How much landmass do Wal-Mart stores take up? An area larger than Manhattan.
Category: Scary
You Won’t See This Burger At The Pilot Butte Drive In
The Luther Burger is a one pound burger with a bunch of bacon and glazed donuts in place of the bun.
Wow. That’s an instant heart attack right there.
Was Your eBay Account and Credit Card Exposed?
Apparently a hacker managed to get ahold of account information and credit card numbers from over a thousand eBay users. Read about the whole mess here and make sure your eBay ID isn’t on this list or this list.
Worst Way To Die…
…Ever.
A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.
I guess it’s just the spider bite that really killed him, but to be chewed on by the rest of your “pets” — which included several snakes, termites, lizards, frogs, and spiders — can’t be fun, either.
That’s Not A Knife…
… This is a knife! And while Wegner’s out of stock on their site, you can buy it on eBay.
Want To Totally Infect A PC With Spyware?
Just mistype a very popular search engine’s domain.
This site’s been on people’s radar before, and the site doesn’t look like this now. But in the past, it has obviously done damage on unpatched systems (and I’ve seen similar sites that have done damage like this).
Why do people like this exist? They need to die like the spammers.
How Is This Person Still Alive?
I would think if you blew a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test, you’d be dead. But this lady’s still alive, and may have set a new Washington State record. Congrats.
Virginia Tech Killer Sends Package To NBC
OK, I said already that I was done talking about this tragedy, but this is just too weird (and scary).
Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News a large package including photographs and videos Monday morning, boasting, “When the time came, I did it. I had to.”
MSNBC’s site has excerpts from the videos on their site (the original package and videos have been handed over to Federal authorities). But just glancing at the pictures, videos, and writings included in that package just scares me even more.
California Father and Son Arrested In Fatal Bend Hit-and-Run
You can tell Bend is becoming a big city when you hear about made-for-Hollywood crimes like this:
A father and son visiting from Southern California have been arrested in the violent hit-and-run death of a Bend woman who was riding her bicycle on Third Street early Tuesday, along with the torching of the suspect car in the woods south of town, police said Wednesday.
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Christopher George Goodson, 22, of El Cajon, Calif., was found allegedly hiding in a northeast Bend apartment late Tuesday night. He faces charges of second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault second-degree conspiracy to commit arson, reckless driving and reckless endangering, said Bend police Capt. Jim Porter.
George Harold Goodson, 51, of San Diego, who had reported the car stolen, was arrested and accused of hindering prosecution and first-degree attempted aggravated theft, Porter said.
Why somebody was riding their bike down Third Street at 2:30 AM is beyond me, but she’s certainly not violating any laws by doing so unless she wasn’t wearing any reflective clothing or lights or she was drunk, but I digress.
But basically (and all allegedly, of course) from what I’m reading, here’s how I see this all went down: The son, driving daddy’s Benz, drove like a maniac through town, clobbered this woman and apparently dismembered her according to the report on KFXO last night. Despite the heavy amount of damage to the car and obviously to the woman, the guy decides to get the hell out of there, tells daddy about the mess, daddy says dispose of the car. So they drive the car out southeast of town, set it on fire (completely torching it), daddy reports it stolen from the La Quinta Inn in South Bend parking lot, obviously lying to police officers. Luckily somebody tipped the police off, and they had a statement from somebody that was allegedly riding with the suspect, so they were able to trace it back to an apartment on Full Moon Ct. (just about a mile at most from my house), where they found the alleged driver, along with “a large quantity of cocaine, weight scales, a large quantity of cash and a loaded firearm.” Drug-related charges haven’t been filed yet.
Wow. Sounds like a movie script to me, but it was the reality.
And to throw some Flamebait out there, these people are tourists and/or transplants. From California.
Barney over at KTVZ sent me this picture that was provided by the Bend Police Department. It’s what’s left of the car:
Way Behind…
I vowed this last weekend (took a three day weekend after taking yesterday off) to avoid my laptop completely and not check my email or get online so I could spend more time with my wife and kids. I already had several concerts to play at (with one more tonight) so I was already busy and just decided to keep the laptop bagged up (though I did play some more Nintendo DS, getting up to world five in Mario Bros.).
I boot up this morning and went to get some caffeine while my email and RSS feeds download. After my spam filters did their dirty work, I had 790 new e-mail messages and well over 1000 unread RSS items. Ugh…
So if you e-mailed me over the last few days and are awaiting a reply, I’ll get to your e-mail — eventually.