Top 5 weird, sizzling and funny world news of this week
TV Host Wears Same Suit on Air for a Year, No One Notices
The male co-host of an Australian TV program is finally getting some attention for his fashion sense. And that's his point. Karl Stefanovic wore the same blue suit every day for a
year on Channel Nine's "Today" program. And no one noticed until he went public with his hidden-in-plain-sight experiment. He told Australia's Fairfax Media that while no one asked about his suit, people regularly commented about and criticized the outfits worn by co-host Lisa Wilkinson.Stefanovic says, "I'm judged on my interviews, my appalling sense of humor - on how I do my job, basically. Whereas women are quite often judged on what they're wearing or how their hair is."
The Age newspaper says he's still wearing the same blue suit, and only Wilkinson and another "Today" colleague knew about his experiment. "They often remark that it's getting a bit stinky," he said in the paper's weekend edition. "I'm hoping to get it into the dry cleaners at the end of the year."
Woman with Last Name "Crook" Arrested for Burglary
A woman with the last name of Crook was arrested for burglary at a department store in Alhambra Friday night, police said. Josephine Crook, 49, was arrested at a Kohl’s department store on the 1200 block of South Fremont Avenue and is suspected of commercial burglary and possession of burglary tools. Crook allegedly was in possession of a pair of wire cutters and a pair of scissors. Crook allegedly took ladies’ undergarments and failed to pay for the items she concealed in her empty purse, police said.
Atari games rescued from landfill net $37,000
ALAMOGORDO, N.M., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A New Mexico city made $37,000 from auctioning 100 Atari games found in a landfill, with one copy of a game widely regarded as the worst ever going for $1,537. The City of Alamogordo sold 100 of the Atari 2600 games on eBay after they were unearthed from a local landfill in a project masterminded by Joe Lewandowski, vice president of the Tularosa Basin Historical Society. The $37,000 proceeds from the auctions will be split by the city and the historical society, officials said.Lewandowski said the auction's success exceeded expectations. "It seemed like every seven to 10 minutes it went up a thousand dollars, a thousand dollars, so it was just instantaneously 24, 25, 26. It just kept on going way beyond anything we expected," he told KRQE-TV.
Cops responding to funny surprise gunfire reported in basement
COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Police in Colorado responding to a report of gunfire said they discovered two drunk men shooting at bottles in a makeshift basement shooting range. Colorado Springs police said officers responded to a report of gunfire being heard coming from a home shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday and they arrived to find the front door open and gunshots coming from the basement. The officers found three people in the basement, including two who were taking turns shooting at bottles with a handgun. The third person was just watching and had not fired the weapon, police said. Christian Clark, 28, and Codie Leslie, 23, were arrested on charges of prohibited use of weapons and reckless endangerment.
Why Men are better than women at reading maps and *ex?
Men can read maps better than women can because a good sense of direction helps them to sew their wild oats, a study has found. According to research at the University of Utah, men are wired to want to spread their genes far afield, either to reduce the chance of inbreeding or to increase opportunities to mate. Consequently, navigational and directional skills are far more developed in men than in women, with the difference observable even today in male and female brains.‘Navigation ability facilitates traveling longer distances and exploring new environments,’ said researcher Layne Vashro And the farther you travel, the more likely you are to encounter new mating opportunities.’
In the study, researchers looked at two tribes in Namibia where men regularly roam more than 120 miles every year, mating with women in the regions they cover. Both the men and the women were then tested on spatial awareness tasks, matching pictures to each other and pointing out locations on a map, with the results finding that men were far better than women, and the men who traveled the furthest performed the best.‘It looks like men who travel more in the past year also have children from more women – what you would expect if mating was the payoff for travel,’ said Ms Vashro.
