Category: Stupid

Land owners and government officials have spent $100-million dealing with an endangered mouse that doesn’t even really exist.

After six years of regulations and restrictions that have cost builders, local governments and landowners on the western fringe of the Great Plains as much as $100 million by some estimates, new research suggests the Preble’s mouse in fact never existed. It instead seems to be genetically identical to one of its cousins, the Bear Lodge meadow jumping mouse, which is considered common enough not to need protection.

The new research could lead to loss of the Preble’s “threatened” status and removal from Endangered Species Act protection. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to decide that question in December.

I’m sure that if the folks at the Oregon Health Plan weren’t under a budget crunch, they would’ve just paid for this.

An Oregon doctor, who had sex with a patient and then charged the state about $5,000 for his “treatments,” has been jailed for 60 days and stripped of his license, officials said on Friday.

Dr. Randall J. Smith, 50, told the woman that massaging her “trigger points” would ease her pelvic pain. The treatments led to sexual intercourse and Smith billed the Oregon Health Plan for the 45-minute sessions at the Adventist Health Medical Group clinic in Gresham, Oregon, near Portland.

Link from Rob.

The pilots delayed their passengers for three hours because they mistakenly landed at an Air Force Base. Whoops.

What other reason would he have to shut down — without warning — all the blogs at Weblogs.com? It was discovered later that he couldn’t afford the bandwidth, not any problems with the server, like he said. This is also the same guy that tried to charge $500 to gab with him.

A boy’s dreams are dashed when high school officials say he can’t take a porn star to prom.

Woman sues mobile phone company because driver who hit her was chatting on a mobile. Via Neil.

Wow, so you can turn your $1000, over-priced, lens that don’t work with anything, camera, into a $1500 over-priced, lens that don’t work with anything, camera. Full Story.

Of course, Simone, correct me if I’m wrong on this, but the Rebel uses a proprietary lens contact, correct?

Update: I need to quit listening to people. I stand corrected, as the Rebel and the 10D use the same EF-mount for their lenses according to Canon’s site, but I stand by what I said that the lenses were horrendously expensive.

This is why technology patents are useless. Not only was Microsoft granted a patent for the double click, but McAfee was granted a rar-reaching Spam-Control patent. I’m sure prior art will prevail in both of these, but it’s just ridiculous that these were passed to begin with. Links via Neil.

I’m sure that most of the people who are on low-carb diets really don’t know what carbs even are.

Speaking of jackass administration, an 15-year old honor student was expelled for 80-days. Why? Blake Molnar pushed a aluminum tin filled with whipped cream into Karen Abbott’s (the principal) face — at a school sponsored event where he won the privilege of pie-ing the principal. Ms. Abbott asked that the boy be charged with assault, as it caused her too much pain and injury (despite the fact that she knew what was coming).