Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[BurblingBrownOne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

Drilling rig inadvertently drills into mine workings below lake and drains lake into mine - amazingly nobody killed.

[phr33k]

From the "Unusual Deaths" page:

Wikipedia said:

2005: Kenneth "Mr. Hands" Pinyan of Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. died of acute peritonitis after seeking out and receiving anal intercourse from a stallion, an act he had engaged in previously on numerous occasions without injury. Pinyan delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance to explain the circumstances of his injury to doctors. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington state.[152] His story was recounted in the award winning 2007 documentary film Zoo

[Frankeh]

phr33k said:

From the "Unusual Deaths" page:

Wikipedia said:

2005: Kenneth "Mr. Hands" Pinyan of Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. died of acute peritonitis after seeking out and receiving anal intercourse from a stallion, an act he had engaged in previously on numerous occasions without injury. Pinyan delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance to explain the circumstances of his injury to doctors. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington state.[152] His story was recounted in the award winning 2007 documentary film Zoo

Type in "Mr Hands" in google and the first result should be the video. Enjoy.
It's fking crazy.

[Gitman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin
A very tough russian

[BruceV8]

Gitman said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin
A very tough russian

Russia's greatest love machine
There was a cat that really was gone.

[anonymous-user]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth

The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California, which attracted online attention in 1997 due to its unusual location. Placed in the 1960s, the booth was eight miles (13 km) from the nearest paved road, fifteen miles (24 km) from the nearest numbered highway, and miles from any buildings. Its telephone number was originally [phone], before the area code changed to 619 and then to 760.

I love weird stuff like that.

[kiteless]

Horrocks said:

Getting the thread back on topic...

The hammer vid is awful, almost as bad as the Ken Bigley video I endured some time ago (don't bother posting a link it will be removed immediately).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Solonik

A russian Hitman who had risen above the rest, an Ambidextrous shooter with many skills in his field.

Keyser Sozay!

Bloody marvellous thread, this.

[Elskeggso]

BruceV8 said:

Gitman said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin
A very tough russian

Russia's greatest love machine
There was a cat that really was gone.

You sod. I've got that song back in my head now!

[Mr Will]

Sonic said:

W333 said:

SC7 said:

W333 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

One of my favourites too

Worst part: "Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue."

That's weird. On the face of it, looks like a soviet cover-up.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4108

[Rouleur]

TheEnd said:

This is another good one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

Mysterious body found, secret codes in poetry books...

That's a very interesting one. You almost get to a conclusion but not quite, it's very frustrating!

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Great thread!

[ali1987]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_Theme


I would love to believe this:-

"American officials indicated U.S. interrogators subjected prisoners to the Sesame Street theme song in long sessions during the Iraq War."

[aclivity]

from every link posted in this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikington_C...

Should be no more than 5 "jumps"

[crofty1984]

Jonny671 said:

SC7 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniac...


The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet.


And yes the video is quite easy to find, and no you do not want to see it.

Thats very weird! Some people really do deserve just to be killed rather than put in prison don't they.

I remember reading someone's reaction to that video (maybe the journalist mentioned) It was horrible. I certainly don't want to ever see it.

[Frankeh]

aclivity said:

from every link posted in this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikington_C...

Should be no more than 5 "jumps"

http://thewikigame.com/

Now with online multiplayer.
I've wasted many of an hour on that game.. I'm actually very good at it.

[SC7]

crofty1984 said:

Jonny671 said:

SC7 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniac...


The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet.


And yes the video is quite easy to find, and no you do not want to see it.

Thats very weird! Some people really do deserve just to be killed rather than put in prison don't they.

I remember reading someone's reaction to that video (maybe the journalist mentioned) It was horrible. I certainly don't want to ever see it.

Here you go, it was probably this one...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnist...

[aclivity]

Frankeh said:

aclivity said:

from every link posted in this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikington_C...

Should be no more than 5 "jumps"

http://thewikigame.com/

Now with online multiplayer.
I've wasted many of an hour on that game.. I'm actually very good at it.

That's hours of my life that I can see I'm going to lose.

[Horrocks]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy

This is the story of a homeless man who was repeatedly tricked into drinking himself until death by a gang of fraudsters plotting against him. The idea behind it was to claim on life insurance on three counts on different policy, turns out he had quite a stomach! Awesome!

[isee]

Jonny671 said:

SC7 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniac...


The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs is the media epithet for the killers responsible for a string of brutal murders in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet.


And yes the video is quite easy to find, and no you do not want to see it.

Thats very weird! Some people really do deserve just to be killed rather than put in prison don't they.

Saw a vid of a russian soldier being executed by Chechens (with a knife and not very promptly) at a tender age of 18 or so... That pretty much killed my morbid curiosity.

[BruceV8]

I really don't get the fascination for watching videos of someone being murdered. No good can come of it. Either you're disturbed by the images or you discover that you're a fking freak who likes watching people being killed.


ETA that I know that murder is a fascinating subject. I just don't want to see it in action.

Edited by BruceV8 on Wednesday 17th November 10:05

[Frankeh]

BruceV8 said:

I really don't get the fascination for watching videos of someone being murdered. No good can come of it. Either you're disturbed by the images or you discover that you're a fking freak who likes watching people being killed.

Confirmation of the former would be nice.
It's also pretty interesting to see the sick st that goes on in the world and the monsters that inhabit it.

The hammer murderers looked like a couple of normal kids. I wouldn't have pinned them as fked up serial killers.