An interesting story got posted on the Irish Linux Users group. It involves the arrest of a scammer/spammer working in an internet cafe. It even includes the attempt to eat a USB pen drive, several cops and a ten minute struggle to subdue the man
DIY fan Kevin Brunie built a guillotine — then beheaded himself in his back garden. The keen carpenter spent weeks making the device out of wood with a metal blade. He told relatives it was a toy car. Dad-of-two Kevin, 42, was said to have been in good spirits and was laughing and joking
with his mum Lynda Nelson, 62, days before he died. She said: He had not talked to me about killing himself. I have no idea why he died. He was always good with his hands
— via Die Puny Humans
The iPod is a device with some splendid uses, Mp3 player, portable hard drive, calendar, address book, note book and weapon:iPod Used In Domestic Homicide.
Or at least that’s what the guys at liquid generation thought. They also wrote the funny following:
Segway Used In Drive-by Gang Shooting
Looks like they found a way to improve Nokia phones too: Nokia announces cell phone stun gun
I just stumbled across liquid generations smutty 404 error page too.
Ha!
A German man who decapitated his mother with a Samurai sword after she told him to move out was convicted of murder Tuesday and sentenced to life in jail. He chopped off her head in the kitchen of their flat while she was reading a newspaper. They added he first planned to kill his father
Lilly, the cute German kitten born with an extra set of non-working ears, has been adopted. According to the animal shelter in the foothills of the Alps where Lilly has been living, there was no shortage of people wanting to take her in once word spread about her unique trait.
We wanted to make sure the people were looking for a normal cat and not a gag to make an exhibition out of her,
Enrico Schlag, a worker at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen animal shelter told Reuters.
I’m a bit clueless about why the wee little fuzzy rodent creature is clutching a tiny automatic weapon, but it makes for an odd photograph.
I guess you make your fun where you can — via Charlie Stross
Documentation of an insane office prank involving 2,500 Post-it notes and one mild-mannered victim.
Damon has been playing tricks on me for a few days now. So I came in on the weekend and did some
re-decoratingin his office. He didn’t see it until Monday morning when he came in and opened his office door.
His office blinds were closed, his door was shut and locked, and I left this post-it in the middle of his door. It says
Can you pick up some more post-its, we’re running low.
The pranksters notified Post-it manufacturers 3M, and received three cases of Post-it notes for future decorating
.
Another prankster opted for the use of those hideous Marshmallow Peeps. Lots and lots of Marshallow Peeps.
We did mail Just Born, manufacturers of Peeps, but sadly they never got back to us. The peeps wound up staying in the office for about two years, through at least two occupant changes. Even six months after they were up we had people coming by and eating them off the ceiling. Ugh.
Yet another office joker thought covering all available surfaces with eggs would be a hoot:
Brian still doesn’t budge.
There’s something you have to see,he says.
I walk over to my desk and see the following: Everyone in R&D is waiting to see my reaction. Unfortunately, I’m still in panic mode about being late. So, I run over to my desk. It is covered in eggs, complete with a live bird in a cage. After a beat, I say,
Huh.
Then I turn to Brian and say,
Okay, we gotta go.
A British theatre group is to hold an unprecedented casting call for its next production. The experimental company requires a dead body to take a leading role in its latest show. The consent of the donor of the body is being sought beforehand and the production team aim to treat the subject of death with absolute seriousness, challenging modern taboos about a condition that comes to everybody at some point. Called Dead: You Will Be
, the play requires a dead body to lie in state
throughout the proceedings
An Australian Navy tanker has been daubed with the words John Howard — US boot licker while berthed at Wellington’s Overseas Passenger Terminal. The graffiti attack coincided with two high-level meetings of New Zealand and Australian police and anti-terrorism chiefs after last week’s terror attacks in Spain
Two Mexican peasant farmers, cousins age 70 and 85, argued for years over water rights and finally faced off in an old-fashioned pistol duel that killed both
Pork products processed and distributed from the farm of accused Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton may have contained human remains. Pickton raised and slaughtered pigs at the Port Coquitlam farm as a part-time occupation until his arrest at the property in February 2002, and police believe he gave or sold processed meat products to friends and acquaintances — via Die Puny Humans
Raccoons released by Hermann Goering in Germany in 1934 to enrich the Reich’s fauna
are threatening to succeed where their Nazi benefactors failed by conquering Europe. They have become so successful that German authorities revealed this week that raccoon numbers are now at record levels — with more than a million in Germany alone — via Darren Barefoot
A really stupid woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse
An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun in a misguided prank that left him with a nail lodged in his brain
A dispute at the salad bar turned into a food fracas at an upscale retirement home, with a man taking a bite out of another’s arm and other residents suffering minor injuries
Ever wonder where you fall in the Geek Heirarchy? — via Wil Wheaton Dot Net
Clumsy Britons risk life and limb keeping up with the latest trends such as wooden flooring and micro-scooters — providing they survive putting their trousers on in the morning
A man and his wife ducked behind a refrigerator when bullets began exploding in their oven. It seems the rocket scientist in question had put the ammunition and three handguns in the oven for safekeeping before leaving on vacation. After returning from their trip Tuesday, the wife turned on the oven to prepare dinner and the bullets ignited
Andre Gainey found out the hard way that in the state of New York it’s illegal to drive while watching porn. Police said the 35-year old man from Clifton Park, New York, was watching a adult movie called Chocolate Foam
on Tuesday night while driving his Mercedes Benz in the town of Schenectady when he was spotted by an officer at a stop light
Check out this great wiki entry that explains the most common Slashdot trolls and in-jokes in detail.
Hot grits, anyone?
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