An Aussie bloke appeared in court this week, charged with possession of a whole bunch of stun guns. Apparently, he got sprung with 41 of the suckers and had already sold 59 of them. The police reckoned the stun guns…
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Building a business
As more information comes to light about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in Los Angeles, the more I think the woman is an A-grade idiot. And a selfish one at that. So now we know she already…
A new trend? Shoe is!
Talk about starting a trend: Chinese head honcho Wen Jiabao had a shoe biffed at him during a speech at Cambridge University on Monday. This comes after poor wee George Bush received much the same treatment from an Iraqi reporter a…
RIP John Martyn
British singer-songwriter-guitarist John Martyn — who released more than 20 albums of his own and worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour and Phil Collins — died on Thursday. He was 60. ON THE WEB: Times Online obituary…
Would-be raccoon rapist gets the chop
Here’s another case of critters getting their own form of justice. According to The Sun, a sick wee pervert in Moscow was having a few drinks and decided to sexually molest a poor, innocent little raccoon. The raccoon, however, had…
A real doer-upper
In the market for a new house? The slightly charred one next door to Invercargill’s chapter of the Mongrel Mob is still up for grabs. But not for long … the motivated vendor is keen to sell and you’ve got…
RIP Dale Wasserman
Man of La Mancha author Dale Wasserman died of congestive heart failure on December 21. He was 94. Wasserman also penned the stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ever the forward-thinking writer, he gave…
The celebrity curse
Reports are coming out on a plane crash in South Carolina involving former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM. The breaking news reports say the two musicians have been critically injured and have been taken to a burns unit.…
… and I still can’t get a Taser!
Teachers in one Texas school district have been given approval to carry guns, apparently just in case some psycho manages to make it through the already-in-place security measures. The report says: Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted…
RIP Robert Adler
The man who has made billions of blokes happy and revolutionised the way we watch telly died this week. Robert Adler was one of the two men credited with creating the remote control. Without him we’d still be wearing a…