Tokyo's oldest man is dead

And has been for 30 years.

His granddaughter told investigators Kato holed up in his room about 30 years ago after declaring he wanted to be a living Buddha, police and Tokyo officials said. They believe Kato died soon after that.

Her parents would be devastated

If they knew their daughter has slept with 1,000 men over 10 years. I'm guessing they won't notice the giant pic of "posh Christina Saunders [who] knows good sex" atop a story titled "Sex mad stunner copies romping antics of her hero" on the News of the World.

Dumbass

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Europe's most notorious driver

Prawo Jazdy, via Tim Worstall.

A sensible approach to airline security restrictions

Man nearly dies downing vodka at airport.

BERLIN (AP) — A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing two pints of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new rules about carrying liquids aboard a plane, police said Wednesday.

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Instead, he chugged the vodka — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.

A doctor called to the scene determined he had possibly life-threatening alcohol poisoning, and he was sent to a Nuremberg clinic for treatment. The man, whose name was not released, is expected to be able to go home in a few days.

Thank God it didn't go to waste.

Thanks to Lisa.

He'll never do that again

Boy eaten after taunting crocodiles.

The nine-year-old, whose family name was given as Liu, and three friends sneaked into the crocodile park at the Silver Beach holiday resort at Beihai in the southwestern Guangxi region on Friday.

The children shot at the animals with catapults and beat them with sticks.

The official Xinhua news agency said: “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.” His companions then raised the alarm.

Investigators searched for the missing boy and decided to check inside the crocodiles. Snipers used pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first animal to lumber on to the bank.