From CBC News: A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer’s insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook… …She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on the popular social networking site, including ones showing her having a good […]
From the Seattle Times: Seattle police say a man who believed he was a ninja was impaled by a spike when he tried to jump over a metal fence. At 11:15 last night, a police officer was looking for the victim of a reported assault in the 600 block of Seventh Avenue when she encountered […]
From The Kitchener-Waterloo Record LIMA, PERU — “They call me the hardware store,” says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca say they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto’s stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal… …The 26-year-old construction worker ate the […]
From Yahoo Buzz: An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama’s college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama’s disdain for the Constitution. The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, […]
Anyone with half a brain knows you can’t trust the mainstream for reporting anything except the outcomes of major sporting events, and that’s most likely because there are usually upward of 50,000 eye-witnesses on the scene at any given time. Luckily, the Internet seems full of enough “alternative media” to keep all our heads fat […]
The fascinating tale of R. Kelly continues; According to celebrity news source Perez Hilton, R. Kelly isn’t much a fan of reading – not even in grade school. Luckily a persistent teacher saw his undeniable writing talent and encouraged him to finish school anyways. Hooray for inspirational school teachers! R. Kelly quotes from article: “I […]
A Chinese man who was attacked by a giant Panda after breaking into the animal’s cage in order to cuddle with it did not apparently consider that the unasked for affection would likely provoke the beast. Link to full story here. Now I’m not the kind of guy that thinks a developed sense reason and […]
From the “holy crap you’ve made your point” file, a 50 year-old British man protesting his eviction decided to kill himself in spectacular fashion by cutting off his own head with an electric chainsaw. A snippet of the gory details from the article published in the U.K.’s Daily Mail: “Desperate David Phyall, 50, plugged the […]
“There is currently a worldwide run on the banking system. The pictures from the Great Depression show people standing in line to get their cash out of the banks. We are in a different age that allows bank runs to occur in seconds rather than days. Companies and wealthy people in the know are pressing […]
This is a strange story. A man who received the heart of a suicide victim later commits suicide. Even stranger, hehad married the original heart-owner’s wife. “HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor’s widow died the same way the donor did, authorities […]
