Traffic fine for 880 km/hr (550 mph)

An engineer named Rafeal de Andrade has not been able to renew his vehicle registration this year because his car owes R$ 127.69 ($78.19) to the Department of Transportation of Rio de Janeiro for a fine that he refuses to pay.

The department that is accusing the engineer for driving 880 kph (about 550 mph) according to an automatic radar in Niteroi (near Rio de Janeiro) in a 60 kph zone (37 mph). The following information has been translated from the Brazilian site called G1.

Rafael appealed the decision with the Department. He imagined that the fine would be forgiven, but it was not. For the Department of Transportation in Brasilia, vehicle registration can only be released once fines are paid. “I refuse to pay the fine”, he said. “I don’t have registration, and if I am stopped, I want to know what I am going to say to the officer,” he complained.

The race car driver Rodolfo Santos considers this allegation absurd. “There is not one car in Formula One that could reach 880 kph. I drive the fastest car in South American and we can only get up to 270kph (168 mph) and that is fast enough.”

Rafael’s car is a 1.0 liter VW Gol.

According to the National Deparment of Transportation, Rafael will have to pay the fine to appeal to the State Transit Council. But the engineer has already decided to file a lawsuit that will ask for a reprise, under the basis of “legal and factual impossibility of a 1.0 liter VW Gol ever reaching 880 kph on a Brazilian highway.”

Translated from Portuguese- Multa por trafegar a 880 km/h

Brazilian family has many things stolen, even their dog

Canoas, Brazil-

Robbers “cleaned” out a house in this city. According the police report, the family had left their house on a trip at noon on Saturday. 

When they had returned Sunday night, they discovered that their house was broken in to. The robbers took two televisions, a stereo, a DVD player, two computers, a printer, a portable wine cellar, tennis shoes, clothes, and jewelry among other objects.

Even their six-month-old Rotweiller was stolen. This was not the first time that the victims had their house broken in to. The last time they were robbed was last June when several belongings were taken from the house by criminals who took advantage of the owners’ absence.

Translated from Portuguese at Ziptop

w00t the word of the year in the US.

Our language is constantly evolving- here is proof-

Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said “w00t” — typically spelled with two zeros — reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.

It’s like saying “yay,” the dictionary said.

“It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all,” Merriam-Webster said.

I enjoy the website www.woot.com that sells exactly one item per day at normally good prices. (subject to stock availablity)

“w00t belongs to gamers the world over. It seems to have been derived from the obsolete ‘whoot’ which essentially is another way to say ‘hoot’ which itself is a shout or derisive laugh,” Think Geek said on its Web site.

Source: Reuters

Trivia

The greatest age to which any man has ever lived is 120 years 237 days
in the case of Shigechiyo Izumi (Japan) of Isen on Tokunoshima, an
island 1,320 km (820 miles) south-west of Tokyo, Japan. He was born at
Isen on 29 June 1865 and was recorded as a 6-year-old in Japan’s first
census of 1871. He died at 12:15 GMT on 21 February 1986 after
developing pneumonia.

The oldest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived
is 122 years and 164 days, by Jeanne-Louise Calment. She was born in
France on February 21, 1875, and died at a nursing home in Arles,
southern France on August 4, 1997. President Jacques Chirac once said
Jean Calment was a little bit like a grandmother to everyone in
France. She was 14 when the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889. She
led an extremely active life, taking up fencing at 85 years old, and
was still riding a bicycle at 100. She portrayed herself at the age of
114 in the film Vincent And Me, to become the oldest actress in film.

Levan, Utah, is “navel” spelled backwards. It was so named because it
is in the middle of Utah.

Egeskov Castle in Denmark, complete with moat and drawbridge, was
built in 1554 in the middle of a small lake, Egeskov. The name means
literally “oak forest,” and the castle rests on a foundation of
thousands of upright oak trunks.

Honey was often used as an ingredient in the center of golf balls and
in antifreeze mixtures.

Cambridge study on spellings!

This is very amazing !!  Only great minds can read this  This is weird, but interesting!fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

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Speed Traps in Denmark

The Danes have come up with an innovative way to slow down those speeding motorists!

Watch this video- BEWARE ADULT CONTENT!!!!

I think it’s time I pack up and move to Denmark…

Why English is tough

Why English is Tough

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was used to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when does are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Interesting facts

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
the morning.

2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a bellybutton.

3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10
yrs.

4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being
indoors a lot more.

5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!

6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.

7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every
minute.

8. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until
they are 2-6 years old.

9. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting
in lines.

10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

11. The average housefly lives for one month.

12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the
day.

16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

17. The REAL reason an ostrich sticks its head in the sand is to
search for water.

18. The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without
turning their heads are the Rabbit and the Parrot.

19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in “An Officer
and a Gentleman” and “Tootsie”.

20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State
anthem.

21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture
of white paint and a little thinner is used instead of real
milk.

22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same
airplane, just in case there is a crash.

23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a
tomato can for a carburetor.

24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut
from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant
surgery.

25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th
cousins.

26. If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be Green.