A Little Off The Top: Return to Sender?

Tennessee woman returns adopted Russian kid back to Motherland Yes, you read correctly. An American woman sent back an “unruly and violent” Russian orphan back to Russia after the family decided that it was in fact dangerous to house the child because of threats of violence and graphic, gruesome pictures he drew, which included a burning house with the [...]

A Little Off the Top

After a six month hiatus, your periodic post of humanity’s most questionable moments. Today, my home state of Florida provides the rather sad and disturbing material for our latest examination of bad, bad ideas. Wednesday morning, a Burmese python attacked and killed a 2 year old toddler in Sumter County. The large constricting snake bit [...]

A Little Off the Top: The Scorpion Queen?

It seems like Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson’s fictional character may have met its more legitimate match. Kanchana Ketkaew has set the world record for sitting in seclusion with more than 5,000 scorpions for 33 days! That’s pretty crazy. According to this report, it states that she was stung 13 times! That’s about 13 times too [...]

A Little Off the Top III

It feels good to write again… even though A Little Off the Top is mostly just another article… and my wonderful insight. Today we have a real treat, from Bosnia, where the Sarajevo Police are holding a drug smuggling pigeon in custody… literally, behind bars, as the article explains. SARAJEVO (AFP) – Bosnian police have [...]

A Little Off the Top II

This one is straight from Cincinnati, OH, written in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Ohio man buys new truck with thousands of coins CINCINNATI – An Ohio man who says he doesn’t trust paper money has delivered enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck. Employees at a dealership in the Cincinnati [...]

Just a Little Off the Top I

Finally, a non-sports related post! This segment, as you can read, is called “Just a Little Off the Top.” No, we won’t be covering haircuts here at the heap., unless it happens to be the topic of one of the bizarre, “off-beat’” stories I find in my internet reading. Today we have a story from [...]