Woman Hit By Lightning While Praying

6-Year-Old Fla. Girl Charged With Felony For Kicking Teacher's Aide
Hat tip to Kara!

Astronaut's Golf Shot Pulled from Next ISS Spacewalk
$100 billion for this?

Report Exonorates Lance Armstrong of Doping:
"A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the authorities and to consider 'appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations' and deter future misconduct."

Yet another reason to avoid flying in Equitorial Guinea:
"Their operating licences, including that of the national carrier, were revoked after aircraft inspections carried out by South African experts."

Giant earthworm resurfaces after nearly two decades

Sweet success for pioneering hydrogen energy project

"Radioactive Waste Leaking into Champagne Water Supply"
Greenpeace tries to kill the French sparkling wine industry

Shroomers find exotic, legal alternatives to catch a buzz

Ice Age beasts' ivory sold as trinkets
Woolly mammoth ivory on the market!

Vibrant Leipzig defies dour image:
"Any World Cup fans who arrive early in Leipzig could be in for a big surprise."
It's a goth-fest! The "Wave-Goth-Treffen"

Zimbabwe introduces $100,000 note:
"To help consumers as inflation exceeds 1,000%."

Ukraine football squad offered sex incentive

Indians to get colour TVs – for free

"Airlines lose luggage. Waiters lose food. Dry cleaners lose pants. Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Didier lost 53-year-old Louis Eugene Craft."
Forgotten in jail for 494 days!

Ex-mob boss now a devastating informant
"The killers put the dead canary in the freezer. Later, their work finished, they placed the bird inside the mouth of the equally deceased Bruno Facciola."

Road rage driver takes policeman for ride

Finders keepers for plane loader

Worlds largest living creature discovered in Ibiza

Man kills, dismembers brother

Weapon of Mass Destruction Targets Sex Shop In Waldo
Chemical Warfare vs. Adult Supercenter

Islam vs. France, round 2
"At least 100 youths, many brandishing baseball bats, clashed with police in a new outbreak of violence in the same Parisian suburbs in which nationwide rioting started last autumn"

A minor explosion in a coffin rocked Carlisle’s crematorium after a funeral service yesterday afternoon.
The cause is still being investigated – but it is believed to have been the result of a pacemaker being left inside a body.

Woman balks at having 6/6/6 'devil' baby

Police Probe Bizarre Goat Head Display

Pedophiles to launch political party
Dutch pervs want to lower the age of consent to 12!

Cordless Jump-Rope Can Help the Clumsy

Test Tube Babies Come Out Wrong Color!
"THE white dad whose wife had Asian twins in an IVF blunder told yesterday how his son declared: “I want to be pink like you, Daddy.”"

Baby Born With Third Arm
Hat tip to Kara!

Ghost ship update

Jogger fights gator, pulls his puppy from its jaws

Litter bin mystery puzzles English village

POW Receives Letter From Captor

Senate Leader Took Free Boxing Tickets
It's embarassing how politicians are so easily bought.

FCC Language Police Update:
"The commission held that the following words or phrases were not indecent or profane in the contexts at issue (and also not presumptively profane): 'poop,' 'kick-ass,' 'sex with a dog,' 'singers that suck,' 'a lot of crap,' 'my ass,' 'you suck,' 'dick,' 'dickhead,' 'hell,' 'damn,' 'bitch,' 'pissed off,' 'up yours,' 'ass,' 'for Christ's sake,' 'kiss my ass,' 'fire his ass,' 'ass is huge,' 'wiping his ass,' 'sucked' and 'sit their asses down.'"

However, fuck and shit are even deeper in the doghouse:

"Impermissible Expletives. As noted, the "F-Word" and "S-Word" and variations thereof such as "bullshit" are now presumptively profane. They are also likely to be found indecent in almost all contexts, including where used fleetingly and unintentionally.

Thus, the commission found that the following broadcasts were all indecent and profane: (1) the live broadcast on a morning news interview show of an interviewee's single reference to someone as a "bullshitter"; (2) the live broadcast of a performer saying "fuck 'em" on an awards show, as well as the live broadcast of a performer saying "shit" and "fucking simple" on another awards show; (3) Detective Sipowitz's single use of "bullshit" on episodes of "NYPD Blue"; (4) multiple uses of the "F-Word" and "S-Word" (and variations thereof) by interviewees on a PBS/Martin Scorsese documentary of the history of the blues; and (5) repeated use of the words "shit," "bullshit" and "owl shit" in a feature movie.

The commission recognized one key exception: the movie "Saving Private Ryan." It reiterated that the repeated use of the "F-Word" and the "S-Word" (and variations thereof) in "Saving Private Ryan" was not indecent or profane because the words are essential to the artistic integrity of the work."

University suspends exams for World Cup
Getting their priorities straight!

Baby Burnt In Tumble Dryer Horror:
"But when the baby spilled a drink on herself, he allegedly put the child inside the tumble dryer and switched the power on."

Rat poison + milk = 12 years at the Youth Authority

Croesus riches replaced by fakes

Swan falls in love with paddle boat

Piano found near summit of mountain

Cab drags shot man 8 blocks

Why God curses Indonesia -- and always will

Computer techs turn to fisticuffs for fun
Geeks violate the first rule of Fight Club

U.S. is an impatient nation, poll finds
"Americans get antsy after 5-minute phone wait"

Hat tip to Kara!

The Good Life: A new look at gin

Indonesian Villagers Blame Magic, Not Flu
"'I think the family was cursed,' she said. 'It must be, because if it's bird flu, why only their family? Their blood?'"

Kate Moss goes nuts on the paparazzi - excellent photo series

One dead after skydivers collide

Cartoon Set Off Riots in Northwest Iran
This time they are racist anti-Azeri cartoons, not ones of Mohammed.

Are Tom and Katie on the rocks already?
"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reportedly got into a big fight — that ended with Holmes deciding to take baby Suri to Ohio to introduce the infant to family and friends"

After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados

"Some Less Successful Projects"

Selective breeding in the UK!

More proof that celebrities totally abuse fucked up countries:
"As the world awaited the birth of the child at a luxury villa complex on the coast, Namibian authorities said they had bowed to pressure from Jolie and Pitt and granted them the right to ban foreign journalists from entering the country - a remarkable move for the Government of any sovereign state."

Bush III is being primed to run
We've tried GHWB and W - ready for Jeb?

557 arrested in Miami:
"A total of 557 people were arrested between Thursday morning and Saturday night on Miami Beach, where revelers flocked for a celebration of hip-hop music and culture known as Urban Beach Week. Most arrests were for disorderly conduct and intoxication."

