I know this shouldn’t make me laugh, but it’s more a reaction to the absurdity of the state of things.

Small service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon in the United States: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can’t register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

– CNN: New prices swamp old gas pumps

Some of the same pumps can only count up to $99.99 as a total, keeping land behemoth or soccer team mover owners from filling up. An alternate solution for some states is to allow stations to display the price for a ½-gallon and then double the final price shown.

Makes me glad I can walk most places I need to reach, but if buses and trains start suffering from the same rising fuel/power/maintenance issues, I might need to whip out the bike… or share one!

I think this girl had big plans and was really going somewhere. Namely a late night “Girls Gone Wild” video shoot after her prom. Bobby just told me about this story of a girl taken away in handcuffs after wearing a skimpy dress to her prom and being denied entry. CNN has video of the “story” which I call out for being slow news day fluff, but even so gimme a break, girl. A few frames of the video show that the Prom flyer, had she read and/or paid it any heed, made it clear that her outfit would be unacceptable. And because she couldn’t get her way, she caused a scene. She wore that dress to get some attention, and it looks like she got her wish.

And on the other side of the scale, this poor guy gets a ticket for trespassing because a deputy didn’t care for seeing him in a speedo… on the beach.

But hey, it’s not as if there’s any important news we should be informed about instead, right?