Wacky News Stories

Memorial Day is a-comin' ... and I can't wait for the barbecued chicken, steak, burgers, dogs, and just about any other flesh!

1. On Texas cops mistaking actual weeds for marijuana:
"Do you know what the street value of these dandelions is?"
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0522/largest-marijuana-plant-seizure-police-departments-history-turns-mere-yard-work/

2. On England winning the World's Custard Pie Throwing Championship:
"Good to see the Three Stooges influence reaching across the Atlantic!" Or ... "I thought Moe Howard was Jewish."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2983693/England-wins-pie-World-Cup.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

3. On a report that airlines may reuse plastic cutlery up to nine times before throwing it out:
"You should see what they do with used toilet paper ..."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10645985

4. On a 41-year-old man who told police that he was trying to pay legal costs related to a Missouri drug conviction by growing marijuana:
"This sounds a lot like a chicken-and-the-egg complex ..."
http://www.sunjournal.com/oxford-hills/story/849964

5. On a study that finds marriages in which the woman is happier than the man last longer:
"And we needed a study for this?!?!?!"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1280077/Want-wife-happy-Be-miserable.html