Charlie Sheen sentenced to death 5 times in Congo.

Tjostolv Moland as Charlie Sheen, and Joshua French

August 28th 2009. Kinshasa, Congo.

 

Has Charlie Sheen just been sentenced to death 5 times in combination with a demand of 500 billion USD worth, during a trial in Congo? Well it may look like it. His real name however is Tjolstolv Moland, while his equally unlucky parner to the right on the picture is Joshua French.

A military prosecutor in Congo asked the court on Friday to sentence to death 5 times + 20 years the two Norwegians accused of killing their driver Abedi Kasongo in May earlier this year.
The two Norwegian mercenaries Joshua French (27), and Tjostolv Moland (28), are charged with murder, attempted murder, espionage, conspiracy and armed robbery, after their driver was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head in Congo’s northeastern Orientale province.

The two Norwegians have denied all allegations, and claim that their driver was shot by armed gangs. Of course, the trial wouldn’t have been a corrupt banana republic worthy if the he prosecution hadn’t also demanded this week that Norway pays Congo $500 billion in damages over the incident.

More Norwegian news

The trial continues on Tuesday. In either case the two seem to be screwed.
But at least we already know who will play Moland in the upcoming movie of the Congolese farse.
Mike Myers may play his part again too.

I hope for the sake of the victim and his family that the guilty parts will face a proper trial and be brought to justice some day.

Update, 2011:
Now with Charlie Sheen going crazy in the US, maybe it’s just a matter of time before the headline becomes true: Charlie Sheen in the news

World record in childrens pool jump

Well of course it’s fake. But it’s just so much fun.
Wouldn’t you want to try it?

Squirrel shows up on holiday photo after self timer catches it.

Squirrel shows up on holiday photo after self timer catches it.

The couple had set the timer on their camera while posing at a lakeside in a national park in Canada.

Just as they were about to be captured on camera the cheeky squirrel popped up in the foreground and stole the show.
The picture was taken at the side of the stunning Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada.

Mrs Brandts said: “We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot.”

The picture was submitted to the website of America’s National Geographic magazine.

‘It was a once in a lifetime moment – we were laughing about this little guy for days!’ said Mrs Brandts.

‘Cloud ship’ scheme, one option to combat global warming.

The “cloud ships” are favoured among a series of schemes aimed at altering the climate which have been weighed up by a leading think-tank.

The project, which is being worked on by rival US and UK scientists, would see 1,900 wind-powered ships ply the oceans sucking up seawater and spraying minuscule droplets of it out through tall funnels to create large white clouds.

Cloud ship

These clouds, it is predicted, would reflect around one or two per cent of the sunlight that would otherwise warm the ocean, thereby cancelling out the greenhouse effect caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions.

The unmanned ships would be directed by satellite to areas with the best conditions for increasing cloud cover, mainly in the Pacific and far enough away from land so as not to affect normal rainfall patterns.

Other ideas, such as sending mirrors into space by rocket to deflect the sun’s rays, and scattering iron powder into the seas to boost CO2-absorbing plankton, have been dismissed as unfeasible or too expensive.

According to The Times, The Royal Society is expected to announce that the decade-old cloud ship plan is one of the most promising.

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre, which advises governments on how to spend aid money, examined the various plans and found the cloud ships to be the most cost-effective.

They would cost $9 billion (£5.3 billion) to test and launch within 25 years, compared to the $250 billion that the world’s leading nations are considering spending each year to cut CO2 emissions, and the $395 trillion it would cost to launch mirrors into space.

At present, British and American teams are seeking funding to launch sea trials. The US team has been boosted by a donation of several hundred thousand dollars by The Carnegie Institute, while the British team, led by John Latham, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Manchester, and Stephen Salter, an engineer at the University of Edinburgh, is working with a Finnish shipping company, Meriaura.

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen think-tank, is hosting a conference in Washington DC next month at which a panel of Nobel laureates will vote on the most cost-effective solution.

He believes the schemes could prove that there are better ways of addressing climate change than simply reducing CO2 emissions.

“The space sunshade is really just science fiction but cloud whitening ships deserve serious scrutiny,” he told The Times.

“We need to have a debate about all of the options, not just the politically correct one of reducing CO2.”

Another scheme considered by the Copenhagen Consensus Centre is one to mimic the effects of volcanic eruptions in shielding the sun’s rays with a chemical haze and creating a global cooling effect that can last for over a year.

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 sent billions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide and other particles into the atmosphere which reduced global average temperature by about 0.5C. The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 saw 1816 become known as the year without summer.

Scientists have proposed various ways of emitting such particles into the atmosphere, including using squadrons of air tanker potentially based in the Arctic to protect the polar ice cap.

Notting Hill – “I Saw You Coming” from Ruddy Hell Its Harry and Paul

You don’t need to live in England, London, North London, or Notting Hill for that matter. Unless you are seriously intellectually challenged, this is immediately recognisable.

Schadenfreude of the day!

Yes alright, you won’t laugh, sorry lol…
but I know some of you will appreciate it.

Sheeps online – Crazy stunt-sheep from Norway

Norwegian Sheeps hanging around

Found at gonorsk.com

Now this is something you don’t see every day. A sheep trying to balance telephone wires.
What ideas entered your mind when you first saw this picture?

Apparently, what had happened was that the sheep had been grazing a steep hill at Helgøy in the Norwegian county Rogaland. Then it had most likely got stuck in the wires further up the hill, lost it’s foothold, and slid further and further down the wires.
It was spotted by clever German tourists who came to it’s immediate rescue by using a rope to drag it up the wires again until it regained it’s foothold, before it ran away like a scared sheep who had just been hanging from a telephone wire. 😉

Funny Pictures and Weird Photographs

You have to smile… Just have to… Do it 🙂

I’ve seen some cool exhaust pipes before, but these really put a smile on my face.

What does your look like?