Officials capture pesky bear with help from bacon grease, honey bun

Ending a 200-pound bear's nightly ramblings through a subdivision required just a trap and some tempting bait: a honey bun and bacon grease.

For three nights, the bear rummaged through garbage cans, climbed on porches and tore down bird feeders in the subdivision outside Clarksburg.

Alarmed residents called the DNR, which advised them to leave the bear alone and keep their garbage inside. When that didn't work, DNR officials decided it was time to find a new home for the bear.

"It just appeared he was going to be a problem so we had to capture him," Foster said.

Foster set and baited the trap Sunday night. He said bears are known to like honey and bacon.

The DNR tagged the animal and moved him Monday morning to a more remote area.

So next time you see a bear remember to throw them bacon and honey!

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Woman Imprisoned for 15 years

Today's bizarre news story is about a woman from New Delhi, India. She was kept in a small secluded room for over fifteen years. The reason that they gave for her imprisonment was a lack of dowry. Dowry is money paid by the womens family to the husband to whom she marries.

Madhabi Das is the forty year old woman who was kept in a room for over fifteen years. The husband, in-laws, and anyone associated with this impriosonment have been arrested.

Das was sent to a mental health facility where she will bgin treatment. The imprisonment left her totally out of her mind, as expected. It is important to remember that you can't do this to your wife or any human being, it is illegal, not to mention that it is just WRONG!

You can read about this at: http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=26940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earthtimes.org%2Farticles%2Fshow%2F57132.html

8-foot Alligator vs. Police

Today an 8-foot alligator held up highway traffic in San Antonio, Texas. The police that arrived on the scene didn't know what to do with the alligator. They tried to scare it off the road with their sirens, but that didn't work. So the next logical step was - to do what any guy would do - throw things at it. The police threw orange traffic cones at the alligator. Which also did not work, the alligator just bit the cones - and the patrol car's bumper. Finally the police led the alligator off the road and into a drainage ditch with a lasso and a metal pole.

Did they really think that hitting a EIGHT FOOT alligator with soft plastic traffic cones would work? That is funny, I wish that there was a video to go with the article.

Here is the story:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5258236

Watch Out Superman! Scientists Discover 'Kryptonite'

I read the title and I sincerely thought, you cannot be serious...but oh they are. A mineral recently discovered in Serbia has the same composition as kryptonite...you know, the one that makes superman not so super anymore? While the material is not a perfect match, its chemical breakdown is strikingly similar.

The material is white, powdery and not radioactive, lacking the glowing green crystals found in the Superman comics. It will be formally named Jadarite when it is described in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year

If they found Kryptonite, you KNOW Superman is going to be discovered.

So Maybe I Won't Win the World Record After All

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LIFELONG_LEARNER?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-04-27-04-23-00

When 95-year-old Nola Ochs graduates next month, she will be the world's oldest college graduate. The record Ochs will break, according to Guinness World Records, belongs to Mozelle Richardson, who at age 90 in 2004 received a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Ochs did not plan to break records. She started taking classes at a community college in 1972; a class here and there over the years, until she was close to having enough hours for an undergraduate degree.

Last fall, Ochs moved the 100 miles from her farm to an apartment at Fort Hays State University to complete the final 30 hours to get a general studies degree with an emphasis on history.

With her white hair pulled into a bun, Nola Ochs walks purposely down hallways to classes with her books in a cloth tote bag. Students nod and smile; she is described as witty, charming and down to earth.

"I don't dwell on my age” Ochs says. “It might limit what I can do but as long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number."

"We should all be so lucky and do such amazing things. Her achievement challenges us all to reach for our own goals and dreams," said Tom Nelson, chief operating officer of the American Association of Retired Persons.

I truly thought I was gonna be the oldest person to ever earn their degree. Maybe I should shoot for both...the college degree AND an entry in the Guinness Book. :o)

Teen 'bored' by not enough classes will graduate college in a year

A 19-year-old suburban Detroit resident is on track to graduate from The University of Michigan after just a year of study. Nicole Matisse will graduate with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

As a student at Lahser High School, Matisse had exhausted the curriculum by her junior year. Between the exams she passed on eight advanced placement courses and the eight classes she took at Oakland Community College, she had amassed enough credits to enter the university last fall as a junior.

"When I got to U-M, I only took 19 credits, and I was bored and craved more credits," she told The Detroit News for a Wednesday story. "So even when I took 27 credits this semester, I felt I could have added even more."

"She's taking in one semester the course load that most people take in two," Wessel Walker, her academic adviser said. "She is one determined young lady."

Matisse's next step is to start as a first-year student at the Wayne State University law school in Detroit.

Who in their right mind would want to take that many course and not be sick of it? lol







Story: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5243332

Cheese Closes Roadway for Nine Hours

In Chicago this morning, a tractor-trailer swerved across the Chicago Skyway to avoid hitting a car. The truck spun out, turned over, broke in two. The contents of the truck spilled all over the road and closed the road for nine hours. The truck was carrying mozzarella cheese, which then covered the road and the surrounding area. Crews worked for hours and hours cleaning up cheese, some of it spilled from it's packaging and it had to be picked up by hand. The weather was pretty warm today. I bet that smelled great, mmmmm hot asphalt and cheeese. Though it could be worse, ever smell blue cheese? Imagine tons of warm blue cheese baking on a high way, gross.

Here's the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5237098

Man Shot at Firefighters Who Refused to Rescue His Cat

Personally, I am a cat person. In my later years I will probably turn into the crazy old cat lady. However, I don't know that I would go as far as shooting firefighters because they wouldn't get my cat out of a tree, for a reason...

Jeffrey Francis Cullen, 59, of Kingman, reported a tree fire on Aug. 17. Once the three-person crew arrived, Cullen told them he wanted his cat rescued from the tree.
Hualapai Valley Fire Department spokeswoman Sandy Edwards said a battalion chief told Cullen to call animal control or to wait for the cat to get hungry and come down.
The response apparently angered Cullen, who retrieved a small handgun from his home and came out shooting.

