Friday, October 31, 2008

Good News Bear

Zero, the polar bear that tumbled into a dry moat at his zoo enclosure more than two weeks ago, was rescued Thursday morning after zoo officials anesthetized him and hoisted him out with a crane.

Zero was sleeping off the effects of the tranquilizer Thursday in a nonpublic enclosure at the Milwaukee County Zoo and would remain there at least until Saturday, zoo spokeswoman Jennifer Diliberti said.

"I think the zoo staff was just concerned that this was going on too long," she said. "He's resting now and is being monitored by the staff."

Zero was playing with a toy on Oct. 13 when he stumbled off the edge of his exhibit.

He landed unhurt on netting suspended a few feet above the moat floor. Zoo officials then cut the net's cables so the 1,100-pound bear could drop safely to the bottom of the concrete moat.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

I Think You Know What's Coming...

Sticklers At The Iron Skillet

A Texas man was jailed last week after refusing to pay for a second buffet meal after his girlfriend "ate a couple bites from his plate."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that Dan Linscomb, 40, of Texas City, Texas, was arrested Oct. 21 after refusing to pay for the second $7 meal at an Iron Skillet restaurant in northwest Atlanta.

According to a police report, Linscomb said "there were no signs in the restaurant that said someone could not have some food off your plate," the paper said.

Linscomb was jailed on a charge of theft of services, but was released two days later after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, the paper said.

Half Baby - Half Tumor

Doctors removed a tumor from an East Timorese baby that was almost one-third the child's body weight during a life-saving operation in New Zealand, officials said Thursday.

Surgeons cut out the 7.3-pound benign tumor on Sunday from the abdomen of 14-month-old Alex Gonzaga at Wellington Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Trish Lee said.

The boy weighed about 24 pounds before the surgery and is expected to make a full recovery with no long term consequences, Lee said.

The Art Of The Hills

Heidi Montag has certainly been vocal about her support for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, but it turns out that "The Hills" hottie was honored that famed artist/curator Steven Corfe went to the trouble of mocking her and her chest region.

Corfe’s fellow companion in the street artist biz, Shepard Fairey , sent the election into a spin earlier this year when he brought out the iconic "Hope" portrait of Obama. The graphic instantly became a sell-out on merchandise across the world from apparel to bumper stickers to mugs to screensavers.

Corfe, on the other hand, decided to do a 2 by 3 foot ‘re-creation’ of Fairey’s popular image.

Instead of Barack's smiling face poised above "HOPE" Corfe’s rendition features Montag holding two melons in place of her breasts along with the word "GROPE" (early last year, the 22-year-old reality starlet went under the knife to have her assets augmented).

"I am so honored! When I heard about this I seriously almost cried," Montag exclaimed when the portrait was unveiled at the party, before immediately purchasing it for $2000.

Robbin A Hood...Then Giving It Back

A Texas woman went to a housing auction distraught about the prospect of watching strangers bid on her foreclosed home. Then one of those strangers bought it back for her.

Now Tracy Orr can return to her Pottsboro home, making payments to the woman who unexpectedly and impulsively bought it for her.

"It means so much to all of us," Orr told Dallas television station WFAA. "It's not just a house."

Marilyn Mock said she was acting on instinct on Saturday when she decided to buy a house she had never seen for a woman she had never met. Mock was at the foreclosure auction to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house when she struck up a conversation with Orr, who was crying about losing her home.

Orr had bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but fell behind on the payments. She lost her job a month after taking out the loan, and earlier this year she lost the house. On the spot, Mock decided to buy it, eventually bidding $30,000.

Mock told a crying Orr she could stay in the house, making payments to her instead of a bank. "She needed help. That was it," Mock told the newspaper. "I just happened to be there and anybody else would have done the same thing."

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Somewhere Richard Simmons Is Crying

The best bargain at the Salvation Army thrift store in Kailua-Kona was a Richard Simmons videotape. But Mikela Mercier, 11, decided to pass up the chance to buy the tape for a few coins after she found a surprise inside: $1,000 in $100 bills.

Mikela said that when she discovered the money while browsing through the used tapes, she immediately looked for her mom who was inside the dressing room and told her they needed to turn it in.

Store manager Jimmy Thennes put out a news release on the discovery, praising Mikela for her honesty.

