Charlie Vandergaw has discovered the perils of fame. Vandergaw was featured on Animal Planet in a segment called “Stranger Among Bears.” He has now pleaded guilty to eight counts of intentionally feeding game and given a suspended sentence and large fine.
Category: Bizarre
Lin Yu Chun is being touted as the Asian Susan Boyle after blowing away the competition at the Taiwanese singing competition Super Star Avenue with his rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”
The West Virginia coal mine that exploded this week and killed 25 workers has a less than pleasing legal back story. Upper Big Branch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company, is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. That should ring a bell for lawyers and academics as the company owned by Don Blankenship, who was at the heart of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Caperton v. Massey — a case involving Blakenship’s alleged control of the West Virginia bench through massive campaign contributions.
Continue reading “West Virginia Mine Involved in Deadly Blast is a Massey Subsidiary”
Police in in the Liverpool John Lennon Airport have arrested two women aged 41 and 66 for the crime of trying to sneak the body of a dead relative on a flight to Berlin. They face the relatively low charge of failing to give notification of death.
Continue reading “Dead Weight: Women Try to Check in Corpse on Flight to Berlin”
If the sign encouraging you to laugh out loud at drowning people was a bit confusing (here), it is the model of clarity when compared to this Italian street sign.
Continue reading ““Attenzione Prostitute”: Italian Road Signs Causes Driver Confusion”
Evelyn Burgess, 42, in Columbus, Ohio appears to enforce a strict dress code for Easter dinner. Police say that Burgess shot her cousin, Danielle Pickens, 19, (shown left) in the head when she showed up for Easter dinner in a T-shirt and jeans.
The government may want to reconsider the design of this particular sign.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued his attacks on the United States and the West — not long after his high-profile event embracing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, here. Despite demands for explanations of earlier criticism of the U.S., he ramped up the attacks by telling leaders that he would consider joining the Taliban against the U.S., which he accused of “massive fraud” in the country.
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Police have been looking for Frank Dryman for 38 years — a hitchhiker accused of murdering a man who picked him up during a blizzard. They found him last week running a wedding chapel in Arizona.
Continue reading “Murderer Arrested After 38 Years On the Lam — Running a Wedding Chapel”
Disneyland Paris is facing a possible strike over work conditions after three employees committed suicide since the first of the year.
Continue reading “The Unhappiest Place on Earth: Paris Disney Experiences Rash of Suicides Among Complaints Over Working Conditions”
Senegal and North Korea have two things in common. One is abject poverty. The other is that they are now neighbors. North Korea, which is gradually starving an entire nation out of existence, bought a piece of Senegal in exchange for funding the construction of a massive statue designed by President Abdoulaye Wade. While others have condemned the exchange (and the use of over $20 million for such an extravagance), Jesse Jackson appeared at the ceremony to praise President Wade, stating “This renaissance statue is a powerful idea from a powerful mind.”
Continue reading “Monumental Failure? Senegal Trades Land to North Korea For Massive Statute Designed By President — Jesse Jackson Applauds Result”
A local priest reportedly succeeded in stopping the convulsions of Sangeeta Persaud, who he accused for being filled with the devil in Guyana. The 15-year-old girl died as the priest, family, and friends worked to rid her of demonic possession.
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A group of women in Portland staged an interesting protest — walking topless to fight the double standard applied to male and female nudity. It is the reaction of the organizer to the men who followed the protest that is notable.
Continue reading “Cause and Effect: Protest Organizer Objects to Men Staring At Topless Demonstration”
The police department of South Glendale California has stopped their use of a man dressed in a bunny outfit to ticket drivers failing to yield to pedestrians. Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway ended his performance as a street bunny after complaints from a city council member on the expense and necessity of the operation.
Continue reading “Doing the Bunny Cop: Police Cease Use of Easter Bunny for Sting”
Pastor Bil Cornelius knows how to draw the faithful to Easter mass. The head of a megachurch in Corpus Christi, Texas, is planning to give away $2 million in cars and prizes in a sectarian version of “The Price is Right.”