Thankfully no one had been shot. Apparenly Cullen admitted after his arrest that he had been drinking. This nice act lead him to a sentence of spending 5 months in jail. I love cats, but man, settle down. Cats have sharp nails, if they can get up the tree, they certaily can get down it once they are ready...at least in my experience

High Flyin' Granny

NEW MELLE, Mo.- Emma Hanner, a 78-year old grandmother of five, suffered only minor injuries Thursday when she was forced to make an emergency landing...in her airplane.

Mrs. Hanner, who has flown a couple of times a week for nearly four decades, recently moved to Denver from North Carolina to be closer to her children and said she was ferrying the plane to her new home when "it just quit." She does however plan to have it repaired in Missouri and continue the flight, if her family will let her.

Daughter Carol Hanner said the family won't ground her, at least not yet. "We will wait for the official findings before we have that family discussion," she said.

Thankfully this woman was not critically injured in this incident; but what happened to Bridge, Canasta, or knitting as a hobby for old people? It’s scary enough when they try to drive a car…but fly a plane…?

Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/weirdnews/ci_5714901

Man accused of drunken lawnmower driving

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5216900

A West Monroe man is free on bond after an arrest for driving while intoxicated on a lawnmower. Larry Minniefield, 48, got arrested on one count of driving while intoxicated and driving an unsafe vehicle, which was a lawnmower.

Deputies were working another complaint Friday night when they noticed Minniefield drive by on a John Deere lawnmower. A short time later, deputies noticed him drive by on the lawnmower again, and that he appeared to be intoxicated and driving in the middle of the road.


He was arrested and deputies returned the lawnmower to Minniefield's mother. Minniefield was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center and posted $650 bond.

This reminds me of my neighbor, he drives every day during the summer to his mothers down the street on his yellow lawnmower.

What would you do if you saw a guy driving a lawnmower down the middle of the road?

Swimming for 9 Weeks - with Piranhas

Martin Strel swam 3,272 miles in 9 weeks to set a world record for distance swimming. He endored exhaustion, nausea, dizziness, sunburn, delirium, - and piranhas swimming down the Amazion River. Strel i s 52 years old and has already set three world records. He suffered second-degree sun burns, swollen eyes, larvae infections, and abrasions from his wet suit on the first couple of days he was swimming. At that point you would have to be insane to keep swimming. But all that didn't stop Strel. He then ran into piranhas that eat flesh, toothpick fish that suck blood, and bull sharks - and that didn't stop him either. He swam for NINE WEEKS, that's 3 months straight. This story just got stranger and stranger the more I read, but the most bizarre thing is that somehow this guy managed to survive.

Here's the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5191704

New York Cheating Survey

A survey has recently been taken in New York, from "Men's Health" and "Women's Health" magazine and they involves opinions of both male and female respondents. The topic is cheating and the survey shoots out the differences in attitude towards monogamous relationships.

The survey has concluded that when it comes to cheating, or the definiton of cheating, the answers can be very ambiguous. What one cosiders cheating, another may consider just friendly behavior or harmless flirting.
Women don't blame cheating for the main cause of a past break-up while men blame over half of all break-ups on cheating. Men also are half as likely to admit to cheating on their significant other.

The truth is that men and women are two very different creatures. Most men are not sensitive and most women are extremely sentimental. Women makes all the rules, but the rules only apply to the men, not for both parties. Therefore, we have a double standard leading to mass confusion and poor interpretations of terms associated with relationships.

this article may be found at: http://www.davesdaily.com/interesting/women-men-cheating.htm

Crocodile Chomps Off Zoo Worker's Arm

When I was little I had always wanted to be a veterinarian. To this day I would still love to take care of exotic animals if given the chance so I can one day own a mountain lion...and I will. However, one species I would be afraid of handling would be crocs. I love reptiles, but not ones who see me as food.

A zoo worker had his forearm reattached Thursday, April 12th after his colleagues recovered the severed limb from the mouth of a 440-pound Nile crocodile, an official said. The croc had severed Chang Po-yu's forearm when he tried to remove a tranquilizer dart from the reptile's hide. Apparently Chang did not notice that the croc was no longer feeling the effects of the tranquilizer when he reached in to remove the dart.

Zoo officials shot a few bullets (which didn't hit the croc) to stun the reptile in order to drop Chang's forearm. Before I would reach into a cage with anything that is huge with nice sharp teeth, I would make sure that this thing was dopped up enough to not even notice me. Being a vet at a zoo has its ups and downs, and I think from now on this vet is going to be a lot more careful arounc crocodiles. Crikey...

Another reason that revenge is a dish best served cold

A Byron, MN man, who was charged with distributing sexually vulgar stickers, has been sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to a felony harassment charge.

62 year old Thomas Carl Tiedeman, appeared in Dodge County District Court on March 21, and was also ordered to serve five years probation, perform 32 hours of community service and pay a $100 fine.

The stickers featured a photo of his ex-girlfriend, and included her name, phone number and address, along with the phrase "call me now for the best," according to the criminal complaint.

The Kasson, MN Police Department received reports in September that someone was placing the stickers on vehicles and buildings in Kasson.

On Sept. 28, Kasson police searched Tiedeman's home and found the photo used on the stickers. Tiedeman admitted to police that he had printed about 20 stickers and placed them on random vehicles.

So, if you and your significant other decide to part ways, I'd opt for writing bad things about them in the bathroom stall rather than printing them on stickers and then wallpapering the community with it.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEWD_STICKERS?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-04-13-19-42-38

Sheriff writes himself a ticket

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5193548

Kocken issued himself a ticket March 27 for an unsafe lane change, three weeks after he rear-ended a suspected speeder as the driver slowed down to turn.

"As sheriff, I'm held to the highest standard in law enforcement. How can I hold officers accountable if I don't hold myself accountable?" he said. "I'm satisfied I'm doing the right thing."

After he mentioned that it kept brothering him, he wrote himself a $160.80 ticket.

