It did to Australian cops who found this steering wheel lock while searching 18-year-old Chad Hasting’s car after they pulled him over. They called in backup and arrested him for possessing a gun.
While sleeves with blankets are not new, our partners-in-crime at Jezebel have discovered this funny remix of the terrifying Snuggie infomercial, perfect for Tibetan monks and dummies. [Jezebel]
Alan Heuss was carjacked. The thieves made off with his BMW, cash and mobile phone. But they did not steal his brain. So he came up with a plan involving hot girls and drugs.
The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket. Eighty-two-year-old Frank Lasser, who was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, claimed that sometimes he got delusional when he got short of breath. Did that, however, make it right for the police to tase him, bro?
Stop looting supermarkets and get back to your homes, because NASA is saying that “doomsday” asteroid Apophis doesn’t have any significant chance of impacting Earth in 2036, basically classifying the 13-year-old German student as a moronic smartypants. In fact, even if it hit, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world. Or that’s what we would like to believe, looking at all the information we have compiled:
Well, if the papers want to finger us for dumb stuff, we’ll poke them right back.
In yesterday’s Herald Sun, a story on the latest iPhone unlock (you know, those unlocks we’ve covered here every which way over the past umpteen weeks) they leak some clearly confidential news that Apple has sold off that part of the business to Microsoft.
Haha. Suck it, News! We’re so much better than you. When we typo shit like that, we can come straight back in and edit history. Print is forever (though so too are screen grabs and the Wayback Machine, I guess…) -Seamus Byrne [iPhoneMojo]