Her mother, Jodi Mercier, said she is very proud of her daughter who she says knew it belonged to the Salvation Army so the agency can help more people in need.

Two Hinnies And A Sand Wedge...

The O'Brien County, Iowa, sheriff's office is looking for the owner of two unusual four-legged creatures found wandering on a golf course in Primghar. Two hinnies, a cross between a stallion and a female donkey, were found about two weeks ago.

Deputy Dean Fjeld said officials corralled the pair and took them a city pasture. So far, no one has claimed them.

Fjeld said if the owners don't show up, there's a chance the animals could be auctioned. Fjeld said it's possible the animals were abandoned because of tough financial times.

Gangsta Granny

A Florida teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for coaxing his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot "all the pigs" in a homemade "gangsta rap" video.

Eighteen-year-old Michael Alfinez pleaded guilty Tuesday to elder abuse charges. His family has said the case was a misunderstanding.

The 85-year-old grandmother can be seen in the video holding a handgun, wearing a black mask and threatening to shoot "all the pigs."

Alfinez was arrested in April after authorities seized the tape during a routine traffic stop. Alfinez and others also could be seen in the video shooting a pistol around town.

Alfinez also pleaded guilty to charges of firing out of a moving vehicle and into a building.

The U.K. Job

A drunken college student in the U.K. tried to recreate a scene from "The Italian Job" Sunday by driving a Mini up a flight of steps — but he wasn't nearly as successful.

The Bristol University student climbed into his brand new, $16,000 car to attempt the stunt from the 1969 movie in which crooks drive down church steps in a getaway scene.

But he wound up crashing the silver vehicle, given to him the day before by his wealthy parents.

After the stunt, the car's radiator blew up, the two front tires burst and both airbags exploded.

Six security guards, two police cars and a helicopter scrambled to arrest the 18-year-old. A second student escaped from the car at Bristol University’s Wills Hall.

Earlier, the pair had roared around the halls of the school at up to 40 mph, shrieking with laughter in a 20-minute rampage over pavements and lawns. They woke other students who were furious.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Try To Stomach This

Paris For President


Happy Birthday, Vivian


How much for the whole night?

Declaring Diapers

Customs inspectors scored the makings of a barbecue when a 21-year-old South Texas woman declared several soiled baby diapers at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing.

Suspicious of the chunky diapers, inspectors with U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the international bridge in Hidalgo found several links of spicy pork sausage, or chorizo, inside. The diapers had been folded to look soiled, according to a customs agency statement.

The Mission resident, who was not identified after the Friday night incident, was fined $300 and her chorizo was seized.

Thank You, Baby

John Henderson's Pregame Warmup


Oh How I Long For....

O.C.M.D.!!!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Baby Mama's Mama

Not only has a 56-year-old Ohio woman given birth to triplets, but they're her own granddaughters.

Jaci Dalenberg, of Wooster, carried the babies as a surrogate for her daughter, Kim Coseno. The two identical twins and their sister were born by Caesarean section Oct. 11 at the Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights and are still in the hospital's care. They were more than two months premature and each weighed less than three pounds.

A Cleveland Clinic news release says infants and grandmother are all doing well.

According to a Clinic spokesman, Dalenberg offered herself as a surrogate when Kim Coseno and her husband, Joe, were waiting to adopt. The couple used in vitro fertilization, and embryos were implanted in Dalenberg's uterus.

Chalupa

A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana.

They discovered the drugs with their order from a Del Taco restaurant and called police, said Lakewood police spokesman Steve Davis.

Twenty-six-year-old Dennis Klermund, who police say waited on the husband when he picked up food Oct. 16, faces charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Klermund initially denied any knowledge but admitted the bag was meant for a friend after a search dog found more marijuana in a locker, police said.

A China King Emergency

Health officials shut down a suburban Buffalo restaurant after an inspector found employees butchering a dead deer inside the business. Erie County Health Department officials said they got a tip Friday about a dead deer in the China King restaurant in the town of Hamburg, just south of Buffalo.

An inspector soon arrived and saw the deer being butchered in the kitchen.

State health laws prohibit butchering an animal inside a restaurant.

Officials don't know whether the deer had been killed by a hunter or a vehicle. They said there was no indication the deer meat was served to any customers.

