Stupid News Story of The Day

(If the temperature was in the 40's, there wouldn't be much indecent to expose - hehe)

Police: Naked Man Fires Gun at Traffic

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - A man wearing only socks was arrested along a busy street after witnesses said he fired a gun at afternoon traffic.

Temperatures were in the 40s when the incident occurred Tuesday. Police said no witnesses were injured.

Glenn Higgs, 44, of Germantown, was charged with reckless endangerment, indecent exposure, firing a weapon in the city limits and public intoxication, authorities said.

"I couldn't believe it," said Eddie Cox, who was driving home from the bank when he saw the naked gunman in this Memphis suburb.

Cox called police, who arrested Higgs at the scene and found a revolver in a nearby yard.

Higgs was sent to a hospital for a foot injury sustained when he earlier jumped from the second story of his home, authorities said.

And no one noticed...

2 more lists - hehe

List all the things you have made or built by hand:

1. My coffee table (yes, I really did - and no, it wasn't from a kit I got at Wal Mart - hehe)
2. Some shelves I have on the walls.
3. Most of my framed art I have hanging on the walls.
4. Christmas ornaments
5. Greeting cards
6. A book of poems and quotes
7. A bench I built from scratch (not from a kit)
8. Drink coasters
9. Wreaths
10. The headboard on my bed
11. The canopy over my bed
12. My hope chest (made it in woodshop in high school)
13. All kinds of artsy-craftsy stuff - too much to list!


List what always makes you laugh:

1. Stupid people
2. South Park
3. other people's funny childhood stories
4. myself when I do something stupid
5. the Arab commercials on an episode of Mind of Mencia - sorry, but those were freakin' funny!!!!
6. Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color
7. Britney Spears's singing
8. Kevin Federline's corn rows
9. hearing that Kate Moss wants to act
10. hearing that Paris Hilton got scratched up by her kinkajou - hehe
11. watching that old video of Fabio getting hit in the face by a bird
12. looking through my old photo albums
13. Kenny Blankenship's Most Painful Eliminations of The Day on MXC
14. Dave Chappelle, bitches
15. Adam Sandler's "The Longest Pee"
16. Reno 911
17. watching a really cheesy horror film
18. 80's hairstyles
19. 80's hair band videos
20. Will Farrell
21. the movie Clerks
22. almost everything!

List time!

List all the celebrities you would like to sock in the face:

1. Colin Farrell - he needs to be socked!
2. Britney Spears - for marrying that trash-man and sucking so much at singing
3. Paris Hilton - for being annoying as hell
4. Sally Struthers - I think it would be fun to sock her - hehe
5. Chris Klein - for his cocky, holier-than-thou attitude
6. George Bush - (needless to say)
7. Michael Bolton - for being a no-talent ass clown
8. Brad Pitt - for the whole Jennifer Aniston/Angelina Jolie thing
9. Michael Jackson - would be fun to see if his nose would fall off
10. Eminem - for being an asshole
11. That guy on the infomercials with the question marks all over his jacket...oh, and Tony Little, too - ok, so they are not "celebrities", but I still wanna sock them!
12. Tonya Harding - for being stupid
13. Donald Trump - I just wanna hear him say "You're fired" after I hit him...and to pull off his toupee - I would be doing him a favor there!
14. Hillary Duff- for being way too perky
15. Kevin Federline - for being an unemployed moocher
16. Steven Seagal - for sucking at acting so much
17. Tori Spelling - (see above reason)
18. Paris Hilton - had to throw her in there again....I would like to smack her twice!

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!)

Boy Accidentally Shoots Man in Outhouse

VERSHIRE, Vt. - A Massachusetts man was shot while using the outhouse at his family's camp by a boy who was target shooting.

Chris Flanagan, 41, of Holliston, Mass., was standing in the outhouse on Saturday morning when he was hit in the chest by a bullet that came through the door.

Police said the shot was fired from a .22-caliber rifle used by a young relative. They declined to give the relationship between the two.

Police were investigating whether the boy, who was not identified because he is a minor, had missed his target or intentionally shot at the outhouse.

Police said the boy was not aware that Flanagan was inside the outhouse.