The 52-year-old sheriff told investigators he was trailing a vehicle to determine its speed when he had to swerve to avoid a snowblower wheel in his lane. He moved into the other driver's lane and hit the car when the driver slowed.

The ticket marks the second citation in seven months that a state law enforcement officer assessed to himself. In September, Chief Dick Knoebel of the Kewaskum police department wrote himself a $235 ticket for passing a stopped school bus.

Would you write yourself a citation?

Man Dreams Up a Phone Number, Then Marrys Girl

A man from England had a dream about a phone number. David Brown, who is 24, had dream about a phone number, so the following morning he sent a text message to the number out of curiosity to see if anyone responded. The message that he sent said, "Did I meet you last night?"

At first, the respondent was a little sketchy on the message but the two met and started dating. Michelle Kitson, age 22, can't believe that they fell in love and got married. Just as if was all a dream!

So, if you are having a hard time finding a date, pay attention to your dreams for any digits, because it may lead to your lifelong companion.

this site is at: http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=26299&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fnm%2F20070409%2Fod_nm%2Fbritain_text_dc%3B_ylt%3DAjOE76_ppsmtVwKpq05jfJMSH9EA

Bird's rescuer gets rescued himself

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4686418.html


The Coast Guard rescued an east Montgomery County man with a helicopter Tuesday evening after he scaled a 60-foot pine tree to retrieve his beloved pet bird — Geronimo.

William Hart, 35, chased his $2,000 white cockatoo into the tree after it escaped its cage Tuesday. Before the Coast Guard helicopter finally retrieved him about 7:45 p.m., Hart could be seen standing on a limb holding the bird under his shirt and smoking a cigarette.

Porter firefighters first responded to the scene at about 5 p.m. In all, about 30 to 40 Montgomery County sheriff's deputies and firefighters from Porter and The Woodlands converged on the tree, but recent rains made the ground too wet to back a ladder truck close enough to reach Hart.

Authorities then called in Houston Police Department's water rescue team, which tried to reach the man with a rope, but it was not long enough. As daylight began to fade, the decision was made to call in the Coast Guard from Galveston.

The helicopter took Hart to Williams Airport off Porter Lane, less than a mile from the site of the rescue. Apart from a few scratches and a bite on his finger where the frightened bird nipped him, Hart was unscathed and relieved to be back on solid ground.

Cradling the shaking bird in his arms, he said he was surprised by all the fuss, but had no regrets, explaining "He's my baby. I'd do it again."

Normally it costs about $7,000 for an hour, and this rescue took about an hour and half, however, Hart will not be billed because it was an actual rescue.

DUI Driver Gets Another At His Hearing

A man from York, Pennsylvania gets today's moron of the state award. Paul H. Zeigler, 45, of Glen Rock showed up to his DUI preliminary hearing somewhat tuned up. The police noticed that he appeared intoxicated and he failed a breathalyzer test. His Blood Alcohol Content test came up twice the legal limit.

Go Paul, It's Five O'Clock somewhere!

As future advice, if one enjoys drinking alcohol in large amounts or on a daily basis, please Drink Responsibly. This includes, drinking after, and not before driving under the influence preliminary hearings.

This article is at: http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=26109&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20070403%2FD8O8RT0O0.html

Roadkill Café, No Joke

So Fergus Drennan is an environmentalist who firmly believes in living off the land. But he takes this idea to an unusual extreme – he eats roadkill. He believes that packaging for food is wasteful, understandable. He believes that transporting food pollutes the air, also reasonable. Sustain yourself through natural resources, a noble goal. But to eat something wild that has been lying on the hot pavement for a day is not understandable, reasonable, or noble. That is insanity.

I think the best part is that he teaches seminars on how to live off the land and eat dead animals you find and many scout troops have contacted him. Does he also teach them along what roads have the best kill? How to fight off the circling hawks? What if the animal is half decomposed and covered in flies? Gross.

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5176066

There is also a link for one of his recipes: Pan Braised Squirrels

World's tallest man marries woman 2 feet shorter than him

Ah love, it makes anything feel possible doesn't it? For example, marrying someone who holds the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest person when you're not that tall yourself. The world's tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported.

Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman Xia Shujian several days ago. Bao's 28-year-old bride is half his age and hailed from his hometown of Chifeng even though marriage advertisements were sent around the world.

In my opinion, I think the woman he married went for him after hearing about how he helped save dolphins by shoving his long arms down their mouths to retrieve plastics from the doplins' stomachs. That certainly makes him worth the climb, don't you think?

Note to self…Next time you rent a car, check the glove box for anything that really shouldn’t be there.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CAR_SNAKE?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-30-20-12-44

Of all the things you might expect to find in the glove box, like a road map, car registration or even a flashlight, I bet a snake is not one of them.

But that's what happened Wednesday at the Budget rental location near Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s General Mitchell Airport.

A car had just been returned, when Budget employees opened the glove compartment and found Sammy, a four foot red-tail boa constrictor who had gone missing when his owners had rented the same car several weeks earlier. Richard Houston and Rosanne Burks, Sammy’s parents, had left little Sammy in the car alone while they went shopping. When they returned, Sammy was no where to be found and after searching under the seat and in the trunk they just presumed that he had been stolen and returned the car.

The local Animal Control officials had to be called in to help remove Sammy which even required the dashboard be taken apart.

The man who had been driving the car says he's glad he didn't find Sammy, or he probably would've passed out.

Well I think if I had found Sammy, I would have caused a horrible wreck, because trust me when I tell you that I wouldn’t have been able to get out of that car fast enough and, making certain I had brought the car to a complete stop, would not have been a priority.

Group finds "monster" toad the size of a small dog

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5156082

Toads are among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer, these toads have a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds.


"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."


"Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday."


Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.


As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.


"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.


"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added.


Scary, think toads will soon role the world?

Woman Ties Crocidiles to Body!

