India has come up with a novel idea to lure men into free vasectomies: give them guns. Continue reading “Lock and Unloaded: India Offers Gun Permits in Exchange for Vasectomies”
Category: Environment
It is hard to express the anger that comes with the following story. It appears that after refusing to cut billions in pork and wasteful earmarks, Congress and President Bush have cut the NASA’s budget and forced scientists to curtail their research on Mars. Scientists planned to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and to try to meet the shortfall. Now, after a public outcry, NASA has rescinded the order. Continue reading “Congress and the President Force Mars Rovers to Be Shutdown Temporarily Due to Budget Cuts”
In our expanding video library of large cats in action, this video is simply astonishing. It shows an attack by a tiger of a man on elephant in India. What is clear is that nature tourism in India is not subject to the same tort liability rules as in the United States. Continue reading “Tourist Trap: Tiger vs. Man and Elephant”
This week saw another fatality among hunters after Michael Shane Hasting shot and killed Randall Williamson. Williamson was sitting in a tree when he was felled by Hasting. Continue reading “Hunter Shoots Another Hunter Out of Tree”
There are some things that you don’t see on those majestic nature films. This video of a tiger’s response to a tourist is a classic and stands in sharp contrast to the cute Lion bounding videos posted earlier. Continue reading “Video: Tiger Shows True Feelings to Video-Taking Visitors”
D.C. inspectors have been conducting surprise searches on offices, rifling through waste cans and garbage looking for violations of recycling laws. In the process, they are looking through papers with may have protected or privileged information, including material from legal and medical offices. Continue reading “Paper Chase: D.C. Recyling Police Trigger Privacy and Constitutional Concerns”
PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour has been charged with intentionally killing a red-shouldered hawk (pictured below) after it forced him to do a re-take while filming his series “Shoot Like A Pro.” John Henry Isenhour III, his real name when he is not depopulating nature, now faces 14 months in jail if convicted.
Continue reading “Shoot Like a Con: Golf Pro Tripp Isenhour Criminally Charged with Killing Migratory Bird”
Here is one for the category of strict liability for wild animals and the assumption of risk defense. This video shows what happens when you use animals are props for ratings. Continue reading “Small Creature Attacks Large Newscaster”
Animal rights advocates (and virtually every other human being) are in shock over this video showing U.S. soldiers showing a puppy off a cliff for fun. Bloggers have allegedly identified the culprit as a David Motari, but this has not been confirmed by the military and there remains the identity of the other soldiers. It is also not the first such video of animal cruelty by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Continue reading “Shocking Video Shows U.S. Soldier Throwing Puppy Off Cliff”
Those brilliant environmentalists in the Chinese regime that brought us the Three Gorges Dam and cancer villages have come up with another breakthrough idea. Faced with soaring pollution in lakes like Chau Hu (Lake Chao), the Chinese government is introducing silver carp to eat the toxic algae chocking the lake. It will then feed the toxic-algae fed fish to Chinese citizens as food. Continue reading “China Solves Lake Pollution: Feed Pollution to Fish Then Eat the Fish”
The Chinese government has been heralding its “train to the roof of the world,” the $4 billion Qinghai-Xizang railway to the Tibetan plains that is the latest flash point with environmentalists. Environmentalists objected on various grounds to the project, including its destruction of pristine areas and specific threat to the struggling Chinese antelope. The concerns for both were quickly extinguished with a remarkable picture of antelope gingerly running under the elevated tracks of the train in an otherwise perfect nature scene. The only problem is that Liu Weiqing’s photograph (which won various awards) is a fake. Continue reading “Where the Antelope and Super Trains Do Not Play: Chinese Admit to Doctoring Award-Winning Photograph”
An Austrian lawyer, Markus Groh, 49, was killed near the Bahamas after being attacked by a shark. The tourist boat, Shear Water, of Riviera Beach-based Scuba Adventures, routinely chums the water with fish blood and parts to attract sharks — then invites tourists to dive among them. It raises some interesting torts questions. Continue reading “Chumming for Torts: Tourist Killed by Sharks After Company Chums Water with Fish Parts”
An environmental group called OneVoice has started an international campaign to highlight the horrible treatment of animals in Chinese zoos that range from using tortoises for target practice with coins to forcing bears to don boxing gloves and to punch each other. Continue reading “Environmental Group Films Outrages in Chinese Zoos”
I know that I am a sucker for this stuff, but this video rivals the early bonding scene in Columbia. This could well become an alternative to When Animals Attack. I am not sure if When Lions Hug will hold as much of an audience, but I am sure there is some television producers working on that question at this very moment. Continue reading “Lions Gone Wild: Another Video of Big Cat Bonding with Humans”
Arkansas Lt. David Mitchell is accused of filmed himself using a stun gun on a cow as his colleague laugh at the abuse of the animal. He will not be criminally charged. Continue reading “Arkansas Police Officer Allegedly Films His Use of a Stun Gun on Cow”