In the News: Greek Protestors Pelt News Anchor with Eggs & Yogurt on Live TV

Protestors in Greece rushed a television station in Athens, pelting a news anchor with eggs and yogurt, all on live television!

The Mediterranean country has been caught up in nationwide, often violent protests for over a year, as Greece battles with a soaring debt crisis that threatens the stability of the Euro Zone and the world economy. Tough austerity measures have created massive civil unrest, with protestors and rioters clashing with police and military on almost a daily basis.

The crisis hit a low-point last week after a 77-year-old Greek pensioner committed suicide outside of the Greek Parliament building, leaving a note behind stating he would rather die than to scavenge for food in the streets like a peasant. The suicide re-ignited the flames of protest against the government.

Protestors apparently gained entry into a television studio where news anchor Panagiotis Bourchas was conducted a live on-air interview. The interview grinds to a sudden halt when a woman off-camera can be heard shouting. Suddenly, a volley of eggs and yogurt can be seen flying through the air, making a direct hit on Bourchas, as his guest dashes off-stage, unscathed. The news anchor is pelted with more food, as his attackers chant anti-fascist slogans. After the protestors run out of things to throw, Bourchas quietly removes his ear piece, picks up his yogurt-splattered laptop and trudges off-camera, as the station puts up a title card on-screen.


It is believed the attack was motivated after Bourchas hosted a show featuring a spokesman from the neo-Nazi political organization Golden Dawn.

Sin City RX: Las Vegas Introduces Mobile IV Units for Those Who Over-Indulge

Sin City, the city that never sleeps, has added a convenient new service to those who enjoy partaking in the many delights the town has to offer: A mobile IV unit for anyone who has had way too much to drink but does not want to suffer the painful consequences.

According to a new Las Vegas website, Hangoverheaven.com a fleet of tour buses is already rolling along the neon-illuminated streets, with stops at major casinos. If you are in desperate need of the hair of a dog to keep your Vegas vacation from becoming a nightmare, simply notify the service and they will send the bus out to your casino, where they will hook you up to an IV to treat the dehydrating effects of your hangover, for the introductory price of only $150. (Money you can recoup once you are back into fighting form and hitting the blackjack tables.) The treatment and medications are all FDA approved, the site claims.

The buses make routine, nightly stops at the Hard Rock Hotel, Paris, Bellagio and The Cosmopolitan.

Iconic 60 Minutes Reporter Mike Wallace Dead at 93

Legendary broadcaster and 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace has died at the age of 93, a spokesperson has revealed.

Wallace died Saturday night, CBS network spokesman Kevin Tedesco said. On Face the Nation this morning host Bob Schieffer  said Wallace passed away at a care facility in New Haven, Connecticut, where he had been living for the past several years.

Famous for his often aggressive form of interviewing, he was a familiar part of the journalism scene for almost seventy years. He interviewed countless politicians and celebrities over the decades,  and once famously asked the deceased Iranian religious leader the Ayatollah Khamenei if he "was crazy". He also brought superstar singer Barbra Streisand to tears during an interview, criticizing her for being "totally self-absorbed" and for her years of psycho-analysis.

He was one of the original reporters hired to host an ensemble news show titled 60 Minutes in 1968. The show would go on to become a Top 10 ratings staple for several decades, and was still rated in the Top 15 as of last year. He continued reporting for the hard-hitting news program until he announced his retirement in 2006, a year after undergoing delicate heart surgery.

Wallace received 21 Emmy awards during his long, storied career, as well as five DuPont-Columbia journalism awards and five presitious Peabody awards.

He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Mary Yates Wallace, his son, Chris, a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora, and stepson Eames Yates.

Boing! Boing! Boing! New "Trampoline" Boots Let You Jump Like a Kangaroo

If you've ever had the desire to jump around like a kangaroo, now you have the opportunity! A new athletic shoe has been introduced on the market, complete with spring-loaded, mini-trampolines on the soles which allows the wearer to hop around just like Australia's most famous marsupial.

The new athletic shoes, dubbed Kangoo Jumps, retail for around $265 US (£166) and have already made a splash Down Under, as well as in Europe and South Africa, and have already arrived on US shores just in time for the Spring fitness season. 

