Vasaline Bandits..

When I was little burglars disguised their finger prints by smearing them with Vasaline. . .

Maybe they moved on to covering themselves further :


http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10182722


The tale of the tail end may have reached an end.

At least that's what folks in Valentine, Neb., hope after someone slathered his bare backside — and front side — with Vaseline, then left prints on windows of businesses, schools and churches.

Rewards offered through Crime Stoppers failed to halt the pants-dropping perpetrator's spree, which began in May.

The local Midland News newspaper called the vandal or vandals "lewd, lubricated, lurching lunatics." A radio station dubbed them "the buttcheek bandits."

"It's just a weird deal, but it's weird enough to cause a little bit of concern," Valentine Police Chief Ben McBride. "Who in their right mind would do something like that?"

McBride has fielded about 20 reports. The last official one came in mid-October, although a Valentine businessman said he saw a print Thursday morning on the door of a dental clinic.

"If I hadn't heard about this previously, I wouldn't have had a clue what it was," said Duane Gudgel of the Plains Trading Company bookstore and gift shop.

Norman Nollett, co-owner of Nollett Electric, noticed greasy prints on the plate glass windows of his business in September. He didn't think much of it until he heard a radio report about the spree.

"I don't know what kind of people it takes to do that," Nollett said. "Someone with a weird sense of humor, I guess."

Drinking can lead to a nasty headache

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article421854.ece

A WOMAN who leant over a station platform to be sick was hit in the head by a 65mph train – and SURVIVED.

Amazingly, the 28-year-old wasn’t knocked on to the tracks and suffered only a fractured skull and cut face.

The driver of the Watford to Gatwick express blew his horn and hit the brakes when he spotted the woman at Purley Oaks station in Croydon, South London.

But he was unable to prevent the accident at 7.20pm on Thursday – which resulted in severe delays for hundreds of commuters.

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said: “A woman was taken to St George’s Hospital in Tooting with head injuries but was fully conscious.”

Beer is good !!

A beer after playing a game of football, a long run, or a strenuous round of golf can be good for the body, scientists say.

In a rare piece of good news for those who like a pint, Spanish researchers say beer can help someone who is dehydrated retain liquid better than water.

Prof Manuel Garzon, of Granada University, also claimed the bubbles in beer help to quench the thirst and that its carbohydrate content can help to replace lost calories.

Prof Garzon, who announced the results at a press conference in Granada beneath a banner declaring "Beer, Sport, Health", said the hydration effect in those who drank beer was "slightly better".

Juan Antonio Corbalan, a cardiologist who worked formerly with Real Madrid football players and Spain's national basketball team, said beer had the perfect profile for re-hydration after sport.

He added that he had long recommended barley drinks to professional sportsmen after exercise.

Previous studies have shown most alcoholic drinks have a diuretic effect – meaning they increase the amount of liquid lost by the body through urination.

Dr James Betts, an expert on nutrition and metabolism at Bath University, said a moderate amount of beer might be just as good as water at helping the body retain liquid, but that he doubted it could be any better.

Dr Betts said: "If you are dehydrated to start with following exercise, a beer, as opposed to a spirit, probably does not have a high enough concentration of alcohol to induce a diuretic effect."