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| 'RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!' |
| 2008-07-03 08:03:00 |
Police in Dillon, a small South Carolina town near the North Carolina border, say a 13-year-old with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling. The boy's mother saw him bring the car home both times but didn't see anything wrong with the joyrides, Police Sgt. Jason Turner said. The boy, who was charged with larceny and second-degree ...
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| I thought the water tasted a little funny |
| 2008-07-02 08:27:00 |
Two people caught skinny dipping in a Portland reservoir that's a main source of water for the city nearly caused officials to dump millions of litres of water and close the facility. Ryan Langsdorf, 28, and Ashley Moyer, 23, were found in one of two sections of the Mount Tabor Reservoir at about 3 a.m. Saturday during a spell of unusually hot weather. They were cited for trespassing. The ...
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| Rich. yes, Smart? uuuhhhh |
| 2008-06-27 14:42:00 |
A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it today in protest at skyrocketing fuel costs.
The unemployed 30-year-old man drove the black 1995 BMW sedan onto the lawn outside Frankfurt's convention centre grounds at about 7:30 a.m. He then jumped out, emptied a canister of gas over the vehicle, and set fire to it. (link)...
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| ... and now a small unit |
| 2008-06-26 10:38:00 |
It appears 49-year-old Bill Merit thought the latter. Bad choice Bill. Police said Wednesday that Merit was picked up for public indecency shortly after being freed from jail in Chatham County, Ga. They say Merit told an officer that he wasn't wearing the clothes jailers gave him because he thought they were stolen. According to the police report Merit - released after having been booked ...
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| Drugs are bad m'kaay? |
| 2008-06-25 11:30:00 |
Drug traffickers in China's far west are smuggling heroin into the country woven into carpets imported from Afghanistan and Pakistan, state media said on Tuesday.
Customs officials in Xinjiang, which borders both countries, have seized more than 30 carpets containing some 50 kg (110 lb) of heroin in the last several months, the official China Daily said. "The traffickers have become more ...
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| No fatties or uglies allowed |
| 2008-06-24 10:52:00 |
An online community is launching in Canada today for the exclusive use of attractive people, complete with a "strict ban on ugliness."
Prospective members of beautifulpeople.net submit a photo and profile in hopes of being deemed attractive enough to be a member by those who have already passed the subjective voting process.
Some people may not like the sounds of it, but the founder defends the...
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| The "coolest man in the world" |
| 2008-06-23 09:00:00 |
I had the unfortunate experience of having to meet the "coolest man in the world" over the weekend. Was it the excessive "man jewelry" you ask? Possibly. Was is the greasy slicked back hair? Perhaps. Was it the heavy leather jacket he was sporting in the mall? Probably. Was it the way he slurped his Taco bell drink? Potentially. Or was it the fact that he was doing all of this in one of the ...
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| Moron robs lemonade stand then runs home |
| 2008-06-18 09:21:00 |
A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the young man into surrendering.
"The guy came up and was, like, 'Give me your money,' " said Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."
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| Horse: Umm, yeah. I changed my mind |
| 2008-06-17 12:01:00 |
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo have revealed they reversed a vasectomy on an endangered horse to allow it to reproduce naturally - the first-known operation of its kind on an endangered species.
Veterinarians said Monday that the surgery was performed in October 2007 on a Przewalski horse named Minnesota.
Luis Padilla, the zoo veterinarian who performed the reversal ...
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| He was the best candidate available |
| 2008-06-16 15:57:00 |
The mayor of a tiny town in northeastern Romania who won re-election in municipal elections, died before he could take office, the Electoral Commission said Monday.The commission in a controversial decision, declared the former mayor's rival, and runner-up. The death of the 58-year-old Neculai Ivascu, who had held the post for 18 years, was announced early Sunday, too late to cancel the contest. ...
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| Blow up dolls not just for doin' the nasty |
| 2008-06-13 08:26:00 |
Drivers in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland are turning to inflatable passengers to try and beat transit lane rules.
Blow-up dolls, shop mannequins and dogs dressed up as children have all been used to try and justify driving in lanes where vehicles are required to have at least three occupants.
"There were some odd people that tried these antics," North Shore city council traffic safety ...
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| When I said 'test drive' I meant 'steal your car' |
| 2008-06-11 12:35:00 |
Good idea, but poor execution. Are criminals getting dumber or are drugs getting cheaper? If you're going to steal a car, at least provide a fake address and use a fake driver's license.
"A woman who told a salesman at a car dealership she wanted to take a car for a test drive is in jail after never bringing the car back. Police say Inga Ashlock was arrested Monday in Newport News. We're told ...
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| Somebody's sure grumpy this morning |
| 2008-06-11 08:59:00 |
A 13-year-old boy in Kingston, Ont., who punched and broke his family's TV set got more than just a tongue-lashing from his mom - he was also slapped with a criminal charge. Police say the teen began bickering with his mother Monday morning when she woke him and told him to get ready for school. In anger, the boy walked out to the living room and punched the screen of the 37-inch LCD TV, ...
