It's Bad Behavior Friday™!

In South Africa, a man has been sentenced to life without parole for murdering a man by beating him unconscious and then literally throwing him to the lions -- specifically, into an enlosure at a lion breeding center.

After people hit the road in the "Texodus" before Hurricane Rita, burglars had a field day, not only helping themselves to big-screen TVs and other things you'd expect to be burgled, but cooking meals and helping themselves to the liquor cabinet "in multiple units" of a condo complex.

Even the Bush White House is distancing itself from remarks by former cabinet secretary Bill Bennett, known for his "virtues" books and his gambling addiction, after the former antidrug czar said:

But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

That, my friends, is what we call unbe-fucking-lievable. Here's Tony Pierce on the controversy.

Finally -- and I'm adding this late int he day because it's so great -- here's the story of the Lotto Lout, one Michael Carroll, who won $16 million in 2002 and about whom one local official said: "Before he won the lottery, he was a nuisance. He decided to carry on being a nuisance." He has been in court on drug charges, has been arrested for shooting ball bearings through the windows of local shops, and holds demolition derbies on his property.

If only he were a writer, then fans of Hunter S. Thompson would have someone new to look up to.

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