Category: Strange News

First Willie, Now Snoop Dogg

These three posts were published here seven years ago today. I re-post them because my headlines are so good. 🙂

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Judge Hardy wouldn’t approve either

From USATODAY.com —

A year after Janet Jackson’s breast brought a crackdown on indecency, Fox has rejected an ad for the Super Bowl offering a rare view of another celeb: Mickey Rooney’s backside.

In the spot for Airborne, a natural cold remedy, the 84-year-old star of such 1940s staples as National Velvet and the Andy Hardy films is in a sauna when someone behind him coughs. He overreacts, jumps up, screams and heads for the door. In his rush, his towel drops, baring his buns for about two seconds.

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Paper or Plastic?

From the Des Moines Register —

A 65-year-old Wal-Mart greeter has been fired for greeting customers with a computer-generated photograph of himself wearing nothing but a Wal-Mart sack.

Dean Wooten was fired in September from his job as a greeter at the Muscatine Wal-Mart store where he had worked for seven years, state records show. He was accused of greeting customers with a picture of himself in which he appeared to be naked except for the carefully placed sack.

Wooten allegedly told customers that Wal-Mart was cutting back on expenses and that the sack represented the new employee uniform.

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Well, they might want to rename the school

From The Indianapolis Star —

IPS police and Marion County child protection workers are investigating an incident involving two first-graders who officials said were caught trying to have sex Wednesday at an Eastside school.

District officials worried that the incident may have signaled that at least one of the 6-year-olds had been abused before. A child psychologist acknowledged that possibility but said the behavior simply could have been an attempt to copy something seen on a video or cable TV.

“One of them may be a victim,” said Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Duncan Pat Pritchett. “We’re waiting for the conclusion of the two investigations. At that age, that’s learned behavior.”

The names of the two children have not been made public. But the girl and boy, who were released to their parents, received five-day suspensions and could be booted from classes at School 69 for the rest of the year.

“It’s extremely troubling because of their young ages. I have never in my life experienced anything like this,” said School 69 Principal Gary W. Davis, a 22-year educator.

Fun to see, but “cute,” I don’t think so.

Baby Joy as Second White Rhino is Born at Beauval Zoo – ZooBorns

“Great sex might lead to memory loss, in case you were wondering why somebody didn’t call like they said they would.”

Newsdroppings

Ellen Barkin (EllenBarkin) on Twitter

“@EllenBarkin: I would love the news to talk about my ‘fucking’ Twitter debut,but I’m from NYC, never said ‘fucking’ in my life,the word is ‘fuckin’”

… because I spit my coffee all over the computer screen and can’t see to cut and paste excerpts.

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There ain’t no hoochy-koochy in Texas among teenagers.  We have the least sparkin’ teenagers in the whole damn United States of America.  That’s why our Attorney General, Greg Abbott, once again refused to file for a federal grant to fund sex education for teenagers.  We don’t need it.  Our teenagers are all virgins.

Which is prettty damn amazing considering that we have the highest teenager birth rate in the country.  Obviously, they’re getting pregnant from public toilet seats.  We don’t have a sex problem.  We have a public toilet seat problem.

The Super DeLux Brand Steeple People believe that if you educate teenagers about sex, they’ll have some.  However, if you don’t tell them about sex, they’ll never, ever figure out how that telephone pole got into the ground.

Teen pregnancies are costing Texas taxpayers one billion dollars a year.  You’d think that the rightwing would hate the money part more than they hate the sex part.

Juanita thinks they don’t want sex education because then they’ll find out that they’ve been doing it wrong.

Juanita Jean’s | There Ain’t No Hoochy-Koochy in Texas

Bookmark Juanita Jean’s, she is the funniest.

“Tennessee State Rep. Curry Todd (R, of freekin’ course) was pulled over around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday night, driving double drunk.

“But that’s not all.

“There was a loaded .38 in the front seat with him.  The upside is that there was no male prostitute in the front seat.  The downside is — … ”

Juanita Jean’s | The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.

Click, if only to see the mug shot of the Honorable Representative Todd, but also to learn his legislative high mark.

“Police said they arrested a Carlisle man after security officers at a Walmart store saw him stealing raw meat.

“Borough police said 53-year-old Scott Shover opened packages of hamburger and stew beef and then ate some of the meat Monday afternoon before putting the packages back on the shelf for sale.”

WHTM abc27

What I want to know, is how did he chew it? Click to see the photo.

From today’s front page of The Albuquerque Journal.

SAN ANTONIO — A 6-year-old boy in the Blanco Independent School District has been placed into in-school suspension during the first week of school.

