Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today. The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1991… They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.. The CD was introduced two years before they were born. They have always had an answering machine. They have always had cable.. Popcorn […]

A thief who used a frozen chicken as a tool to break into a cafe was caught after he cut his wrist and was forced to phone an ambulance, Australian police said Wednesday. The man stole the chicken during an earlier break-in at a butcher’s shop in Macksville, north of Sydney, but came off second […]

A man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch has ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage.The man was using a torch hooked up to a 20-pound propane cylinder. He got too close to the building’s wood frame and ignited the vinyl siding. The fire quickly […]

Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, have arrested a man they say tried to steal a fire truck so he could drive home — to Washington — for Christmas. Detective Gary Keller says firefighters on a medical call heard the $500,000 truck’s air horn blaring Monday and ran outside. They found a man in the […]

Three Norwegian tourists came under fire and one was shot after the satellite navigation system in their car guided them straight into one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous slums. The three men cut short their vacation in Brazil and headed home Monday after Trygve Killingtveit, 24, was shot in the shoulder by suspected drug […]

A friend of mine (Waldemar for those of you who know him) just sent me this link to a video about the REAL nature of money and debt and it goes a long way to explain the current economical crisis we are in but the video was made in 2006. The blurb says this: “Paul […]

A senior Tokyo police official tasked with keeping the city’s roads clear of drunk drivers has been arrested for driving under the influence, police said on Tuesday. The deputy inspector, on his way home from a camping site, was caught late on Monday after bumping into another car and veering off the road, said a […]

A man who was hit by a truck near the city’s downtown was also slapped with a citation. Boise police ticketed Ebrahim Balah, 62, for jaywalking shortly after the accident Wednesday. Police said Balah suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital as a precaution. Police said he was hit by a passenger […]

A French municipal library has discovered a musical score handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in its archives, the Nantes town hall said on Thursday. The one-page work, donated to the town by a private collector at the end of the 19th century, was until recently thought to be a copy rather than an original. The […]