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Archives for the ‘Strange News’ Category

Follow MarsPhoenix on Twitter

By Erin • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: News, On the Web, Strange News

I’m a little behind the times on noticing this gem, but perhaps you are as well.  You can follow what’s happening with the Mars Phoenix lander on Twitter!  NASA has created a Twitter feed where they send short updates on the lander’s progress, submit links to images and other information from the lander, and occasionally [...]



Ireland Cracks Down On Nuclear Bombers

By Mary • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

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It seems Irish government is a bit soft when it comes to punishing Atomic bombers.
According to Inderpendent.ie, an Irish news source, Irish Legislature has recently redrafted a 2006 Bill designed to punish anyone found guilty of detonating a nuclear bomb. Many Irish officials are outraged that the draft still includes provisions [...]



Fanatics for Hard Rock

By Mary • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Strange News

photo credit: maxfAccording to the BBC News, two men made off with a chunk off of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, last Thursday. Two security guards spotted the pair using a hammer and a screwdriver to take a piece from the 5,000- year-old site. The incident damaged a coin-sized area of the “Heel Stone.”
The vandals [...]



Bill Cosby Cuts a Rap Album

By Mary • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Music, Strange News

photo credit: meandmybadselfNo, I’m not kidding. However, the 70 year-old comedian won’t be rapping on the album, according to MSNBC’s website. “Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency” blends his narratives with a hip-hop, pop and jazz soundtrack. Cosby created the album to provide a positive message amidst “profane and degrading” hip-hop music. His new [...]



Bigfoot!

By Erin • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

Huh, I’d never heard that it was thought there were sasquatches in WV. Apparently the Bigfoot Field Researcher’s Organization knows otherwise, and the group’s 20 person expedition has found tracks believed to belong to the creatures in Pocahontas County. It would be fairly amazing to find these creatures have managed to live in [...]



Shooting Up the Place

By Erin • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

When a manager refused to pay a dancer for her shift at a Florida strip club, he didn’t know what he was getting into. Three men dressed in black came into the club and shot up dancers and the bar…with paintball pellets. Pink paintball pellets.
Officers rushed in to discover three dancers, ages 28, 44 [...]



Do You Believe in “Eco-Fur”?

By Erin • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

photo credit: wollombiNew Zealand has a pest-problem. Trichosurus vulpecula, the brush-tailed possum, is eating up the forests. It’s chomping on the eggs of native birds, and is a carrier of bovine tuberculosis. And unfortunately, there’s more than one. Actually there are an estimated 70 million of these critters rampaging the countryside [...]



Candy Cocaine for Easter?

By Erin • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Strange News

Earlier this March, DEA agents announced the arrest of two men in California. One and a half pounds of the cocaine seized was flavored, with lemon, strawberry, cinnamon, or coconut.
“Attempting to lure new, younger customers to a dangerous drug by adding candy ‘flavors’ is an unconscionable marketing technique. Cocaine is cocaine and jail time [...]



Showing Your Behind Could Get You Time

By Mary • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

In Florida, one fashion is really becoming a crime. Riviera Beach has made it illegal to wear drooping pants with fines starting at $150 and up to 60 days in jail. According to the Palm Beach Post, the city passed their “saggy pants law” on March 11 and Mayor Thomas Masters simply wants offenders to [...]



Higher Education?

By Erin • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Strange News

A school for tending medical marijuana? California now has one, reports the USA Today: Oaksterdam U.

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The school prepares people for jobs in California’s thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best [...]