After Getting High At Costume Party, Law Student in Rio Dressed As BOPE Officer Steals A Bus & Causes 3 Accidents

After Getting High At Costume Party, Law Student in Rio Dressed As BOPE Officer Steals A Bus & Causes 3 Accidents

Law student Pedro Henrique Garcia de Souza, 24, from Rio stole a bus this morning and managed to hit 18 cars before getting arrested. One person was injured.

Here’s part of the article from G1:

“Eu não sequestrei o ônibus, não. Não tinha ninguém dentro”, disse o jovem de 24 anos preso após roubar um ônibus neste domingo (18) no Terminal Alvorada, na Barra da Tijuca, na Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro, e provocar uma série de acidentes na Zona Sul. “Eu saí de uma festa, realmente fiz errado”, admitiu o jovem, que afirmou ser estudante de direito.

“I didn’t hijack the bus. There was no one inside” says the student in his defense….LOL……and then he goes on to claim that he was really the victim in this situation, as he was “beaten by the police” after they arrested him (just to remind you, this is a law student), which the PM of course deny:

O jovem afirmou ainda ter sido vítima de agressões de policiais ao se entregar. “Olha a minha cara. Quando eles mandaram parar, eu parei, olha só a minha cara, olha o que eles fizeram comigo. Eu tô errado, mas eles tão mais porque me espancaram, eu fui espancado pela PM”, disse o preso, ainda dentro da viatura policial. Procurada pelo G1, a assessoria da Polícia Militar nega que agentes tenham agredido o rapaz. De acordo com a PM, o preso está machucado devido à sequência de colisões do ônibus.

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News: Google Street View Takes Its Camera to the Amazon

Google Street View Heads to the Amazon, Enables Virtual River Excursions

Get ready to explore of one of the world’s most-remote regions with just a click of your mouse. No bug spray necessary.

Google is sending its street view camera around the Amazon River basin by boat and bike. It announced on its blog:

We’ll pedal the Street View trike along the narrow dirt paths of the Amazon villages and maneuver it up close to where civilization meets the rainforest. We’ll also mount it onto a boat to take photographs as the boat floats down the river. The tripod — which is the same system we use to capture imagery of business interiors — will also be used to give you a sense of what it’s like to live and work in places such as an Amazonian community center and school.

Let’s just start by saying that this is amazing. The Amazon is a place few will visit in their lifetimes. Of course Street View (or should it be renamed River View?) isn’t the same as being there. But what it may lack in quality it makes up for in quantity — the many millions of people who, right from their own homes, will be able to explore one of the most remote places on earth. That alone is cool, albeit in a way different than the experience of actually being there. (And the Amazon is just one example: Google Street View is opening up many of the coolest places on earth for people to see from home. You can easily spend hours “walking” around European capitals or huge swaths of Japan.)

The Amazon isn’t the only part of Brazil getting Google’s street-view treatment. Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte are all available for exploring, lest the rest of the world think that the Amazon is the entirety of the country.

Read More, Via The Atlantic…

Brazil’s ‘Mr. Elderly’ Annual Contest Chooses Most Handsome Grandpa

 Weird News: Brazil’s Hottest Grandpa Crowned in Sao Paulo

First it was prison inmates, now it’s grandpas. What’s going on Sao Paulo?

Via HuffPost…

“They want to see people who are dynamic…who are good speakers who also have good looks and a young soul…how is able to somehow pass this energy to the public.”

That’s how the winner of Brazil’s “Mr. Elderly” contest describes the geriatric beauty contest’s criteria. You can’t fault 60-year-old electrician Sergio Cardoso too much for sounding immodest: he was selected out of 65 other respectable elderly men, and reportedly drew gasps from a crowd of nearly 300 women as he stepped forward to take the coveted title.

As the BBC is reporting, the annual pageant is hosted by Sao Paulo-based clinic with the intention of promoting healthy aging among men and women over 60.

 

Watch the video by Reuters HERE…

Weird News: 2011 “Miss Penitentiary”: Prison In Brasilia Throws Beauty Pageant for Inmates

Beauty Behind Bars: Brazilian Prison Announces 2011 Miss Penitentiary

Inmates of the Women’s Prison of Brasilia participate in the third annual “Miss Penitentiary”beauty pageant

Via International Business Times…

Fashion was high in the air with women dressed up in gorgeous gowns and designer heels. However, it is not the Paris Fashion Week or the Milan Fashion Week that we are referring to.

