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  • UC Berkeley Explosion Leaves 4 with Minor Burns

    The LA Times reported yesterday that an explosion devastated UC Berkeley’s campus, sending four to the hospital with burns. The main campus was evacuated as a precaution.

    “It was dark. It was pretty scary. We just wanted to get out of there,” one student, sophomore Jesse Kay, said. Another student, 19-year-old Jay Reddy, was in electrical engineering class when the power went out. “We had to figure out how to get out of the building,” he said.

    When the outage happened around 6:30 pm on Monday evening, a campus staff member and several students reported hearing a boom and seeing flames as several buildings lost power. 20 people needed to be rescued from elevators in the affected building.

    Twitter was abuzz with reactions and images of the incident:

    Officials have stated that they believe the power outage is related to a recently discovered vandalism: an off-campus electrical station saw its copper wiring ripped out.

    Dan Mogulof, the spokesman for UC Berkeley, said to reporters “We have a strong suspicion that what happened is related to vandalism discovered last week. The damage they caused may have been far more extensive than we originally thought.”

    The blast area was apparently two stories high, two road lanes wide, and sent at least one manhole cover flying. The explosion happened as engineers were attempting to restore power.

    “Something happened here that surprised the expert… Somebody attacked our system. Somebody stole key parts of our system,” Mogulof continued. “[Classes] aren’t going to happen and people aren’t going to come back here until we’re sure we have a safe situation.”

    [Image via Twitter]

  • Penis Stolen: Chinese Man Loses an Organ While He Sleeps

    A penis has been stolen in China, so if you’re in the area, be sure to keep an eye out for any disembodied reproductive organs in your general vicinity. Poor Fei Lin, a 41 year-old resident of Niqiao village in China’s Zhejiang province. He was just trying to sleep when a group of individuals snuck into his bedroom, stuck a bag over his head, and proceeded to remove his penis. This isn’t the sort of news item you encounter on a daily basis, so be sure to mark this one on your calendars.

    According to the Daily Star, four masked men entered Fei Lin’s residence in the wee hours of the morning. Their mission: remove the penis from the man who had been sleeping with their wives. Local authorities spent quite a bit of time attempting to locate the missing body part, though they believe the intruders took said organ with them. I’m assuming they didn’t want to risk doctors being able to reattach it, so they took the member along for the ride.

    “They put something over my head and pulled down my trousers and then they ran off,” Lin explained. “I was so shocked I didn’t feel a thing – then I saw I was bleeding and my penis was gone.” How he didn’t feel a thing is truly beyond my realm of comprehension.

    Although Lin denies messing around with any married women, it’s highly unlikely that this penis-napping was just a stroke of bad luck. If someone goes through the trouble of breaking into your home, covering your cranium with a sack, and then hacking off an extremely sensitive part of your body, chances are you’ve offended someone during your daily adventures. I doubt this sort of thing happens randomly. At least, I sincerely hope not.

  • iCloud Recovers iPad For Sales Manager

    iCloud Recovers iPad For Sales Manager

    Hennie Stander, a sales manager was pleasantly surprised by the swift reaction of police officers after he lost his iPad at the airport. He boarded a plane headed for a business meeting carrying his iPad and a briefcase and forgot the iPad as his fight exited.

    Stander recalls the events:

    “I used my iPad while I was on the plane. I was going to be late for my meeting and, in the rush of departing the plane, I forgot my iPad in a compartment in front of my seat”.

    Upon realizing he forget the device, he contacted the airline to report the mishap and see if it was turned into lost and found.

    Stander explains what he did next:

    “I then decided to log on to my laptop and the iCloud service (which links Apple products with one another), and found that my iPad was still in the vicinity of the airport.”

    He reported what he found back to airline officials who instructed hime to contact the authorities. Using the iCloud the police tracked the device and found the thieves who took it, a driver for an aircraft catering company and a janitor. The men were arrested.