Ted Nugent in Fine Form in the UK!
'Never has there been such an upsurge in crime since they confiscated all your weapons. Why don't you arm yourselves? You Limeys have a zipper that's locked in the closed position, because you don't have a constitution. You're rewarded for shutting the fuck up.'

Rainbow Overhead as Pope Visits Auschwitz

Ancient city ruins, tombs found on Sino-North Korean border

Volcano Spirits Trusted More Than Scientists

Blast from the Past: The Eiffel Birdman of 1911:
"He expected onlookers would measure the duration of his flight. Instead they measured the depth of his crater"
With footage from the actual event...

Police nab ghostly pigeon
"A pigeon with a miniature plastic skull dangling around its neck with glowing red bulbs in the eye sockets is in the custody of the police after panic about a ghost which has been attacking people leaving scratch marks in five villages in West Bengal's Birbhum district."

Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad
"'I believe the German people are prisoners of the Holocaust. More than 60 million were killed in World War Two ... The question is: Why is it that only Jews are at the center of attention?,' he said in the interview published on Sunday."

Finns dismayed after monsters unmasked

Is it just me, or are animals becoming more anti-human?

The United States’ annual average of animal-related fatalities per year during the 1990s:

SHARKS
Average fatalities per year: 0.4

ALLIGATORS
Average fatalities per year: 0.3

DOGS
Average fatalities per year: 18

SNAKES
Average fatalities per year: 15

DEER
(vehicular collisions)
Average fatalities per year: 130

MOUNTAIN LIONS
Average fatalities per year: 0.6

Divorce proceeds after man's death

New political tactic: Heart attack ads
They tried this tactic on Cheney, but not in TV ads

‘Dracula’s Castle’ returned to royalty
The Hapsburgs get it back!

Idiot Criminals of the Week:
"A trio of hungry burglars helped their own undoing by leaving a trail of snack wrappers after stealing six packages of instant lottery tickets from a convenience store."

Aide says Jefferson cooked up scheme:
"A former aide to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, said Friday that it was the congressman's idea to solicit bribes to promote a telecommunications deal in West Africa that began as a legitimate business venture."

Skydiver Slips From Harness and Dies

Kentucky man finds python in rental car

3 Survive Rapids Attempt With Wal-Mart Raft

Police say woman dumped lighter fluid on victim

Woman Shoots Fireworks at Police Helicopter

Drinking And Dynamite Don't Mix

Honesty not best policy for Sierra Leone goat thief

Bird Flu Case May Be First Double Jump
Human-to-Human-to-Human - we're all doomed now!

Politically Incorrect in Moscow

Fish smuggles heroin-filled condoms

East Timor in total chaos - UN runs away
They created the mess, now they can't handle it anymore

Sherpa 'strips' atop Everest

'Wings' to carry paratroopers 200km.

Britney kicks out K-Fed!

Man throws two sons off South Beach hotel balcony, then jumps to own death

Holy shit! A ninja!

You Never Want to Cross an Elf:
"Careless or disrespectful humans who trespass on forest glens, rivers, or lakes considered sacred to elves may suffer terrible consequences—even cruel deaths. Entrepreneurs who wish to desecrate land whereon lie fairy circles or mounds in order to build a road or construct a commercial building may find themselves combating an unseen enemy who will accept only their unconditional surrender."

Wealthy couple guilty of enslaving maid

Hundreds of Millions for Top Hedgies
"A Ranking of Top Earning Hedge Fund Managers Pegs Average Pay at $363 Million"

Beauty salon brawl:
“Speak English! This is America!”

Kidnapped Man Shoots His Attackers

Man stabs 20 at opening of Berlin train station

German speakers can read more here and here and here. There's also a lovely "Amokläufe Chronologie" here. Apparently, this is the 8th bloody rampage in Germany in the last 4 years!

Super Bowl Hero Sentenced For Distributing Cocaine
Sold 20 ounces of coke for $13k to undercover cops

Mayor Who Stole Life Savings of Dead Marine Resigns

Pat Robertson Says He Leg-Pressed 2,000 Pounds
God works in mysterious ways, but experts are dubious

Judge Says Child Molester Is Too Short For Prison

Eight teens injured after car tumbles down LA hillside

Father's marijuana accidentally sent to St. Paul school in 6-year-old's bookbag:
"Corey E. Randle, 29 of St. Paul, told police that he had been selling the drugs for about two weeks to pay for cigarettes"

Ice Cube Joins Voices Against Oprah
Rap stars whine that Oprah only caters to older white women:

"She's had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I'm not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?"

'Shots fired' actually an air hammer
Congressional offices in lockdown for 5 1/2 hours. Now the local bars and freeways are flooded with pissed off staffers who are stuck dealing with Memorial Day weekend traffic instead of escaping early.

'Dead' Everest climber 'is alive'
But for how much longer?

Fusion reactor work gets go-ahead

Gunmen in Baghdad killed the coach of the Iraqi national tennis team and two players, reportedly for wearing Western-style tennis shorts

New York Welcomes Fleet Week the Best Way We Know How

Student sex act videoed in class!

Israeli F-16s scramble to intercept parachutist
Wait til he gets the bill!

'I like to be big'
6 years old, over 200 lbs...

Meat Loaf Says He Can't Remember 'American Idol' Performance
Hat tip to Kara!

Treasury dept. ends Spanish-American War!
A "temporary" tax on long-distance phone calls initiated at the start of the 4 month long war is finally ended 108 years later.

Illuminati ax-man stopped by talking dog

Radio Station Airs Volcano Alert by Mistake

Armless driver 'had foot to floor'
The saga continues

Galloway says murder of Blair would be justified

Plan for cloaking device unveiled

Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed
Interesting twist on a slowly brewing constitutional crisis...

The Euston Manifesto
You've already heard of neo-cons; today witness the birth of the neo-libs...

Kate Moss Beat Up Pete Doherty Over Blood Prank

Sensitivity-Nazis Attack High School Football in CT

18,000 Pounds of Fireworks Seized in N.Y.

Samsung has actually banned employees from using one of the company's own products out of industrial espionage fears

Deaths as Benin tanker truck explodes
Locals were stealing fuel from the broken down truck. Probably some idiot lighting a cigarette...

Cops Seek Couple Accused in Grisly Videotape Rape, Murder
Evil on the loose! Cops think they may be involved in many more...

Gun battles rage on in Mogadishu
Somalia in total chaos again

Congress passes funeral protest ban
Freaky protesters get a law aimed at them!

