Saturday Morning Confusion: "It's Hell To Get Old

My friend Wayne sent us another gem!

Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart.  He was stiff-legged and walking slowly. One student  said to his friend: "I'm sure that poor old Man has Peltry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that." The other student says: "No, I don't think so. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks slowly and his legs are apart, just as we learned in class." Since they couldn't agree they decided to ask the old man. They approached him and one of the students said to him, "We're Medical students and couldn't help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn't agree on the syndrome you might have. Could you tell us what it is?"  The old man said, "I'll tell you, but first you tell me what you two fine medical students think." The first student said, "I think it's Peltry Syndrome." The old man said, "You thought - but you are wrong." The other student said, "I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome."  The old man said, "You thought - but you are wrong." So they asked him, "Well, old timer, what do you have?" The old man said, "I thought it was GAS - but I was wrong, too!"

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As the Sun-Sentinel puts it, "it's hard to stand out when it comes to crime in South Florida," but that's exactly what one 21-year-old Loxahatchee resident has allegedly done. 

Per the AP, Tyler Butler was arrested on charges of arson and using an explosive device after cops say he tried to prevent the bank from selling his foreclosed home in a way that suggests he's watched too many Looney Tunes cartoons: blowing up the place with a bowling ball bomb, complete with what Butler told deputies was a gunpowder-filled center and a rope for a fuse, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

People in Butler's neighborhood called 911 to report a house fire around 10pm Sunday, and someone told police on the scene that Butler was still inside. 

Deputies detained the man as he left the burning building, and as firefighters put out the blaze, they noticed a bowling ball with what looked like a wick sticking out. Witnesses said Butler had mentioned before the fire that "he wasn't gonna leave the house he [used] to live in, that he would burn it down," per a Palm Beach County sheriff's arrest report. 

 http://www.newser.com/story/208457/cops-guy-tried-to-burn-house-with-bowling-ball-bomb.html

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 Well boys and girls, it seems there's a brand new competition in the Middle-East.
AND IT'S HEATING UP!
The Islamic State is beating Al Qaeda at being the world's leading terrorist group, says the US State Department.
The "unprecedented" spread and brutality of ISIS, its strength in recruiting foreign fighters, messaging and its ability to inspire lone wolf attacks have helped the group supplant Al Qaeda as the leading global terrorist group, said the State Department's annual terrorism report.
The report says both groups were adapting their tactics in ways that are more brutal and harder to trace.
"The prominence of the threat once posed by core Al Qaeda diminished in 2014," the report said.
In addition to significant losses of its core leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it noted that "Qaeda leadership also appeared to lose momentum as the self-styled leader of a global movement in the face of ISIS's rapid expansion and proclamation of a Caliphate", said the report accessed by CNN on Friday.
The number of terrorist attacks in 2014 increased 35 percent over the previous year, but were more heavily concentrated in a handful of countries.

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A Southern California woman has been charged with beating her boyfriend to death with canned food.
Prosecutors on Thursday filed a murder charge against 59-year-old Linda Jackson of Lake Los Angeles.
She was jailed and it's unclear whether she had obtained an attorney.
KNBC-TV says Jackson is charged with striking her 59-year-old boyfriend, David Ruiz, in the head with a can of peas, a can of carrots and a can of sprouts yesterday at her home. (Unconfirmed reports are that the woman is a vegetarian!)
If convicted, she could face life in state prison.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/weird/ci_28342235/woman-charged-killing-boyfriend-canned-food-attack

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AND FINALLY:

This news flash from Snopes.com: IS THIS THE LARGEST SNAKE IN THE WORLD? Snopes.com says no, but we will let you decide for yourself!!!!!

World’s Largest Snake? A series of photos purportedly showing the “world’s largest anaconda” have been circulating around the Internet!

While we haven’t been able to determine how the image featured in the above-displayed video was created, the video claims that the snake is at least 75 feet long (which is more than twice the size of the largest snake on record); and second, the video comes from an unreliable source.
Marc Anders, who uploaded the video, is a cryptozoologist who frequently uses digital manipulation to speculate about the existence of creatures such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.
When the above-displayed images began circulating in June 2015, a story containing oddly-specific details (how could the number of animals this snake had killed be known?) was attached to them:

The world’s largest Anaconda was caught in Amazon forest. This snake had eaten 257 people & 2325 animals. It is 134 feet long and 2067 kg. This anaconda was caught alive by a long struggle after 37 days and killed by the Royal British commando force.

That story also contains several questionable facts. Most obviously, a 134-foot-long snake is more than four times longer than the Green Anaconda, the world’s largest snake according to National Geographic, which can reach lengths of about 30 feet. Even Titanoboa, the enormous Cretaceous fossil discovered in 2012, topped out at under 50 feet.

Last updated: 18 June 2015

Read more at http://m.snopes.com/fauxtography-animals-worlds-largest-snake/#fJVgMTp4quDovPBX.99