Weird

Rex Cabo, an actor and director in adult movies since the early ’90s, died 28 April in a bizarre suicide. He jumped from the eleventh floor of the Cooper Arms high-rise on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, landing on a parked police car — via Warren Ellis

It seems that I missed a perfectly good, zombie virus story from a BBC skinned faux site. There is no justice in the world. It should be noted that, nearly a month on, people still haven’t noted the date it was published — via The Path of Now and Forever

Nickolas Buckalew, a 17-year-old Morrisville youth, is being held on $100,000 bail after police said he raided a tomb in a cemetery and removed a head from a corpse. Court documents said the suspect allegedly talked of using the man’s head as a bong or a pipe for smoking marijuana — via Warren Ellis

A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him. Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England. I grabbed the first thing that came to hand — one of my garden gnomes — and hurled it at him, and hit him, she recalled. He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn’t want to break another gnome — via BoingBoing

Indian police have charged 80 people for burying children alive in an ancient Hindu ceremony known as the festival of pits. The ceremony, in which children — some less than a year old — are buried alive briefly and then dug up, happened on Monday in southern Tamil Nadu state

Mike Bolesta — Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner of Capital City Student Tours — recently found himself under arrest, himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, where he’s handcuffed to a pole for three hours while the US Secret Service is called into the case. His crime? He shopped at Best Buy, where it seems the staff are so moronicly stupid that they are unable to recognise US$2 bills as the legal tender they are

Johannesburg seems to have something of a problem with building hijackers. They hold up an empty building’s rent-a-cops, then take over and fill the building with innocent tenants, collecting rent until the real cops show up to evict them — via BoingBoing

The grand finale of a wedding taking place near Felsted, Essex, UK was the release of dozens of Thai lanterns into the night sky. Shortly after, concerned citizens called the Stansted Airport and the police to warn authorities that aliens may be invading — via The Pagan Prattle

Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner’s finger to get round the Mercedes S-class’ fingerprint recognition system

Pairs of shoes are mysteriously being dumped outside a farmhouse in Lincolnshire, England. Since December, more than a dozen have shown up on the side of the road, usually on Sunday. Some of the shoes are cheap, with price labels of £1.99 attached and some are more expensive designer brands. The (Foster family who live nearby) have video footage, which shows an elderly couple driving by in a green vehicle depositing the shoes. Mrs Foster said that although it was scary at first, she was rather hoping some of the pairs might fit — via BoingBoing

Over-paranoid wallies will call in the cops for anything these days — via boingboing

A friend of mine works at one of the major studios in Burbank. He works in the mail room x-raying packages as they come in, looking for bombs. A couple of months after 9-11, he got a package through that had a battery pack in the center, with sensors connected by coiled wires going out to all sides of the box. He called the Burbank police, and they called the bomb squad.

They evacuated the building and sent a guy in wearing one of those big bomb shield suits. He had a tiny video camera with him, and he poked a hole in the box away from the sensors and peeked inside with the camera. He came out of the building laughing, holding the box under his arm. He handed it to my friend who discovered it, and told him to open it.

My buddy opened it, and inside was a Tickle Me Elmo. The battery pack was in his belly, and the sensors were in his hands and feet to make him giggle. The bomb squad guy told everyone that the x-ray was a textbook example of what a bomb really looks like, and took a copy of it to use in training.

Even more amusing was the information that this wasn’t Elmo’s first brush with the law. Mark Johnson-Williams, the Tickle-Me Elmo toy designer, had apparently been tagged as a potential Unabomber suspect.

I was always sending batteries and headless dolls in the mail. I think that’s what caught their attention.

An Indian woman committed suicide so her two blind sons could receive her eyes and see. But doctors say the chances of success are bleak. Thirty-seven-year-old Tamizhselvi’s sons, Kumaran, 17, and Kumar, 15, have been blind since birth. Doctors in the southern city of Chennai say Kumar’s condition cannot be helped with a cornea transplant and also suspect his elder brother does not have a cornea defect. We had told the family earlier itself that a corneal transplant was not needed for the younger son, said hospital official G Seethalakshmi. The family is insisting Tamizhselvi’s corneas can only be used for her sons and no one else — via Warren Ellis

A 44-year-old Anchorage man had his penis surgically reattached after it was cut off by an angry girlfriend and flushed down a toilet

Seems that the Aryan Brotherhood has taken up making meth labs for themselves across Texas, apparently many of which are in Dallas. The cops have been busting up the skinhead kitchens pretty regularly, so the AB has apparently gone all cop-killer fatwa on the Texas PD. Trouble is, they’re morons. Why? Because they take the time to steal different cars every other day… And then park them in the same motel space every time. Yeah. They check into the same motel, even if one of their own got busted the night before — via Warren Ellis