Toxic spill from China copper mine spreads

BEIJING: A toxic pollution spill from a mine operated by China”s top gold producer Zijin Mining Group has spread to a second province, threatening the fishing industry there, state media said Tuesday.

Poisonous waste water from the copper mine in Fujian province has contaminated the Ting river — a major waterway in the country”s southeast — and has now flowed downstream into Guangdong province, the China Daily said.

The pollution “will pose a big challenge to local fish farming”, a notice from Guangdong environmental authorities said, according to the China Daily.

The report came as Zijin, China”s third-largest copper producer, issued a statement apologising for the July 3 mishap — which killed off nearly 1,900 tonnes of fish — and its “improper handling” of information about the spill.

Zijin said the securities regulator had launched an investigation into the company over possible violation of information disclosure rules.

“The lessons from this incident are painful and the costs are substantial,” Zijin said in the statement.

Hurricane Alex makes landfall in Mexico

MATAMOROS: Hurricane Alex made landfall Wednesday in northeastern Mexico as a Category Two storm, lashing residents of the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas with heavy rains and winds.

The first Atlantic hurricane of the 2010 season roared ashore at about 0200 GMT, thrashing the Mexican coast with its eye located some 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of La Pesca, Mexico and 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Alex rose one notch on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale Wednesday as it churned across the warm waters of the Gulf, the Miami-based center said, after Mexico evacuated 17,000 people from fishing towns south of the US border in the state of Tamaulipas.

Giant waves and strong winds were expected as Alex gained strength in the Gulf of Mexico. It hit the coast with sustained winds of 105 miles (169 kilometers) per hour, according to the latest NHC report.

Mexican authorities have already reported one storm-related death, but could consider themselves fortunate in that the storm slammed into the coast in an area with a relatively small population. They evacuated all 2,000 inhabitants of the fishing town of La Carbonera, close to the storm”s center, with Mexico”s national meteorological service SMN warning of “intense and torrential rains.”

Heavy rains to create more damage in Karachi: Navy

KARACHI: Karachi will (Inshallah) remain safe from the impending cyclone `Phet” which has lost its intensity to category two and will further weaken to category one when it will landfall between Karachi and Pasni with wind between 35 to 40 knots.

This was stated by the Commander Coast Pakistan Navy, Vice-Admiral Tayyab Ali Dogar.

He was briefing the media persons regarding the cyclone Phet here on Saturday afternoon.

The Admiral said Karachi being the built up area does not face much danger whereas the areas outside the metropolis where there are no built up areas would be vulnerable.

He stated there would be not much impact of the cyclone on the land. However, the accompanied heavy rains would make impact.

Commander Coast said that the coastal localities would be affected.

He pointed out that there are no fishing boats in the open sea now and those which were there yesterday have been recovered except one in the south of Jewani.

Admiral Tayyab said that so far there is no report of any cyclone-related casualty.

He stated the big commercial ships are present at the Karachi Port and there is no danger to these vessels and that the commercial activity is going on.

Commander Coast said that the Naval ships which are relatively smaller were earlier moved out of the Karachi Port a couple of days ago but they are now coming back after the confirmation of reports regarding decrease in the intensity of the cyclone.

He informed that the PNS Khyber will enter Gwadar tomorrow and will participate in the relief efforts there.

Similarly, other Naval ships will also reach coastal areas one by one for distribution of relief items.

To a question, Admiral Tayyab said that the fishing boats would be stopped for three to four days for venturing into the open sea adding that monsoon season is otherwise considered not good for fishing because of rough sea as well as fish breeding.

CIA handed profiles of British Muslim students

LONDON: Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare.

The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in extremism but have been targeted by police and now fear that their names will appear on international terrorist watch lists. So far, the homes of more than 50 of the students have been visited by police officers, but nobody has been arrested. The case has raised concerns about how the police use the data of innocent people and calls into question the heavy-handed treatment of Muslim students by UK security agencies.

This week, MPs criticised the Government”s key policies on countering extremism which they said were alienating Muslim communities.

Last year, The Independent reported on the alleged harassment of young Muslims by the police and security service, MI5, whose officers had tried to recruit them as spies. In the latest case, details of students from University College London (UCL) were handed over to police by the university”s student union, after detectives visited the campus in early January 2010 during their continuing investigation into the attempted Christmas Day bombing in Detroit by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Abdulmutallab studied engineering at UCL in 2005-08, and was president of the UCL Islamic Society in 2006-07.

