The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[ZTABullwinkle]

This is just sad...

Father at 13 in Britain

Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.


He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.

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[joliebelle]

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

This is just sad...

Father at 13 in Britain




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you beat me to it!

He really does look like he's 8, and she definitely doesn't look her age eiter

[RaggedyAnn]

You have to read the whole article.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29195978/?GT1=43001

Wife pleads guilty in death-by-exercise case

Cops say video shows her pulling 73-year-old man around in swimming pool

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

You have to read the whole article.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29195978/?GT1=43001

Wife pleads guilty in death-by-exercise case

Cops say video shows her pulling 73-year-old man around in swimming pool

Oh my.. yes, you have to read to the very end!

[VandalSquirrel]

http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/13/fa...ther-to-court/
Fart fight: One iPhone fart app takes another to court
MG Siegler | February 13th, 2009

People love the fart applications for the iPhone — or love to hate them. Either way, a lot of people are downloading them, and making the developers a lot of money. And where there’s money, there’s lawsuits. And now we have one.

Infomedia, the creators of iFart Mobile, have asked a federal judge in Colorado to rule that “pull my finger” is a common phrase and as such, doesn’t fall under trademark laws. (Yes, I’m serious.) Why? Well iFart Mobile has apparently been going at it with another fart application, one we’ve written about before, Pull My Finger. Infomedia’s Joel Comm lays out his version of the whole thing on his blog and claims that Air-O-Matic, the makers of Pull My Finger, are demanding money from him, stating that he’s publicly saying things that damages Air-O-Matic’s product.

Comm also says that Air-O-Matic asked Apple to remove iFart Mobile from the App Store, and Apple refused. If you really want to get into all of this, Comm has made the legal papers available here.

So yes, we have a fart fight on our hands — it almost seems appropriate given how popular these apps have become in the App Store. I’m not sure of the exact number of fart apps now, but AppShopper lists 165 apps that contain the word “fart” — and there are plenty of others using synonyms. So yeah, it’s in the hundreds.

[AGDee]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...est/index.html

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep.

The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said.

When the economy soured, the businessman apparently decided to let go of all but one mistress.

He staged a private talent show in May, without telling the women his intentions. An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.

The four other women left him, as did his wife when she learned of the affairs.

*Much more humorous details in the article!

[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?

[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.

[KSigkid]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29227155/

This is a big story here in CT - apparently the victim is in critical condition, and the chimp's owner had a mild heart attack after the fiasco.

[Coramoor]

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

Sort of ironic considering the aim of his television station.

[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