A woman that was trying to cross at the Gaza-Egypt border was stopped by officials because they stated that she looked unusually fat. A woman tied three crocidiles to her waist that were up to 20 inches long. Even with a long robe and a veil on the woman appeared to be up to something. A female guard searched her and discovered the croc's.

The woman was smuggling the wildlife across the border in order to sell them to a zoo. According to the article, these croc's would have brought in big money from the zoo.

I have heard of shoe bombers, box cutters, knife searches, drug smugglers, and bomb threats but I must admit that wildlife smuggling was never an immediate national crisis. I guess that it is good to regulate such activites in order to prevent the spreading of diseases from animal to animal and to protect the rights of the helpless animals that are the victims of the smuggling.

This story is at: http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=25907&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20070326%2FD8O3U9KO0.html

From School Bus to Matzos Oven for Passover

Police found a school bus that had been converted into a oven to bake matzo bread after a neighbor complained of smelling smoke. Rabbi Aaron Winternitz converted the old school bus into an oven including a smoke stack, exhaust fans, and a working fire. He was working on baking 100 pounds of matzos for his congregation during Passover week. The bus was attached to the back of the house with gas lines running from the house to the bus.

Surprisingly the police found the fire to be properly contained and that the "oven" was not very hazardous. The only problem, the police explained was that: "There's a gas line that has not been inspected and the bus has been attached to the house in a totally illegal way." Because there is a proper way to attach a school bus to a house??

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5153107

Man claims fingertip found at bus stop by school children

Well if I was one of the school children who found someone's fingertip, quite frankly I do not know what I would do. Most likely freak out for a little while, then possibly poke it for awhile like some science experiment gone bad.

Apparently schoolchildren found a fingertip at the bus stop which was claimed Friday by a man who injured his hand in a snowblower accident. The man contacted Cranberry police Friday, a day after the children found it.
Police said the man told them the accident happened about two weeks ago when he was trying to clear a snowblower. He didn't bother to look for the finger; he just went to the hospital for treatment, said police Lt. Jeff Schueler. "He claimed it was his, but he didn't want to claim it, if you know what I mean," Schueler told the Butler Eagle.

Yeah I wouldn't want to claim my own fingertip as well. Hey imagine if he got arrested for something, one less finger print to be taken, right?

Hundreds line up for chance to taste sheep testicles

Ever wanted to taste something different and unique, well many people stood in a line for an hour to just do that.

The 16th annual Mountain Oyster Fry, servers at five booths dispensed about 130 pounds of "fried oysters," or sheep testicles. At the Saturday event in this historic mining town about 25 miles southeast of Reno, hundreds of people stood in line up to an hour to try these testicles.

Some of the people liked it well other gave a mixed review.
The tiny morsels can be fried, barbecued, stuffed, or ground up and sauteed.
"People think, `Oh sheep testicles, gross,' but it was pretty good," said Amanda Palmer, 21, of nearby Carson City. This meat have been previously used in taco meat and other dinners.

"We try to get families from all over to try them, but they're all `nuh-uh,'" said Shauna Reese, 32, of Reno. "It's just another tender meat."

Would you stand in line to try some testicles?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5133806

The Old Urine In The Coffee Pot Trick

A fine young man from Muncie, Indiana decided that it would be hilarious to put urine into his teachers coffee pot. The teacher noticed that the coffee had a weird odor and taste. The teacher notified school officials that foul play may be involved in this isolated incident.

We are raising some of the finest young Americans in this country. We have leaders that insult the military when they are fighting for our freedom. We fight wars and spend billions of dollars killing people but choose not to spend millions of dollars feeding hungry ones. Furthermore, is it really that big of a surprise that children are doing this? What else would they do when they are in middle school, you don't expect them to indulge themselves with reading, writing, and arithmetic, do you?

Best of luck to this eighth grader on his relocation to another school, I'm sure that he will fit in JUST FINE! I guess that his parents never told him about taking the teacher and apple to get on their good side, instead he choose urine.

See this Article: http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=6252373&nav=0RYb

Nonviolence can Defeat an Empire, but is no Match for Ants

Measures of nonviolence can defeat an empire, but are no match for a colony of red ants. Gandhi was able to over throw British control and gain independence for India using forms of nonviolent protest. However the Buddhist monks of Hong Hock See Temple are having much less success at ridding their temple of ants. They firmly believe that they can not kill any living thing, which left them with very little options when a colony of red ants moved into their worship space. The best they could do was use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the ants, then release then out side. No surprise that didn't work.

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5115394

Speeders beware -- there might be a leprechan waiting to bust you

I swear I have heard some weird stories in my life, but this is one that tops most others. Remember the movie Leprechan? Ok, well this one wasn't evil so-to-speak, but rather crazy in that an Orange County sheriff's deputy was dressed as a leprechaun, warning drivers to slow down. A laser speed gun clocked cars above his sign reading: "Watch your speed or it will cost you your pot of gold."

Deputies on motorcycles pulled over the lead-footed motorists who didn't ease off the gas pedal. The Orlando Sentinel reports the deputies were writing a ticket a minute.
Some drivers complain it's entrapment. But Richard Lockman, aka Deputy Leprechaun, says "the elf didn't force anybody to speed."

Maybe it's only me, but if I saw a leprechan on the side of the road with a laser speed gun saying to slow down, or I'll lose my pot of gold....I wouldn't be slowing down. If anything I would probably be laughing my butt off. Seriously, what were they thinking?

Now that's using your head...

Three men accused of performing illegal castrations have been sentenced to jail time in North Carolina. Prosecutors said the ring leader, ironically named Richard Peter Sciara who had worked as a physician's assistant at the VA Medical Center in Topeka, Kansas, from February 1976 to June 1999, Michael Mendez, Sciara’s partner of 20 years, and the man they called their slave, Danny Carroll Reeves, ran a sadomasochistic "dungeon" from a renovated carport at his home in a quiet neighborhood near Waynesville in the western part of the state. According to reports six men, some from as far away as South America, came to the home for castration, while others came seeking other forms of body-modification surgery.

