Riveting News

Angry online divorcee kills virtual husband in cyber revenge

2008-10-23T13:16:00.001-04:00

After a divorce on Maplestory, a 43 year old woman kills her husband.

The full story can be found here:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081023/koddities/japan_avatar_murder

Man arrested for Forgetting to pay for his pop

2008-04-08T21:07:00.000-04:00

http://consumerist.com/377363/man-jailed-after-forgetting-case-of-soda-underneath-shopping-cart

Yup title says it all...man was arrested for robbing store :P

Men, Money and Women

2008-04-06T17:52:00.002-04:00

A recent study from Stanford shows that when men are shown pictures of erotic women, they become more likely to take big financial risks. So that explains why they have scantily clad women in casinos. If you want to stay financially healthy, and you're a guy, then watch a scary movie before you go to the casino, it'll make you less risky :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23961406/wid/11915773?GT1=38001

Poor kids can't have cake

2008-04-05T11:08:00.001-04:00

In New Zealand a new law doesn't allow kids to bring cake to school on their birthdays. I guess government is sacrificing personal freedoms for skinnier kids.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23959035/?GT1=43001

Troika's Newton Bug

2008-04-01T09:02:00.001-04:00

I found this very riveting, but it's not really news. But today's April Fool's day so this could be a great prank:

In the new macs, a built on tool allows the Newton Bug to apply gravity to someone's desktop icons!

Dumbasses sue Scientists Because of Fear

2008-03-28T23:48:00.002-04:00

I found this article on msnbc and I find it really funny.

"The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet."

So why would you sue someone who is doing "dangerous" experiments. Personally I think you sue after something goes wrong, or you make LAWS to prevent these "dangerous" experiments.

I personally don't even think the experiments are dangerous =P

Humans are so foolish sometimes, if they destroy the world, what are you going to do with your few million bucks? you're dead!

James and Elizabeth are the most succesful names

2008-03-27T15:32:00.002-04:00

How good is your name?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080325/oddities/britain_names_offbeat

Apparently if your name is Caroline or Richard, you'll be perceived as highly unattractive, not very lucky but very successful. I think it's all bullshit =)

OOPS

2008-03-27T09:19:00.002-04:00

Today's riveting news brings two guys who flag down police while carrying 2kg of pot. OOPS!

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD6899520080326

They mistook the police car for their own truck, but when they found out their mistake, dropped the marijuana and ran.

God's Blessing to kitten

2008-03-26T10:42:00.003-04:00

A Cat named Dottie gave birth to a kitten on Sunday in Sacramento, California. The funny thing is the kitten's fur spells out "I <3 "." So cute!

Dead man comes back alive

2008-03-25T19:21:00.001-04:00

Lucky brain dead dude was about to have his organs taken out for donation...but he woke up o_O

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080324/koddities/not_dead

Six Year Old Steals 140k from bank

2008-03-22T11:02:00.002-04:00

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080321/oddities/skorea_crime_banking_offbeat

Haha, that's kind of funny but kind of sad too, I thought little kids were innocent.

Verizon recovers deleted voicemail to pacify old man

2008-03-19T16:11:00.001-04:00

An 80-year-old New York man can hear his late wife's voice again, any time he wants.The telephone company Verizon has recovered a lost message recorded by Charles Whiting's wife, Catherine, before her death in 2005.

read more | digg story

Fast Salad Pwns Wall

2008-03-19T11:18:00.001-04:00

If you're bored, watch an innocent salad make a hole through a wall...

read more | digg story

Surfing mice are a hit

2008-03-14T10:16:00.001-04:00

The clip of Bunsen, Harry, Curly and Chopsticks surfing on their 10ins boards has notched up nearly two million hits on YouTube.Owner Shane Willmott, of Queensland, took the mice surfing when the sea was calm and says they took to it like ducks to water.

read more | digg story

Indiana man jailed, accused of forcing kids to kill!!

2008-03-14T08:28:00.001-04:00

Cute Cat :)

According to the arrest affidavit, Danield Collins said he wanted his children to "learn how to kill."Police say Collins gave his son the knife first, but the 11-year-old boy...

read more | digg story

What do you think? I mean little kids watch killing all the time on TV and video games anyways. Killing a cat is kind of like killing the Meowth from Pokemon...but I guess I'm lucky I didn't have to go through this when I was seven or eleven :)

How NOT to dress up for a job fair

2008-03-13T16:42:00.001-04:00

Haha funny pic

read more | digg story

Spoiled Girl Cries Over Getting a Lexus

2008-03-13T09:08:00.001-04:00

Old news but I wonder if it's acted ... doesn't look like it =P

Burnt Alive for not washing Feet

2008-03-12T16:32:00.000-04:00

Burnt while Alive and Drunk
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSGOR25682020080312?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Chinese Man is burnt alive by wife for not washing his feet before getting into bed.

