For the next several weeks, I’m going to post my favorite entries from Boing Boing this year.
• Heir to dictator moves into $35 million Malibu home
(Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s is slated to take over his father’s role as ruthless dictator of Equatorial Guinea.)
• Tijuana cops lose guns, get slingshots (While a corruption investigation is underway, they’ve replaced the guns all of the cops in tourist areas with slingshots and ball-bearings.)
• State of Massachusetts insists on calling ATHF ads “hoax devices” (The people of Boston should be clamoring for the resignation of the mayor and the head of the department of security for being the only city in the ten-city ad campaign that didn’t notice the signs hanging in plain sight for two full weeks and then misidentifying them in a way that caused widespread panic.)
• Witch doctor orders death of Hollywood snow cone man (Article about snow cone vendor who was allegedly murdered by his girlfriend after a witch doctor told her the snow cone vendor had placed a curse on her.)
• Police officer who ejaculated on motorist found not guilty (Jury in Orange County finds Irvine police officer not guilty of three felony charges after he pulled over a female motorist and ejaculated on her sweater.)
Previously on Boing Boing:
• Looking back on 2007, part 1