You call that art?
. Chilean-Danish artist Marco Evaristti is working with condemned Texas inmate Gene Hathorn (convicted killer of three in 1985) on an anti-capitalpunishment exhibit to be staged after Hathorn's execution. The murderer's body would be frozen, then made into flakes that museum visitors could feed to goldfish. Full Story
Government in action
. The municipal transit company in Austin, Texas, unveiled a ridereducation campaign with step-by-step instructions in how to stand up on buses without falling over. When the bus is accelerating, "lean forward and put your weight on your front foot." (The introductory frame on the poster features a harried rider exclaiming, "Help! I'll never figure it out! Full Story
Police blotter
. Police in Dortmund, Germany, arrested six Romanian men in June and charged them with stealing from trucks on the open highway. Allegedly, the thieves would drive their own truck carefully up behind a tractor-trailer at highway speed, and a man on the hood would reach out and open the back of the rig with a bolt cutter. Full Story
Least competent criminals
. A 30-year-old man appears to be the most recent person (according to the account of police in Woodland, Calif.) to attempt to throw burning fireworks at a target while traveling in a car, but having the toss fail to clear the window and thus explode inside the car. He was hospitalized. Full Story
Men whose sex lives are worse than yours
In Anderson Township, Ohio, a frustrated lover, angry that his girlfriend kept falling asleep one night during sex, retaliated, according to police, by attempting to set fire to her van. Full Story
Dignified death
From the self-composed obituary in the Casper (Wyo.) Star Tribune of James William "Jim" Adams, who died Sept. Full Story
News that sounds like a joke
. Atlanta Pentecostal preacher Thomas Meeks told the Journal-Constitution in October that he was "in talks" to create a "Survivor"-type TV reality show in which the twice-divorced evangelist navigates a field of single women and selects a winner. "Holy Hook Up: Who Will Be the Next Mrs. Weeks? Full Story
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