Reynolds Smith Jr. was a stalwart Democratic voter, however, the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked a very important fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel:

He died in November at age 83.

The mistake was caused by outdated records according to Party executive director Jim Spearman.

He said the party received Smith’s name from a 2006 list of candidates for the Mobile County committee and then used a voter list to verify him as an active voter.

The panel was charged with replacing the local party’s executive committee.

Uh … I think they need to updated their records before they appoint anyone else to any committees!

She went on to say that not only had she expected Kangaroos at the airport but she also expected a welcoming hug. (from the kangaroos or Aussies?)

“I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them,” she told AAP news agency in an interview in Los Angeles.

“That’s really the perspective we have here. Going there kind of opened my eyes that that’s not the case.”

Please tell me that this isn’t true … that all Americans expect Kangaroos when they arrive at the airport in Sydney?

A Michigan man has landed in jail all because a game of Monopoly went awry!

The 54 year old man was playing the game this past Saturday night with a female friend.

During the game he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her, but when she refused he got angry and hit her in the head and broke her glasses!

Chill out man! It’s just a game.

He’s been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.

That pickup truck looks pretty low at the back and I’d bet that that load will break the axles … or something!

It looks like there are a number of nice cabinets loaded onto that truck … It’d be a shame if they fell off!

Have you ever overloaded a car or truck like that?

This actually reminded me that last week as we drove on the highway we passed a small car with four passengers inside. Each passenger and the driver had an arm out the window as they held onto a mattress that was sitting on top of the cars roof! No ropes, no bungy cords … just one hand each!

It was a windy day and they had to pull over just as we noticed them. I’m sure they must have had tired, just about to lose their grip hands! Plus … the driver had his right arm out the window to hold onto the mattress as well … how the heck was he able to make turning signals or god-forbid shift gears!

I only wish I had my camera with me!

The boy searched the Internet and found a bike that fit the description of his for sale on eBay. He gave the information to investigators.

A detective posing as a potential buyer arranged to meet the bike’s seller in White Plains. Police arrested the 17-year-old on charges of felony criminal possession of stolen property.

The 17-year-old was freed without bail to his parents and was due in City Court.

See … even ordinary citizens can help the police with cases.

A hug? Was he HIGH?

While visiting the QixingPark with classmates he jumped the 6.5 foot high fence around the pandas enclosure. The park was pretty much deserted at the time.

The Panda, Yang Yang, bit the student on the legs and arms.

Two foreign visitors saw the attack and ran to get help from workers at a nearby refreshment stand.

The student was pale as he was taken away by medics but appeared clear-headed, he said.

“Yang Yang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him. I didn’t expect he would attack,” the 20-year-old student, surnamed Liu, said in a local hospital, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

The student had to have surgery for his injuries but he was expected to recover fully.

The Panda, Yang Yang, was behaving normally the following day and didn’t seem to suffer any negative psychological effects.

The facility might consider putting more signs up around the enclosure however the park employee was quoted as saying “We cannot make it like a prison. We already have signs up warning people not to climb in,” he said. “There are no fences along roads but people know not to cross if there are cars. This is basic knowledge.”

There have been other incidents in the past in other zoos where people have tried to climb into panda enclosures and have been attacked. Pandas may be cute but they are still wild animals capable of attack.

Unfortunately for him the pictures on the phone were nude photos of his wife!

Sherman and his wife Tina are now in the midst of suing McDonald’s Corp, the franchise owner and the store manager. They want a jury trial and are seeking $3 million in damages for suffering, embarrassment and the cost of having to move to a new home.

The suit says that Phillip Sherman left the phone the Fayetteville store in July and that employees promised to secure it until he returned.

I guess the lesson we can take from this is that if you have taken compromising pictures transfer them to someplace safe – like your computer, rather than leaving them on your phone. You know, just in case you lose it!

Well he’s won the top award for the most sexist public comment of the year.

Mayor John Moloney was chosen by the volume of boos, jeers and stamping of feet that greeted his nomination at the annual women-only Ernie Awards in the New South Wales parliament on Thursday night.

He won the Golden Ernie for telling a newspaper that his town, where men vastly outnumber women, was a place for “ugly ducklings to flourish into beautiful swans.”

He called on large and “beauty-disadvantaged” women to flock there, saying he often saw unattractive women in Mount Isa who looked like they were enjoying life in the northwestern Queensland town.

“Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face,” he said.

“Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness.”

He later told national radio that large women could even lose weight under the gaze of Mount Isa males.

“There’s a great incentive because there’s that much attention focused on them and they become interested in looking better — and in no time they just shed it,” he said.

Confronted by a protest by scores of insulted Mount Isa women, he said: “The protesters are blaming me for their looks.”

Amy Taylor, 28, met her husband David Pollard within the game “Second Life” in May 2003, and six months later, she moved into his home in Cornwall.

The couple married in July 2005, while their “Second Life” avatars Dave Barmy and Laura Skye — younger, slimmer versions of their real-life selves — also held an online ceremony for their virtual friends.

After a rare break from the computer, however, Taylor returned to find her 40-year-old husband in an intimate, albeit virtual, position with an online prostitute within “Second Life”, which she said was the “ultimate betrayal”.

“I was so hurt,” she was quoted as saying in The Times, adding that theirs was a “very serious marriage”.

“I just couldn’t believe what he’d done. It’s cheating as far as I’m concerned, but he didn’t see it as a problem and couldn’t see why I was so upset.

“He said I was just making a big fuss and tried to make out it was my fault for not giving him enough attention.”

Second Life is an online role-playing game with more than 15 million users, in which players can create virtual avatars and interact with other gamers, or the environment.

The game has its own virtual economy, in which online currency can be exchanged for real-world US dollars, and several major businesses have set up “branches” within the game, while others operate entirely within it.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Taylor claims that Pollard is now engaged to the woman he was having an online tryst with, despite never having met her.

She has, meanwhile, found a new love, through fantasy online role-playing game “World of Warcraft”.

It sounds like both of these people live more in the Virtual world than the real world and that’s the main problem!

It seems that while using the washroom aboard the train, he accidentally dropped his mobile phone into the toilet. He bent to retrieve his phone but as he was fishing around his hand became trapped in the toilet.

Firefighters had to cut through the u-bend to free him. Witnesses at the scene say that that “He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off.” The accident occurred on Sunday’s 4:47 pm train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux, in western France.

Train service was delayed for two hours as the victim was rescued. It’s thought that his hand became stuck due to the train toilets powerful suction system which drains the loos on board.