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Archive for the ‘Lame’ Category

May 12th, 2008

Crystal Skull Pulls Disappearing Act

A crystal skull on display at a New Age store in Claremont, California is missing. The skull is similar to the crystal skulls in the much-hyped upcoming Indiana Jones saga.
Most of the store’s customers are pretty laid back and the owner has no idea why anyone would take “Solar Ray,” as his owner Don Marr […]

By Becky -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Skull bong gets men arrested

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Two men (allegedly) dug up a skull in Texas and used it as a bong. They’ve been charged with corpse-abuse, a misdemeanor.
One of the men told the police about the grave digging in an old, abandoned cemetery, wherein they removed a head from a body and used it to […]

By Becky -- 3 comments

May 1st, 2008

Grand Theft Auto Launch Has Muggings

Oh, the irony at work here. The midnight launch of much anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto IV on Tuesday was marred by violence. The BBC reported two separate incidents in the minutes after the game released.
A 23-year-old got stabbed outside a Gamestation in Croydon and an 18-year-old was the victim of a mugging […]

By brian -- 2 comments

April 18th, 2008

Stupid Sheriff Tricks: Cat Tasering

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is going through quite a rough spot right now. Just last week a grand jury found that deputies watched TV and sent text messages while an inmate was beaten to death. And this week, they’re investigating whether a staff member tasered a cat that was found dead on jail grounds.
This […]

By Becky -- 0 comments

April 16th, 2008

Lawyer Jailed for Obscene Gesture in Court

The Austin American-Statesman reports that an Austin defense attorney got 90 days in jail for a locker-room style signal he made in court during a hearing.
In March, Attorney Adam Reposa got caught making the masturbation gesture often used to symbolize wasting one’s time. Problem being he did it in plain sight of a County […]

By brian -- 0 comments

April 16th, 2008

Travel Writer Writes - But Doesn’t Travel

A Lonely Planet travel writer recently claimed that he made up large sections of the guidebooks he penned. At times, Thomas Kohnstamm didn’t even visit the countries he wrote about, claiming he wasn’t paid enough to visit them.
In addition, he accepted free travel, which goes against Lonely Planet’s policy for its writers.
Conveniently, Kohnstamm has a […]

By Becky -- 0 comments

March 10th, 2008

Even Microsoft Execs are Upset with Vista

It may be hard to believe, but even some of Microsoft’s top executives are upset with the abysmal performance of their new Windows Vista operating system. 
Don’t believe me?  Check out this timely article from the New York Times.
Where oh where did Microsoft go wrong?  My guess is when they left DOS in the […]

By Ariel -- 1 comment

March 1st, 2008

The Future of Business Ethics

A recent poll has revealed that teenagers in this country are just as prepared to lie, cheat, steal, and engage in dishonest business practices as their elders.
According to the Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey, 71% of teens surveyed were prepared to make ethical decisions in the workplace.  A good sign, right?
Well, 38% indicated that […]

By Ariel -- 0 comments

February 28th, 2008

John McCain Not Eligible for Presidency?

Well here’s an odd piece of news you don’t see every day.  For those of you who don’t know, the United States Constitution requires that the president of the country must be a “natural born citizen.” 
This may cause some concern for Republican front-runner John McCain.  Born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, some […]

By Ariel -- 2 comments

February 27th, 2008

Kindergartener Suspended for Haircut

Kids sure are getting rebellious early these days.  At least that’s what Principal Linda Geyer of Parma Community School in Ohio seemed to believe when she suspended one of her kindergarten students for coming to school with an “unacceptable haircut.”
6-year-old Bryan Ruda has a mowhawk and according to administrators, that violates the school’s dress […]

By Ariel -- 6 comments

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