• #1: I'm not too paranoid about this, but it's creepy that it could happen. What crosses my mind is how any teenage kid can get a job working the key copier down at the local Wal-Mart … and how easy it would be for him to hand out "bump keys" to anyone offering to give him twenty bucks a pop:
  

  Snopes confirmed that the item above is legit, by the way.




• #2: Laugh it up, Fuzzball:
  

  A street performer dressed as Chewbacca was arrested Thursday after butting a tour guide operator in the head in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, according to police. The tour guide said the man in the Chewbacca costume exploded after he asked him to stop bothering two Japanese tourists…
  
  "You could see in his eyes he was exploding beneath the mask," (tour guide Brian) Sapir said. "He yelled at me, 'Nobody tells this wookiee what to do!'"
  
  Sapir, 32, said a security guard suggested that (Chewie) go for a walk down Hollywood Boulevard to cool off, but that it only made things worse.
  
  "He threw off his mask and walked toward me and slammed his head into my forehead," he said.

  
  I still like him better than Jar Jar.



• #3: When did Reuters, ostensibly a legit news source, start printing the f-word?
  

  New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was unabashed on Wednesday about declaring himself a "steamroller" and the most accomplished governor in the history of the state after three weeks on the job.
  
  "I am a f-----g steamroller and I'll roll over you or anybody else," the Democratic governor told Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco in a private conversation last week, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.

  
  I censored it here, but it isn't censored at the original Reuters story.

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