He is accused of violating the school dress code by sporting a diamond earring and wearing his hair too long.

Kandi Shand said Gareth is growing his hair long so he can donate it to Locks of Love in a few months.

As for the earring, she said he has worn it for five years with no problems.

She pointed to a similar incident in El Paso, where the mother of a kindergarten student is also fighting the district to allow her son to wear his diamond earring.

The district’s parent-student handbook says boys cannot wear earrings. It also requires they have their hair neat, clean and well-groomed.

kens5.com San Antonio

NewMexiKen apologizes for being a slacker on the Kim Kardashian wedding news. I’ll get on that.

“Long Beach (Calif.) Police Chief Jim McDonnell is defending his officer who detained a Long Beach Post contributor for taking pictures of an oil refinery on June 30. ‘If an officer sees someone taking pictures of something like a refinery, it is incumbent upon the officer to make contact with the individual.’ Detaining photographers for taking pictures ‘with no apparent esthetic value’ is within Long Beach Police Department policy, the chief says.”

Poynter

A Utah County woman has sued her former employer, claiming she was sexually harassed at work, where she at one point received a suggestive Monday-through-Friday “schedule” outlining what she should wear.

The schedule given to 44-year-old Trudy Nycole Anderson included “Mini-skirt Monday,” “Tube-top Tuesday,” “Wet T-shirt Wednesday,” “No bra Thursday” and “Bikini top Friday,” according to a civil complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court against Derek Wright, the owner of Pleasant Grove-based Lone Peak Controls and D& L Electric Control Company.

Anderson worked as an office manager starting in September 2007, and Wright was her supervisor.

The Salt Lake Tribune

My question, a rhetorical one I suppose, is why did it take her four years to sue the ass?

But was this really necessary? Click and go see the mug shots.

Still in dress and veil, Leoni Township bride wanted on felony warrant is arrested, taken to jail, released on wedding day

Best NFL letter ever.

Thanks to Jill for the tip.

Turlock, California, has one too many people that need a life, too.

TURLOCK, Calif. — A painted plywood cut-out of Santa with a cowboy hat and a gun on his belt is causing quite a stir in Turlock.

”I tried to get the image out of my head all day long and I could not, because Santa is made for love, bringing families together, not carrying weapons,” Monica Sliva said.

The Santa is one of many displays that line Tracy’s Christmas Tree Lot on Monte Vista Avenue.
Sliva confronted the workers at the tree lot to ask them to take the gun-toting Santa display down because she said it sends the wrong message to children.

“It portrays to the kids that it’s OK for Santa to be carrying a gun and therefore it’s OK for them to be carrying a gun,” Sliva said.

Tree lot workers said they have been using the cowboy Santa display for 20 years and have never had a compliant until Sliva asked them to take it down.

KCRA Sacramento

There’s video at the link.

Here, via Shoebox » Newsdroppings, is a town, Willoughby, Ohio, with one too many people in need of a life.

 

. . . but I want one.

Click image for larger version and to learn more.

In an astonishing abuse of power, Wisconsin prosecutor Ken Kratz admitted to sending sexually charged text messages to the victim of a domestic-abuse case he was prosecuting last October. According to police reports, Kratz met with the victim, Stephanie Van Groll, to interview her about charges his office was pursuing that Van Groll had been almost choked to death by her boyfriend. Minutes after the interview, Kratz began sending her texts—30 over three days—inquiring as to whether, as he put it in one message, she was “the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA … the riskier the better?”

Libby Copeland at Slate Magazine has more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xqQ6OoYuF4

“Antonio Federici’s advert showed a pregnant nun eating ice cream in a church, together with the strap line ‘immaculately conceived’.” BBC News has the story.

“If I had a gun I would shoot you.”

According to this news report, that’s what she said. So he gave her a gun. And she shot him — dead. At a weekend party in Tucson’s Santa Catalina Mountains.

Romero was upset at Carrillo because he was harassing her, prompting Romero to say “If I had a gun I would shoot you,” a probable-cause statement filed in Pima County Justice Court indicates.

Carrillo handed Romero the gun. She pointed it at Carrillo’s head and pulled the trigger, killing him, according to court records.

A new “Mosquito” device at the street level of the Metro entrance at 7th & H Streets in Chinatown is emitting shrill noise at 18 KHz, a high frequency that only young people can hear.

Similar devices have been installed in Britain with the same purpose of discouraging young people from congregating outside shops. According to Councilmember Jack Evans, the founder of the Gallery Place development had the device installed on his company’s Gallery Place building.

Greater Greater Washington