With his latest tape, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has now taken his terrorist organization into a whole new area: cartoon-inspired jihad. According to Bin Laden, the publication of cartoons mocking Islam’s Prophet Mohammad are worst than bombing children and will justify a new round of attacks against Europe. Continue reading “Bin Laden Tape Threatens Europe Over Cartoons”
Category: Bizarre
It is often said that owners gradually seem to look like their pets, but Beth and Brian Willis have gone a bit further. As the picture below shows, when their dogs died, they had them turned into coats. Thank God, neither dog was a boxer . . . Continue reading “If You Like the Jumpers, Wait to You See the Boxers . . .”
It appears from the photo below that President Bush’s support for a Flag Amendment to criminalize the desecration of the flag could be a cry for help. In this photo, Bush is seen clearly writing on a small American flag. Continue reading “Stars, Stripes, and Signatures: Bush Desecrates the American Flag”
Health officials in the Philippines have issued health guidelines for Catholics who will be joining the annual self-flagellation rituals this week. If you must whip yourself, health officials would like to make sure that the whip and process is as hygienic as possible to avoid infection and tetanus. Officials are encouraging the use of “well-maintained whips” — a real advancement when one views the video below. The next health advance may to regulate self-crucifixions in the country. Continue reading “Easter Health Guidelines Issued for Catholic Self-Flagellists”
Universities often spend copious resources and time to predict which applicants are most likely to excel as academics and researchers. Now, the respected scientific journal Oikos has published a study showing that beer drinking among scientists may be the most reliable measure of whether they will be Darwins or Duds. Continue reading “Pub Light: Study Shows Correlation Between Publication Performance and Beer Drinking Among Scientists”
Securities trader Stephen Chang could well create new law with his lawsuit in New York. There are copious cases on medical malpractice, legal malpractice, but now he would like to create a law of stripper malpractice after lap dancer negligently swiveled and hit him in the face with the heel of her shoe. This is only the latest addition to a growing number of cases in the area of stripper jurisprudence. Continue reading “Negligent Lap Dance: Man Sues Over Injurious Lap Dance”
I can’t resist posting this video of the problem of seizing a van of suspected illegal aliens along a highway. Continue reading “Video: How Not to Seize a Van Full of Illegal Aliens”
Current and former governors of New York and New Jersey appear to be vying for their own sexual reality shows this week, releasing details on affairs that have not been seen in politics since the primaries of Sodom and Gomorrah. Ex-Governor New York Eliot Spitzer, Ex-Governor New Jersey Jim McGreevey, and current New York Gov. David Paterson all have articles this morning on various sexual exploits. Paterson, however, may prove the most interesting measure of current American politics and mores. His is the only one without a criminal component and may not prove as politically lethal. Continue reading “Governors Gone Wild: New York and New Jersey Governors Expose a Wide Array of Sexual Encounters and Legal Complications”
They seem so cute in the Bee Movie. Yet, Sacramento drivers were prevented for using a highway after a truck overturned, spilling crates with as many as 12 million bees. Various people report being stung, including a volunteer in this video who claims 80 stings. It presents a rather interesting possible tort case. Continue reading “Highway Closed as Twelve Million Bees Threaten Motorists”
A very disturbing series of allegations have been made against the Albany police involving abusive cavity searches, including one alleged performance in public. Continue reading “Albany Police Charged with Series of Abusive Cavity Searches”
Harold J. Stewart may be a high school dropout, but he is no fool –despite that fact that he had himself for a lawyer in a first-degree murder case. Stewart not only was acquitted of all charges, but the pro se defendant had previously rejected an agreement that his defense attorney supported for a second-degree murder plea. Continue reading “No Fool I: High School Dropout Represents Himself and Beats Murder Charge”
Belarus police were notified recently that a drunk driver was careening down a highway. As discussed in the video below, they reacted quickly by lining up cars filled with people and children as a human shield and then got out of the way. Continue reading “How to Stop a Dangerous Drunk Driver in Belarus: Throw Citizens and Children in His Path”
A 21-year-old woman, Centava Dozier, has filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines for alleged negligence that led to another passenger masturbating on a flight next to her and ejaculating in her hair. The case will pit the higher duties of a common carrier against the concept of a superseding intervening act. Notably, this is not the first such attack of this kind — adding to the foreseeability element. Continue reading “American Airlines Sued in Flight Masturbation Case”
Only recently, the world was given the first two-inch gun. Now, for those looking for more firepower but less bulk, there is the pocket collapsible “machine gun.” Continue reading “Video: Pocket Machine Gun to Take the Mass Out of Massacre”
With torture and detainees, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has never been viewed as much of a whoopee cushion. However, while speaking at the London School of Economics, Mukasey seemed to tell give a humorous example that seemed to put the Bush administration in the role of the sadist speaking to the al Qaeda masochist. Continue reading “Mukasey Tells Joke About Sadists and the Legal Decisions They Make”