Weee, I love snopes.com. I went from researching weather or not this post http://darkdragonseer.livejournal.com/3813.html was true (my coworker also sent that to me) since I find it hard to believe and want all my facts before I go harring off about it. I don't have all the story but so far from the look of it sadly is true (and fucking disgusting) but is still listed as undefined in snopes because they cant get all the facts straight either... http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp

On the lighter side of things heres some funnier stuff I found at snopes: True story- dead whale in Oregon blown up with a half ton of dynamite wrecks mans car. And a video of it to boot! *snicker* Good job Navy on advising them to explode a while. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGVkHl-nBhE

Moar Navy stupidity: http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/slink.asp

http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/squirrel.asp
And this one reminds me of a certain time a friend and I went to pick up a dead squirrel. When walking back to our car in a dark parking lot we noticed a creapy guy. I took out my keys in case he was more than a creepy guy. My friend asked why I was doing that (we'd driven her truck) and I told her about the guy. Her response? "I'm carrying a dead squirrel!" Have to agree. Beating someone with a rotting smelly dead squirrel probably works better than jabbing them with your keys. ^^