Flight Of The Living Dead

Two British women who allegedly tried to smuggle a dead relative onto a flight out of England were arrested, Sky News reported Tuesday.

The suspects pushed the 91-year-old man in a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses during a bid to board him on their flight to Berlin, sources said.

The women, aged 41 and 66, were said to have protested that the deceased was merely asleep when probed by officials Saturday at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

It is believed the pair somehow managed to ferry the corpse in a taxi from their home in Oldham, northwestern England, to the terminal. But the alleged attempt to smuggle the body to Germany was foiled after airport staff started asking questions.

"Police at Liverpool John Lennon Airport were alerted to the death of a 91-year-old man in the terminal building," a police spokesman said.

"Two women aged 41 and 66 were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death. They have been released on bail until June 1, 2010. The coroner has been informed and police are continuing with their inquiries."

Speechless? Confused? Sox Fan? CoMENsky Park?

"...Just One Of Them Big Whirlwinds."

Three children were seriously injured after heavy winds picked up a bounce house while they were inside, hurling the giant balloon hundreds of feet, KFox14.com reported.

Witnesses near El Paso, Texas, said the inflatable toy was in the front yard of a home when a heavy gust of wind tossed it across the street and into a nearby yard.

"We just heard a loud bang,” Anita Rodriguez, who helped rescue the children, told KFox14.com.

“We actually thought that the balloon had just collapsed, that it was in that backyard of that house. Come to find out that it wasn't.”

The three children who were inside the balloon at the time range from 2 to 7 years old, fire officials told the site. All three were taken to a hospital and treated for serious injuries.

"I thought it was only the balloon. I didn't see the little kids. Then I heard the little boys crying," Victor Echegoyn, the owner the backyard where the balloon landed, told KFox14.com.

The inflatable toy was tied to a fence with two nylon ropes before the accident, according to the site.

“It was anchored down right, you know, it was just one of them big whirlwinds," Chuck Oxford, a relative of the injured children, told KFox14.com.

An Homage To JFK

R&B singer Erykah Badu was hit with a disorderly conduct citation for stripping nude at the site of JFK’s assassination for her new video.

The singer will have to pay a $500 fine for the striptease, which took place in broad daylight in Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

Badu, who is a Dallas native, filmed the video for her single “Window Seat” last month. It features her slowly removing her clothes until she is naked. Later, gunshots are heard and Badu falls to the ground before blue “blood” streams from her head.

Badu claims the death is an homage to President John F. Kennedy.

In an interview with Wanda Sykes, she says, “J.F.K is one of my heroes, one of the nation's heroes. He was not afraid to butt heads with America and I was not afraid to show America my butt-naked truth.”

But despite her claims that she was honoring the late president, Badu’s stunt caught the eye of Dallas authorities, who cited her for disrobing in public without a permit and while children were around.

City officials told Fox News it was an incident of “..guerilla filming, where production companies... usually shoot these scenes in one take knowing that if they are discovered they would face arrest and/or penalties."

The ticket will be mailed to Badu.

iPad Touch?

After years of waiting, Apple has finally released the tablet computer fans have been panting after for years. To celebrate, a group of teenagers broke out a baseball bat and destroyed one.

The three teens purchased the iPad at a Best Buy store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before proceeding to destroy it on the sidewalk outside of the store. They recorded the destruction of their newly purchased gadget and posted the video to the YouTube video sharing site, where it's gone viral, having attracted nearly 280,000 views since April 3.

The Los Angeles Times caught up with Justin Kockott, the 19-year-old high school student who made the video titled "Brand new iPad getting smashed by a baseball bat." He told the newspaper, "I wanted to be the first one to do it before other people did it," adding that "it was just something to do."

"I knew some people would hate it, but I didn't think that many people would hate it," he said. "A lot of people are leaving really bad comments" on YouTube, he pointed out. Kockott told the Times he did not have anything against Apple and had actually bought two other iPads.

"I do not at all hate Apple. I love Apple, actually," he said.

Apple said Monday that it had sold more than 300,000 iPads on Saturday, the first day of availability.

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Working With Robots...

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Baseball Stimulus

President Obama marked a 100-year tradition when he tossed the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener against the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday.

He received a loud ovation from the packed crowd, with a few boos scattered in. He sported khakis, a Nationals jacket and a cap from his favorite team, the Chicago White Sox.

"It was a little high -- a little high and outside," Obama said after the pitch that forced Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman to lunge to catch.

One hundred years ago this month, President William Howard Taft led off the Washington baseball tradition with a toss from the stands to pitcher Walter Johnson. From Taft to Richard Nixon, every president made at least one opening day pitch in the nation's capital, until the expansion Senators left town after the 1971 season.

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Overheard This At Work...

The Pittsburgh high-tech industry is small, incestuous, and full of people we haven't seen in ages but keep meaning to call and invite to lunch. So we figured, let's get all those people in a room together for some really efficient social geekery.

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(I'll be in Monessen...)