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An afternoon hike turned into an overnight ordeal when a couple whose 80-pound dog joined them for the trek couldn’t make it back down the trail.

Officials said the dog, Baxter, a Labrador mix, suffered cuts to his paws from rocks on the trail at the Angeles National Forest, just north of San Dimas. The walk became too hard and he grew too tired, forcing his owners to call police for help.

The couple couldn’t carry the dog themselves so they waited overnight for help to arrive.

On Sunday morning, a rescue helicopter arrived and had to completely shut down to calm the frightened dog enough to board. The couple and the dog were eventually airlifted to safety.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/07/ … -on-trail/
I really really really really really hope the couple is charged for the the airlifting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.

Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Last edited by Spark (2011-08-02 00:54:59)

Spark wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on security for poppy crops.

Australia supplies about 50% of the world's legally-grown opium used to make morphine and other painkillers.

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

You know what I find completely ironic and stupid?

I used to live in Tasmania, during my teenage years and early adulthood. In Tassie the poppies they grow are the variety you make opium from, and there's a big processing plant in Westbury to turn the product into a pharmaceutical grade opiate (I used to live about <1km from the place, it was on the same road as us).

All poppy farms in Tassie are right by the side of the road, with rusting barbed wire fences exactly like you would keep sheep in a paddock with, with obvious signs saying "Trespassers will be prosecuted" or something to that effect.

Simultaneously, there were undergoing hemp growing trials for a number of years in secure locations, to see if it could be passed as legal and thus be used for all its production potential for products like oil, material, paper, etc. etc. etc. (this hasn't happened to this day AFAIK). These trials were conducted in not only secure but classified locations, growing hemp with such low tetrahydrocannabinol levels that it would require smoking two plants to get high.

So pharmaceutical grade (read: heroin grade) poppies are openly grown, yet hemp with minuscule levels of THC are kept under lock and key. All whilst actual marijuana is so easy to get in Tassie it's almost not worth police time pursuing.

/rant

Last edited by Jaekus (2011-08-03 07:25:00)

Share market is going to be a bloodbath - time to buy maybe.

he actually wanted to end up like this? some people have a fucking screw loose

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292111,00.html

my girlfriend's best (gay) friend went to eton with the kid who was mauled by a polar bear earlier this week. i've only just got around to reading the story and joined the dots when i saw mutual friends on facebook. crazy. how the fuck was a kid in harm's way of a polar bear?!?

I was just going to post about that. I hope I could trigger riots if I got shot. Seems strange, though.

EDIT: Video footage shows a bunch of hooded yobs.

Last edited by DesertFox- (2011-08-06 21:03:00)

the guy who got shot was probably a drug dealer and carried a skeng himself anyway. and that's a bit harsh, dilbert. shithole or not tottenham is a pretty characteristic part of london. i get the feeling all londoners are pretty bummed about this sort of thing-- nobody likes angst and anxiety on their doorstep from unhappy communities. whilst i'm sure the west londonites were hardly crying into their foie gras last night, it's still pretty shit news. there has been a lot of suspicion and tension about the powers of the police for a long time in the london and the uk. especially after the ugly implications of the top-level MET in the entire 'sponsored phone hacking and police bribes' scandal. ugly. people don't have much faith in authorities anymore... whether they're disadvantaged youth in north london or liberal intelligentsia in trendy shoreditch.

Last edited by Uzique (2011-08-07 05:33:10)

in the states you destroy your own neighbourhoods for losing a sports match. puhleease.

Just checked my post over. Nope didn't mention anything about the country.

Peacefully protest.

lol peaceful protest against corrupt and violent police authorities. okay.