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Sometimes there's a story that I "have" to publish, even though I know it just won't make it past the spam filters.
Weekly Weird News
This is one such story, even though there's nothing truly "dirty" about it.
But even if I can't get it through spam filters, I can certainly post it on my web site, so this is an "extra" story (with the accompanying headline that brought my attention to the story in the first place), from the week of 5 September 2010:
This is Serious!
There has been a development in a year-old murder case in Potter Township, Pa. The victim: Samuel S. Boob, 29. The alleged getaway driver has been arrested, Kermit Butts, 26. Police say Butts helped plan the Boob killing, and drove the gunman, Ronald Heichel, to and from the scene at Boob's house, where Boob was murdered in the garage of his Tusseyville Road home with his own shotgun. Investigators say Boob's wife, Mirinda Boob, wanted her husband killed because, she says, he "abuses her". Police say the motive was Boob's life insurance proceeds. "There is a gag order in the case," the local newspaper notes, "preventing any of the parties involved from speaking publicly." (Centre Daily Times) ...Mainly because none of them can do so without giggling.
Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case
WTAJ-TV headline
Mug Shots? Why Certainly!
Mirinda Boob |
Ronald Heichel |
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The best photo I could find of Samuel Boob.
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29 Comments on This Entry
All comments in this blog are reviewed prior to being published. Spammers: don't waste your time. The posting criteria are simple: if a comment is worth visitors' time to read, it's approved. If not, it's not.
Posted by Maurizio - London on September 6, 2010:
"Randy" site can't help talking about boobs and butts.
Your British readers won't be surprised....
Posted by Cory, Topeka, Kansas on September 6, 2010:
Sad stories don't go over so sadly with such silly names. Parents take heed!
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Of course, these are family names. As far as given names, Kermit may be odd, but in this case it certainly beats Seymour. -rc
Posted by Mike from Dallas on September 6, 2010:
Unrelated to the story, but it's funny how certain words (names?) trigger spam filters. Like the time I was on the beach when some muscle-bound idiot was showing off by lifting a well-endowed, bikini-clad beauty up on each bicep. And a friend exclaimed, "Wow, look at the broads on that boob!"
Posted by Wally from Kansas on September 7, 2010:
Detectives report that Butts cracked under interrogation.
Posted by Mark - Flint, MI on September 7, 2010:
Randy, I can't stop laughing. I'll show this to the wife tonight. She'll get a kick out of it. She likes "butt" jokes and I like "boobs".
Posted by Lisa from day U.P. of Michigan, 'eh on September 7, 2010:
Ok ok, I know someone beat me with a cracked joke, but I still have to do it, it's my inner twelve-year-old boy talking:
"Authorities suspect Mr. Butts may have been on crack during the Boob job."
Ba-dum-TISS
Posted by Lorrie, Kailua, Oahu on September 7, 2010:
This story had me cringing... very similar reaction I have to those reality shows with mentally challenged people. Still, it did not stop me from reading the entire story...why??? I feel so dirty. ;0) Thanks for the smiles!
Posted by Phil, San Antonio, Texas, USA on September 8, 2010:
Too bad Ronald's last name wasn't Beaver or something similar to complete the trifecta.
Posted by Chris, Pueblo on September 10, 2010:
I feel so dirty, so ashamed, but the shame of it all, is that she is really a very good looking Boob.
Posted by Pierre, Ontario, Canada on September 10, 2010:
I think that if just about anyone else except (but?) Randy had posted this story, I would have said to myself: "Self, someone has a great imagination, this story is fake."
But, as my late friend Sherlock told me: "Pierre, there are more real, true, and strange things in the world than there are in all of fiction." (Well, OK, that is not an exact quote. But I bet 50 quatloos, RC will either know or quickly find exact one.)
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Look at the top of the page: "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense." Close enough. -rc
Posted by Phil, W. Wales UK on September 11, 2010:
Hey, namesake in San Antonio! Now you know what to call your Heichel when in polite company.