Arianna Huffington gets good goss on Bill and Hillary
See 13th graf and on:
"...he was the surprise speaker at an under-the-radar gathering of Democratic heavy hitters -- including deep-pocket donors like George Soros -- in Austin, Texas. The event was a meeting of the Democracy Alliance, the Rob Stein-led group that is helping build and fund a progressive infrastructure to match the GOP's well-oiled political machine."
"Sources present at the off-the-record meeting tell me that during a Q & A session following Bill Clinton's speech, someone asked the former president about Hillary's support of the war.
Clinton became incensed and unleashed the kind of fury that former Clinton staffers tell me they are very familiar with.
Apparently Clinton directed his anger first at the questioner (indeed, the question itself as if it were impertinent and inappropriate), then at the whole crowd, which was startled at his vehemence."

'Alien message' sparks tsunami panic
Everyone is getting in on today's End of the World!

Pete Doherty Leaves Comatosed Cousin In The Street
He's turned into a daily weird news feature!

Today is the Day!
The fragments of net.dreaded Comet Schwassman-Wachmann are supposed to smack the Earth today!

Have a nice day!

Nanny state Texas bans cannonball dive!
Safety-Nazis continue to ruin America

Sand Art!

Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's

Armless man to defend driving with feet

Large Study Finds No Link between Marijuana and Lung Cancer

Gas station's shocking sign of times

Qatari pays $2.75 mln for mobile phone number 666-6666

Feds Raid Home of Photo Agency Head

Congo holds foreigners over coup plot
Mercs busted before they could pull the trigger. Looks like they should have read Luttwak first...

"Honda scientists have created a system that will translate thoughts into electrical signals that can be used to control machinery. The technique doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or extensive training"

The Pi Code
Who needs Da Vinci or the Bible when you got Pi!

Sex-toy thief caught in act

Red Spot, Jr on Jupiter

Cattle mutilation update!
Still going like crazy! And still no arrests after over 40 years...

'A LOT OF FORCE': Mystery object hits center

Gator hysteria sweeps Florida!
Last week it was Gators:3, Humans:1

Now the score is sort of evened:
Gators:3, Humans: 2, +1 prisoner

God seizes another 3
"The voice of God called upon her to sacrifice her three children"

So, she dropped them, one by one, into San Francisco bay last October

Top 50 Recipients of Jack Abramoff's Money
Conveniently color coded

Fun fun fun! Speaker of the House Hastert is under investigation by the FBI too!
Somebody is cleaning house!

So nice that this is happening in an election year. I advise all Americans to vote for anyone but an incumbant, and preferably someone under the age of 40.

House Leaders Demand FBI Return Papers
Congress is extremely pissed-off

Woman accused of writing fake tickets

A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board
Nice to see where they really stand on tolerance and diversity of opinion!

Former Nazi removed from space hall of fame
Might as well close down the Space Hall of Fame if you are gonna start excluding the Nazis. Like it or not, there'd be practically nobody left!

Statutory rape law ruled unconstitutional
Ireland paves the way!
"The court made its decision on several grounds, including the failure to allow the defence that a genuine mistake had been made about a girl's age"

A student at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College was charged in the theft of his roommate's debit card, which was used to pay for more than $2,300 worth of calls to phone sex lines

Scientists Grow Artificial Penis in Lab

Everest pioneer rips those who left dying man
A striking lack of character amongst Everest mountaineers!

Hundreds Arrested in 'Operation Global Con'
565 "Nigerian internet" scammers scooped up.

Air duel risk to Aegean tourists

Greek and Turk air-games are endangering YOU!

Man Admits Killing Rival Over Hicky on Girlfriend

School Bans Sesame Street Gang T-Shirts
The photo is brilliant!

Pete asks newsagent for the 'hardest stuff'
The Doherty chronicles continue...

UN probes Turkey 'forced suicide'
A new twist on "honor-killings"

Stuff On My Cat
Classic photos of substance abusing felines!

40 candidates run for office in village with only 63 voters

'Smiling' driver runs over 3 toddlers, 2 adults

Mars Rover Update: Spirit Hunkers Down, Opportunity on the Move

Voyager II detects solar system's edge
Launched in 1977, and moving away at a rate of 3.3 AU per year.

Sleeping pills offer wake-up call to vegetative patients:
"Clinical researchers have discovered that they can rouse semi-comatose patients by giving them, bizarrely, a common sleeping drug."

Y'all might want to rethink those living wills...

Recaptured escapee update: You can run, but you can't hide
On the lam for 38 years, he was found using his mother's maiden name. Not too brite...

Yet another deadly virus to worry about
Island-hopping beastie from the Indian Ocean coming our way!

Politically Incorrect in Holland!

You can see why folks are pissed here. Warning - it's hard to get much more Incorrect than this!

A Michigan woman is charged with involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors say her 5-month-old daughter died from drinking breast milk containing cocaine.

Bird Flu finally goes human-to-human in Indonesia?
All confirmed cases in the cluster can be directly linked to close and prolonged exposure to a patient during a phase of severe illness.

Imagine if we’d reported and opined on WWII the way we do now.
VDH lays it out!

Yet another humiliation for the anti-war left
Their latest video hero Jesse Macbeth, who claimed to be an Army ranger back from Iraq, is exposed as a total fraud who never even served. Now he's being tossed under the bus by those he humiliated. Even the folks behind his video have gone silent.

Woman dies on cross-country flight; nobody notices

Foiled Again! Man's Room Turned Into Hamster Habitat

10,000 Foxes Roam London
Hat tip to Kara!

Botox could be new wrinkle in prostate treatment:
"Injecting Botox into the prostates of men with enlarged prostates appears to ease symptoms"

Hat tip to Kara!

Baboons raid S. African beach homes
"Unruly gangs are raiding the expensive homes that line the spectacular coast of South Africa's Cape Peninsula, clearing out pantries, emptying fridges, and defecating over the designer furnishings."

Hat tip to Kara!

Dart thrower hopeful chased in Parliament

Mystery Robot Said to Solve Crimes, Find Mines in Chile

Hat tip to Kara!

Ad banned for being to scary!

Soldiers bond with iRobot machine; CEO dreams big

30 hour budget flight hell

Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit
BAC of 7.27 g/l

No, not .727, but 7.27!

Teacher With 'Superhuman Strength' Arrested By Cops

Pirate Update!
6 attacks last week, including this:

"Four armed Maoists and a female accomplice boarded as passengers onboard two passenger vessels. Most of the passengers and crew were forced to disembarked but ten people were held as hostages. The hostages were later freed and the Maoists blew up the vessels. The hijackers were then pursued by armed police as they tried to escape"

The real Iraqi torture

Greek, Turkish fighter jets crash
The pilots were playing chicken with each other over the Aegean.

