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Today's Weirdest/Offbeat News - Archives |
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| In May, a judge in Edmonton, Alberta, ordered Shee Theng, 30, to serve a nine-month community-control sentence for partially scalping his then-girlfriend by attempting to "style" her hair with a power drill, a technique he said he learned about on a TV infomercial. Theng admitted that he knew it was a bad idea because he had previously screwed up his own hair trying it out. [Edmonton Sun, 5-11-06] | |
In a May dispatch from Atlanta on Southerners' notoriously un-nutritious, fat-laden cuisine, a Chicago Tribune reporter watered readers' mouths with descriptions of the "hamdog" and the "Luther" (prized dishes of Mulligan's restaurant in Decatur, Ga.), which are, respectively, "a half-pound of hamburger meat wrapped around a hot dog, which is deep-fried and served on a hoagie topped with chili, bacon and a fried egg," and "a half-pound burger served with bacon and cheese on a Krispy Kreme doughnut." The 11 states from Washington, D.C., to Florida, west to Texas, have the nation's highest mortality rate from strokes, but, said a University of Mississippi professor, "Food is a strong emblem of identity for Southerners," uniquely shared across racial lines. [Chicago Tribune, 5-16-06] |
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| Another Katrina 'problem…' Women's handbag designers, uncertain about the effect of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana's alligator habitats, spent the winter searching for new supplies of hides, according to a March Wall Street Journal report. The fall gator harvest saw prices rise 50 percent from two years earlier, forcing Ralph Lauren, for example, to raise the price of its most prestigious alligator purse to $14,000, and hide prices were expected to rise another 50 percent this summer. (Alligator shoes, shirts and coats have also soared in price, and the alligator-paneled piano sold by Giorgio's of Palm Beach now costs $950,000.) [Wall Street Journal, 3-18-06] |
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| What's in a Middle Name? Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Bruce Wayne Potts, 34 (DeSoto, Texas, February); Oral Wayne Nobles, 71 (arrested in Kingman, Ariz., on a Massachusetts warrant, April); Ronald Wayne Spencer Jr., 19 (Richardson, Texas, April). Arrested and suspected of murder: Darrell Wayne Lewis, 32 (Tempe, Ariz., March). Sentenced for murder: David Wayne Hickman (Dallas, May); Anthony Wayne Welch, 27 (Viera, Fla., March). Committed suicide while serving life in prison for murder: John Wayne Glover, 72 (Sydney, Australia, September 2005). |
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| Jehovah's Witnesses Get Green Light on Bullhorns Jehovah's Witness elders recently announced that their door-to-door disciples may carry bullhorns to announce their presence. The news was met with great enthusiasm at Kingdom Halls across the country. Jehovah's Witness Ronald Plimpton said "We look at the bullhorns as an emergency tool needed to spread the word of the Lord." "Maybe the residents didn't hear the door knock because they were in the bathroom or working in the basement." |
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Name That Country! A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State was quoted as saying "Changing the name of a country is a big step. After all, the name of a country is integral to its national pride and patriotism. But this happens more often than you might think. And we feel the time is perfect for a sparkling new name for America." The "Name the U.S.A." contest will continue through the year. A government spokesperson announced that "The winner will receive a $100,000 cash prize, so we encourage everyone to submit a name." The suggestions received to date include: Freedomland, RedWhiteBluesylvania, LoveItorLeaveItville and Democracyfornia. |
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| 6-18-06 Human Cannon – Really! New Scientist magazine reported in May that the Pentagon's cutting-edge research agency, DARPA, was considering a human-launching device that works like a cannon, to blast special-forces troops (and maybe firefighters and police officers) at just the right trajectory so that they land on hard-to-reach locations, such as rooftops. [New Scientist, 5-15-06] |
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Man guilty of sending tarantula to colleague Mahlon Hector, 22, pleaded guilty in Leicester Magistrates' Court in central England to delivering a rare Mexican red-kneed tarantula in a box addressed to a woman colleague at a branch of Marks & Spencer in Leicester. |
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| U.S. Civil War-era fort for sale on EBay ROUSES POINT, N.Y. (AP) - A U.S. Civil War-era fort is for sale on EBay. Fort Montgomery, built in 1844, was manned during the 1861-1865 war but never saw any action. "This is the first time it's been formally for sale," said Victor Podd of Boca Raton, Fla., whose family has owned the fort for 23 years. |
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SAN FRANCISCO HIRES NUDE WOMEN TO PROTECT GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE By Mark Miller However, working with the San Francisco Police Department, the OHS has devised a plan to keep the bridge safe. "We've hired 25 young, beautiful women willing to remove all their clothing and station themselves at strategic points on and approaching the bridge," explained San Francisco Police Public Information Officer Bruce Onder More... |
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| GOD SAYS: 'LEAVE ME OUT OF IT!'
By Joselyn Masters, Religion Correspondent PASSAIC, N.J. -- Attention all sports teams and their supporters, those who pray to God before each game for victory: "The Supreme Being told us he regrets that He can no longer devote time to deciding which team is worthy of winning a sporting contest," said Jeremiah Gottlieb, a spokesman for Unified Voice, an organization that claims to get messages directly from God |
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COMPANY OFFERS SPACE ALIEN INVASION INSURANCE! By MARK MILLER DULUTH, Minn. -- There are so many Americans who believe that space aliens are currently planning an attack against Earthlings that at least one company has decided to cash in on those fears. "Do I believe we're going to be attacked by aliens?" asked Extraterrestrial Insurance Company (EIC) president Gary Moss. "My own beliefs don't matter. We're in the business of providing peace of mind. If people want insurance coverage for space alien attacks, they've got it." |
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