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BELFAST (AFP) - “This is your captain speaking: er, I’ve landed at the wrong airport. Er, sorry.”

A bungling pilot flew straight into the centre of an investigation Wednesday after mistakenly landing at a military airbase rather than the regular destination in Northern Ireland.

Thirty-nine passengers and six crew were on board a Ryanair flight from Liverpool, northwest England, which was due to touchdown at City of Derry airport.

However, the pilot cruised into Ballykelly airfield — five miles (eight kilometres) away.

Surprised passengers were taken off and coached to City of Derry, leaving the plane grounded on the orders of concerned aviation authorities, who demanded an immediate investigation.

Budget airline Ryanair said the flight was operated by Eirjet on its behalf.

“This incident arose as a result of an error by the Eirjet’s pilot who mistakenly believed he was on a visual approach to City of Derry airport,” Ryanair said in a statement.

“The Eirjet pilot was cleared by Air Traffic Control in City of Derry for a visual approach and mistook the nearby Ballykelly for City of Derry.

Ryanair asked Eirjet to carry out a full investigation.

“In over seven years of Ryanair flights into City of Derry airport and over 20 years of Ryanair-operated flights, such a mistake has never occurred before.”
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From Yahoo News

You now live in 2006 when….

1. You accidentally type your password to the microwave.

2. You haven’t played Solitaire with real cards for years.

3. You have a list of 15 telephone numbers for the 3 members of your family

4. You send an e-mail to your office colleague

5. The reason why you don’t keep in touch with family and friends is because they don’t have an e-mail address.

6. You get off the car in front of the house to call from your mobile phone to see if there’s someone at home to help you with the shopping bags.

7. All the TV commercials list a website in the lower part of the screen.

8. Each time you leave home without your mobile phone (which you didn’t have for your first 20,30 or 40 years of life) is a reason to panic, so you must go back to get it.

10. You get up in the morning and connect to the Internet before making your coffee.

11. You’re reading this, nodding and smiling.

12. Even worse, you know exactly the person you’ll forward this message to.

13. You were too busy to realize that number 9 is missing from this list.

14. Actually, you just scrolled up to check if number 9 is on the list.

and now you’re laughing at yourself

… come on, send it to a technology addict friend. You know you want to.

In the immigration office:

- Name? - Abdul Dalah Sarafi.

- Sex? - Four times a week.

- No, no, no… male or female? - Male, female… sometimes camel.

Guys, where do we sign up ?

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By DAILE PEPPER
Sun Online

SHAPELY Pamela Anderson may turn to a sperm donor to have another baby.The former Baywatch star - who already has two sons with ex-lover Tommy Lee - says she might choose to have another child with an anonymous father.When asked about having more children Pammy told Heat magazine: “I don’t know, maybe I have to find a good sperm donor. Sometimes I think I’d like to have another baby.

“I really love children, and once you have two you might as well have ten. But if I do have more kids, it’ll have to be soon - before I’m 40.”
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NEW YORK - A man who suffered only minor injuries after a horrific car accident is lucky to be alive.

A safety camera on board a bus caught the accident on video.

The camera shows Bryan Pacelli’s Audi TT sports car getting crushed between a semi trailer and a bus after the 18-wheeler suddenly veered across three lanes of traffic and smashed into a jersey barrier.

The crumpled remains of the car left many wondering how the 39-year-old survived at all, let alone with just minor injuries.

Pacelli, who is an Audi dealer, chalked it up to the safe design of the sports coupe.

Police say the out-of-control truck was overloaded by 16,000 pounds and was running on bald tires. They also expressed amazement at how Pacelli survived the accident.

While Pacelli was recovering in a hospital, reporters from the ABC morning program Good Morning America played the safety camera footage for him and his wife. Neither had seen the footage previously.

Pacelli’s wife, Kelly, broke down in tears and both expressed shock at the violence of the crash.

Pacelli is expected to make a full recovery from his relatively minor injuries.

He says he is also planning on buying a bigger car the next time around.
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To see the headline, video of the crash and a picture of the wrecked car, click here

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BRIDGEVILLE, Calif. - The first town ever auctioned on eBay soon will be back up for sale on the online auction site.

Nearly two years after he bought the tiny town of Bridgeville, Orange County financial adviser Bruce Krall said Friday he plans to re-auction the Humboldt County hamlet on eBay next month.

“Due to family reasons, I’m pretty much tied to Southern California for the foreseeable future,” Krall said. “We can’t move up there. It only makes sense to pass it on to somebody else.”

Krall said the auction will open April 4 with a minimum bid of $1.75 million ? more than twice what he paid for the 83-acre property about 40 miles southwest of Eureka.

Bridgeville, a picturesque village with about 25 people on the Van Duzen River, sparked a bidding war in 2002 when it became the first town ever put up for sale on eBay.

The buyer, who won the auction with a $1.78 million bid, never came to see the property and the deal fell through. The property was eventually posted on traditional real estate listings, and Krall bought it for about $700,000 in May 2004.

Since then, Krall said he’s invested “multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars” to restore old buildings, remove dilapidated structures and clean up mounds of garbage. He also found new tenants for the houses and received a conditional use permit for a riverfront resort.

“It’s come full circle,” Krall said. “Now it’s been fixed up, and I think it’s actually ready to be sold on eBay.”
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A couple made in heaven….

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LODI, Calif. (AP) - When a dump truck backed into Curtis Gokey’s car, he decided to sue the city for damages. Only thing is, he was the one driving the dump truck. But that minor detail didn’t stop Gokey, a Lodi city employee, from filing a $3,600 claim for the December accident, even after admitting the crash was his fault.

After the city denied that claim because Gokey was, in essence, suing himself, he and his wife, Rhonda, decided to file a new claim under her name.

City Attorney Steve Schwabauer said this one also lacks merit because Rhonda Gokey can’t sue her own husband.

“You can sue your spouse for divorce, but you can’t sue your spouse for negligence,” Schwabauer said. “They’re a married couple under California law. They’re one entity. It’s damage to community property.”

But Rhonda Gokey insisted she has “the right to sue the city because a city’s vehicle damaged my private vehicle.”

In fact, her claim, currently pending at Lodi City Hall, is for an even larger amount - $4,800.

“I’m not as nice as my husband is,” she said.
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From The Beaufort Gazette

An adorable little girl, all blonde curls and blue eyes walks into a pet shop and asks in the sweetest little lisp:

“Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbiths?”

The shopkeeper’s heart melts and he gets down on his knees, so that he’s on her level, and asks:

“Do you want a widdle white wabby or a thoft and fuwwy bwack wabby or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabby over there?”

She, blushing, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says in a quiet voice, “I don’t fink my python weally givth a phuck.”