Category: Woopsie
Cold case.
French police conduct a two year murder investigation on the skeleton of a woman and discover that she died almost 600 years ago.
Post date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2006.
Got up and walked away.
Spanish museum loses 38-ton sculpture. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
Look both ways.
Bilingual road sign tells pedestrians to look left in one language and to look right in the other. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Danger mouse.
Mouse burns down New Mexico house. UPDATE: Not true.
Post date: Sunday, January 8th, 2006.
Can’t you see I’m in a hurry?
Impatient bank robber takes off his mask to yell at teller, thus blowing his cover. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 6th, 2006.
There you are.
Missing Russian patient found mummified under clinic floor. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Hot prospect.
California prisoner elected to school board.
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Deja vu.
Prisoner escapes after posing as his identical twin brother.
Post date: Monday, November 7th, 2005.
It’s just fog.
Fire destroys historic replica that was initially disregarded by a 911 operator as ‘fog’. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 13th, 2005.
Disappearing act.
Dead woman found in wrecked vehicle one day after the accident. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 11th, 2005.
All talk.
The poorly-designed Norwegian Sound and Braille Library ‘is less suited for the visually impaired’ than most other buildings.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
There’s no such thing as Rudolph.
Danish airforce has compensated Santa Claus for accidentally killing Rudolph.
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Stuck in gear.
Wannabe car-jacker that could only drive an automatic stalls out when stolen vehicle turns out to be a stick shift.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
First-level wizard.
Woman in Tokyo complains to police after the hitman she hired fails to get the job done. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 15th, 2005.
Honey, I burnt down the house.
German woman trying to kill spiders with fire accidentally burns down her house instead.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Half the man.
Russian man survives after cutting himself in half with circular saw. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
The easiest arrest ever.
By taking pictures with a cell phone they stole, thieves in Argentina unknowingly published themselves on the stolen phone owner’s personal Web page.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Airheads.
Be careful not to put diesel fuel in your unleaded engine when trying to steal gas.
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
Not armed or dangerous.
Radio station stunt that had three listeners dress like escaped inmates trying to hitch a ride backfired when dozens of ‘terrified’ motorists called 911.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Game over.
Man tests his video game skills and tries to outrun cops in real life. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Poetic lysinse.
Pissed off artist reluctantly corrects her misspellings on murals she created for the Livermore public library in San Francisco. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Don’t quit your day job.
Shot putter who missed world qualifier due to flight mix-up instead enters javelin qualifier and loses big time.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
Honey, I forgot you.
Man forgets, leaves wife at gas station for six hours.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
Partisan politics.
Republicans and Democrats in South Carolina are fighting over beer money.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
Woo hoo! Doh!
Florida Lotto to woman: $250,000 winning ticket was a misprint. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
Didn’t you notice?
Del.icio.us had a minor database issue yesterday and comes clean, quickly. Kudos Joshua.
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
What was she spitting?
Kansas City driver falls out of her car on the freeway, survives. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 1st, 2005.
Didn’t get the memo.
Danish police break up ‘street fight‘ that was being filmed for a movie.
Post date: Friday, July 29th, 2005.
Genius photographer.
Criminal mistakenly takes and leaves photo of himself at the crime scene.
Post date: Tuesday, July 5th, 2005.
Blue after the ball.
Man separated from new bride immediately after reception due to a minor technicality.
Post date: Wednesday, June 29th, 2005.
Gag.
Man who pretends to swallow a key actually does. Locksmith comes to the rescue.
Post date: Saturday, June 25th, 2005.
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