{"id":980,"date":"2002-10-03T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/03\/stupid-human-tricks\/"},"modified":"2002-10-03T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T18:24:19","slug":"stupid-human-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/03\/stupid-human-tricks","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Human Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a few days since I post\u00aded any off\u00adbeat news items: here are some stu\u00adpid human tricks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/news\/1693622\/detail.html\">Man Suf\u00adfers Severe Burns Try\u00ading To Kill Lice<\/a>: <i>The 26-year-old doused a tow\u00adel with rub\u00adbing alco\u00adhol, put it on his head and then lit a cig\u00ada\u00adrette, police said. The tow\u00adel caught fire and engulfed the man. He suf\u00adfered burns on about 50 per\u00adcent of his body, police said.<\/i> Ouch\u2013that had to hurt!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=573&amp;ncid=757&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/nm\/20021001\/od_nm\/life_canada_bungee_dc\">Cana\u00addi\u00adan Man Tries To Bungee Jump Onto Ship\u2013But His Cord Is Too Long<\/a>: <i>William Dean Sul\u00adli\u00advan mis\u00adcal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded the ship\u2019s speed and suf\u00adfered minor head injuries on Sun\u00adday when he bounced off its ten\u00adnis court, vol\u00adley\u00adball net and a deck rail\u00ading, before being left dan\u00adgling in mid-air as the ship sailed away, Van\u00adcou\u00adver Police said. Police said Sul\u00adli\u00advan has planned to bungee jump from the Lions Gate Bridge, which spans the entrance to Van\u00adcou\u00adver har\u00adbor, stop\u00adping just above the pass\u00ading ship so he could then low\u00ader him\u00adself a short dis\u00adtance to the deck.<\/i> That could\u00adn\u2019t have felt much bet\u00adter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Final\u00adly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange-today.co.uk\/news\/story\/sm_681222.html?menu=\">Man Clips 153 Clothes\u00adpins To His Face For World Record<\/a>: <i>Gar\u00adry said that attach\u00ading the pegs to his cheeks hurt the most and after\u00adwards you could see he was in a lot of pain. There were marks on his skin that he said would last an hour and he had to keep rub\u00adbing his face.<\/i> Aagh\u2013what is it with peo\u00adple hurt\u00ading them\u00adselves? I feel pain just read\u00ading these sto\u00adries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a few days since I post\u00aded any off\u00adbeat news items: here are some stu\u00adpid human tricks. Man Suf\u00adfers Severe Burns Try\u00ading To Kill Lice: The 26-year-old doused a tow\u00adel with rub\u00adbing alco\u00adhol, put it on his head and then lit a cig\u00ada\u00adrette, police said. The tow\u00adel caught fire and engulfed the man. He \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/03\/stupid-human-tricks\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cStu\u00adpid Human Tricks\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}