TINY MINDS

Archive for June, 2006

No Idea how it got there?  You know in cartoons when a character has an idea and the lightbulb appears above his head?  This story is kind of the opposite.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.

Understatement of the decade from this story:

A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

The gory details:

Teen Who Cut Off Corpse’s Head To Make Bong Sentenced

Friends Say Buckalew Told Them He Did It Out Of Boredom

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — A Vermont teenager has been sentenced to prison for breaking into a tomb and cutting the head off a corpse.

into feeding the propaganda of a mass murderer:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.

The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal.

He must be laughing his head off.

At least I hope not…

A 28-year-old man wanted to see whether his girlfriend’s Walther .22 handgun was loaded, so he pulled the trigger — and blew a hole in his left hand.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – A worker accidentally tripping a shut-off switch at a major Ontario plastics plant will cost Nova Chemicals Corp. $11 million in lost profit, the company said on Wednesday, because it won’t be able to fulfill some contracts because of the blunder.

A contractor’s employee installing a structural steel platform at an ethylene plant in Corunna, Ontario, mistakenly activated a process shutdown switch on Monday afternoon, halting production and forcing two weeks of repairs at the facility.