Former cocaine smuggler Douglas Spink found a great new way to earn his keep: He ran a bestiality farm where visitors could make love to dogs, stallions, and mice smothered in Vaseline with their tails cut off, say authorities.
If there's anything science is good at, it's discovering new, strange ways for us to get cancer. Scientists have found a new one: Turning on the lights when you take a late-night trip to the bathroom. Thank you, science.
Mouse experiences joy, accepts death and ultimately cheats fate all to an amazing soundtrack. Reincarnation through cheese!
You're pretty glad you work at a newspaper or a network that doesn't have mice running every which way, like the New York Times does, aren't you? Not so fast! We took a look at Department of Health inspection records available for employee cafeterias at media companies over the last year, and some of you better lift up your feet, quick. The chart above shows the combined number of violation points each organization earned in 2007. Time, CBS and NBC all earned a failing score of over 28 on one inspection, which triggered at least one additional inspection, which they all passed. Eventually. Interestingly enough, though the Bloomberg cafeteria reportedly earned a disgusting 55 on its February inspection, the record available through the DOH's website says it landed itself a flying-colors score of 2! Now we wouldn't accuse Mayor Bloomberg of screwing with statistics on the city's website to favor his own ginormous company. Nor would we suggest it might be easy to get a mulligan on that nasty inspection if the company's CEO happened to also be the city's mayor. Someone else might suggest that, but certainly not us.
As has been documented again and again and again, there is a mouse problem as the fancy new headquarters of the New York Times. So, when Gawker videographer Alex Goldberg found himself at an event attended by some of the architects responsible for that new Times building, he knew his muckracking mission: corner one of them and demand answers.
"FYI: A mouse just jumped on the desk of a New York Times photo editor and gnawed its way through a packet of mayonnaise. (Not sure if the varmint brought its own turkey sandwich or not). People are freaking out."
The mousetraps in the cafeteria notwithstanding, according to this list (which, we understand, lives on the third floor of the new New York Times building, just a hop and a skip away from several masthead editors' offices), the last mouse sighting in the building was on August 7. Or maybe that's just the last time someone bothered to write it up on this sheet. (The note on the right says, "Let's keep this list going!")
The New York Times building has a well-documented mouse problem, and anyone who thought that the little critters would scurry away once everyone had settled into the new building were mistaken, as these photos taken over Labor Day weekend can attest. Yup, those are mousetraps in the Times cafeteria, which was closed to customers for the weekend. In the photographs it's deserted and seemingly quiet—but it was apparently open for mice. The photographic evidence follows. Times employees, you might want to double-check what's in that burger. Just saying.
There's an email circulating today among the ad sales people on the 19th floor of the new Times building—let's just say that it's a good thing it's summer and people aren't eating lunch at their desks as much! Or, you know... eek! Mice! The email follows.