Bear enters home, mauls woman

India on suicide alert after shares plunge
India's market dropped 20 percent over the last 3 trading sessons.

Egypt to excavate Roman city submerged in sea

Slovak doctor says solar flares could raise strokes:
"We see a correlation between the human body and lunar and solar phenomena, even if we don't know exactly what explains the connection"

Falling ice lands in Brigantine:
"The giant ice cube, measuring about 2 feet around, fell from the sky at about 7:34 p.m. and made a foot-deep crater in the resident's lawn"

Forecast warns of shower of frogs

Eight rare albino alligators have been born in Brazil's Panatal region
No doubt the ''National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation'' will be whining about the lack of "realistic, sympathetic or heroic characters with albinism"

Kenya's 'Koranic fish' recovered

Whatever was strung across the roadway on May 6 caught Robert Barnes across the upper lip, hurling him 30 feet from his motorcycle and leaving him with 500 stitches, missing teeth and titanium plates in his head, Barnes and police said.

How many times do I have to warn y'all?? You gotta have one of these thingys welded to the front of your bike!

Politically incorrect in Marengo County, Alabama!

Bank robber tosses $20 bills to escape pursuit!

20 000 tourists under the sea
"You know you need a car and a dishwasher, but maybe you also need a submarine and you do not know it."

Robotic Combat Vehicle for Border Patrol
Israel ushers in the Terminator era!

The Coming Islamic Republic of Russia
"If present trends continue, the population of Russia will decline from 143 million to 100 million by 2050. Not only that, but by 2050, most of the population may be Moslem"

A 23-year-old man was killed when he fell off a highway cleaning truck and was struck by several vehicles on Interstate 80

Another reason to avoid huffing

Wine keeps Hungarian apes feeling fine

Boy, 7, completes swim from Alcatraz

Six injured as 'freak wave' hits British ferry

Bomb parts found amid potatoes

Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional
"'I have a ton of young girls in college who are doing this,' says Dr. Mindy Wiser-Estin, a gynecologist in Little Silver, N.J., who did it herself for years. 'There's no reason you need a period.'"

UFO 'crashes' into KZN sea

Escaped prisoner found after 38 years

Record label drops Doherty for being 'too difficult to deal with'

A bear has been reported in Germany for the first time since 1835

Howard Dean's really done it this time!

Chron.com | Filing: Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money:
"A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded"

Elton John says photographers "should all be shot"
"I'm talking ... you fuckwit, fucking photographers you should be shot, you should be all shot. Thank you."

An old communist confesses: the class war is over and even Rupert Murdoch makes sense

Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States

Just how many people does it take to change a BBC light bulb?

Police union launches anti-Newsday campaign
"They operate in total secrecy, in the shadows, unelected, answering to no one, exerting undue influence ... bending facts against the police, the very people that protect us"

10-year old steals SUV and takes off on joy ride:
"10-year old Shavela Nix was the driver and during her 15-minute joyride she sideswiped several cars and led police on a chase that reached speeds of 40 to 50 miles per hour.

Police said the girl had difficulty seeing the road and would go down to hit the gas and then pop her head back up to see where she was going."

Women Police in Iran!
Brilliant video of Iranian women police showing their stuff. Where else will you see burka-clad women rapelling from tall buildings???

Hat tip to commenter "anon" for the link!

Axl Rose Says Tommy Hilfiger 'Just Kept Smacking Me'

Police Seize Millions Of Dollars In Drugs:
"Inside the boxes were 83 pounds of marijuana and close to 96,000 pounds of ecstasy"

96,000 pounds of ecstasy? I think not. It's probably 96,000 hits of X.

Stunt Man sets self alight, jumps off waterfall

UPDATE: More details and links here.

Crime fighting kitten

Gang stole cars 'piece by piece'

Teen squirts milk through his eyes

Man pulls carriage across Hungary

Congress Faces Multiple Criminal Probes
"'We have an entire generation who imagines their member of Congress in an orange jumpsuit,' ... 'It's like members of Congress don't have any shame.'"

A senior member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan

Teens Busted When Bong Falls At Trooper's Feet

Life is too short for the wronf job!
Great advertising images

Bones in togas puzzle Vatican archaeologists

How horror rock conquered Europe

FBI searches congressman's office as part of a bribery investigation
"Saturday marked the first time the FBI has ever searched a congressman's Capitol Hill office"

Czech politicians exchange blows

Police raid science fiction sex cult

Fish fall from sky, disrupt track meet

Study shows apes can plan ahead

Arizona High School Bans Bottled Ketchup

Finnish monsters rock Eurovision

No salaries? Let's sell kidney

Spectacular Eiffel Tower BASE jump video!
King of the Eiffel Tower Johan Vervoot pulls it off for the 5th(!) time!

Four arrested in Romania for spreading bird flu
They are charged with "spreading disease among animals" and could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Gators: 3, Humans: 1
It was an 11-foot-4-inch, 407-pound alligator. Now it's being turned into leather and pub snacks.

Israel tested nuke in 1979
In Antarctica!

91 illegal entrants caught in truck

Tammy Emery used to think of deer as sweet and adorable, like Bambi. An encounter with a hard-charging doe changed that

Yet another reason to avoid cosmetic surgery abroad

Make sure you know where that sperm comes from!

French are rudest, most boring people on earth: British poll

"For over 24 years the Smithsonian naturalist, lecturer and photographer, Kjell ('Shell') Sandved traveled the world over, photographing all the letters & numbers from the wings of butterflies without harming any"

Be sure to play with this too!

The 13th Root: The Apocalyptical and Official Integer Root
"Last month, a French student named Alexis Lemaire became the first human to mentally calculate the 13th root of a 200-digit number"

The Highest Parachutist:
"During his 26 km freefall, which lasted four and a half minutes, he accelerated to 990 km/hr, becoming both the first man to touch outer space and the first to break the sound barrier outside of an aircraft"

Be sure to watch the video!

Snoop Dogg barred from UK forever
That's what happens when you instigate a riot at Heathrow

The Sarong Theorem Archive:
"An electronic archive of images of people proving theorems while wearing sarongs"

80-year-old Woman Eats Stones for 70 Years

Egyptian backs Bosnian pyramid claim

Are automobiles living beings ?
Some of the world’s top scientists say automobiles should be classified as living beings -- and that they also have “minds” and possibly even “souls."

Read my chest: ‘DO NOT RESUSCITATE’

Woman abandons friend left as deposit

Chinese salesman jailed for organising gay orgies

Chad: It's Mad Max Time

A new twist on the ol' flying car

A GANG of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg

Saddam's pimped ride in U.S. custody

Germans negative on Islam, poll shows
Wie sagt man "tipping-point" auf Deutsch???

