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Janette O'Hair looks at one of the Mormon crickets on her house in Palomino Valley north of Reno, Nev., Thursday, June 12, 2003. O'Hair said it was the first time she had seen the crickets in her area. Swarms of Mormon crickets are marching across the West, destroying rangeland and crops, slickening highways with their carcasses and leaving disgusted residents in their wake. (AP Photo/Debra Reid)



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Britney Spears is to get a pair of inflatable, throbbing breasts that will pulsate in time to her dancing -- at least her waxwork model will at Madame Tussauds museum in London. 'There are plans to make a new figure of Britney Spears,' a spokeswoman said on June 13, 2003. 'She'll be very sexy and she'll have heaving bosoms. But this is only in the very early stages of planning.' Spears poses for photographers at a press conference for her first-ever Britney Spears Charity Auction in New York, May 22. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)



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U.S. military police officer Brian Pacholski comforts his hometown friend, U.S. military police David Borello, both from Toledo, Ohio, at the entrance of the military base in Balad, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Friday, June 13, 2003. Borello broke down after seeing three Iraqi children who were injured while playing with explosive material. Iraqi attackers hiding in a thicket of reeds rushed a U.S. tank column Friday night a few hundred yards from the entrance of the base. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)



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White witch Kevin Carlyon stands by a statue of the Loch Ness Monster as he performs an invocation on the banks of Loch Ness in an attempt to summon the beast, June 13, 2003. Carlyon, High Priest of British White Witches, said he had cast a spell two years ago to scare off the monster so it would not be caught by a visiting Swedish scientist Jan Sundberg. (Jeff J Mitchell/Reuters)



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A police truck runs over a police officer during clashes between supporters of President Hugo Chavez and metropolitan police in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, June 13, 2003. The police officer was not killed in the incident. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)



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Actress Pamela Anderson unveils her new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals poster, Friday, June 13, 2003, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



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Noelle Bush, the daughter of Gov. Jeb Bush, chats with her attorney Dean Cannon Jr. in the Orange County court in Orlando, Fla., Friday, June 13, 2003. Bush was in court to report on the progress of her drug treatment . Bush was ordered to attend drug treatment after she was arrested in January 2002 for allegedly trying to use a fraudulent prescription to obtain the drug Xanax.(AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)



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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) activists dressed as President Bush, left, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, join protesters outside the American Embassy in London to demonstrate against the American Missile Defense, Star Wars, project, Friday, June 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

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Thats got to hurt, I bet someone aint allowed to drive the truck anymore.

i see three skanks in this report...

Man, this one runs the gamut from the sublime to the absurd.  Quite a collection, J_R, thanks.

Good pics JR.

Bump for the late night crowd.