Friday, February 10, 2012
FORD CRASHES AND BURNS
Dorian Ford staged his own kidnapping and wrote his own $1,000 ransom note to see if his mother loved him enough to pay.
He called his mother on Tuesday and told her he had been hit on the head and abducted. When Ford told her she had to pay a $1,000 ransom to free him, she called the Chicago police.
Investigators found Ford, who’s on probation for a 2011 robbery conviction, and charged him with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
SIPPING COFFEE TO GET YOUR MORNING CAFFEINE? OLD NEWS!
Energy drinks, sodas and coffee may be a thing of the past for those looking for a quick pick-me-up in the mornings.
A new product called AeroShot is an inhalable form of caffeine. It’s already on store shelves in New York and Massachusetts and available online. The product comes in the form of a Chapstick-sized inhaler tube and it’s not risk free.
ABC News reports that critics are concerned it could be abused because it’s a quick hit of energy.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
OH, HOMER! WE’RE NOT IN SPRINGFIELD ANYMORE!
Here’s hoping “Homer Simpson” wasn’t planning to move to Iran anytime soon. The famed animated character has been banned from the country—in the doll form, that is.
Iranian officials have placed the “Homer Simpson” doll on the nation’s no-buy list, according to the AP. An official at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults says, “We do not want to promote this cartoon by importing the toys.” Apparently they have a toy ban on any toys that belt out tunes in the voices of Western singers, kitchen sets with glasses for drinking booze.
Poor “Barbie” even landed on the no-no list! But “Spiderman” and “Superman” are okay, as “they help oppressed people and they have a positive stance,” according to the official!
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
WHAT'S IN YOUR FUTURE? LET ME CONSULT MY ASPARAGUS.
It is a healthier alternative to a crystal ball... Jemima Packington is a self-professed "Asparamancer" who relies on asparagus of all things to help her predict the future. Her method? She tosses the spears into the air and reads the shapes they form upon landing. Fancy!
Apparently, Jemima has been reading asparagus since she was a little girl and claims to have been making some pretty accurate predictions about things like the royal family and politics. Her great aunt had great success reading tea leaves, so food seemed to be a natural means of divining the future for Jemima...although her latest prediction regarding the deep freeze in Europe was slightly off (she predicted only winds).
Fear not, Jemima devotees! She'll have the chance to redeem herself when she appears at the British Asparagus Festival in April.
Monday, February 06, 2012
THE REAL OBAMA WOULD HAVE PAID FOR THAT BIG MAC!
Have fun getting a presidential pardon for this! A pretty desperate—and very politically incorrect—man robbed a McDonald’s last Saturday in Florida wearing an Obama mask!
The man held up the employees at gun point and forced them all into the back office before instructing the manager to empty the cash registers and stuff the money into a bag he brought along.
The really sad part? The mask apparently worked! Police are still on the hunt for the bandit…