[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] There has been much press about SOPA and the potentially chilling effect it will have on free expression. There is no question that the law should not be passed, and we urge all to contact their elected officials and voice their opposition. Just as important, we need to…
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are accustomed to busting myths. But this week, the hosts of television’s “Mythbusters” busted two houses and a minivan. A cannonball fired at tanks of water at bomb demolition range missed its target and careened for 700 yards through 2 houses and a car. Fortunately, nobody was injured. “Crazy, crazy,…
For one 21 year old woman in Portland, Oregon, the question of what to do with a dead horse recently had a bizarre answer: strip naked and crawl inside. The 32 year old horse “was put down humanely, with a single shot to the brain from a high powered rifle.. When asked why she had…
Failing to accept that his marriage his over, unemployed equity analyst Todd Remis has sued H & H photography, alleging that the firm failed to capture the last 15 minutes of his ill-fate nuptials, and demanding that they gather everyone back together and recreate the event in order to capture the moment for posterity. Mr.…
Image via Wikipedia Attention Mailmen: Is there a young lady on your route who seems stressed and unhappy? Could she use an extra package to cheer her up? Mailman Dave was confronted with just such a problem as he traveled his appointed rounds. Not one to be daunted, by rain, sleet, snow, cold or arrest,…
Image via Wikipedia Until last month, an Oregon man went through life being called Douglas Allen Smith Jr. Others were nonplussed by his prosaic name, and he was able to transact his daily business without attracting undue attention. But then, inspired by a character on Chuck, the 71st most popular television show last season, he…
Image via Wikipedia While it’s always foolish to drink and drive, it should go without saying that it’s ever so much more foolish when you are a tow truck driver arriving at an accident scene. Tow truck driver Warren Dymond did so, arriving at the scene of a Liberty, NY accident with a blood alcohol…
I’m sure tenants commonly leave stuff behind, but WPTV in Fort Pierce, FL reports on a tenant who left an apartment filled with human excrement. So much excrement was left, that it dripped through the floors and infused the building so completely that it destroyed neighbor’s possessions and may necessitate the demolition of the building.…
Image via Wikipedia James Jay Lee has taken hostages at the Discovery Channel in an attempt to force them to change their programming to reflect his Malthusian worldview. Apparently, Discovery’s programming about child birth has led to a heretofore unknown baby boom which will overwhelm our planet with “parasitic human infants” and “filthy human children”.…
Image via Wikipedia There are no doubt many children born in vehicles each year. Just recently a friend of ours welcomed their new child into the world in the back of an ambulance. It is undoubtedly much rarer, however, when the mother is driving the vehicle while giving birth. Amanda McBride was at work when…