“Emotional Support” Animals Have No Place On Airplanes
Can’t face the hassle of flying without your precious Petunia to give you emotional support? Make sure it doesn’t smell, defecate or howl if you are traveling on US Airways. A passenger and her large pig were asked to leave a recent US Airways flight after it became disruptive. Who could have seen that coming?…
Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair
A byproduct of over half a century of NASA’s program is a dizzying array of abandoned and decommissioned sites. Many of these have been left to the elements. By their nature they tend to be in out of the way places, and they tell a story of hope, long gone, in their desolation. Roland Miller…
Man Dies After Refusing Treatment For Religious Reasons, Wife Keeps Body Around For Months
51 year old Peter Wald died sometime in March 2013, of a foot infection that he refused to treat because he believed the power of prayer would heal him. It didn’t. By all accounts, this was a routine infection, complicated by diabetes, that could have been easily treated with antibiotics. Less than a century ago,…
Taking A Stand Against Ketchup- Subway Worker Refuses To Give In To Ketchup Request, Loses Job
They’re everywhere. The Ketchup rebels are gaining strength against the sandwich traditionalists. The battle has even reached a Subway inside a Walmart in what was thought to be an anti-Ketchup stronghold of Orange County, Florida. Rebel Luis Martinez entered and made his demand He said he ordered a Philly cheese steak the way he always…
Premature Ejection – Woman Falls 15 Feet During Lap Dance
Ecstasy turned to tragedy this week in Cleveland as a 22 year old stripper, umm, we mean an exotic dancer, fell 15 feet while performing a lap dance, sustaining major head trauma. A 15 foot high lap? Was this a lap dance for Hagrid or the Hulk? No, it turns out “The reporting officer said…
Skunk Works- Too Well
Warning, kids- if you’re going to be hanging out with stupid cousins with guns this Halloween, make sure your costume isn’t even remotely realistic. This is a lesson learned the hard way by a 9 year old girl in New Sewickley, PA on Saturday. The girl, who was dressed as a skunk, was shot in…
A Glimpse At Facebook In Its Third Month- Early Monetization Plans
How quickly did Facebook take off? Digiday has a copy of Facebook’s first media kit, put together by Eduardo Saverin in April 2004. The company, still known as “thefacebook.com”, and limited to students of a handful of schools, had first launched at Harvard three months earlier, on February 4, 2004. Two additional schools were added…
Coley Oneal Mitchell: Naked, Drunk Lab Tech- Now With Escaped Monkeys
Coley Oneal Mitchell had a plan. A bad plan. We’re not quite sure what it was, but the 32 year old lab technician was “found drunk, partially nude in locker room while 2 monkeys loose in lab”, so the plan must have been pretty darn bad. Mitchell was arrested and charged with public drunkenness. The…
Baleful Bailer’s Tail Ends In Jail
A classic tale. Man posts $5000 bond as bail for second man. Second man doesn’t pay back quickly enough. First man beats second man with claw hammer. First man goes to jail on $350,000 bond. Inexplicably, somewhere in the middle, three shots are fired by a third man. The first man, Lanell “Mook” Weeks has…