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Police say an Australian teenager hijacked a girl’s Facebook page and posted an open invitation to her 16th birthday party that drew more than 200,000 positive replies.

An arrest has been made.

Taking out restaurant:

Newnan (Georgia) police officer Lt. Eddie Attaway says Douglas Paul Stolarick drove his van off the Newnan Crossing Bypass early Saturday and went airborne before striking the Tokyo Restaurant. Attaway said Stolarick drove away with one headlight dangling from the side of the van — driving in the wrong lane and refusing to pull over for an officer.

So my friend volunteered to take calls for her local PBS station’s Beg-a-thon.

The first call she got was from a viewer complaining about the programming.

And truly weird. (Warning: Mild innuendo and out the other.)

Warning: Mild Language.

This guy has no future in black tomato ops.

Nickolas Galiatsatos, a pizza shop guy in Upper Darby, had a simple plan, according to police.

He allegedly tried to infest competing pizzerias with mice.

The plan, however, quickly unraveled when Galiatsatos, 47, owner of Nina’s Bella Pizzeria, tried to slip a bag of mice past two uniformed police officers eating lunch at Verona Pizza around 3 p.m. Monday, authorities said.

Read the whole story. You need a chortle.

I’m waiting to see the video on World’s Dumbest:

Two men apparently didn’t notice four Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies inside a convenience store when they attempted a snack and beer heist.

A video surveillance tape released Wednesday shows the men entering the Chevron Food Mart in La Mirada just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 23 and rushing out with $18.76 worth of snacks and beer.

The deputies, however, noticed them.

From Comically Vintage.

A dance party may be in the future for tea party darling Christine O’Donnell.

The Delaware Republican — who lost the Senate race in November to Chris Coons — says she’s been invited to be a contestant the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” but she’s not sure if she’ll do it.

She says she can’t dance.

Lack of competence has not stopped her before.

Addendum, the Next Week:

It stopped her this time.

In a statement released Monday night, O’Donnell said she’s currently too busy writing a book about her 2010 election loss and starting a political action committee, ChristinePAC, to hit the reality TV dance floor.

So she’s staying out of “reality” TV and in her fantasy world.

Or, How To Bargain about Anything.

Pillows of the community:

At precisely noon, nearly 100 people following Twitter feeds and Facebook postings joined a “flashmob” of silliness.

In tutus, gorilla suits and pajamas, they came by car, bike and train, some with pillows strapped to their backs. They lined up on opposing sidewalks, then with the blow of a whistle, charged one another. They met in the middle in a fluffy frenzy.

“A panda just hit me!” one pillow-wielding man called out as the crowd of revelers, hemmed in by park benches, smacked each other from behind, above and beside.

No.

The officer was so sick of his partner that when she was visiting family overseas he added her name to the register of people banned from flights into the UK.

When she went to the airport to get her return flight back, officials told her she could not board the plane and did not explain why.

She called her husband for help, and he buried the request in his in-box. For three years, until his bosses caught him out.

Via Wait Wait.

In a follow up to this post, Penelope is home safe.

Penelope the pet snake’s long journey on the MBTA came to a happy end yesterday.

The Dumeril’s boa had slithered away from its owner, Melissa Moorhouse of Allston, while she was riding on the Red Line nearly a month ago. Moorhouse said she first noticed the snake missing as she headed outbound on the Red Line in the late morning of Jan. 6.

Penelope’s portrait graces the link.

Advertising FAIL in today’s local rag:

At Comically Vintage.

This shouldn’t be a crime. It should be a service.

A mail carrier on New York’s Long Island is accused of pinching thousands of discount coupons intended for residents’ mailboxes.

Though when I was in college, the primary service they provided appeared to be bar service. Now it’s community service.

A judge has sentenced a Penn State University fraternity to 70 days of community service in the death of an 18-year-old freshman who fell into a stairwell after a night of drinking.

Centre County Judge Thomas King Kistler has also ordered Alpha Tau Omega to pay a $500 fine.

Never joined a frat. Couldn’t see the point of paying dues to get drunk when I could get drunk quite nicely on my own, thank you.

A live hen was thrown through the open window of a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in Warwickshire (UK–ed.).

RSPCA inspectors say they want to speak to the two men who approached the restaurant in Bermuda Park, Nuneaton, on a moped on Tuesday evening.

The RSPCA wants to talk to the two men about their abandonment of the chicken. The chicken is up for adoption.

From El Reg:

A Virginia Tech university graduate and a couple of chums have come up with what one YouTube commenter rates as the “Greatest. Invention. Ever” – an iPhone-controlled beer-dispensing cannon.

January 13, 2011 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: C'est Rire | Bookmark this post