- Kate Logan brought a little excitement
to graduation ceremonies at Long Trail School in Vermont this week A crowd
of 200 watched as Miss Logan dropped her cap, slipped off her white graduation
robe, and finished her speech naked. Embarrassed school officials issued
a statement saying the incident was "overwhelmingly inappropriate
and not reflective of our student body..."
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- A software company is under fire after
reports that its educational program, designed to help kids learn to write,
is instead teaching them some new swear words. According to the Wall Street
Journal, a bug in the software causes the program to vocalize a stream
of obscenities and foul language before reading back what the child has
written.
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- Police in Victoria, British Columbia
received a telephone report of a man "pleasuring himself" while
sitting on a couch and holding a rooster by the neck at a downtown intersection,
while another man took pictures. When questioned by police, the two explained
that they were working on a "photography project..."
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- The makers of Viagra have announced that
testing is underway on a new, faster-acting version of their wildly successful
anti-impotence drug. The new drug, according to reports, is placed under
the tongue and acts within minutes, instead of the hour or so required
for the present version.
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- The legal guardians of an 11-year-old
in New Jersey have been jailed after forcing the boy to live in a shed
and dig a hole as punishment for being suspended from school.
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- Joseph Comer of Longview, Washington
was sentenced to six months in jail for baked parakeet. Comer told the
court he was baking a cake when his girlfriend's pet bird "flew into
the oven..."
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- Robert Sears of Essex, Vermont will serve
four months after blood tests determined that he was guilty of spitting
on a state trooper's food at the KFC restaurant where he worked.
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- When LaDonna Harris brought her new baby
home from a Memphis, Tennessee hospital, she got a call saying they had
given her the wrong baby. Harris refused to give the baby back, claiming
that the other child could not be hers because it was "too ugly..."
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- Attorneys for convicted killer Alvaro
Calambro have asked the Nevada Supreme Court to spare his life because
the television cartoons he watched as a child left him "unable to
understand death." Public defender Michael Specchio says his client
is "confused" by Roadrunner cartoons.
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- Researchers at Iowa State University
say their new study shows Iowa State troopers have twice the risk of heart
disease than the general public, but still haven't determined a specific
factor. High stress and poor eating habits are cited as possible causes.
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- A Bronx, New York police officer has
been charged with assault and attempted murder for shooting a man who tried
to clean his car windshield with a squeegee.
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- No charges will be filed against a Sacramento,
California school teacher for blowing up his students. The explosion at
Luther Burbank High School occurred after the unnamed science teachers
gave the students alcohol and matches.
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- A woman in Pinellas Park, Florida is
suing a beauty parlor for $15,000 after her hair fell out. The woman allegedly
went to Angela's Hair Safari for hair extensions.
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- Our Painfully Stupid Award goes to James
Ellis Smith of Sacramento, California. Smith was convicted of armed robbery
this week after committing a series of hold-ups with his criminal gang.
They were arrested only after using the proceeds from some of the robberies
to form their own record company, and releasing a rap album of songs detailing
their crimes.
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- Police in Melbourne, Australia have finally
caught up with the man they believe is the infamous "Ponytail Bandit."
A raid on a the unnamed suspect's suburban home turned up eleven ponytails,
all of which police believe were snipped from the heads of unsuspecting
women traveling by train. Detective Andrew Kilpatrick said the police want
to talk to "anyone who may have had their hair cut in bizarre circumstances."
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- More hair in the news: experts testifying
before Congress last week told lawmakers that testing hair, not urine,
is the best way to determine if someone is using drugs. Drug tests on hair
are less intrusive, they say, and harder to cheat on.
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- The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles
has denied a man in Portland a vanity license plate reading VIAGRA. Steven
Schuster said he made a killing on Pfizer stock thanks to the new drug,
and wanted the plate for the new luxury car he bought with the profits.
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- City officials in West Haven, Connecticut
are rethinking their plans after posting a sign warning motorists to "keep
quiet." The generator- powered sign, it seems, was too loud. In a
stunning move, the mayor said that "workers may connect the sign to
a nearby electrical outlet for a quieter power source.
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- Prosecutors in Stamford, Connecticut
have decided it was an accident, and no charges will be filed against the
men arrested when their truck full of 57 puppies caught fire.
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- That's Bizarre!, and remember, it's all
true...
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