Archive for December, 2004
39-year-old Alex Nyarubakora sppeared in a Zimbabwe court Wednesday for sllegedly biting off another mans finger and swallowing it.
Apparently, the now nine-fingered man tried to step in between Nyarubakora and his wife; who were fighting at the time. Nyarubakora became angry, and a fight broke out.
Nyarubakora is accused of biting [...]
December 31st, 2004 | Posted in Criminals | No Comments
This guy may have gone a little too far in support of the old Nintendo game system. He got a tattoo of the controller with the cord coming out of his chest.
December 31st, 2004 | Posted in General Stupidity | No Comments
Wal-Mart is selling a book titled ‘How Walmart is Destroying Amerca And The World: And What You Can Do About It.” Seems pretty ironic. For those interested, here’s a link to the page on Walmart.com and the same book on Amazon.com, since I imagine that Walmart will take the book offline as soon [...]
December 27th, 2004 | Posted in Corporate Stupidity | 2 Comments
Another helpful tip for would-be robbery: don’t lock your keys in the getaway vehicle. This is just what Dan Griggs did.
Griggs went into a Indiana convenience store with the intent to rob it. When he got back to his car, he realized that his car was locked with the keys inside. [...]
December 27th, 2004 | Posted in Criminals | No Comments
A law going into effect Jan. 1, in Villahermosa, Mexico, makes it illegal for a person to walk around their house in the nude. Offenders can be given up to 36 hours in jail or a fine of 1,356 pesos, about 120 dollars.
December 27th, 2004 | Posted in Legal | No Comments
Two engineers at the University of Vermont must have had some free time on their hands. They determined that an SUV with a Christmas tree strapped on top has 26 percent more aerodynamic drag than a SUV without a tree.
But, they didn’t stop there. Based on the energy density of gasoline, [...]
December 27th, 2004 | Posted in Education | No Comments
A San Antonio pizza delivery man is fired after sending half a dozen letters to customers who failed to give him a tip. Steven Gordon, a substitute teacher delivering pizza for extra money, decided that he needed to take a step to call out the cheap customers.
December 21st, 2004 | Posted in Corporate Stupidity, General Stupidity, Odd News | 4 Comments
An athiest couple in Bellevue, Washington, is asking the city council to remove a Christmas tree from their lobby stating that it represents Christmas. The city already has taken to calling the tree a ‘giving tree’ to remove the Christian tone from it. But, that is not good enough for Sidney and Jennifer [...]
December 21st, 2004 | Posted in General Stupidity, Governmental Stupidity | 1 Comment
A new school in Tampa, Florida, is located in a place most high school boys would describe as ideal: between a sex shop and a strip club. The school district settled on this location after almost a nine month search, mostly because the district already owned the land.
Principal Bradford Mueller has [...]
December 20th, 2004 | Posted in Education | No Comments
A 60-year-old man walked into a Wells Fargo Bank last Thursday and gave the teller a note demanding money. He took the money and ran, but left behind the note.
Unfortunately for our criminal, the paper he chose to write on was a letter from the state probation and parole department; complete with [...]
December 20th, 2004 | Posted in Criminals | No Comments