Jacob Barnett, 12, an Asperger’s-syndrome-fueled math genius who maxed out on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and is now enrolled at IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), told an Indianapolis Star reporter that his next project is about proving the Big Bang theory all wrong.
But if not the Big Bang, asked the reporter, how do we exist?
Said Jacob, “I’m still working on it.”
“I have an idea, but ... I’m still working out the details.”
Hint: Jacob’s major point of skepticism is that the Big Bang doesn’t account neatly for carbon.
Said his mother, Kristine Barnett, 36: “I flunked math. I know this did not come from me.”
Why should
they pay
any taxes
in Texas? 
Texas state Rep. John Davis of Houston proposed a tax break — aimed at buyers of yachts valued at more than a quarter-million dollars.
Davis promised more yacht sales and, through a ripple effect, more jobs if Texas capped the sales tax on yachts at the amount due on a $250,000 vessel — a break of almost $16,000 on a $500,000 boat.
This guy
just ain’t
too bright
Adam Yarbrough, 22, ticketed by a female police officer in Indianapolis after he was observed swerving in and out of traffic on an Interstate highway, allegedly compounded the problem first by offering the cop “five dollars to get rid of this ticket” and then by “How about I give you a kiss?”
Felony bribery charges were filed.
Bonus fact: Yarbrough was riding a moped.
(Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa Fla. 33679 or go to www.newsoftheweird.com.)
Jacob Barnett, 12, an Asperger’s-syndrome-fueled math genius who maxed out on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and is now enrolled at IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), told an Indianapolis Star reporter that his next project is about proving the Big Bang theory all wrong.
But if not the Big Bang, asked the reporter, how do we exist?
Said Jacob, “I’m still working on it.”
“I have an idea, but ... I’m still working out the details.”
Hint: Jacob’s major point of skepticism is that the Big Bang doesn’t account neatly for carbon.
Said his mother, Kristine Barnett, 36: “I flunked math. I know this did not come from me.”
Why should
they pay
any taxes
in Texas? 
Texas state Rep. John Davis of Houston proposed a tax break — aimed at buyers of yachts valued at more than a quarter-million dollars.
Davis promised more yacht sales and, through a ripple effect, more jobs if Texas capped the sales tax on yachts at the amount due on a $250,000 vessel — a break of almost $16,000 on a $500,000 boat.
This guy
just ain’t
too bright
Adam Yarbrough, 22, ticketed by a female police officer in Indianapolis after he was observed swerving in and out of traffic on an Interstate highway, allegedly compounded the problem first by offering the cop “five dollars to get rid of this ticket” and then by “How about I give you a kiss?”
Felony bribery charges were filed.
Bonus fact: Yarbrough was riding a moped.
(Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa Fla. 33679 or go to www.newsoftheweird.com.)