Jezebel: crazies

Mum Of The Year

Maria — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:40:00 EDT

A 43-year-old British woman and her 13-year-old daughter gave an interview to Closer magazine in which they discuss the mother's, uh, unique parenting strategies. Although her daughter admits to having 4 sexual partners, smoking pot and cigarettes, and drinking beer in the street with her friends, the mother refuses to punish her, since it would be more of a punishment for the mum to have to have her kid around the house. Lovely! The mum also admits to bribing her daughter with cigarettes to do chores. The girl has been punished at school 40 times for bad behavior, which the mum blames on teachers who are "too soft" on the kid. [Telegraph]

Petcka, Petkiller

Maria — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:20:00 EDT

In testimony that began yesterday, a former baseball player-turned-actor who had a brief appearance on Sex and the City was accused of killing his girlfriend's cat because he was jealous. Joe Petcka is on trial for aggravated cruelty to animals for killing the cat, named Norman, in March of 2007. Petcka's former girlfriend claims that, on the night of Norman's death, Petcka accused her of loving the cat more than him. Norman was found dead under Altobelli's bedside table with broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken leg, a torn tongue, massive internal injuries including a chest cavity filled with blood. [MSNBC]

Straight From The Horse's Mouth Ass

Jessica — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Trying to figure out where the P.U.M.A.'s are coming from? Well, a certain passage from the Boston Globe is illuminating. In reference to Gloria Allred's argument that Hillary supporters need to rally behind Obama because "we can't have McCain appointing two Supreme Court vacancies," the Globe has this to report: "Many were older women who remember an America where abortion rights were not guaranteed - but are also at an age when those rights may not be as relevant to their lives. 'I'm not pregnant,' said Jeannie Stratton, 51, from Washington who said she plans to vote for McCain to protest how the Democratic Party treated Clinton." [Boston Globe]

Bonkers Lady Clones Dead Dog Named Booger

Jessica — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Bernann McKinney loved her now-deceased pit bull, Booger. And when I say loved, I don't mean she mourned extravagantly when he died or put up a shrine to his doggy life. Oh no, she went much much further: she sold her house so that she could afford to have Booger's DNA cloned. Now, Bernann is in possession of the first genetically cloned puppies, and she is just thrilled to pieces with her lil' Boogers. "They are perfectly the same as their daddy. I am in heaven here. I am a happy person," Bernann says. "I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day, when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone." Um, yes, losing a pet is awful and it can take a while to get over it, but seriously? This lady is bonkers.

California resident Bernann is an ex-beauty queen who says she's also a "scriptwriter," though there is no listing for her on IMDB. Her undying love for Booger is marginally understandable — he saved her life from a Mastiff attack and kept her company while she recuperated — but the trouble she went to in getting him cloned is not. According to the Daily Mail, "After plans to duplicate Booger in the US failed, [Bernann] turned to RNL Bio, which is staffed by former colleagues of Hwang Woo-suk, the now disgraced scientist who produced Snuppy, the first cloned dog, in 2005." Animal charities are slamming Bernann's choices, with the RSPCA's head scientist saying, "I can't believe that any true dog lover would condone causing suffering to dogs and wasting their lives for such a trivial and selfish purpose, particularly when animal shelters worldwide have thousands of dogs who need loving homes."

But who cares about those gross shelter dogs! That mini-Booger sure is keyuuuute!

Dead Dog's Owner Creates FIVE Cloned Puppies Of Her Beloved Pet [Daily Mail]

Judge Judy Is A Human Lie Detector

Tracie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:30:00 EDT

This nutbag was on Judge Judy today, suing two women for false arrest. It's really so crazy that she thinks that she even remotely has a chance in front of JJ. The plaintiff almost hit a car that the two defendants were driving. Then all three women got in a verbal altercation that led to assault, instigated by the plaintiff. Then the plaintiff got in her car and tried to mow the two defendants down in a parking lot, and rammed her vehicle into theirs (which by the way, a four-month-old child was in). JJ told the woman that her story was "a crock." LOL! Then she dismissed her case. Clip above.

Remember When Mariah Carey Went Crazy?

Tracie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Mariah Carey is flying high from her 18th #1 hit "Touch My Body," and she's been all over the place promoting her new album (Oprah yesterday, American Idol tonight), E=MC² which came out today. But remember when things were going so great in her career about seven years ago, specifically when she freaked out in the summer of 2001 from not sleeping? (Remember when Glitter was the first time we could all truly laugh after September 11?) Above is a clip from her July 2001 surprise appearance on TRL, in which she wore a skimpy outfit, handed out popsicles, and rambled about stuff that didn't make any sense. ("All I know is I just want one day off when I can go swimming and look at rainbows and like eat ice cream. And maybe like learn how to ride a bicycle.") A few days later, she checked into a mental facility. We're glad she's feeling a lot better and is back on top, but we kinda thought she was equally entertaining while hitting rock bottom.