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The perv beat has been an unending source of amusement 30 Aug 2011 | 09:56 pm
On May 10, 2000, I posted this story about a man who duped several women into taking part in phony sex research. He paid them $10 an hour to study the changes in a woman's body after orgasm. He also o...
Stories about drive-thru antics? I've posted a million of them! 30 Aug 2011 | 07:27 pm
Well, several dozen at least. My summary of this story from March 10, 2000, says astonished fast-food workers were stunned to see the car whisk in reverse. Deputies couldn't conduct a field sobriety t...
From 2000: Beaver College - the butt of jokes - mulls name change 30 Aug 2011 | 06:16 pm
This 11-year-old story pointed out that many filters were blocking the word "beaver," preventing prospective students and their parents from getting information on the school. One freshman woman told ...
If I had a buck for every really-young-kid-steals-car story I posted! 29 Aug 2011 | 08:23 pm
I could have semi-retired much earlier! This is from the October 8, 1999 Obscure Store (wait for a second for Wayback Machine to jump to the page): Girl, 12, spends 50 cents on gas and steals car Co...
From 1999: Catholic newspaper stops taking ads that thank saints 29 Aug 2011 | 06:52 pm
The goofiness of many religious practices -- and the hypocrisy of religious institutions and their members -- has been a frequent theme here. This Cincinnati Post story from March 10, 1999 says the ad...
I've been posting homeowners association disputes from the start 29 Aug 2011 | 06:20 pm
You might remember the one from 2006 involving a woman who put up a peace-sign wreath and was slapped with a $25/day fine from the homeowners association. In 1999, I posted a story about a woman who d...
The great Toronto sexcapade scandal of 1999 29 Aug 2011 | 05:15 pm
People still remember the 2008 incident in which a man was caught trying to get off with a picnic table umbrella, but equally bizarre was a 1999 Obscure Store report headlined: "Man linked to imaginat...
Here's what The Obscure Store looked like in 1999 29 Aug 2011 | 05:06 pm
I actually had an online store back in those days. There was a lengthy blogroll -- as everyone had a decade or so ago. Otherwise, the story format has pretty much remained unchanged over the years -- ...
'I am so f*cked,' says drunk woman after crashing into cars 26 Aug 2011 | 10:06 pm
Rebecca Ward, 19, told officers that in addition to downing a number of shots at a party, she'd also taken a Lunesta a few hours earlier. "No wonder she failed to satisfactorily perform roadside maneu...
Former high school principal is now a Hugh Hefner-lookalike 26 Aug 2011 | 09:03 pm
Impersonating the Playboy founder pays handsomely for 72-year-old George Kane, but he doesn't want his mother to know. Hef is just a "dirty old man" to the nursing home resident. Kane's wife isn't thr...