Flanagan was in fair condition Tuesday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"They keep saying you can't compare apples and oranges. I can. An apple is red and distinctly non-spherical; an orange is orange and nearly spherical. So, what's the problem?"

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Better check the dessert, too)

Mom Allegedly Spikes Macaroni With Bleach

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. - A mother has been charged with trying to poison her adult daughter and her daughter's family after allegedly pouring bleach into their macaroni and cheese on Saturday night.

Nancy O'Donnell, 56, was charged with four counts each of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, police said.

O'Donnell's daughter, Victoria Lynn O'Donnell, 24, was preparing dinner around 6:30 p.m. for her live-in boyfriend, Jamal Scott, 30, and their 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter. The four share a home with Nancy O'Donnell.

Victoria O'Donnell went upstairs while the food was cooking, and police said that when she came back downstairs, she could smell bleach in the food. She tried the macaroni and cheese and immediately spit it out after tasting the bleach, police said.

No one else tasted the food.

Victoria O'Donnell then confronted her mother about the allegedly tainted dinner. According to court records, Nancy O'Donnell said she wanted to sicken her daughter because "you don't deserve those children."

Police reported a strong odor of bleach when they arrived to investigate. Nancy O'Donnell later denied pouring bleach into the pasta, police said.

Nancy O'Donnell is being held in the Allegheny County Jail on $25,000 bond. A judge ordered that she receive a mental health evaluation.

All's well that ends with turkey

Well, my Turkey Day was pleasantly stuffing. I got all filled up with turkey, potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and Boston Cream Cake. It was a delight for all of the senses. But, my gosh, was my tummy stuffed! Thank goodness all the leftovers stayed at my folks' house, or else my tummy would have been in pain all weekend.

Went to the movies on Saturday and saw The Wedding Crashers at the Dollar Theatre. That movie was hilarious! I love the Dollar Theatre. Love it! Nowhere else in town can you go see a movie for $1.50 ($1 before 6 pm and on Tuesdays, it is only 50 cents). Yeah, so the seats aren't as cumfy as the regular theatre, but who cares? For $1, you can't really complain too much.

Yes, I changed my template again. Isn't it cute? I love Christmas. I love it! I get to be all artsy and craftsy and buy people cute gifts. It is a great time of year. Well, great except for the cold weather. I actually had to turn on my heater last night and plug in my electric blanket. BRRRRR! It is starting to look and feel like Christmas.

Stupid News Story of The Day

(I wonder what the punishment would be for someone who stole a bra.)

'I stole mail'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a California man to be sentenced to spend a day outside a San Francisco post office wearing a signboard stating, "I stole mail. This is my punishment."

The justices rejected an appeal by Shawn Gementera, who argued that this was designed to publicly shame and humiliate him. He said it violated the Sentencing Reform Act and the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Gementera pleaded guilty to mail theft after the police arrested him and an accomplice in 2001 for stealing letters from several mailboxes in San Francisco.

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in 2003 sentenced Walker to two months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.

The conditions for his release required Gementera to spend four days at a post office observing patrons inquire about lost or stolen mail, to write letters of apology to the victims of his crime, to give three lectures at high schools about his crime and to wear the two-sided sign for one eight-hour day.

Gementera appealed the legality of the signboard requirement, but a U.S. appeals court panel, by a 2-1 vote, ruled against him in August.

The appeals court said the record in the case showed that the judge imposed the condition for the legitimate purpose of rehabilitation.

It said the judge could have imposed a lengthier prison term instead of the signboard condition, and added that crimes and the resulting penalties nearly always cause shame and embarrassment.

Gementera's attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court.

"The shaming condition amounted to nothing more than the piling on of an additional and quite gratuitous requirement -- designed to publicly humiliate (Gementera) -- in contravention of federal law," they said.

"Punishments aimed at imposing shame and humiliation are inconsistent with a constitutional requirement that punishments, even for heinous crimes, be consistent with human dignity," they said.

U.S. Justice Department attorneys said a sentence may serve a legitimate rehabilitative purpose, even if makes the defendant feel uncomfortable or embarrassed in public.

The high court turned down Gementera's appeal without any comment or recorded dissent.