Police had first approached UCL”s Islamic Society, which refused to hand over the information. Mojeed Adams-Mogaji, the society”s president, said: “I was concerned about what they would do with the data. At another meeting with the Metropolitan Police, they told us they would keep it for seven years and would share the data with other intelligence agencies if requested. Obviously, I”m very concerned with what they plan to do with this information.”

Gareth Peirce, the prominent human rights lawyer, advised the Islamic Society during the affair. Last night she described the police”s actions as “completely inappropriate”.

She said: “You wonder if he [Abdulmutallab] had been a member of a society without the name Islamic on it, then would there have been such an appetite to grab the information. It adds to the fear that the Muslim community is a suspect community. The whole concept of data protection was meant to nail down absolute privacy and here it is being breached without a legal reason being imposed on the university to comply.”

Eric Metcalfe, at the Justice student human rights network, said he believed it was another example of “heavy-handed” policing aimed at countering radicalism rather than investigating alleged crime. “There is no reason why the police can”t go to court and persuade a magistrate to issue a warrant with which the university would have to comply,” he said. “But this seems more about heavy-handed intelligence gathering, which may not have respected the privacy rights of the students.”

Zubair Idris, 21, a second-year international medical student at UCL, said: “I feel frustrated and outraged. To pass on 900 student details because they were members of UCL Islamic Society is ridiculous. The reason I joined the society was for socio-cultural reasons. I”ve never seen the guy [Abdulmutallab]. I wasn”t here when he was at university. ”

Sayyida Mehrali, 19, a first-year neuroscience student, added: “I feel that it is a bit extreme that my information has been passed onto the Metropolitan Police as I joined UCL after Umar Farouk had left. There was never any opportunity to meet this individual and I think it”s shocking that they have my details on a database.”

From 2005 to 2007, Muslim students at Dundee University were harassed by Tayside Police”s Special Branch community contact unit, who targeted “ethnic religious groups” in order to gather intelligence on activities that “could be considered extremist.”

One dead, eight missing in search for S.Korea sailors

SEOUL: A sailor died and eight were missing Saturday after their fishing boat, which was helping search for missing sailors from a sunken warship, collided with a freighter, maritime police said.

The fishing vessel, with nine crew aboard, sank after sending a distress signal late Friday near South Korea”s western sea border with North Korea, after she was apparently hit by a Cambodian-registered ship.

The boat was one of 10 trawlers helping with the operation to get to 46 sailors officials say could still be alive in the sunken wreckage of the warship which went down on March 26 following a mystery explosion.

“We”ve captured the Taiyo 1, a Cambodian-registered 1,472-ton freighter, which was apparently involved in the collision,” an Incheon Maritime Police spokesman said.

South Korea”s navy, backed by the fishing boats and US military divers, were struggling against high waves and strong currents to explore the hull sections where many of the missing navy sailors could have been trapped.

The area has been crowded with ships and aircraft, which have been combing the area in a search and rescue operation.

But efforts to inspect the sunken wreckage of the warship have been hampered by cold weather and strong currents.

Navy authorities again had to call off a plan to send divers down to the wreckage on Saturday morning because of high waves, a Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman said.

Fifty-eight crewmen were saved soon after the sinking, but none since. Officials suspect most of the missing are in the rear section of the hull.

The disaster site is close to the disputed border which was the scene of deadly naval clashes between North and South Korea in 1999 and 2002 and of a firefight last November.

Nadia Martinez

California – a few months ago, Nadia Martinez and her 16-year-old daughter, Brianne Matthews, embroiled in an unusual conversation about life and death.

Martinez is not sure what led to the discussion, but I felt a bit strange when Mathews told her quietly how she would like to be remembered after her death.

“She wanted her ashes to be scattered all over the baseball field because that’s where you live it,” Martinez said of Matthews, who had a monument in the 14-4 record as a student in the last year, Mater Dei (CA) in high school. “It does not matter where. As long as it was the baseball mound. This is where the dominated.”

Always outstanding success, you’ve got to play Matthews off the diamond and softball. Loaded on a 4.0 point average in the class academically test Mater Dei and is committed to pursue a career as newborns. Despite being only in the second year of high school, Matthews has already accepted a full ride scholarship to play college ball for a national force Arizona after graduating in 2012. The Phenom.

Socially? Forget about it. At 16, Matthews had friends for several days, thanks to the dynamic personality and her soft huge following. No.1 considered the possibility that lead young people in the country, and Matthews was a way to attract the masses, and had grown into a flute nature of the sport.

