Some notable incidents:

Rudolf Urban, then 47 was the first victim of the Wall on 19th August 1961 when he injured himself jumping out of a window at the border, and later died. Other reports say the first victim was Ida Siekmann who died of her injuries after jumping out of the window of her apartment, even though she managed to land on the West side.

Conrad Schumann (1942 – 1998), one of the most famous defectors from East Germany. The Berlin Wall was on its third day of construction on 15th August 1961. At that stage it was only a low barbed wire fence. Aged 19, Schumann was guarding it. Then, some people on the Western side shouted Komm rüber! (”come over”). Schumann jumped the barbed wire then entered a waiting West Berlin police car which quickly sped away. The moment when he jumped was immortalised by photographer Peter Leibing and became a well-known Cold War image. In 1998, suffering from depression, he hanged himself.

Günter Litfin (1937 – 1961), then 24, was the second victim of the Wall, and the first would-be escapee to be shot dead by border guards. Around 4pm on 24th August 1961, he swam across the border but was spotted by guards and ordered to swim back. As he he lifted his hands, he was shot dead.

Peter Fechter (1944 – 1962) was an East German bricklayer. On 17th August 1962, about a year after the construction of the wall, the then 18-year old tried to cross over to West Berlin and was shot dead. He became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall’s border guards.

Together with Helmut Kulbeik (a friend), upon reaching the wall on the western side after running across no-man’s land they were shot at by guards. Kulbeik managed to cross over, but Fechter was shot in the pelvis while still on the wall in full view of hundreds of witnesses. He fell back into the death-strip, fully visible to Western journalists. He was screaming in pain, yet received no medical assistance either from either side of the Wall, resulting in him bleeding to death after about one hour. That prompted hundreds of people congregating on the West side and shouting “Murderers!!” to the guards. After he died, guards from the East side removed his body.

In 1966, two as-yet-unnamed boys aged 10 and 13 years, were killed on no-man’s land as they tried to escape, the youngest victims of the Wall.

Burkhard Niering was an East German border guard who held 2 colleagues hostage while trying to escape to the West. He was killed by a sniper at Checkpoint Charlie in January 1974.

Chris Gueffroy (1968 – 1989), then aged 20, the last person to be shot dead while trying to escape to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Together with a friend, Christian Gaudian, on the night of 5th February 1989, they were shot at by border troops while on no-man’s land. Gueffroy was shot 10 times in the chest while Gaudian was badly injured.

Winfried Freudenberg (1956 – 1989) was the last person to die in an attempt to escape from East Germany to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall on 8th March 1989.

With his wife, he made a homemade balloon filled with natural gas. At midnight of 7th March 1989 they went to the place where Freudenberg worked and filled the balloon with gas. Someone noticed and called the police. Seeing a patrol car coming, Frudenberg went up alone because the balloon wasn’t full of air yet to also support his wife. After a few hours, he crashed into the backyard of a villa in West Berlin, killing him instantly. The balloon was found a few blocks away. Exact cause of crash is still unknown.

Full list of victims, including the 8 East German border guards.

Many a light-hearted survey have been done, including probably the most comprehensive by Spain’s 20 Minutos newspaper earlier this year.

The most stunning beauty-power combination must be that of Yulia Tymoshenko (born 1960), the current Prime Minister of Ukraine. She’s arguably the world’s most beautiful head of the executive, and also famous for her trademark plaited hairstyle.

Alina Kabayeva (born 1983), elected to the Russian Parliament in 2007. She is Russia’s most successful rhythmic gymnast to date, and also one of the most decorated in the history of the sport, with 18 World Championship medals and 2 Olympic medals.

Luciana Milagros León Romero (born 1979), Congresswoman for Lima, Peru for the 2006-2011 term. Listed no.2 by 20 Minutos newspaper.

Mara “Mara la Bella” Carfagna (born 1975), a lawyer and Italy’s Minister for Equal Opportunities since May 2008. She’s a former model, placed 6th in Miss Italy 1997, TV host, and has posed topless for fashion magazines in the past. After her election in 2006, Berlusconi controversially quipped that he’d marry her if he wasn’t already married, prompting his wife to force him to issue a public apology. Some called her the most beautiful minister in the world and was ranked number one on men’s magazine Maxim’s “The World’s Hottest Politicians”, even though she placed only 4th in 20 Minutos’ list.

Sara Ruiz Chavez (b. 1976), Mexican congresswoman.

Honourable mentions

Anna-Maria Galojan (b.1982), Estonian political scientist, apparently ran for Parliament but lost.

Yuri Fujikawa (b.1980, some say 1982), member of the assembly of Hachinohe City, Aomori prefecture, Japan. She has been called “too beautiful to be a politician.”

