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After seeing his profile picture on the the Mayflower animal sanctuary's website, café worker April Parker, 35, immediately fell in love with the partially-blind Pointer cross. The mother-of-two took her daughters Skye, 15, and Jasmine, 13, along to see him and, proving that looks aren’t everything, the family scooped him up and took him home. Now Ug, re-named Doug by the Parkers, has a loving home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
He cost Ms Parker £200, but has proved to be worth every penny. She said: 'When people see him they do a double take. He looks comical with his bug eyes and cross teeth and he's always bumping into things. But he has a fantastic temperament and is really loving.'

An international race to find the world's ugliest dog was unofficially launched in June after the World's Ugliest Pedigree Dog title holder passed away.
Miss Ellie, a Chinese Crested Hairless who won the pedigree prize and was a celebrity among lovers of ugly dogs, sadly died at the age of 17. The California competition is fiercely fought between the gruesome pups, with the winners of the 'pedigree' category facing off against mutts to claim the coveted title. The opposite of Crufts, entrants to Animal Planet’s World’s Ugliest Dog competition are judged on their hair, or rather lack of, toothlessness, protruding tongue and overall visual offensiveness.

It now remains to be seen whether Doug can lay claim to Miss Ellie's throne.

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thats one crazy looking dog, poor little thing

This is supposed to be cool, but all I see is the planet being polluted

There was an episode fof mythbusters where they attempted to make such a thing using technology available in the period of Ancient Greece - it didn't work as well as this little number!

This isn't Pixar...

Pretty cool

Two drunken men decided to test a knife-proof vest at a party in southern Sweden late Saturday night. While the first test was a success, the second blow resulted in injury. One of the men involved, who is reportedly in his 20s, was taken to the hospital after being stabbed.

The incident occurred after the two somewhat boozed men decided to test a newly purchased piece of armor, reported Sveriges Radio (SR). According to reports, the two men involved were at the same party in Vittsjö, north of Hässleholm, when they began to discuss the man’s new protective vest. By then, the men had “drunk a lot,” said police. Having decided to test the protective vest, one of the men took a knife and stabbed it. The vest worked. When he repeated the test, he goofed and missed the man’s vest, striking him where he was not protected.

It is unclear where the wounded man was stabbed. He was taken to the hospital and treated for minor injury. The incident occurred just before midnight on Saturday night.

Drunk Michal Kawolski was rescued by astonished coastguards after floating out to sea on a sheet of ice while still clasping a bottle of vodka. The 23-year-old was spotted by coastguards as he floated past them off the coast of Gdansk, Poland.

Mr Kawolski had been drinking with friends when, naturally, he decided it would be a good idea to test the strength of the ice that was forming on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea. One of Mr Kawolski's drinking pals said: 'We dared him to do it and it seemed like a good idea. There was a loud crack and then he started to float away. We thought it was funny at first but then he started to scream for help.' The powerful currents pulled him about a kilometre out to sea.

A rather shaken Mr Kawolski was taken to hospital where he stayed overnight to be treated for hypothermia. Following the ordeal Mr Kawolski said: 'Well, I won't be doing that again.'

I wasn't too sure at first, but it's a cracker!

This is a good one too...if not slightly wacky!