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| Who ordered 16,500 condoms?! |
| 2008-06-10 09:18:00 |
One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday.
Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of ...
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| Single? Get married or be fired |
| 2008-06-10 09:16:00 |
A major Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported on Tuesday.
"One of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family," the hardline Kayhan daily reported.
The paper did not mention the name of the company but the reformist Etemad newspaper said ...
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| Best excuses for showing up late for work |
| 2008-06-09 12:05:00 |
1. While rowing across the river to work, I got lost in the fog.
2. Someone stole all my daffodils.
3. I had to go audition for American Idol.
4. My ex-husband stole my car so I couldn't drive to work.
5. My route to work was shut down by a Presidential motorcade.
6. I have transient amnesia and couldn't remember my job.
7. I was indicted for securities fraud this morning.
8. The line was ...
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| Hanuman voted in as chairman, Vishnu a distant second |
| 2008-06-09 11:45:00 |
He's a monkey, he's a god, and now he's a business school chairman.
Hanuman, the popular Hindu monkey god revered for his strength and valor, has been named official chairman of the recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India, a school official said Saturday.
The position comes with an incense-filled office, a desk and a laptop computer. Four ...
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| Being stupid sometimes pays off |
| 2008-06-09 08:27:00 |
It doesn't pay to be smart and ignorance really is bliss if you want a long life -- at least if you're a fly, according to new research by a Swiss university.
Scientists Tadeusz Kawecki and Joep Burger at the University of Lausanne said Wednesday they had discovered a "negative correlation between an improvement in a fly's mental capacity and its longevity".
As part of their research project, ...
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| Lesbian kiss stirs up Seattle |
| 2008-06-05 13:12:00 |
Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch.
But then last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it was making another fan uncomfortable.
The incident has exploded on local TV, on talk radio and in the blogosphere and has touched off a debate ...
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| Brazil jail security is surprisingly lax |
| 2008-06-04 11:56:00 |
The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth US$173,000 from his cell.
Bahia's Prison Affairs Department head Jose Francisco Leite said police raided the cell in a statewide crackdown on drug trafficking.
He says authorities have ordered an investigation of how of ...
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| Thongs, not just your girlfriend's butt floss |
| 2008-06-02 15:57:00 |
Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear. A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colorado, shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the May 16 robbery. One man wore a green thong and the other ...
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| Naked man mystifies police |
| 2008-05-29 08:32:00 |
Ann Arbor police are asking how a naked man managed to get to a 10th-floor apartment balcony for a pre-dawn break-in. Police in the University of Michigan campus town say a resident called about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, saying someone was breaking in through a sliding glass door on his balcony. Officers say the naked, wet intruder ran out the apartment's front door and tried to escape, but ...
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| Squirrels terrorizing museum patrons |
| 2008-05-27 09:43:00 |
A popular open-air museum in Helsinki showing the traditional Finnish way of life on Monday begged the public to stop feeding local squirrels, saying they were eating away at the displays.
The 87 buildings that make up the Seurasaari museum, including cottages, manor houses, barns and other storage buildings, offer plenty of good places for the squirrels to nest and hide food. "The squirrels ...
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| Sapporo plans to make space beer |
| 2008-05-27 09:37:00 |
Researchers said the project was part of efforts to prepare for a future in which humans spend extended periods of time in space -- and might like a cold beer after a space walk. Japanese brewery Sapporo Holdings said it would make beer using the third generation of barley grains that had spent five months on the International Space Station in 2006. "We want to finish the beer by November. It ...
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| Nobody likes a cracked nipple |
| 2008-05-26 08:50:00 |
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned women not to use or purchase Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream, marketed by MOM Enterprises Inc. of San Rafael, Calif. The cream, promoted to nursing mothers to help soothe dry or cracked nipples, contains ingredients that may cause respiratory distress, vomiting and diarrhea in infants, the agency said. The potentially harmful ingredients in the ...
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| You really suck when ... |
| 2008-05-26 08:46:00 |
During three years in the low minors, John Odom never really made a name for himself.
That sure changed this week - he's the guy the Calgary Vipers traded for a bunch of bats. "I don't really care," he said Friday. "It'll make a better story if I make it to the big leagues."
For now, Odom is headed to the Laredo Broncos of the United League. They got him Tuesday from Calgary of the Golden ...
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| Fat Ass Criminal gets a light sentence |
| 2008-05-23 08:44:00 |
A former chef who goes by the nickname "Big Mike" has had his sentence for drug trafficking reduced because the provincial jail where he's incarcerated isn't dealing with his 430-pound weight. Michel Lapointe has already served 20 months behind bars awaiting sentencing in what his lawyer described in court as hellish conditions. "For the first eight months he didn't have a bed adjusted to his ...
