Haha, they released tips to help people avoid driving into post offices. Awesome.

They coulda done something like... "If you see this in front of you..."



"...do not drive forward."

The simpler solution is more strident testing of aging drivers. They have an easier time getting licenses than teenagers.

This is going on right now in downtown Pittsburgh

Man claiming to have a bomb and a gun takes hostage in Gateway Center suite - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

That alone isn't such a strange story.

However, a guy I worked with found out he's got 3 mutual Facebook friends with the guy...and that he's updating statuses during the standoff!

Pretty weird to see the comments on facebook and know it's happening now.

You would think that would work and would be as simple as that. I never knew that having to park or drive by a post office in Florida caused so much confusion. I mean, is there big neon blinking signs that say "DRIVE THRU" that are too close to the entrances to post offices there?

oh come on

Mind-reading tail lets you wag when you're happy, just like a dog - latimes.com

Meet Shippo, the furry clip-on tail that wags when you're happy or excited and droops in a neutral position when you're calm and meditative.

Shippo was created by Neurowear, a company that uses the same technology doctors use to detect seizures and measure brain activity to make products that are more fun and frivilous and play with different ways of expressing our emotions and moods.

My first thought: "This HAS got to be a Japanese company". Google search of the company.....nailed it.

They have cat ears that respond to your emotional state as well.

I heard it was hilarious to watch the ears' reactions when people walked into the eroge and hentai section of booths during one of the cons.

I'll just leave this here.

Man Busted For Curbside Sex With Old Couch | The Smoking Gun

To be fair, the couch is just like Angelina Jolie.

Love it: "It is unclear whether the reference to two cushions meant that the couch was, in fact, a love seat."

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The more the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'

BBC News - North Sea cod: Is it true there are only 100 left?

Linked solely for the following line:


:D

Haha. I like how this was covered in a facetious legal Q&A blog I go to sometimes:

1) Question: The U.S. Postal Service Office down in Central Florida just issued a press release urging me and my Florida neighbors to not drive our cars through post office buildings. Huh? They have drive-through post offices now, but they don't want us to use them?

Answer: No, the Postal Service wants you to literally not drive through their buildings. As in, do not crash through the brick, mortar and glass structures that house the Post Offices in Central Florida, as eight other vehicles have already done this year. (U.S.P.S. Press Release, Customers Urged To Drive Carefully at Post Offices)

Jesus Christ, everything's illegal now.

And the loop is complete.

Man Eaten by His Own Hogs

I hope for his sake that it was a heart attack that knocked him out before this happened.....

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Kentucky restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Ok, I'll give you a little slack depending on how long you have been here in this country and not knowing if it is ok. However, dragging a dead deer carcass that you found along the road has GOT to make you think (no matter what country you're from) that maybe, just maybe, that's something you don't want your patrons to see while they are eating.

Chinese restaurant. didn't see that coming

Red Flower Restaurant - Williamsburg | Urbanspoon

It's fresh! What else can you ask for?

Ya, if it's prepared properly, it's probably not any worse than what you get at Applebees.

"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na... ME!"

'Batman' charged with obstructing Michigan police - Yahoo! News


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Michigan State University Professor Strips Naked In Class, Police Arrive To Escort Him To Hospital (PHOTO)

MSU Math prof goes nuts, strips naked, and runs around screaming.

"online, students said he was "eccentric," and that they "could probably have seen this coming."

Fantastic.

I wonder how they broke the ice in the room after he left. "So um, is the quiz next week cancelled then?"

everything was fine until then

I guess there really is a line that you have to cross. It just took him awhile to find it.

They may have been calculating the exact amount he had actually "lost it."

Variables such as continuing to wear socks and the amound of genitalia exposed below his drooping belly (aka the "Peter Griffin" effect) can make the equasions difficult, particularly during an ongoing event. The $1 removed from the walled acted as a turning point, showing once and for all that the it had been lost.

I'd like to enter this as evidence as to why people should have to pass a test to be allowed to have children.

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Best part of this story isn't the headline ([i]California won't extradite armed robbery suspect), it's in the details.

Long story short: suspect calls sister to pick up her kids after arrest, cops won't let sister have them because she didn't have enough car seats. Couple of hours later, security calls the cops ... the sister had stolen a car seat from a car in the same Kohl's parking lot where her shoplifting sister was arrested.

She was arrested for illegally entering a vehicle when she showed up at the S.O. to get her sister's kids.

The best part is that it took place in "Nicetown".

In a new study, scientists at the University of Newcastle tested 74 different sounds to determine which ones humans find most unpleasant. According to the study the most annoying noise is...the sound of a sharp knife on a glass bottle.

