Everyone loves bunnies.  But not as much as Miriam Sakewitz.  An employee at the hotel where Miriam was staying reported seeing over a dozen bunnies hopping around her room, and the police arrived and arrested her.  Most people might not be arrested for having bunnies in their room, but Miriam has a restraining order against her from the entire bunny population.  I’m serious.

In 2006 police confiscated over 250 bunnies from Miriam’s home, and they were taken to a shelter.  But no one separates Miriam from her fluffy little friends, so she broke into the shelter and stole them back.  That’s when she was arrested and placed on a five year probation.  She also was ordered not to go within 100 feet of a rabbit.

Police routinely search Miriam’s home for bunnies because of her probation, and in August of 2007 she refused to let officers in.  When they finally got into the home, she was arrested for possession of a 10-pound bag of carrots.  Again, I’m serious.

Since 2007 Miriam hasn’t had any trouble, but apparently she’s been meeting her bunny friends in hotel rooms for secret rendezvous.  She was arraigned on Wednesday on animal neglect charges.

I love Cincinnati news.  Every time I think that they’ve covered the most ridiculous story possible, something else comes along.  Such as this special live coverage of a mannequin that has been deemed too sexy to work in Cincinnati.  Residents actually find the mannequin too slutty and demand she stop wearing her bikini to work.  Watch the news coverage on Barbie the mannequin here: Mannequin Controversy

What an outrage.  This slutty mannequin stands on the corner every day soliciting business for a BBQ restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The owner is clearly violating all kinds of laws by letting her sexiness bring him business.  Plus he admits he hired her for her big boobs.  What about all the flat chested mannequins out there who can’t catch a break?  They can’t just slap on a bikini and sell BBQ.  This man obviously needs to be punished or else everyone will begin to violate the rights of these plastic people.

But, seriously, do you think anyone would be complaining if it was an actual person standing out there who was a gorgeous blonde in a bikini?  Apparently mannequins are much more seductive and therefore offensive.  Mannequins are tired of these stereotypes and it’s time to fight back.  Barbie can’t help it if she’s beautiful.  She was made that way.  She just wants to work her 9-5 and get respect for her talents like everyone else.  She’s definitely proved that she’s a hard worker — sales at the restaurant have gone up 40% since she started working there.  Let Barbie stay.

What does Janet say to defend the fact she is turning herself into her daughter?  “The way I see it is that she got her looks from me in the first place — mine have just faded with age.”  She also said that she “envied Jane’s crinkle-free eyes, full lips, and luscious, long blonde hair.  I was desperate to look more like my daughter.”

Sounds to me that Jane should have filed for a restraining order ASAP.  Instead Jane says that she loves the attention they get together.  She said her mother is the sister she never had and they spend all their time picking out clothes and makeup.  The only hard part?  Sometimes people think she’s the older “sister.”  But, having the same delusional genes as her mother, Jane blows it off by saying, “It’s not because I look older than my years, but just that Mum looks unbelievably young for her age.”

Click here to read the full article and see photos of the mother and daughter: Daily Mail

Remember when we were kids and we thought that if we swallowed seeds then a plant would grow inside of us?  Then we got older and laughed at ourselves for frantically spitting out the seeds of everything we ate.  That couldn’t really happen!

Artyom Sidorkin may beg to differ.  The 28 year old Russian man went to the hospital complaining that he had been having intense pain in his chest and was coughing up blood.  Doctors performed an X-Ray on Sidorkin and discovered what they thought was a tumor in his lung.  They performed surgery and were incredibly surprised to find that it wasn’t a tumor, but a small, 5cm. fir tree growing from Sidorkin’s lung.  Doctors removed the tree and are keeping it for research.  The pain and blood were caused from the needles poking into the lung’s capillaries.

Doctors are baffled and amazed at this, and assume Sidorkin must have inhaled the bud of a fir tree, which somehow found his lung a safe place to grow.  Part of me wonders if this is a prank, like when they thought they found Big Foot last year.  Can a tree even grow without sunlight?  I did find this on multiple reputable news sources, so apparently everyone believes it for now.  I’m curious to see how it plays out.  In any case, I’m pretty confident that I will spend the rest of the spring with a surgical mask tightly in place over my mouth…

Click Read More to see the photo of the tree on Sidorkin’s lung.  (Warning: Although interesting, it’s pretty graphic.  Don’t look at this if you plan on eating for the rest of the day.)

UPDATE: Here’s a video of a news story that ran about the tree.

[Thanks to Andrew for the video!]