In a plea bargain, the men plead guilty to felony castration and maiming avoiding charges of practicing medicine without a license. The 62 year old Sciara who went by the name “Master Rick”, was sentenced to one year in prison, while Reeves, 50, and Mendez, 61, received eight months and four months, respectively, along with three years of supervised probation upon release.

Superior Court Judge Dennis Winner said it was difficult to call the dungeon's willing patients "victims."

Yikes! I realize that many folks have a warped sense of pleasure, but metaphorically speaking... you’d have to have one hell of a set of balls to seek castration from an unlicensed professional who performs surgery in a garage.

Story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CASTRATION_DUNGEON?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-16-20-11-46

Suspected drunk driver blames unicorn behind the wheel

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5121513

Todays bizarre story comes from Billings, MT. A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post, he blamed it on an unicorn that was driving behind the wheel.

"Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said. "

Holliday who is 42 pleaded not quilty to the drunken driving.

A pickup truck drove through a red light and nearly struck another truck in the intersection, according to court documents. The driver then made an erratic U-turn through a gas station, crossed the street and crashed into a light pole. Nobody was injured.

Holliday has five drunken-driving convictions. District Judge Gregory Todd kept his bail at $100,000 despite his lawyer arguing that Holliday's last such conviction was 14 years ago.

Do you see unicorns when your drunk?

Mouth to Snout On A Dog

Randy Gurchin is one happy felllow after saving his dogs life by preforming a form of C.P.R. to his English bulldog who was rescued after falling through the ice on a frozen lake. The dogs name is Lucy. Randy stated that Lucy was chasing ducks and geese on a lake when she fell through the ice. Randy is age 51, he is a disabled Air Force veteran who said that "once a pet is part of your family, you just tend to do whatever it takes to save their life." Randy covered lucy mouth with his hand and breathed air into her lungs through her nose.

Randy's wife and children were excited that he saved the dogs life but was questioning his risking of his own life on the ice. The dog was taken to a vetanarian where careful procedures were taken to prevent permanent damage.

It is nice to see that people take care of buisness when buisness needs taken care of. I think that I might have to agree with Randy, a dog is worth risking your life over when it is a member of your family. I guess one will never know until it comes time to save your my own pet.

This article is at: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2239264.html?menu=

Birth control for Squirrels

Palisades Park, the Santa Monica city park has a very high squirrel population and despite the park rangers’ attempts to control the population, the number of squirrels continues to grow. The park rangers have gasses, poisoned, and used euthanasia in attempts to stunt the population growth, now they are trying a new approach: birth control.

The park rangers plan to inject the squirrels with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt their sexual development, so they can not reproduce. This new approach is a compromise between health officials and animal-loving activist. The health officials claim that the squirrels pose a health threat because they are aggressive rodents that may carry rabies or diseased infested fleas. Among the diseases the fleas may carry is the Bubonic Plague. That sounds like a pretty serious health concern to me. Animal activists argue that the squirrel population is not a problem because the squirrels do not harm humans, but I think that being potential carriers of Bubonic Plague, also called the Black Death that killed one third of the population of Europe and Asia in the 14^th century, is a health risk that shouldn’t be overlooked.

If we are not allowed to carry sewing needles on airplanes because they are potential weapons, why are squirrels who potentially carry a disease plague allowed to live in a city park?

Here is the story:

http://cbs3.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_064081038.html

Tiger, orangutan babies become playmates at Indonesian zoo

When it comes to any baby animals, mostly felines, I melt down like a little girly girl. I'm one of those people who, if allowed, would own a baby tiger. Everyone says, "They're wild animals and will still have their wild instincts." Yes they will, but listen to this story.

"A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests." Sadly both we abandoned after birth by their mothers, but not to worry, they found each other for comfort. "This is unusual and would never happen in the wild," said zoo keeper Sri Suwarni, bottle-feeding a baby chimp on Wednesday. "Like human babies, they only want to play."

The four have lived side-by-side for a month without a single act of hostility, she said. Ok well, the hostility thing will definitely be short-lived, so rule out my, Gina have a tiger and hug it until it eats your head theory. I guess I will stick to petting one, even if that means losing my hand.

Go here for the story and video! - http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=bizarre&id=5077709

Restaurant creates whopping 123 pound burger for $379

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5074705


Denny's Beer Barrel Pub is one whopper of a burger, and the newest addition to their menu. The Beer Barrel Main Event Charity Burger weighs in at 123 pounds, a meaty monstrosity that its cooks maintain shatters the world record of 105 pounds shared by two restaurants in New Jersey and Thailand.

The sizable sandwich features an 80-pound beef patty, along with a pound each of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayonnaise, 160 slices of cheese, up to five onions and 12 tomatoes.

It's topped with a couple of pounds of banana peppers, then sandwiched into a 30-pound bun, garnish of 33 pickles, and all of this for just $379.

Restaurant owner Denny Leigey said he plans to submit paperwork on his colossal culinary creation to the Guinness Book of World Records.
It's not the first time that Leigey has waded into the competition for the world's biggest burger. He drew headlines a couple years ago when he unveiled the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, which weighed in at a mere 15 pounds.

"If you were worried about calories you would be at home eating Kellogg's," he said.

Hungry?

Buying Marijuana Via Text Messages, Sorta?

Todays number one idiot from the United States of America is thirty-four year old, Ann Greenfield. She is a teacher at Murray Middle School in Kentucky. She was text messaging her drug dealer about a buy, or so she thought. She was actually text messaging a Kentucky State Trooper that was sitting down for dinner with his family. At first, he thought that it was someone playing a silly prank but soon discovered that she was serious. He collaborated with other troopers and set up a buy and busted the wonderful invidual that was in charge of educating America's future generations. So as future advice, please refrain from doing any drugs, but if you so desire make sure that you and your drug dealer exchange numbers so that you don't end up like unlucky Ann Greenfield.

