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Archive for May, 2002

Museum of Hoaxes

May 30, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Learn about the tourist guy, the Piltdown man, and the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest at the Museum of Hoaxes. Well documented gallery of hoaxes from the middle ages to the present. Includes a photo gallery and links to hoax web sites.

Polar bear teaches a lesson

May 29, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Andrew Barlow sums up the lessons he has learned in his article All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Having My Arms Ripped Off by a Polar Bear. One lesson he’s learned is that things change. For example he used to swim. Now he can’t because he has no arms.

Deer gives teacher a black eye

May 29, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

School teacher Lesley Stanford says she never saw the buck coming and thought a bomb had gone off. Why? Well, she was knocked unconscious when a deer busted through crowds at a Memorial Day parade in Mill Valley, California.

Stanford was treated at a hospital for bruised ribs and kidneys and a big shiner. The deer, refusing treatment, ran back into the woods.

Full story from myCFNow.com

Help Betty and Veronica get naked

May 28, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Betty and Veronica have taken a trip to the beach. It sure is hot. Won’t you help them cool off by removing their clothing? This game gives you the chance to go where Archie never dared. Reggie maybe. Archie no.

Contest giving away hair snipped from Marilyn Monroe’s corpse

May 28, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Hollywood historian Jack Allen is holding a contest and the grand prize is a strand of platinum blonde hair snipped from the lifeless corpse of Marilyn Monroe.

Everyone who buys a copy of Jack Allen’s new coffee table book “Marilyn By Moonlight” will be entered for the grand prize drawing taking place on August 5th (Marilyn’s death day).

Full story from NCBuy

Radio station promises $150,000 for forehead tattoo, reneges

May 27, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Radio station 93.5 KORB promised to pay $30,000 a year for five years to anyone who got the station’s logo tattooed on their forehead. Two Davenport listeners got the tattoos but the station now says it was just a joke by idiot disk jockey Ben Stone, also known as Benjamin Stomberg.

Lawsuits ensue.

Hippo capsizes canoe, 11 dead

May 26, 2002 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Eleven people, mostly women and children, in Blantyre, Malawi, drowned when the canoe they were riding in was capsized by a hippo.

Three women, including one with a baby strapped to her back, made it to shore. The group was returning from a trip to buy fish.