Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Thursday
Dept. of Homeland Security denied a complicated immigrant-asylum application by looking up stuff on Wikipedia
And the Board of Immigration Appeals also said it was OK, but the U.S. Court of Appeals has now dispensed some sense.
Wired.com Threat-Level blog
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Recurring Theme: Anger-releasing service center
It's been done in Japan and Singapore, but now Sarah Lavely has opened her Smash Shack in a downtown San Diego storefront, where when you get really pissed off, you give Sarah $10 or $45, and she lets you break some plates and stuff in one of her rooms. You can even put the bastard's picture on the wall to have something to aim at. San Diego Union-Tribune
Comments 'sarahs_smash'
The family of that beheaded Canadian bus passenger is suing, er, Greyhound, of course
They're suing the actual lunatic-murderer, too, but that guy's income-producing prospects are dim, and they might as well go Greyhound for the big bucks (which, of course, it's not about, according to the lawyer). [Ed.: Jeez, if I remember correctly, at least half of all Greyhound passengers at any one time look capable of slicing your neck.] Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News
Comments 'beheading_greyhound'
News of the Weird Hall-of-Famer Dennis Avner, in London
The 50-yr-old computer programer*, reputed to have the world's most modified body, was scheduled this week at the London opening of a Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum. Avner is the Cat Man (fangs, whiskers, clipped ears, striped tats, and a whole lot more). Of course there's a photo (but he's not hard to find elsewhere on the Internet, either). Metro.co.uk (London) // TattooCulture.ro
Comments 'avner_london'
Pain art: She hangs from hooks to protest sharks being hung from hooks
Brit Alice Newstead, who's had her torso, arms, legs, stomach, and knees pierced because hanging from hooks is her thing, wants you to know that sharks get a worse deal when they're hung (so that their fins can be sliced off for shark-fin soup). Of course there's a photo (Bonus: Gal appears to be enjoying hereself!). Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'alice_newstead'
Death art: The goldfish-in-a-blender guy is back
Marco Evaristti's first splash was in 2000 when he put goldfish in 10 electric blenders at a gallery in Denmark and invited visitors to push the buttons. His latest is a deal with Texas death-row inmate Gene Hathorn, 47, who is on his final appeal of a three-murder conviction, and if the appeal fails, Evaristti will have the right to freeze Hathorn's body and chop it up as food for visitors to feed to fish. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'evaristti_texas'
Your Daily Loser
Police couldn't catch the F State cross-dressing purse-snatcher, but they did get their hands on a clue when one of his bra-stuffings fell out. Florida Today (Melbourne)
Comments 'crossdress_falsies'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Yeah, this guy again: The Washington state 20-yr-old who flashes baristas in the drive-thru lane [mentioned in this space, 8-21-2008] now wants the police to know he's grateful that they caught him: "Once you start, it's hard to stop." Everett Daily Herald
Comments 'barista_caught'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
Behold a photo spread from the World Bodypainting Festival!
[Ed.: My fascination with things like this is twofold: First, you have to be weird enough to think of crap like this, and then, beyond that, you have to actually go to a serious amount of trouble to carry it out, requiring, at minimum a total absence of self-doubt.] Pravda
Comments 'bodypaint_festival'
More Things to Worry About on Thursday
King County (Seattle) is sorry that it used its official logo (the face of Martin Luther King, Jr.) on county-branded garbage bags [Wait, The official logo of King County, Wash., is Dr. King? Can they do that?] . . . . . Riviera Beach, Fla., caught its first perp under the new "pull up your britches" ordinance . . . . . A new book that encourages girls to be daring suggests that Aussie daughters take up the didgeridoo, but Dr. Mark Rose (identified as an expert on Aboriginal culture) said that's terribly insulting (in that the didgeridoo is for males only!) and that besides, any girl who touches one will become infertile . . . . . And in more sensible news from Australia, a 19-yr-old man was arrested for excessively, defiantly belching in a police station . . . . . According to British researchers, the South African bird, the Green Wood Hoopoe, gathers in rival groups, which squawk the ornithological equivalent of "You suck!" at each other. Today's Newsrangers: Bruce Alter, Matt Mirapaul, Bob Pert, Erik Madsen, Emory Kimbrough, Mark Neunder, Paul Music
Comments 'worry_080904'
[* Words of one syllable, and words accented on the last syllable, double a single final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel. Hence, "spammer," "befitting," "wandering," "programer"] [Or, y'know, whatever.]
And the Board of Immigration Appeals also said it was OK, but the U.S. Court of Appeals has now dispensed some sense.
Wired.com Threat-Level blog
Comments 'dhs_wikipedia'
Recurring Theme: Anger-releasing service center
It's been done in Japan and Singapore, but now Sarah Lavely has opened her Smash Shack in a downtown San Diego storefront, where when you get really pissed off, you give Sarah $10 or $45, and she lets you break some plates and stuff in one of her rooms. You can even put the bastard's picture on the wall to have something to aim at. San Diego Union-Tribune
Comments 'sarahs_smash'
The family of that beheaded Canadian bus passenger is suing, er, Greyhound, of course
They're suing the actual lunatic-murderer, too, but that guy's income-producing prospects are dim, and they might as well go Greyhound for the big bucks (which, of course, it's not about, according to the lawyer). [Ed.: Jeez, if I remember correctly, at least half of all Greyhound passengers at any one time look capable of slicing your neck.] Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News
Comments 'beheading_greyhound'
News of the Weird Hall-of-Famer Dennis Avner, in London
The 50-yr-old computer programer*, reputed to have the world's most modified body, was scheduled this week at the London opening of a Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum. Avner is the Cat Man (fangs, whiskers, clipped ears, striped tats, and a whole lot more). Of course there's a photo (but he's not hard to find elsewhere on the Internet, either). Metro.co.uk (London) // TattooCulture.ro
Comments 'avner_london'
Pain art: She hangs from hooks to protest sharks being hung from hooks
Brit Alice Newstead, who's had her torso, arms, legs, stomach, and knees pierced because hanging from hooks is her thing, wants you to know that sharks get a worse deal when they're hung (so that their fins can be sliced off for shark-fin soup). Of course there's a photo (Bonus: Gal appears to be enjoying hereself!). Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'alice_newstead'
Death art: The goldfish-in-a-blender guy is back
Marco Evaristti's first splash was in 2000 when he put goldfish in 10 electric blenders at a gallery in Denmark and invited visitors to push the buttons. His latest is a deal with Texas death-row inmate Gene Hathorn, 47, who is on his final appeal of a three-murder conviction, and if the appeal fails, Evaristti will have the right to freeze Hathorn's body and chop it up as food for visitors to feed to fish. Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'evaristti_texas'
Your Daily Loser
Police couldn't catch the F State cross-dressing purse-snatcher, but they did get their hands on a clue when one of his bra-stuffings fell out. Florida Today (Melbourne)
Comments 'crossdress_falsies'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Yeah, this guy again: The Washington state 20-yr-old who flashes baristas in the drive-thru lane [mentioned in this space, 8-21-2008] now wants the police to know he's grateful that they caught him: "Once you start, it's hard to stop." Everett Daily Herald
Comments 'barista_caught'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
Behold a photo spread from the World Bodypainting Festival!
[Ed.: My fascination with things like this is twofold: First, you have to be weird enough to think of crap like this, and then, beyond that, you have to actually go to a serious amount of trouble to carry it out, requiring, at minimum a total absence of self-doubt.] Pravda
Comments 'bodypaint_festival'
More Things to Worry About on Thursday
King County (Seattle) is sorry that it used its official logo (the face of Martin Luther King, Jr.) on county-branded garbage bags [Wait, The official logo of King County, Wash., is Dr. King? Can they do that?] . . . . . Riviera Beach, Fla., caught its first perp under the new "pull up your britches" ordinance . . . . . A new book that encourages girls to be daring suggests that Aussie daughters take up the didgeridoo, but Dr. Mark Rose (identified as an expert on Aboriginal culture) said that's terribly insulting (in that the didgeridoo is for males only!) and that besides, any girl who touches one will become infertile . . . . . And in more sensible news from Australia, a 19-yr-old man was arrested for excessively, defiantly belching in a police station . . . . . According to British researchers, the South African bird, the Green Wood Hoopoe, gathers in rival groups, which squawk the ornithological equivalent of "You suck!" at each other. Today's Newsrangers: Bruce Alter, Matt Mirapaul, Bob Pert, Erik Madsen, Emory Kimbrough, Mark Neunder, Paul Music
Comments 'worry_080904'
[* Words of one syllable, and words accented on the last syllable, double a single final consonant before adding a suffix beginning with a vowel. Hence, "spammer," "befitting," "wandering," "programer"] [Or, y'know, whatever.]
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