To view this artcle: http://cbs3.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_055123624.html

Lucky Baby

Rhiannon Barnes is one lucky baby. The 15-month girl discovered a bag totalling $1300 in cash. She found it in a book that she picked out in a thrift store. The book only cost 25 cents, that's a pretty good investment. I bet the store employees were upset that they missed the brown bag when they were reviewing and pricing the book before selling it.

The article said that the bank would only give the babysitter 300 dollars for the bills because many of them were torn. The torn bills were sent to the U S treasury department. It is very strange that someone would tear up money and then store it in a bag hidden in a book. I bet there is an even more bizarre story there.

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5071080

4-legged duck puts best foot forward in Britain

I only imagine what I could do with four legs. I would have been a star athlete in high school track, but I think for soccer I would have tripped a lot. I've seen a few species of animals with 3 or 4 legs, but never a duck.

Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but he's the first to have four of them. A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles southwest of London, showed the duckling to reporters Saturday.

Unfortunately, Stumpy wouldn't be able to survive out in the wild, but he's in good hands in captivity. There has only been one other case where a duckling was born with 4 legs, in Austrailia, but the duckling died the day after. I would say Stumpy's rather lucky, wouldn't you?

Well Lindsey, you asked for it…The next rat story. :o)

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All around the world people start their day off by saying “Well, it’s back to the rat race”, but a great number of people in NYC today were amazed that the rat race they were in, involved actual rodents.

At the Taco Bell/KFC franchise in Greenwich Village today, a large crowd gathered outside the doors of the staring in with complete disbelief as a dozen or more rats crawled on the tables, high-chairs and counters virtually ransacking the place.

While rats and other vermin have been an issue in NYC for decades, if not centuries, they are usually found in sewers and abandoned buildings, rather than running amuck at a busy fast-food chain. Neighbors claim that restaurant employees were not as diligent as they should have been in regards to cleanliness and garbage disposal, but city Health Inspectors believe construction in the basement may have stirred up the nest.

So the next time I’m feeling sorry for myself because I have to get up and go to work, I’ll remind myself that the rat race I’m running could be worse…it could include real rats. EEEEEEWWWWW!!!!

First an E. Coli outbreak and now rats... I'm beginning to understand why some people refer to it as Taco Hell... What's next?

Rat Video

Eek! Men flee after seeing 'giant rat'

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5051738

Rats are very common in the news these past weeks, first here at Saint Vincent and now at a work place in VIRGINIA, MN. Shannon Bergman, who is a "manly man" and works at an Iron Range tire shop, hopping and "shrieking" on desks. Arriving to work on Monday, they thought that a gaint rat broke into the work place.

"I was the first one into work that morning and the first one out," said Shannon Bergman, an off-road tire salesman. "I walked in, and in the waiting area I saw this big rat, and I took off." After scampering out the front door, Bergman called a buddy and told him to bring a rifle to dispatch the critter.

Bergman and his buddy went looking around in the office and suddendly a box falls, "I must have jumped a foot," said Bob Dethloff,"I thought it was going to attack me from behind."

Dethloff's little son was also there with him and once he noticed the "rat" he stated, "Ryan comes out of the office screaming, and he says, 'It's huge!'" Bergman said. "It was the size of a cat."

"I guess he jumped on top of a desk and screamed like a girl who had seen a mouse," Starr said of Ryan Dethloff.

At the end of this mishap, an employee shot and killed the "rat," which was really a muskrat.

I wonder where the next rat story will be?

Angry Elephant Attacks Minibus

So in Sri Lanka, Elephants are protected and part of the elephant conversation effort is to hold polo competitions to raise public awareness. There are 110 elephants in captivity and 3,500 to 4,000 roaming wild in the Island, so you would think that the public would already be very aware of the animals. That might be comparable to ground hogs in Pennsylvania, except that elephants weigh 4 tons and trample people, where as ground hogs just dig holes.

Ceylon Elephant Polo Association Bowl was Sri Lanka's sixth annual elephant polo tournament, with teams coming from coutries including Spain and the United States. During the tornament, one of the elephants became angry and attacked a minibus parked nearby. The arcticle said that it is not uncommon for the elephants to get out of control, though they temporarily called off the tornament.

It seems a little strange that the Island would be trying to protect the elephant when there are so many in Sri Lanka and they cause a significant number of human deaths per year. It is stranger still that they promote their cause through a sport that emphasizes how dangerous elephants can be.

Here is the story, they even have a video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17187537/

Britney, a Sinead O'Connor wannabe?

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21248607-1702,00.html
I don't know about you, but I think Britney Spears is such a WONDERFUL role model for today's female youth. Marry a broke back-up dancer, have two kids, almost drop a baby, divorce the less broke than before back-up dancer/ want to be rapper, go out at night and be photographed sans underwear, and now the latest---> a shaved head. Apparently she had checked into rehab for 24 hours, then checked out and felt a need to shave her head. Is this a cry for help or has she just finally gone mental like you knew she would all along?

Professor Cary Cooper, professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University, said: "She's obviously quite a disturbed girl at the moment, she doesn't know who or what she is. If she's checked in and checked out within a 24 hour period, it shows she's kind of lost control. She obviously needs some help, and needs somebody to take hold, because her behaviour is very erratic."

After shaving her head she went out and got a tattoo on her wrist of little lips...I DEFINITELY would want to document a day like that forever in my life, wouldn't you??

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17171167/

As if you don’t hear it enough; from TV or radio commercials, to billboards on the highway, to tiny print on the label of your longneck (that even a sober person can’t read), you shouldn’t drink and drive. Well now bar patrons in Santa Fe, NM will also get a reminder when they least expect it...at the urinal.

Yep, the state of New Mexico purchased 500 talking urinal cakes at a whopping $21 a piece, just to remind would-be law breakers that drinking and driving is a bad idea. Currently the cakes, which are battery operated and have pre-recoded messages in a “flirty woman’s voice”, are only being placed in men’s restrooms throughout the city but plans are in place to distribute them to bars in other towns in the near future.

