If You Think You Have A Good Memory

This guy has you beat.

Brad’s supersized memory has its limits. He sometimes forgets where he parked. He can’t memorize a telephone book. But he’s off the charts in what is called “superior autobiographical memory” – meaning he effortlessly recalls the days of his life and events that fell on them.

Dec 31, 1967?

“That was the “Ice Bowl” game. The Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys. Bart Starr did a quarterback sneak to win the game.”

The premiere of “All in the Family?”

“January 12, 1971. A Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. Central time.”

He remembers what he ate for lunch on Aug. 18, 1965 (a hamburger at the Red Barn in Flint, Michigan – verified by a family vacation scrapbook); who won Miss America that same year (Vonda Kay Van Dyke who sang “Together, Wherever We Go”); and what was Record of the Year in 1975 (“Love Will Keep Us Together” by the Captain & Tennille).

He is not autistic. Not a savant. The La Crosse radio newscaster is as normal as you and me. Except that he is one of only two people in the world so far identified with “hyperthymesia.”

If You Find A Wallet On The Beach

Would you be as honest as these guys?

Considering it was Florida, Kyle did admit he had a passing thought that they had stumbled on a drug deal gone wet. But they found identification in the wallet for a 60-year-old DeKalb, Ill., man named Dennis Greffe.

Of course, the outcome of a story like this has everything to do with the honesty and integrity of the person or people who discover the wallet. Some finders are going to be keepers.

But these four guys looked around on the beach for the possible owner, and then they took the find to their parents, who contacted Dennis Greffe.

“My first words to him were, ‘Sir, this is your lucky day,’ ” said Jan Coenen, Kyle’s mother.

When he heard his wallet had turned up and would be shipped back to him, Dennis was dumbfounded. He figured the wallet was resting on the ocean floor, or maybe it would eventually disgorge its contents, which would wash up as soggy bills on the shoreline.

“I thought I’d never see it again,” he said.

If You Are A Fat-Ass In Need Of Legal Support

We have the people for you.

Currently, people can seek protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but they must prove their obesity is a disability and, in some cases, that it is caused by physical traits beyond their control.

“Right now, fat is just a marker of bad character, an undesirable personal trait that people bring on themselves,” said Kirkland, who prefers the word fat to the ambiguity of overweight and the clinical-sounding obese. “What you’re doing is forcing the law to force social change.”

If That Bee’s Nest Is Bothering You

Don’t do what this guy did.

According to police 57-year-old David Walls had been drinking when he tried to shoot down some bees flying above him using a .22 caliber revolver loaded with buckshot. Walls ended up shooting himself in the left hand causing soft tissue damage. .

If You Want To Attend An Awesome Greek Orthodox Easter Celebration

I have one for you.

The rocket war in the village of Vrondados is an old Orthodox Easter tradition that draws thousands of spectators.

“Obviously it is a bit frightening, it is impressive, but its also very surprising to see that on the day of Easter eve where everybody is supposed to love each other – well, they fight,” said Constantine Pavleas, a tourist from France.

The goal of the ritual is to hit the bell tower of the rival church in the village during midnight mass with handmade rockets, made from the ingredients of gunpowder.

You would think the parishioners inside the church would run for cover, but instead the service continues and they watch as the rockets strike.

The tradition goes back to the 19th century during the Ottoman occupation of Greece, an although its origin is not clear one legend says the island’s sailors used to fire cannons into the air during Easter, but the Ottomans, fearing a revolt, took away the cannons and locals had to replace them with rockets.

The villagers work all year to create tens of thousands of rockets, and it is a delicate and dangerous process that has claimed limbs in the past, because if not made properly, the rockets could explode.

If You Want A “Free Tibet” Flag

Take a wild guess where they are made.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper.

Tibet independence

The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an independent Tibet.

Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by going online.

Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping.

Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this week.

If You Have Ever Found A Buried Coin In Your Backyard

These Swedish boys have you beat.

A day later, archaeologists from the National Heritage Board arrived at the site with metal detectors and were quickly able to find two clay vessels containing more than 7,000 silver coins dating from around 1300 AD.

“I never thought I’d experience anything like this,” archaeologist Mats Anglert told The Local.

The coins were primarily from Denmark and England, he said, although there were also a number of rare coins from parts of modern day Germany and the Netherlands.

“I suspect we may have doubled the number of English coins from the Middle Ages ever found in Sweden,” said Anglert, who estimated that 1,200 of the coins had come from across the North Sea.

English sterling coins were used as something of a global currency at the time, said the archaeologist.

“The ones we found were in their own separate container,” said Anglert.

He could only speculate as to why the vessels had been buried underground.

“We’re going to continue digging now and hope that we find out more about the context surrounding the coins.

If You Want To Know If Your Rescue Workers Are Drunk

They probably are

One of the engineers was drunk, German press agency DPA reported. Federal police are investigating whether the man was a hazard to rail traffic, spokesman Winfried Felbinger told DPA.

How much the man had been drinking and whether he was incapacitated was not yet clear, according to DPA. The rescue train was based in the city of Würzberg, in the German state of Bavaria.

The crash occurred on Sunday as an ICE train from Hamburg entered the Landrücken tunnel while travelling at a speed of 200 kilometres an hour. It derailed after slamming into a flock of 40 sheep that had somehow wandered onto the tracks.

Ten of the train’s 12 cars were thrown clear of the tracks, and the salvage operation is expected to last at least a week. Forty to 50 people are working on the recovery operation, according to the Main-Post, driving cranes into the tunnel from both directions on Monday morning.

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If You Are In A Mixed-Sex Hot Springs

Stop staring at the ladies!

The Konyoku wo Mamoru Kai (Protect Mixed Bathing Association) is urging visitors to the Sukayu Hot Spring resort in Aomori not to stare at women bathers and make them feel uncomfortable.

“It’d be a real shame if we were deprived of the traditional practice of mixed bathing,” a spokesman for the association said.

Sukayu is a hot spring located in a secluded part of Mount Hakkoda and has been frequented by resort lovers for about 320 years. A huge bath of about 260 square meters is covered by a steaming mist brought about by the heat of its waters, whose acidity is said to have therapeutic effects and attracts bathers from across Japan.