A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 10-foot python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his penis as he was using a squat toilet.
Attaporn Boonmakchuay was smiling as Thai television stations interviewed him in his hospital bed about the intimate intrusion, and doctors said he would recover. But photos of his blood-splattered bathroom in Chachoengsao province, east of Bangkok, were testimony to his ordeal.
The 38-year-old told Thai TV Channel 7 that he struggled to remove the snake for 30 minutes Wednesday before he managed to free himself with help from his wife and a neighbor. After his wife tied a rope around the snake, Attaporn pried open its jaws before passing out. (...)
A camel killed its owner by biting off its head after he had left the animal outside in the sweltering heat all day with its legs tied up.
The owner had been entertaining guests at his home in Rajasthan's Barmer district in India on Saturday when he remembered the camel had been outside in the intense heat all day.
But when he went to untie the animal and take it to a cooler area, the camel became aggressive and started attacking him.
And according to one villager, the camel then bit off the man's head leaving him dead.
The man told the Times of India: 'The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head.'
Villagers also revealed that the same camel had attacked the owner in the past and 25 of them struggled for six hours to restrain the animal.
Areas in Rajasthan are seeing some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in India with the mercury reaching 51 degrees Celsius.
Indian media reported 16 deaths in Rajasthan, where nearly 17,000 villages in 19 of 33 districts were facing water shortages. (...)
Camels gettin pissed! Too hot. Need to go on strike.
A camel killed its owner by biting off its head after he had left the animal outside in the sweltering heat all day with its legs tied up.
The owner had been entertaining guests at his home in Rajasthan's Barmer district in India on Saturday when he remembered the camel had been outside in the intense heat all day.
But when he went to untie the animal and take it to a cooler area, the camel became aggressive and started attacking him.
And according to one villager, the camel then bit off the man's head leaving him dead.
The man told the Times of India: 'The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head.'
Villagers also revealed that the same camel had attacked the owner in the past and 25 of them struggled for six hours to restrain the animal.
Areas in Rajasthan are seeing some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in India with the mercury reaching 51 degrees Celsius.
Indian media reported 16 deaths in Rajasthan, where nearly 17,000 villages in 19 of 33 districts were facing water shortages. (...)
The world's most powerful scientific machine was shut down on Thursday... by a weasel.
The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile long particle accelerator located in Switzerland, experienced technical issues after a small animal chewed through a power cable, according to NPR.
My wife will be happy to hear this, I don't understand the details, but she is convinced that this Collider will bring on the end of the world and the scientists who run it are evil or something. I haven't done the math on this, but she certainly has.
The world's most powerful scientific machine was shut down on Thursday... by a weasel.
The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile long particle accelerator located in Switzerland, experienced technical issues after a small animal chewed through a power cable, according to NPR.
They're hardy animals, and they broke his fall somewhat.
