Stupidity on the Roads

It seems the roads were a little less sane everywhere in the past week. Over in jolly old England, we've got this fellow who was recently arrested for inventing and driving around a motor scooter with an "anti-tailgating flamethrower".

Here's the arrest story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7528253/Flame-thrower-scooter-owner-arrested.html

Meanwhile, here in the US, it seems drunk drivers are getting more political. A few days ago, a Nashville man named Harry Weisiger decided to cuss out and ram a car carrying a school teacher and his small daughter, apparently because Harry didn't like the teacher's Obama-Biden bumper sticker.

I really hope this incident doesn't give car insurance companies and accident lawyers any crazy ideas about charging people extra fees based on their political stance.

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Even in death...

...some celebrities just can't stay out of the news or the dramatic spotlight.

 
According to the folks at Telegraph.co.uk, in the February month of 2011, an opera about Anna Nicole Smith's life will debut at the Royal Opera House in the United Kingdom. The show was co-written by one of the creators of 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' and will star Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek ...and yes, I do wish I was making up the fact that there was ever indeed a Jerry Springer opera!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7414740/Anna-Nicole-Smiths-life-to-be-turned-into-opera.html

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War Profiteering at it's Dumbest: Part II

Late last year, I shared a news story about Iraqi security forces actually purchasing and attempting to utilize $85,000,000 worth of British-made bomb-detecting magic wands... and I still wish I were making that $#!t up. Well, in recent weeks, it seems that James McCormick, the New Age war profiteer responsible for the 'ADE 561 Bomb Detection Device' was arrested for fraud and is now out on bail. To make the story even more interesting, in the video below, professional skeptic (and Charles Darwin look-alike) James Randi adds extra light to the story by talking about his own history with the ADE 561 dowsing wands.



For those who don't know, James Randi is the head of an organization known as the JREF and is probably best known for offering an as-of-yet unclaimed $1,000,000 prize open to anyone who can demonstrate dowsing, psychic phenomena or any other paranormal claim under proper scientific observing conditions.

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Go Medium

Earlier today, I was reading Derren Brown's blog (where I should confess I get a noticeable amount of material for this blog from) and I came across a link to this ridiculous story about Police in the UK who blew £20,000 (about 33,400 American dollars) investigating the "murder" of a man who's death was already ruled a suicide until so-called psychics spewed forth stories of animal-related imagery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6508875/Detectives-launch-20000-murder-inquiry-after-bogus-tip-off-from-mystics.html

Once again, if you choose to believe in the psychic phenomena, that's your business... but no mater what country you live in, before you spend public or taxpayer money on something supernatural, please ask yourself first: "If any psychic is so real, why haven't they either won the lotto or collected a million bucks from James Randi?" Because let me tell you, if I had any kind of supernatural intuitive powers, I'd help lots of people, sure ...but I'm getting paid first! ;)

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