This weeks featured video is of a skydiving attempt
gone horribly wrong. The cord gets caught up around his partner’s
foot. See how the guy gets the cord off of his foot seconds before
it would have been to late.
At first sight it seems just another second-hand luxury car for
sale but this Jaguar included some special extras in its day such
as emergency convoy lights and a direct radio link to the British
Prime Minister.
That's because the green Daimler V8 was formerly owned and driven
by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II between 2001 and 2004.
Delivered to the royal family with 2,000 test miles, the queen
added 12,000 more miles to the clock traveling to and from Buckingham
Palace and Windsor Castle.
It was specifically built for the British monarch and designed
to satisfy all her needs.
It has a special armrest to accommodate the queen's
handbag and the original registration used by her is still in
the vehicle, the Independent newspaper reported.
The car, which has a list price of 65,000 pounds
($99,310), was in secure storage at the Jaguar factory until Peter
Radcliffe, a specialist memorabilia dealer, bought it.
He is now offering it for sale on the website www.hmthequeensdaimler.com.
"It is in truly immaculate as new condition
and has all original paperwork, service book, spare keys and photographs
of the queen driving the car," Radcliffe said on the website.
Indian military uses habanero peppers as weapons against terrorist.
Mad dash as truck spills $100,000 dollars
onto us highway
The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism:
the world's hottest chili.
After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized
"bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make
tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials
said Tuesday.
The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007
as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's
northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a
way to fight the crippling summer heat.
It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement
of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500
to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere
from 2,500 to 8,000.
"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials
in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists
at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col.
R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam,
told The Associated Press.
"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon
because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them
out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of
the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of
the DRDO said.
Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said
trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays
to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control
and disperse mobs.
People fell onto a bag of cash like a pack of
hungry piranhas after more than 100,000 dollars tumbled out the
back of an armored truck onto an Ohio street, local media reported.
The bag split open after it fell off the back of the vehicle Wednesday
and the driver drove away without noticing.
But a whole bunch of people spotted the cash blowing
down the street in Whitehall, a Columbus suburb, and a mad dash
for cash ensued.
"People were jumping out of their vehicles,"
one witness told NBC4 news.
"Like when you throw some fish in and you've
got a school of piranhas and they haven't eaten for a long time.
It was funny."
Another witness described a surreal atmosphere
with people laughing, smiling and taking as much as they could
carry.
Workers at a nearby flower shop helped police
gather up the money in boxes. Several people ended up bringing
some of the cash into the police station.
But only about 10,500 dollars had been recovered
by the end of the day, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
"We're hoping that more people do the right
thing," Whitehall Police Sergeant Randy Snider told the paper.
Police are examining surveillance camera video
and photographs from cell phone cameras to try to track down the
people who grabbed the money.
