Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 07, 2011
November 06, 2011
November 08, 2011
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On Aug. 11, 2011 police in Sacramento, Calif., USA, arrested Marvin Lane Ussery for attempting to break into a jail! Someone really, really liked this! In case you ever wondered... Human excrement gets its brown color from dead red blood cells! Walking Man, a sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, sold at auction and 2010 for more than $104 million!
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FatTonyBalducci almost 13 years ago
Yeah, but why does it stink??
Sirzanne almost 13 years ago
Vis-à-vis Ussery – ya gotta wonder if he gets sentenced to a period of exclusion from jail!
Vis-à-vis the Human Excrement – I had never actually wondered about this, but now I can’t get the image out of my head! Gee thanks!
Vis-à-vis the ‘Walking Man’ – gotta say that whoever paid so much money for that objet d’art, obviously has an abundance of dead red blood cells where their brain once was located!
Aussie Down Under almost 13 years ago
$104M for the “Walking Man” probably part of the Bernie Madoff assets?
Puddleglum2 almost 13 years ago
‘Ussery’ has an excessive ‘interest’ rate, but he might be living on borrowed time. If he broke into jail in Washington, D.C., it would be a capitol offence.
Stephen Gilberg almost 13 years ago
“You realize that suicide’s a criminal offence. In less enlightened times, they’d have hung you for it.”
Kip W almost 13 years ago
Actually, the bidding went from $585 to $103M. It was his first auction.
chicken 33 almost 13 years ago
Nope I never wondered about that. The price of Swiss firewood really high.
iced tea almost 13 years ago
Re: the man breaking into the jail. It reminds of a newspaper article I read once eons ago. This drunken man walked into a service station saying he was robbing them for money. But he wasn’t armed or anything just drunk as a skunk. When the employees refused him the money, he became real mad and started saying he was going to call the police if they didn’t hand him the money. But no one did anything so he managed to call the police. They came right away.
Koolfunkygrrl almost 13 years ago
LOL…..true!! :)