For unknown reasons, however, Matthews did not feel right in this role, and on Feb. 25, she killed herself just hours after returning home from baseball practice.

A tragic end in the lives of young people with the promise of a lot.

And ending, which left a lot of question marks.

“I do not want to talk about suicide,” Martinez, who was found dead in a Matthews Anaheim at the apartment, said FanHouse recently. “I do not want to talk about what might have led to them … we can only speculate, I do not want to do that. The answer is not going to be good enough.”

According to official reports, and sent the night of Matthews’ death, Anaheim fire and police to the family’s apartment in the girl not breathing. Paramedics administered by the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the girl and taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead PTV at 8:22 in the afternoon.

In Orange County medical examiner’s report ruled out Matthews’ death in a suicide attack, “hanging rope.”

“I do not think it was their own,” said Bill Jackson, who coached Matthews for a period of three years ago when she was playing on the road, a young travel softball team based in Orange County. “It was depressing. Hear everything shows us that what was thought out a bit. She knows what to do and how to do this. … Teenagers and the Internet at the present time. I do not think we’re ever going to know why I did it.”

In the last week, standing room only crowd of more than 1,500 attended the outdoor Matthews in Huntington Beach sports complex, softball and multi-site field where many of the games we have played them.

High school players and players travel were encouraged to wear uniforms, and most of them did not. With the stage set behind second base and the rest of the softball diamond is full of well-wishers, afternoon and saw more than a tribute to the aftermath of family and friends took a long time to talk about Matthews and Bri called by family and friends.

“Sometimes, you meet people and you know right away which was supposed to be there [in your life ]…” He said Shannon Bustillos, a colleague in Orange County Batbusters, group travel Matthews joined a year ago. “Does anyone know Bri, I know it was full of life, love and happiness. They laugh that anyone can be heard. Hug that can crack the one in the back and landing [pitch] that no one can beat.”

Martinez, and the ceremony was an appropriate sendoff.

“We’re with it for a moment by moment, day after day,” said Martinez. “That’s really all we can do. It is not unimaginable.”

“Bri just love the sport, she’s probably got to me … but it was different. It was very driven. They compete in everything I did in life. It just went after everything 100 percent, I do not know where I got it from. I do not know what is their motivation, but it was very, very motivated.

“That’s just who they are. If she was going to throw the ball, and she was going to throw harder and farther than anyone else. If on the way up, it was on its way to hit harder and further than that. … I do not know this is just how it was. ”

Pressure of Sport

News of Matthews’ death traveled quickly among the followers of Southern California, softball, and the community where everyone seems to know each other. This is because it’s basically not.

For years – from primary school to university – the same group of softball players and parents not only to play and travel together, but they compete against each other on a regular basis through the grades, and local associations and park teams travel.

“The softball community is a very small world,” said Jackson, who led Matthews for three years with the fireworks. “The entire country is on the phone and the Internet and everywhere else. We are in a society very touch, and although we are very spreading geographically.”

It is this kind of family environment that may be added to the grief. Many families can relate to applications that come with the sport.

Cindy Kelly, who lost her daughter Gina Matthews began to play against when they were both nine, is one of those parents.

“It was just a terrible shock,” said Kelly Matthews, who reportedly gave her the day she committed suicide a sports bag, a colleague and told her it would likely not needed in the next day. “I do not know if she put a lot of pressure on themselves or what. But the thing is, she had so much going for them. Had a full ride for college and a bright future. You just have to think that everything was well with them.”

Some people who participated in the softball believe that sport is very competitive nature that has evolved to become a major problem for the players today. Too many working under difficult circumstances and hopes to make it to the highest level, which increased the additional pressure on their lives.

“You realize that these children give up many many hours to develop the skills of softball,” Southern California soft veteran Paul Morines said arbitrator. “They sacrifice social time with friends. They spend every weekend on the ball field. Some days they want to go home, but they can not because they have to play.

“I am always impressed at how these children are willing to give up a lot of time to dedicate themselves to sport one in order to be first-class softball athlete. But this is the only way you’re going to get a scholarship for yourself.”

According to Morines, and this is one reason why Matthews was considered a hero in the eyes of many.

“These kids are hard core and Bri was probably the epitome of that type of ballplayer,” said Morines. “Everyone looked up to her as a model of the commitment you need to make in order to go to a higher level as far as possible.

“I only have one game umpired with last year and can tell you it was very one child. It’s definitely had a presence on the field. It’s just staring you down. And I knew they had put in hard work to become very good.”