The manufacturers claim the shoes protect your knees and other joints while exercising by taking away up to 80 per cent of the impact. They also claim they can increase endurance, improve weight loss and help sculpture your thighs and buttocks into rippling, muscular masses. 


Kangoo Jumps are fastened just like roller blades or ski boots, with quick-release buckles and sturdy straps. Once they’re on, the wearer will need to practice walking and jumping in them to become accustomed to the sensation and to discover their center of gravity. With a little practice, you will be hopping like the Easter bunny (while perhaps drawing some laughs from passersby). 

 

Happy Easter from Too Much Information!

Taking the day off to enjoy the amazingly beautiful weather and to celebrate the Easter holiday with family and friends.

Spent the better part of the afternoon coloring Easter eggs for the children to hunt tomorrow morning. Such a fun tradition.

Wishing one and all a Happy Easter weekend!!!

No Rude Behavior: Spanish Town Bans Public Burping, Passing Gas & Slurping

A village in Spain has adopted strict new ordinances designed to make bad and rude behavior illegal!

The town of La Toba, seventy miles north of the Spanish capital Madrid, has ratified the new charter that would make public behavior such as passing gas, belching or slurping your drink or soup in a restaurant against the law.

Other public no-no's include touching your genitals in public, adjusting your underwear, picking your nose and sneezing or yawning without covering your mouth. Children could also find themselves in trouble with the law for not visiting their grandparents. 

La Toba's mayor,  Julian Atienza Garcia, of Spain's United Left Party, drew up the new charter, which has been approved by the local council, in order to combat the disappearance of public civility and common courtesy. "It is a compendium of basic rules of politeness that are being lost and should not be forgotten," Garcia told UK newspaper The Sun. 

Not everyone in the town agrees with the new charter and its restrictive guidelines. Some villagers have called for Garcia's resignation as mayor after the charter was published in the local newspaper. One more vocal critic went online to say that the next step in such a charter was "to insert microchips in everyone's brains to control them." 

However, breaking the rules at present will not be punishable and will strictly be frowned upon, unless someone else decides to change the charter...again...

Sold! America's Smallest Town Sells for Almost $1 Million

The tiny hamlet dubbed "The Smallest Town in America" is now under new ownership!

Buford, Wyoming, population 1, now belongs to two Vietnamese businessman after they bid over $900,000 in an auction for the town, CNN is reporting. That was considerably more than was expected by the town's former lone resident, Dan Sammons, who recently moved to Colorado to be closer to his son. The original starting bid for the town was $100,000.

The auction received international attention, prompting interest from more than 70 countries, after Sammons, who managed the town's liquor sales, hardware store and was also the local hot dog vendor, decide to sell the town. The new owners have not yet been publicly identified and have not divulged any plans for the town, which includes a gas station, a three-bedroom home, and 10 acres near Interstate 80.

Once upon a time, Buford was a thriving small city with a population of over 2,000 people, built along one of the first railway lines across the US. It once hosted such luminaries as Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy. After the rail line was shut down, the town slowly faded into oblivion.

Former "owner" and mayor Sammons was nostalgic after the sale. "I felt my time here has been very happy for me, and hopefully the new owner will be able to enjoy what I've enjoyed over the years—conversations with people, the uniqueness of the area and so on—and keep the history alive." He is planning to write a book about the history of the town, detailing his tenure as the city's mayor and lone resident.

North & South: New Border Configuration a Pain to Some in the Carolinas

Is this the correct border?

After decades of hard work and research, millions of dollars and with the help of some modern technology, the border between the states of North and South Carolina has been returned...to the way it was during Colonial times!

Apparently, the border had shifted over the centuries since it was charted by the King of England during the 1700s, a time when a notch on a loblolly pine in the middle of a malaria infested swamp was the best way to mark where a property line began.

For a majority of the 335-mile long border between the two Southern states, the change doesn't make much of a difference. Most of the area happens to be in virgin forest or unpopulated swamps. For 30 homes and businesses, however, the new border is causing some problems.

