Author Archives: Weerd Beard

ONN Fake but Accurate

The Onion New Network is a comedy site…but I’ll add that I first read about John Wayne’s faithful encounter with his wife Lorena Bobbit in the Weekly World News. I think they may be on a real story here!

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The Plot Thickens

On that boy shot by his dad during a B&E Attempt: Tyler Giuliano had no trouble with the law. The teenager loved flying small planes as a Civil Air Patrol cadet and seemed happy as he played an online game … Continue reading

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The Butler Did It!

Interesting: A Vatican tribunal has thrown out some evidence gathered in the investigation of the pope’s butler, who is accused of stealing the pope’s papers and passing them off to a journalist in the worst security breach in the Vatican’s … Continue reading

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“Gun Death” Offroad Vehicles

This is really as much of an Anti-Rights, not Anti-Gun story, as much as it is a “Gun Death?” story. Police in a growing number of U.S. cities are trying to silence the roar of dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles … Continue reading

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Play Me Out: Muddy Waters

King of the Electric Blues!

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On That State Police Junk Scientist

This is a huge mess! Chemist Annie Dookhan was ‘‘Superwoman,’’ a colleague at a Massachusetts state crime lab used to joke. She seemed unstoppable in her quest to please prosecutors, police and her bosses, testing two to three times more … Continue reading

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More Black Market Economy

Tax stuff enough, people will smuggle it A joint US-Canadian investigation found C$200,000 (£125,600) of cheese and other products were illicitly brought over the border into southern Ontario. The smugglers sold large quantities of cheese, which is cheaper in the … Continue reading

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Beard Beer

Honestly not as strange as it sounds: A local brewery went rogue to find yeast for a new batch of beer. Rogue Brewery used a sample from the beard that Brewmaster John Maier has been growing since 1978. As a … Continue reading

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A Bizzare DGU

I wonder if there is more to this. A man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor’s house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said….A … Continue reading

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“Gun Death” Mass Stabbing

Where guns are banned Police say a man wielding a knife has injured four people in the third such rampage in South Korea in less than a week. Note the commonality of this kind of attack in this nation. We’ve … Continue reading

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