Category: Weird

Kevin has a story that is absolutely mind boggling.  They apparently didn’t realize when you steal that kind of money, you better make sure they think you are dead.  They’ve not been watching enough movies:

Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you, unless they think you’re already dead.

I’m going to agree with the folks who say they are counterfeit.  I also would not be surprised to find out they are not, in fact, Japanese Nationals, but North Koreans with false papers.  Can you imagine being the teller at the Swiss Bank when two guys show up with more treasury bonds than the GDP of most countries in their briefcases?

A fisherman catches a live air-to-air missile off the Florida coast in the Gulf of Mexico.  Fisherman tells his buddies he almost had an Ohio Class ballistic missile submarine, but it got away.

A funny thing happened on the way to Phoenix…

As I’ve been planning the Second Amendment Blog Bash, I thought it would be fun to post polls on the sidebar of the website for people to vote when they check he latest information. It’s not exactly on par with a rocking night out, but it was meant to get people excited about the Bash.

Unfortunately, I’ve learned that diehard GOP voters will hijack any poll and spam the site with fake votes and crazy comments. The first came from Mitt Romney supporters. They not only shared a link on the top Mitt websites, but one actually set up some kind of a script to vote for Mitt as their favorite invited speaker about five times every second. I changed the poll and banned everyone who voted for him after I got the first hit from the site. I also complained to the main culprits and they did honor my request to remove the links.

The latest is from a group of rabid Sarah Palin fans. Now, I like Sarah Palin. I became a much more active campaign volunteer once she was on the ticket. We waited to put a McCain sign out in the lawn until she was on the ticket. But, when people start using the Bash site comments to tell me about why they believe she’s G-d, things get a little creepy. So, again, when the kiddies over at TeamSarah.org started spamming the poll (one vote a minute – a little less demanding on the server, thank goodness), it was changed and a note went up asking them to stop. So far, they have refused to honor my registration so I can ask them to remove the link, and I’m not sure they will ever acknowledge it.

But, in telling you this, I pose the question that Sebastian asked me when I told him about the creepy comments: If Sarah is G-d, then what does that make Todd Palin?

A man is charged with a felony for throwing a fish at a boat that refused to move from under a bridge the man was trying to fish from.  It seems to be the prosecutor should use some discretion in the application of this statute, as this clearly isn’t an example of the type of case it was enacted for.

… Who has this dream:

I still have this dream, and I’ve been out of college now for 12 years. My God, has it really been that long?  I tend to wonder whether or not it’s related to anxiety over forgetting everything you ever learned.  I don’t think I can even remember how to do integration by parts.  I definitely couldn’t design an amplifier or other such electrical circuit without spending days hitting the books and relearning everything.  Hell, I’m not sure I even remember the math for complex electronic circuits.  I barely remember the physics of a transistor.

And I’m an electrical engineer.  This is what I get for working in IT for 10 years.  I guess it’s true what they say, your major is the subject you will learn and forget the most about.

Jennifer is properly revolted by the latest in male fashion trends.  Every year male fashion trends seem to get gayer and gayer.

According to the local news radio station:

Bucks County is the focus of world wide interest in unidentified flying object sightings. That’s according to local UFO enthusiasts who meet monthly in Philadelphia’s Fishtown section.

Bob Gardner is state section director of the Mutual UFO Network — or MUFON. He’s an expert on the Bucks County UFO sightings and a regular attendee of the UFO discussion group at the Germ bookshop on Frankford Avenue.

I think I know who they may be looking for.

Are they really getting that worried on the London Stock Exchange?

Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes.  I can think of at least two dozen ways I’d rather go off the top of my head.  This has to rank pretty far down anyone’s list.

Pretty horrifying 911 call of a woman who had her pet chimp kill a friend.  David points out:

But let’s forget the pundits and persuaders for a moment and just ask ourselves two basic questions:

Or would I rather be useless, and stand shrieking and blubbering helplessly into a telephone while some government worker on the other end of the line tells me to calm down?

If that were my loved one being mauled, having her face ripped off, being rended limb-from-limb, would I want to have the most effective means at my disposal to immediately save her?

I would imagine their solution would be to ban chimps.