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Archive for March, 2002

Elementary students forced to run naked around school

March 09, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

A South Korean school baseball coach has been fired for forcing elementary school players to run naked in freezing weather after losing several games in a row.

Full story from ABC News Online (Australia)

Fighting diabetes with a toothbrush

March 09, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

Gum disease may even be more important than being overweight or old. Researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York found blood sugar levels could be reduced and kept at a lower level most effectively with a single dose of oral antibiotic and repeated application of a topical antibiotic to the gums. The effects were equal to and independent of those induced by diabetes medication, the researchers said.

Full story from the Times of India

Creep takes socks from schoolgirls

March 08, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

A 25-year-old Maryland man has been arrested and charged with taking socks from schoolgirls mainly between the ages of 12 to 14.Allegedly, the perpetrator would pretend to be taking a footware survey and then ask the girl to voluntarily give him her socks. In one case, he is believed to have knocked a fourteen-year-old down and forcibly removed her socks.

Full story from the Washington Post

Twins killed hours apart in freak truck accidents

March 08, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

70-year-old twins in Finland have died two hours apart in separate accidents, both being hit by trucks while crossing the same road on bicycles. The second twin was unaware of his brother’s fate at the time of his accident.

Full story from ABC Online

Drudge Report announces Sandra Bernhard is gay

March 07, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

The Drudge Report today outed another lesbian actress. This is on the heels of him scooping everyone about Rosie O’Donnell being gay. Here’s a screenshot of the carefully worded announcement.
Hold on to your bush, here comes Sarah Bernhard

Man lives 2 days in windshield after being hit by car

March 07, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

A 25-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, woman got drunk and used drugs before driving into a pedestrian. The man she struck got stuck in her windshield and she panicked so she drove home and left the car in her garage until he died two days later, still stuck in the windshield.

Full story from TheNewMexicoChannel.com

Doctors give patients intestinal worms

March 07, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Uncategorized No Comments →

University of Iowa doctors are treating inflammatory bowel disease with worm eggs. The helminthic worms hatch and grow in your intestines like sea-monkeys and tend to make the gut work better.

Full story from University of Iowa Health Care