The true story regarding how dinosaurs became extinct
Garbage man gets revenge
Arkansas man arrested after accidentally butt-dialing intended victim allowing him to overhear details of his murderous plot.
Butt-dialing someone is always embarrassing but when you accidentally dial your intended murder victim, allowing him to overhear all the details of your devious plans, things can get downright nasty. That’s exactly what happened to 68-year-old Larry Barnett, who was arrested last week in Jonesboro, Arkansas after butt-dialing his intended victim allowing him to overhear…
U.S. kids have it easy – in Germany a demon accompanies Santa and beats naughty kids with a stick. Meet the anti-Santa Claus named Krampus.
He’s known in Alpine countries variously as Krampus, Klaubauf, Bartl, and Wubartl, a beast-like, half-goat, half-demon creature that takes over where Santa left off (think of Krampus as the anti-Santa). While Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved boys and girls with gifts, Krampus captures naughty kids, places them in his oversized-sack, and carries them away to his…
Mike the Headless Chicken – famously tough chicken lives over a year with no head
It will forever be known as one of the luckiest breaks in poultry history – the day a propitious hatchet job left “Miracle Mike” (aka Mike the Headless Chicken) in a one-in-a-million state that allowed him to live for over a year without a head. The unusual event started routinely enough. On September 10, 1945,…
Sad news – Pillsbury Dough Boy died yesterday
A little bit of an overreaction
Curse of Atuk – unfilmed movie has resulted in the deaths of all four famous actors who were offered the lead part
In Hollywood movie lore, there have been several movies deemed to be “cursed”, bringing bad-fortune and even death to primary participants in the film project. But only one movie *script* has proven so deadly and wrapped with misfortune that directors and actors no longer want anything to do with the as-yet-unfilmed movie project. Thus far,…
Truck containing lethal radioactive cobalt-6o hijacked in Mexico. Thieves will “without a doubt die”
Well, this can’t be good… The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency announced today that a pair of thieves in Mexico have stolen a truck containing highly dangerous atomic materials – just the sort of material that would be used with explosives to construct a radioactive dirty bomb.
