Back in 2001, Chiropractor Tom Payne had a 400 lb, eight-foot-tall Bigfoot, which he named “Sasquatch Sam,” carved out of a tree. It had bicycle-reflector eyes and acted as a signpost for the narrow driveway that led to Payne’s clinic in Federal Way, Washington. The town was stunned one morning in January 2006 to find […]
As reported in the Daily Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, the U.S. Government has become leery of people with cameras. Well, some types of people anyway. The story unfolds of man who thought that Picatinny Arsenal — a military installation — was a “tourist attraction.” After being turned away at the gate, the man […]
A shocking story in the Erie Times-News on April 1 — which doesn’t appear to be a prank — relates that the Marx Toy Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania, will be closing its doors forever on April 13. Problems cited in the article include a lack of money from the city, and the rarified ages of […]
We’ve touched on the trend before of ever-narrowing categories for Halls of Fame, sliced and diced by geography, industry, gender, race, religion, politics, and whatever. We were reminded of it again by a story in the Frisco, Texas, Courier-Gazette. A former post office supervisor named Andy Woolard wants to build a Christian Music Hall of […]
