Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Modern Toilet Diner
New York Post:
"No one complains about the toilet humor at this diner.
All 100 seats in the crowded Modern Toilet diner are made from toilet bowls, not chairs. Sink faucets and gender-coded 'WC' signs appear throughout the three-story facility in Taipai, one of 12 in a chain of Taiwaneateries with a toilet theme.
Customers eat from mini-plastic toilet bowls, and wipe their hands and mouths using toilet rolls hung above their tables, which are glass-topped jumbo bathtubs."
posted by Dave Stone @ 8:52 PM,
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Panty phone fetish sends Briton to prison
kansascity.com :
"The underwear-obsessed telephone stalker’s undoing proved to be the opening of a gym opposite the apartment that the 40-year-old shared with his mother.
Detectives caught Paul Kavanagh on film, leaning over the balcony of the West London apartment, just as he was peppering the gym’s female receptionists with calls.
Jailed for 2 1/2 years this month, Kavanagh admitted making some 15,000 such harassing calls to women, asking them questions about their underwear. He posed as a clothing researcher and claimed to be gathering marketing data for a retailer."
posted by Dave Stone @ 8:47 PM,
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Pastor's Wife: Church Is a Divorce Asset
iWon News:
"The estranged wife of a pastor claims her husband blended his professional and personal finances so thoroughly that his church should be counted as an asset in their divorce.
A judge agreed in a decision published this week to hear arguments on the claim, and he ordered a financial appraisal of the church. Lawyers said it could represent the first time anyone in New York state has tried to treat a religious institution as a marital asset.
The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a 'personal piggy bank,' setting his own income, spending the congregation's tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building, according to the decision by state Supreme Court Judge Arthur M. Diamond. The couple's names were redacted from the decision."
posted by Dave Stone @ 8:13 PM,
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Best to Use Tools When Loosening Lug Nut
iWon News:
"A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.
The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.
'He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off,' Wilson said."
posted by Dave Stone @ 6:10 PM,
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Man shot in bottom over loud music
The Australian:
"A PERTH man has been charged with attempted murder after a 25-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and stomach during an argument over loud music.
Police alleged the younger man was at his Boddington home with friends when a 56-year-old man visiting neighbours began arguing with him about the loud music.
The older man allegedly threatened the residents with a piece of timber before he left and returned with a rifle."
posted by Dave Stone @ 5:57 PM,
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monkey Business
Miami Hurricane Online:
"In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a 72-year-old man accidentally shot his neighbor in an attempt to shoot wild monkeys that were trespassing on his land. The neighbor suffered minor injuries and was treated in hospital shortly after the incident. District Police Chief Zahaliman Jamin explained that the man had grown so annoyed by the irritating monkeys that he fired at them as they sat in the bushes of his garden, according to the CBS News report. Unfortunately, his aim wasn't up to par."
posted by Dave Stone @ 10:16 PM,
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Friday, November 02, 2007
You Are Getting Sleepy
Small Town Papers:
"If police had not seen it on video tape locked away inside the small convenience store surveillance system, they say they probably would not have believed the story. The store clerk called his boss and reported that he had been robbed, by two Indian men. Robberies in the area are common, so the boss was upset but not surprised."
posted by Dave Stone @ 10:26 PM,
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
A Halloween outfit is mistaken for a corpse
Weird world:
"Kent librarian Gordon Jenns is hoping for an exorcist to get rid of his very own Moaning Myrtle. According to the 61-year-old, the ghost flushes a library lavatory at around 19:00 on a Friday, when he thinks the staff have all gone home. But surely an exorcist is a bit drastic - couldn't they use the traditional library method of a snooty 'shhhh'? Moscow authorities have over-reacted a smidgeon this week in banning school students from celebrating Halloween due to its veneration of 'the cult of death'. "
posted by Dave Stone @ 6:01 PM,
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Vampires in Afghanistan? Soldiers Say It's True - Salem-News.Com
Salem-News.com :
"During my two months on assignment in the Afghanistan combat theater last winter, I covered all kinds of military operations for Salem-News.com and Oregon's KPTV FOX-12. While I was there I spent time on forward combat bases, I went on infantry foot patrols, flew in helicopters, and witnessed levels of disparity that were hard to imagine. But the only time I thought I was going to vomit in that faraway land was when a very strange American soldier found it necessary to tell me about the Afghan vampires. Call it a coincidence, maybe it was the coffee, I will never know for sure, but twenty minutes with this guy sent me running for the men's room."
posted by Dave Stone @ 8:52 PM,
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