This is a great addition to a prison security scheme.

The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.

More prisons should adopt a policy such as this. Why not?

Just bring in all the animals that need to be removed from city limits for whatever reasons. There are always bears, wolves and other potentially dangerous wild animals being found within city limits. They need somewhere to be removed to.

This guy feels the city needs to be prepared. For space aliens. The story doesn’t get horribly specific, but I assume this is mostly a “what would we do if they showed up?” type of commission.

A Denver man who wants the city to be prepared for space aliens is proposing a commission to deal with the matter.

Read the rest here.

Hopefully they give the girl something cool, like a space shuttle ride or something.

A Bahamian girl’s seaborne school project has landed on the sandy doorstep of NASA.

United Space Alliance worker Jill Vogel found a message in a bottle from a student at the Holy Name Catholic School in Bimini, about 220 nautical miles southeast of Titusville and closest to Florida of all the Bahamas islands.

Read the rest here.

Yep. He ate too much cake.

An inquest is to be held on a man who died during a contest to see who could eat the most fairy cakes.

The man, thought to be from Birmingham, collapsed at a Swansea nightclub during the event at the end of a party to raise funds for an art exhibition.

Read the rest here.

I guess the police just don’t seem too concerned about this one though.

It’s bad enough that thieves have walked away with more than 500 parking meters in downtown Atlanta this year.

What’s worse is that police are not even investigating.

Sandra Jennings, deputy commissioner of the city’s transportation office, says Atlanta has had to replace about 39 per cent of its parking meter inventory this year because of the thefts.

Read the rest of this madness here.

I am intrigued by the design of this stadium. It is presented as being unique compared to the design of newer ballparks.

The Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon revealed a bold plan for a new waterfront baseball stadium at one end of a dramatically transformed St. Petersburg downtown.

The Rays’ plans call for a $450-million, open-air, 34,000-seat stadium to open in 2012 at the current site of Al Lang Field. On the other end of downtown at Tropicana Field, the team proposes a massive retail and residential development.

Read the rest here and view the visionary slide show here.