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Daily Mail (UK), March 2009

A testament to the Andersson/Ulvaeus potency as songwriters: this was only released as a single in Mexico and Argentina, and overshadowed by other more famous songs in the same album, yet was STILL covered in Malaysia, Malay version no less:

Move On (1977)

With any other group, this is definitely single material – but with ABBA this was not even a B-Side:

Arrival (1976)

Incredibly beautiful instrumental, one of only 2 ABBA songs not to contain any lyrics:

Dum Dum Diddle (1976)

Has been my favourite ABBA number for the last 25 years. Released as a single only in Argentina:

Watch Out (1974)

The heaviest ABBA song ever?

Hey, Hey Helen (1975)

Apparently their first attempt at a harder sound. Still the hook is ever present:

Tropical Loveland (1975)

ABBA does reggae too!

Exactly why they chose to wander about in their birthday suit is anybody’s guess, demonstrating the effectiveness of the slimming pill being one of them.

Whatever, you can imagine tourists’ reaction as he nonchalantly walks by them.

Uncensored photos here.

Additionally:
- no one knows his real name (yet).
- FC Barcelona tattoo on his chest.
- usually roams La Rambla / Les Rambles, the most famous street in Barcelona.
- can sometimes be found roller skating.
- he’s been doing this for years.
- he’s practices Eastern spirituality.
- he usually can be found donning baseball caps while smoking.
- apparently doesn’t like it when photographed.
- apparently always yells at tourists.

There are some videos of him on youtube, like this one:

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Ugliest Tattoos, 3rd October 2009

Free mammogram? Any takers?

Squeeze the pump, fake diarrhea comes out at the “exposed bum.” Very tasteful…

Just don’t show that to Gary Glitter!

Keep childbirth out of Halloween parties!

I think men sporting fake saggy breasts are horrific sights:

And no references to bestiality!

As for this truly stunning creation, it will not even pass customs:

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wpgc.com

For starters, check out the following video of a Bumblebee (Transformers) custome; it really transforms at 0.32! There are quite a few videos of DIY Transformers costumes on youtube, but this is the best I have seen so far.

The only improvements to it could be:
(i) enable the car to actually run!
(ii) [some one commented] a version that transforms one’s date into Megan Fox

And how about this mobile toilet costume? At first glance, it would seem that there are 2 guys there!

He would perform “receptive anal sex” with fully-grown male horses (stallions) at a farm, videotape the encounters, then distribute them using the pseudonym “MrHands60″.

In one particular encounter on 2nd July 2005, the horse’s penetration caused him to suffer a perforated colon i.e. a hole, or holes was or were “punched through” his colon’s wall, which is normally deemed a medical emergency.

However, due to the nature of the case, he did not immediately get medical attention. I mean, what does he tell the doctor, “Doc, I’m hurting inside my stomach because a horse raped me?”

As a result, he died.

He is probably the first person to actually get killed by willingly being anally penetrated by a horse.

I have not seen the video, nor am I going to look for it, for seeing people’s reaction on youtube was enough, like the following:

The case was popularly known as “Enumclaw horse sex case”, and as a result a bill was passed in the state outlawing “both sex with animals and the videotaping of the same,” punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment.

James Tait, now 58, is the guy who was involved in the making of the video. Amazingly, he continued having sex with horses himself and of course videotaping the acts until his latest arrest in mid October 2009:

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The Sun, 20 Oct 2009

Dubbed “King Con”, he pretended to be successful professionals for 25+ years and was not caught, until he posed as a top lawyer, Director of Public Prosections, Keir Stamer QC.

In the past, the man with reportedly 24 aliases has posed as an aristocrat, a banker, a doctor, a property tycoon, a policeman and even a ballet dancer!

His first recorded case was in 1983 when he posed as a doctor doing the rounds in hospitals, and in one case he touched a woman’s breasts while telling her to trust him as he was a doctor. He also arranged X-rays, attended to a man whose lung had collapsed, stitched up the head of a patient and even attempted to enter an operating theatre where a heart bypass operation was ongoing!

Perhaps worst of all, he also told the parents of a 17-year-old girl hurt in a road crash she would live. 6 hours later she died.

He also once gatecrashed a high-class party and sent Dom Perignon champagne to Koo Stark’s table.

But his favourite seems to be posing as Queen’s Counsels.

Motive: to attract women.

Modus Operandi: advertise himself in lonely hearts columns, boasting about his alleged wealth. In reality, the former headresser is homeless.

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The BBC, 26 Oct 2009

That scene in the movie, which is about the last 12 days in The Fuhrer’s life has been endlessly parodied. In other words, it has become an internet meme.

The original is this:

But it has been hilariously twisted beyond recognition. The latest: Hitler lets loose after Manchester United lost to Liverpool 0-2 in the EPL:

Other highlights include a take on the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC):

Someone commented that that’s a cool name for a band, definitely better than if the band were named “ceramic tile“!