Always All-Star

Hen young players for coaches and crusty old, but it was always “and show Bri” where Matthews was around. Ability can be dominated to attract this kind of attention.

“It’s very clear we think fondly of Bri and talents,” said coach Mike Candrea Arizona, which together with the apparatus was attended Matthews’ greeting. “This is why we wanted it to be a Wildcat.

It wants to achieve things in life. I tried everything, and she excelled at and physically, is the star in any sport
- Bill Jackson, former coach “This was a very special athlete. A very special student. Worked hard to be the best at what she did.”

Referee Mike Carver, who was working a lot of matches involving Matthews, said he will always remember how they played.

“We have about the game for over 20 years, and you can spot a child with that much talent a mile away,” Carver said. “She threw at least 70 miles per hour, this is a good thing. I know that some people may not agree but I think [Bri] was good or better, such as [the United States Olympic gold medal pitcher] Jennie Finch.”

Matthews – who grew up in a modest with her sister and her mother and stepfather, Diondre Price – played a variety of sports. After excelling in everything from basketball to volleyball, she was taken to soft after Martinez signed her to get young people in the league when she was 8.

“She does not know what he had to go half speed, literally, with everything done,” Martinez said of her daughter, who had a 0.94 era with 138 strikeouts in 107 innings in last season for Mater Dei.

“I remember when she was 8 or 9 years, and it was just the beginning of set lessons. Monument to coach in the time wanted to slow down and feel what she was doing with a monument. Until they have moved even closer to the fishing, and I told her to take time so it can be felt by on the pitch.

“But my daughter can not do that. It just can not slow down. They threw the ball as if it were paid in full distance. That’s just how it was. All I have done, I did so with utmost speed.”

It never back down attitude that has helped Matthews separate from their peers. And was known to arrive at practice early to warm up for warm-ups, and was always the last person who wanted the promise of a ride home after practice.

This is because Matthews also put in overtime to work on her game, and often seen as training more than once, only one half of the practice had ended.

“And expressed its desire to achieve two things in my life,” said Jackson. “I tried everything, and she excelled at and physically, is the star in any sport.”

Matthews, who was a complete list of career goal by the time he began to play for Jackson when they were in the age of 11, as proven the harshest critics.

“Bri always kind of a small cloud in her life,” said Jackson. “It was a happy child who worked hard but always had a small cloud. Personally, I do not know why. But it was there.”

In tribute to Matthews, Jackson addressed the rumors that surrounded her death.

“People say different things,” said Jackson. “They come to me and say: Do you think it was pressure? Do you think it was her boyfriend? Whatever, really does not matter now. This is all that I did not want to do, and this talk about these issues. I was trying to point out that If you’re even discuss what might be, which gives you the credibility of one of these reasons may be good enough. ”

It was outside the scope of sight whispers that bothered Martinez more since the death of her daughter.

“The toughest thing was coming to grips with the fact that your child is no longer here, and you did your best but it was not enough,” said Martinez. “You can not help but think about why he can not do more than that.

Obama Fishing Ban

Obama Fishing Ban, ESPN broke the news today, speculating that Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and inland waters. So far, ESPN is the only source reporting the news. Meanwhile, Internet is on fire speculating that President Obama might introduce a fishing ban. The news have spurred a lot of negative feedback with some already calling the fishing ban “Obama’s assault on freedom” and “final nail in his coffin.”

The ESPN article calls public input into the policy making around fishing a “charade from the beginning.

Discovery channel

TrendPK.com Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, [...]

Deadliest Catch Captain Dies

Deadliest Catch Captain Dies, Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the coast of Alaska were captured on the hit Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch, died at a hospital near Anchorage late Tuesday. He was 53.

Harris suffered a stroke while in port off-loading at St. Paul Island in Alaska on Jan. 30. Despite promising reports about his health, Phil never fully recovered and passed away with his family at his side.

According to The Associated Press, Harris started working on fishing boats at age 7 and started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When he was 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea. Deadliest Catch, now in its fifth seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel’s most popular series. Fans seem to be fascinated with the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.

“He was more than someone on our television screen. Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him,” the network said in a statement overnight. “We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart. We share our tremendous sadness over this loss with the millions of viewers who followed Phil’s every move. We send our thoughts and prayers to Phil’s sons Josh and Jake and the Cornelia Marie crew.”

The captain’s sons — Josh and Jake Harris — also released released a statement. The men praised their late dad as a brave warrior who battled on until the day of his final breath: “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad — Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. We will remember and celebrate that strength. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers.”