Note to the guys: Avoid restrooms with talking urinals.
The reason: Whether you’re three sheets to the wind or stone-cold sober, if, while in the vulnerable yet concentrative state of bladder relief, you’re startled by a woman’s voice, don't jump otherwise things could get a little “out of hand”, and your neighbor probably won’t appreciate it.

Valentine's Day For Singles

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Valentine's day is a day to celebrate love, but what if you dont have anyone to share those moments together. Be like Danny Domino.. First Video of the blog, what better day to have it than Valentine's day.

Enjoy his candy and craft time!!!

Using Sea Mammals As Soldiers In the War Agaisnt Terror

The United States Navy, out of Washington state, has discovered a way to use California sea lions and Atlantic bottle nose dolphins in the fight against terror. A U.S. spokesman announced yesterday that the mammals will be used to detect underwater attackers and to relay information back in order to save lives. Each mammal has a specific task or tasks when dealing with these "special forces." The dolphins detect underground mines and when spotting humans they are commanded to drop locating beacons in order to determine the intruders activity. The sea lions are used to clamp cuffs with ropes attached to them so that the Navy can "reel" the individual in for questioning. The Navy has been training mammals such as these since 1960, but they stated that the testing has finally started to "iron out all the kinks." Some animals such as horses, elephants, and dogs have been used throughout the worlds history during warfare, I guess that sea mammals will just be the most technologically advanced.

Cop Impersonator with His Own Station

So, not only does this guy have uniforms, badges, handcuffs, a car with a siren and lights, but he also had his own police station. He rented a run-down office on the fourth floor of a building and created records of possible crimes. You would think that the police in the area would spot him and think, "hmmm, he is wearing a police uniform with badges and has a police car, but he isn't part of our police unit. Maybe we should investigate." - but they didn't. Not until he was arrested for reckless endangerment.

While acting as a police officer, this guy would stop cars on traffic volations and interogate "suspected criminals" by handcuffing them to a chair. At one point he successfully convienced a driver to trade him vehicles to aid in a undercover opperation. He then took that vehicle and tradded it for another along with $600. It is hard to believe that a person would give their car to a police officer without questioning the situation.

This might make you think if you get pulled over by a police officer.

Here is the story:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5021623

Card makers capitalize on 'Anti-V-Day' movement

Does Valentines Day get you down like many others who lack a significant other? Or rather, do you not care for it even though you have a significant other because it's simply a "stupid" holiday? I, probably like many others, like to joke around on this special day. Never once in my life have I gotten a nice, sentimental card for any member of my family. In fact this year I bought a card for my boyfriend with two dinosaurs on the front eating little chocolate covered cavemen for Valentines Day. Funny right? Definitely not romantic at least.

Sensing a growing trend — and more potential customers — American Greetings has started a new line of expressions for lovers who'd rather be big goofs than big flirts. There are cards for singles not struck by Cupid's arrow and those with general disdain for Feb. 14, too.

A sampling of card messages from American Greetings Corp.:
OUTSIDE — A metallic purple card featuring a silver heart under the "no'' (circle-with-a-slash) symbol. INSIDE — "Valentine's Day: When hell and holidays collide.''

I'd much rather have a card like that than a mushy, sloppy romantic one...wouldn't you?

Hi, my name is Scott, errr … I mean... Peyton

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/08/name.change.ap/index.html

Have you ever been so sure of something you were willing to bet on it? If so, how much were you willing to wager…$1, $100, laundry duties for a month? Well one die-hard Chicago Bears fan was so certain his team would win the Super Bowl, he put his name on it. So on Tuesday, Scott Wiese of Forsyth, Illinois began the process of legally changing his name to Peyton Manning.

Weise made the bet at a bar a few days before the game, going as far as to sign a pledge with witnesses and all. "I made the bet, and now I've got to keep it," said the 26-year-old. "I think I kind of represent all Bears fans," he said. "Not that I'm saying they're all idiots like me, but I represent their passion because I really care about my team, you know?"

Weise did not mention how long he intends to keep his new name.

I think that in honor of Super Bowl XLI, rather than reverting back to his birth name, he should consider changing his name to “The Idiot Formerly Known as Peyton Manning.”

Sex offender owns 'Scooby-Doo' theme van

Do you wana know what is sexy? Of course the scooby-doo van!

Authorities were able to keep a close eye on a registered sex offender because of his attention-grabbing vehicle he drove around.


Police in Waller County say they could always keep track of Ricky Stroble's whereabouts because of his unusual van. It's a custom painted to look like the van from the Scooby-Doo cartoons. What I dont understand is if they knew he was doing these certain things why didnt they just arrest him right then and there.

It even says "Mystery Machine" on the side.

Stroble was arrested last month of possession of child pornography charges. Stroble is now behind bars accused of videotaping a young relative in the shower. Investigators say they also found child porn on his computer. I found this very disturbing, I just wanted to post it so its out there. Dont trust anyone not even people who drive scooby-doo vans.

The van is not part of that investigation.

I wonder if he had scooby-snacks?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5010548

The midnight "gluer"

Did anyone hear about the man who took two men hostage and stripped them naked and used glue as torture or punishment? In Southern California, 36 year old Rene Avila took two men hostage and striped them naked. After stripping them naked he super glued their hands together and poured super glue in their mouths. The man was incarcerated by police after the supsect phoned one of the hostages sisters who later alerted the police. The men were treated at a Californian Hospital and released. I have been afraid of people with weapons and stalkers violently attacking my loved ones or myself, but I have never thought about be glued togther naked. I always told people that I would try anything once, but this eliminates that as a true statement because I am going to pass on being glued togther naked.

Man's rage for clean underwear causes house to burn

There are many causes of household fires; people leave the stove on, or a cigarette burning, or a fireplace unattended. Sometimes a fire in the yard will get out of control and burn down the house, which was the case for Ivo Jerbic of Prikraj, who was burning old clothing. But what makes the story unusual was that he was burning his clothing out of anger. Jerbic was mad at his wife because he had no clean underwear. So mad that he threw the rest of his clothing from the window and set them on fire. The fire burned down the house and Jerbic was arrested for endangering his family though no one was hurt. In the end, Jerbic may get what he wanted and more. He may be sentenced to 8 years in jail, where he will not only have clean underwear everyday, but also cable TV.

