The Dark Furie

We've all heard the story. Boy meets girl online. They are a similar age and have similar interests so they start chatting more and more, then eventually fall in love. Within months they're living together and planning a wedding. It's a common story, shared by the two people pictured above as their Second Life avatars at their virtual wedding. But, as with all virtual things, reality can be a pretty tough pill to swallow.

In real life these people aren't the mid-twenties go getters they pretend to be online. Must have been a shock for them when they finally met offline in real life, but it didn't stop the virtual love. In fact this image is from their real life wedding, so they obviously didn't mind the fact that they'd been deceiving each other with their fantasy lives.

However, when Amy discovered her new husband was cheating on her she'd had enough and filed for divorce, both real and virtual. She'd already caught his avatar having sex with a virtual prostitute (look in the mirror right now to see the expression I had when I read that) but they'd managed to patch things up.

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I went mad. I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done. I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned. But he didn't see it as a problem, and couldn't see why I was so upset. He said I was just making a big fuss and tried to make out it was my fault for not giving him enough attention.

But then, in April this year, she caught her husband's avatar in another compromising position. She claims he was having cybersex with a female player in America.

I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate. He turned off the computer monitor and I turned it back on and demanded to look at his chat history. But he turned off the computer so the history was all deleted and I ended up going off in floods of tears. He confessed he'd been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks, and said our marriage was over and he didn't love me any more, and we should never have got married.

Gee, sucks to be her eh? Well the unhappy couple have each found someone else now. Dave is dating the 55 year old virtual stripper he was last caught cheating with, and Amy found her true love on World of Warcraft. You'd think by now they'd have learned that their happiness isn't going to be found online. At least not without them being a little bit more honest about who they really are. Oh well, that's internet romances for you.

No, this is a dog not a Simpson, although he is kind of yellow and his exploits are worthy of the cartoon show. You see, Homer disappeared for three days last month and was found next to a railway track with gaping wounds across his back and side. It's every pet owner's nightmare, with one strange twist - these wounds hadn't bled at all.

Ray Davis, Homer's 62 year old owner, believes that Homer was hit by the wheel of a train and that the heat generated by the train going so fast cauterised the wounds instantly and stopped him bleeding to death.

Homer is certainly a lucky dog. After a quick operation to reopen the wounds and allow them to heal properly he's well on his way to recovery.

Sausage Facts
1) There are over 470 recipes and flavours of sausage in Britain.
2) The most expensive sausage ever made was made from fillet steak, champagne and truffles, and cost £20 a pack.
3) The world's largest sausage weighed fifteen and a half tonnes and was thirty five miles long.

Twenty two year old Antonio Vasquez was arrested after being found hiding in a field wearing only a t-shirt, boxer shorts and socks by Fresno County Sheriff Ian Burrimond. The police had been called to investigate a bizarre break in at the house of two farmworkers when they found Vasquez.

The farmworkers were woken in the early hours of the morning by the man as he rubbed spices onto one of their bodies, and smacked the other repeatedly in the face with an eight inch sausage. The sausage hasn't been recovered and is believed to have been eaten by a dog.

This clever South African guy was breaking into the East London museum when he got a surprise. Having failed to pick the lock he smashed the glass in the back door to gain entry, but for some reason the place was alarmed, and it was that moment that the alarm went off. Panicked by this, he ran into the museum yard, climbed a tree and tried to jump over the spiked fence to the neighbouring Selbourne college. The operative word there is "tried".

His jump wasn't quite good enough and he soon found that gravity can be a real pain in the arse, but not as much as the metal spikes on the fence. He was stuck there for quite a while until a passing tow truck driver heard his cries for help and alerted the authorities. The South African police eventually had to lift him off with a crane before they could arrest him and send him on to Frere hospital. At the hospital he was found to have seriously injured his rectum and intestines in the fall, causing them to operate to remove the spike and fit a colostomy bag for immediate relief. He'll be standing trial as soon as he's well enough and, if found guilty, is very well prepared for what awaits him in prison.

You know it. I know it. Even the evil cats themselves know it. They always have been evil, they always will be evil. But some are more evil than others...

"Cutaneous asthenia ("weak skin") is a skin deformity characterised by abnormal elasticity and stretching of the skin. Pendulous wing-like folds of skin form on the cat's back, shoulders and haunches. Even stroking the cat can causes the skin to stretch and tear. The flaps may include muscle fibers allowing some movement, but the cat cannot flap them in a bird-like manner though the wings may bounce up and down when the cat moves.

Cutaneous asthenia is caused by a collagen defect. Collagen is the protein that binds the cells of the dermis together. It is also called dermatoproxy and hereditary skin fragility or cutis elastica ("elastic skin") and is found in humans (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or EDS), dogs, mink, horses, cattle and sheep. In cattle and sheep it is called dermatosparaxis ("torn skin"). In horses a similar condition is called collagen dysplasia. The skin is also abnormally fragile. The skin flaps peel or slough off very easily, often without causing bleeding. This explains why cats with the condition suddenly "molt" their wings."
From Wikipedia

"One cat owner, known only as Feng, claims her cat's wings are a result of stress after he was 'harassed' by females looking to mate.

'At first, they were just two bumps, but they started to grow quickly, and after a month there were two wings,' she told Huashang News.

'Many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow.'

And while she says her lovable Tom is no devil, his wings, which contain bones, make him look more like a 'cat angel'.

But genetic experts claim there is nothing angelic or magical about the condition, which doesn't hinder the cat's quality of life. They say the wings can form through poor grooming, a genetic defect or a hereditary skin condition."
From The Daily Mail

One thing is for sure, whether these winged cats are demonic omens, the result of a skin condition or simply over stressed, it's a bad day for birds...