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Deadliest Catch Captain Dies was first posted on February 10, 2010 at 3:56 pm.

101 Ways To Get Kicked Out Of Walmart

101 Ways To Get Kicked Out Of Walmart: This is just a little game to play. List ways get kicked out of wal-mart.

101 Ways To Get Kicked Out Of Walmart:This is just a little game to play. List ways get kicked out of wal-mart. Also, every fifty ways I’ll post a funny video or Lolcat. Now, commence with the ways of getting kicked out.

(NOTE: Please number your ways, or else I can’t keep track)

1.Ask to get kicked out/banned

2.Walk in wearing a chicken costume and harass people

3.Walk up to any one in the store, and say “Your a wizard Harry.”

4.Stand up on a clerk counter and sing Freebird

5.get a friend to stand on the clerk counter and sing a song while you chant “Freebird!
6. Run around nude?

7. Bomb threat.
8. Re-dress the mannequins as you see fit.

9. When there are people behind you, walk REALLY SLOW, especially thin narrow aisles.

10. Walk up to an employee and tell him in an official tone, “I think we’ve got a Code 3 in Housewares,” and see what happens.

11. Get several of those frogs (that croak when somebody walks by) from the Garden Dept. and place in strategic locations throughout store.

12. Play with the automatic doors.

13. Walk up to complete strangers and say, “Hi! I haven’t seen you in so long,” etc. See if they play along to avoid embarrassment.

14. While walking through the clothing department, ask yourself loud enough for all to hear, “Who BUYS this junk, anyway?”

15. Repeat Number 14 in the jewelry department.

16. Ride a display bicycle through the store; claim you’re taking it for a test drive.

17. Follow people through the aisles, always staying about five feet away. Continue to do this until they leave the department.

18. Play soccer with a group of friends, using the entire store as your playing field.

19. As the cashier runs your purchases over the scanner, look mesmerized and say, “Wow. Magic!”

20. Put M&M’s on layaway.

21. Move “Caution: Wet Floor” signs to carpeted areas.

22. Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others you’ll only invite them in if they bring pillows from Bed and Bath.

23. Test the fishing rods and see what you can “catch” from the other aisles.

24. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.

25. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and run around saying,”I’m Batman. Come, Robin, to the Batcave!”

26. TP as much of the store as possible.

27. Randomly throw things over into neighboring aisles.

28. Play with the calculators so that they all spell “hello” upside down.

29. When someone asks if you need help, begin to cry and ask, “Why won’t you people just leave me alone?”

30. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired employees if there are any in stock, i.e., “Do you have any Shnerples here?”

31. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale battlefield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.

32. Take bets on the battle described above.

33. Hold indoor shopping cart races.

34. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from “Mission: Impossible.” 35. Run up to an employee (preferably a male) while squeezing your legs together and practically yell at him ” I need some tampons!!”

36. Try on bras in the sewing/fabric department.

37. Try on bras over top of your clothes.

38. Attempt to fit into very large gym bags.

39. Attempt to fit others into very large gym bags.

40. Say things like, “Would you be so kind as to direct me to your Twinkies?”

41. Set up a “Valet Parking” sign in front of the store.

42. Two words: “Marco Polo.” 43. Leave Cheerios in Lawn and Garden, pillows in the pet food aisle, etc.

44. “Re-alphabetize” the CD’s in Electronics, while headbanging & playing air guitar to Willie Nelson demos. (Bonus: Braid hair & tie bandanna around head).

45. Make a trail of orange juice on the ground, leading to the restrooms.

46. When someone steps away from their cart to look at something, quickly make off with it without saying a word.

47. Relax in the patio furniture until you get kicked out.

48. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, assume the fetal position and scream, “No, no! It’s those voices again!”

49. Pay off layaways fifty cents at a time.

50. Drag a lounge chair on display over to the magazines and relax. If the store has a food court, buy a soft drink; explain that you don’t get out much, and ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.

51. Try putting different pairs of women’s panties on your head and walk around the store casually.

52. Turn on toys that make noise or talk at random intervals, and leave them in strategic locations.

53. Leave small sacrifices or gifts in the hands of the mannequins.

54. Nonchalantly “test” the brushes and combs in Cosmetics.

55. When two or three people are walking ahead of you, run between them, yelling, “Red Rover!”

56. Look right into the security camera, and use it as a mirror while you pick your nose.

57. Set up another battlefield with GI Joes vs. Barbies. (Red lipstick might give an interesting effect!!!)

58. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are.

