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Apr 24th
Consumer-electronics chain stores are in a "meltdown" with widespread layoffs and store closings. And it's all because of a one-day TV sale at Wal-Mart last November
Last "Black Friday," for its annual post-Thanksgiving sales blitz, Wal-Mart Stores decided to slash the price of one of the hottest electronics items for the holidays—the 42-inch flat-panel TV—to $988. The world's largest retailer had staked similarly audacious positions before, in numerous product categories, as part of its quest to remain U.S. retailing's "low-price leader." In turn, Wal-Mart's move caused a freefall in prices of flat-panel televisions at hundreds of retailers — to the glee of many people who were then able to afford their first big-screen plasma or liquid-crystal-display model.
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Apr 23rd
The wild female Amur leopard population is reduced 14 percent as hunters shoot one in the ass and then club it to death. In their defense however, it was "coming right for them"
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hunters in Russia's Far East have shot and killed one of the last seven surviving female Amur leopards living in the wild, WWF said on Monday, driving the species even closer to extinction.
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Apr 10th
XM and Sirius to merge. What will their offspring be called? (voting enabled)
NEW YORK — The vision of a robustly competitive satellite radio business came crashing to Earth on Monday, as the industry's once bitter rivals — Sirius (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR)— agreed to merge, creating a company valued at $13 billion, including $1.6 billion in debt.
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Mar 26th
Teenager killed by hit-and-run driver at same spot where his friend died in accident just hours earlier
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- A teenager was killed by a hit-and-run driver at the same spot where his 14-year-old friend had died in a car crash just hours earlier.
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Mar 19th
Truck driver given wrong directions by gas jockey hits six cars, two trees and one wall, causing £20,000 in damage. Remember this story the next time your wife is nagging you to stop the car and ask someone
A Belgian lorry driver smashed into six cars, causing £20,000 worth of damage, after becoming lost and being given the wrong directions by a garage attendant.
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Middle-Earth is oozing mud (with pic)
A massive volcano crater lake has burst its banks, sending a huge mudflow down the slopes of New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu.
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Melting ice caps are opening up sea lanes for the shipping and oil industries in the far north, tinfoil sales at an all time high
GLOBAL warming, blamed for melting polar bears' icy Arctic habitat, could be a boon to the shipping and oil industries in the far north, according to a new US report.
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That's not an ambulance, mate, THIS is an ambulance
OUR obesity crisis has forced the ambulance service to introduce super-sized vehicles to squeeze in overweight patients.
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Spaghetti bolognese named as Britain’s favourite food and is eaten on average 2,960 times in a lifetime, only slightly more often than spotted dick, deep-fried Mars bars and chewed cigar butts floating in congealed phlegm sauce
SPAGHETTI bolognese was yesterday named Britain’s favourite food — eaten on average 2,960 times in a lifetime.
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Mar 16th
Wal-Mart CEO gets $22 million stock bonus. Single mom behind the register gets 22 minutes for lunch
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has awarded it chief executive officer a stock bonus worth $22 million for reaching revenue targets, the retail giant disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing.
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Best Buy allows employees to clock in as they wish when they feel like working. The change should be unnoticeable to shoppers
The giant electronics retailer is getting rid of its time clocks--and wants to persuade you to get rid of yours too, reports Business 2.0 Magazine.
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Wyoming reporter gets to bottom of dog poop story. What a shiatty assignment
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Mar 15, 2007 (AP)— Reporter Alison Stewart of the Powell Tribune proved this week she's willing to go to great lengths to get the scoop. Stewart reports in Thursday's edition that her recent survey of 3.6-acre Washington Park revealed "at least 108 dog poop piles."
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Hard-hitting news, from CNN: Tornados damage buildings
Flood warnings were issued across Ohio Thursday following a day of severe storms, which spawned a small tornado that ripped siding from a store, flattened garages and forced schools to cancel classes because of a power outage.
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Mmmmm, what's in this delicious burg....*cough, cough, wheez*
A COUPLE dished out burgers at their old folk’s home — before being arrested on suspicion of poisoning a resident.