What I find MOST interesting about this is that scientists at the University of Newcastle tested 74 different sounds. Shouldn't they be out "scientificating" something else ?

I've stayed at the Flamingo in Vegas and have seen the random exotic birds in the wildlife habitat there....it never crossed my mind to jump in and decapitate one for kicks. It did for two Cal-Berkley law students though.

Fowl play: Police arrest Cal law students in killing of exotic bird at Flamingo habitat - Las Vegas Sun News

I hope the felonies stick and the prosecutors don't plead them down (which they may because these guys probably don't have priors are are "upstanding members of the community"), but either way, at least their legal careers are over before they got started.

They said it was 9:30 in the morning so I am now doubting my initial thought that "lots of alcohol was involved". They may just be assholes

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Is it bad that I just want to punch those assholes in the face over and over again...?

9:30 AM might have still be late night for them there, I'd bet they were under the influence of booze and maybe more.

It's like with Mel Gibson though, if THAT'S the place you go when you're really boozed up (anti-Semitic rants, decapitating birds), it ain't just the booze. You have a dark place that booze just helps you find.

okay, that's funny as hell.

Here's the police report from the douchebag frat boy law student Vegas bird decapitators.

http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/110...g59c1hitqysr1d

Finally! I have my new band name.

Not a strange NEWS story, but give this german guy credit, he goes the extra mile to sell this bit of humor..

Catch the Ice Dude - YouTube

http://www.king5.com/news/Darth-Vade...174773761.html

Man legally changes name to Darth Vader. Another man suspects Vader of messing around with his wife. Man confronts Vader. Man wildly throws a punch at Vader. Vader ducks. Man connects with Vaders wife.

Apology accepted, Mr Hare

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There are some headlines you just can't simply fly by without stopping to check them out. This is one of those.

Shark Falls From Sky Onto Golf Course

"There is a shark in the way of my shot"

"PLAY THE BALL WHERE IT LIES"

It was only 2 foot long. It wouldn't hurt that much ;)

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Yeah, but it would sure piss you off if it landed near you during your back swing.

I like the explanation: we think a bird dropped it

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It does seem odd, but I am familiar with that area and even that course a little, and it's just nowhere near the ocean. You have to drive significant minutes to get to the ocean from there.

So how pissed do you think that bird was? I mean, it nabbed the shark from the ocean four miles away and maybe even further out, and is taking its unusual prey back to its nest somewhere in the hills to the east of San Juan Cap when somehow the shark shakes free.

I liken it to getting fast food, having to hit your brakes hard and watching the fries tumble out of the bag and all over the passenger seat and floorboard.

"Aw crap, I just dropped my coffee from that across town place I don't go to very often. I'm still not drinking it off the ground."

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I thought they liked donuts?

NYC officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot - Yahoo! News

That'll end up on SVU

I hope they used lots of lube to get that probe launched into that guy.

Traces of cocaine and marijuana found in air of eight Italian cities | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Favorite line:
"Some of the study's results are already creating a buzz: "

This is brilliant...

Bank Robber Returns to Complain he was short changed

Didn't he read the sign? Please check your change before you leave the window

In all seriousness I'd be very interested to know this geniuses IQ. Like you say, brilliant

So that explains the feelings of withdrawl I had when I moved back from Italy.

At Last, Rod Stewart Breaks His Silence on Getting His Semen-Filled Stomach Pumped


I lived a pretty isolated life in PA and I even heard about this story when I was in middle school.

Nice to see him cum clean on this.

Police: Pastor of Fort Worth-area church killed

A pastor in suburban Fort Worth was killed Monday by an attacker who rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor and beat him with an electric guitar, police said.

And then the attacker died after being tased and put in the back of a squad car. This story is all kinds of f'd up. It is Texas, so the guy was going to get the needle anyway though so who cares.

Sounds like a fun Saturday night to me...

Sheriff: man breaks into church, eats popcorn, then passes out in ladies room

Syracuse-Area Brothers Charged in Plot to Steal $5 Million Lottery Payout - NYTimes.com

A lot of weird stories coming out of Syracuse lately. It's kind of the Florida of the northeast in that way. On one of my first days of college there I saw a sign in a park expressly proclaiming that lewd behavior was not permitted in the park. I knew then it was going to be a great 4 years.

You ain't kidding

Mark Suben, Cortland County District Attorney, Admits He Acted In Porn Films

Hardly ever a dull day here in the Classic City. Not even on a Monday afternoon downtown. ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved

A 44-year-old Athens man is facing criminal charges after he created a scene with a Taser on Monday at a bar downtown.

Meredith Grayson Watson, of Hiawassee Avenue, got into an argument with his wife at the Roadhouse on North Lumpkin Street, then went outside and held a Taser as if it were his penis and discharged it at passersby, Athens-Clarke police said.

