Interesting/Weird Stories in the News

Sometimes Best Buy can really suck.
On the web they have L'arc-en-Ciel's "Live in USA" 2004 concert DVD, but when go to several of them in town, none of them have it. what is up with that?!

aishetru wrote:Sometimes Best Buy can really suck.
On the web they have L'arc-en-Ciel's "Live in USA" 2004 concert DVD, but when go to several of them in town, none of them have it. what is up with that?!

They have many items that aren't available in store. While frustrating, you could just mail it to yourself. :D

dochira wrote:
They have many items that aren't available in store. While frustrating, you could just mail it to yourself. :D

gonna go to the local Chinese CD store and see if they have it. just that Best Buy is only like 3 blocks away, while the Chinese CD store is a 60-minute drive.

This just in from New York City:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/22/national/a112347D95.DTL

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Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods New York Park

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

(06-22) 12:20 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --

An attempt to erect the world's largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier.

The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.

Firefighters closed off several streets and used hoses to wash away the sugary goo.

Snapple had been trying to promote a new line of frozen treats by setting a record for the world's largest popsicle, but called off the stunt before the it was pulled fully upright by a construction crane. Authorities said they were worried the thing would collapse in the 80-degree, first-day-of-summer heat.

"What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. "It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast."

Snapple official Lauren Radcliffe said the company was unlikely to make a second attempt to break the record, set by a 21-foot ice pop in Holland in 1997.

The giant ice pop was supposed to have been able to withstand the heat for some time, and organizers weren't sure why it didn't. It had been made in Edison, N.J., and hauled to New York by freezer truck in the morning.

Think bmw posted it here

http://jdorama.com/viewtopic.php?p=204363#204363

Interesting talks about it following....
I just think it's madness.

ahochaude wrote:I just think it's madness.

Well, of course.

This is America.

And don't you forget it. ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Well, of course.

This is America.

And don't you forget it. ;)

Never will forget it. Not until it all gets better in which I do not forsee for a long time. :beaten:

ahochaude wrote:Never will forget it. Not until it all gets better in which I do not forsee for a long time. :beaten:

And just think: Nathan's 4th of July hot dog eating contest is just around the corner... :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
And just think: Nathan's 4th of July hot dog eating contest is just around the corner... :hehe:

..which will be won by a Japanese. Yeah we know the drill.

Kobayashi again this year?

ahochaude wrote:Kobayashi again this year?

I wouldn't bet against the dude.

And that girl called "Black Widow(?)" will be second...

bmwracer wrote:
I wouldn't bet against the dude.

And that girl called "Black Widow(?)" will be second...

Is he entering again?

A woman called "Black Widow" entering an eating contest. Sounds scary.........

bmwracer wrote:
I wouldn't bet against the dude.

And that girl called "Black Widow(?)" will be second...

I didn't know that. I'll have to look her up on the web.

Is she Japanese?

ahochaude wrote:Is she Japanese?

She'd have to be to even compete against Kobayashi, right?

Or she could be Russian.. :hehe:

ahochaude wrote:Is she Japanese?

I think she's like a five-foot tall, petite, Korean girl...

Really.

Korean chick? Whoa. Something to watch then. Koreans can eat too.

As promised, I had to look up her information. She is Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas and is currently ranked #2 behind, who else?, Kobayashi.

According to her goal for this year's competition, it doesn't look like she'll unseat Kobayashi. She is aiming to break her American record of 32 buns and dogs. That's all. :shocked:

Here's her website: http://www.sonyatheblackwidow.com/

dochira wrote:As promised, I had to look up her information. She is Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas and is currently ranked #2 behind, who else?, Kobayashi.

According to her goal for this year's competition, it doesn't look like she'll unseat Kobayashi. She is aiming to break her American record of 32 buns and dogs. That's all. :shocked:

Here's her website: http://www.sonyatheblackwidow.com/

Thanks for the info, Doch.

Guess my memory banks are still functioning.

For now. :sweat: