Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Tuesday
Intelligent Design!
Indiana University researchers studying, umm, dung beetles' penises, are marveling at beetle species' rapid metamorphoses. Why, they found, the penises are of all different sizes within the same species! Beetles in Western Australia had small horns and big genitals, with U.S. beetles just the opposite. Turns out horns are great for running male competitors off of females, but then, if you win the gal, you don't have much to work with. Small-horned beetles shirk fighting and try to sneak access. (But when they get access, they have the equipment to work with.) New Scientist
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The new face of the Church of England
Rev. Skye Denno, 29, a newly ordained deacon and married mother of two, often dresses like a punk rocker (dog collar, hot pants, biker boots) to make herself more approachable. It's just a style, though. Just trying to avoid becoming "another stuffy, middle-class vicar." Daily Telegraph (London)
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Your Daily Loser
Mario Carlos, 27, invented a roadside-robbery story for police in Ocala, Fla., to account for losing $8k cash, but after some questioning, he finally admitted that he made the story up. What happened was that he had fallen for a spiritual healer's "blessing" of the $8k (put the money into this-here sock and leave it in the trunk of his car for a week) (but of course the healer had an identical sock with $1 bills inside and switched 'em). So Mario had to tell the missus about this, after all. Star-Banner (Ocala)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Jason McRoberts, 30, who's being held in Grand Junction, Colo., for a Texas incident in which he was demonstrating to a 7-yr-old boy the proper technique for having sexual intercourse with a dog. Summit Daily (Frisco, Colo.)
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Amy Whitman, 25, might have committed felony hit-and-run (but see photo #2 on the page to determine whether she's innocent or not). WRAL-TV (Raleigh-Durham)
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
Oh, jeez, another Fritzl case, in Poland (locked his teenage daughter up for 6 yrs and had his way with her, producing 2 kids)? . . . . . What sex fiends ought to be doing, according to a travelogue in The Times of London on Sunday, is head to a village south of Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh state on the Indian coast because that's where a subcaste (including the gorgeous members) has for decades been exclusively sex workers . . . . . Ad agency drinking too much coffee: Air New Zealand's new campaign is to hire 50 bald men at the equivalent of about $750 each for noggin messages touting the airline's new speedy check-in services (Seriously) . . . . . It's Good to Be a British Prisoner: After a heinous baby-killer escaped from a locked mental hospital near Bristol, and raped a teenager, it was revealed that the hospital had allowed him to build "a vast collection of horror and pornographic DVDs." Today's Newsrangers: Bobby Stout, Joe Church, Bob Adams
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Indiana University researchers studying, umm, dung beetles' penises, are marveling at beetle species' rapid metamorphoses. Why, they found, the penises are of all different sizes within the same species! Beetles in Western Australia had small horns and big genitals, with U.S. beetles just the opposite. Turns out horns are great for running male competitors off of females, but then, if you win the gal, you don't have much to work with. Small-horned beetles shirk fighting and try to sneak access. (But when they get access, they have the equipment to work with.) New Scientist
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The new face of the Church of England
Rev. Skye Denno, 29, a newly ordained deacon and married mother of two, often dresses like a punk rocker (dog collar, hot pants, biker boots) to make herself more approachable. It's just a style, though. Just trying to avoid becoming "another stuffy, middle-class vicar." Daily Telegraph (London)
Comments 'skye_denno'
Your Daily Loser
Mario Carlos, 27, invented a roadside-robbery story for police in Ocala, Fla., to account for losing $8k cash, but after some questioning, he finally admitted that he made the story up. What happened was that he had fallen for a spiritual healer's "blessing" of the $8k (put the money into this-here sock and leave it in the trunk of his car for a week) (but of course the healer had an identical sock with $1 bills inside and switched 'em). So Mario had to tell the missus about this, after all. Star-Banner (Ocala)
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
Jason McRoberts, 30, who's being held in Grand Junction, Colo., for a Texas incident in which he was demonstrating to a 7-yr-old boy the proper technique for having sexual intercourse with a dog. Summit Daily (Frisco, Colo.)
Comments 'jason_mcroberts'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Amy Whitman, 25, might have committed felony hit-and-run (but see photo #2 on the page to determine whether she's innocent or not). WRAL-TV (Raleigh-Durham)
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
Oh, jeez, another Fritzl case, in Poland (locked his teenage daughter up for 6 yrs and had his way with her, producing 2 kids)? . . . . . What sex fiends ought to be doing, according to a travelogue in The Times of London on Sunday, is head to a village south of Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh state on the Indian coast because that's where a subcaste (including the gorgeous members) has for decades been exclusively sex workers . . . . . Ad agency drinking too much coffee: Air New Zealand's new campaign is to hire 50 bald men at the equivalent of about $750 each for noggin messages touting the airline's new speedy check-in services (Seriously) . . . . . It's Good to Be a British Prisoner: After a heinous baby-killer escaped from a locked mental hospital near Bristol, and raped a teenager, it was revealed that the hospital had allowed him to build "a vast collection of horror and pornographic DVDs." Today's Newsrangers: Bobby Stout, Joe Church, Bob Adams
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