Gas Whores
The price of gasoline has even started affecting the world of prostitution -- but in Nevada, that might be a good thing for customers. Clients of the Shady Lady Ranch, a legal brothel in Beatty, Nevada, are being offered a free $50 gas card if they spend at least $300 -- worth about one hour's worth of services. Owner James Davis said he already has had to order another $1,000 worth of gas cards because the promotion is going so well. The $50 bucks roughly covers the cost of a round trip drive from Las Vegas which is about 130 miles away. Davis said business at the ranch is usually slow in June and July but his wife came up with the free gas idea and it seems to be working. (Reuters)

Quitting Drinking Is Bad For Your Health!
A new study from the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says that it could be bad for your health to quit drinking -- bad for your mental health that is. According to the findings, mice that voluntarily drank alcohol for 28 days showed that when their alcohol consumption was stopped, it caused depression and a negative mood that set in 14 or more days after their systems were cleared of alcohol. This led scientist to believe that people who quit drinking, even moderate drinkers, will experience "negative mood states" days or weeks after the alcohol is out of their bodies. The report did not say how long the depression could last, but it linked it to a slow down in neuron production in the brain, which is important to learning and memory and is believed to be linked to mood regulation. So drink up America! Just do it responsibly. (AHN News)

The Ultimate Fighting Grannies!
In Iceland, two grandmothers in electric wheelchairs had to be dragged apart after getting into a fight in a supermarket. The two women started exchanging blows and then ramming each other in their power chairs. One store employee said, "Seeing these two old ladies going for each other like that was truly disturbing." The ladies were apparently friends but got into a fight over money. Police were called and arrested one of the grandmas on suspicion of assaulting the other 78- year-old woman who suffered an injury to her arm. Man, where's the YouTube on that one? (Ananova)

How Exactly Do You Get $55 Grand Into Jail?
Gotta wonder about the security at the St. Louis County Jail. A correctional officer found $55,000 stuffed behind a toilet paper dispenser. The bundle was in $100 and $50 bills. Officials interviewed inmates about the money, but of course nobody knew anything about the stashed cash. So they put the dough in a special bank account until the owner can be determined. (myway.com)

Death By Folding Couch
Here's a new and horrible way to go -- death by folding couch! In St. Petersburg, Russia, a woman killed her drunk husband with a folding couch. She was apparently upset that he was drunk and refused to get up. An argument ensued and she ended up kicking a handle that activated a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall. Not realizing what she had done, she then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband. By the time rescue workers got to the house, the man was already dead. (Reuters)

Bug Jewelry
Two enterprising teenagers from Cape Cod, Massachusetts are hoping they'll have swarms of customers for their latest creations -- jewelry made from dead bugs. Katheryn Maloney and Brady Cullinan are selling jewelry made out of the cicadas that swarmed their town this summer. Cicadas are the large black locust-looking bugs that make that loud buzzing sound. The girls charge $10 for earrings or necklaces made out of the bugs' lacquered carcasses. They said while some find the jewelry gross, others are impressed with the uniqueness. (Cape Cod News)

Thanks Wisconsin -- We Needed That
(Caution cowboy: Very adult and disturbing content ahead) Because someone needed to, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has finally ruled that having sex with a dead person is indeed a crime -- but only because there is no way for the dead person to give their consent! The 5-2 ruling reverses the earlier decision of appellate and lower courts which dismissed the sexual assault charges on three men who tried but failed to commit necrophilia in 2006. So once again twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22-years-old, face third-degree sexual assault for digging up a corpse at a Cassville, Wisconsin cemetery so one of them could have sex with it. The Grant County Circuit Court had originally dismissed the charges after agreeing with the defendants' interpretation of the law that sexual assault is not applicable to a dead person unless the defendant was responsible for the death of the victim. (Reuters)