Posted by Ann Illinois on September 11, 2010:
I was intrigued when I saw Randy's comments on it triggering spam filters. I wasn't sure what to expect, however I quickly learned it was a mistake to be drinking a soda while reading it! I had to clean my computer screen because I laughed so hard! It could have been worse someone could have been named Dick.
Posted by John, Blaxland, Australia on September 11, 2010:
Got to say Mr Boob looks like a mix of the two male suspects....
Posted by david from Pa on September 11, 2010:
Well... Potter Township is in Beaver County. So: Butt, kills Boob in Beaver
I guess those Boobs are no longer traveling in pairs.
Posted by eileen in san jose, ca on September 11, 2010:
If there are reasons to change surnames, then certainly this qualifies. And...the wife, it seems, actually changed her name to "Boob." Normally, it is optional to change one's name upon marriage. I don't care how much I loved the guy, there ARE limits!
Just imagine what prison mates will do with these idiots!
Posted by Dandapani, FL on September 12, 2010:
The conspirators called their little caper the.... wait for it.... The Boob Job.
Posted by Mark Upstate NY on September 13, 2010:
True story...my ex-aunt married a guy whose last name was
Beaver. So her name was Barb Beaver aka Barbi Beaver.
Imagine if she was involved in this caper. hehehe
Posted by Dante, Ohio on September 13, 2010:
Boobs and Butts! Now that was MADE to make headlines - the names themselves are a crime!
Posted by Carey FL on September 13, 2010:
I may be a boob, butt I just don't get it.
Posted by J -- somewhere in Central PA on September 13, 2010:
When this update ran in the Centre Daily Times, one of the jokes going around was "Did you read the paper today? Well you should, but keep it away from the kids...it's all about Boobs & Butts!"
Posted by Mark, Upstate NY on September 13, 2010:
True story...my ex-aunt married a guy whose last name was Beaver. So her name was Barb Beaver aka Barbi Beaver.
Imagine if she was involved in this caper. hehehe
Posted by Kyle, Pittsburgh on September 13, 2010:
Could be worse... My wife worked with a guy who's name was Richard Swallow. Seriously!
I can't imagine what his parents were thinking.
Posted by Val - USA on September 13, 2010:
Truth - my daughter has the last name Beaver and went through school and is still friends with a girl that has the last name of Dick. You can only imagine the looks they get when paying with debit/credit cards.
Posted by eileen in san jose, ca on September 14, 2010:
Some parents just don't think how their children's names will effect their lives. A friend has a client named...Richard Peter Johnson. All good, classic names when used separately.
Then, there was a new baby in the mid-80s named Pitbull Shotgun, poor kid!
Posted by Mark, Ridgewood, NJ on September 17, 2010:
At college, I lived down the hall from twin brothers: Richard (aka Dick) and Peter Hertz.
Posted by John, Milwaukee, WI on September 18, 2010:
In a previous job, I had to customers with unique names. Harold Butts and Richard Holder. What were their parents thinking?
Posted by pup in GA on September 18, 2010:
Decades ago my ex-wife lived in Oak Ridge TN. There was a scientist there whose last name was Pigg.
If you ate dinner with them, one of the sons would joke that you made a Pigg of yourself.
There is a famous former governor of TX who named his daughter Ima -- last name Hogg.
Posted by Douglas - York;UK on September 26, 2010:
Another member of the Pigg family was a child enrolled many years ago in our local school whose parents very thoughfully had her christened with the names of 2 maiden aunts; "Annie R. Pigg" -- all very well until the names were read out in full when taking the first class roll call, and her aunt Rhoda's name was included....
Posted by Paul Essex, UK on October 14, 2010:
During the recent election for leader of the Labour Pary, my vote went to Ed Balls. I just couldn't resist the idea of a possible Prime Minister Balls one day.