All Ladies Swoon Over Client #9
Thanks to the Smoking Gun:

With the bombshell news today that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a prostitution ring, the Democratic politician will now always be known as “Client-9,” one of the johns described in a recently unsealed FBI affidavit detailing the operation of the Emperors Club, [...]

The big story today is that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been involved in a prostitution ring.
NY Times Story:
Mr. Spitzer, a first-term Democrat who pledged to bring ethics reform and end the often seamy ways of Albany, is married with three children. Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an [...]

Belgrade smash ‘n’ grab becomes YouTube smash hit
A video of two young women looting with gay abandon during rioting in the Serbian capital Belgrade was becoming a Balkan smash hit on the video-sharing Web site YouTube Friday. Police arrested some looters but public humiliation by YouTube may prove a far more painful punishment for the [...]

Allenna Ward: The White Witch!
Source: AP:
A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys. Authorities said Allenna Ward, 24, met 14- and 15-year-old boys at the school where she taught as well as at a motel, a park and behind a restaurant.
Police began [...]

Source: The Daily Telegraph
Steven Kazmierczak, at 27, looked like an average schoolboy - except that his arms were covered with disturbing images, including a doll from the horror movie Saw. Professors and students knew him as a bright, helpful scholar, but his past included a stint in a mental health centre. Kazmierczak allegedly had three [...]

Another school shooting happened last week, but this one took a back seat to what happened in Illinois. This one was personal.
Source: LA Times
An Oxnard junior high student who was shot in the head by a classmate earlier this week was declared brain dead Wednesday, and the 14-year-old male suspect now faces a first-degree murder [...]

According to the Chicago Tribune, the suspected shooter at NIU in DeKalb (65 miles outside of Chicago) was Steve Kazmierczak. DeKalb police asked Florida authorities Friday morning to assist in speaking to his father, Robert Kazmierczak.

Steve Kazmierczak
A sixth student wounded in Thursday’s mass shooting at Northern Illinois University has died, authorities said this morning. Including [...]

Skateboarding teenager gets the beatdown from a Baltimore cop.

“Don’t call me dude! A dude lives on a ranch!”
“You got that camera on?…”
Dude.. er, sorry, “officer” was just probably trying to put some scare into ‘em. You know - scared straight!! Kinda hard to take seriously though, wearing that half-yellow top and shorts.
He reminds me of [...]

Especially if you are retarded.

Ted Coxwell: tard pincher.
Two car salesmen stole $70,000 from the house of a mentally retarded man in 2006. Their tipoff that he would be a good mark:
…”the victim walked into Huling Brothers on July 21, 2006, wearing feces-stained pants, and paid $30,000 cash for a black 2006 GMC Canyon pickup. [...]

Another Odd Year Goes By.
Lots of crap went down in 2007. Much of it disturbing - Bhutto’s assassination, the Virginia Tech massacre, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Microsoft Vista.
Some of it was funny. Or strange. Or both.
Here are the top 10 oddest stories:
10. Bad Newz: Michael Vick gets busted for dogfighting.

In July, Atlanta QB Michael Vick is [...]