Things the Internet is good for, part 3

Odd translations.

This site runs a piece of text through Babelfish multiple times. It's interesting to see what gibberish you end up with.

For example the following text from the wikipedia entry on the Haymarket Massacre:

The rally began peacefully under a light rain on the evening of May 4. Anarchist leader August Spies spoke to the large crowd while standing in an open wagon on a side street. According to many witnesses Spies said he was not there to incite anyone. Meanwhile a large number of on-duty police officers watched from nearby. The crowd was so calm that Mayor Carter Harrison, Sr., who had stopped by to watch, walked home early. Some time later the police ordered the rally to disperse and began marching in formation towards the speakers' wagon. A lit, fused bomb whistled over the heads of onlookers and landed near the police line, killing twelve people including a policeman, Mathias J. Degan (seven other policemen later died from their injuries). The police immediately opened fire on the crowd, injuring dozens. Many of the wounded were afraid to visit hospitals for fear of being arrested. A total of eleven people died.

Ends up as

The meeting began pacafica under a luminous rain the night May of 4. Spessimetri the August of the director/conductor of the Anarchisten that everything with the great mass with the continuation of the interior of the automobile had spoken, this belt road is opened in one. In most of opinion of witnesses, the one that it admits when it will be, considered not little important, excited this. During him it offers of many officials of the oldest policies of the one than Aufaufgabe the extremity observes of. The mass was if peace, of that mayors Charretier Harrison, who were been to MR., of whom close they had arrested it a commentary, to the house soon. If it more later determined the hour asked for to the cone of the meeting of the
writing, in the order zerstreuen and began to enter the disposition for the automobile of or loudspeakers, the collapse which that that in the titles of the spectators was whistled rayent was melted, who were burnings to the end of the cone of the writing and of the program examinacian had done them, and he destroys to twelve people including/understanding an official of the policies, Mathias J Degan
(the other sieve of the officials of the dead policies more later its damages). The cone of the writing has opened immediately fogos in the mass and has hurt dozen. A processing by lots had been a scared of the decree of the incident to visit the hospitals therefore that the fear can be interrupted. A total of an amount of eleven people dies.

After being translated from English into French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish, going back to English again after each step.

The first line is almost poetic.