weird news.....
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20030425/ap_on_fe_st/dick_the_goldfish
Goldfish Is Placed in Sling
Fri Apr 25,12:09 PM ET
SCOTIA, N.Y. - A 17-year-old goldfish can swim again thanks to a bunch of do-gooding humans
Customers at the Sky Port diner near Schenectady came up with the idea of a creating a fish sling after Dick the goldfish fell ill in November and had difficulty swimming.
Patty Sherman, who owns the diner with her two sisters, Joanna Dewey and Mary Ann Parker, said Dick could barely move across the bottom of his fish tank located behind the counter.
A customer whose daughter is studying to be a veterinarian had his daughter research fish ailments. She reported back that Dick was likely suffering from swim bladder disease and prescribed a diet of cooked peas to be hand fed to Dick three times a day, Sherman said.
To remedy Dick's swimming problem, several customers devised a sling made up of fishing bobbers, drinking straws, gauze and string. When the 8-inch-long fish is placed in the sling, he's able to swim like normal.
Sherman said customers find it relaxing to sit at the counter and watch Dick in his tank.
"Everybody's rooting for him," she said Tuesday. "He's the topic of conversation at the Sky Port." -
u will find this gross...... 
Climber Pinned by Boulder Cuts Off Arm to Live
DENVER (Reuters) - A mountaineer pinned by a heavy boulder in an eastern Utah desert cut off his right arm with a pocketknife after he determined that was the only way he would survive, officials said on Friday.
"He's pretty darn tough. He wanted to live. He saved himself," Sgt. Mitch Vetere of the Emery County Sheriff's Office in Green River, Utah, told Reuters.
Aron Ralston, 27, of Aspen, Colorado, used a pocketknife to cut off his arm below the elbow, then rappelled down a rock wall and hiked until he ran into some hikers who flagged down a rescue helicopter 60 miles south of Green River on Thursday. He had applied a tourniquet to his arm.
Vetere said Ralston would never have been spotted in the remote area where he was pinned by the boulder, which rescuers estimated at between 800 and 1,000 pounds.
Ralston was hiking into a canyon on Saturday when the boulder fell on him. He ran out of water on Tuesday and by Thursday realized he had to take the drastic action.
He was in serious condition on Friday at St. Mary's Hospital in western Colorado, spokeswoman Kim Williams said.
A rescuer who went back to see if he could retrieve the arm said the boulder was too heavy to move, according to Vetere.