Former South Carolina resident Judy Helmes, for one,  isn't very happy with the change. Her home is now in North Carolina, while her back yard is in South Carolina. She now has to change her driver's license to show her new state of residence and pay a higher tax rate.

“This is like living in some kind of comic book serial,” says Mrs. Helms, 64, a retired nurse. “I just feel like I’m being kicked out of South Carolina. I’m being expelled.” She's not alone in her displeasure, as many of the displaced people, often lifelong residents of their states, now must pledge allegiance to another.

Unfortunately, more people might find themselves in the same predicament, as there are still approximately forty more miles of the border to "straighten" out to the way it was originally intended.

Hacked: Anonymous Takes Down Hundreds of Chinese Web Sites

Activist cyber-warfare group Anonymous has hacked hundreds of Chinese websites, many belonging to the Chinese government, officials say.

A number of the government sites were still not working as of today. Many of the hacked sites had messages from the activist group in both Chinese and English, stating "Chinese people: The government controls the Internet in your country and strives to filter what it considers a threat to it. Be careful."

Some of the sites have also had their administrative accounts, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses hacked and posted publicly for the entire world to see. One site claims that almost 500 Chinese sites were hacked, making it the largest cyber-attack in Chinese history.

A message on the Pastebin site contains the following information regarding the reasons behind the Chinese attacks:


Hello, we are Anonymous.
All these years the Chinese Government has subjected their people to unfair laws and unhealthy processes.
People, each of you suffers from tyranny of that regime.
Fight for justice, fight for freedom, fight for democracy!

The attack follows after several days of threats and salvos launched by Anonymous via their twitter feed.

Heeerrre's David: Letterman Surpasses Johnny Carson As King of Late Night Tenure

CBS announced that they have renewed David Letterman's contract to keep his late night talk show on the air through 2014.

The affable host began his talk show tenure when The Late Show with David Letterman debuted on NBC in 1982 and ran on the Peacock Network until 1993. CBS picked up the show the same year, where Letterman has been at home ever since.

Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for thirty years, from 1962 until he decided to retire from the show business arena in 1992, opting to go out on a note of class, which he always embodied.

"David Letterman is a late-night legend with an iconic show," said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler in making the announcement that the show would continue with the network for the next two years. Letterman, who will turn 65 next week, has won nine Emmy Awards for his late night staple, where he charms celebrity guests and audience members alike with his smooth charm and quick wit.

Eat It: Weird Al Suing Sony for $5 Million Over Unpaid Royalties

Pop parody performer "Weird" Al Yankovic has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment, claiming he is owed at least that much in unpaid royalties from digital record sales and YouTube views of his videos.

The 53-year-old, who rose to fame in the 1980s with his parodies of Michael Jackson and Madonna hits "Eat It" and "Like a Surgeon", is claiming that Sony Music is paying a straight royalty for download sales, rather than the agreed upon 50 percent of revenues as per his licensing contract.  The download royalties were reportedly listed as sales instead of licenses, which return a larger cut to the artist -- in this case $2 million more.

Yankovic also wants the media giant to hand over a percentage of the money generated by millions of YouTube views of his videos.  Every time a Weird Al Yankovic video is shown on YouTube Sony earns revenue. Google partnerships are believed to be worth $1000 to $6000 per every one million page views.

Yankovic's lawsuit follows in the footsteps of a precedent-setting suit won by rap superstar Eminem in 2010. The controversial artist sued his record company Universal Music Group for the way in which royalties for digital music downloads are calculated and reported.

Yes, You Really Want to Hurt Me: Boy George Posts Pics of Black Eye

A woman outside of a club answered Boy George & Culture Club's ultimate 80s question "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" with a resounding YES!!!

It seems that an ardent (perhaps inebriated) fan of Boy George (aka George O'Dowd) took a fancy to a hat that the gender-bending pop superstar wore to a deejay gig at a club in North Yorkshire, UK, over the weekend. When  Lady CooCoo tried to grab the chapeau from the Boy's head, she accidentally on purpose punched him in the eye!

Lady CooCoo was quickly ejected from the club, but the Boy was sporting a shiner from the overly agressive fan. O'Dowd, 50, tweeted a pic of his swollen eye with the caption "Looking pretty after getting assaulted on Saturday night!"

