Archive for October, 2009

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Utah Teens In Trouble Over McDonald’s Drive-Through Rap

Four Utah teenagers have been cited for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-through. The teens say they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, “I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce …” once quickly before repeating it more slowly. Spencer Dauwalder [...]

Florida Man Creates Giant Rubber Band Ball

Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared [...]

Elementary School T-Shirts With Sex Line Phone Number Recalled

A California elementary school said it recalled T-shirts given to students that were printed with a phone number for a sex line. Principal Jackie Howland of Linda Vista Elementary School in Yorba Linda said the T-shirts, which were distributed to students who participated in a recent jog-a-thon, featured a logo with what was supposed to [...]

New Zealand Minister Sculpted In Cow Poop

A New Zealand artist has sculpted the head of the government’s environment minister out of cow dung in a conservation protest. Sculptor Sam Mahon from Canterbury in the South Island usually works in bronze but he adapted his technique to fill a cast with cow dung, finishing with a bronze-like bust of minister Nick Smith. [...]

Thieves Attempt To Steal Fake TV From Home

Would-be television thieves in Melbourne were left red-faced after they tried to steal a cardboard cut-out in a bungled burglary. Intruders broke into a vacant display home in Arnolds Creek Blvd, Melton West, between 7.30am and midday on Sunday after seeing a large plasma television through a window. After smashing a front door window to [...]

California Microbrewery Offers $30 Bottle Of Beer

A California microbrewery owner said more than 500 people turned out to buy $30 bottles of his barrel-aged beer at the Great Depression-themed release party. Patrick Rue, owner of the Bruery microbrewery in Placentia, said nearly 700 bottles of the Black Tuesday Imperial Stout, which he released to celebrate the business reaching its 1 1/2-year [...]

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