100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them
"The scholarly discipline of Bullshit Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions."

Hat tip to Instapundit!

Own-Goal Update!
"Democratic activist groups that mounted an aggressive campaign against President George W. Bush in the 2004 election have a new target: Democrats who support his policies."

A Californian beachfront home is set to break record books in the United States by selling for $75 million

"The car-mad owner not only had the car museum built into his house but also insisted on an underground garage big enough to house 16 vehicles."

Pity Poor Evel Knievel
"The man who survived 300 perilous motorcycle jumps and once climbed into a rocket-powered cycle to fly over a canyon, now stays close to an oxygen tank, ingests 50 pills a day and sucks on lollipops that deliver fentanyl, a heavy-duty painkiller. "

Can I get some of those lollipops too?!?

Teenage girls are 'out of control'

Fraternity/Sorority Members Who Get Drunk Weekly At Higher Risk of Injuries and Sexual Victimization
What would we do without researchers?

If you're THAT drunk, then don't steal a car!

Australian boxing bout sparks brawls

"Boom" sparks bomb scare in plane

200,000 Bees Found Inside Walls Of New Home

Evil grannies
Hat tip to Kara!

Sick teachers followup: Officials say tainted muffins contained marijuana

Iran eyes badges for Jews
UPDATE: Those with contacts in Iran strongly dispute the claim:
“None of my sources in Iran have heard of this,” he said. “I don’t know where this comes from.”

True or not, the report itself is weird enough to be worthy of blogging!

Fish killed as soft drink leaks from factory

Official: Africans pay $1,800 for 1GB of data
I guess the MPAA doesn't have to worry about them yet!

"A retired businesswoman accused of turning an idyllic rural community into a 'hamlet of horrors' has been given an anti-social behaviour order"

"After to listening to Raymond Russell George recite scriptures from the Bible, request a long sentence so he can preach to murderers and explain why he hasn't showered in six months, a judge sentenced the convicted child molester Tuesday to five life prison terms plus six years."

Man Falls Asleep in Coffin at Funeral Home

Doll modeled on hot and horny ex-teacher offered online

Oceans have fatal attraction
"A team of British scientists has discovered the first evidence of seawater deep inside the earth."

Pride of fleet makes toxic return
Yet another humiliation for France

Rare American Chestnut Trees Discovered

Couple Arrested For Asking For Directions

Ex-senator linked to oil-for-food claims
The Torch becomes the first US politician to get dragged into Saddam's mess. Gotta love New Jersey!

"Pfc. Fred M. Linck was shot in the head and walked away from the incident. The enemy round struck his Kevlar helmet, which saved his life by stopping the bullet from penetrating his head. "
with cool photos

America creates an artificial reef off Pensacola, Florida
Photos of the USS Oriskany being sunk off the coast.

Militant Populists with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
Dunnigan diagnoses Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.

Hunting Clubs and the Future of Iraq:
"It's payback time, and to hell with arrests and trials. Let's just go out and kill those bastards."

Genius Political Rhetoric Of The Year
"We've all heard the rule that the first one to compare his opponents' political goals to those of the Nazis' loses the argument.

I'm afraid that rule has to modified. What if you compare your own political goals to those of the Nazis?"

Kenya's 'Koranic fish' disappears

Myspace a platform for porn star promotion!

Americans Would Give Up Coffee Before Internet

McCartney may lose quarter of fortune in divorce
"That would equate to roughly $1.9 million for every week of their short-lived four-year marriage."

"'I mean she just grabbed me all down there and yanking and yanking and tearing me up with those fingernails.'"

"A dancing beggar who bizarrely licks CCTV cameras to hide his identity was today hit with an anti-social behaviour order"

"A homeless Orange County man who allegedly licked the feet of five boys after promising to cast them in a television commercial has been charged with lewd conduct"

Concrete crushes pregnant woman

Albinos condemn ‘Da Vinci’ killer as stereotype
“The Da Vinci Code” will be the 68th movie since 1960 to feature an evil albino.

"Terrified drug dealers committed a serious error by calling police for help with their hallucinations"

Norwegian subway saboteur

"In plain English, Lionel Tate, you've run out of chances. You do not get any more"

Raccoon survives massive electric shock

"Monkeys are able to string together a simple “sentence”, according to research that offers the first evidence that animals might be capable of a key feature of language"

70,000 Beer Cans Found in Ogden Townhouse

Rabies Again!

Camel runs amok on major highway, attacks worker

Alligators Dangerous No Matter How Drunk You Are

"Nearly 20 teachers and employees at a school in Dallas were sickened after eating muffins apparently laced with some type of drug, possibly marijuana."

No doubt it's someone's graduation joke.

Unsurprisingly, cops are on the hunt for the deliveryman.

More here.

Elvis's home sold to Uri Geller
He got it on eBay for $905k!
"As the clock closed on the bidding [on] Sunday, I felt intuitively I got the price," Geller said. "Suddenly the radio started playing an Elvis song. That was Elvis telling me we got the house."

Hat tip to Kat!

World Cup mascot firm goes bust
Nobody loved Goleo the Lion

Drunk Man Rescued After Night in a Tree

Brazilian chaos continues
Day 4 Update: Police say 33 suspected gang members were shot by police in the 24 hours until Tuesday lunchtime.

Body count reported to-date: 115

9 more reasons not to have a baby!

Second Phone Company Questions 'USA Today' NSA Story
Looks like USA Today got punk'd! Either that or this was a deliberate plant designed to flush out leakers, rope-a-dope style.

"An Elgin pastor for two months regularly spanked a 13-year-old girl with a wooden stick to punish her for claiming she had been sexually abused by a relative"

Six-Figure Bequest Is New Must-Have For Pampered Pooches and Kittens

06/06/06 - Day of the Devil?
Only 20 days left!

Fart ignites fire in operating room

Mayor traded water for sex

Pete Doherty smokes crack, then dresses in drag!
with photos

Putting out a fire with your skirt

Brtiney Spears: Bad Mom and Idiot to Boot!

Giant Smurf Arrested After Unsmurflike Behaviour

"He shouted 'It's time to die' before ripping off his backpack and reaching inside it at an upstate airport"

Pirate Update!
Another busy week, with 9 attacks, including this brutal one in the South China Sea:
"About 13 pirates armed with guns boarded a fishing vessel underway. They opened fire with automatic weapons killing four crewmembers and injuring three others. They stole ship's property and escaped"

Super Columbine Massacre RPG
Those who wish to play can click here!

