Rob's Screwy News - Tuesday 3-20-12

Mar 20th, 2012

Back on March 3rd, a woman in Kentucky accidentally left her purse at a Best Buy . . . with $4,000 inside.  She was going to use the cash to get a used car and move her family out of a motel.  Fortunately for her, a Good Samaritan found the purse and returned it to the police . . . with ALL of the cash.  When she called to thank him and offer a reward, he turned it down.

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Just because next St. Patrick's Day is 362 days away doesn't mean we have to stop talking about beer.  A market research company just released a list of the most liked beers in the U.S., and number one is . . . Sam Adams.  The rest of the top five is Budweiser, Bud Light, Heineken, and Corona.

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For the first time ever, Burger King ISN'T America's second-most popular burger chain.  McDonald's is still first.  But in 2011, Wendy's passed Burger King, doing about $100 MILLION more in sales.  Although both are still tens of billions of dollars behind McDonald's, which is the most popular chain in the country overall.

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According to a new study, the line between being popular and narcissistic is . . . 800 Facebook friends.  People who have more than 800 friends showed stronger signs of being self-absorbed, vain, and self-important than people with fewer friends.

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Believe it or not, a new study has found that as many as 5% of women have experienced a CLIMAX . . . while they were exercising.  And they weren't even fantasizing about anything . . . it's purely physical.  The researchers aren't exactly sure how or why it happens, but they did find that it's most likely to happen during ab exercises.

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Oscar Pistorius is a 25-year-old track and field athlete in South Africa.  And on Saturday, he ran the 400-meter dash in 45.20 seconds, which is fast enough to qualify him for the London Olympics later this year.

--That's impressive, because Oscar has NO LEGS.  He runs on those thin, blade-shaped carbon-fiber prosthetics.   

--He's a multiple winner at the Paralympics, but Oscar wants to compete against able-bodied runners.  Last year, he was the first-ever amputee to run at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea. 

(--You also might have heard about him in 2008, when he was trying to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.  Some Olympic officials argued that he might be a safety risk, and that he actually had an unfair ADVANTAGE . . . because his prosthetics don't get tired.)

--If he runs one more international race in Olympic qualifying time . . . which is anything below 45.30 seconds . . . he'll become the first amputee in the Olympics.