News of THE weird
Dream car for the fearful …
Sure, your SUV may have ventilated seats and Wi-fi, but does it have electrified door handles?
The Guardian reported Jan. 25 that a new vehicle for the fearful driver has hit the market. Costing up to $499,000, the Rezvani Vengeance has bulletproof glass, strobe lights, wing mirrors that emit pepper spray and no back windshield — instead, the driver can monitor a live video stream of what’s going on behind the car.
Sure to win a popularity contest in the pickup lane at school, the Vengeance has a loudspeaker so you can call to little Timmy without leaving the safety of your seat.
Extras include bulletproof vests, helmets and gas masks. The Irvine, Calif., company teases on the website: “Vengeance is yours.”
… and a crafts project, too
If you’re looking for a project, the online shop Savor has you covered, Slate reported. For the low, low price of $46.95, you can put together your own “In Case I Go Missing” binder, which Savor says “makes it super easy for the true-crime obsessed to record their key stats for their loved ones.”
Those include medical and financial information, fingerprints and lists of “hangout spots.” One woman said she added “a hair sample just in case they need it for DNA testing.”
Patrick Mclaughlin, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, offers some ideas for the kit: recent photos, the unlock code for your phone, pictures of tattoos, scars or birthmarks, handwriting samples — but he warns such binders might not be admissible as evidence.
That (birthday) guy
Dennis Garsjo, 73, of Glasgow, Mont., may not know your name, but he’ll call out to you anyway, using your birthday. “Top of the morning to ya, April 11,” he might say, according to KRTV.
Garsjo has memorized more than 3,000 birthdays.
“My mother remembered all our relatives’ birthdays before she started getting dementia,” he said. “I don’t think my talent is all that special. I’m more impressed by musicians who can play a song from memory on the piano.”
Still, residents of Prairie Ridge Village, where he works, enjoy The Birthday Guy, as he’s known.