Chocolate bars are on the agenda this week but before you hear all about our friend of years gone by theres News, opening with a jingle.

In News….

Angry Maserati owner hires men to sledgehammer his car

A furious motorist hired four men to smash up his luxury Maserati Quattroporte with sledgehammers outside a car show in protest at the company’s poor customer service. http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/15/angry-maserati-owner-hires-men-to-sledgehammer-his-car-3760150/

Man accidentally shoots himself in the leg while bowling

A man shot himself in the leg at a busy Florida bowling alley after accidentally firing a gun in his pocket.

Cops think the bowler went to swing the ball — but bashed it on his limb — which set off the concealed revolver to shoot.

www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-accidentally-shoots-bowling-article-1.1345578

Giant six-foot penis drawn on butcher’s brand new £3,500 driveway

A butcher got the shock of his life when he arrived at his shop to discover a 6ft-long penis carved into his new £3,500 parking lot.

Simon Thornton, who is also a member of the Godalming council in Surrey, had been looking forward to using the new parking spaces behind his store.

But his enthusiasm was cut short after a vandal scrawled the genitalia onto the concrete.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/03/giant-six-foot-penis-drawn-on-butchers-brand-new-3500-driveway-3711858/

Naked Man Carrying Giant Cross Runs Through Beijing China: Can You Help Solve The Mystery?

A picture of a naked man running down a street with a giant crucifix reportedly in Beijing, has gone viral as internet users don their deerstalkers and attempt to solve the mystery.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/15/naked-man-carrying-giant-cross-in-china-mystery-_n_3279885.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news

5 crazy-stupid things that drunken tourists have done

Face it, we’ve all done things on vacation we regret.  But sometimes all sense of good judgment goes out the window when people have had too much to drink.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/05/13/5-crazy-stupid-things-that-drunken-tourists-have-done/

MAN DIES AFTER HAVING SEX WITH HORNET’S NEST

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one. Here goes: A 35-year-old Swedish man—who is only being named as Hasse—was found dead on his farm outside Ystad after making sweet, sweet love to a hornet’s nest.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/man_dies_after_having_sex_with_hornets_nest

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Pete and Elton are here this week, after a week off again…. sorry about that, to talk about Robots in Sci-Fi.

Before that there is a bit of chat and news…

1. Fake funeral service proving popular after student holds her own false ceremony   http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/12/fake-funeral-service-proving-popular-after-student-holds-her-own-false-ceremony-3613269/

Following the revelation a Chinese student staged her own funeral so she could ‘enjoy’ the day, it has emerged the fake ceremony has also proved popular with other people from the country.

When Zeng Jia held her own wake, despite the fact she was still alive, many thought it was morbid and self-obsessed but it now turns out it wasn’t an unusual occurrence……

2. Man shoots himself in the head with foot-long harpoon and survives  http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/26/man-survives-after-firing-foot-long-harpoon-into-his-own-head-3667768/

You’ve got to be pretty foolhardy to fire a 12-inch harpoon into your own eye – and pretty lucky to live to tell the tale. Bruno Coutinho, 34, managed both.

The Brazilian was cleaning the loaded firearm, which he uses to go fishing, when he accidentally set it off and fired the spear into his left eye socket….

3. Scientist who spent 16 years studying boobs of 300 women declares bras are useless

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/13/scientist-who-spent-16-years-studying-boobs-of-300-women-declares-bras-are-useless-3614659/

A French scientist who spent 16 years studying hundreds of women’s breasts has come to the conclusion that bras are useless.

Jean-Denis Rouillon unveiled his surprising findings this week to a French university radio station, having carefully analysed the boobs of more than 300 women, aged 18 to 35, since 1997….

And Now……

The robots the guys talk about range from the obvious R2-D2 from Star Wars, Huey, Dewey, & Louie from Silent Running and B.O.B & V.I.N.Cent from the Black Hole to the robots from ‘The Class of 1999’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9UjGY8X6M and the robots from ‘Runaway’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCQ_klbVfQ

We also touch upon http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/01/26/top-50-sci-fi-robots/
And Star Wars in Character - http://www.neozaz.com/category/podcasts/star-wars-in-character/

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This week Pete and Elton talk about their personal bucket lists.

How were their weeks? Well Pete went all posh on us and went to the theatre with his wife, Odile (Sending a wave – A Firefly podcast) and her husband.

Elton spent a week in a caravan and got far to excited playing bingo.

In News…

1. Shoe poison ‘murder attempt’ in Japan http://www.news.com.au/world-news/shoe-poision-murder-attempt-in-japan/story-fndir2ev-1226608749508

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/shoe-poision-murder-attempt-in-japan/story-fndir2ev-1226608749508#ixzz2QRuy8Mh8

2. Christie Dawn Harris Arrested, Police Find Loaded Gun Hidden Inside Her Vagina & Bags of Meth Between Her Buttocks http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/08/christie-dawn-harris-arrested-police-loaded-gun-vagina-meth-buttocks_n_2835876.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news

3. Brazilian pastor tells flock that penis contained ‘holy milk’

http://freethinker.co.uk/2013/02/05/brazilian-pastor-is-behind-bars-after-telling-his-flock-that-he-penis-contained-holy-milk/

I’ve also just found this site… http://www.horridpriestcrimes.blogspot.co.uk/

4. In Zimbabwe, a prostitute died during sex “resurrects” in a coffin http://www.mizozo.com/weird/03/2013/28/in-zimbabwe-a-prostitute-died-during-sex-resurrects-in-a-coffin.html

1. Police Shoot Aggressive Cow… http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/28/police-shoot-aggressive-cow_n_2973909.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news
2. Chinese gamer spends six years in internet cafe… http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/29/chinese-gamer-spends-six-years-in-internet-cafe-3564903/

And onto the Bucket lists.

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