Archive for January, 2007

You take time off your job.  Drive all the way to the court house.  Sit and listen to a boring case all day.  And now they expect you to be sober too?

New trial ordered: Kentucky judge finds juror’s water bottle filled with vodka   

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A judge ordered a new trial in a case in which a juror sipped vodka throughout the trial.

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Everyone knows you should mold C4 into cute little critter shapes instead.

Man electrocuted by do-it-yourself mole-killer

Thu Jan 11, 12:33 PM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German retiree who wired up a high-voltage cable to try to wipe out the moles digging up his garden killed himself instead, police said Thursday.

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It sorta looks like a buddist temple if you stand on your head, cross your eyes and don’t look too close.

Have you seen Nepal? Not really, Peru says

Thu Jan 11, 9:06 AM ET

LIMA (Reuters) – Royal Nepal Airlines has apologized to Peru after mistakenly using a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal.

Peru’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday the flagship carrier of the Himalayan kingdom, about half way around the world from the Andean country, had put the picture of Peru’s tourism icon, Machu Picchu, on a poster under a slogan “Have you seen Nepal?”

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What’s the capital of the Comoros?  Moroni.

Ex-Coach Allegedly Hits Students in Groin

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — A former high school basketball coach faces 39 charges for allegedly hitting male students in the groin, showing them pornography and pouring water on his players then driving them to games in the winter with the windows rolled down.

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It is hard to teach with all of your students laughing at you. I wonder who is paying 900 bucks a pop for his “artworks”.

Va. school board fires ‘butt-printing’ art teacher
Paintings done during off-hours sell for as much as $900

RICHMOND, Va. – An art teacher whose off-hours work as a so-called “butt-printing artist” became widely circulated among high school students has been fired.

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