Today In The USA

Giant beetles invade Philly – Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles _ some the size of a child’s hand _ from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises. Read it at Giant Beetles Seized At Pennsylvania Post Office

Ants take over Houston – In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. Read it at Ants swarm over Houston

“Will you lick my swizzle stick?”

That is what former Weather Channel anchor Bob Stokes allegedly said to Hillary Andrews, his former co-anchor, who has accused him of unrelenting sexual harassment.

The Weather Channel Sex Scandal appears to be a storm that is not going to be ending soon as Andrews claims that Stokes constantly harangued her with sexual come-ons, stared at her breasts and made other crude sexual comments to her are receiving plenty of exposure via The Smoking Gun web site which has the documents with all the juicy details.

Read it at Weather Channel In Sex Storm and understand it’s going to be a long time before this one “blows” over…

A beer can coffin.
It isn’t every day you see one.
As a matter of fact, most of us will never see one up close and personal.

So in the mean time we have to enjoy the good fortune of others, such as Bill Bramanti of South Chicago Heights, Illinois.

Bill has procured the ultimate status symbol for a dedicated beer drinker, a coffin that looks like a can of his favorite beer, which in Bill’s case is Pabst Blue Ribbon.

And in a stroke of genius, Bramanti had the been can coffin designed in such a way that until he pops his last top, the coffin can be used as, what else? A beer cooler!

Read it at Oddities: Man designs beer can coffin and hope that Bill will invite you over for a cool one someday…