NY - If you think tattoos are so over, you’ve got another think coming. The latest in permanent ink? Tats on your eyeball. That’s right - a sharp stick in the eye.
When doctors do it, it’s called corneal tattooing; but when perfectly healthy folks looking for new horizons in tattooing, piercing, scarring, etc., do it, it’s nuts.
Last month, the online magazine BMEzine.com (short for Body Modification) started chronicling three people’s efforts to turn the whites of their eyes blue.
To tattoo the eyes, they used two different procedures. First they used a traditional needle with ink on it, but when the ink didn’t hold, they switched to a syringe that injected ink into the eye. The most recent posts indicate that all was well, with one of the guys saying it felt like he had something in his eye. Full Story - MagazineLane.com - The Popcorn Factory

FL - A Pensacola man was critically injured after he fell out of a vehicle while trying to spit.
Miguel Rogelio, 37, was riding in a 2006 Lincoln on U.S. Highway 29 when he “quickly opened the right front door” to spit, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
When he did this he fell out of the moving vehicle and onto the roadway, hitting his head.
The driver of the car, Desiree C. Jamar, also of Pensacola, told the investigating trooper that they had just left the Tom Thumb store near the West Roberts Road intersection and that the car was traveling at about 45 miles per hour when Rogelio fell out.
Rogelio is being treated at West Florida Hospital. MagazineLane.com - Discount Tobacco

NORRIDGEWOCK ME - Everywhere Richard White looked Monday there were big clumps of dried, smelly chicken manure.
It was hanging from his mailbox, sloshed all over his snowmobile, lying next to his well and dried on his garage door more than 30 feet across the yard. Two vehicles parked nearby looked like they had been through a very sloppy and thick mud run.
“There’s stuff still 20 feet up the tree,” White said, pointing. “It was like a tsunami wave of hot chicken (manure).”
The pungent odor of the nitrogen-concentrated chicken excrement still hung in the air at White’s 441 Walker Road home, where shortly after 3 p.m. last Thursday an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rolled over and dumped 24 tons of the stuff in his front yard.
Two used vehicles up for sale were destroyed. A 1997 Eagle Vision TSI was spun around by the impact of the manure and landed in front of his doorstep, White said. A 1987 Suburban Silverado with a plow package also was splattered with the manure and turned sideways. It even blew up under the vehicle and into the motor, he said. Full Story - MagazineLane.com - Latest fashions from Liz Claiborne

UK - A PRIMARY school head ruined the new Harry Potter book for pupils — by reading out the final page on the last day of term.
Youngsters looking forward to reading the best-seller over the summer holidays were left reeling as Carolyn Banfield gave the game away.
Nine-year-old pupil Louie Swift said: “I don’t know why she read it. She didn’t even mention she had the book. She just picked it up and started reading it to us.”
Harry … so popular Jordan Ashman, ten, said: “It has spoiled the book for me.” Full Story - MagazineLane.com - Thompson Cigar - oldest mail order cigar company

A YOUNG man in Nepal today chopped off his right hand as an offering to a feared Hindu goddess, state-run media reported.
“He offered special worship at the temple this morning,” the national RSS news agency said. “After the worship, he chopped off his right hand and offered (it) to the temple of Goddess Kali.”
The 23-year-old survived the amputation by a kukhuri, a traditional curved Nepalese knife, and was in stable condition at a hospital in Biratnagar, 250km southeast of Kathmandu, the news agency reported.
It was not known why he sacrificed his hand.
Impoverished Nepal is a deeply traditional and religious country where around 80 per cent of the 27 million people are Hindu.
Kali is a multi-armed Hindu deity often associated with destruction. MagazneLane.com - Apple iTunes

ISTANBUL, July 31 (Reuters Life!) - At Istanbul’s Club Fox on the Sea of Marmara coast the belly dancer’s hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual — it’s a man’s.
Male belly dancers are thrilling audiences in Turkey and other European capitals, drawing on a tradition dating back to Ottoman times when men in the Sultan’s palaces were entertained by young male dancers as the women lived separately in harems.

As 36-year-old dancer “Alex” takes to the stage and the repetitive beats are replaced by Arabesque music, the young Turkish crowd goes wild, flinging their arms in the air and jostling for a view of his belly.
“All kinds of people watch me. I dance on stage in clubs, bars and even rock concerts,” said Alex, who goes by his stage name.
His costume and dance style are distinct from that of a female dancer. He wears loose black trousers, a chain-mail headdress, a richly-tasselled belt and stole, and a cloak made of sheer fabric, which he extends with his arms like wings.
“I am really against people thinking oriental dance is a female dance. In doing this they are trying to give it an identity…but all dances can have male and female characters.”
Ballet also has male and female dancers, he points out.
Alex began dancing aged 16, drawn to belly dance as he thought it was the most expressive dance for his body shape whilst also being highly in demand. More - MagazineLane.com - Avon

A driver who led police on a high-speed chase on Monday told reporters that he was just trying to get help for his sick cat. The chase, which FOX 4 News reported had reached speeds of up to 100 mph, ended in Richardson near Highway 75 with the arrest of the man. Law enforcement officials used spike strips to stop the sport utility vehicle at about 3:30 p.m. “I was going about 65, 70 … he was going past me like I was just sitting there,” witness Colby Tskey said. “It was pretty intense. “Armed officers pulled the man from the vehicle and apprehended him.

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EL CAJON – One of two men charged with the execution-style killings of an El Cajon liquor store owner and a store worker bragged about the shooting to friends, a witness testified in court Monday.
Jean Rices said he “popped them” after one of the two pulled off a ski mask Rices was wearing, Dwayne Hooks testified in El Cajon Superior Court.
Rices, 25, of El Cajon and Anthony Miller, 21, of Alpine are charged with the March 2006 slaying of Heather Nabil Mattia, 22, and Firas Washid Eiso, 23, at Granada Liquor Store on Broadway near Mollison Avenue.
Hooks testified that Rices told him of the shooting during a July 2006 baby shower for Hooks’ wife. He said Rices was dating Hooks’ sister at the time.
Rices said “he was the one who smoked or shot the people,” Hooks testified.
Miller, who also attended the baby shower, didn’t say anything but “he would nod along” as Rices spoke of the shooting, Hooks said.
Questioned by defense lawyers, Hooks said he agreed to testify for the prosecution in exchange for a reduced charge on a July 2006 robbery of a Lakeside branch of Washington Mutual bank. Rices is also a defendant in that robbery case.
In exchange for his testimony in the Granada shooting case, Hooks said he was sentenced to one day in jail for the bank robbery and relocated by prosecutors to a new apartment for his protection.
Eiso and Mattia each died of a single shot wound to the head, testified Glenn Wagner, the county’s chief medical examiner.
The preliminary hearing before Judge Allan J. Preckel, held to determine if there is sufficient evidence for a trial, is expected to take conclude Tuesday. MagazineLane.com - Everything for the baby at Baby Age