A new favourite site.
Feb. 8th, 2005 01:52 am
Bunnykill: It's every samurai movie and sidescroller fighting game ever made, rolled into one.
With bunnies.
Feb. 8th, 2005
Bunnykill: It's every samurai movie and sidescroller fighting game ever made, rolled into one.
With bunnies.
Michigan authorities don't plan to seek charges in the case of a 4-year-old boy who drove his mother's car to a video store and back.
Sand Lake Police Chief Doug Heugel said the boy is too young to charge and his mother didn't even know he was awake.
The chief said the boy walked out of his family apartment about 1:30 a.m. Friday and drove his mother's Geo Prizm a quarter mile to a video store. Finding it closed, the boy headed home.
A police officer spotted him and followed the car back to the apartments, where the boy hit two parked cars, then backed into the officer's car.
Sand Lake Police Chief Doug Heugel said the boy is too young to charge and his mother didn't even know he was awake.
The chief said the boy walked out of his family apartment about 1:30 a.m. Friday and drove his mother's Geo Prizm a quarter mile to a video store. Finding it closed, the boy headed home.
A police officer spotted him and followed the car back to the apartments, where the boy hit two parked cars, then backed into the officer's car.
Gotta love Welsh rugby fans.
Feb. 8th, 2005 03:12 pmGeoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said.
Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.
Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.
Two teenage girls who got in trouble for surprising their neighbors with homemade cookies will not have to pay nearly $1,000 in medical bills for a woman who says she was so startled that she had to go to the hospital.
Radio station KOA-AM of Denver raised more than $1,900 from listeners Friday to pay the girls' $930.78 fine. The rest of the money will go to a charity dedicated to victims of the Columbine High School massacre.
The story unfolded when teens Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, decided to bake chocolate chip and sugar cookies and place them outside their neighbors' doors with large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night" and were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club."
The trouble began when they approached the home of Wanita Renea Young, 49. Young said she heard someone banging on the door of her rural home late in the evening. She went to the door and saw "shadowy figures" but they refused to answer when she called out to them.
The teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.
Young said she was so frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.
The teens offered to pay Young's medical bills but she insisted on going to small claims court. Wanita Young said, "This has turned into quite a fiasco. It's something that never should have happened and it's just devastating. My phone hasn't stopped ringing. My life has been threatened and I'll probably have to move out of town."
Radio station KOA-AM of Denver raised more than $1,900 from listeners Friday to pay the girls' $930.78 fine. The rest of the money will go to a charity dedicated to victims of the Columbine High School massacre.
The story unfolded when teens Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti, decided to bake chocolate chip and sugar cookies and place them outside their neighbors' doors with large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night" and were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club."
The trouble began when they approached the home of Wanita Renea Young, 49. Young said she heard someone banging on the door of her rural home late in the evening. She went to the door and saw "shadowy figures" but they refused to answer when she called out to them.
The teens said they did not answer when the woman called out because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.
Young said she was so frightened, she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.
The teens offered to pay Young's medical bills but she insisted on going to small claims court. Wanita Young said, "This has turned into quite a fiasco. It's something that never should have happened and it's just devastating. My phone hasn't stopped ringing. My life has been threatened and I'll probably have to move out of town."
You might want to hold on to this one.
Feb. 8th, 2005 07:51 pmElliot Weinberger's "What I heard about Iraq"
A collection of the facts, and the things the US Government has said, side by side, starting in 1992 and moving forward.
A collection of the facts, and the things the US Government has said, side by side, starting in 1992 and moving forward.
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Feb. 8th, 2005 08:04 pm"Judging the Judge": An analysis of the judge's ruling in the New York State same-sex marriage case, in terms of due process, equal protection, and the interests of the state and the families.
The ruling itself is summarised (with a link to the whole 62-page original) here.
The ruling itself is summarised (with a link to the whole 62-page original) here.
