Buck's Weird News Blog March 2008 Archive

Ten thousand purebred camels compete in Abu Dhabi this week for the "Ship of the Desert" -- a beauty pageant with no tiaras, but $9 million in prizes. The ancient ... Read More

You have a lot of explaining to do when police say they have DVDs of you having sex with a picnic table -- multiple times. If Arthur Price Jr. had been ... Read More

You won't see bare-breasted women in Playboy's Philippine edition that hits newsstands next week, but the mag does promise "anything under the sun of interest to men." The magazine is treading ... Read More

News wires have been buzzing with the account of Thomas Beatie, a transgender person born a female, and now a man, who's legally married to a woman and now well ... Read More

This is no "Octopus's Garden," it's the traffic island at Liverpool's South Parkway rail station, where the Beatles are now immortalized in life-size topiary -- shrubs (privet bush, actually) shaped ... Read More

Chinese animal handlers eager to increase the panda population have yet to introduce bamboo-flavored Viagra, but they have come up with the next best thing -- "sexercise" videos. Pandas have notoriously ... Read More

Democrats can't unite the increasingly bitter race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but genealogists can. It seems he's distantly related to Brad Pitt and she's a far off cousin ... Read More

Your Barbie of yesteryear may have seemed like she achieved an idealized plastic perfection, but now girls can put their virtual doll on a crash diet and give it breast ... Read More

If you thought American legal system jumped the shark with the so-called "Twinkie Defense," just sink your teeth into this tasty morsal: Connecticut police say a 28-year-old man caught speeding ... Read More

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and dresses in couture like a duck, it must be a duck fashion show. Dressing up aquatic fowl -- an event ... Read More

Philippine health authorities are warning people who take part in mock crucifixions and self-flagellation rituals to get a tetanus shot. Every Good Friday, dozens of men have themselves nailed to wooden ... Read More

As soon as the Elliot Spitzer call girl scandal broke, the cynical among us heard the ca-ching of the cash register. No doubt offers for tell-all books and reality TV show ... Read More

Britain's Daily Mirror has come up with its list of weird rock deaths -- and that's no easy task for the morbidly obsessive. Was it Randy Rhoads crashing a plane ... Read More

Mama Mia! A woman in Florida, allegedly upset that the freezer was unplugged, struck her roommate with a frozen pizza. The victim told police she was watching TV in the living ... Read More

If you doubt art world has gone to pot, check out the one of a kind designer toilet seats that might be suitable for framing. Michigan theater group Stagecrafters created ... Read More

Businessman Stephen Chang claims he suffered "seriously injured" at New York's Hot Lap Dance Club when a stripper swiveled and smacked him in the face with the heel of her ... Read More

Police in Pennsylvania are saying that they've arrested a man who went on a all-nude rampage, hijacking a forklift, smashing it into a wall, and running into a market, where ... Read More

Good news for Michael Jackson and the other critters at Neverland: The pop star's lawyers cut a deal to keep his 2,500 estate off the auction block. Jackson hasn't been seen ... Read More

Talk about potty issues: Kory McFarren told police his girlfriend had a phobia about leaving the bathroom and that's why she might have spent the last two years on ... Read More

It didn't take long for Eliot Spitzer to go from crusading governor to walking punchline. Already, the Internet is abuzz with Client 9 T-shirts and other "Love Gov" memorabilia. For those ... Read More

A jailed Columbian drug lord has allegedly been using digitally encoded email images of Hello Kitty to smuggle out messages to his followers. Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who is being held ... Read More

A couple who dined in a Virginia Applebee's will have to worm out of criminal charges after allegedly planting live worms in their salad. Tiffany Vance and Christopher Egnatz made at ... Read More

Virginia may be "for lovers," but the state motto doesn't apply to inappropriate relationships - like grownups who French kiss a child under the age of 13. Under a new state ... Read More

This week we found evidence of what could be the first human-reptile romance -- or at least an unhealthy obsession. Two years ago, police in Polk County, Fla., rescued Adrian ... Read More

Never underestimate the spite of an old flame: A 32-year-old Italian man faces two years and four months in prison for sending pornographic pictures of his former girlfriend in 15,000 ... Read More

Two German air force sergeants are facing court martial for a sausage recipe that called for pork, onions, bacon, spices breadcrumbs, and their comrades' blood. The soldiers, stationed near Munich, had ... Read More

When a stunned security guard stumbled upon a naked contractor getting friendly with the hose end of a vacuum, the man offered a novel excuse: He said he was just ... Read More

The new buzz in California is a classroom insect monitor. Melodie Conrad, an Eagle Rock schoolteacher, is getting praise from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for appointing an ... Read More

So many weapons have been used in crime, but how many times has an assailant used that hybrid of a spoon and fork, known to many as a "spork"? Anchorage police ... Read More

Just when you thought the political campaign couldn't get any uglier, a man stabbed his brother-in-law over who should get the Democratic nomination for president. Jose Ortiz, 28, of Collegevile, Pa., ... Read More