Unusual Stuff

When you hear about the Chicago Bears, generally the story is the team’s offense.  From high-profile free agents to struggles and general misbehavior, the Bears offense is an obsessive vocal point because the Bear’s defense is really good year-in and year-out.  You don’t have to worry about the defense, because Brian Urlacher is there to [...]

While on a training mission outside San Diego, California, two Navy dolphins made a very unusual discovery on the ocean floor.  No, it’s not a cache of pirate treasure, it’s something even more rare and valuable than a big box of gold doubloons.  One of the first underwater weapons crafted for the military has been found. [...]

It has been an unusually rough spring, particularly in the southwestern part of Tornado Alley.  A few days ago, a Texas town got wiped off the map.  Now, a suburb of Oklahoma City has been smashed to bits.  A massive tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, destroying two elementary schools and killing up to 91 people.  The [...]

He rose to fame for his good deeds, but it’s a bad deed he’s found renewed notoriety for.  Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, AKA Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, rose to fame as a result of his heroic actions when he stopped a woman from being attacked by killing the attacker with a hatchet to the brain pan.  Now, [...]

It’s one of the worst feelings you can have.  You go into a store, do your business, and come out of the store to find a ticket on your windshield.  It’s enough to drive some people to commit vandalism, and no one is safe from meter maids, not even Batman.  Well, a group of six [...]

Angelina Jolie is famous for a lot of reasons, but the most notable one are her physical features.  She is a beautiful woman, especially in her younger days before she got too thin, and her lips are only one part of her appeal.  Another part of her appeal is now permanently gone.  Angelina Jolie has [...]

Bryan Zuniga thought he was going to make a clean getaway.  Police pulled the 20-year-old Zuniga over in Pinellas Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, for failing to stay in his line.  However, after stopping his car, Zuniga made a break for it.  The budding crook jumped a fence and took off for the hills, but [...]

Last month, Wrigley rolled out a brand new product called Alert, a caffeinated chewing gum with the equivalent of half a cup of coffee in every stick.  Sounds pretty good, right?  Well, enjoy it while you can, because Wrigley is pulling Alert caffeine gum off the market.  The move comes after discussions with the Food [...]

When someone goes missing, if they’re not found within a few days, they tend to stay missing.  You hear some occasional happy endings, typically when the person kidnaps themselves, but if someone is kidnapped by another person?  They rarely have a happy ending.  However, that was not the case for a trio of missing women [...]

If you think 3D processing technology is only used to make your head hurt in video games and movies, then I suggest you think again.  So-called 3D printers using plastic blocks are creating a whole new world of manufacturing possibilities, and a company called Defense Distributed has managed to break new ground in 3D manufacturing. [...]

When it comes to air travel, there’s always a ceiling of some sort.  First, it was breaking the sound barrier, which was accomplished in 1947 by Chuck Yeager, the world’s most famous pilot.  After that lingered the so-called hypersonic speed barrier, Mach 5.  The United States Air Force has been actively trying to break Mach [...]

During a traffic stop in 1973, Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard shot and killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike.  She shot him twice with her personal weapon, then when that gun hammed she executed Trooper Foerster with his own service revolver.  She was found [...]

It’s always strange when someone from your childhood dies.  It’s even stranger when someone fairly close to your own age is the person who is dead.  I was never a big hip-hop fan, but I think anyone in their early 30′s remembers Kriss Kross fondly, if only for their amazing Sprite commercial and distinctive style [...]

For generations, the use of precious metals as money was a given.  Gold and silver coins were the coin of the realm for thousands of years, and if Arizona lawmakers have their way, the use of gold and silver may return to prominence as the cash money of choice for big spenders throughout the desert [...]

It’s amazing to consider that the events of September 11 happened 11 years ago.  The world has changed a lot since then.  The toll 9/11 took on the people of New York, from a dying generation of rescue dogs to the sick and injured human first responders, has been massive and lingering.  However, as construction [...]