Or use the stove...

Will

looks more like Janet Jackson to me

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was undergoing psychiatric evaluation after he jumped naked into a pool of carnivorous reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, authorities said.

The episode happened at about 1:30 p.m. Friday, when the man, whose name was not released, stripped off his clothes and climbed a 5-foot wall surrounding the zoo's tank of caimans — a type of crocodile from Central and South America, police said. The tank was inside the zoo's World of Darkness section, which features nocturnal animals.

He tried to touch one of the toothy lizards before police and zookeepers were called to the scene and pulled him out.

"Thankfully, no one got hurt and it didn't happen while there were any school groups around," zoo spokesman Linda Corcoran told the Daily News for Saturday editions.

It was not clear why the man jumped into the tank. He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center for observation.

Just thought you wanted to know.

Thinning the Herd

A man's body was found by divers in the Pend Oreille River near Newport, Wash., on Sept. 25; sheriff's deputies estimate that he was carrying about 40 pounds of beer (a satchel full around his body, plus cans in his pocket) but said they would wait for an autopsy before commenting. (He was just trying to keep the beer cold)

A 25-year-old driver was killed in St-Joachim, Quebec, on Sept. 24 when another car veered into his lane and hit him; police said the deceased was within his own lane but was distracted, in that he was apparently at the time engaged in sexual intercourse with a female passenger. (Having intercourse while driving, said a police spokesman, "makes driving that much more dangerous.") BUt what happened to the chick

David Roy Truscott, 35, pleaded guilty in Cornwall, England, in September to three arsons and a burglary of a farmhouse near Redruth, but the burglary was less significant than what he did when he got onto the property. Police said Truscott had submerged himself in a manure pit in order to masturbate. (Also, containers of liquid sludge were found at his home.) At the crime scene, two items of Truscott's were picked up, but of questionable usefulness given the severity of his alleged behavior: tissues and rubber gloves. [Cornish Guardian, 9-30-04]

One more set from todays news.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp

Good Job Mike! That says it all.

I was going to post this one:

http://www.truestellaawards.com/bogus.html

Enrique

Here are the ACTUAL awards from 2003:

http://www.truestellaawards.com/2003.html

Enrique

Ok, I didn't check my resourses, but I did get it as an attatchment from the Fulton County District Attorneys Office!

Reminds me of a picture of a road sign in my gallery!

Will

Nice to know the people in charge of prosecuting criminals in Fulton County, GA are as efficient and trustworthy as the ones in Alameda County, CA.

Makes me feel real secure :stupid:

I live in Fulton County and I'm not too worried. Will, why would the Fulton County DA be sending you e-mail? I take it this was a personal e-mail from someone you know there?

Mike!

A better question would be: "Why would the Fulton County DA send you an email with that attatchment ? To answer your question: yes!

Other than criminal types acting as agents, who that you have no knowledge of sends you email !

If it is any consolation, he is a well to do type that pretends to be dead serious with everyone but me-probably knew the truth, but couldn't resist yanking my chain :laugh: !

Thanks for reeling me in for him !

Will

...he is a well to do type that pretends to be dead serious with everyone but me-probably knew the truth, but couldn't resist yanking my chain :laugh: !

Thanks for reeling me in for him !

Will

As believable, or better yet seemingly plausible which makes them self-validating, as these kinds of "warning" or "did you know" types of letters are; do not be surprised if your friend may in fact have thought he was passing on TRUE data.

Too many people "check the internet" thinking that just because they found information there, it MUST be true. With the advent of Google's, Yahoo's and other search engines that peruse millions of documents looking for "key" words, phrases or items and then give you a listing of items matching your search, you have absolutely NO WAY of knowing how valid the information is. In fact, if you aren't careful in what you research, you could actually be quoting a page that actually DISPUTES what you posted. The vast majority of people don't search deeply enouogh to ensure the integrity of the data they use to then form an opinion.

This is how those stories that "everybody knows" multiply.

There is also another potentially catastrophic type of e-mail abounding recently, the false "account verification" scam. This is referred to as "phishing", where you send out thousands of e-mails to people telling them to please update their account information because ..... has occurred and they need your help in putting it back in place. People by the hundreds have clicked onto what they thought was one place, a bank, credit union, credit card issuer etc, lured by the use of REAL logos, emblems, even URL addresses, except that when you click onto the link provided (so helpfully) for you to enter your info......the server you are hooked up to is in fact the thief's. He just patiently records your data, SSN, DOB, Acct. info etc, and lo and behold, he becomes YOU!

What we must do as a club, is to inform all our members of these scams, and also of those bogus "informative" e-mails, so that we can help "police" our little slice of the web.

2¢

Enrique