Though at Retard News we often use Herald Sun for news stories, this story just seemed worthy of repeating because of it’s apparent lack of iPhone’s creator.  The news story in reference is the teenager, George Hotz, who hacked the iPhone.  The hacked iPhone isn’t the the story though, Apple’s name is. Continue Reading »

Kids trade baseball and football cards.  I wonder if DMX and Michael Vick trade pitbulls.  Of course it’s now known that Michael Vick was a great football player (well, at least an entertaining-to-watch football player) and umm .. oh ya, and a member of some dog fighting ring.  Now it looks like DMX is the next to be accused of being into dog fighting. Continue Reading »

Uncircumcised men who wash their units less than 10 minutes after sex may increase their risk of acquiring HIV, suggests a study released at an International AIDS Society conference.

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It’s not a well known fact yet but it soon will be, redheads are genetic defects.  Sorry to have to say it like that, but there really is no other way to put it out there.  When the Darwin theory starts to take you out, you know that you are a defect.  Now that you have thought about it and started to digest the thought, following is proof to the defect theory.

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Thu Aug 23 2007 11:30:10 ET - The soil on Mars may contain microbial life!

Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.

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Sightings by marine scientists of dolphins in the north Atlantic’s Bay of Biscay have dropped off by 80 percent compared to the same period in 2006, a wildlife conservation group said Wednesday.

The alarming drop in numbers of the Bay’s three most common species of dolphin — the striped, bottlenose and common — can be attributed to one or both of two causes, Clive Martin, senior wildlife officer for the Biscay Dolphin Research Programme, told AFP.

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A Newport Township part-time police officer was working as an escort when he was arrested in a prostitution sting at a Wilkes-Barre motel on Friday, according to arrest papers.

Levi Gibbon Jr., 40, of East North Street, Wilkes-Barre, was charged by the state police Organized Crime Unit with a single count of prostitution. He was arraigned before Hanover Township District Judge Joseph Halesey and released on $5,000 bail.

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A common virus that causes colds can be a factor in obesity, according to a study released Monday offering further evidence that a weight problem may be contagious.

The adenovirus-36 (Ad 36) has already been implicated as the cause of weight gain in animals, but with this study researchers showed for the first time that it can also cause humans to pile on the pounds.

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Obesity is not just a growing health problem among humans, it seems. Half of dogs and cats in the UK are now overweight, according to the RSPCA.
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MITCHELL, Australia - The 10-month-old male camel, a present for the woman’s 60th birthday, knocked her down, laid on her and exhibited mating behavior, said police, noting the animal nearly killed the family’s pet goat by straddling it on several occasions. The woman, whose name was not released, died Saturday at her family’s sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, west of Brisbane, west of Brisbane, The Sunday Mail reported.

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