FEMA has come up with a new way to measure the strength of hurricanes — the Waffle House scale.
The feds have discovered that if the Waffle House diners in the path of a storm stay fully open, the storm isn’t that bad. If they are open, but with a limited menu the storm is a little worse.
“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed,” FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told The Wall Street Journal, “that’s bad.”
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Attention, burglars, you might want to avoid social networking.
A Florida woman went online and asked friends to help her find a puppy stolen from a litter of pit bulls she had hoped to sell.
A Facebook friend wrote back and said her mom’s boyfriend had just posted a picture of himself holding the purloined pup, and the man was soon arrested.
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Mixing bombs and airplanes isn’t funny.
A Florida woman was busted after she drew a picture of a bomb and wrote the word “boom” on her friend’s luggage as a joke before the pal went to the Miami airport.
The clueless pal tried to check the bag with the bomb picture onto her flight, sparking a major alert.
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Maybe they should get Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a spokesman.
A French perfume company has come out with a new fragrance that smells like semen.
Perfume maker Etat Libre d’Orange calls the scent “Secretions Magnifiques,” and claims it “sends one into raptures.” We just call it gross.
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When Mars attacks, this guy will be ready.
A Swedish man was arrested for firing a gun out of a window in an effort to shoot down a UFO.
His girlfriend called cops. But in the end, everything was OK. The man told cops he shot down the attacking spacecraft.