Interesting and incredibly disturbing… a voice recording of cult leader Jim Jones immediately preceding and during the mass suicide/murder of over 900 members of the Jonestown, Guyana cult. Here’s the Wikipedia entry for some background on the People’s Temple and the freakiness that should never have happened and should never again. Technorati Tags: Jim Jones, [...]

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I work for a cellular phone company, but I thought even the average person might find this mildly interesting. The Finnish Road Administration has taken to locking roadside toilets, and you can unlock them by texting the word “open” to a short code. This way, they can keep short term records of the users and [...]

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Way cool, spooky short film about a young man on a road trip who takes an unexpected detour through a small town… and the startling events that unfold. Run time is about nine pretty gripping minutes. “Still Life” was directed by John Knautz and starring Trevor Matthews. Technorati Tags: Still Life, John Knautz, Trevor Matthews

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Next to all the fun stuff I post here, I also feel the need to post more serious stuff, that borderlines stupidity and hypocrisy. In 2003 ABC broadcasted an episode of NYPD Blue where they showed a woman’s butt.  Everyone flipped out apparently over this.  The “FCC on Friday determined that a woman’s naked backside [...]

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It’s headlines like this that make me proud to be a lifelong resident of Wisconsin: Man Arrested For Restraining Son With Tape For Not Wearing Packers Jersey  Too many comments floating in my head.  I will sum them all up with a hearty WTF?!?! Technorati Tags: Wisconsin, Packers Jersey

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Ok, I’ve forgotten many things in my life – keys, birthdays, appointments, phone numbers, instructions, anniversaries, my name, etc… but a dead body? That’s what one Charles E. Gross of Pueblo, Colorado claims. Sure, he admits to shooting the guy in the head 7 years ago, but he shoved the body under his mobile home [...]

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Just so you know… you are not allowed to have a “Bake-off”  only General Mills can have a “Bake-off”… because apparently they own the rights to the word “bake-off”… and they aren’t shy to step into a small town and flex their muscle over a local group raising money for a good cause.  Link to [...]

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So this guy in Green Bay was driving drunk (big surprise). He hits two pedestrians (a man and a woman) on the East side of town. Does he stop to provide some sort of help? Of course not… Instead, he continues driving home and drags the woman for a ways. Not only that, but the [...]

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On top of that, if you hit someone with your car in Texas… specifically, a little girl… RUN! Hell, don’t run, drive to the nearest police station and have them lock you up for your safety, because around the corner are a bunch of 10 Gallon Hats of Doom coming to bludgeon you to death! [...]

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Once again, truth is stranger than fiction. The Police Calls section of the Green Bay Press-Gazette from this past Friday yielded a number of gems… • Theft: Three hubcaps were taken from a Dodge Stratus parked in the 600 block of South Adams Street on March 22. Loss estimated at $125. OK, so did the [...]

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Here is the first installment of what I plan to be a regular feature here on the Pants. Stories about the exploits of Mensa rejects, and whether or not alcohol is listed as a factor in their shenanigans, entitled “Was Alcohol a Factor?“. This first story comes to us from Billings, MT. Seems one Phillip [...]

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Dateline Sissonville West Virginia. Straight A student gets F. World ends. Somebody better pay. Yea, that’s right. It’s about time. It sure as hell isn’t the kid’s fault they turned the project in a day late. We certainly wouldn’t want to teach anything about responsibility, priorities or repercussions. Nope. Sue ‘em. The kid has a [...]

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Seriously.  How can this load of crap still be one of the lead stories on most of the online news outlets?!?!  Google News has aggregated no fewer than 4,291 articles on the ridiculous saga that is Anna Nicole Smith.  It’s also number 2 story on CNN.com and has it’s own little section on the front [...]

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The Stella Awards cover outrageous court cases. They were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In 1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee onto her lap, burning herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages. The top five Stella Awards for 2006 can be found here. For those who just can’t [...]

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So you have the munchies.  And you’re a fiscally frugal individual (aka cheapskate).  You’re jonesin’ for a convenience store hotdog and you come up with diabolical plan to put not one, but two dogs on your bun… and mask the wiener deception with extra condiments. You didn’t count on a) the clerk noticing/caring, b) the [...]

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