Archive for December, 2004

Man swallows finger in bar fight

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 [...]

Sure, Nintendo was fun, but come on!

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.

Walmart is selling its own destruction

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 [...]

Would be robber locks his keys in the getaway car

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. [...]

Villahermosa, Mexico, residents can no longer walk around their houses naked

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.

Researchers with too much time on their hands

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, [...]

Pizza delivery man fired for letters to bad tippers

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.

Just don’t call it a Christmas tree

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 [...]

New school site is teenagers’ dream

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 [...]

Parole paperwork makes a bad robbery note

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 [...]