Wild Boars, Peepers, Mr Cranky Pants

[Strygun]

Here's some interesting news to brighten your friday!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...eut/index.html

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German Web site dubbed "Pig Brother" has attracted more than a million visitors in under two weeks with its 24-hour live Webcam coverage of a family of wild boar, the site's creators said Tuesday.

Don't listen to Ride of the Valkyries in your car!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

LONDON, England (AP) -- When Richard Wagner composed his powerful "Ride of the Valkyries" in the 1850s, he surely wasn't thinking of any danger he was posing to 21st-century motorists.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...nts/index.html

Sydney, Australia (AP) -- Would you upset an alligator named Mister Cranky Pants? Some thieves chanced it, but apparently soon regretted it.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/...eut/index.html

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) -- An apologetic Peeping Tom in northern Arkansas left a $20 bill and a note for his victim asking if she would not mind if he peered at her outside her window, police said Friday.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/0...oss/index.html

Better hurry, and bring along at least $6 million. That's the opening bid on eBay for crashing 22 pounds (10 kilograms) of whatever personal cargo you want to lob to the moon.

the funny part:Gregory Nemitz, president of Orbital Development, said: "The MoonCrash Project would probably be attractive to some bored rich guy, who is tired of playing with his radio-controlled model airplanes and wants to move up to the next level."