It's Bad Behavior Friday™!

In Fremont, a San Francisco suburb best known as the terminus of one of the BART lines, a woman "had some issues" with the local utility company trimming trees in her back yard, so she attacked the company's tree-trimming crew, first with rocks, then with a chain saw. Three trimmers fled and a fourth climbed a tree to escape, cleverly deducing that the tree-defending woman would not take the chain saw to the tree just to kill him. (Don't forget: use bugmenot.com for passwords to news sites.

The former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times was indicted for liberating $32 million U.S. from his company. A columnist and former minion notes that the guy was known as a tightwad whose name was often invoked when office supplies ran low. Now that's respect.

In Swaziland, the king has decided to end a five-year national ban on sex with a ceremony in which the country's young women will burn large wollen tassels. I won't explain -- read the story, you'll get to see one of those tassels, which are as big as your forearm.

By the way, searching for "tassels" on Google News gets you this story about a Scottish burlesque show; the article is headlined Raising Two Legs to Terrorism. How tassels are involved is a matter of conjecture.

All that without resorting to Obscure Store.