I got a bit behind on my regular blog series and everything else, so here’s an extra-long episode of This Week in WTF for you.
– This is how you prank: For their senior prank, students at a Santa Barbara, California high school hired a mariachi band to follow the principal around for about ninety minutes. Having grown up in San Antonio, where mariachis are an entertainment staple, I say bravo.
– Horniness is the stepmother of invention: Don’t try to keep this Sulawesi crested black macaque from her fella, because she will go all MacGyver on you.
Bella, a female Sulawesi crested black macaque was upset after her boyfriend Malino was moved to a separate enclosure in Jersey’s Durrell Wildlife Park in the UK.
However, she didn’t take the separation lying down. Instead, she and her fellow monkeys busted out of their enclosure several times to search for their lost mate, forcing the staff to build an electric fence to keep them in.
A lot of good the electric fence did considering that Bella managed to pull a total “MacGyver” move by disarming the it with a wet piece of grass.
The staff then built a second electric enclosure, but Bella managed to disarm both of them by balancing a wet blade of grass across the two fences.
Also, try saying “crested black macaque” ten times fast. It’s fun.
– The sincerest form of flattery? Last fall, administrators at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University had to remove a “pendulum statue” for “safety reasons.” Why? Because students were using it to replicate Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” video. No word on how many students licked the sculpture before its removal, or how many clambered upon it in the buff.
– Oh, Italy: Courtrooms are not nearly as interesting as television makes them seem to be, but at times that very boredom can lead to interesting results……at least in one Italian courtroom.
Last month, at the Palazzo di Giustizia in Genoa, Italy, a judge put a halt to courtroom proceedings upon discovering two staff members having sex.
Judge Anna Ivaldi interrupted the prosecution after identifying a male and female getting it on behind a glass wall. “The summing had just begun when the judge heard strange noises, looked up and saw the outline of two naked bodies,” one eyewitness said. “When everyone looked it was quite clear what was going on. They were having sex.”
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“They obviously thought because the glass was dark they would not be seen,” the eyewitness continued. “The judge suspended the case and had the two people clawed away … They are both court admin staff but they have not been named.”
In my lawyering days, I used to get chided by the bailiff for checking email on my phone in court while waiting for my case to get called—although to be fair, this was before everyone and at least a few dogs had smartphones.
– Austin, tell your children not to walk my way: Austin’s Red River music district might be getting some art to rival even the Stevie Ray Vaughn and Willie Nelson statues: a statue of Danzig riding a dragon, because why the fuck not?
Via greenmeatsound.blogspot.com
– He should’ve just claimed they were horcruxes: The headline says it all: “Texas man sues stripper to get Harry Potter DVDs back after finding out it isn’t true love.”
