The Naked Family At The Mall

Your bizarre news for the day.

1. In its continued attempt to become the classiest state in the union, Florida installs a naked sculpture of a family outside a Delray Beach mall. Question: does the statue's meaning make it any less strange for it to be outside a mall and near a school?
2. Goat crowned King of Ireland.
   
3. NC cops get free Corvette and use it to pull over speeders. I bet they fight over who gets it everyday.
   
4. Naked activist wants to attack the Queen of the Netherlands, has a gun.
5. 16-year-old strippers? Sounds good, legally that is.
   

Copyrights and Child Services

The curious case of the at home murder of a Beulah, Florida couple who adopted 13 children (many of them special needs) keeps getting stranger. So far seven people have been charged in connection with the murder after the attackers overlooked the home's video surveillance system, despite casing the property for a month. At present, police have found no cogent motive for the crime, but even more bizarre were the actions of the late father, Byrd Billings.

Additional documents released Monday from the Florida Department of Children and Families show a bizarre attempt by Byrd Billings to copyright the children's names and request money from the department for their use.

A department attorney, Katie George, told the Pensacola News-Journal that every time the agency sent Billings a letter referencing the children by name, he would reply with an invoice demanding millions in copyright infringement. In one document released by the department, he demands $10 million in silver or federal reserve notes of equal value.

In a sharply worded letter of December 2005, another department attorney, Richard Cserep, wrote to Billings, "you reference a wide variety of law in connection with this claim" for damages.

"This includes copyright violations, trademark violations, contract violations, admiralty and maritime law, libel and the Truth in Lending Act," the letter said. "At no time in any of your correspondence have you made a plain demand for damages under a clear and cognizable theory of liability."

A handwritten note on the letter says that no further correspondence was received from Billings after that letter.

read more here at CNN.

Obama's a Muslim and that woman needs a hobby.

Your bizarre news for the day.
1. Homeless stand in for lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Isn't there a dress code (or at least a whiff check) when you enter congressional hearings?

2. Republican congressman believes Obama's mom would have aborted him if given the opportunity. Poor taste, dude. And if you even bothered to open Freakonomics, you would know that mostly the poor and uneducated get abortions, not middle-class Ph.D's.

3. Fox News analyst calls the American hostage being held by the Taliban a liar, deserter, [collaborator] with the enemy, and believes that America would be much better off if they just killed him.

4. Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush's evangelically-driven education policy. The number of Aids cases in adolescent boys has nearly doubled. And where is all this stuff happening the most? In the religious South. First Iraq and now this. Thanks GWB.

5. And this woman questions Obama's birth certificate, acts entitled, forces health care meeting to do the pledge of allegiance, and generally is a total bitch. I feel terrible for her miserable children and, undoubtedly, legion of cats who have to put up with her everyday.

Sounds like a wild after-party for the Senate Judiciary Committee

Your bizarre news for the day:

1. Iowa man smears poop on door, "defies the basic morals of the community."

2. New Hampshire man buys most expensive cigarettes in history of man-kind.

3. Bride's bouquet crashes plane in Italy. Bride and groom somehow not involved.

4. Joe Biden out-gaffed by Senator Jeff Session's cocaine habit.

New York Harbor is filled with a lot of neat stuff.

Your bizarre news for the day:

1. Making scumbaggery a little greener: discounts to brothel patrons who arrive on bicycle.

Customers who arrive on bicycle or who can prove they took public transportation get a 5-euro (4 pounds) discount from the usual 70-euro ($100) fee for 45 minute sessions, Goetz told Reuters. He said the environmentally friendly offer was working.

2. Television advertisement showing Israeli Soldiers and Palestinians playing soccer over the West Bank barrier is "disturbing" because "in reality, if a Palestinian comes close to the fence to return a football ... he is likely to get shot."

3. The bottoms of New York City's harbors still house 1,600 bars of silver, if you can find them amid the junk and the 4-foot-long, wood-eating worms.

4. CLASSIC: The Rubber Room- Where naughty New York Teachers go to wait and die.

The room in question was about 1,100 square feet and on blueprints submitted to the Fire Department was designed to hold 26 people. On this day, it contained upward of 75. It had no windows, no land phone, no Internet access, no wall decorations, not even a clock. Any personal belongings left overnight were removed by custodians.