The message on the restaurant's answering machine Monday says it was closed because of "family emergencies."

Friday, October 24, 2008

Ringo - No No

Joe The......Congressman?

Joe Wurzelbacher, the most famous plumber in America thanks to John McCain and Sarah Palin, told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Friday he's considering a run for Congress in 2010.

That would pit Wurzelbacher against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio's 9th district on the state’s northern border, which includes Toledo and Sandusky. "I'll tell you what, we'd definitely be in one heck of a fight, Marcy Kaptur definitely has a following in this area," he said of the possibility. "But, you know, I'd be up for it."

Wurzelbacher's chances would likely be slim. Kaptur has served in the district for 25 years, and remains a popular figure there. She won reelection in 2006 with nearly 75 percent of the vote and is expected to easily sail through another reelection this year.

But Wurzelbacher, who gained fame after he challenged Barack Obama on his tax plan earlier this month, has attained a certain rock-star status in the Republican Party and his entrance into the race would likely be greeted with instant excitement and media coverage.

Liar! Liar! Pants On Fire!

A 20-year-old volunteer for John McCain's campaign has admitted that she lied when she said she was attacked by a robber who carved a "B" into her cheek when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, Pittsburgh police said Friday.

Stepping Down From His Chair

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.

Hawking, 66, is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a title once held by the great 18th century physicist Isaac Newton.

The university said Friday that he would step down at the end of the academic year in September, but would continue working as Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Freddie The Dog Shark

Two British fishermen were stunned when they caught a dog, who they initially mistook for an otter, a mile out to sea, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

Freddie, the 14-year-old terrier, was swimming against the tide when Jimmy and Alan Thompson from Red Row, Northumberland, pulled him into the boat.

In an ironic twist, when Freddie was reunited with his owner, 73-year-old Jean Brigstock, she said he hates water and avoids baths and puddles.

Brigstock lost Freddie during a foggy walk on the beach when he slipped into the water, the Daily Mail reported.

"Freddie is back to his normal self," Brigstock told the Daily mail. "I'm not surprised he survived — he's a bit of a character really."

Jobs Was Jobbed

The report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack may just have been a teenage prank, Bloomberg News reports.

Apple stock plummeted in the hours after the report was posted Oct. 3, losing more than 5 percent of its value, or $4.8 billion in market capitalization, before the Cupertino, Calif.-based company issued a denial. The stock rebounded somewhat to finish the day down 3 percent.

The SEC immediately launched a probe into possible insider trading, but may have to back off if it turns out the hoaxer had no financial stake in Apple.

In mid-2004, Jobs told Apple employees that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was briefly led to believe he had only 6 months to live, but had undergone surgery to successfully remove the cancerous tissue.

Rumors began swirling again when Jobs, widely regarded as indispensable to Apple's success, appeared startingly thin at a company event in June 2008. Jobs asserted he was cancer-free.

In late August, Bloomberg accidentally sent a prewritten obituary of Jobs to its thousands of financial-information subscribers. It was immediately retracted.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Ummm...Is That Spider Eating A Bird?

An amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns, Australia.

The image, which is being cirulated via e-mail worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.

The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.

Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, said the spider was a golden orb weaver.

"Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said. Shakepeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.

Shakespeare said the bird, a chestnut-breasted mannikin which appears frozen in an angel-like pose in the pictures, is likely to have flown into the web and got caught.

"It wouldn't eat the whole bird," he said.

Finger This!

A policeman’s finger stopped his gun being fired at his colleagues when it was seized by a man they were trying to arrest, an Australian court was told Thursday.

James Lyle Rakatau, 25, fled police when they tried to arrest him in Melbourne on Nov. 14 last year over an outstanding warrant from Western Australia, the Herald Sun reported.

The Supreme Court was told senior detectives Matthew Flood, Travis Merlo and Adam Radley gave chase until Flood tackled Rakatau as he tried to climb a fence.

Prosecutor Robert Barry said during the struggle that followed Rakatau got hold of Flood's gun from his holster and yelled: “Now you freeze.”

Flood got both hands on the revolver and held the cylinder so it wouldn't spin and fire.

His finger was jammed between the hammer and primer when Rakatau tried to fire more shots as Radley and Merlo went to intervene.