As the lead singer of the popular band The Culture Club throughout the 80s, O'Dowd racked up an impressive list of Number One songs around the world, selling millions of albums. He now tours primarily as a club deejay, performing at the world's most popular nightspots.

 

Dangerous Tornadoes Bring Chaos & Destruction to Dallas

Destructive, highly-dangerous tornadoes have cut a wide swathe of destruction across the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area this afternoon, the National Weather Service is reporting.

At least two massive tornadoes have been reported, sweeping across the highly-populated area, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. Local media is reporting that there is  "considerable damage" to the town of Cleburne, just to the south of Fort Worth, and Lancaster, south of Dallas.

Hundreds of flights out of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport have been cancelled or delayed. News footage out of the area show large tractor/trailer rigs being tossed at least one hundred feet into the air like toys. Hail, larger than baseballs, has also been reported. Reports of severe damage are also coming out of the Six Flags amusement park in Arlington.

Tens of thousands of homes are without power this evening as rescue crews search areas severely damaged by the ferocious twisters.

Forecasters predicted severe weather for that region earlier on Tuesday, but the area was unprepared for the intensity and severity of the storms as they struck, even as the National Weather Service tested new emergency alerts, using more graphic language to catch the attention of citizens in order to save their lives. The new alerts will now use strong language such as "this storm is not survivable unless you take shelter immediately" or "this storm has the power to leave your neighborhood unrecognizable to you".

As of now, no deaths are being reported, but this is subject to change. 

Chicks in Easter Basket Not a Good Idea Say Health Officials

They may be adorably cute, but experts are warning parents against including animals such as baby chicks or rabbits in Easter baskets for children.

Health officials in New Mexico have made public announcements discouraging the practice of gifting children with baby chicks on Easter, as the tiny animals are known carriers of the highly dangerous salmonella bacteria. The Center for Disease Control has released a report that more than fifteen children have been diagnosed with salmonella over the past four years directly linked with the handling of baby chicks.

New Mexico health officials have urged stores who sell livestock not to sell baby chicks to parents who are looking to give them as gifts to their children for the holiday. Most households are not equipped with the necessary equipment to care for the animals, including baby rabbits, and many die within days, leaving children traumatized. The New Mexico Department of Health also advises families to have children wash their hands thoroughly with supervision after handling Easter chicks and warns not to allow kids under five to touch the birds, as they are at a greater risk of contracting harmful infections.

So, the only yellow baby chicks that should be in your children's Easter baskets are these yummy beauties...

"Unbelievable" Large Meteor Witnessed by Thousands in New Zealand

A large, bright massive meteor was observed by thousands of people throughout New Zealand.

The enormous object left a long trail as it blazed its way through the skies between the New Zealand cities of Christchurch and Wellington in the early evening hours. Emergency services were quickly inundated with thousands of calls as people telephoned to report sighting the meteor. Sightings of the object came from all corners of the country.

Several residents reported hearing an extremely loud boom followed by shaking ground as the object snaked its way through the sky. One witness reported seeing an "unbelievable'' green, orange and white ball flying past at "super speed'', leaving behind an enormous smoke trail that lasted for nearly 10 minutes in the sky before completely dissipating. Others reported that the meteor moved in a zigzag pattern, rather than a straight line, while others described how it changed colors several times, from yellow to red to a glowing bright white.

The Towering Inferno: Moscow Skyscraper Ablaze

An unfinished skyscraper in Moscow is aflame tonight and is being fueled by very high winds. A firefighting helicopter has been dispatched to help fight the blaze, which is believed to have started on the 67th floor of the Federation Tower, which is set to be Russia's tallest building upon completion, which was to have been in 2013.

The fire broke out at 8:00 PM local time, shortly before sunset. A water dumping KA-32 helicopter was brought in to battle the blaze and is believed to have helped slow the progress of the spreading flames. The fire could be seen across a wide area from where the €255 million  tower is being built in Moscow City, a cluster of modern high-rises located close to the Russian governmental sector.

As of  now, no casualties have been reported.