Bizarre Stuff This Week

The monster, Michael Rooker, from Slither, who also got whacked, uh, maybe, on The Walking Dead.


Bizarre Stuff This Week

Dangerous To Your Health

According to an article in AARP, over 100,000 deaths a year are caused from hospital mistakes; the same as if four jumbo jets crashed daily. Forty times a day, the wrong body part gets an operation. Most of the deaths occur because of infections by unwashed hands. Hospitals seem to be more dangerous than being in combat.

New Pants For The Army

The Army has new pants with built in knee pads, costing $100-125 per pair. I can see where the gay jokes are going to be flying all over the place, and they already have started. Think about how much that is going to cost just to buy pants for people in the military. (They call them pants now instead of fatigues.) I don't remember ever needing kneepads in Vietnam, and I don't understand the concept of kneeling so much that you would need kneepads. Or why have Americans suddenly become inflicted with some disease that make their knees unable to take the burden of kneeling on the ground without padding? I also think paying over $100 for a pair of military fatigues is a joke.

French Knives For Murder

The large French knife is the preferred means of killers who use knives. Out of 780 knife murders tracked through (1971-2011) by the Cutlery Association, 741 killers used a French knife...and in virtually every slasher movie ever made, the French knife is the weapon of choice. No one knows why. The lack of a hilt can lead to serious slide cuts on the one doing the attacking. One theory suggests that all killers with knives are frustrated chefs. Psychologists suggest that the reason is something as simple as "they like big shiny things just as much as they do the sound of squeaky toys." 

 Was The Wrong War Back Then

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 33 percent cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq."
Conclusion: The U.S. should have pulled out of Washington.

Dennis Latham Bizarre Books