MONTICELLO, Ky. - A woman visiting a Kentucky Walmart found herself in a sticky situation.
Monticello
city officials said the woman went to use the store's bathroom when she
realized she was stuck to the toilet seat. It was later determined the
seat was covered in Super Glue.
The woman was stuck inside the restroom for nearly an hour. Now, police are investigating the incident.
"We're
looking at it. Right now, I wouldn't be prepared to say which way it
was -- accident or intention," said Monticello Police Deptment Chief
Ralph Miniard.
Paramedics were on hand to help pull the woman off the seat. She was taken to a nearby hospital to be checked out.
This isn't the first time someone was glued to a toilet seat at Walmart.
What appeared to be an April Fools' prank caused a man to be glued to a toilet at a Maryland Walmart on March 31.
Putting
Super Glue on a toilet is considered a crime, and the perpetrator could
face second-degree assault charges, said Lt. Matthew Donnelly of the
Elkton Police Department.
I went to my local party store to see on getting some balloons filled for an event. When the worker informed me that there was a helium shortage and she could not guarantee the balloons could be filled that far ahead of time.
Helium shortage..humm...why isn't this on the news along with the rest of depressing headlines.
Yes, helium. Thanks to a 1996 law that has forced the government to
sell off its helium reserves at bargain-bin prices, the country’s
stockpile of the relatively rare and nonrenewable gas could soon vanish.
Party
supply stores are already feeling the pinch, as helium shortfalls are
driving up the price of balloons. But it’s not birthday parties we
should worry about. A severe helium shortage, experts say, would cause
problems for large swaths of the economy, from medical scanners to
welding to the manufacturing of optical fibers and LCD screens.
Congress
is slowly grasping the extent of the problem. At a sleepy Senate
hearing last week, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee listened
to an array of experts chat about helium. The hearing was tied to a
bill, sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and John Barrasso,
R-Wyo., that would change how the government sells helium from its
Federal Helium Reserve to prevent shortages.....
...So
how did we get to this point? Back in the 1920s, when blimps and other
airships seemed like a useful military technology, the United States set
up a national helium program. In the 1960s, it opened the Federal
Helium Reserve, an 11,000-acre site in the Hugoton-Panhandle Gas Field
that spans Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The porous brown rock is one of
the only geological formations on Earth that can hold huge quantities of
helium. And the natural gas from the field itself was particularly rich
in helium — a relative rarity in the world.
By 1996, however, the
Helium Reserve looked like a waste. Blimps no longer seemed quite so
vital to the nation’s defense and, more important, the reserve was $1.4
billion in debt after paying drillers to extract helium from natural
gas. The Republican-led Congress, looking to save money, passed the
Helium Privatization Act, ordering a selloff by the end of 2014.
There
was just one small hitch. According to a 2010 report by the National
Research Council, the formula that Congress used to set the price for
the helium was flawed. Bingaman has dubbed it a “fire sale.” The
federally owned helium now sells for about half of what it would on the
open market.
And, since the Federal Helium Reserve provides about
one-third of the world’s helium, this has upended the entire market.
There’s little incentive to conserve, recycle or find new sources of
helium. Instead, we’ve been frittering it away. And once helium escapes
into the air, it can’t be recovered.
Worse, under existing law,
the Federal Helium Reserve could run out of money to operate as early as
mid-2013. When that happens, it will still have a large chunk of the
world’s helium supply locked in the reservoir — but no one will be able
to access it.
So it's the governments fault.
Some people say we will run out of helium in 30 to 50 years. I don't believe we are going to run out completely. I think we have reached peak helium.
What does this mean for us?
Not to much, for now, unless you're in the balloon business.
But if this escalates it could be bad. Helium is used in MRI machines, arc welding, and deep sea diving.
So, if you wanted to hop in a chair with a bunch of helium balloons and fly around like Larry Walters or dive for sunken treasure like Jacques Cousteau, you better get while the gettin's good.
The times are a changing, but less Bob Dylan and more of a Orwellian outlook.
First we had the mysterious Black Helicopters flying around doing God knows what and now there are Grey Drones.
Here is a list of drone (U.A.V.'s) bases in Kentucky. Its not surprising Ft. Campbell and Ft. Knox, two of the most secret military bases, are on the list. But Corbin, Kentucky?
Interesting and strange, since Corbin has a population of around 7,000 and that the department is under SOCOM (special operations command) so, think Delta Force and SEAL Team 6.
Why should you care if the military has a base next door to you. Because, according to a Air Force document, the police can use military drones to spy on you with out a warrant.
But, it's not just the military. Local and federal law enforcement have, or will have, grey drones in the sky. Police in Lakota, N. D. used a drone to arrest one person.
Mark Mazzetti did a piece in the New York Times on military drones.
"When I visited the base earlier this year with a small
group of reporters, we were taken into a command post where a large
flat-screen television was broadcasting a video feed from a drone flying
overhead. It took a few seconds to figure out exactly what we were
looking at. A white S.U.V. traveling along a highway adjacent to the
base came into the cross hairs....