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Mar 14th
Some group of uppity tight asses thinks banning alcohol ads during the NCAA tournament will curb binge drinking on college campuses
Substance abuse on college campuses is nothing new, but it is taking a more extreme and dangerous form, with higher rates of frequent binge drinking and prescription drug abuse, and more negative consequences for students such as arrests and risky sexual behavior.
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Got in a traffic altercation? That's a hot-coffee throwing
A minor traffic dispute prompted the wife of former NBA player Antonio Davis to toss a cup of hot coffee at another motorist, DuPage County prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Deputy leprechaun gives out tickets to people (laughing their asses off at his costume)
An Orange County sheriff's deputy dressed as a leprechaun and equipped with a laser speed-detection gun targeted speeding and reckless motorists in the area of University Boulevard and state Road 417.
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Add suitcase nukes to the list of Hollywood b.s. that the government is using to keep you scared sh*tless
Jack Bauer may lose 24 hours of sleep worrying about suitcase nukes, but should his viewers?
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Woman who beheaded her own daughter belonged to a "cult that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of the 16th-century political-philosopher Machiavelli"
SEATTLE - A mentally troubled woman accused of drowning her 6-year-old daughter, cutting off her head and throwing the remains off a bridge has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
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Pentagon says "civil war" inadequate term for Iraq war and misses the finer nuances. A better term might be "clusterf*ck"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new Pentagon report said some elements of the war in Iraq fit the definition of civil war, but the term "does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict."
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Mar 13th
Forty percent of U.S. prisoners have hepatitis C, are expected to spread it widely after being released
VACAVILLE, Calif. - The most dangerous thing coming out of prison these days may be something most convicts don’t even know they have: hepatitis C.
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Hong Kong woman swallows toothbrush, accidentally, and still manages to dial emergency number. She's very popular with the boys, too. That's what I heard, anyway
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong woman somehow swallowed her toothbrush but still managed to dial 999 and call for an ambulance, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Fifteen-year-old chess master runs off with stripper. Let's hope his opening move was the French Defense
A CHESS prodigy who ran away and hooked an exotic dancer almost twice his age has returned home to a hero's welcome after a teenage adventure that took him to Brazil's hotspots.
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Army's new recruiting pitch: Wouldn't you rather shoot a real gun?
Ill. Polls show that the war in Iraq is not popular, and some lawmakers are demanding that US troops pull out, so the Army is trying a unique way to recruit. CBS 2’s Mai Martinez reports on the latest war game: Paintball.
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Heather Mills' 999 calls are keeping police busier than a one-legged model in a dance competition
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- British police have warned Heather Mills McCartney, the estranged wife of former Beatle Paul, about using the emergency phone number 999 too often.
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Mar 13th
World record ATM theft set in Florida -- 79 seconds (with surveillance video)
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A group of robbers rammed a van into the front doors of a Kissimmee Walgreens store and stole an automated teller machine in less than 90 seconds, according to police.
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Las Vegas' Stardust casino imploded. Blast force measured in KiloWayneNewtons
LAS VEGAS - From Stardust to just dust. The Las Vegas Strip's first mass-market casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megaresort Echelon.
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Killer meat-eating frogs chomping everything in sight -- including each other -- at San Francisco park. Kermit's right, it ain't easy being green. (With video)
(CBS5) SAN FRANCISCO Killer frogs have taken over Golden Gate Park's otherwise peaceful Lily Pond in San Francisco, causing a big problem.
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High-end concert venue concedes defeat to a coming swarm of insects in the battle of who can make the most ear-splitting noise
(AP) HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. The longtime Ravinia Festival has rejiggered its summer concert schedule because of the buzz created by a certain red-eyed bug.
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Man must move his family because he's in violation of sex-offender zoning. Too bad his offense was public urination
A Deltona sex offender was told he needed to move Monday after being found in violation of a May 2006 city ordinance, though he said the offense was urinating in public after drinking alcohol to celebrate his daughter's birth 21 years ago.
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