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Kangaroo?

what is the deal with wisconsin and animal oddity stories?

this time a kangaroo was found hoping around dodgeville wisconsin. there is no clue as to where it came from.

On Wisconsin!

list of the fattest and fittest cities in the country...
Fittest= 15. Milwaukee

oddly their neighbors to the south (chicago) are the fifth fattest. another reason why i dont like living in Illinois...

Why Wisconsin Why?

Why does this kind of Story ALWAYS come from wisconsin?

I don't know if i'll ever go back. It's just too much to handle

Here's yet another story about some crazy cramming a house full of animals in Wisconsin. 250 Cats were found dead and alive in this house. The floor is covered in feces. They say that the homeowner started bringin in stray cats and was all of a sudden "just became overwhelmed by the situation." Police were only notified after neighbors started to complain about the stench.

Now the house has to be demolished.

How many stray cats are there in Wisconsin? How did they all end up in this persons home. Why not stop bringing in cats after you have 5? Why not stop bringing in cats after 100?

Absolutely ridiculous.

Wow Wisconsin

Let's hear it for Wisconsin! Our college football team is 8-0, the election went to my alma mater today, and a hunter has created gum to mask the breath of deer hunters. I am sooooo proud of my states' great inventions.

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John Kerry is building a new Stadium

Apparently being such a sports fan and eager to win the support of my fellow Wisconians, John Kerry has decided to build a new football field in Wisconsin.

Packers news is reporting that John Kerry spoke of a Lambert Field. I'm not sure if the Kerry campaign knows this, but there's a Lambeau Field in Wisconsin.

On a totally unrelated note. If you're unregistered to vote, or if you are away from home and need a Absentee ballot. Use these links:
Vote Early. Absentee Ballots

Voter Registration

My States Gone MetroSexual.

"This Monday night men’s club doesn’t watch football. Thirty to 40 young men in Altoona, Wis., meet to crochet."

and just in case you arent sure what a metrosexual is...

are you a metrosexual? take the ESPN.com test and find out..

A Beer Revolution

ok so nothing in this story has to do with wisconsin yet i feel as if all beer related posts affect my fair state more than most.

beer researchers have developed a new aluminum beer bottle that keeps beer cold forever, violating all Laws of Physics.

while reading this artilce though one thought popped into my mind, didnt Heineken already do this?

Wisconsin Pride and Olympic Fun: Jesse 3 Bryant 0

Paul Hamm is the first male from the USA to win olympic gold in men's individual gymnastics and he is from waukesha wisconsin.

from the nbc bio
"The twins grew up on a farm in Waukesha, Wis., and used makeshift equipment to train on. Sandy built a pommel horse from an old maple tree and foam and leather from automobile upholstery; rings were hung in the attic; a stairway railing was made into parallel bars; and they set up a trampoline in the barn."

and one thing ive been trying to figure out with these games is this: with my small height (5'8") and muscular build (180lbs) what could i have won a medal in? since the Hamm's are 5'6" and 140lbs maybe the answer is gymnastics...

Wisconsin and Animal Oddities should be one catagory

oh once again we have strange animal oddities in wisconsin. this time a snake crawls out from under the dash of a rented car in madison wisconsin. this story, like all the other times wisconsin makes the news, makes lil sense.

I <3 Nature.

Jamie L. Verburgt, of Milwaukee Wisconsin was found with about 200 live animals in her apartment. She had about 70 ducks in a pen, snakes, turtles, rabbits, alligators, opossums, and squirrels. She also had animal carcasses in her freezer and in her garage.

When asked for an explanation. Apparently she picked up the dead animals off the road to feed the live animals. The live animals she was keeping to sell to pet stores. This must be the WORST scheme EVER to make a dollar. The humane society was called in to take away Verbrugt's Apartment farm

In 2000, her boyfriend, John Walters, was charged for mistreating exotic animals including a female cougar, female leopard, silver-tailed fox, monitor lizard, two caracals, a coatimundi, chinchilla and a reticulated python which he kept in his apartment.

First it's amazing that there are two of these crazies living in Wisconsin. Second its amazing/beautiful that these two found each other.

Guess whos back?

yep, im back after a small semi-retirement. its nice to take a vacation every now and then and well finals are just about done (done in like three hours) but i couldn't wait to post, especially about wisconsin.

This post is creepy. flesh eating beetles? decaying carcasses? aligators? not at the zoo? thats right its wisconsin!

