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Archive for February, 2002

Virtual wassup

February 12, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

That wassup joke never seems to end. Here’s a place where you can send a greeting card to someone featuring a celebrity shouting “Wassup.” It’s funnier than it sounds.

Virtual Wassup

Sleepy tiger naps with family

February 12, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Prasun Kalita, his wife and three children were sleeping in their hut in West Bengal’ s Gosaba village (India) when a tiger entered the hut, laid down and dozed off. When the family awoke, they saw the tiger and sneaked out very very quietly. Officers were summoned who tranquilized the animal and transported it back to its habitat.

Full story from Ananova

Streaming movies for a buck

February 12, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Website movie88.com has begun streaming movies online for only one dollar. The site claims to be operating within Taiwanese law but the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is investigating them anyway.

Full story from Screen Daily

Jurassic Puke

February 11, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

British scientists have discovered the oldest known giant marine reptile vomit. It’s from the Jurassic period around 160,000,000 years ago (before Jesse Helms and Bob Hope).

Full story from ABC Online (Australia)

Romanian prostitutes give student discounts

February 11, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

In an effort to boost business, Romanian prostitutes have begun giving discounts to students and soldiers. Come prepared because to get the low low prices, you have to have ID.

Full story from Ananova

Videotape shows R. Kelly having sex with minor

February 08, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

R & B star R. Kelly has a new starring role: the male lead in a sex video with an underage girl. The Chicago Sun-Times received the nearly half-hour long video anonymously last week.

Spokesmen for R. Kelly deny they he has ever had sex with underage girls.

Full story in the Chicago Sun-Times

Syrup bandit strikes Tacoma libraries

February 08, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Police are searching for a vandal who has been pouring syrup into Tacoma, Washington area book drops. The culprit has ruined nearly $10,000 worth of library books and materials since October.

Full story from the News Tribune