Archive for June, 2007

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links for 2007-06-28

Florida man’s headache mystery solved by a bullet | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
Wife shoots husband in his sleep…he wakes up with a headache
(tags: funny weird news)

Canada: 30 mph over speed limit is "street racing"

Let me continue my rant against knee-jerk reactionary policies. If an area has a large street racing or speeding problem, BY ALL MEANS - solve the problem. But it sounds to me like this politician–excuse me, police commisioner– just likes getting his name in the paper and/or is knee-jerking to some kind of pressure.
I’m not condoning […]

Ontario threatens to crush street racing cars before they hit the street - Autoblog

Bryant likened a “juiced-up” car for street racing to “an explosive” and claimed “…we don’t need to wait until that car hits the road fully loaded.” While street racing is an indefensible act of stupidity, we wonder what standards Ontario will use to judge cars as intended for street racing before they are impounded and […]

Prostitution photos to go public - CNN.com

Leave it to the Italians to do it right. How many guys do you see on cops crying not to tell their wives when they got busted in a prostitution sting? Imagine how pissed someone’s wife would be if they saw their husband’s license plate in the newspaper
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — An Italian […]

Student stages robbery to wipe bad grades | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

Wow….just wow…need I say it?
(Those crazy Germans!!)
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 16-year-old Berlin student was so worried he would have to repeat a year at school because of poor marks he convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades.
“The student probably honestly believed that he could avoid repeating […]

links for 2007-06-19

LS1GTO.com Forums - Engine Degreasing/Dressing 101
(tags: cars wash+clean tips instructions)

links for 2007-06-17

GTO Jacking Points
(tags: gto suspension jack)

LS1GTO.com Forums - Bushing Install (or, I wish I had a lift)
(tags: gto suspension pedders jack)

links for 2007-06-15

LS1GTO.com Forums - L92 Installation Pics — Step 1: Stripped!
LS2 in the process of getting news heads/intake installed - cool pics
(tags: gto photos modification engines ls2)

Man fails school exams on 38th try | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
“A 73-year-old Indian farmer who vowed not to marry before passing his high school exams has failed to get […]

Check out what the delivery guy brought me the other day

The rest of my suspension bits have arrived. Front springs, rear shocks, front endlinks, rear sway bar end link bushings, and new shock bolts. The rest of my pieces have been here for a while, although I am still waiting on a guy to ship the front radius rod bushings.
I figure I will do […]

Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3 | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

Those Crazy German…squirrels? 
BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local […]