This Week in Weird: Make 'Noise' for Not-so-Iron Ironmen

While Robert Downey Jr. is burning up the box office with "Ironman," Tim Robbins is hitting theaters as a superhero with less super-power but more comic punch. Meet the Rectifier.

In "Noise," the Oscar-winning Robbins is a short-fused New Yorker whose blood boils each time an auto alarm blares, and he transforms into a car-vandalizing vigilante. The Rectifier doesn't have an airborne suit of armor like Downye's Ironman. He's a bleary bat-wielding guy who wanders outside in a bathrob. But he does get his point across -- and he's not unlike some real-life vigilantes, each fighting a pet peeve for the greater good.

Among theses real-life headline-making heroes: A Connecticut woman who's taking on dog owners who don't clean up after their pet's poop. (Our Litigious Times) Then there's this Constitutional martyr in Utah who's proved that the Fourth Amendment can protect your right to moon. (Nude News)

We salute these other would-be Rectifiers as we look back at last week's best weird news.

• Pot Head: Grave diggers use skull as bong (You Must Be Wasted);
• Chew On This: Scientists Working on gum that won't stick to pavement (New Products);
• Sweet Smell of Arrest: Chocolate breath foils 15-year-old shoplifter (Dumb Crime Du Jour);
• Watch the Jail Birdie: Man poses with women, then robs them (Dumb Crime Du Jour);
• Naked Aggression: Police arrest naked hostage taker (Nude News);
• Blind Ambition: 78-year-old legally blind man bowls perfect game (Minor Miracles) .

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