Check out this video where, despite getting clobbered by a speeding car, this police officer managed to make it back to his car and avoid getting hit again. It’s amazing this didn’t kill the guy…
Category: Scary
Just Don’t Eat The Parsley
Anybody locally might want to avoid McGrath’s for obvious reasons, but it turns out that the E.Coli outbreak maybe wasn’t their fault, as they got some bad parsley from Washington state.
Software Bugs Are Bad
Especially when they release inmates early. Thanks Barn for the link.
How Many Condoms Can You Wear At Once?
According to this little science project, over 600 (assuming certain parts of your anatomy are as strong as their artificial replacements).
(Don’t worry, the site’s mostly safe for work).
Extreme Rock Paper Scissors
Three options for the game is wussy. Try Rock, Paper, Scissors, Fire, Water, Air, and Sponge. Or Rock, Paper, Scissors, Fire, Water, Air, Sponge, Gun and Human. Or Rock, Paper, Scissors, Fire, Water, Air, Sponge, Gun, Human, Devil, and Wolf. It only gets more complicated after that (with the latter option having 25 options).
Rita Is Coming
One of my blog buddies down in Houston is still trying to decide whether to wait or to evacuate. Traffic’s a mess down there, so he might end up waiting the storm out in town, taking out the looters after the storm, and getting some corporate computer networks back up and running after the thing hits.
Be safe, Dren, no matter what you do.
The World’s Ugliest Dog
Anybody seen a dog uglier than this thing? I can’t say that I have.
Update on 9/4: Here’s another lovely picture of the ugly thing.
The World’s Worst Credit Card
While the interest rates on those credit card offers seem decent, it’s the nasty fees that will kill you, this one charging you a total of $412 just to have the card.
Note that if that link goes bad, as BendCable links have a tendency to do when they get traffic, you can download the image in question here.
Link found actually just dinking around BendCable’s user directories.
This Is An Accident Waiting To Happen
So apparently the astronauts that are on the space shuttle Discovery are going to have to repair their own ship. They’re going to have to do something no other space crew has done: send a astronaut beneath the shuttle to repair filler sticking out between the tiles on the ship’s belly.
I’m no expert at all this stuff, but while they are in (roughly) zero gravity in outer space, they’re going to be orbiting Earth, right? That means they’re be traveling through space really stickin’ fast while they’re doing this repair. There is obviously little room for error. It just makes me think of something I heard on the radio this morning: It’d be like if you were flying down the highway at 100 mph and realized your tailpipe was a bit loose, and wanted one of your passengers to crawl under the car (as you continued to haul tail down the highway) and fix it.
I just hope they all make it home safe.
A Reporter’s Worst Nightmare
How do you cover a story about a man who died having sex with a horse?
Be sure to check out the Google ads on the page: Several PETA and Animal Cruelty ads. Considering the subject matter, that could’ve been a lot worse.