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| Buy a car, get a free gun ... only in America! |
| 2008-05-23 08:38:00 |
Salesmen at a Missouri car dealership are not just kicking in a free CD player or air conditioner. They are offering a free handgun with every purchase.
Through the end of the month, car buyers at Max Motors in Butler will have a choice - $250 toward either a gun purchase or gasoline.
General manager Walter Moore says that so far, most buyers have chosen the gun, adding that he suggests they ...
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| Catfight leads to pepper spray on bus |
| 2008-05-21 13:52:00 |
A dispute over a cellphone call on subway train in Vienna, Austria, has ended up with 19 people in hospital.
It all started Wednesday when a man complained to a woman that she was speaking too loudly on her cellphone.
The dispute was verbal at first, but police say it escalated into a physical confrontation with both lashing out at each other.
The woman then resorted to the pepper spray, but ...
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| At least they didn't kill eachother |
| 2008-05-20 12:44:00 |
It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking.
Officers said neither man needed medical attention after the Saturday confrontation, but Harvey Epstein, co-owner of Mamacitas restaurant, was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and using a stun gun.
Epstein, 36, ...
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| Russian doomsday cult still waiting for the end of the world |
| 2008-05-16 10:04:00 |
Toxic fumes from rotting corpses drove the final members of a Russian doomsday cult from the cave where they had been waiting six months for the end of the world, officials said Friday.
Eight women and one man emerged from the muddy bunker outside a village in the region of Penza, 560 kilometres (350 miles) southeast of Moscow, said Tatyana Ostrovskaya, a spokeswoman for the local prosecutor's ...
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| Girl Scout makes a lot money ... selling cookies, yeah right! |
| 2008-05-15 09:09:00 |
A dirty Girl Scout sold 17,328 of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up a sex shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national gangbang record. Talk about one dirty girl scout! Her and her troop handled thousands of knobs, polishing them and cleaning them. Safe to say there were many happy endings. Pleasuring men from all over, they went ...
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| Dumb, just dumb |
| 2008-05-14 08:54:00 |
A man from Windsor, Ont., has learned the hard way that drivers should not be watching movies while dealing with highway traffic.
Especially while speeding. Provincial police in Essex County stopped a minivan travelling on Highway 401 at 141 kilometres an hour just after midnight.
The officer peeked inside and saw a portable DVD player on the dashboard beside the steering wheel. (link)...
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| Japanese cigarette vending machines to card kids |
| 2008-05-13 10:53:00 |
Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country's 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.
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| Hands off my balls! |
| 2008-05-12 10:37:00 |
With just weeks to go before Austria and Switzerland host the Euro 2008 soccer tournament, American artist Spencer Tunick organizes a crowd of nearly 2,000 models to pose nude in the Austrian capital Vienna for his latest artwork.
Just weeks before the launch of the European Championship football tournament, about 1,800 volunteers gathered at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday to shed their...
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| Young adults binge drink to get laid |
| 2008-05-09 11:04:00 |
Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.
The UK has one of the worst reputations for binge drinking and underage sex but there are striking similarities between countries, a study found.
A third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex.
The study - of 1,341 young ...
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| Jayde Nicole 2008 Playmate of the Year |
| 2008-05-09 08:33:00 |
Jayde Nicole is Playboy's 2008 Playmate of the Year. The 22-year-old brunette bombshell is featured in a ten-page nude pictorial in Playboy's June issue that comes out this week. Along with her title, she also gets $100,000 in prize money and a 2008 Cadillac C-T-S. She is Canada's first Playmate of the Year since 1982, when Shannon Tweed was honoured with the title. Nicole is a local ...
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| Hormone lets you fatties off the hook |
| 2008-05-08 15:12:00 |
A hormone produced by the stomach makes people want to eat by making food more appealing, which could be a factor in overeating and obesity, a new Canadian study suggests.
The findings from the study, conducted by researchers from Montreal's McGill University, were published in the journal Cell Metabolism.
Researchers gave the hormone, known as ghrelin, through an intravenous drip to a group of...
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| Hit a dog? Sue the owners! |
| 2008-05-07 09:17:00 |
The driver of a car that struck and killed a dog in Minnesota is suing the dog's owners for damage done to his vehicle.
Jeffery Ely was driving near Duluth, Minnesota, on January 4th when Fester, a miniature pinscher, ran into the road.
Ely's 1997 Honda Civic struck Fester, killing the 5.8-kilogram dog instantly.
Now Ely is suing Fester's owners for about $1,100 for damage to his car, time he ...
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| If it helps infants it can help adults too! |
| 2008-05-06 08:44:00 |
Prolonged, exclusive breastfeeding appears to give children a cognitive advantage over formula-fed kids, increasing IQ by three to four points on average and boosting later academic performance, a Canadian study suggests.
The research by McGill University is not the first to link the method of infant feeding to brain development, but the size and the design of the study lends weight to the idea...
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