Barry said it was only Flood's index finger that stopped the weapon firing as Rakatau tried a number of times to pull the trigger.

Speaking Of Guns....

LOOK OUT!!!

A Place Kicking

Texas Tech's situation at place-kicker has evolved from a concern to a source of frustration. Now, it seems as if it has taken an unexpected, crazy twist.

Having already gone through two kickers - who have combined to miss six PATs and half of their field-goal attempts - the sixth-ranked Red Raiders are now seriously considering giving Matt Williams a shot against No. 18 Kansas this weekend.

Williams is a Tarleton State transfer student who won a month of free rent at the Tech/UMass game several weeks ago by kicking a 30-yard field goal. After his successful try, Williams was walking back to his seat when he was flagged down.

This wouldn't be the first time that Tech has relied on a non-scholarship kicker, although not quite under such unconventional circumstances.

What Williams offers, compared to Donnie Carona and Cory Fowler, is something that is absolutely necessary for PATs: trajectory.

"I've seen that guy try one kick," added Leach. "But the difference between his and the others is that they barely got off the ground. His got up right away."

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

America's Gone Crazy

What is she doing....?

Dumb Thumb

Police say a man suspected in an armed robbery at an alleged brothel in Washington, D.C. left a key piece of evidence at the scene — his thumb.

Police say 22-year-old Bryan Perez and an accomplice made off with hundreds of dollars in cash in the Oct. 11 raid. According to charging documents, one of the victims took control of Perez's silver machete and hacked off his right thumb.

About two hours after the robbery, a nine-fingered Perez went to an emergency room. Police caught up with him and brought the severed thumb to the hospital.

According to an arrest affidavit, a doctor told police the thumb "fits like a puzzle piece." Perez was transferred to a Baltimore hospital to have it reattached.

Mickey Mouse Money

A man who left about $1,000 in $20 bills in an unzipped vinyl bag on a desk at his home is expected to be reimbursed after mice mutilated the cash.

The man left the cash on the desk, but misplaced it during severe weather in March. He eventually found the bag, and in August took it to First Missouri State Bank in Jackson in hopes of covering his losses.

Bank manager Michelle Johns said Wednesday she and two staffers picked through rodent droppings and bird feathers in the bag and reassembled the bills.

The U.S. Mint advised Johns that both sets of serial numbers printed on the bills must be complete to get reimbursement.

Johns said mint officials instructed her to send the reassembled bills and the feces and feathers to them in Washington, D.C.

Johns said the reassembled bills total around $1,000.

I'd Die Without You



PM Dawn

"General Custer-Type"

A police officer was suspended for three days without pay in a tussle over whether he whacked his mustache to regulation length.

The facial hair of Officer Ron Dicus was the subject of a three-hour hearing Tuesday night before the Sylvania Township Board of Trustees.

Trustees determined the nine-year police veteran had been insubordinate. Dicus countered that he shortened his bushy mustache once when he was warned and again when he was charged.

Police Chief Robert Metzger described the 'stache as a "General Custer-type" that extended below the mouth in violation of department policy.

Dicus said he plans to take the dispute to arbitration.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I'll Take The Deluxe Package

Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger says a resident called to report suspicious activity at the car wash about 6:45 a.m. An officer approached on foot and caught the man in the act.

The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, is being held in the Saginaw County Jail.

I'll Take A Fuzzy Navel

A 24-year-old female bartender in the Mississippi River community of Alton was charged with misdemeanor lewd entertainment last week after apparently working in the buff.

Police arrested Jamie Day last Friday at the Pub Room after someone called to complain (?!?!). Day had managed to put on a shirt before officers arrived, authorities said.

It's not the first time it has happened in that area.

Last month in nearby Jersey County, a 33-year-old bartender at The Cabin Incorporated in Delhi was charged with public indecency after sheriff's deputies found her working nude.

That county's liquor regulators subsequently suspended the tavern's liquor license for 30 days and fined its owner $500.

Are You Ready For Yeti?

Japanese explorers excitedly announced Monday that they'd found a footprint left by an Abominable Snowman on Dhaulagiri, one of the tallest of the Himalayas.

