Dave Barry's Blog

WHAT DO THEY MEAN, 'POTENTIAL' PROOF? WE ALREADY HAVE ALL THOSE GOBSMACKING PHOTOS THAT CLEARLY SHOW BLURRY SHAPES!

Research hub wants to prepare humanity for potential proof of alien life

(Thanks to B&C)

HE WON'T MAKE *THAT* MISTAKE AGAIN

Largo woman hit man with plank because she wasn’t ‘getting enough attention,’ police say

(Thanks to John Lobert)

THE GAS STATION WAS OVERWHELMED

Passengers on a plane could not use the toilets because the tank was full, forcing it to make an unscheduled stopover

(Thanks to B&C)

THE CHICKEN WAS RELEASED AFTER PRODUCING A VALID FLORIDA DRIVER’S LICENSE

TSA agents find gun inside raw chicken at Florida airport

(Thanks to Rick Day)

SOUNDS RATIONAL! BY WHICH WE MEAN STUPID

Mouth taping.

(Thanks to Robert Moats)

PHILLY GUYS IN ACTION

Man who ate 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days: "I just felt like I was doing this for a very important reason"

(Thanks to Robert Moats and Al Barkafski)

COLLEGE GUYS IN ACTION

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? is set to chronicle a college student’s battle with the soda empire over a sweepstakes commercial that promises a customer could – in theory – win a $23 million Harrier fighter jet, just by buying a whole bunch of Pepsi.

(Thanks to Robert Moats)

HELLO, FARMERS?

‘Flaming basketball’ that fell from the sky may have been a meteor that destroyed a California home

(Thanks to Robert Moats)

We for one did not know that there were basketballs in space.

SEEMS FAIR

Palmer Luckey, defense contractor and the father of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they’re playing.

(Thanks to Charles Cates, who says “so not virtual reality at all.”)