Topic: DRUGS - on October 4, 2013 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Drug trafficker killed by his own 500kg cargo of weed after it crushed him to death when he crashed car following police chase
A Brazilian drugs trafficker was killed by his own stock when he was crushed by half a ton of marijuana.
The man died after he lost control of his car and hit a tree, resulting in his stock of weed stored in the backseat shooting forward, squashing him against the wheel.
The driver was on the run from the Federal Highway police, who had taken up the chase after the smuggler refused to stop at a road block in Bataguassu, 210 miles from Campo Grande.
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Topic: ART - on October 4, 2013 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
This 98-Year-Old Man Spent 13 Years Creating Remarkable Art in MS Paint
Hal Lasko may be 98 years old, but while many of his peers devote their leisure time to shuffleboard and bridge, he has a very different passion: creating huge works of art pixel by pixel in Microsoft Paint.
While most people have long since abandoned MS Paint as an outdated graphics application, Lasko has spent the last 13 years using the program to digitally create works of art, spending up to 10 hours a day on his work. Originally a traditional painter, he switched to MS Paint in 2005 when his vision was impaired by wet macular degeneration, an eye disease that causes blindness in the center of his vision. He has since created more than 150 digital works, though his blindness means he will never be able to view them in their totality.
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