<snip> CINCINNATI -- Don and Terri Newbauer's daughter, Nicole, was flipping through the television channels on Saturday looking for Channel 26 in Cincinnati. Instead, she found hardcore pornography on Adelphia Cable's public access Channel 2, which generally airs videotapes provided by individuals or community groups. "And she says, 'You have to see Channel 2.' We turn it on and it's like -- whoa!" said Don Newbauer. "It was disgusting. It was the hardest-core stuff I've ever seen." N...

<snip> (Image) This undated image released by Britain's West Yorkshire Police on Saturday April 8, 2006, shows a 300-year-old book that appears to be bound in human skin, found on a central street in Leeds, northern England. Much of the text is in French, and it was not uncommon around the time of the French Revolution for books to be covered in human skin. The practice, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries when accounts of murder trials w...

<snip> KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia --A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday. Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported. But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along wit...

:bounce: (Image) This photo, provided by Maxim magazine --who got it from Google Earth, shows a recreation of a Maxim magazine cover, in the desert outside Primm, Nev.,near the California state line, which celebrates the magazine's 100-issue milestone . Air travelers flying over southern Nevada this week, got a look at a bikini-clad Eva Longoria, star of ABC's "Desperate Housewives," on the 75-by-110-foot display. (AP Photo/Google Earth-Maxim)

:popcorn: <snip> NEW DELHI --A textbook used in western India compares housewives to donkeys -- and concludes that the pack animals make more loyal companions, a newspaper reported Tuesday. "A donkey is like a housewife," declares the Hindi language primer approved by the state of Rajasthan, according to The Times of India newspaper. "It has to toil all day and, like her, may even have to give up food and water." "In fact, the donkey is a shade better," continues the text meant for 14-...

<snip> NAPLES, Fla. -- A man crashed his car after a pet snake he had wrapped around his neck began attacking him, authorities said. Witnesses reported that Courtland Page Johnson, 30, of East Naples, was driving erratically and crashed his PT Cruiser into several barricades about 9 p.m. Tuesday. He got out of his car, wrestled with the snake and then drove off, reports said. When authorities caught up with Johnson at his home, he told them he crashed into another car that had stopped s...

<snip> CAPE CORAL, Fla. -- Cape Coral police say an officer used a Taser while trying to arrest a high school student who allegedly poured a bottle of urine on another student. Authorities say 16-year-old Luke Arnold was on a bus earlier this month when he dumped the bottle of urine on another student who was walking home. After an investigation, police say they went to arrest the Ida Baker High School student Monday. Reports say Arnold wasn't cooperating and after several warnings, an...

<snip> FIRCREST, Wash. -- A kindergarten student was expelled for 10 days after he brought a .22-caliber gun to school, officials said. The 5-year-old boy climbed from a chair onto a washer-dryer and got an unloaded pistol out of a cupboard at home, police said. He showed a friend the gun on the Whittier Elementary School playground, then put it into a friend's backpack, Police Chief John Cheesman said. The boy never made any threat and told the principal what he had done Monday but was...

<snip> A 38-year-old Spencer man was charged Monday in Marathon County court with the murder of his wife after authorities suspect he suffocated her by shoving a ceramic Easter bunny-shaped plate down her throat. Patrick M. Zurkowski, of 716 E. Hickory St. in Spencer, stood with his arms crossed as Assistant District Attorney Ken Heimerman asked for a high cash bond while the case is pending in the homicide of June Zurkowski, 40. An autopsy revealed the ears of the Easter bunny plate ha...

special thanks to BlueIris for this tidbit :D (Image) <snip> Pop-Star's Pregnancy Idealized in Brooklyn 'Monument to Pro-Life' BROOKLYN, NY (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn marks a 'first' for Pro-Life. Pop-star Britney Spears is the "ideal" model for Pro-Life and the subject of a dedication at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn's Williamsburg gallery district, in what is proclaimed the first Pro-Life monument to birth...

:crazy: <snip> The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week. TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving. North Texans interviewed by NBC 5, however, worried that the sweep went too far. At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar. Some of the susp...

