April Fool’s Day

As many of you may know, I hate today (April Fool’s Day) with a passion. It’s not because I don’t find it funny sometimes, it’s because I’m just too damn gullible and always forget what day today is. Then I start thinking it’s true and it takes me forever to realize.

Anyway, here’s a couple good ones I’ve run across today. I’ll update the list as I find more and feel free to point out any good ones you’ve found via the comments of this post. 😉

iMeat

I know what I want for Christmas next year!

A 14-year-old girl who received a new Apple iPod opened the sealed box and found raw mystery meat inside, according to a Local 6 News report.

Rachel Cambra purchased a new high-tech iPod for her daughter as a gift this week.

When she opened the sealed box, the device was missing and in its place was a piece of raw meat, the report said.

Cambra said the box was sealed and that it didn’t appear to have been tampered with when she brought it home from the Honolulu Wal-Mart where she works.

An investigation found that a former employee apparently tampered with a shipment of iPods and put the meat into several packages.

The former employee now faces tampering charges, Local 6 News reported.

The Wal-Mart where the device was purchased from promised to give the family a new iPod from the next shipment the store receives.

Source: http://www.local6.com/news/5710517/detail.html

Hosting Company Wants to Adopt Kid

What the hell…

A web hosting outfit wants to legally adopt a child under the name of the company.

Weblinkhosting.com says that it wants the child to live at the web hosting data centre where he will be provided with food, clothing, shelter and love from the owner and employees.

The plan gets scarier when you read the company’s press release about the plan. “He (sic) can learn all there is to learn about his new mother, web hosting. Perhaps even work for the company in the later years and become a Linux guru,” the press release says.

Apparently the company has been working on the legal adoption process for six months. The deal being hatched out will involve the kid being “the logo and slogan” of the company when he has become old enough. Has the world gone mad? [Yes. Ed]

You can read the press release here. µ

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28353