Friday, January 26, 2007

It's Bad Behavior Friday™! -- love triangle edition

A Dutch woman is being charged with murder for tampering with the equipment of a fellow skydiver whom she suspected of having an affair with her boyfriend. All three members of the love triangle, together with a fourth man, jumped from a plane on Nov. 18 and formed a "star" formation, holding hands. When they pulled their ripcords, the victim's chutes failed to deploy. Grisly details: The victim was wearing a video camera on her helmet; a witness described her fall:
I was working on my plane when I heard someone on the ground screaming and pointing to the sky. I looked up and saw a black spot falling quickly to the ground. It was wriggling about and it was pretty obvious it was a person. Above it were three people in parachutes coming down slowly. Then it hit the ground."
The story is slightly confusing because both women have the same first name.

Moving on, we have another instance where the headline encapsulates the whole story to the extent that it is not worth reading the story itself: Rock Fans Boo Jimi Hendrix Energy Drink.

Others cheered the new product, unaware that Jimi's "energy" came from a combination of whiskey and illicit drugs.

Perhaps because the Super Bowl is coming up, there seems to be an obsession with advertising. It's time for all those stories on the television advertisements being shown during the football game, a practice that rivals the coverage of the game itself, with focus on the halftime show coming in third. So we have stories about the worst Super Bowl ads ever and the best and worst car names.

A housekeeper who beat her employer to death to keep him from firing her for stealing from him was sentenced to life without parole in California.

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