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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch. Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds. Al Fastier, who will lead the expedition in January, said restoration workers found the crates of whiskey under the hut's floorboards in 2006. At the time, the crates and bottles were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged. The New Zealanders have agreed to try to retrieve some bottles, although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations. Fastier said he did not want to sample the contents. "It's better to imagine it than to taste it," he said. "That way it keeps its mystery." Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, said the Shackleton expedition's whiskey could still be drinkable and taste exactly as it did 100 years ago. If he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the old Scotch and put McKinlay whiskey back on sale. "I really hope we can get some back here," he was quoted as telling London's Telegraph newspaper. "It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland where it was born. "Even if most of the bottles have to remain in Antarctica for historic reasons, it would be good if we could get a couple," Paterson said. Source
A Croatian man confessed to murdering his mother after she caught him engaging in auto-erotic asphyxiation while pleasuring himself inside their home. Dino Babic called Split police Sunday night around 9:30 p.m. and told them he thought he strangled his mother, the Croatian Times reports. After officers arrived, they found Babic’s mother also had been hit over the head with a small statue. The 22-year-old man said he snapped when he saw his mom’s shock at finding him masturbating while pulling on a scarf tied around his neck. Neighbors perceived the victim as a reclusive and modest woman, while her son was seen as troubled and possibly prone to drugs. Police detained Babic while continuing their investigation. Source
DANVERS, Mass. – Who knew "Meep!" was a four-letter word? The utterance favored by bungling lab assistant Beaker of "The Muppet Show" has been banned at Danvers High School in Massachusetts after students said it to repeatedly interrupt school. Principal Thomas Murray said the word was part of a disruption planned using Facebook. The Salem News reports that parents recently got an automated call about "Meep!" from Murray. He warned them that students who said or displayed the word at school could be suspended. Murray says the warning was needed because students didn't heed his "reasonable request" to stop the meeping. Danvers High sophomore Melanie Crane says it doesn't mean anything in particular. Source
INDIANAPOLIS - Police are looking for two suspects who managed to heat up a bottle for a crying baby while robbing a home Friday morning. Indianapolis Metro Police Department detectives said two suspects forced their way into a home just after 8:30 a.m. Friday morning with intentions to rob the family. Police said two men came up to the home asking for jumper cables for a broken down car. They left, then later came back to the home and knocked on the door. That's when police said one of the suspects pulled out a shotgun and forced their way into the home, tying up two adults and a teenager. One of the robbers hit one of the adults over the head with a gun. "Then he hit me again over the head and that was it," said Morgan Adams. "It was lights out. I woke up to my buddy untying me." Police said the robbers started ransacking the house. Then, the baby in the house made his presence known. "And then at that point my smallest baby starts to cry," said Ronnell Griffie. "So I asked them, 'Is there any possibility that you can let my oldest son feed little Jaylin?' And he was like, 'Yeah, dude, yeah, dude, I can do that.'" The robber not only let Griffie's older son feed Jaylin, he warmed the bottle himself in the microwave. Another thing that makes this crime so unusual is how brazen it was. It happened during broad daylight, during rush hour, on a very busy street. Surveillance video from a nearby business showed how busy the street was when the crime occurred. The tape shows the two robbers going into the house, both of them armed. It could have been deadly. It was without a doubt frightening and it's also puzzling. How could two men willing to be so violent, be so tender in the same moment? "First I thought we were dead, then I thought, 'Okay, he's a nice guy, he even warms up a bottle for my child,'" said Griffie. "I don't know what to think of these gentlemen. I don't have the slightest clue what to think of 'em." Police said the suspects are considered armed and dangerous. They were described as two black males, one light skinned and the other dark skinned. The suspects were wearing dark clothing and red bandanas over their faces. Source
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More than £1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials in Spain. The fake cigarettes - due to be sold on the black market as famous brands - were discovered after British holidaymakers in the Canary Islands smelled a rat whenever they lit up. "They stunk. They smell just as you'd imagine burning poo to smell," said one customs official in Tenerife. Police and customs staff arrested 12 smugglers in an undercover operation to intercept the cigarettes as they landed on a boat from China. "They not only smell bad but the toxic chemicals they give off are pure poison," explained a customs official. Source Have any interesting articles you'd like to share? Article Request Thread.
A man whose bowel was damaged in a motorcycle crash has been given a bionic bottom. Ged Galvin, 55, now presses a remote control to open his bowels and go to the toilet. The IT project manager from Barnsley, south Yorkshire, almost died when an off-duty police officer pulled out in front of him in her car. Mr Galvin suffered massive internal injuries and had to be fitted with a colostomy bag until surgeons at the Royal London Hospital could perform the complex operation to rebuild his bottom. The medical team took a muscle from above his knee, wrapped it around his sphincter, and then attached electrodes to the nerves. These are now operated by a palm-sized remote control that he carries in his pocket. “It’s like a chubby little mobile phone,” he said. “You switch it on and off, just like switching on the TV. “They call me the man with the bionic bottom, but that doesn’t bother me. My gratitude to the surgeons is endless because what they have done is a miracle.” Mr Galvin, who had previously endured the indignity of carrying a colostomy bag, added: “I thought that in these days of modern medicine surely there was something they could do. They'd mended everything else - why not this? Anything was better than a colostomy bag. “The operation changed my life and gave me back my pride and confidence. Because of the remote control I can lead a normal life again.” The father-of-two is resigned to having the muscles in his bionic bottom replaced every five years. Source
NITRO, W.Va. (AP) -- A former home improvement store clerk in West Virginia has been charged with discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise to win a man's heart. Nitro police arrested 20-year-old Katie Lynn Smith Thursday on a fraudulent schemes charge. She had worked at Lowe's. A criminal complaint in county court says a security video shows Smith selling the man a pressure washer worth several hundred dollars for $3.66. That's the price of an 80-pound bag of concrete. The complaint says Smith admitted incorrectly ringing up nearly $20,000 worth of merchandise in four months for "a male she desired as a boyfriend." Smith's phone number isn't listed and police spokesman Ray Blake says she doesn't have an attorney yet. Police couldn't say whether the scheme helped her romantic prospects. Source
LA MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived. Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured. A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million. Source
