The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[Coramoor]

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02...ing/index.html

Sort of ironic considering the aim of his television station.

[VandalSquirrel]

The local paper had a story today about the fact they have to get rid of it, due to it being an exotic animal. I had no idea you could buy gators off the internet, and the local authorities told them they couldn't flush it down the toilet to dispose of it. I really hope I can find the local story online.

http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/27800

Delta Upsilon purchases scaly reptilian roommate
Several fraternity members wanted to have a different sort of pet living in the house.

Emily Kitts

The Daily Evergreen

Published: 02/18/2009
Story Tags

* Delta Upsilon

Delta Upsilon fraternity does not have a traditional cat or dog for a pet – it has an alligator named Grizz.

Several Delta Upsilon members, including sophomore sport management major Quinn Lambert and freshman business major Thomas Lawrence, decided that they wanted a unique pet for their fraternity.

“We were sitting around one night, and we saw something about it online,” Lambert said. “We wanted to get something that no one had.” Grizz came from a reptile dealer on the Internet, and he was delivered overnight to the fraternity house. He is only about a foot long, but he is still young, Lawrence said.

Lambert said the alligator is about three months old, and he will grow about six to 10 inches a year.

Grizz resides at the fraternity in a tub containing water, gravel and natural rocks. His diet consists of crickets and goldfish, though Lawrence said the alligator has a hard time eating the goldfish because of his small teeth.

Eventually Grizz will be a full-grown alligator, but the two men said that aspect of having a wild animal in their house does not faze them.

“We want to keep him during our four years of college.” Lawrence said. Grizz has been introduced to humans at a young age, so people can pick him up fairly easily. Lambert said the alligator is friendly, but he is a wild animal so everyone is careful while handling him. Eventually, the men hope that Grizz will assimilate to having humans around all the time.

“It’s kind of cool having an alligator because people like coming to see it,” Lambert said.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

The local paper had a story today about the fact they have to get rid of it, due to it being an exotic animal. I had no idea you could buy gators off the internet, and the local authorities told them they couldn't flush it down the toilet to dispose of it. I really hope I can find the local story online.

http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/27800

Delta Upsilon purchases scaly reptilian roommate
Several fraternity members wanted to have a different sort of pet living in the house.

Emily Kitts

The Daily Evergreen

Published: 02/18/2009
Story Tags

* Delta Upsilon

Delta Upsilon fraternity does not have a traditional cat or dog for a pet – it has an alligator named Grizz.

Several Delta Upsilon members, including sophomore sport management major Quinn Lambert and freshman business major Thomas Lawrence, decided that they wanted a unique pet for their fraternity.

“We were sitting around one night, and we saw something about it online,” Lambert said. “We wanted to get something that no one had.” Grizz came from a reptile dealer on the Internet, and he was delivered overnight to the fraternity house. He is only about a foot long, but he is still young, Lawrence said.

Lambert said the alligator is about three months old, and he will grow about six to 10 inches a year.

Grizz resides at the fraternity in a tub containing water, gravel and natural rocks. His diet consists of crickets and goldfish, though Lawrence said the alligator has a hard time eating the goldfish because of his small teeth.

Eventually Grizz will be a full-grown alligator, but the two men said that aspect of having a wild animal in their house does not faze them.

“We want to keep him during our four years of college.” Lawrence said. Grizz has been introduced to humans at a young age, so people can pick him up fairly easily. Lambert said the alligator is friendly, but he is a wild animal so everyone is careful while handling him. Eventually, the men hope that Grizz will assimilate to having humans around all the time.

“It’s kind of cool having an alligator because people like coming to see it,” Lambert said.

My dad has told me stories of how in his childhood, roadside tourist attractions in Florida sold live baby alligators to people to take home. What could go wrong?

[moe.ron]

Man, that got Risk Mgt problem written all over it.

[DaemonSeid]

...unbeweavable


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[agzg]

Man tries to steal laptop to check facebook.


Is there a rehab for facebook addiction?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

Man tries to steal laptop to check facebook.


Is there a rehab for facebook addiction?

China has a program for internet addiction. http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...874380,00.html

Scary thing is, I think I qualify for their program

[DaemonSeid]

Not for the squeamish

[CatStarESP4]

Here is one about someone misusing 911!

Woman has 911 meltdown over McNuggets
Fla. police say she called emergency number 3 times after store runs out

People, 911 is for real emergencies only!!!!



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001

[LXA SE285]

Family: Uninvited Guest Wildly Disrupts Funeral

Woman Admits Dancing, Waving Wand, Throwing Flowers

http://www.wyff4.com/news/18854351/detail.html#-

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Family: Uninvited Guest Wildly Disrupts Funeral

Woman Admits Dancing, Waving Wand, Throwing Flowers

http://www.wyff4.com/news/18854351/detail.html#-

That's so weird. I'd be PISSED if someone did that to my dead relative. Just bizarre...

[aephi alum]

Ready to boldly go where no fragrance has gone before? That's the concept behind Genki Wear's new line of Star Trek-themed colognes and perfumes. Take a moment if you need one, because this is no joke. While the company's batch of scents looks like an attempt to capitalize on the growing frenzy surrounding the next film in the pipe, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, the fragrances actually pay homage to the roots of the Trekieverse.

(The scents are called Tiberius, Red Shirt, and Pon Farr.)

Star Trek: The Final Fragrance

[DaemonSeid]

The Town of Tenaha, Texas (population 1000) is accused of rising revenue the old fashioned way: by stealing it. Citizens who have passed through the town have complained that property has been seized by Tenaha police and never returned, even though they were never charged with a crime. Tenaha Mayor George Bowers, 80, is remarkably unapologetic or concerned, noting that the seizures helped them build a new police station and add a second police car for the town: “It’s always helpful to have any kind of income to expand your police force.”


The story is another example of the abuse of asset forfeiture laws by towns and cities looking for more revenue. Critics is called it “highway piracy.”

Tenaha has seized property from at least 140 motorists between 2006 and 2008. Only half were ever charged. People have complained that Tenaha police snatched anything of value from cash to cell phones to jewelry to a pair of sneakers, and even the car itself. Linda Dorman,an elderly lady from Akron, Ohio, says that police took her life savings of $4000. Her lawyer has alleged that most if not all of those stopped in the town were African Americans with out of state plates.


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I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't the only place where this has happened.

[knight_shadow]

NEW YORK - When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father's gaming friends know that he hadn't just decided to desert them.

It wasn't easy, because she didn't have her father's "World of Warcraft" password and the game's publisher couldn't help her. Eventually, Melissa Allen Spangenberg reached her father's friends by asking around online for the "guild" he belonged to.

[ full story ]

I saw something like this on an episode of Law and Order, but I didn't know these types of sites really existed. Interesting stuff.

[UofISigKap]

At the Celtic festival in my town, there was Ferret Legging, and I thought that was the last crazy "sport" that I had never heard of. But, oh no, ESPN has dug up another one. Pole Dancing Championships? Seriously??