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Archive for February, 2005

Book unleashes on unsuspecting e-mail victims

February 27, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Avid readers with a mean streak should order E-mails from Hell by William Wyndell. The book is a collection of emails between the author and various recipients. Hilarious conversations include one in which Wyndell explains that he can’t come to the recipients home on a particular day because he’ll be in lock-up. Victims of these emails seem to go out of their way to keep the conversation on track while falling into the author’s subtle and not-so-subtle traps.

The book would make a great gift for anyone who’s subjected to writing endless friendly office-type emails who secretly wishes they could say what was really on their minds. E-mails from Hell is available at http://www.emailsfromhell.com.

Police charge man with having sex with cows

February 26, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A 63-year-old Neillsville, Wisconsin, has been charged with sexual gratification with an animal. Police say the man was sneaking into a local farm and having sex with calves for the last one to two years.

Red light cameras increase rear-end crashes

February 24, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Cameras at traffic-light intersections have cut down on T-bone collisions but not necessarily on injuries, according to a study that found cameras led to a hike in rear-end accidents. Yet to be studied is whether intersections with the cameras result in increased injuries.

Six hundred pound tiger killed near Reagan library

February 23, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Authorities shot and killed a 600 pound tiger Wednesday near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Trackers had been looking for the cat for eight days. How it got loose is still a mystery as no tigers have been reported missing.

Two injured in stampede for hippo meat

February 22, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Two people in Kenya were injured as villagers in a stampede for meat from a hippo that was struck and killed by a car Tuesday. Police worked to restore order. Eventually only about half of the people who had queued up got meat to take home.

Worcester’s MP defends safety of Worcestershire Sauce

February 22, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Michael Foster, Member of Parliament for Worcester, is working to make it clear that Lea & Perrins’ Worcestershire Sauce is not involved in a food scare involving a cheap knock-off. The cancer scare involves a rival company’s Worcester sauce which contained a substance suspected of causing cancer.

Baby stable after surgeons remove second head

February 20, 2005 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

An Egyptian baby born with two heads is in stable condition after doctors removed one of the heads in a 13-hour operation. The baby was born with a rare condition known as craniopagus parasiticus, which occurs when an embryo splits to form an incomplete identical twin.