“'Wait, you guys practice tracking enemies by using civilian cars?' a
reporter asked. One Air Force officer responded that this was only a
training mission, and then the group was quickly hustled out of the
room."
On December 11, 2011 there was an explosion in the hills of Hazard, Ky that shook windows. Witnesses saw a large smoke cloud coming up over a ridge line. Calls to 911 came in with reports of planes crashing and all hell breaking loose.
The Hazard fire team investigation came up with no plane, no explosion crater, and no fire. They did find a defunct mine shaft that was smoking.
Explanations range from mine fire,gas explosion, meteor, and, of course, UFO's.
My money is on the mine fire. I just hope Hazard doesn't turn into another Centralia , PA.
Louisville Courier-Journal staff artist Wes Kendall
The event happened in Louisville, Ky around General Electric Appliance Park.
Here is the Courier-Journal report on the event.
Source: Gardiner Harris, Louisville Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Mar. 4, 1993
Two Jefferson County air unit police officers —
described by their lieutenant as "solid guys" — swear they had a
two-minute dogfight with a UFO during a routine helicopter patrol Friday
night.
Two officers on the ground said they, too, spotted the object. The
UFO — a glowing pear-shaped object about the size of a basketball —
literally flew circles around the helicopter, even though the fliers say
they were moving at speeds approaching 100 mph.
In one blinding moment when both craft were hurtling toward each
other, the UFO shot three baseball-size fireballs out of its middle, all
three officers said. The fireballs fizzled into nothing. Officers Kenny
Graham and Kenny Downs haven't talked much about their Friday night
flight over General Electric Appliance Park because they fear few will
believe them. But they are convinced they weren't hallucinating.
"We both go to church every week," Downs said as a way of explaining
how normal the two normally are. "In fact, I might start going to
church twice a week." Officer Mike Smith, in his squad car below, said
he saw the object for only about a minute. But he confirmed the UFO shot
three fireballs into the air and then disappeared. Officer Joe
Smolenski said he tried for more than a minute to catch up to the object
in his squad car. "I've been looking for 'em for 14 years, and I guess
this is the closest I've come to something I couldn't explain."
Lt. David Pope, who was roused out of bed at 12:30 Saturday morning
by a call from the startled officers, attested to their sanity and
sincerity.
"These guys are totally solid guys," Pope said. "There's no doubt in my mind there was something out there."
The night started out like every other night. Graham and Downs got
to work around 6 p.m. and were soon in the air flying a routine patrol.
Graham, 39 and an 11-year veteran, was the pilot. Downs, 39 and a
five-year veteran, was the spotter.
While in the air, they received a call about a possible break-in
near Sanford Avenue and Buechel Bank Road. They flew off and quickly
reached the area, which is near the northeast comer of Appliance Park,
around 11:50 p.m.
As they circled, Graham saw something that looked like a small fire
off to his left. Dozens of bonfires had been lit around the county that
night by revelers delighting in the new snowfall.
But Graham soon decided i! wasn't a fire. Downs shined his
1.3-million-candlepower spotlight on the object, which began to drift
back and forth like a balloon as the light washed over it. Then it
gradually floated up to the helicopter's elevation about 500 feet above
the ground, where it hovered for a few seconds.
"Then it took off at a speed I've never seen before," said Graham: an experienced pilot.
The object made two huge counter-clockwise loops and finally approached the helicopter's rear.
Graham, afraid-the object would ram his tail rotor, pushed his speed
above 100 mph. The UFO shot past them and instantly climbed hundreds of
feet in the air. It descended again and flew close to the helicopter.
Graham tried to close the gap with the object, and it again flew away.
As the UFO approached on a parallel course, the three fireballs burst
out of its core.
Scared, Graham banked away from the object.
"When we came back around, it was gone," Graham said.
When the two returned to their base, Graham called the control tower
at Standiford Field to ask if their radar had spotted anything unusual.
It had not.
Downs called the county's radio dispatchers to ask if anyone else had reported sightings. No one had.
But the two did get confirmation from two officers on the ground, one of whom was Smith.
"I have no idea what it was," Smith said, but his confirmation cheered the two fliers.
"It makes me feel better," Downs said, "that there are... grown men
out there who are sworn to protect this community and who saw the same
thing."
Officers Downs and Graham, helicopter air unit, involved in the "dogfight"
There is a post at Unusual Kentucky that may shed some light on this mystery.
Paranormal Witness on the SyFy channel covered this event. Jump to 32:24
Living in Bowling Green, Ky I have heard many stories of the "Ghost Bridge". Legend has it, a young girl committed suicide by jumping off the bridge in the waters of the Barren River. If you park your car at the end of the bridge, turn the engine off, and put it in neutral. She will push the car across the bridge.
So, my wife and I decided to check out the legend.
We park the car on the west side of the bridge, about 15 feet past the entrance facing the east side, and follow the directions of the legend.
turn off car...check
put car in neutral...check
and foot off brake....check
To my surprise we started to move, picking up speed, all the way to the end.
I have my theory on the spirit pushing bridge, but go out and explore for your self.
