Apparently, four inmates escaped from a Tennessee jail after the doors were left unlocked. Nobody noticed their absence. But all they did was buy a bunch of beer and bring it back to the jail to drink there. Strange.

From the “only in Russia” department…

Apparently, it is quite commonplace for passengers on Russian flights to be intoxicated. It’s less common for the flight crew to be drunk, but apparently it happens anyway…

Perhaps the next thing that the Catholic leadership will find sinful is the Atkins diet, since apparently it can seriously hurt your pregnancy chances.

This is an amusing article out of Minnesota: Plane lands at Air Force base by mistake. (Links that don’t have such intrusive adds: link 1, link 2).

With the federal do-not-call list getting ready to go live, and many states having already had do-not-call lists on the books, dealing with telemarketers is going to become increasingly rare. Which means that certain people’s lives are going to get a little more boring.

For some reason, telemarketer problems seem to have been top water cooler discussion items for years. I’ve heard a lot of ways people deal with them. But this is definately something new.

One of the funniest auctions yet — check it out

Apparently, some Republicans are so annoyed with the French that they decided to rename French fries to “Freedom Fries” in U.S. Capitol restaurants. The French embassy had no comment save that the fries are actually Belgian.

419 scammers take US con artist for $750,000 – Thick doesn’t even begin to describe this one [The Register]