The Most Awesomest News Story for the Week of Jan 18-24, 2009

73-year-old lawyer, Peter Buchanan, was in court this week defending some hilarious charges.

Buchanan was arrested last month after striking a CalTrans road worker with his Mercedes. It appears that when the route to his favorite restaurant was blocked for construction, Peter decided that the roadblock didn't pertain to him. He drove through the baricade and hit one of the men working on the road.

After being hit, the CalTrans worker jumped up onto the hood of Buchanan's car to avoid being run over. Buchanan continued on his way without even slowing. He traveled, with the roadworker on the hood of his car, all the way to his freeway exit, where he was met with a road block.

This story is my pick for this week's most awesome simply because I think it would be hilarious to see a car cruising down the freeway with someone clinging to the hood. I know, I'm sick.

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The Most Awesomest News Story for the Week of Jan 4-10, 2008

When a 6-year-old boy from Virginia missed the bus that takes him to school on Monday morning, he knew he had to find another way to get to school. After all, he couldn't be late or he'd miss breakfast and P.E. class. Like any good son would do, he didn't wake his parents and burden them with his predicament. Instead, he just took their car keys and drove himself...or at least he tried.

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The Most Awesomest News Story for the Week of Dec 28, 2008-Jan 3, 2009

On New Year's Eve, a 17-year-old girl from North Dakota called 911 to report a drunk driver. The police weren't surprised that there were drunk drivers on the road that night; it was New Year's after all. What did surprise them, however, was that the alleged drunk driver was the girl who called them.
In case you missed that: She called the police to tell them that she, herself, was driving under the influence. Genius.

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The Most Awesomest News Story for the week of Dec 21-27, 2008

When will people learn to just shut the fuck up when they're in a movie?

On Christmas, during a screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which totally rules and you should go see it now), James Cialella became annoyed with the people sitting in front of him because they were talking. James, trying to be reasonable, asked them to quiet down.
When their rudeness continued, he shot them.



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PS. When I refer to a story as awesome, I mean unusual or interesting or even shocking. I do not condone shooting loud people in movie theatres.

The Most Awesomest News Story for the week of Dec 14-20, 2008

The pool at the Atlantic Resort in the Bahamas has a pretty cool feature: a shark tank underneath. Oh yeah, while swimming in the pool, there are sharks directly underneath you. Pretty sweet, right?

Well, on Tuesday the 16th, one of the sharks decided he didn't like being confined to his tank, so, like any sensible shark would do, he leaped out. Onto a water slide. And rode down it into the pool.



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The Most Awesomest News Story for the week of Dec 7-13, 2008

A woman in West Palm Beach, FL will no longer be receiving around $2,000 a month in alimony payments after a kick-ass court ruling. A stipulation in her divorce agreement states that she would receive alimony payments from her ex-husband until she either gets married or cohabitates with another person for over three months. Well, in 2005 she was sentenced to nine years in prison for injuring 2 men in a drunk driving accident. Her husband challenged in court that during her time in prison she is cohabitating with her cellmate. A panel of judges agreed and ordered her alimony be cut off.

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