"The footprints were about 20 centimeters [eight inches] long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, head of something called Yeti Project Japan, told Agence France-Presse in Kathmandu, Nepal.

However, an eight-inch foot would amount to about a size zero shoe size for an adult American male, meaning that this particular yeti may be rather short of stature.

And the photo the team released wasn't terribly convincing. Next to a well-defined image of a human footprint in snow, the purported yeti print was a triangular smudge.

And Like That....It's Gone.

A former Top Gun said Sunday he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO over Norwich, England, 50 years ago.

RAF controllers told U.S. pilot Milton Torres to "lock on" and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.

But as he came within seconds of firing at the alien intruder — "the size of an aircraft carrier" on his radar — it vanished at 10,000 mph.

The amazing close encounter is revealed in secret Ministry of Defense X-Files which are being declassified Monday.

Milton said, "It was some kind of alien snooping over England. I guess we'll never know what it was." The incident happened in 1957 when Milton was a 26-year-old U.S. Air Force lieutenant based at RAF Manston in Kent, England.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Disco Death

"Stayin' Alive" might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.

In a small but intriguing study from the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the catchy, sung-in-falsetto tune from the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever."

The American Heart Association recommends 100 chest compressions per minute, far more than most people realize, study author Dr. David Matlock of the school's Peoria, Illinois, campus said Thursday.

Pumpkins = Pervs

Sex offenders in Maryland have begun receiving paper signs in the mail that read "No candy at this residence," which they must post on their front doors or possibly face a parole violation.

The signs began arriving last week in the mailboxes of the about 1,200 violent and child-sex offenders across Maryland. The signs were accompanied by a letter explaining they must stay at home, turn off outside lights and not answer the door on Halloween.

Maryland is also distributing pamphlets statewide to warn families to stay away from homes with the pumpkin signs.

"Because Halloween is a holiday in which large numbers of children interact with strangers, the concern among parents and other community members about sexual offenders in their neighborhoods is naturally intensified during this time of year," Patrick McGee, interim director of the state's Division of Parole and Probation, wrote in the Oct. 1 letter.

SHUT YOUR MOUTH!



John Shaft: Warms my black heart to see you so concerned about us minority folks.
Vic Androzzi: Oh come on Shaft, what is it with this black shit, huh? [Vic holds a black pen up to Shaft's face]
Vic Androzzi: You ain't so black.
John Shaft: [Holds a white coffee cup next to Vic's face] And you ain't so white either baby.

The Powers Of Facebook

A British man who killed his wife with a meat cleaver because she changed her Facebook status to "single" was sentenced to at least 14 years in a U.K. prison Friday, the Daily Mail reported.

Wayne Forrester, 35, was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine when he drove to their family home and murdered his wife, Emma, as she slept in her bed. The couple had recently separated and Forrester felt humiliated when Emma changed her relationship status to single on Facebook.

The police were called amid Emma’s screams for her life. Wayne emerged from the house, drenched in blood and gripping a carton of juice when the police arrived. Holding his stained hands out for handcuffs, the Mail Online reports he told police, "Who called you? My wife is in there. I killed her."

When the police found Emma’s butchered body, the Mail reports she had multiple head and neck wounds, her arms badly bruised from defending her husband's blows. Clumps of her hair were trailing the hall outside the bedroom and two banister rails had been broken off.

"The whole incident seemed a blur. I felt I was watching somebody else attacking Emma," the Mail reports Forrester said in his defense.

The Price Of Dignity

A woman chopped the head off a man who allegedly tried to attack her and then paraded the head through a market in northern India, police said Friday.

Police arrested the woman late Thursday after receiving calls from frightened witnesses who reported a blood-soaked woman holding a severed head was walking through the village, said police officer Ram Bharose.

The woman, 35, told police she had gone to a nearby forest to cut grass for fodder for her cattle when a man attacked her from behind.

"In a bid to save her dignity she beheaded him with a sickle," Bharose said, adding that the woman had bite marks on her neck and cheek.

The woman also told police that the man had been harassing and stalking her for three months and she had no regrets about killing him, he said, adding that she would probably be charged with culpable homicide.

"I Am The Famous Wang Hao!"

China's national table tennis team will give Olympic medalist Wang Hao counseling after he reportedly got into a fight with a security guard for trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club.