Inside the high-security walls of the Women’s Prison of Brasilia, a number of prison inmates were walking the ramp for the 2011 Miss Penitentiary fashion contest.

Over 100 female prisoners were part of the jail’s third annual Miss Penitentiary awards. The winner of the contest, Raira Passion, looked stunning in a green evening dress. She was announced the winner after receiving the highest number of votes out of the 12 selected finalists.

Check out the images of the 2011 Miss Penitentiary below:

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Weird Science News: New Photos Of Uncontacted Tribe in Brazil

I seriously cannot get enough of this…

New Uncontacted Group Confirmed in Brazil

so, it's not OK to "contact" them, and yet it is OK to fly right over them through the sky in airplanes

The Javari Valley

The newly-identified group lives in the Javari valley, a South Carolina-sized region set aside by the Brazilian government for indigenous people. About 2,000 uncontacted people are believed to live there, making it the last great stronghold of groups who’ve utterly eschewed industrial civilization.

“There are about seven groups who have been contacted, and what the Brazilian government says is that they’ve found references to about 14 uncontacted indigenous groups,” said Watson. “Some of those groups may be the same people. It’s hard to say exactly how many there are.”

The most recent contact was made in 1996 with a group of Korubo tribespeople. (Above is videotape from that encounter.) Though government policy is to avoid contact altogether, they were moving toward an area occupied by loggers, making it necessary to warn them away.

Via Wired Science…

Culture: Tribes of Brazil: Can The Pirahã, an Amazonian Tribe, Change our Understanding of Language?

From “The Good Blood”:

HAS ONE AMAZONIAN TRIBE CHANGED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE?

 

Fascinating article in the New Yorker about a linguist and his lifetime adventure among the Pirahã tribe, in the Amazon. It is, at the same time, an über-geek search for the meaning of language, an academic drama involving Chomsky and the concept of “universal grammar” and the brain, a difficult spiritual journey for one man, and a description of a language that is so foreign and strange that might as well have come from another planet.

“For the first several years I was here, I was disappointed that I hadn’t gone to a ‘colorful’ group of people,” Everett told me. “I thought of the people in the Xingu, who paint themselves and use the lip plates and have the festivals. But then I realized that this is the most intense culture that I could ever have hoped to experience. This is a culture that’s invisible to the naked eye, but that is incredibly powerful, the most powerful culture of the Amazon. Nobody has resisted change like this in the history of the Amazon, and maybe of the world.”

According to the best guess of archeologists, the Pirahã arrived in the Amazon between ten thousand and forty thousand years ago, after bands of Homo sapiens from Eurasia migrated to the Americas over the Bering Strait. The Pirahã were once part of a larger Indian group called the Mura, but had split from the main tribe by the time the Brazilians first encountered the Mura, in 1714. The Mura went on to learn Portuguese and to adopt Brazilian ways, and their language is believed to be extinct. The Pirahã, however, retreated deep into the jungle. In 1921, the anthropologist Curt Nimuendajú spent time among the Pirahã and noted that they showed “little interest in the advantages of civilization” and displayed “almost no signs of permanent contact with civilized people.” (…)

To Everett, the Pirahã’s unswerving dedication to empirical reality—he called it the “immediacy-of-experience principle”—explained their resistance to Christianity, since the Pirahã had always reacted to stories about Christ by asking, “Have you met this man?” Told that Christ died two thousand years ago, the Pirahã would react much as they did to my using bug repellent. It explained their failure to build up food stocks, since this required planning for a future that did not yet exist; it explained the failure of the boys’ model airplanes to foster a tradition of sculpture-making, since the models expressed only the momentary burst of excitement that accompanied the sight of an actual plane. It explained the Pirahã’s lack of original stories about how they came into being, since this was a conundrum buried in a past outside the experience of parents and grandparents.

The Interpreter: Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?

Weird Science News: Glow-In-The-Dark Brazilian Mushroom Back After 170 Years

Glow-In-The-Dark Brazilian Mushroom Back After 170 Years

What do you mean “back“?… A glow-in-the-dark mushroom that has not been seen since 1840 has been found in a Brazilian rainforest. And may I just point out:

“To catch the green glow of the bioluminescent mushroom, Dr Desjardin and his research partner in Brazil, Dr Cassius Stevani, had to ‘go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees’, while keeping an eye out for poisonous snakes and prowling jaguars.”

ahahaha. ha.

brazilian glow in the dark mushrooms. "wouldn't it be lovely if all the forests were like those in avitar!"

