Well, that’s not exactly true. There’s radioactive wasp nests and the pilot who died mid-flight and jurors using their cellphones causing all sorts of mistrials – but there’s not going to be any updates on Stuff To Worry About dot Com until sometime late next week. In fact, for my own sanity, I’ll likely only [...]
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#9 – Obscenity appears on yearbook cover (BONUS: Children Flying Alone End Up At Wrong Destination)
Jun 18
Obscenity appears on yearbook cover according to Kentucky School News and Commentary – and I have to say I’m not exactly worried for the student who drew the offending word into the yearbook cover. The student had already graduated before the yearbook arrived, and her work is only visible if you turn the yearbook cover [...]
#8 – Some People Are Reading Your Emails RIGHT NOW (the NSA even reads Presidential emails!!)
Jun 17
It doesn’t matter who you are, the Pinwale database has probably archived some or all of your private emails. Seriously. You could even be a one-time President of the USA and the NSA is still going to archive and study your private correspondence:
A secret NSA surveillance database containing millions of intercepted foreign and domestic e-mails [...]
While not as likely to happen to you on solid ground as, say, being hit by a meteorite – falling off of a cruise ship has happened more than once. First to Larry Miller:
after he fell off the cruise ship Carnival Inspiration, he had been hit by a passing boat, then managed to climb onto [...]
Sure, I could have gone the easy route today and settled for the lesser concern of police framing you for a drug offense, but I felt fairly moved to applaud those officers in Florida who took this cat-murdering scum off the streets after local residents have spent the last month in fear:
Tyler Weinman, 18, faces [...]
I was going to let this one slide, honest. It happened a while ago, and I intend to keep you up-to-date with the most RECENT stuff to worry about.. however the teacher has just been found competent to continue teaching, making this all that more likely to happen again. Here’s what occured:
In May of 2008, [...]
I’ll be honest, I was going to go with having inept destruction crews demolishing your house by accident while you were away – which admittedly is something you should probably be worrying about – but then I read that, for the second straight day in a row, a baby girl has come into the world [...]
Seriously, a German schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph:
The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million – but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.
– 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite – Telegraph: 7:15AM [...]
Stuff to Worry About #2 Comes to us from BBC NEWS:
Mars or Venus could collide with Earth – though it would not happen for at least a billion years… there is also a chance Mercury could strike Venus and merge into a larger planet.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this could happen tomorrow [...]
This is the first post, so rather than get your hackles up on the first post right off the bat, I thought I’d stop and ramble a bit about how this here blog came about – it started with Myron Oygold.
Every time I drink with Oygold, I’d relay whatever bits of trivia I found curious [...]
