140mph With a 16-year-old as Ballast

by | Oct 19, 2013 | Weirdness

from The Pekin Daily Times Cop sees motorcycle at 140 mph By Michael Smothers PEKIN — Maybe Adam Lester really had to go to the bathroom. That’s what Lester, 26, told the police officer who had just clocked his motorcycle at 140 mph Tuesday night on the McNaughton...

It’s making children cry.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Mirth, Weirdness

from The Mail Online ‘It’s making children cry’: Police tell man to tone down annual charity Halloween display in honour of his grandmother A Halloween fan who put up a gruesome display of ‘disembowelled corpses’ outside his home has been...

Father of Big Brother Gone

by | Oct 3, 2013 | Weirdness

from The New York Times Albert D. Wheelon, Architect of Aerial Spying, Dies at 84 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Albert D. Wheelon, a physicist whose early work on satellites for the C.I.A. in the 1960s helped lay the groundwork for a vast American arsenal of aerial spying...