May 21st, 2008
How’s this for returning to the scene of the crime? A Truckee, California woman crashed her car in the exact same spot where she wrecked five months ago after allegedly driving under the influence. Now that’s talent.
But it gets better. The 23-year-old’s blood alcohol content — both times — was over three times greater than […]
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May 21st, 2008
We may need to start a “Gas Is Ridiculously High” Category. A farmer in Tennessee’s Warren County tells the Associated Press he can’t afford fuel for his tractor anymore. So he’s using two mules and a tractor rake to gather hay from their fields.
It’s getting crazy, folks. I’m looking into buying a Segway. Or […]
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May 19th, 2008
Two Belgians launched a new video game that is played at a urinal. Players can kill aliens or ski while relieving themselves. The name of the game? “Place to Pee.”
The designers got the idea while drinking, what else, Belgian beers. They must have been drinking a lot of beers. The game is made up of […]
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May 19th, 2008
Remember the girl who was tormented on MySpace and committed suicide? The mom who helped perpetrate the hoax that sent the girl over the edge was indicted last week.
Lori Drew is accused of creating a MySpace profile in the name of a nonexistent teenage boy, who she then used to talk to Megan Meier. She […]
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May 19th, 2008
The Associated Press gives us a just - bizarre incident of a restaurateur and a security guard squaring off with Tasers over a parking problem. Man, there are so many dumb decisions crammed into such a small amount of time here it’s unreal.
Where to begin? According to police reports Harvey M. Epstein, co-owner of […]
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May 19th, 2008
This comes to us from Reuters Australia, and from a stag that took it to a local hunter. On Friday a 26-year-old man ignored signs on a deer paddock at a tourist farm and tried to feed grass clippings to the deer.
It’s breeding season for the deer so the stag was a little more […]
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May 18th, 2008
Imagine you’re a postal worker in Pennsylvania. You’re going about your business, moving packages to and fro. You see a box from Taiwan, labeled toys, gifts and jellies. But toys don’t make scratching noises now, do they?
The postmaster suspected that the package in question held live organisms. So the package was x-rayed and opened by […]
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May 17th, 2008
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A girl in Greece went to the hospital for stomach pain and found out she had an embryonic twin instead. Doctors at the hospital removed a growth and later found that it was a 2-inch embryo.
Wow. Doctors could see that her tummy was swollen, but didn’t expect […]
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May 16th, 2008
From the Winnipeg Sun comes a tale so crazy Stephen King might do something with it. A Winnipeg woman who accidentally stabbed her boyfriend in the heart during a drunken sex game received a three-year conditional discharge Wednesday.
The loving couple left the courtroom together. I’m not sure who’s dumber there, her for stabbing him […]
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May 16th, 2008
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If you really, really love the water, you can do more than have a burial at sea with your ashes strewn across the water. You can get buried in the sea, off the coast of Florida.
And this underwater cemetery has gates, pathways, plaques, and benches. […]
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