Talk about having a bad day

Guy plays air guitar. Guy falls out window to his death.

A man in Singapore got a bit overexuberant while imitating a rock star. He was bouncing on a bed and bounced the wrong way. He went out the window and fell three stories.

The incident has been classified as death by misadventure.

Who says rock and roll will never die?

A word of advice

The Netherlands have seen an increase in dart-related accidents since a Dutchman won the World Darts Tournament.

Blue Crab Boulevard is here to help with Gaius’ handy dart tips (pun intended).

1. Sharp end goes AWAY from the player. Those little thingies on the back of the darts, called flights, should help you locate the correct end.

2. If you cannot locate the sharp end, you should consider taking up another sport. At once.

3. Allow other players to retrieve their darts and return to a safe location before you throw your darts. Unless the other player was a jerk and didn’t buy a round of drinks.

4. There are NO goalies in darts. Don’t fall for that one, newbies.

5. Darts are quite light. One does not need a major league baseball wind-up to throw. If the dart rebounds and the sharp end gets you, you threw too hard.

6. If the sharp end is coming towards you, duck.

7. It is considered bad manners to stick other players with the sharp ends. See exception in number 3 (above).

8. Remember to buy the requisite number of drinks. Or expect the exception noted in number 3 (above) will likely happen to you.

9. If a player has an entourage, a huge dart case and a world dart championship jacket, do not play for money.

10. If another player hits you with the sharp end, consider the appropriate response. About .45 caliber is right.

Everyone be safe out there!

Events in Nigeria

Judith Apter Klinghoffer has a post up on HNN about Nigeria. It is not very encouraging. Appeasement of Muslim extremists has been interpreted as weakness on the Christian’s part. This has, in turn, escalated violence and murder.

Appeasement has never worked against violent extremists. Our media should be aware of this by now. But they are either blind or outright deluding themselves. Or both.

H/T LGF for the link

She’s HOW old?

A 62 year old great-grandmother has just given birth to her 12th child.

She’s three years away from retirement age and just gave birth? Good Lord. She’s a glutton for punishment.

This is creative

The little town of Marne, Iowa has come up with a novel plan to increase it’s population from 149 to 200.

Give away free land.

It appears that they have been swamped with applications since the program was announced. They will allow modular homes, but no trailers.

Here’s the application.

This is interesting

A former stripper turned evangelical Christian reaches out to sex industry workers. She goes into strip clubs and pays for lap dances so she can talk to the dancers about her faith. She and her fellows are attending adult industry events to hand out bibles wrapped in T-Shirts that say “Holy Hottie” on them. She’s running a website to reach out as well. These are three very attractive young women, incidentally. (I don’t recall ever seeing church ladies that looked like this in any congregation I attended!)

Here’s the JC’s Girls website.

I used to work with a guy who’s wife went bananas if he went into a strip club. He should read this article, it will help him out.

“That wasn’t a lap dance, dear. It was a theological discussion!”

Anger management

Is not this guy’s strong suit. A Florida man has been charged with killing his roommate. Well, more than just killing him actually. He beat the other man to death using a sledgehammer and a claw hammer. The victim had to be identified by his fingerprints.

The two men were arguing over toilet paper. I’d call this a bit of an over-reaction…..

This sounds fun

You’re out for a nice cruise on the lake. You motor along enjoying the fine weather. Suddenly you are struck in the head by 100 pounds of frightened carp.

Kind of spoils the day, doesn’t it? Well, it may happen to the Great Lakes. Non-native carp species are moving up the Mississippi River toward the Great Lakes.

Apparently, the fish were being farmed in Arkansas and escaped when flooding occurred. What in the world would anybody farm carp for?

Those wacky Brits

I’ve heard of turning the other cheek before, but this is a new twist.

“A man attempting to walk the length of Britain wearing nothing but a hat,
boots and a rucksack completed his marathon trek and celebrated by putting his
clothes back.”

“Gough and his partner, 34-year-old hairdresser Melanie Roberts, completed the
last 20 miles of their 874-mile (1,363-kilometre) walk from Land’s End,
southwest England in temperatures of about five degrees celsius (41 degrees
Fahrenheit).”

That’s kind of chilly to be walking around in your birthday suit. This is his second naked ramble, by the way. He’s been arrested several times.

The Stones play Rio

Something about this is just wrong.

Forget the fact that Mick Jagger is 62.

Forget the fact that the police had to occupy several poor areas near the concert to prevent violence.

Forget the fact that the band was separated from fans by a VIP area.

Let’s focus on the city of Rio paying $750,000 to host the concert. Which is about 16% of the cost of putting the show on. $750,00 is to 16% as X is to 100%.

It cost around $4.7 MILLION to have the Stones play?

What is wrong with this picture?

Exporting Criminal Masterminds…

Actually, we don’t have to export them. They turn up all over.

Like the German man who didn’t like the quality of the pot he had bought. After trying to get a refund fro the dealer, he turned to the police for satisfaction.

No word on when he will be released…..

A million a day

For a whole year!

Someone (sadly, not me) won a record 365 million dollars in the latest Powerball drawing.

Wow - I literally have no idea what I could possibly do with that much money…..

Not that I wouldn’t like to try, mind you……

Open house

The famous (Infamous?) red light district in Amsterdam has been beset recently by some image problems. Some officials have been moving to shut down or increase regulation of the area. To help persuade the public of their good intentions, the district had an open house, inviting people to come see what the district was like. They offered reduced or even free admissions to the - er - establishments, tours and some bars offered a free drink.

Below is a picture of some of the festivities. This just goes to show the sheer depravity of the area in general. This blight upon western civilization should be removed immediately. I mean, really, this is obscene.

That man is playing an ACCORDION for heaven’s sake. Have you no shame?

Some interesting Statistics

A pretty thorough round-up of gun statistics can be found here. There is a lot of detail.

H/T Tom’s Common Sense for the link

Yet another controversy

It appears that the design of the 2006 Olympic medals are generating some jeers, with some athletes likening them to CD’s. According to the designer, the hole in the middle “reveals the area of the chest under which the heart and life beat”. The Olympic organizers are denying the medals look like CD’s. Now this is an absurd comparison to make, as the medals obviously do not look like CD’s, as you can readily see below:

They look like 45’s. No word on whether they will actually play on your old turntable, though.