Saturday, March 26, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
This Day in History: Mar 23, 1997 In one of Nike's most intriguing advertising ploys, 39 members of the cult Heaven's Gate committed a mass suicide while geared up in their brand new swoosh-covered sneakers.
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Link of the Day: http://www.whowouldbuythat.com/ Auction oddities from all over the web. This is a mecca of stupidity!
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From the illustrious Lord Mutter:
One Less for the Gene Pool
19 year old Christopher Seward was a thinker, he was. After some hardcore drinking Friday night, Chris got into a tiff with his neighbor, arguing over the whereabouts of a bottle of yet more alcohol. During their argument, Chris pulled out a knife and both men backed off, returning to their respective apartments.
Then around 1:22am, Chris decided to get his nasty neighbor in trouble. He called 911 and told the dispatcher that the neighbor had stabbed him. To add credibility and, well, blood to the story, Chris apparently stabbed himself as he was on the phone. Not once, but twice. Appears the second stabbing was VERY successful, and he pierced his left ventricle. It was at that point that he realized that maybe he had gone too far and started seriously screaming at the dispatcher for help.
Sadly, his self-inflicted stab wound was so well-placed that he died within 2 minutes of the piercing.
The autopsy has shown that the wounds were consistent with being self inflicted, and the neighbor has witnesses to confirm that he was safely inside his own apartment at the time of the stupidity.
I guess Chris showed HIM, eh?
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Woman marries clay pot
Savita, an Indian bride, was all ready to marry her fiancé Chaman Singh. As in, at the proverbial altar. Sadly, Chaman was stranded at the Indo Tibetan border due to heavy snowfall.
Savita's quick thinking parents came up with the perfect solution to the situation: they had her marry a Clay Pot in his stead. Word is that, with a picture of the groom placed behind the clay pot, Savita took her vows to honor and cherish the pot till the end of her days.
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War of the Worlds
Folks in Aracruz, Brazil, were terrified when they saw a fireball fall from the sky this past week. Surely this was an alien invasion! Imagine their horror and fear when they found a burnt non-human body on the ground. More than 50 folks called the police about the burnt extraterrestrial, and finally the alien was transported to a local hospital.
There doctors working triage quickly determined what so many others could not: it was in fact a burnt rubber doll.
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Hide in Plain Sight
Brandon Ray Parmer and Darrell Patrick Maxfield, of Tyler TX, needed to get their drugs. They figured out a very creative method: over a period of about 3 months, Bran and Darrell slowly took apart a house on the main street of Lindale TX.
Slowly and clumsily Bran and Darrell removed shingles, bricks, boards, etc from what used to be a three bedroom brick house until there was nothing left at all except some unsellable rubble. As they did their daily work, people walking or driving past would wave their friendly waves and shout their social greetings. And Bran and Darrell carried on.
When the police finally arrested them, they retrieved "about five trailer loads of property that came out of that house," per the police spokesman, who quickly corrected himself: "Well, it didn't come out of the house. It was the house."
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