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Facebook, Twitter top list of weird stories in 2009
From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009.
Read them here: Reuters/Yahoo
Read them here: Reuters/Yahoo
Man with knife in chest calls 911, orders coffee
WARREN, Mich. – A man who walked into a Michigan diner with a 5-inch knife stuck in his chest ordered a coffee and complained only about the cold weather.
The 52-year-old man, who has not been identified, called a 911 operator in Warren on Sunday night to ask that an ambulance be sent to Bray's, an eatery in neighboring Hazel Park.
He said he had been stabbed during an attempted robbery half a mile away, then walked to the restaurant and called 911 from a pay phone.
On a recording of the call, the man gives a vague description of his attacker before saying, "I'm gonna sit down at Bray's 'cause they got a chair and it's cold out here."
Restaurant employee George Mirdita tells The Detroit News the man calmly ordered coffee.
Police said Tuesday that the man is recovering.
Information from: Yahoo! News
The 52-year-old man, who has not been identified, called a 911 operator in Warren on Sunday night to ask that an ambulance be sent to Bray's, an eatery in neighboring Hazel Park.
He said he had been stabbed during an attempted robbery half a mile away, then walked to the restaurant and called 911 from a pay phone.
On a recording of the call, the man gives a vague description of his attacker before saying, "I'm gonna sit down at Bray's 'cause they got a chair and it's cold out here."
Restaurant employee George Mirdita tells The Detroit News the man calmly ordered coffee.
Police said Tuesday that the man is recovering.
Information from: Yahoo! News
Homeless Man Builds 5mln Dollar Website
"Every time someone places a banner on my website, the popularity of the latter grows: other advertisers see it's popular, and join it, too", says Terry Hladyak, a recent homeless immigrant and the owner of MakeMeShare.com. "The chain reaction had started", he adds.
When history teacher Terry Hladyak first left Ukraine in hopes of finding a similar job in Canada, he quickly learned that a night security guard was as close as he was going to get. With no savings, the 33-year-old immigrant was homeless within two weeks.
"I only had enough money to rent a room for that long," he explains. "Whatever I was making back at my security job wasn't enough to save anything."
At night, he worked as a security guard for a new condo. By day, his home was a public library where he would find himself a secluded corner, pile the table up with books and put his head down for a few hours.
When he'd wake from his nap, Hladyak would use the library's free Internet access to research what kind of business he could start online.
He knew he needed a good idea and a gimmick to sell it. With the help of programming books he read in book stores-- he says they were more current than the library's -- he finally decided on developing a pixel advertising website he's called Makemeshare.com.
Each of his advertising pages contains a grid of 1,000x500 pixels, the dots that make up a computer screen grid. His plan is to sell pixels as advertising space, costing $2 US a pixel on the homepage and $1 US a pixel on the others. The minimum purchase is $100 for a tiny 10x10 pixel square to hold the buyer's logo or banner for 5 years. Clicking on that space takes readers to the advertiser's website.
Hladyak has pledged that if he earns $5 million in 5 years by selling out his pixel grids, he will donate half of it to charities -- hence the name, Make Me Share.
The website was online on August 1st, 2008, and in 2 months Terry made enough money to leave the street, rent a room, quit his security job, and focus on the online business.
Sources: Toronto Sun; MakeMeShare!
Police free 9 from fake Big Brother house
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Nine women tricked into thinking they were reality TV show contestants and lured into an Istanbul villa were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, a police spokesman said Thursday.
Cameras in the villa filmed the women 24-hours a day, providing a live stream of images for Internet users who had paid to access the footage, the spokesman said.
The women, all from Turkey, according to the Turkish press, had answered an advert seeking contestants for a "Big Brother"-style television show. They passed an audition and selection process before entering the house.
"The women's parents called the police after they didn't hear anything from them. The military police went to investigate and heard the women screaming from inside," the spokesman said, adding the raid took place Monday.
Police detained three men and prosecutors are investigating, he said.
According to Turkish media, the women had signed a contract agreeing they would have no contact with their families and would face a fine of 50,000 Turkish lira if they left early.
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Source: Reuters
Cameras in the villa filmed the women 24-hours a day, providing a live stream of images for Internet users who had paid to access the footage, the spokesman said.
The women, all from Turkey, according to the Turkish press, had answered an advert seeking contestants for a "Big Brother"-style television show. They passed an audition and selection process before entering the house.
"The women's parents called the police after they didn't hear anything from them. The military police went to investigate and heard the women screaming from inside," the spokesman said, adding the raid took place Monday.
Police detained three men and prosecutors are investigating, he said.
According to Turkish media, the women had signed a contract agreeing they would have no contact with their families and would face a fine of 50,000 Turkish lira if they left early.
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Source: Reuters
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