http://www.ballsroom.com Your Place For Random Funny Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:01:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ford is rolling out a new feature on many 2010 models that can limit teen drivers to 80 mph, using a computer chip in the key. Parents also have the option of programming the teen's key to limit the audio system's volume, and to sound continuous alerts if the driver ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/ford-will-keep-your-teen-drivers-from-going-over-80-mph/ On Sept. 19, a former Dallas restaurateur checked himself into the ER at 5:17 p.m. using a touch-screen computer kiosk. There were 164 people there ahead of him. He was still waiting the next day, and suffered cardiac arrest shortly before noon. (Dallas Morning News) http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/man-dies-at-hospital-after-waiting-19-hours-for-treatment/ Aman who spent two months in jail after being found with white powder has been cleared after tests showed the powder was deodorant, not cocaine. Cornelius F. Salonis, 31, was arrested Aug. 3 on suspicion of drunken driving and jailed after police said they found cocaine in his car. (Minneapolis ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/man-jailed-for-months-after-deodorant-mistaken-for-cocaine/ When asked after the race if he's ready to trade in his boxing gloves for a pair of running shoes, Matt Damon replied, "I don't think so. I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me." (And yes, it is a slow news ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/damon-competes-in-miami-triathlon-to-prep-for-new-movie/ The woman who shot herself as she was about to be evicted from her foreclosed has had her mortgage forgiven. A friend who visited the 90-year-old at the hospital says: ''She said it was a crazy thing to do, now that she's had time to think about it. You know, ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/update-woman-90-keeps-her-home-after-shooting-herself/ The ring -- a family heirloom -- was sold to a jewelry store, but police recovered it the day before the store was going sell it or have it refashioned elsewhere. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/cleaning-woman-steals-42000-ring-sells-it-for-140/ A trooper spotted the 58-year-old man riding the tricycle in the traffic lane on the wrong side of the street, then ride through a stop sign and down the wrong side of another road. (KTVL.com) http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/man-charged-with-riding-adult-sized-tricycle-while-drunk/ Just a couple months after she was anointed Hollywood's new sweetheart with Enchanted, Amy Adams popped up in the Sundance flick Sunshine Cleaning. Shortly after the fest, the film was acquired by Overture Films, which in its first year has released Traitor, The Visitor, and Righteous Kill. Adams plays a ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/movie-trailer-amy-adams-and-emily-blunt-in-sunshine-cleaning/ Let's catch you up on another weekend chock-full of movie news and the such. In case you haven't checked in since Friday morning to read the reviews, you missed a few big stories. There was some Batman stuff, some Angels & Demons news (well, maybe), and we finally got a ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/weekend-recap-dragonball-trailer-indiana-jones-5-and-chistopher-nolans-return/ It turns out that Quantum of Solace isn't completely ditching the old James Bond ways. After learning that 007 would not introduce himself with the famous "Bond, James Bond," and that he would no longer order a dry vodka martini, shaken not stirred, it looked as though Bond was not interested ... http://www.ballsroom.com/2008/10/06/bond-girl-gemma-arterton-covered-in-oil-for-quantum-of-solace/