Local media reports last week quoted witnesses as saying that the two-time Olympic singles silver medalist had emerged drunk from a karaoke club on Thursday and come to blows with the security guard when he tried to urinate outside the building.

"I am the famous Wang Hao! I am the world champion! Does it matter if I beat you?" shouted the 24-year-old, according to a witness quoted by the papers.

China's national table tennis team played down the incident and said that Wang, who also won a team gold at the Beijing Games, had merely had a heated exchange of words.

"There was no drunkenness or brawling. There was just an argument," Monday's Shanghai Morning Post quoted China national team manager Huang Biao as saying. "Because Wang is a celebrity, the story has been amplified."

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Say Hi To Your Mother For Me



Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals

Ernie Chambers vs. GOD

A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God.

He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."

On Tuesday, however, Douglas County District Court Judge Marlon Polk ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward.

"Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice," Polk wrote.

Chambers, who graduated from law school but never took the bar exam, thinks he's found a hole in the judge's ruling. "The court itself acknowledges the existence of God," Chambers said Wednesday. "A consequence of that acknowledgment is a recognition of God's omniscience."

Therefore, Chambers said, "Since God knows everything, God has notice of this lawsuit."

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Fore!

When the 'not so funny' is hilarious....
The story:
The body of a woman was found this morning on a Philadelphia city golf course, police said.

A golfer discovered the corpse about 10:30 a.m. near the 14th hole of the Juniata Golf Course near Fisher's Lane and Ramona Avenue, said Lt. Frank Vanore, spokesman for the Philadelphia police.

Investigators have not determined the cause or manner of death, Vanore said.
The comments:

What A Little Sweetheart

(...and that dress/jacket does nothing for her...)

Price Is Wrong

A man fuming over his rejection from a TV game show was arrested after he showed up at a San Francisco law office wearing a device he said was a bomb, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

The suspect, who was not identified, walked into the offices of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein Monday and told the receptionist he had a bomb, San Francisco Police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.

Witnesses told The San Francisco Chronicle that the man was angry because he had not been selected to appear on the TV game show, "The Price is Right."

Police were trying to determine whether the device he wore, a white tube with a flashing light, was actually a bomb. He was arrested after police cordoned off streets and evacuated the law firm's offices in a financial district high-rise.

Not Just For Jellyfish Stings Anymore!

Newly-crowned WBC champion Vitali Klitschko doesn’t pull any punches about the way he soothes his fists after a big fight.

The Ukrainian fighter, who won the title match Saturday after defeating Samuel Peter of Nigeria, admits that he wraps his hands with his 3-year-old son Max’s urine-infused diapers to reduce swelling. He says he got the idea from his grandmother.

"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," Klitschko told a German newspaper after Saturday’s bout.

Swimming With The Sharks

Emma Place, 21, took an eerie photo on her phone at The Deep Aquarium’s $91 million attraction in Hull, England. Scientists at the aquarium admit they are baffled by the appearance of the man’s face, which appears to be looking up at a shark.

Dentistry student Place, of Doncaster, only spotted the ghoulish face when she arrived home. “My boyfriend said, ‘What’s that?’ I replied, ‘It’s a shark,’” she said. “He said, ‘No, the face.’ I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ It actually looks quite spooky.”

Bosses at the aquarium have spent hours searching CCTV footage, which confirmed the pair were the only ones inside the tunnel.

And they have even tried to recreate conditions in the tunnel where the reflection could appear, but with no success.

It’s not the first time ghostly goings-on have been reported. A night watchman claims to have spotted a shadowy figure in the TimeLine, which charts the history of the world’s oceans.

Colin Brown, chief executive of The Deep, said: “We are a scientific center and we’re sure there must be a logical explanation. It’s just that we can’t find it.”

A Ringo Ate My Baby!

In a video posted on his Web site, Starr says he will no longer sign fan mail or memorabilia.

"I want to tell you please... do not send fan mail to any address that you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th of October. If that is the date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed.

"I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail, thank you, thank you, and no objects to be signed. Nothing," the 68-year-old said.

The drummer, wearing dark glasses, said it was "a serious message to everybody watching."

