Killer Sea Slugs from the Deep! The Curious Case of the Pufferfish Poisoned Canines! A Sea Slug Ate My Puppy! (Okay, that last one references an Australian incident — but close enough.) New Zealand dog owners are freaking out over reports that gigantic, evil sea slugs are coming after their pets. Well, not really. But [...]
Here’s one of those funny but ultimately unfortunate stories that does little to dispel imaginings of brown people as idiotic savages. From Sky News: Con men who swindled people out of money by pretending to be genies with supernatural powers have been arrested, Bangladeshi police say. The scammers would gather personal information about their victims [...]
Somehow, I don’t think the Mythbusters crew will be needed to debunk this story. From the Sun: A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant – from using the swimming pool. Magdalena Kwiatkowska’s 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby. Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after [...]
If you’re looking for a new place to search for little green men this summer, forget Mexico City. Forget Roswell. Forget Marfa. Set your GPS for Kansas City, where the local director of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), Marge Padgitt, reports at least sighting coming into her office each day. From the UFO Examiner, a sampling [...]
The math is complicated, the imagery obscure — but this 400-foot crop circle absolutely positively foretells the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012: No report on whether the end of the world will begin in Wiltshire, England, where the pattern was “discovered,” or at the premiere of Roland Emmerich’s accidental laffer, 2012. —Phoenix [...]
This week’s “Oh, Those Crazy Villagers” story comes from rural China, where authorities weren’t happy that a girl’s body was dug up and married to a young man who’d died in a car crash. From the Telegraph: The suspects included a grieving father who allegedly paid his four accomplices around £2,700 pounds to find a [...]
There’s no cheating death, as poor Johanna Ganthaler found out. She missed Flight 447 only to die in a car crash less than two weeks later. From the Times: Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up [...]
From the Daily Mail comes this 600-foot-long crop circle. —Giant jellyfish invades Earth… in form of mysterious crop circle | Mail Online
It sounds like a dream come true for criminal masterminds, but losing his fingerprints hasn’t made life any easier for this 62-year-old cancer patient. From Reuters: A Singapore cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints — which had apparently disappeared because [...]
My girlfriend and I have a new puppy. She’s four-months-old, which means her teeth are falling out. Because I work at home, I find many of these baby teeth before she has a chance to eat them (which is what puppies do). As our collection of blood-tinged puppy teeth grows, the running joke is — [...]
On one hand, the world is a bewilderingly diverse place, filled with a never-ending variety of faiths, customs and manners. And it’s beautiful. On the other, it’s a brutal, barbaric hellhole where human life has little value. Particularly if you happen to own a vagina. To wit, this report from The Independent: A shocking increase [...]
For sale: 1.9 acres on Boleskine Estate on Loch Ness at Foyers, Scotland. Comes with “planning permission for a three-bedroom log house, and 140ft of the Loch Ness foreshore.” At £176,000 ($256,000) the price tag is modest enough. But the provenance is priceless. From The Observer: Boleskine Bay, on Loch Ness at Foyers, was part [...]