A bartender called police at about 2:30 p.m. to report the man’s behavior.

She told officers that Watson’s wife was a good customer at the Roadhouse, but Monday was the first time she ever saw Watson, police said. They were arguing about him being intoxicated as they entered the bar.

The bartender overheard the couple arguing about Watson supposedly being high and that he was going to end up in jail, according to police.

The man’s wife left the bar and Watson went after her, but he quickly returned and resumed drinking, setting a Taser on the bar, police said.

Watson then began to use the device.

“(The bartender) stated he went outside and put the Taser down to his pants and was acting like it was his penis,” according to the arrest report.

“When people would walk by he would shock it at them and would come as close as arm’s reach from them and set the Taser off,” according to the report. “He scared a few girls so much they crossed the street to get away.”

The report did not mention anyone actually getting shocked by the Taser.

Watson was jailed on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct at 6:04 p.m. and released about four hours later after posting a bond of $1,000.

Don't taze me bro!

Casey Anthony detectives overlooked Google search

Great job by the prosecution. I would think this should have jumped off the page. Someone searching foolproof ways to suffocate someone from Casey's computer and then signing into Casey's myspace account on the same day that the daughter goes missing and then turns up dead from suffocation.

U.S. Planned Cold War Mission To Blow Up The Moon? Is That Even Possible? - Forbes

I think we should still do this.

Didn't you read the article, silly? It's going to take more energy than we can make. Thus, we need to make a bigger superlaser or better bombs. That's what we should be working towards!

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Shopping mall Santa loses his job after telling 3-year-old the Leafs suck | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports

Robotic dinosaur forces Australian PGA Championship to move - CBSSports.com

The Australian PGA is having trouble with the site of their championship tournament.

I love the headline, since it's all the signs getting in the way of the playing area (forcing them to mark more areas as places where the players can change their lie) that are really forcing the issue.

Paul McCartney is going to take Kurt Cobain's place in a Nirvana reunion. I had to double check to make sure it wasn't an article from The Onion.

Sir Paul McCartney replacing Kurt Cobain in Nirvana | The Sun |Showbiz|Music

Well, it is The Sun.

Maybe I'm Amazed It Smells Like Teen Spirit?

Paging DGB.

You're not going to find him. I heard he's been looking for odd jobs ever since the NHL lockout and, last I heard, his most recent was a mall Santa gig that fell through

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What is wrong with you, Canada? How hard can it be?

Montreal may require dogs to be bilingual | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

"The current situation in Montreal Dog Park is untenable chaos," LaDouce told CBC Radio. "The various dog commands are incomprehensible to each other."

If it's that bad, where chaos has already ensued, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to have a dog park? Just sayin'

Woman's Sex Romp Exposes Workers' Comp Fraud - ABC News

FTFA:

Monster Eagle Tries to Fly Away With Small Child

This is nuts.

Is it bad that the first thing I thought when I saw that was "Wow! That's awesome!"

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Apparently, it's fake. A good fake, but a fake.

Dental Assistant Fired For Being 'Irresistible'. Iowa says boss was within his legal rights when he fired her.

Dental Assistant Fired For Being 'Irresistible' Is 'Devastated' | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!

Kids dare friend to eat raw eggs. He downs 28 .. & dies.

Man eats 28 raw eggs, dies - UPI.com

So it's not a soft drink? :D

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not quite a correct summary

the women didn't sue him. One applied for state benefits and now the state is trying to make him pay.

Not anymore apparently:

"Many Russians consider beer a soft drink - a light refreshment that can be guzzled on the way to work or downed in great quantities before a picnic and a swim in the river."

That sounds like it's a pretty big change, it won't be available everywhere like soda here, but it will be subject to time and place rules. I guess they'll just have to carry some booze in the coats. Or, carry more booze in their coats that usual.

I never knew some governments controlled people's names:

News from The Associated Press

Seems an odd case. It's more about trying to keep the language with a set of standards than anything.



Sure you can boil it down to "People should be able to name their kids whatever they want" but it's not that simple if we think a little harder about it.

We build certain institutions around assumptions we make. As stated above, basically because of the oddball spelling, everyone she runs across assumes she's a boy because it's a boy's spelling and that causes a whole other world of odd headaches for her.

Just to use a simple example, when people are double checking their work (i.e. at the DMV, for instance), they trust that the article and name matches up. I bet that unlike here, they have a near 0 instance of wrong gender on the driver's license. It's a silly thing but if you decide to change something for no reason or "self expression" or whatnot, there are actually some consequences that aren't thought about.

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A light refreshment that can be guzzled on the way to work? :lol:

I think I tried that once..