoelace around his [little] finger to act as a tourniquet and cut the finger off with a jig saw.
“He then cooked it in a pan with some vegetables and ate its flesh. His plan was to amputate another two fingers the following day.”
Although the patient told doctors he was initially excited, in a non-sexual way, and experienced relief from his ruminations, he decided not to cut off any more fingers because of “the instantaneous benefit.”
The man later regretted the act — his first act of self-harm — “because of its debilitating effect.”
Port-a-Potty stolen from ski trail
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File this under gross crimes and misdemeanors.
Someone stole a Port-a-Potty from ski trails near the town of Bognor, Ont., located 175 km northwest of Toronto.
Grey County Ontario Provincial Police said in a news release Thursday a portable restroom was stolen from Grey Sauble Conservation Authority property overnight on Saturday.
The unit was being rented by the Owen Sound Cross Country Ski Club and placed at the junction of the ski trails maintained by the club.
The toilet is made of grey and white plastic, is approximately four feet wide by four deep and seven feet high, weighs about 200 pounds. It is valued at just under $1,000.
Const. Steve Starr said the same company had a Port-a-Potty taken from a snowmobile trail south of Chatsworth, Ont., just about the same time last year.
A bank robber was thwarted by a brave teller in Texas.
After the would-be thief demanded cash, the teller responded that she could only hand over the dough if he produced identification, which the thief was happy to do in return for $800.
Nathan Wayne Pugh, 49, produced his client card for the very bank he was robbing as well as a Texas state identification card.
Pugh was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in federal prison.
Too many women spend too much time plucking and tweezing at their eyebrows.
A new movement aims to change that.
Feminists have declared December to be “Decembrow,” and are asking women to grow their brows until they start to look like the famous unibrow of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, seen here as portrayed by Salma Hayek in the film “Frida.”
“We all could benefit from being open-minded about looks,” Lori Adelma, who created the event, told David Moye at AOL News. “I see [Decembrow] as a lighthearted and playful way of bringing attention to the way cultural ideas of beauty affect all of us.”
The movement comes from Movember, in which men — including me — grow mustaches in November to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer.
But for Decembrow, women are asked to donate to any cause they wish.
Just one problem here: Considering how many photos are taken during the holidays, I’d say this is a movement probably won’t have the same kind of staying power.
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