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Taking "Amateur Night" Too Far: In Betulia, Colombia, an annual festival
in November includes five days of amateur bullfighting. This year, no bull
was killed, but dozens of matadors were injured, including one gored in
the head and one Bobbittized. Said one participant, "It's just one bull
against [a town of] a thousand morons."
Send this story to a friend 1 Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, N. J.,
in September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a
quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While
driving around at 2a.m., the bored couple lit the dynamite
and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen,
but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed.
Send this story to a friend 2 An Issaquah, Washington man apparently became frustrated with
his personal computer, pulled out a gun and shot it. The computer,
located in the man's home office, had four bullets holes in its
hard drive and one in the monitor. Police evacuated the man's
townhouse complex, contacted the irate PC owner by phone, and
persuaded him to come out. "We don't know if it wouldn't boot up
or what," says one of the police officers at the scene.
St. Petersburg Times - July 20, 1997
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