Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Monday
"Pests, pests, we need to get rid of these pests!"
That was Flint (Mich.) city Councilwoman Jackie Poplar, while she was spraying a can of Raid either right at two of her most annoying Council-meeting critics (according to them, anyway, including one woman whose face swelled up in allergic reaction) or "at [actual] bugs" that she alone had somehow seen crawling around the meeting room. Police are investigating the alleged assault. Flint Journal
Comments 'jackie_poplar'
You realize, of course, that Leona Helmsley has not just bequeathed $12m to her little dog "Trouble" but $8B to dogs in general?
As Jeffrey Toobin wrote last week in The New Yorker, it's all legal. Fact is, she specifically hated every human in her life (except her dear husband Harry) and generally hated everybody else. The New Yorker
Comments 'leona_helmsley'
New York nerd methodically read the entire unabridged dictionary
Emmon Shea, 37, has just written a book based on his having devoured the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, 59m words. He said he improved his vocabulary a bit (like "unbepissed," meaning, er, well, "not urinated upon"), and he was sometimes thrilled ("I would wake up and start reading at three in the morning because I was so excited"). But he also got a little deranged in demeanor from time to time, and he learned so many new words that he forgot common ones, and we're still shaky on whether it's possible that someone like this can have a "girlfriend," though he says she exists and was supportive. The Times (London)
Comments 'emmon_shea'
Eyeball bling
Yes, a contact-lens thingie with a super-light but sparkly chain dangling down. Aren't humans great, to be thinking of stuff like this? (Speaking of fashion plates, here and here are two from The Smoking Gun's weekly mugshot collection. TSG never tells you what crime they're up for, but one thing we do know is that they waste quite a bit of time with the mirror every day.) Daily Mail (London)
Comments 'eyeball_bling'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
We have to decide whether Tyler Hamlen, 20, is too dangerous to be out on the street (or at least too dangerous to be trusted with the remote, to be ordering up DirecTV pay-per-views). Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah)
Comments 'tyler_hamlen'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
This is a series of nature photos of possibly the weirdest place on planet Earth: Socotra Island, part of Yemen but actually a little closer to Somalia. Almost like creative digital art, except that they're supposed to be real things. DarkRoastedBlend.com [link from Overlawyered.com]
Comments 'socotra_island'
More Things to Worry About on Monday
Catch a replay of the U.S. Rock-Paper-Scissors championship from Las Vegas tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on Fox Sports cable network . . . . . If you made $300m last yr, as J.K. Rowling did, you made, oh, $9.50 every single passing second . . . . . More World-Class Multi-tasking: A big-rig driver in Britain managing a full load while watching a Battlestar Galactica DVD on the dash. And a Wisconsin woman cell-phoning and reading a book while driving . . er, driving into the back of that parked car. And a driver high-speed-fleeing cops . . while rolling a joint . . . . . . At Ada Barak's Carnivorous Plant Farm in northern Israel, you can get the (approx. $80) spa relaxation treatment of having a load of snakes crawl over you ("Their presence stirs something deep and peaceful in me," wrote a Time reviewer). Today's Newsrangers: Sue Clark, Ginger Katz, Jenny Beatty, Scott Langill, Robert McClafferty
Comments 'worry_081006'
That was Flint (Mich.) city Councilwoman Jackie Poplar, while she was spraying a can of Raid either right at two of her most annoying Council-meeting critics (according to them, anyway, including one woman whose face swelled up in allergic reaction) or "at [actual] bugs" that she alone had somehow seen crawling around the meeting room. Police are investigating the alleged assault. Flint Journal
Comments 'jackie_poplar'
You realize, of course, that Leona Helmsley has not just bequeathed $12m to her little dog "Trouble" but $8B to dogs in general?
As Jeffrey Toobin wrote last week in The New Yorker, it's all legal. Fact is, she specifically hated every human in her life (except her dear husband Harry) and generally hated everybody else. The New Yorker
Comments 'leona_helmsley'
New York nerd methodically read the entire unabridged dictionary
Emmon Shea, 37, has just written a book based on his having devoured the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, 59m words. He said he improved his vocabulary a bit (like "unbepissed," meaning, er, well, "not urinated upon"), and he was sometimes thrilled ("I would wake up and start reading at three in the morning because I was so excited"). But he also got a little deranged in demeanor from time to time, and he learned so many new words that he forgot common ones, and we're still shaky on whether it's possible that someone like this can have a "girlfriend," though he says she exists and was supportive. The Times (London)
Comments 'emmon_shea'
Eyeball bling
Yes, a contact-lens thingie with a super-light but sparkly chain dangling down. Aren't humans great, to be thinking of stuff like this? (Speaking of fashion plates, here and here are two from The Smoking Gun's weekly mugshot collection. TSG never tells you what crime they're up for, but one thing we do know is that they waste quite a bit of time with the mirror every day.) Daily Mail (London)
Comments 'eyeball_bling'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
We have to decide whether Tyler Hamlen, 20, is too dangerous to be out on the street (or at least too dangerous to be trusted with the remote, to be ordering up DirecTV pay-per-views). Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah)
Comments 'tyler_hamlen'
Eyewitness News
[news videos goin' around]
This is a series of nature photos of possibly the weirdest place on planet Earth: Socotra Island, part of Yemen but actually a little closer to Somalia. Almost like creative digital art, except that they're supposed to be real things. DarkRoastedBlend.com [link from Overlawyered.com]
Comments 'socotra_island'
More Things to Worry About on Monday
Catch a replay of the U.S. Rock-Paper-Scissors championship from Las Vegas tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on Fox Sports cable network . . . . . If you made $300m last yr, as J.K. Rowling did, you made, oh, $9.50 every single passing second . . . . . More World-Class Multi-tasking: A big-rig driver in Britain managing a full load while watching a Battlestar Galactica DVD on the dash. And a Wisconsin woman cell-phoning and reading a book while driving . . er, driving into the back of that parked car. And a driver high-speed-fleeing cops . . while rolling a joint . . . . . . At Ada Barak's Carnivorous Plant Farm in northern Israel, you can get the (approx. $80) spa relaxation treatment of having a load of snakes crawl over you ("Their presence stirs something deep and peaceful in me," wrote a Time reviewer). Today's Newsrangers: Sue Clark, Ginger Katz, Jenny Beatty, Scott Langill, Robert McClafferty
Comments 'worry_081006'
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