Last Friday, a Lower Southampton Township, Pennsylvania police department officer pulled over a 1993 Buick, driven by 24 year-old Domino's Pizza delivery man William Bethel because the vehicle did not have an inspection sticker. When the officer determined Mr. Bethel was also driving with a suspended license, he informed him that the car would be impounded. An inspection of the vehicle revealed not only a stack of pizzas waiting to be delivered, but also a stretcher, in the rear of the stationwagon. Apparently, Mr. Bethel uses the car to deliver bodies to local funeral homes in his spare time. It was determined that the 'dual use' of the automobile, did not violate any laws. However, he was fined $400 for driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle without an inspection certificate.
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Paramount Pictures has sighed J.J. Abrams (of Lost and Mission Impossible: III fame) to bring the 11th film in the Star Trek series to the sliver screen. Slated for release in 2008, the film will center around the early years of characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock. Reportedly, it will even include their very first meeting at Starfleet Acadamy.
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76-year-old Philip Winikoff was arrested today by Broward County Miami sheriff deputies for soliciting free breast exam. Carrying a black "doctor's" bag, he went door-to-door at an apartment complex in a Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood. Apparently two women actually accepted the offer, allowing him into their homes. One of the women became suspicious that he might not, in fact, be a doctor when he moved his hands to her genitals (ya think?!) and called the police. Investigators said they believe there may be other victims who are too embarrassed to come forward.
Editors Note: The man in the image associated with this post is not Mr. Winikoff.
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George Takei, better know to Star Trek fans around the world as 'Mr. Sulu', helmsman of the original starship U.S.S Enterprise, made a surprise appearance Monday with 33 gay rights activists at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. The activists, calling themselves Soulforce Equality Riders are traveling by bus to hold rallies at 19 Colleges with policies opposed to homosexuality. The 68-year-old actor, who came 'out of the closet' last year, told the participants that the activists share themes with those of the Star Trek world. Maybe he really has boldly gone where no man has gone before.
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Yesterday, I posted an entry titled American College of Radiology Slams Tom Cruise. In an almost eerie coincidence, the couple announced today that their daughter, Suri, was born yesterday, weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. 'Suri' is derived from Hebrew, meaning 'princess'. The birth occurred at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles.
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A Longmont, Colorado man was cited and fined $50 on March 29 for using a device he purchased on eBay for $100 to change traffic lights from red to green. The device is similar to ones used by fire departments to change lights when they are responding to emergencies. He was caught when traffic engineers noticed disruptions in the lights always seemed to occured when a white Ford pickup truck was in the area (although he'd been using the device for almost two years).
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On Monday, The American College of Radiology issued a statement slamming actor Tom Cruise for performing unsupervised ultrasounds on his pregnant girlfriend Katie Holmes using an ultrasound machine he reportedly purchased for $200,000. Cruise claims he is qualified because he 'read the manual' that came with the machine. In most states, ultrasound machines are medically regulated devices which require a physicians order to obtain and operate. This, apparently, isn't the case in California, although a new bill (AB 2360) has been introduced in the state legislature to correct this oversight.
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Seagate has announced a new line of 3.5 inch hard drives using perpendicular recording. They claim that the new drives, spinning at 15,000 rpm, are the first to break the 100MBps (yes, that's megabytes per second) transfer rate. They will initially offer a 300GB 4 platter, 147GB 2 platter, and 73GB 1 platter drive. No word yet on how much the new drives will cost.
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London police are seeking ex-Wham!'er George Michael for questioning in a series of hit-and-runs that occured near his home over the weekend. A story in The Daily Mail claims the singer crashed his Range Rover into three parked cars and then drove away without reporting the incident to police or attempting to contact the cars owners, according to witnesses at the scene. I'm sure this isn't the first time someone's been rear-ended by him.
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Concord, Ontario based Gem-Sen, which is handling the Canada marketing tie-in's for the upcoming film version of Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, is using a 'slightly modified' version of the 15th century renaissance scholar's famous Vitruvian Man. The image will appear on an assortment of hats, t-shirts, keychains and other items 'sans manhood'. The Toronto Star reports that Da Vinci's drawing was clipped 'for products so they'd be accessible worldwide'.
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FoxNews is reporting that Japanese telecommunications company NTT Communications has developed a new service that will allow movie theaters to synchronize different smells with portions of a film. The first film to offer this experience will be The New World starring Colin Farrell but others will follow. Let's hope this never catches on in the adult film industry.
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A sketch of the famous Crichton Leprechaun sold on eBay monday for $1,100.
If you've lived under a rock and haven't been caught up in 'leprechaunmania', you can read all about it on the WPMI-TV15 website. You can also watch the original news story on YouTube.com.
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