To read the story: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2177771.html?menu=news.quirkies.quirkygaffes

Chewbacca strikes back

I do not know what's more pleasing than having a person impersonating star war's Chewbacca head-butting a tour guide in Hollywood. Apparently, this person impersonating Chewbacca was arrested for the head-butting. For me this is interesting considering the 2006 World Cup where Zinedine Zidane head-butted one of the Italian players (which of course I wanted Italy to win...and they did), and he wasn't charged with anything.
Frederick Evan Young, 44, of Los Angeles was booked Thursday for investigation of misdemeanor battery, police Lt. Paul Vernon said. Police said the performer was seen arguing Thursday afternoon with a tour guide who had expressed concern the Star Wars wookie impersonator was "harassing and touching tourists" in violation of city law. The city passed ordinances last year seeking to crack down on the colorful assortment of actors who perform outside the landmark theater. The move was prompted by complaints from tourists who said the actors were aggressive and abusive if they refused to pay for pictures.
Security guards escorted Young off theater property, but he decided to strike back and head-butted the tour guide, Vernon said. (Get ready to laugh) "The lesson here is you can have the force with you," Vernon said. "You just can't use illegal force."

Maybe it's just me, but I don't believe the "force" has anything to do with head-butting idiots.

Jesus...now that's a controversial costume

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2184189.html?menu=news.quirkies

I remember when I was young how excited I would get when my mom would ask my sister and I, "OK, what do y'all want to be for Halloween?"

I recall spending days trying to dream up something creative, after all I couldn't dare dress up as a fairy princess, a ghost, or even Frankenstein, that's what everyone else would be wearing. No, I had to be different.


The year I turned nine, I remember dressing up as Paul Stanley from Kiss. That's the year I realized adults obviously had no clue about the world, because my dad
and grandmother thought I was Gene Simmons and kept asking me to stick out my tongue. How could they not know the difference between each band member, had they been living in a cave somewhere...

Well, if anyone has ever been like me and felt the need to dress up as the most unlikely character they could think of, fret no more. Shopkeepers in Italy recently began carrying Jesus costumes. The £8.40 kit comes complete with robe, plastic crown of thorns and a false beard. Vatican officials are of course outraged.

Seems to me if it were a real Jesus "kit" it would include sandals.

What's next, a Mother Teresa kit?

China to send pig sperm to space

Did you ever wonder what pig sperm is actually good for, besides reproducing?

Well China is planning to study the effects of space on sperm, by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit. They plan to send 40 grams of the sperm on Shenzhou VI spacecraft, however some of the sperm will be kept outside the spacecraft in its biological capsule, and then some inside.

The surviving sperm will be sent back to Earth and be used in experiments to better understand the process of pig reproduction. Agriculture experts will use this sperm and try to fertilise the pig's eggs. They wanted to see what effect the mircogravity will have on the sperm's activity.

Two astronauts will orbit along with the sperm.

Sending sperm to space, what will be next?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4690651.stm

PA Women Beats Man with Baby

Bizarre Blog Entry
An African American lady from Erie, PA used her four month old baby to fend off her abusive boyfriend. The baby is in critical condition at Children's hospital and hopefully will make it through this horrible tragedy. Police say that Chytoria Graham swung her baby by his feet, striking the boyfriend and fracturing the right temporal region. The mother was charged with reckless endangerment, simple assault, and aggravated assault. The neighbors from the area in Erie stated that it is a generally quiet area without problems such as these. One would have to agree with that person, being that people don't go using their BABIES AS DEFENSE WEAPONS! We live in a country where people hate everyone and everything. We protest against our presidents and fights for the rights of incarcerated terrorists. We need to stop pointing the finger at everyone else and fix our own problems and it starts with the plain and simple socialization at the nuclear family level. We don't swear, steal, lie, or cheat and we have to add, "We do not swing our babies in self defense!" Sorry, but I was irritated by today's bizarre headline.

Crazy Grandmother

Everyone’s grandmother is a little strange. My grandmother plays Wolfenstine and stores everything in plastic grocery bags. She keeps bags of old shoes in the cellar and hangs lawn chairs from the deck. She locks the shed by putting a table spoon through the latch and can always tell you the exact amount of rain that fell the day before.

And, like all grandmothers, she knows that because she is a grandmother, she can get away with things that most people can’t, like sampling the candy out of the candy bins in grocery stores, parking between parking spaces, holding up lines, and making rude comments in church. A grandmother in Arizona took this idea a little too far and thought that she could get away with selling marijuana to support her bingo habit and then claiming ignorant when she was caught. Grandmothers can get away with a lot of things, but 214 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of their cars is not one of them.

Read the story:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070128/D8MU08VO1.html

N.J. Warns: Don't Eat Squirrel Near Dump

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070125/D8MSJ26G1.html

Okay. I can understand eating many varieties of food, but squirrels? The first time I heard of squirrel eating, I was teaching a public speaking course in Virginia. My students were telling tales of squirrel hunting in their backyards, which hardly sounds like a fair sport. The description of frying up a squirrel and working hard to get a little bit of squirrel meat off the tiny squirrel skeleton was just too much for my stomach to handle. Stories of solid squirrel bodies in the freezer, waiting for other critters to add to the collection before a full squirrel meal could be cooked, does not sound appetizing to me.

But wait! Now it may be too dangerous to eat squirrel in New Jersey because they are contaminated with lead. One resident, Myrtle Van Dunk commented, "We've known for a long time something was wrong here, we just didn't know what it was." Really Myrtle? Honestly, I couldn't have said it better myself.

*If I have offended any squirrel eating folks out there, I do apologize, but hey, I'm only looking out for your health.