Car-Eating Dogs, a “Willy Spread”
and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday
He was 82, living out of a motel room when he died. Unlike the cat ladies, he hadn't been hoarding animals. What he had been hoarding, though, was dollar bills. $263,000, cold cash. Chicago Tribune
For the first time ever, maybe, an American Common Nighthawk made an appearance in Britain (probably blown off course by heavy winds as it migrated toward South America). On the other hand, shortly after making landfall, it was run over by a car. Daily Mail
An Australian man complained that "wild dogs" ate his car, doing major fender damage . . again. Northern Territory News
People Different From Us: A judge dropped the charges against the wife, who had shot her husband in the leg, because (the judge was convinced) the husband had begged her to. Associated Press via Yahoo
She was driving around with 85 marijuana plants in the back seat, yet she hadn't checked whether her state car inspection sticker was up-to-date. (It wasn't.) The Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
The Sun has located Britain's worst driver: Age 48, father of two, serial driver-test failure, banned from the roads 58 times, jailed at least 30, 115 offenses. The Sun
"This is a first. We've never had to put out an alert before on willy spread, chocolate-flavoured or otherwise." (That's a spokesman for the European commission's Food Safety Authority announcing that there's too much melamine in a certain Chinese-import lotion designed to enhance oral sex.) Daily Mail
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
You probably thought, whenever you encountered an enterprise called "the Acme company," that here is a business operator with utterly no imagination. But check out the "original" Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products. An awesome assortment!
Today's Newsrangers: Rodney Meyer, Candy Clouston, Dave Stout, Guillermo Reynoso
Comments on the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday?
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He was 82, living out of a motel room when he died. Unlike the cat ladies, he hadn't been hoarding animals. What he had been hoarding, though, was dollar bills. $263,000, cold cash. Chicago Tribune
For the first time ever, maybe, an American Common Nighthawk made an appearance in Britain (probably blown off course by heavy winds as it migrated toward South America). On the other hand, shortly after making landfall, it was run over by a car. Daily Mail
An Australian man complained that "wild dogs" ate his car, doing major fender damage . . again. Northern Territory News
People Different From Us: A judge dropped the charges against the wife, who had shot her husband in the leg, because (the judge was convinced) the husband had begged her to. Associated Press via Yahoo
She was driving around with 85 marijuana plants in the back seat, yet she hadn't checked whether her state car inspection sticker was up-to-date. (It wasn't.) The Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
The Sun has located Britain's worst driver: Age 48, father of two, serial driver-test failure, banned from the roads 58 times, jailed at least 30, 115 offenses. The Sun
"This is a first. We've never had to put out an alert before on willy spread, chocolate-flavoured or otherwise." (That's a spokesman for the European commission's Food Safety Authority announcing that there's too much melamine in a certain Chinese-import lotion designed to enhance oral sex.) Daily Mail
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
You probably thought, whenever you encountered an enterprise called "the Acme company," that here is a business operator with utterly no imagination. But check out the "original" Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products. An awesome assortment!
Today's Newsrangers: Rodney Meyer, Candy Clouston, Dave Stout, Guillermo Reynoso
Comments on the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday?
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