I'm going to label this as intriguing.

I didn't know this

2008-03-12T07:49:00.001-04:00

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/health_us_disease_sex_youth

1 in 4 american teenage girls have at least one STD...wow, good thing I'm Canadian! ;)

And here's something retarded:

Someone Pours Urine into AC
That was dumb.

Fight to the death

2008-03-10T12:11:00.000-04:00

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080220/health/health_fight_of_his_life_1

A young boy is diagnosed with a rare case of cancer, but he isn't going to sit back and let himself die. He's going to go all in against this cancer by helping find a cure before the cancer finishes him. Will he succeed? No idea, but I'll wish him good luck!

Here's a case of sitting back though:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080307/technology/lifestyle_germany_it_telecom_climate_videogames
"Gamers and big companies like Microsoft and Sony don't do anything as their consoles wreak havoc on the environment.

Excerpt:

Worldwide computer use requires 14 power stations for the necessary electricity, producing more harmful carbon dioxide emissions than the entire airline industry -- not including the emissions created and manufacturing and shipping around the products in the first place.

And games consoles -- of which 62 million were sold in last year -- are the gas guzzlers of this industry, using huge amounts of energy to generate the necessary mindblowing graphics and sounds.

When played online, they are linked up to huge server farms which use even more energy.

And with each generation of console -- we are currently on the seventh -- repeatedly made obsolete by the newest technology, millions of machines, games and other accessories are thrown away, destined often for the developing world."

And being a Wii fan:
"Greenpeace concedes that some improvements have been made, particularly by Nintendo with its Wii in terms of energy consumption and recyclability, but it says much more needs to be done."

Setting a Good Example

2008-03-09T11:19:00.000-04:00

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080308/koddities/oddity_speeding_police

Police are not paying their speeding tickets, why should we?

Big Breats Wins in Court!

2008-03-07T10:33:00.000-05:00

This article is pretty badly written but it's still quite funny!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080304/ts_afp/entertainmentjapancourtpeopleoffbeat;_ylt=Avigw_HW2QjVgIwe0UBa4yCGWo14

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career -- they also helped her overturn a court verdict.

The bikini model, who goes by her professional name Serena Kozakura, was cleared after a court decided she was too well-endowed to squeeze into a room through a hole, as she had been found guilty of earlier.

"I used to hate my body so much," Kozakura, who has appeared in product commercials on television, told the private Asahi network in an interview aired Tuesday.

"But it was my breasts" that won in court, she said.

The case was splashed through the Japanese media on Tuesday, with the Asahi network even inviting her to demonstrate how she could not fit through the opening.

Kozakura, 38, was convicted last year of property destruction after a man said she kicked in the wooden door of his room and crawled inside, apparently because he was with another woman.

Kozakura had said the man made the hole himself.

In her appeal, the defence counsel held up a plate showing the size of the hole and said that she could not squeeze through with her 110-centimetre (44-inch) bust.

"The judges were very good-mannered as they showed no expressions on their faces. I guess they're well-trained," Kozakura said.

Tokyo High Court presiding judge Kunio Harada agreed and threw out the guilty verdict on Monday, saying there was reasonable doubt over the man's account.

A video worth watching showing how she couldn't fit through =P

"Cheating?" for using facebook study groups

2008-03-07T09:24:00.000-05:00

Ryerson student, Chris Avenir, faces expulsion for creating a facebook study group.

Article-http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2211515/student-faces-expulsion

I find that kinda sad...but I like his rebuttal:

"If this kind of help is cheating, then so is tutoring and all the mentoring programmes the university runs and the discussions we do in tutorials," Avenir told The Toronto Star.

Punished for Dying!

2008-03-06T08:48:00.000-05:00

Well if you're emo, you better beware...you can now be punished for dying!

Article Here.

Why? "The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them."
Real estate problems =(

What's weirder: Moses on Drugs or dad flying his son to tennis?

2008-03-05T10:08:00.000-05:00

Article 1 :
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080304/oddities/israel_religion_offbeat
Was moses high when he saw the burning bush? Was he high when God came to him and gave him the 10 commandments? Well he came up with some pretty good commandments whether or not he was on drugs.

Article 2 :
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080304/koddities/golf_course_landing
Dad in Illinois flies his son to a tennis date... o_O I wish my dad would do that whenever I'm late for something and there's a traffic jam. He ended up landing on a golf course, nobody was injured and I'm guessing his son got to the tennis place on time!

Starters

2008-03-05T10:04:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the riveting news blog. Bored of classic news like so and so died in some far out land that you never heard of? Tired of hearing Obama vs Clinton or the stock market went up a bit and down a bit? Well here's the site where you can find news that is interesting, weird, fascinating and unconventional!

Enjoy! I'm hoping to find at least one piece of news that is interesting every day.