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Visit Exotic Toxicland!
Looking for an adventure holiday but find swimming with sharks so yesterday's vacation? Then why not consider sunny Chernobyl? Twenty-two years after a nuclear reactor blew its top and rained radiation throughout the area, the region just outsidethe exclusion zone is a popular recreational destination. Rather than 12-headed bass, you'll find grand lodges and great hunting. Visitors scoff at the high radiation levels found in local game. "It's more contaminated in Kiev," one angler told Canada's Globe and Mail.
Art World Admits: It Really Doesn't Matter
For nine years, the Tate Modern in London displayed two paintings by abstract artist Mark Rothko. Just howabstract they were became apparent when someone noticed the location of the signature on the back of the paintings and realized that they had been hung vertically instead of horizontally. SPORTS
… And a Mitt to Be Named Later
The Calgary Vipers, a minor-league baseball team, offered to trade a pitcher to the Laredo Broncos for a power hitter. The deal was set until the Broncos hitter refused to go. No problem, said Calgary, we have other needs. And so Vipers pitcher John Odom was traded to Laredo for ten baseball bats.
Heterosexual Favored
The American Family Association believes that the word gay has been tainted. So for its website, onenewsnow.com, its software automatically changed the word to homosexual. That proved a little tricky during the Olympics whenever sprinter Tyson Gay was mentioned. An Associated Press article read this way on the OneNewsNow site: "Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue …"
CITY DESK
Police Blotter
- After stealing surveillance cameras from a Garden Grove, California, business, Howard Shanholtzer ditched the white Mitsubishi pickup truck cops knew he drove and stole another vehicle. "Unfortunately for him," said Detective Paul Danielson, "the car he stole was also a white Mitsubishi pickup truck." Shanholtzer was quickly arrested.
- Police pulled over a Corpus Christi, Texas, man for failing to signal a turn. Cops became suspicious that something more was up when, they say, the driver blurted out, "It's not my truck," followed by, "If you find something, it's not mine." And, "If there is anything in that black bag, it's not mine." There was something in that black bag, say officers—crack cocaine. And no, they did not believe him.
- While searching for murder suspect Sterling F. Wolfname, cops in Billings, Montana, ran into someone at a shelter who matched his description. When they asked him if he was Wolfname, the man said he wasn't. The officers concluded he was fibbing when they spotted this tattoo on his head: Wolfname.
- Fort Worth, Texas, police arrested Charles Ray Fuller for trying to cash a check made out for $360 billion. Fuller claimed his girlfriend's mother gave him the money to start a record business. The woman denied being that dumb.
New Bailouts Coming
- To drum up business, a Roswell, New Mexico, car dealership hired a direct marketing firm to mail out 50,000 scratch-off tickets with one grand prize of $1,000. The dealership got the publicity it craved when a typo resulted in 50,000 $1,000-grand-prize winners instead.
- A German man put his luxurious 20-foot yacht up for sale on an online auction site, hoping to get at least $18,500 for it. He made one minor mistake: He forgot to set a minimum bid. In the end, the yacht was sold for $34.65.
3 bedroom house for sale: New gas furnace, new wiring and new water heater won't last long!
Help wanted: Boiler operator. Previous clinical experience with gynecology patients required.
Found: Keys at the Diversion Dam rest stop with fob that says "Keys I Haven't Lost Yet."
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