Starr once starred in an episode of 'The Simpsons' which showed him answering every piece of fan mail. "They took the time to write to me, and I don't care if it takes 20 years, I'm going to answer every one of them," Starr said on the show.

Starr, who earlier this year released a new album called Liverpool 8, divides his time between homes in Los Angeles, the South of France and Surrey. He angered Liverpool residents during an interview on British television in January when he said he missed nothing about the city.

Monday, October 13, 2008

HAPPY Meal

A McDonald's cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff's Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in.

A deputy spotted the vehicle, found marijuana in the car and arrested its occupant, 27-year-old Shawn Alexander Pannullo.

Pannullo was charged with possession of cannabis and posted $500 bail. It was unclear if he had an attorney.

A Sheriff's report did not say what the suspect ordered at McDonald's or if he ultimately purchased the meal using something other than marijuana.

Obama Supporter?!??

Take the time...Listen to ME.





True supporters in Harlem.

Next Time...Check FIRST.

Two Indonesian men were tricked into getting their faces tattooed by a bogus official offering government jobs.

Village chief Sawiyono — who was helping the men find jobs in Jakarta — claims he received a text message from a government official offering them work as intelligence officers, but insisted they were inked first with a dragon tattoo, Antara state news agency said.

Sawiyono realized he had been tricked after checking with the subdistrict chief of the Bojonegoro district of East Java who said there was no such requirement.

The unidentified men, however, had already been tattooed, according to the report.

"I am fully responsible for the mistake and I will do my best to help the men remove their tattoos,'' Sawiyono said.

You Can Call Me Jennifer

A 19-year-old Asheville teenager said she legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com to protest animal dissections in schools.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Asheville High graduate Jennifer Thornburg now wants to be called Cutout. Her new legal name is the Web address for an anti-dissection page of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' site.

The teenager said she began opposing dissections in middle school, after a class assignment to dissect a chicken wing made her uncomfortable. She helped create a policy at her high school that allows students who object to dissections to complete an alternative assignment.

She is now an intern for PETA. She said most of her family members still call her Jennifer.

...But What Is The Sauerkraut??

A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty "hot kielbasa", for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really cocaine, not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market.

According to a criminal complaint, the "hot kielbasa" was kept in the basement.

Twenty-six suspects are under arrest, including the butcher, after an FBI informant visited the shop in response to the message: "Come to the store, I have hot kielbasa for you."

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

(Canadian French: Action de grâce)
An annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. Some people thank God for this bounty.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Just In Time For Halloween

A 4-year-old boy in Watertown, N.Y., is growing an extra skeleton due to a rare genetic condition, the Watertown Daily Times reported Thursday.

Shane Terry has fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP, which causes bone to form in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connective tissue.

In time, bridges of extra bone will develop across his joints, eventually restricting movement and forming a second skeleton and will cause for his body will lock up.

Shane’s condition is so rare that he is just one of 600 confirmed cases across the globe, according to the International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association.

Shane, whose twin sibling was stillborn at 20 weeks, has two deformed vertebrae in his neck, crooked pinky fingers and malformed big toes. Shane's mother could opt to have surgery to remove his extra bones, but that will most likely worsen his condition, according to the IFOPA Web site.

At this point, there is no cure and he could be wheelchair-bound by the time he is 30. Doctors said the average life expectancy for some with FOP is 41.

"Strange Duty"

Joe Son, who played the character Random Task in the first "Austin Powers" movie, has been charged by California authorities in connection with an unsolved 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape.

Son pleaded guilty in May to felony vandalism, which required him to give a DNA sample — which eventually connected him to the rape, police say.

Son, 37, was charged Oct. 1 with five felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible sodomy, two felony counts of sodomy in concert by force, seven felony counts of forcible oral copulations, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object by force according to an Orange County District Attorney's Office release about an arrest in the case.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Ashtray

An angry driver in Canada extinguished a lit cigarette in the eye of a police officer writing him a parking ticket on Tuesday, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Jozef Baksay, 55, was charged with assault with a weapon and assault of a peace officer, West Vancouver police told the Sun.

Baksay began verbally abusing the officer before pushing the lit cigarette into his right eye hard enough to put it out. Luckily, the policeman was able to close his eye before the cigarette hit it, so that the damage was done to his eye lid, officer Fred Harding told the Sun.