If you need another couple of reasons to be glad to live in Canada (although it’s not quite the Canada it used to be, it’s still Canada for now) I would be happy to oblige with a few links this afternoon.

First off, a story from Texas about someone who takes bathroom cleanliness very very seriously. It seems that someone noticed a non-washer (you know the kind I’m talking about, and you know who you are) and waited for them outside in the parking lot in order to stab them multiple times. I can sympathize a little bit with the stabber here since I’m a washer, but I would just sort of stop at not shaking their hands. The stabbing thing really goes a tad too far.

Then we come to craziness around buying a PS3, apparently some guys thought it would be a great idea to mug the first few nerds in line to buy a PS3 in Connecticut. Not a bad plan, but one of the first few guys in line wouldn’t give them anything and so they ran off after laying a beating on him, and one of the muggers turned a fired a shot at the guy, hitting him in the chest. The quote nicely sums up what happened next:

“When they let us in the lobby there at Wal-Mart, I was on the floor coughing up blood and telling the workers to take the wallet out of my pocket and give it to my friends so they could continue waiting in line and purchase the PS3s,” Penkala told the newspaper. “For some reason I wasn’t thinking about my wound, I was all about those PlayStations.”

Ah, now that makes perfect sense to me. What a moron.

And finally, a wonderful graphic from the US National Safety Council that displays the odds of dying from a number of causes, and clearly from what I can see, neither  non-washing or buying a video game system is on this list, so I think these guys will be ok from now on.