I was sleeping one night when a hungry vampire sucked 3652 liters of blood from me and 1865 liters of blood from my little brother. How much blood did the hungry vampire drink that night?

I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?

John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day. John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?

Here is a link to my donor page for the Out of the Darkness Walk in San Francisco this June for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). I am doing this walk in the memory and honor of Ed DeFelippis.

I need to reach a minimum of $1,000 for me to be able to do the walk and have committed to do so. I'd love to blow it away by reaching $2,500 or even $5,000! Every little donation helps toward that goal. There is no such thing as too small of a donation. (In case you are wondering, there is no such thing as a too large of a donation either and the site allows for the donation to be made anonymously if you so desire.)

When you are done, please take one additional step and forward this email to your family, friends, coworkers, church & civic groups, even everyone in your address book, with a personal note from you encouraging them to support me and the efforts of the AFSP. I was surprised to learn how many people this effects when I started talking openly about depression and suicide. I'm confident you too would be surprised.

http://theovernight.donordrive.com/participant/johnolsakovsky/

Alternatively, you could go to
http://www.theovernight.org
and search my name, Ed's name, or our team name - Forever in my heart .

Thank you so much for your help. It is very much appreciated.

John Olsakovsky

The management of a new apartment complex in Lebanon is asking residents with pets to submit DNA samples from their dogs to determine who's leaving dog waste around the complex.

The worst of the hazards travellers encounter in the mountainous rainforests of southern India is not the elephants, [...] it is the leeches.

If you pause on a walk through the forest, within a minute up to 20 of these brown slimy tubes, ranging in size from minuscule threads to fat worms four centimetres long and a quarter in diameter, leap onto your boots. Attracted by heat, they loop swiftly upwards like caterpillars on speed, scaling a Wellington in as little as 15 seconds. Leech socks—thick canvas affairs tied tightly at the knee—stop those that climb into boots from attacking your feet. But others continue upwards, and, however assiduously you pluck them off, some inevitably make it onto bare skin and sink their teeth into your flesh. As they do so, their salivary glands secrete hirudin, an anticoagulant so effective that the pharmaceutical industry synthesises it as a blood-thinning agent. Even if you locate them and pluck them off—tricky, given their strong grip and slippery surface—your blood flows from their bites for hours.

Not surprisingly, Kerala’s rainforests are thinly populated.

The dirtiest Super PAC attack

Even in a country where attack ads are an art form, the ad produced by Turn Right USA against Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn of California may have set a new low standard. The ad, which never aired on TV but went viral on YouTube, superimposed Hahn's face on the body of a stripper, and used black actors to portray gang members. While rap music played, and images of criminals (including Charles Manson) floated by, "gangstas" plucked dollar bills from the stripper's panties, singing, "give us your cash, bitch," as a narrator said that Hahn helped gang members get out of jail "so they can rape and kill again." Hahn blamed her Republican opponent, wealthy Tea Partier Craig Huey, "and his cronies" for using a Super PAC to create the ad. But Huey said he had nothing to do with it, and Turn Right said the ad was "definitely not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee." The ad may have created sympathy for Hahn, who cruised to an easy victory. In the final frames of the ad, which can still be seen on YouTube, the Super PAC got the last word: "Suck it, McCain-Feingold."

Witnesses on the ground and in the airplane stated that they saw the mechanic on the outboard side of the engine stand up, step into the inlet hazard zone, and become ingested into the intake of the engine. This occurred about 90 seconds into the 70-percent-power engine run. The mechanic was not wearing any type of safety equipment or lanyard to prevent the ingestion. Upon sensing a buffet, the captain immediately retarded the power lever back to the idle position. The first officer stated to the captain that something went into the engine and the captain immediately cut off the start lever to stop the engine run.