Man shoots friend in leg at his request

A New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot, according to authorities.

State police in St Lawrence County say the shooting occurred around 5pm Sunday (local time) in the rural town of Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow of neighbouring Norfolk relented to his friend’s repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-calibre rifle.

The 24-year-old man from Norfolk is expected to make a full recovery. Police haven’t released his name.

Mossow was charged with reckless endangerment. He’s being held in the county jail on US$10,000 (NZ$12,300) bail. It could not be immediately determined if he had a lawyer.

What a pal.  I wonder which of my friends would do this for me if I asked.

Freddie Mercury Hologram Confirmed

Queen guitarist Brian May has confirmed that Freddie Mercury will officially return to the stage as a hologram.

It will be part of a special 10th anniversary performance of their popular London theater show, “We Will Rock You”, and May swears that people will come away feeling like they really saw the star.

According to May, the idea is not in response to the popular Tupac hologram at Coachella this year.

German drops Mayan skull, endangers mankind

An ancient Mayan skull stolen from Tibet by Nazis - said to have magical powers to enable humanity to survive the December 2012 apocalypse - has been dropped by a lab assistant in eastern Germany, chipping its chin.

The volcanic rock skull, named Quauthemoc, was dropped - or, more eerily, may have fallen of its own accord - during a photo-shoot at a laboratory in the small town of Glauchau, Saxony.

My “lolwut?” moment of the day.

Stradivarius Cello Broken In Accident In Spain

MADRID (AP) — A Stradivarius cello housed at the Spanish Royal Palace was broken in an accident, an official said Monday. The instrument could be worth more than $20 million.

A National Heritage official declined to specify what went wrong. She refused to comment on an El Mundo newspaper report that the instrument fell off a table during a photo session. She confirmed it happened about three weeks ago. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.

The damage sustained: a piece that joins the neck of the 17th-century instrument to the body of it broke and fell off the rest of the cello. That piece was not original but rather a replacement installed in the 19th century.

The official said the cello can and will be repaired.

The heritage official declined to say how much the cello was worth. She said it was part of a set of instruments — two violins and a viola were the others — that were known as “the Quartet.” They got this name because they were commissioned at the same time.

However, Tim Ingles, head of the musical instrument department at Sotheby’s auction house in London, said he believed the Spanish cello was worth $20 million (€15.4 million) or more.

This made me sick to my stomach when I first heard it.

Merkel 'will compromise' if Hollande wins France

You can tell she’s really not looking forward to working with this guy because he basically wants to go in the complete opposite direction, favoring spending over Merkel’s plan for fiscal austerity.

I’m still shipping Merkozy anyway.

Biker sues BMW for 20-month erection

(Henry) Wolf is suing BMW and saddle-manufacturer Corbin-Pacific for medical costs, emotional stress and loss of income after a fateful road trip on his 1993 motorbike. Wolf says he has had a constant erection for 20 months.

Wolf’s lawsuit says he is “now is unable to engage in sexual activity, which is causing him substantial emotional and mental anguish.”

According to a report by US broadcaster CBS, Wolf bought a special ridge-like seat, meant to enhance comfort, for around $200 (€150).

What even.

Paragliding Centenarian Regains World Record

Peggy McAlpine regained her title as world’s oldest paraglider after a 101-year-old American snatched the honor from her last year.

McAlpine, now 104 went paragliding on April 14 to regain her title from Mary Allen Hardison, who lives in Utah.

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“I enjoyed every minute of it,” she told the U.K.’s Sunday Express. “It was better than the last time. I would certainly like to do it again - especially if anyone takes my record.”

McAlpine, who uses a wheelchair in everyday life, celebrated her feat with a glass of Champagne.

McAlpine first broke the record in 2007 when she was 100.

This is the kind of old person I want to be.  There’s a video in the link.

Would you eat horse meat?

When the ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption was lifted in the U.S. last November, it was only a matter of time before someone applied to start the practice up again.

That person is Rick De Los Santos, a New Mexico rancher and owner of Valley Meat Co. If the USDA approves his application to have a former beef slaughterhouse inspected, it would allow the first slaughter of horses in the U.S. since 2007.

Lone Star State Of Mind: Could Texas Go It Alone?

Here’s an interesting article I read over lunch today about a hypothetical modern-day Texan secession.  Apparently they’d immediately be the 15th largest economy in the world, but things kinda go downhill from there.

Masa NY

This sushi bar costs $450-600 a person.

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