Rage of the Week
Angry at being mocked as a “nerd” over the Internet, Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to confront his taunter and burned down the other man’s trailer. The feud began when John G. Anderson, who runs a haunted house outside Waco, posted online views that irked Tavares, whose screen name was “PyroDice.” The two argued back and forth until Tavares obtained Anderson’s name and address from the Museum of Horrors Haunted House’s Web site and headed for Texas. Authorities said he threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Anderson’s mobile home and lit a flare.
“I didn’t think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill somebody over an Internet fight,” said Anderson, who the Associated Press reported planned to spend $30,000 to surround his home with fencing topped with barbed wire. “Before this happened,” he pointed out, “the rule was: Nobody messes with the haunted house guy.”
Silver Lining
Steven Earp, 48, was eating a breakfast sandwich while driving in Eugene, Ore., when he choked and passed out. He hit a parked car and regained consciousness, police Sgt. Doug Mozan said, calling Earp’s revival a “seatbelt-induced Heimlich maneuver.”
Photoshop the Bodies
When a China Airlines passenger jet exploded in flames at Okinawa’s Naha Airport, and photographs and video footage of the jet began appearing on news reports, the airline hastily painted over the name “China Airlines” on the left-hand side of the fuselage and over the company’s logo on the tail fin to limit further damage to its image. “We followed international procedures,” an official from the Taiwan-based airline told Mainichi Daily News.
Dose of Reality
When police arrested a 24-year-old woman for stealing $250 worth of groceries from a store in Burlington, Wis., she explained she took the items because her medication made her feel like she couldn’t be caught.
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