(props to foxnews.com for the link)

B Town Is In The News Again

Our Home town of Beloit, WI was in the news again. This story details how one of our neighbors went missing after participating in a "belly flop competetion". I don't know what is more mind-boggeling, how there could be a belly-flop "competition", or why you would participate if you "couldn't swim"

The conclusion of Audrey Seiler

"I set up everything. I'm just so messed up. I'm sorry,"-Audrey Seiler

it seems as if she did this all dissapearing act to get her boyfriends attention. and the most telling part of the story: her laptop was used to acess his email and read exchanges with another chick.

now people, please, if we have learned two things about what not to do on the internet they are this:

1. never pose naked for anything
2. never ever no matter how much you may "love" your girlfriend give her your email password, im convinced no good can come from it whatsoever.

How do you define Wisconsin?

Effective Journalism means using the reverse pyramid. You put the most important items at the top of your article. Here's an example from The Janesville Gazette. The first sentence makes an attempt to define Wisconsin. For the longest time I thought we were the dairy state, but I guess the wonderful state of wisconsin has myriad other products by which it defines itself. I'll list a couple i can think of the rest you can post under comments:
Milk / Cheese / Beer / Badger / Cows / The house on the Rock / Mustard Museum / Truck in Tree

It Looks Like Wisconsin Is In The News Again

My city, Madison Wisconsin made national news again today, when missing UW student Audry Seiler was found alive. This is an fascinating case, and the police have not released all of the information yet. I have been trying to deduce exactly what happened based on a few interesting clues that have surfaced, see if you can figure out what happened before the police do. Here is the pertinent information:

-This girl, (who lives about 2 blocks from my girlfriend) disappeared early Saturday, at about 2am.
-A security camera showed her looking out the window and pacing before leaving by herself right before she disappeared.
-She did not take her keys or cell phone with her, and was wearing sweatpants and flip-flops when she left.
-She was assaulted randomly 1 month earlier, knocked unconscious, and woke up one block away. She was not robbed.

I think I know what happened, we will see if I am right when the police release more details.

Madison, WI Bars Accused of Price Fixing

Students at UW-Madison have filed a class action lawsuit against 18 Madison bars. The suit claims that these bars have conspired to set prices, cheating students and others out of millions of dollars.

Greatest Post Ever

ok this is kind of a local interest story... one of my friends from high school and a frequent player of poker at bryant's house in beloit, glenn meleen, crashed a plane yesterday and made national news... after talking to him and getting the inside scoop it goes a lil something like this. his engine died while flying a banner in daytona, he had to ditch the banner and land on a road, and hit a truck with his plane... he has been on local news and called a hero for not killing anyone, he was on cnn, and was contacted by inside addition today to be on their tv show......

here are some of the articles about his adventure which is now world news..
this one has a pic, new york post, canada, miami, baltimore, Channel 9, canada again

if anyone deserves a brycon surely it is glenn (aka kyle) meleen... and who knows maybe a bc.com interview...

w00t w00t for Wisconsin

Today is the day for brackets and illegal betting to begin. My sleeper pick is wisconsin they dominated illinois today in the Big Ten Tourney...

sadly my Division 1 almater did not make it this year but still was a fun place to waste a spring break...

Wisconsin Woman Robs Store She Just Applied for a Job At

This woman tried to rob a store she just applied for a job at and get this she frequented the establishment often. i mean come on people. its hard enough trying to get my state some respect without all this going on

Remember to vote today

No its not for a democratic primary, it's for something that matters. Tiara Purifoy from my class at Beloit Memorial High School is performing on American Idol tonight. So get out and vote. It's free. And speaking of Beloit High Schools, we have the two dumbest mascots, the Beloit Memorial Purple Knights, and the Turner Trojans.

Say Cheese

According to a new law -- yes they actually passed a LAW -- students in Wisconsin high schools are now allowed to pick their own yearbook pictures. Sure, it's important, but I don't think that this sort of thing requires legal intervention.

I Love Wisconsin

Is it just me, or have there been about a million stories about Wisconsin in the news these past few weeks? The funny thing is, none of this news is normal. There's always something crazy happening in 'Sconsin, so I've taken it upon myself to start its very own category. If anyone is going to do it, it should probably be me. If any of the other guys here did it, it would be like nominating yourself for prom king.

To start of the Wisconsin fun, I came across this story today. Looks like this law is really working, Ms. Attorney General.