Feb. 1st, 2005
Heartwarming buffalo stories!
Feb. 1st, 2005 09:02 amEscaped buffalo breaks into dressing room, spends hours staring into mirror and dreaming of what might have been.
Y'know, if it wasn't a buffalo.
Y'know, if it wasn't a buffalo.
A SPECIAL kind of thief!
Feb. 1st, 2005 12:18 pmAustrian thieves take advantage of snow stopping traffic to steal radios from dozens of cars.
Police follow their trail of footprints from car to car and then right back to their apartment.
Police follow their trail of footprints from car to car and then right back to their apartment.
Updates on Germans and prostitutes.
Feb. 1st, 2005 12:36 pmSnopes sez: "the story about unemployment benefits and prostitution in Germany is probably not true"
I sez: Unusually, for Snopes, they neither quote nor run down the actual names, dates, and places in the article.
I also sez: I wonder if they'd require you to take a job as a medical products tester or some other hazardous employment - making the distinction from "bars" (the comment which IS suspicious from a credibility sense) doesn't appear to be all that difficult: It's a hazardous job that requires putting your body on the line, not just your mind and skills.
I sez: Unusually, for Snopes, they neither quote nor run down the actual names, dates, and places in the article.
I also sez: I wonder if they'd require you to take a job as a medical products tester or some other hazardous employment - making the distinction from "bars" (the comment which IS suspicious from a credibility sense) doesn't appear to be all that difficult: It's a hazardous job that requires putting your body on the line, not just your mind and skills.
Those wacky Romanians.
Feb. 1st, 2005 12:55 pmSix Romanians have been jailed for digging up a corpse, ripping his heart out, and eating it because they thought he was a vampire.
The men, who have each been sentenced to six months in jail, waited for seven weeks after the 76-year-old former schoolteacher died before exhuming the corpse and mutilating it.
After cutting the deceased's heart out they burned it, mixed it with ash and water to make a "meaty drink". They told the court in the southern Romanian town of Craiova they all felt "much better" afterwards.
The six men all came from the remote village of Marotinul de Sus and told the court it was "well known" that such a remedy was the only protection against the undead. All were sentenced for violating a grave. All claimed that they acted in self-defence from "a well-known vampire".
Probably not the victim
The men, who have each been sentenced to six months in jail, waited for seven weeks after the 76-year-old former schoolteacher died before exhuming the corpse and mutilating it.
After cutting the deceased's heart out they burned it, mixed it with ash and water to make a "meaty drink". They told the court in the southern Romanian town of Craiova they all felt "much better" afterwards.
The six men all came from the remote village of Marotinul de Sus and told the court it was "well known" that such a remedy was the only protection against the undead. All were sentenced for violating a grave. All claimed that they acted in self-defence from "a well-known vampire".
Probably not the victim
Bush Twins on SNL
Feb. 1st, 2005 01:00 pm
Jenna: I was so drunk, I made out with Dick Cheney's daughter.
Barbara: Jenna!
Jenna: What, not the gay one.
"I was having trouble paying rent. I thought I wouldn't have to pay it if the entire apartment complex burned down," she was quoted as telling investigators.
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A jobless woman under indictment on arson charges was hit with a new arrest warrant for setting fire to her own apartment in a bid to avoid paying her monthly rent, police said.
The new arrest warrant accuses Hisako Kasahara, 30, of attempted arson to an inhabited structure.
Kasahara admitted to the allegations during questioning. "I was having trouble paying rent. I thought I wouldn't have to pay it if the entire apartment complex burned down," she was quoted as telling investigators.
Kasahara set fire to a cloth covering a washing machine in a second-floor passageway of the apartment complex in the Nisshincho district of Kita-ku, Saitama, where she lives on the night of Nov. 12, burning part of the roof, according to investigators. Five residents suffered mild smoke inhalation.
She is currently standing trial over a separate arson case.
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A jobless woman under indictment on arson charges was hit with a new arrest warrant for setting fire to her own apartment in a bid to avoid paying her monthly rent, police said.
The new arrest warrant accuses Hisako Kasahara, 30, of attempted arson to an inhabited structure.
Kasahara admitted to the allegations during questioning. "I was having trouble paying rent. I thought I wouldn't have to pay it if the entire apartment complex burned down," she was quoted as telling investigators.
Kasahara set fire to a cloth covering a washing machine in a second-floor passageway of the apartment complex in the Nisshincho district of Kita-ku, Saitama, where she lives on the night of Nov. 12, burning part of the roof, according to investigators. Five residents suffered mild smoke inhalation.
She is currently standing trial over a separate arson case.
Talk about pictures circulating forever.
Feb. 1st, 2005 03:58 pm
See that guy?
For 18 years, he's been the "Nescafe instant coffee guy".
He didn't know.
He hasn't been paid.
He sued.
Russell Christoff, a former model from Northern California, posed for a two-hour Nestle photo shoot in 1986 but figured it was a bust -- until he stumbled across his likeness on a coffee jar while shopping at a drug store in 2002.
A legal dispute with Nestle USA ensued, during which Christoff, 58, declined the company's $100,000 settlement offer, and Nestle USA turned down his offer to to settle for $8.5 million.
Last week, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered Nestle USA to pay Christoff $15.6 million for using his likeness without his permission and profiting from it. The award includes 5 percent of the Glendale-based company's profit from Taster's Choice sales from 1997 to 2003.
Christoff, who while working as a model had appeared in corporate training videos and hosted his own public television show, is now a kindergarten teacher in the Bay Area community of Antioch.
He first came across his picture while shopping for bloody mary mix, and says there's a good reason he didn't spot it sooner.
"I don't buy Taster's Choice," he said. "I do beans."
