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Okay, we all saw the move Backdraft or the bazillion other movies and TV shows that revolve around a firefighter who likes to set fires. Pretty cliche, right? But one fellow in South Carolina has put a twist on the whole thing with his sex fetish.
Paul Sloan, a fireman in North Charleston, was fined $200 […]

I have to say I had sort of given up on humanity’s ability to come up with any more good ideas, but this is freaking brilliant. A scientist in North Carolina has developed a donut with caffeine in the mix.
According to the AP, Robert Bohannon, who is a molecular biologist, has come up with a […]

Forget owning your own country, land on the moon is less than $20 an acre!
http://www.lunarregistry.com
Or if you prefer Red to Gray:
http://www.marsshop.com/
One acre of Mars = Only $19.99 plus $1.51 Martian Tax (how else will the Martians pay for Social Security?) and shipping and handling of $10.00 (make land on Mars come to you for only […]

In amongst all the traffic we get here at PigIronMalt from people looking for the morbid details concerning the tragic death of ’70s rock stars, it appears this site is now high on the list for information on latrine duty. Someone manged to reach this site by typing “how to clean a toilet” into Google.
Not […]

Kazakh border guards have arrested a man trying to smuggle 500 parrots in his car from neighbouring Uzbekistan, media reported on Tuesday.”Border guards discovered a live cargo of 500 parrots in his car,” Kazakhstan Today news agency quoted a KNB security service official as saying.
I’ll confess; I’m not a smuggler. I don’t know how these […]

A San Francisco-area pastor who pleaded guilty to helping smuggle young leopard sharks from California to aquariums in Europe and the United States has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison, according to the Justice Department.Kevin Thompson, a Unification Church pastor, was one of six men charged with harvesting thousands of sharks […]

On the surface, it seems like the following stoner got lucky, given a chance to memorize the Koran and stay out of jail, but I don’t know how many druggies would be able to pull that off.
A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend six months memorizing the Koran, but he faces a […]

Imagine you’re in this situation: Your hometown football team hasn’t competed for a title in more than a decade and now they’re on the brink of reaching the Super Bowl. The problem is, your wife is expecting your first child any day now, which might mean you’ll miss the Big Game. What do you choose, […]

Brick and mortar retailing could be taking a page from Facebook and other social networking sites if one digital design company has its way. IconNicholson introduced this past week an interactive mirror that would allow shoppers to interact with friends and family around the world.
The mirror, unveiled at the National Retail Federation’s BIG show in […]

File this one under “strange things to search for.” Someone out there in Internetland recently visited this site after searching for “lynyrd skynyrd autopsy reports” and I’m sure they were very disappointed to find that this is neither a clearing house for coroner’s examinations nor a ’70s arena rock fan site.
It makes me wonder about […]