worry 081219

More Things to Worry About on Friday

Job opening for a couple: $100k/yr, with free Pacific island housing, light duties (but one of which is enduring a fog horn that goes off every 20 seconds, 24/7). Deutsche Presse Agentur via Earth Times

Perhaps Kansas's sexual-consent law needs rewriting . . if it now can't keep a woman in her 40s with a mental capacity of a 3-yr-old from "consenting" to sex with her caregiver. Kansas City Star

"This is your pilot speaking. We have to turn around and go back to Cardiff because I'm not qualified to land the plane here in Paris. Sorry 'bout that." USA Today

Can't Possibly Be True: A Pennsylvania woman was selling kittens tricked up with ear, neck, and tail piercings. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre)

California's Supreme Court OK'ed lawsuits against good Samaritans if they step in and save your life but manage to be a little too rough in the process. Los Angeles Times

A Thai teenager, showing off, put a firecracker in his mouth and lit the fuse and, yeah, blew his face open. (Bonus: The local paper described the mouth action as a "sex act.") Phuket Gazette [Ed.: Relax; it's pronounced poo-ket]

Today's Newsrangers: Paul Music, Stephen Taylor, Tamara Mills, Sandy Pearlman
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Comments
Pierced Cats Martel, you beat me to it! I read this story this AM and had the EXACT thought!

Paris Landing Let me see...... Pilot plans to land in Paris but doesn't know now when there's bad weather. Paris in French translates into "Bad Weather". What am I missing?

Good Samaritans Unfortunately this type stuff isn't that unusual! In fact <i>No good deed goes unpunished.</b> was coined just to exemplify this situation.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/19/08 at 01:34 PM
a firecracker in his mouth
Well, he could always move to Chattanooga and start freelancing since he likes to put explosive things in his mouth.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 12/19/08 at 01:44 PM
Wait, was the act of selling live animals on eBay the problem, or that the cats had been pierced?
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 12/19/08 at 07:58 PM
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