Pete Doherty's Shenanigans Continue!

Our first Podcast!

Dear friends - please enjoy our first weird news podcast - Weird NyLon
Produced in London by my co-conspirator Paul P.

Pat Buchanan on the Da Vinci Code:
The gift keeps on giving!

"But that it will be a box-office smash, that it is the subject of lavish praise in the press, that it is the best-selling novel of the 21st century, tells us we live not just in a post-Christian era, but in an anti-Catholic culture not worth defending or saving, for it is truly satanic."

(emph. mine)

The manager of a charitable fundraising enterprise in Davenport has been fired for alleged financial mismanagement, drug use and having sex with a woman on his desk

MySpace.com hosts wannabe terrorists?

Brutal lives of Stone Age Britons
Yes folks, the fantasy of peaceful neolithics getting along with each other kum-bay-yah style is just that - a fantasy.

Neptune the kidnapper

How to Destroy the Earth and Other Things of Interest

Human cannonballs!

Flashback to March: Could they have been inspired by this?

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors

Brazilian gang 'war' leaves more than 80 dead
Gangs have taken over Brazil!

Student Busted For MySpace Bong Photo
Soooo totally busted!

"Police said their search of Blanchard's car revealed more hashish and marijuana, compact digital scales, packaging materials, bongs, four knives, more than a dozen hypodermic syringes, gun powder and potassium nitrate"

Cheesemakers create "Stilton" perfume

U.S. marshal suicides-by-cop

Clinton bows to Father Bush
The photo tells you everything you need to know about American politics

Third Deadly Alligator Attack in Florida in Past Week

House passes $10M hydrogen prize
Attention all inventors! Here's your chance

Superstition stops villagers fleeing active Java volcano

Teen asks pal to run him over

Johnny Lechner, 29, has been an undergraduate at UW-Whitewater for 12 years. Five days before graduation, Lechner withdrew his application and plans to stay at UW-Whitewater one more year

Europe cloaked by yellow dust

Mysterious Plaques In St. Louis Raise Bizarre Theories

Is Canal Being Used For Strange Rituals?

Power Up With Magnetic Bacteria

'Koranic' tuna inspires, awes Kenyan Muslims

Heavily-armed gangsters attacked police posts in Brazil's Sao Paulo state for a second night in the worst wave of crime-related violence in the country's industrial and business heartland in memory

"A group of scientists has discovered that women are attracted to men who are fond of children."

Is Britney planning a surprise divorce?!?
K-Fed still fucking clueless no doubt.

BBC falls for 'expert' cabbie's banter
More proof the television tax in UK must be abolished. Just what are you paying for my dear Brits? Drivel like this?

Yet another MySpace.com classic
Idiot teens brag about arson on their website and are busted.

Nobody loves a dead cow on their dam
But that doesn't mean anyone's willing to do a damn thing about it!

Brits pick teeth with whatever’s handy - screwdrivers, scissors...

‘They told us they would kill us all one by one’
Pirate Update followup!

Man on scooter menaces town

Cash seized by cops ends up in landfill
Interesting how nobody seemed to ask the obvious question:
Just why was the money kept in "a broken desk drawer that was being discarded"?

Surely you keep that kind of cash in a safe, unless (of course) it's a semi-official slush fund...

Mammoth Extinction Caused by Trees, Study Suggests
Reagan was right!

19% see Satan trying to destroy people's religious faith when sales soar for books, movies and studies that raise doubts about Jesus or the Bible.

Tiny Kiss scrambles for new drummer
Dwarf KISS band war update!

Da Juice is on Da Loose!
'It was good for me. It helped me get away. It's a car that I personally made famous. The car has escape-ability if you ever get into some trouble.'

Diners witness murder, suicide

A supermodel fell out of a coach travelling at 50mph after mistaking an exit door for a toilet door

Spurned suitor blows himself up

Politically Incorrect in Alabama and New Jersey

Man's Fetish Turns Bizarre At UC Library

Lancet calls for LSD in labs

Indonesia raises volcano alert

"Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?"

British Inventor Unveils 8000 MPG Car

'Weird' Cruise loses star power
His favorability numbers are comparable to W's.

Rabies!

Suspects videotaped themselves on a stolen camera, then left it for deputies to find.

World's first luxury submarines being made in Dubai

Rare 'city' mirage lasts 4 hours in China

Gigantic image of alien found near Kaliningrad

Anti-depressant makes you suicidal!

Oil pipeline explosion kills up to 200 in Nigeria
Yet another Nigerian petrol-theft mass incineration. This happens a couple times every year. This one gets high score for 2006.

US Senators Hope to Give Dalai Lama a Congressional Gold Medal
Surely this counts as government support of religion?

Geronimo!

Watch what you write in your emails!
How many times do we have to tell you this!?!?!

"A lecturer at the University of Southern California said she started a blog because her students wanted “more of me after our class time has ended,” she wrote. And they got it."

Armless man charged with dangerous driving

It's hard to find good help these days!

"A bloodthirsty ex-butcher from the Bronx expertly carved up his boss and then dumped the mutilated remains along several streets early yesterday - horrifying neighbors who found the body parts"

Two wait to be hit by train

High-tech pot palace is mind-blowing in scale

Lindsay Lohan's Record Company Fined $12M
She was made by payola, so it's only right that her company pays out.

"A 23-year-old with a foot fetish has admitted he tried to kiss, fondle and lick the legs and toes of more than 70 women on the New York subway over the last three years"

Paralyzed woman gets up, runs from police

DNA Tests Confirm Polar - Grizzly Hybrid
Now the only question is whether it's called a Grolar Bear or a Pizzly Bear....

N.C. Bomber Says He Aimed for Beaver Dam, Not Ex
Beaver dam, ex-wife - it's all pretty much the same once the sex ends...

Hat tip to Kara!

Woman killed by alligator after being dragged into Sunrise canal

Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep

"An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose."

Howard Dean blows it bigtime
The gift keeps on giving: "Howard Dean puts his foot in his mouth so often that he should open a pedicure wing in the DNC during his tenure." And it's not just gays who he is pissing off.

UFO 'super-hacker' will be extradited to US

Madrid train bomb suspect freed after court mix-up

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
They're just looking for patterns...

Yet another reason to avoid emulating Christ!

Bear that roved into Jersey cities shot dead in a backyard

Tom Cruise's career melting down
You know you are in trouble when studio heads have to come out and offer personal testamonials to your talent bankablilty after your movie fizzles at the box-office. What's worse? Even the unwashed rabble are suffering from Cruise-fatigue!