59. While no one’s watching quickly switch the men’s and women’s signs on the doors of the rest room.

60. Fill your cart with boxes of condoms, and watch everyone’s jaws drop when you attempt to buy them.

61. In the auto department, practice your “Madonna” look with various funnels.

62. Hide in the clothing racks and when people browse through, say things like “the fat man walks alone,” and scare them into believing that the clothes are talking to them.

63. Beg the greeter for those happy-face stickers. Stick them on your face, then stand next to him and copy whatever he says when customers walk in.

64. Go to an empty checkout stand and try to check people out.

65. Get a stuffed animal and go to the front of the store and begin stroking it lovingly, saying “Good girl, good bessie.”

66. Try on every pair of shoes in the shoe department. Take the paper from the boxes and throw it in various aisles.

67. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.

68. If you’re female: Take some men’s clothes to the mens fitting room and ask to try them on. Act shocked and insist “But I AM a man” if the attendant says anything. If you’re a man, vice versa.

69. Get boxes of condoms and randomly put them in peoples carts when they aren’t looking.

70. Lurk in the cosmetics department and spray people with a bottle of strong perfume as they walk by. Lean in and sniff the, then wave your hand in front of your nose and saying “P-eeew! That perfume stinks!”

71. Plastic fake-vomit and fake-dog doo can be utilized effectively here.

72. Go outside to the payphones, call the store and ask them to page customer “Mike Hunt” (or “Harry Butz”, etc.)

73. Stand in front of the Preparation H. Ask everyone who walks by which hemmorhoid remedy they prefer, then launch into a detailed description of your own problem.

74. While you’re doing that, have white-out & markers handy. Modify the boxes of “Anusol” by covering up the “OL” on the logo.

75. Crawl around on the ground and pretend that your a cat. Meow when people walk by, rub up against their legs, etc.

76. Take a chair to Electronics, tune in all the TV’s to Young & the Restless, and watch while sobbing loudly.

77. Chase your friends up and down aisles with those electric cars. Make sure to tell your friends to act like they don’t know you.

78. Ride the little rides for toddlers. Fit the character; if on a horse, act like a cowboy, etc. If a little kid comes over wanting to use it, start crying.

79. One word: STREAK!

80. Excesively use anything thing that says “Try Me”.

81. Start pocketing any and all free samples.

82. Draw mustaches on all the pictures and mannequins.

82. Walk up to the customer service and say “Hello, I’ll have a Quarter Pounder with cheese, large fries and a diet coke.” Then go to Mc Donald’s and try to return a toaster.

83. Start to madly scratch yourself and walk up to people asking where the rash cream and lice remedies are.

84. When alone, have loud conversations with your “multiple personalities”.

85. Tune all the radios to a polka station; then turn them all off and turn the volumes to “10″.

86. Try on crazy costumes and walk casually through the store.

87. Act suspicious and stick your arm in your jacket when leaving store. As you’re walking through the doors act like you’re expecting the alarms to go off. Then quickly look around you to see who’s watching and run away as fast as your can.

88. Balance EVERYTHING you see on the tips of your finger, your nose, your forehead, and the top of your head while singing the circus song.

89. Put jockstraps in the lingerie department.

90. Put lingerie in the men’s department.

91. Put super sexy women’s lingerie in old men’s carts when they turn around.

92. Stand in the sock aisle, and give each package a stern lecture.

93. Spend hours staring at a little blinking light and say “blink” each time it blinks. Don’t look away, just stay mesmerized.

94. Put condoms in the mannequin’s hands, and cigarettes in their mouths.(Safety warning: Leave cigarettes unlit.)

95. In the Garden Dept., skip through the flowers while holding your arms out and “buzzing”.

96. With friends, stage a “sit-in” in all the bean-bag chairs in Furniture Dept.

97. Walk up to a guy and say “It’s YOU!!! I haven’t seen you in so long!!!!” and kiss him, then say “Why didn’t you ever call me?” and walk away. Much more effective if you’re also a guy.

98. Stand next to a mannequin and pretend to be a mannequin too. Try to hold the same position for as long as possible.

99. Start singing oldies songs in the megaphone.

100. Ask everyone in “Electronics” “Do you know what CD this song is on? I don’t know the name but it goes like this:”. Then sing loudly, and don’t stop until somebody throws you out.

101. Bark while trying on dog collars. Have a friend lead you around on a leash. Better yet, whinny while trying on horse tack and a friend holds the reins.

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