Traffic cop clings to front of speeding bus in Vietnam – Source: ITN NEWS

This will not avoid a ticket.

drunk tractor driver

Kevin Whitesell, 31, of Terre Haute, IN was taken into custody for drunk driving. He was driving a tractor while towing his wrecked car and crashed both vehicles into a creek Friday morning.

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You must check out The Jealous Astronaut…

Abdullah Hashem is still making movies, but this time the location is a little different and the subject much more serious.

A year ago Hashem wrapped up production on the movie “Apache Tears,” which used Mooresville and central Indiana for many of the scenes. Since then he has been working on a documentary about the Raelians, a religious group often called a cult, that believes the human race was started through genetic manipulation by extraterrestrials.

Hashem hopes to discredit the group and ultimately cause it to disband.

The Raelians first came to Hashem’s attention several years ago when they claimed to have cloned a baby named Eve. They have never produced the child for genetic testing to show if this is true, according to various news reports.

Hashem, a 2001 Mooresville High School graduate and IUPUI student, said it was then that he began following them in the news.

Many of their activities, which Hashem says include brainwashing members and using sex as coercion to gain access to its members’ finances, prompted him to take action.

“I’m not a religious nut, but according to my beliefs, when people wear shirts that say there is no God, I have to do something,” Hashem said.

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Visit the film website at raelexposed.com.

Not really odd, but odd TV related…

The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina prompted ABC TV Thursday to pull its commercials for the new sci-fi series Invasion.

Invasion begins with aliens invading Florida during a hurricane, TV Week reported on its Web site.

So far, ABC has not said anything about changing Invasion’s Sept. 21 premiere date. But the network released a statement saying adjustments are ongoing across the board to make sure all programming is sensitive to Katrina’s victims.

First and foremost, our thoughts go out to all those affected by this tragedy, the network’s statement read. As with anything as serious as this we are taking great efforts to assess sensitivities with regard to our series. We are currently looking at all our programming and marketing efforts with this in mind. Our changes and adjustments are ongoing.

[from Web India 123. See also, JSOnline.]

Modena – The sprawling house John and Joanne McDonough have lived in since the late 1970s used to be a boarding house, and, as far as they’re concerned, it still is.

The house’s occupants don’t pay for their rooms. They take up no space, either. They never speak and, for the most part, they keep to themselves. Joanne McDonough will sometimes catch one of them from the corner of her eye, peeking around a corner of the sprawling, 14-room house.

She’s gotten used to it by now, though it’s taken time. And, after a four-day examination of her home by a team of paranormal investigators, historians and researchers – Joanne McDonough knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that hers is a haunted house.

Come October, you’ll be able to judge for yourself. The McDonoughs will be the subject of a new reality show, tentatively called “Haunted Houses,” on The Learning Channel. The idea is to have houses like theirs investigated by poltergeist professionals.

[see Times Herald-Record]

Stars of Ghost Hunters look into stories of hauntings

[see story on RelishNow]

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio – Hollywood has taken interest in a suburban Cleveland woman paid to talk to the dead. Mary Ann Winkowski’s paranormal experiences as a ghostbuster for hire have inspired CBS to create “Ghost Whisperer,” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, which is part of the network’s fall lineup.

Winkowski, a paid consultant to the show, doesn’t have a listing in the phone book, but is booked four months in advance chasing unwanted ghosts from people’s homes.

[via Tahlequah Daily Press]

Each week, the Ghost Hunt team will use a combination of technological gadgets and old fashioned bravado in their pursuit of paranormal activity. They will explore a number of spooky locations, including an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the Waitomo Caves hotel, Riccarton House in Christchurch, Vulcan Hotel in St Bathans, St James Theatre in Wellington and Kinder House in Parnell.

[via TVNZ]

Sounds like an interesting series. Hopefully it will make it to the States or someone in New Zealand is kind enough to pass some recordings my way.

Loch Ness, Scotland

For several months rumors have been swirling around Loch Ness about a 4-inch barbed tooth, possibly belonging to a giant mutation of an eel species that inhabits the waterway, found in the mutilated carcass of a half-eaten deer back in March by two American college students. Now, several boat operators have come forward to speak with Nessie Investigator William McDonald, confirming the area where the deer was located is known to locals as a “kill-zone.”

[via PR Web]

Referenced site, http://www.lochnesstooth.com/.