Cruise Crash Causes Paramount Panic
The crowd is fickle once you start jumping on sofas

Putin to Russia: Breed!!

David Blaine Unshrivelling

The gallows-maker
Serving dictators and gangster regimes world-wide.

Fashion Designer's Husband Killed by Elephant

"What’s a little animal sacrifice for a $675 Manhattan studio?"
Hat tip to Kara!

Whirlwind picks up trampoline; knocks girl unconscious

Ohio Man Arrested For DUI On Lawn Mower

Flying robot attack "unstoppable"
Ack to Kara!

Hungary rum barrel story withdrawn
Reuters says it happened 10 years ago!

German Cannibal Update!
Convicted! He got away with it in his first trial, but in Germany they can try you again!

More here for German-speakers.

"Lund has a rare sexual disorder. Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome. She suffers from unrelenting sexual arousal."

Kidnapped Pillsbury Doughboy "Returned"

Gunbattle inside speeding car on I-70 kills 2

Happy Birthday!
"A Brooklyn man, enraged at being asked to stop drinking in his own home, opened fire in a room full of children yesterday, killing a 3-year-old girl and wounding three other people, two of them critically, the police said"

Pirate Update!
It was busy last week! There were 7 attacks, including a murder off the Somalia coast, a yachtsman shot in the stomach off the coast of Venezuela and a tug with 12 crewmembers presumably hijacked and taken hostage in Indonesia.

Britain has the worst record for anti-social behaviour in Europe

Pelican Sought Prison Hit
It's so fun to watch the MSM dance around his links to Hillary and Bill...

Commemorating dead presidents, one McDonalds at a time

San Francisco Prostitute Schedule
Courtesy fuckedcompany.com

Hookers and Contractors and Spies, Oh My!

Many human genes evolved recently
We domesticate plants and animals and they domesticate us.

Pity Poor Moussaoui
Apparently he realized that life in solitary SuperMax-style ain't so pretty. Sorry Zach, get used to the concrete.

eSmog!

Lindsay Lohan Racks Up Huge Hotel Bill
"Lindsay Lohan racked up a massive $1,000,000 bill while staying at Hollywood's most expensive hotel. The 19-year-old star reserved a luxurious bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel - for most of last year. But after splashing out to reserve the suite it appears Lindsay barely even visited Los Angeles in 2005."

Brazil's Pirahã Tribe: Living without Numbers or Time

'Mission' Fizzling? Box Office Imploding
The Tom Cruise weirdness factor strikes the box office

Motorcycle driver flies off Williamsburg Bridge

Ketchup is out on HDTV

"Then I told a friend I could paint with my dick and she was really enthusiastic."

Man flogs wife's box on eBay

When Christian ninjas attack!

Russian Nazis launch wave of attacks

A very British coup in the works?

End of the World Update: New asteroid has slim chance of hitting Earth
The first of 165(!) possible impact dates is June 21, 2008

Doctors declare living baby "dead"

Dolphins ‘know each other’s names’

Tune into the Da Vinci coda

David Blaine: 'Drowned' Alive
Truly the most nauseating stunt to date

Infinitely Cyclical Universe Update
Face it folks, this is the infinitieth time you've lived this life and read this blog post, and you will have to deal with it an infinite number of times for all infinity. Oh, it and everything possible in between too, for an infinite number of times too.

Ghosts dead against toll road
"The Pocahontas Parkway is perhaps the most haunted toll road in the US, even the world. There have been frequent sightings of Algonquian Indian ghosts chanting around the Parkway."

Under the bandages King Tut is all man

Yet another reason to avoid chocolate!

Celebrities back tampon rebels of Zimbabwe
More evidence of Mugabe's glorious legacy:
"Who in their right mind is going to spend half their earnings on tampons?"

Pelican Update: Was Studio Exec's History an Issue?

UFO Update!

Well folks, yet another one of those periodic teases - this time from the UK:

"The information we have uncovered reveals a hitherto unknown and far-reaching aspect of the MoD's involvement in the study of UFOs.

Newly discovered documentation supports and validates the research and conclusions of serious UFO researchers, whilst highlighting several concerns the MoD have about the potential within the UFO phenomena"

Don't hold your breath, but something fun may show up on the BBC tonight...

"Big Brother" tries Wonka ploy to find contestant

Civil war: the only way to bring peace to Iraq

Edward Luttwak lays it out. For those unfamiliar with Luttwak, he first became famous with his book Coup d'Etat, a Practical Handbook, well used and beloved by putschists and dictators world-wide.

"It encapsulates the absurdity of the place that a numerologist could influence a decision to alter the street address of a television station"

Mayor Pays For Bachelor Party With Village's Credit Card

German seeks to become father to 1,000

Bank charges $12m for card

Kate: Live with me, Pete

U.K. Mystery Man Is From Florida

Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power

Man held neighbor as sex slave

High-rise workers killed in fall

Universe a trillion years old!
"'I think it is much more likely to be far older than a trillion years though. There doesn't have to be a beginning of time. According to our theory, the universe may be infinitely old and infinitely large ... If we're right, the big bang is but one in an infinite series of big bangs stretching back into the eternal past.'"

David Blaine Update

More soccer madness

CIA boss Goss is cooked
Poker and hookers do him in!

Mom rewards kid's homework with bud

Family Kicked Out Of Buffet Restaurant For Wasting Food
Hat tip to Kara!

German police urge Nazi march ban

Drunk Swedes ejected from Egypt for mocking Islam

"Somebody grabbed one of the females’ rears and somebody else didn’t like it"

Soccer rioting in Brazil

Don't miss the excellent Chaos Runs Riot photo-series.

Archeologists discover Maya tomb

Idiot criminal of the day #2!
"This one goes in the 'Not the brightest star in the sky' file"

Teacher Out Of Job After X-Rated Video Surfaces:
"Your presence in the classroom would cause a disruption to the educational proces"

Idiot criminal of the day

Vampire in Queens!

Maid Of Honor Takes Bullet During Bouquet Toss

Noisy neighbour's trombone taken

Donkey Kong!

"She went to the tiger's cage and put her hand through the fence to 'stroke the kitten'"

Antimatter-Rocket Plan Fuels Hope for Star Trek Tech

Korean Scientists Develop Female Android

Goat rams way into elementary schoool

The Slow Rot at Supermax
How Moussaoui will be celebrating his "victory" over America from now on.

NJ Priest admits stealing $2M from church

"Officers 'observed the (Breathalyzer) results climbing at a rapid rate, reaching above a 0.4 (percent) . . . the numbers were moving too fast for the officer to read and the machine shut off and would not turn back on, as if it was broken"

Mass fits among school girls reported

Just in case you were confused: Poland is not to blame for the Holocaust.

