Marvin Heemeyer, a muffler shop owner who plowed a makeshift armoured bulldozer into several buildings after a dispute with city officials, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a SWAT team cut their way into the machine with a blowtorch early Saturday
An 11-year-old girl led a fellow sixth-grader, Satomi Mitarai, to an empty classroom during their school lunch hour Tuesday, slit her throat and slashed arms with a box-cutter and left her to bleed to death — via Die Puny Humans
Some critics say the endless stream of hugely popular reality television shows are as dull as watching paint dry. Well, now they can test the theory with a live, eight-week round-the-clock Webcast of just that. Billed as the ultimate reality TV show
, British pay-channel UKTV Style promises a wall, some brushes and different types of paint in its program Watching Paint Dry
A 15-year-old grammar school boy yesterday became the first person in Britain to be convicted of inciting someone to murder him. The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a cast of characters in an internet chatroom as part of an elaborate plan to commission his own murder
Red-faced postal officials in Bangladesh are investigating why it took almost three years to deliver a letter just 50 km to a mill worker who had died in the meantime
Even in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans. Two years after he died aged 83, relatives of the Goon Show creator have erected a headstone on his grave bearing the star’s epitaph: I told you I was ill
. But only those well versed in Gaelic will be able to read the inscriptions — Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite
— on the Celtic cross memorial at St Thomas’s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex — via Die Puny Humans
British intelligence agents secretly discussed plans to attack the Soviet Union with pigeons armed with biological weapons, documents made public by the National Archives reveal. The bizarre Cold War scheme was hatched by Wing Commander WDL Rayner, a Royal Air Force officer who, in the aftermath of World War II, saw suicide pigeons as the future of warfare
A less than bright Los Angeles nurse found a stolen Stradivarius cello worth $3.5 million next to a dumpster and planned to turn it into a CD cabinet until she discovered it was the instrument the whole town was searching for
Harmon Leon decided to check himself into the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles — a Scientology retreat for the rich and famous. He made sure his friends knew where he was going and when to come and get him.
We go to a fancy, roped-off office on the first floor. There’s a large desk, a book shelf, and a lot of pictures of boats on the wall.
And this is L. Ron Hubbard’s office.
The actual office used by L. Ron Hubbard?This is like being in Jesus’ room.
No. Each Scientology center has an office for L. Ron Hubbard, decorated in a way he would like it.
Oh, so the office was used when he was visiting, ya?
No. He died before this hotel was refurbished.
Someone should mention to this lady that dead guys don’t need offices. Especially an office built for a dead guy after the dead guy is dead.
Gerald Newburger really doesn’t like losing. A year after getting outbid at an online auction for a collection of used band uniforms, the New Orleans native traveled to New York to confront his rival bidder with a gun
Authorities in two states are trying to determine why a woman may have driven with her mother’s decaying body as a passenger from their Oklahoma home to Florida — by way of North Carolina and Texas — and then left the body in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Flagler County sheriff’s deputies found Melba Doshier’s body Tuesday in the car parked at a Wal-Mart in Palm Coast after shoppers reported a bad smell coming from the vehicle. The St Johns County medical examiner on Wednesday said she died of natural causes at least five days before she was found — via Oftquoted
Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world
It was the mysterious rattling sound from the 18-month-old German Shepherd’s stomach which first alerted the British vet to what might be wrong. A subsequent operation removed no fewer than 28 golf balls from the dog’s belly and — unsurprisingly — the mystery ailment which made her stop eating has been cured
Carlos Machuca, a tamale-maker, killed his drinking buddy, cut up his body and boiled him in herbs, according to police who fear he may have been turning him into tamales. Officers found a man’s mutilated corpse in the living room and body parts simmering in saucepans on the patio
An Austrian man cut off his toes, fried them up and ate them between two slices of bread after getting high sniffing butane gas. When ambulance men arrived he offered to share his meal with them, passing over a toe and saying: It tastes like chicken, do you want some, there’s a few still left over.
A police spokesman added: He told the ambulance men that he had more toes than he needed and didn’t think he would notice if he got rid of a few
German police have detained a man and confiscated an axe he was throwing for his dog to retrieve. Passers-by spotted the barefoot 36-year-old enjoying his dangerous game of go fetch
in a park and alerted police
The Onion‘s deadpan satirical news-stories, much-forwarded and chuckled over, have frequently been reported as fact by various news agencies, law-enforcement departments, and pressure groups
Do you want to create your own crater on the moon? Orbital Development is putting a personalised moon crash for sale on eBay. The bid opens with $6 million which will enable the highest bidder to stuff up to 10kg worth of stuff on a space craft and lob it to the moon. The condition of the cargo is not guaranteed as it crashes on the moon at 4000mph
The video of a man who shot himself after his girlfriend broke up with him has appeared online under the heading of Introducing: The Self-Cleansing Housing Projects
. The report mentions that the police officers receive no training to deal with privacy issues
The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery in the mucous membranes of the eyes of six women and one man. Called Jewel Eye, the cosmetic surgery procedure has been pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam. The procedure involves inserting a 3.5mm wide piece of specially developed jewellery into the eye’s mucous membrane. The technique is performed under local anaesthetic at a cost of about $800 to $1,600 — via Die Puny Humans
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