Eddie Griffin is a comedian... But Daniel Sadek isn't laughing... You see, Eddie asked to borrow Daniel's rare Ferrari Enzo for a charity race to promote his new film (Redline) that Daniel is producing... Only 400 of the cars were ever made - each valued at over $1.5 million (over 1.1 million Euro)...

So when Eddie crashed the car into a cement barrier, well, that hurt... Luckily, Eddie survived with no injuries and was only a little shaken... Daniel, however, had "mixed feelings," saying "I'm glad Eddie came out of the crash OK but my dream car got destroyed..."

(Ouch!)

First it was the mouse that set Luciano Mares' house on fire when he attempted to kill it... Then there was the mouse that cut the power to 40% of Phnom Penh, Cambodia... So far, the mice appear to doing pretty well... So well, that I think they are starting to get cocky...

Like the one that seems to be picking on Bill Exner of Waterville, Maine... Exner noticed the mouse around the house and tried to get rid of it... So far, he's caught the rodent three times... All three times the mouse escaped! And now the mouse is going after Bill Exner personally: the rodent stole his dentures!

As soon as Exner noticed his dentures were missing from his nightstand, he called his wife and they started looking... "We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart," he said... "I said, 'I knew that little stinker stole my teeth' — I just knew it..." So when the found a small hole in the wall, they had their their son-in-law (to be) break into the wall... "He brought a crowbar and hammer and he sawed off a section of wood and pulled up the molding and everything," Exner said... And that is how they found his dentures - right where the mouse left them...

Bill's wife Shirley agrees the mouse is getting personal, saying it sometimes peeks out and stares at her husband... "He’s taunting him — I swear he's taunting him," she said...

Sometimes people make mistakes... Most of the time they apologize, fix the mistake, and life goes on...

And sometimes people accidentally delete over $38 Billion (28.3 Billion Euro) worth of data! Ok, not people - one person!!!

In this case a computer tech working for the Alaska Department of Revenue was reformatting a hard disk - normal operation when the drive is going to be reused... Except this drive had 9 months of data (over 800,000 electronic images) covering applications and payouts for the Alaska Permanent Fund, an oil funded subsidy for Alaskan residents... And then he also reformatted the backup hard drive... And then he discovered that the tape backups (the last hope) were corrupt and unreadable!

"Nobody panicked, but we instantly went into planning for the worst-case scenario," said Fund Director Amy Skow... "We had to bring [the original 300 boxes of] paper back to the scanning room, and send it through again, and quality control it, and then you have to have a way to link that paper to that person’s file..." All in all, it took 82 people working overtime (nights and weekends) almost 2 months to get the data back into the system...

(Looks like that Taiwanese trader who cost his company over 8 Billion (Taiwanese) has a competitor for "most expensive oops"...)

I'm sure glad I don't have the Frequent Flyer Miles program this lady did... Apparently she had to die to get bumped up to first class!

It all happened last week on a British Airways flight last week from Delhi to London... During the flight, one of the coach passengers - an older woman - passed away... Naturally, this caused a disturbance among the passengers.... So the stewardesses moved both the woman and her daughter up to first class so give them some additional space and calm things down... But they forgot to tell the first class passengers what was going on!

Paul Trinder says he was having a normal peaceful flight before all of this happened... "I didn't have a clue what was going on... The stewards just plonked the body down without saying a thing... I remember looking at this frail, sparrow-like woman and thinking she was very ill," he said... "When I asked what was going on, I was shocked to hear she was dead..."

Thankfully, the rest of the flight was uneventful...

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

Why isn't 11 pronounced onety-one?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

According to news reports, a mud spewing vulcano in Porong, East-Java, Indonesia is becoming quite a nuisance. It appears that the sludge the vulcano is spewing is refusing to stay inside the barriers they have erected to guide it. The also built a cement dike around it, but it is about to overflow. So now the government has decided to spend some $3,000,000 to make 1,500 cement balls each around 1 1/2 feet in diameter and weighing about 150 pounds - most of which will be linked in groups of four by chains. These will be dropped into the mouth of the vulcano in hopes of plugging it up so the mud will stop flowing.

Now, I don't know the science behind this endeavor, but having seen Mt. St. Helen explode, I don't think a 150 pound cement ball is going to be much of a hinderance. I can imagine them stopping the flow -- the pressure building -- the vulcano exploding -- and 150 pound cement canon balls flying through the sky -- and .... Well, I'm going to ask for the ticket concession to sell front row seats!

In all likelihood, more people know Switzerland is neutral than know what how any other country is aligned... People associate that neutrality with World Wars I and II, but in reality the neutrality of the country dates back to at least 1516 when the Swiss signed a permanent peace with France...

Which is why everyone was quite surprised when the Swiss accidentally invaded Liechtenstein last Thursday!

It all began with a routine night training exercise by the Swiss army in the northern mountains... The troops got a little lost... And they didn't pass any signs saying they had crossed the border... So they were over a mile into Liechtenstein before anyone noticed! Of course, once they did notice, they immediately returned to their own country... Daniel Reist, an army spokesman, said the two countries were not likely to have a falling out over the incident... "We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein, and it's not a problem," he said...

And Liechtenstein was likewise willing to forgive and forget... Markus Amman, an Interior Ministry spokesman said "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something..."

A molecular scientist has developed a new method of caffeine transfer for the millions of addicts in the country. His "buzz" donut is the first baked good developed to give the consumer a little buzz and reinforce the coffee along side of it. He says that the donuts and bagels he has created have 100 milligrams of caffeine, about the same as a cup of coffee. Some health officials are concerned that this will only increase heart and other health problems attributed to people who consume more than 300 milligrams of caffeine a day. (AP January 28, 2007, via IvyJungle.org newsletter)

Perhaps this is just the beginning of a trend. Soon we'll have . . .

• Premium high-fat French fries (for when that initial round of trans fats just leaves you wanting more)

• Mega-rate credit cards (sometimes 21 percent interest doesn't seem like enough)

• Extra-long-lasting sermons

Never mind. Some trends are ahead of their time.