Extreme Travelers

Sure, I’d like to go to North Korea if I could. But I don’t know if I’d do this:
Monty Anderson got word that the trip was on two weeks after rushing home to California from Ukraine for emergency open-heart surgery. He didn’t ask his doctor if it was OK to take another trip so soon. [...]

Creative Counterfeit Defense

Now here’s a legal strategy I hadn’t thought of:
As counterfeiting capers go, this one was not particularly noteworthy.
A group of young people got together, made about 227 fake $20 bills, spent them around town and got indicted by a federal grand jury.
But then one of the conspirators’ lawyers raised this routine federal case out of [...]

The End of Electricity

Here endeth electricity

Originally uploaded by Darren Foreman.

I always wondered where the last pylon was located.

Only in Florida

There’s just something about the Sunshine State that attracts wackos, scam artists and other folks essential for a lively newspaper. The St. Pete Times digs out another example of Florida weirdness:
RIVER RANCH ACRES - Forty years ago, a large Florida land developer subdivided 44,800 acres of wilderness in Polk County into 11/4-acre lots and [...]

Freezing to Death

A bizarre story from the Omaha World-Herald about a couple, apparently under the influence of methamphetamines, who froze to death in Nebraska despite the efforts of 911 operators to locate them:
The 911 dispatchers from four metro-area counties huddled by the phone with one another, trying to tie the threads that would lead them to the [...]