brainless wonders
Mankind has created spectacular works of art, engineered incredibly tall buildings, designed impressive supercomputers, lived in outerspace, discovered cures for nasty diseases. As a whole, nothing can compare to human intelligence, but sometimes humans, well, you know...
Flight attendant jailed for bomb hoax
May 25 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – A flight attendant was jailed for 18 months on Thursday for leaving a bomb hoax note on board an Emirates aircraft he was working on and sparking a scare that led to London's Gatwick Airport briefly closing.
Australian...
Court detains preacher with 86 wives
Sep 16 2008 - Reuters
A Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them.
The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello with "insulting...
Deputies find sleeping burglar at AZ gun store
Sep 16 2008 - AP
Sheriff's deputies in Yavapai County said a man picked the wrong place to take a nap, but he'll now have plenty of time to catch up on sleep.
Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said in a statement that deputies responding to...
Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic
Aug 7 2008 - Reuters
Embaressed by yor spelling? Never you mind.
Fed up with his students' complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept "variant spellings" as legitimate.
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Alleged thief stuck under trash bin for 12 hours
Jul 31 2008 - AP
A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.
Deputies said Gibson Cook, 56, broke into the landfill,...
Milk mail causes stink
Jul 10 2008 - Reuters
EU workers are struggling with thousands of liters of sour milk from burst cartons clogging up a central mail registry after German farmers posted them to Brussels to protest against low dairy prices, officials say.
Since late June, about...
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
Jul 5 2008 - AP
Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Couch kissed his wife and kids goodbye, and patted...
Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills
Jul 4 2008 - AP
A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.
Police say the Waukesha (WAWK'-uh-shaw) man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack....
Woman nabbed for alleged DUI at same crash spot
May 20 2008 - AP
Call it drunken driving deja vu. For the second time in five months, a 23-year-old California woman has been arrested after she allegedly crashed her car while driving under the influence at the exact same spot north of Lake Tahoe.
And to top...
CT boy finally takes off Packers jersey after 1,581 days
May 5 2008 - AP
GREEN BAY, Wis. - David Witthoft finally shunned his Brett Favre jersey for a red shirt for the first time in 1,581 days. The 12-year-old Ridgefield, Conn. boy wore the No. 4 jersey every day since receiving it as a gift for Christmas in 2003.
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Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years
Mar 12 2008 - AP
Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the man finally called police.
It appeared the 35-year-old...
Wilson Yazzie Benally is one of the Salt Lake Police Department's most frequently arrested persons. In March 2008, he had compiled a record that included more than 450 arrests.
Mar 7 2008 - KUTV2.com
A transient was arrested for the 452nd time this week after allegedly trying to steal a bottle of mouthwash from a drug store.
Wilson Yazzie Benally has a long history with Salt Lake City Police and remains one of the department's most-arrested...
Burglars done in by doughnuts
Mar 5 2008 - AP
When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.
"The officers...
High on Mount Sinai?
Mar 4 2008 - Reuters
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny...
Washington state detectives say man asked friend to shoot him in the arm so he could skip work
Mar 1 2008 - AP
What happened to faking a cough?
Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work.
When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch...