An invader from beyond the stars?
-Yeah, you're not getting any-
Some 20 million people have tried to score tickets for Led Zeppelin's one-time reunion at London's O2 Arena November 26. In a prime example of real bad planning, the arena holds 20,000.
The concert, held in honor of the death of Altantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, has fans trying to register for tickets at a rate of 80,000 fans per minute. Good luck with that.
If you're thinking that this sort of response might convince them to do another gig or even tour, you can probably forget it. At one point, Jimmy Page was the wealthiest musician in the world and everyone in the band still has Paul McCartney-level money. They really don't need the scratch. (AFP)
-Headline of the day-
"Karate school robbery leaves thief hospitalized." A man in Bucaramanga, Colombia entered a karate school and tried to stick it up. "The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate the dozens of students, who fortunately reacted and disarmed him," said Colonel Julio Cesar Santoyo, police commander in the province of Santander.
The unnamed man suffered multiple contusions and learned a painful lesson in good decision making. Mr. Miyagi could not be reached for comment. (AFP)
-Klaatu barada nikto!-
Rugby, UK has been wondering what the hell these lights in the sky have been. Air traffic controllers had been unable to identify the object and many were convinced that they were UFOs. Not surprisingly, they weren't.
"We set them off for the kids - they love them," said Karen Redford from Langdale Close, Brownsover of the toys her and her family have been enjoying lately. Chinese lanterns, Kongming lanterns or, as they're more best known, sky lanterns are toy rice paper hot air balloons powered by either candles or fuel cells made from wax. "I am sure they are the lights that people have been reporting. It seems to have caused quite a stir!" she says.
Local UFO nuts, never being ones to let the freakin' obvious cloud the issue, insist they can't be the lanterns, but one caller to Rugby Today described viewing the lights through binoculars and seeing "Chinese writing and burners on the object."
Expect the UFO crowd to say this proves that chinese people are from Mars. (Rugby Today)