<snip> CARLSBAD, Calif. --A Southern California man has a fish tale which, if true, could give him one of angling's most cherished records. Mac Weakley said he caught a 25.1-pound largemouth bass on Monday at Dixon Lake in San Diego County. After weighing it on a hand-held digital scale, he released it. Weakley plans to pursue the record, even though the fish was foul-hooked, meaning the hook lodged in the fish's body, not its mouth. He said it wasn't snagged intentionally. Jason Schra...

<snip> TULSA, Okla. --A Kansas man was arrested at a Tulsa strip club after police say his toddler son wandered from an unlocked car into the club over the weekend. Christopher Greg Killion, 31, was arrested Saturday on a complaint of "encouraging a minor child to be in need of supervision." He posted $500 bond and was released from the Tulsa Jail. The toddler told police that his father told him to stay in the car, and that if he left it, "monsters would eat him," reports indicate. A ...

<snip> AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Can professional-style wrestling really be the next frontier for Christian outreach? Small bands of masked evangelists, clad in tights and armed with biblical names, argue it is. The violence and intensity of wrestling, they claim, can be the perfect way to attract the alternative, younger crowd. At the beginning of some "Wrestling for Jesus" shows, wrestler Chase "Darkness" Cliett is strapped to a massive wooden cross on stage as piercing music is played. A group...

Video at link below <snip> SUMMERVILLE, S.C. -- For Rodney and Scottie Colvin, it was been a nerve-racking eight days. Their cat, "Piper," scampered up a tree in the yard of their Summerville, South Carolina home last Monday, March 13. Efforts to coax the animal down failed. A week later, on Monday, March 20, would-be rescuers came to Piper's aid. Then, something went terribly wrong, but this time all was okay in the end. The cat fell nearly 80 feet, clipped a branch on the way down an...

<snip> (March 21, 2006)--A man chased into an open field on foot by sheriff's deputies early Tuesday sank into a quagmire and died after deputies were unable to rescue him. The incident happened before dawn in southeastern Dallas County near the town of Combine. County sheriff's Sgt. Don Peritz says deputies had stopped the man in his vehicle for having an outdated registration sticker. They say the man fled into a nearby field after deputies learned he'd identified himself falsely. A...

<snip> BRADENTON -- It's been quite a year for Lora Yochim. In January, she made national headlines by giving birth to quadruplets. Last month, Yochim married her sweetheart, Billy Friddle. And on Friday, she filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell Corp., seeking more than $15,000 in damages. Yochim, a Bradenton native, said she suffered a second-degree burn after red breadstick sauce spilled on her right leg in March 2002. It burned through her blue jeans, according to the suit filed in ci...

<snip> GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A trucker who transported a tiger to the Putnam County Fair was treated at a hospital after the animal bit his arm, authorities said. Jason Wayne Hardin, 25, of Westville, apparently stuck his arm into the tiger's cage about 2:25 a.m. Sunday, said Major Keith Riddick of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. Hardin was drunk at the time of the incident, according to his sister, Heather Bass. He was taken to the Putnam County Hospital and then flown to Shands a...

<snip> LEOMINSTER, Mass. --A 500-pound moose crashed through the windshield of a car in Leominster and ended up sitting in the passenger seat with its head sticking through the glass. Emergency personnel late Thursday had to cut the roof off the car to extricate the moose, which was later euthanized by state environmental police because of severe injuries, police Lt. Raymond Booth said. The driver, Juleigh McDowell, 30, of Sterling, was able to get out of the car under her own power and...

:rofl: well, at least he will have access to some of the best cocaine in the NFL down there :D

<snip> MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. --Mount Angel is home to one of Oregon's biggest Oktoberfest celebrations. In similar Bavarian spirit, it may soon be home to the nation's tallest glockenspiel. The 49-foot glockenspiel -- a clock tower with animated figures that sing and tell stories -- will be the tallest in the United States and an appropriate centerpiece for the town's famous Oktoberfest, supporters say. The glockenspiel will be ready as early as September, just in time for Oktoberfest. The ...

<snip> WASHINGTON -- Former senator John Edwards got high marks from labor for a new effort to unionize hotel workers, and Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's demand this week that President Bush be censured was music to the ears of activists on the left. Meanwhile, Mark Warner, former Virginia governor, recently hired one of the leftist blogosphere's biggest names to run his Internet outreach campaign, and Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana began a blog on the liberal Huffington Post, peddling ...