Mexico Police Control Rebellious Town
"Hundreds of law enforcement officials fired tear gas and crashed through human barricades to take control of a rebellious town outside Mexico City just before dawn Thursday, hours after protesters released six badly beaten police hostages. "

Yet another drunk Kennedy police coverup
Teddy's Congressman son this time. As they say, like father, like son.

Zarqawi Unable to Work Gun?

Top 25 List update
Kids got caught and busted.

Nixon’s ’60 sandwich kicked around again
Definitely today's weirdest story!
Hat tip to Kara!!

Fire, heh heh, yeah fire, heh

Mystery over 400 dead dolphins

Man arrested after thieves steal safe full of homemade child porn

Hunter kills 'grolar' bear

Pickled corpse tumbles out of rum barrel

Woman Sets Snake, Apartment On Fire

Man sets self on fire at Austin hospital, critically injuring himself, forcing evacuations

Student journo ruins secret hideaway: The 31-year jig is up
More proof the current generation is utterly worthless!

Alligator Bites Fla. Real Estate Tycoon While Wrestling
Hat tip to Kara!

Full-up Google choking on web spam?
They've maxed out their servers!

Parents arrested after baby has up to 200 rat bites
Hat tip to Kara

Britney Spears To Hold Mysterious Press Conference.

And K-Fed still has no clue? Perhaps Britney finally does?

"An 83-year-old Indian man has been living in a tree in a village in Orissa state for 50 years after a particularly spirited spat with his wife"

'Life in London made my boy a terrorist'
Moussaoui's mom speaks out:
"I would say that England is responsible for many things because it allowed this fever to spread around the country," she told the Canadian television channel CBC. "These young people go to England, and then they scream hatred and vengeance in front of mosques. They let the fever spread." His brother, Abd-Samad, agreed: "I believe that Britain has fed a snake at its bosom, and has been bitten by the snake.''

Idiot criminal of the week

Woman Gets 20 Years for Sex With Stepson

Student commits suicide over 2 failing grades
Advanced thermodynamics and advanced fluid-mechanics can do that to you...

Lava Flowing From Indonesian Volcano

Football-mad President may fall foul of Holocaust law

Yet another Taser killing

Red Hot Chili Peppers angered by Internet leak
Their latest album, still unreleased, got posted to USENET 3 days ago.

Yet another reason to avoid polygamy!

Fast-food worker tosses hot grease at customer

Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars

Indian 4-year-old runs 40 miles
Dubbed 'India's Forrest Gump', he was nearly sold by his impoverished mother

Win streak after lottery-hating wife dies

Roman bar rips off Chinese tourist with $1,251 beer

Retired teacher fights huge cable porn bill

Bong Hits to Supreme Court?
"The Juneau School Board is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a court ruling that supported a former student's right to display a banner that read 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus.'"

Gas thief cleans while he pumps

Russia Left with No Satellite Surveillance
They'll have to make do with commercial services and Google Earth for the time being

'Cloaking device' maths verified
It can be done, but it's tricky!

Michigan woman may have married 15 men

Ooops! Inmate wrongly executed

"A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being sacked by the country’s Supreme Court"

Hat tip to Kara!

Keith Richards needs brain operation
He fell out of a tree while trying to pick coconuts

Germany planning 'heroin therapy' for some addicts

It's not working, Ohio man tells executioners

Nicole Richie's Leftovers

Wal-Mart Worker Finds Man Glued to Toilet

Pirate Update
Another quiet week - only 4 attacks reported

Mountain lions in New Jersey
"If the analysis proves positive, it would be the first proof that the big cat has been found within New Jersey's borders in recent memory"

First it was a Spanish Star Spangled Banner, now it's a Turkish Deutschland Ueber Alles?
Ok, it's really 'Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit', but we all know what they really mean...

Retaliation for Antispam Success?
Hat tip to Edmund!

Canadian Commuters told PM Stephen Harper 'eats babies'

Man Killed In Fight Over Beer

"Without protection a man can survive for only a few hours in the cold Arctic waters around the Cape, but before his departure Richard Horntvedt told a local newspaper he was not taking a life raft or a survival suit as he did not have enough space."

Zarqawi running out of friends
TF 145 (SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, SAS) is on the hunt and chasing them down. You gotta hate it when that happens:

"The basic drill is for one of the four smaller Task Forces to grab a likely bit of info and quickly plan and execute a raid. The rangers provide muscle (perimeter security, read guard) , as needed, and keep any other unfriendlies away, while the SEAL, Delta or SAS commandoes go in after the main target. The objective is to capture people alive, if possible, because interrogations and examination of documents starts immediately. The idea is to get fresh information that will lead to other al Qaeda people. Often this is the case, in which the commandoes and rangers are immediately off to another raid. Most of this takes place at night, and several raids may be carried out between dusk and dawn."

Meanwhile, the always entertaining and occasionally accurate Debkafile reports that Zarqawi filmed his latest vid at an abandoned military base in Syria.

Bolivian Prez seriously pisses off Brazil
More here.

Warbots!!
All they gotta do now is put them together with this guy and you'll have a real party!

Problem Drinkers May Consume Almost Half Of All Liquor
Hat tip to Kara!

John Daly's gambling losses top $50m!
"If I don't get control of my gambling, it's going to flat-out ruin me"

Teacher Accused Of Trying To Kill Student

Politically Incorrect at MIT

Widow’s car kills her at husband’s grave

A Bit of Finger With Your Burger?
TGI Friday's serves it up!

"The United Nations on Monday denied a conflict of interest in awarding its top environmental position to a man who had served on a panel that gave Secretary-General Kofi Annan a $500,000 prize."

British man dies after cutting lines of his parachute
Suicide-by-Parachute?

Bullets in Slow Motion
What can be more fun than watching bullets blow stuff up in slo-mo?

Sales Corps Expense Account Creed

Compare it to the original

Nicole Ritchie smoking ganja?

Chinese man buys MiG through eBay

Man Attacked Leaving Outhouse By Black Bear

More blood for oil

Nazis clash with Commies in May Day protests in Germany
Reds and Browns battle in the streets, just like the good old days.

German-speakers can read more here and here and here.

Blogosphere takes down another MSM journo

Gangs claim their turf in Iraq
Gang-bangers infiltrating the Army and tagging Iraq.

Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park
"Juan Wic, the mayor, who is responsible for the car park project, said he was happy to have kept one of his main election pledges. He said it was “essential for the commercial future of the square and city”."

Fall of France Update: Politician says scandal is 'French Watergate'

Man kills self over genital size