A long-forgotten glow-in-the-dark mushroom that had not been seen since 1840 has been discovered in the lush forests of Brazil, according to the Daily Mail.

The flashy fungi was rediscovered by scientist Dennis Desjardin and his team in 2009.

The mushroom’s bioluminescence, or an organism’s ability to produce light on their own, was first discovered by British botanist George Gardner, according to LiveScience. Desjardin’s newly-collected specimens led to it being reclassified as Neonothopanus gardner.

The forgotten fungus shines so brightly that you can read by it, and the team hopes that by studying it and its bioluminescent cousins, scientists will be able to shed light on how and why some fungi glow, according to Wired.

Catching the ‘shroom shrouded in secrecy was no easy task. According to his release, Desjardin and his long-time research partner in Brazil, Dr. Cassius Stevani, had to “go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees,” wary of nearby poisonous snakes and prowling jaguars.

Scientists aren’t sure why the 65 luminescent fungi species glow, but the ability may have evolved to attract nocturnal animals to aid in dispersal of the fungi’s spores — spreading their offspring around.

“We want to know how this happens, how it evolved, and if it evolved multiple times,” Desjardin said. “Each one of these is a fascinating question that we are close to answering.”

(Via Fox News) Read more…

Weird News: Brazilian Boy is a Human Magnet

Magnetism? Or just a sticky kid?

An 11-year-old boy in Brazil is drawing attention with a purported ability to attract metal objects to his body. Paulo David Amorim’s abdomen, chest and back allow objects like spoons and scissors to stick to his body, according to TV footage…

SAO PAULO — An 11-year-old boy in Brazil’s northeastern city of Mossoro is drawing attention with his purportedly magnet-like qualities.

The Globo TV network has broadcast images of Paulo David Amorim demonstrating how forks, knives, scissors, cooking pans, cameras and other metal objects seem drawn to his body and remain stuck on his chest, stomach and back.

The boy’s father tells Globo that he decided to test his son after learning of a boy in Croatia with a similar ability. Junior Amorim says he was surprised to find “a fork and knife stuck to his body.”

The youth says classmates call him “magnet boy.”

Dr. Dix-Sept Rosado Sobrinho tells Globo it is the first time in his 30-year career that he has seen a case like this.

(via HuffingtonPost)

Women Getting Their Hair Stolen in Brazil? Yes, This Is a Thing.

Women Getting Their Hair Stolen in Brazil? Yes, This Is a Thing.

That’s right, over the years hair-stealing has been one of those things that seems to come in waves in Brazil. Brazilian women typically like to have very long hair. So, a guy on a motorcycle comes up behind an unexpecting victim and cuts her hair off to sell it. Yes this happens. There are months where it becomes popular, and girls walk around with their hair tied up. Is this extremely common, no. But it does happen, and it tends to happen in big cities. Just watch where you are wandering, and learn to always be super perceptive about what and who is around you.

Brazilian Thief Steals Woman’s ‘Virgin’ Hair in Goiania

the thief apparently stole her hair while she was waiting at a bus stop

From AOL:

Brazilian police say a thief cut off and stole a woman’s long hair while she waited at a bus stop. Police say the hair was virgin, meaning it had not been chemically treated, and will probably be sold for the production of wigs.

Inspector Jose Carlos Bezerra da Silva said Friday to Globo TV’s G1 website that the woman was waiting for a bus in the central city of Goiania when the man used a knife-like weapon to cut the hair, which reached past her waist. She said she thought the man was going to steal her purse so she turned her back to him.
Silva said he’d never seen a theft like it in 20 years.

He said the 24-year-old woman reported the case to police because she is evangelical and had to explain to her pastor why her hair wasn’t long anymore.

Weird News: Brazilian Man Uses The Family Poodle to Beat His Wife

Weird News: Brazilian Man Hits Wife With Poodle

but, why!?

From the CBC: 

Police in southern Brazil say a jealous husband hit his wife in the head with a pet poodle.
The man picked up the dog and swung it into his wife’s head twice because he suspected she was having an affair, Insp. Thais Norah Sartori Postiglione said in Sao Paulo.

The two-kilogram dog died, and Carla de Camargo Oliveira suffered minor bruises, the inspector said. Postiglione said she cannot release the name of the alleged assailant because he was not arrested. Officers decided the attack was not highly dangerous to the woman and he was not caught in the act.

But police are urging prosecutors to charge him with assault and battery and cruelty to animals, Postiglione said.

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