Poppedy Popped Culture

Man, I thought I had heard everything, but I guess not. Check this out:
Two students at Southern Illinois University in this St. Louis suburb kidnapped, paddled and burned a young man with freshly baked cookies after a drug deal went bad, prosecutors said.
The suspects beat the man with a wooden paddle, burned his neck and […]

Let the flushing begin:
Sim Jae-Duck was born in a restroom and now he plans to live and die in one — a 1.6 million dollar toilet-shaped house designed to promote his tireless campaign for cleaner loos worldwide.
Sim will open what is billed as the world’s one and only toilet house on November 11 to mark […]

Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. “The joke that everyone was upset about — me calling the kids `adorable mistakes’ — was the most innocuous joke,” the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. “It […]

It looks like Sen. Ernie Chambers who just recently put in a suit against God has gotten a response:
A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. One of two court filings from “God” came Wednesday.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God last week, seeking […]

Honest Abe will become Colorful Abe with splashes of purple and gray livening up the $5 bill.  “We wanted this redesigned bill to scream, ‘I am a five. I am a five,’” Larry Felix, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing said in an interview with The Associated Press.  Circulation is planned for the […]

The defendant in a state senator’s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He’s everywhere.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he’s trying to make the […]

At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs. source
I’ve heard these shoes are really comfortable but why, oh […]

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.”I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said, according to a report on […]

A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe, local authorities were quoted by the […]

Constitution Day is here and many teenagers know little about commemorating the document’s signing.
A study being released Monday by a foundation that focuses on journalism and the First Amendment found that 51 percent of high school students questioned had not heard of the day when they are required by law to learn about the Constitution.
The […]