It’s difficult to make demands at gunpoint and have them work when your demands THEMSELVES prove you aren’t a threat to shoot anyone.

Last week, 24-year-old Rodney Gene Lewis of Winter Haven, Florida was drunk outside a Walmart . . . then barged into the store waving around his gun. He walked up to the sporting goods department and demanded . . . BULLETS.

That kinda tipped off the employees that his gun wasn’t loaded and he wasn’t really a threat to shoot them if they didn’t give him those bullets. So they refused, under their policy not to sell ammo to someone when the weapon is present.

Then, they called the cops. Rodney started arguing and SCREAMING about how the cops were going to take away his ‘First’ Amendment right to carry his gun.

He meant the Second Amendment . . . although I guess the First Amendment DOES give him the right to YELL about the gun, so he wasn’t totally wrong.

He was arrested on several charges, including improperly exhibiting a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and disorderly intoxication.

(Tampa Bay Online)

It’s been 20 years since the first photo was posted on the Internet, so it’s making the rounds again. And the photo is RIDICULOUS.

The founder of the World Wide Web is a guy named Tim Berners-Lee from CERN, a physics laboratory in Switzerland. He had a friend scan some photos from a party they’d just had, and upload one of four women in dresses that are VERY early ’90s.

Here are eight more “firsts” in Internet history for ya . . .

The first email was sent by a programmer named Ray Tomlinson in 1971.  He made the decision to use the “at” symbol as part of email addresses . . . and sent an email explaining to his coworkers how to use email.

The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer that belonged to the founder of the site, PIERRE OMIDYAR.  He sold it in September of 1995 for $14.

The first tweet was sent by Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter.  On March 21st, 2006, he wrote, quote, “just setting up my twttr.”  No capitalization, spelling, or punctuation . . . in other words, a perfect tweet.

The first domain name was Symbolics.com, and was registered by a computer manufacturing company called Symbolics on March 15th, 1985.  That company no longer exists . . . the domain now shows an infographic about web history.

The first YouTube video was posted on April 23rd, 2005 by YouTube’s forgotten founder, Jawed Karim.  It’s a pointless 19-second video of him at the zoo.

 

The first search engine was called Archie and was made by a student in Montreal in 1990. It’s actually still up, but it only lets you search Polish websites.

The first Facebook user was, obviously, MARK ZUCKERBERG. The second was one of his roommates and co-founders, Chris Hughes.

The first porno website is harder to trace . . . but it’s believed to be sex.com, which was created in the mid ’80s.

(11 Points / Fox News / Silicon India)

A music video from a French band called The Aikiu is getting some attention online. It’s for a song called “Pieces of Gold”, and features clips from GAY PORN VIDEOS. But it’s safe-for-work, because they don’t actually SHOW anything. Just watch, it’s hilarious.

SLASH got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday . . . and CHARLIE SHEEN made a crack about AXL ROSE while speaking at the ceremony.

He said, quote, “It’s quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.”

The website SplitSider.com dug up an old clip of CHEVY CHASE in 1984, getting into a fight during a taping of a live music show called “The Top”.

It’s Chevy on stage dressed as a punk rocker, and it starts right after a few ACTUAL punk rockers apparently jumped on stage.

One of them asks Chevy, quote, “Is it true that you like GUYS?” So Chevy shoves them back into the crowd, then they try to tackle him.

(–The footage is from an old episode of Entertainment Tonight,The footage starts at 6:51.)

(–Supposedly Chevy quit the show immediately afterward. So they replaced him with Andy Kaufman, and it was Kaufman’s last gig before he died . . . which makes the whole thing sound a lot like a stunt.)

On Sunday, in Koochiching County, Minnesota, a state trooper pulled over a guy driving a rusted out FORD PINTO. It looked unsafe to him from the outside . . . but looked even MORE unsafe when he saw the inside.

The trooper realized it didn’t have a gas tank . . . instead, the driver had a gas can sitting on a tire on the passenger seat, with a line running from that to the engine. The driver was cited for unsafe equipment.

(NBC 11 – Minneapolis)

It’s only Tuesday, but this might be the weirdest video you’ll see all week: An animator who’s apparently WAY too into the “Super Friends” cartoons did a shot-for-shot remake of the “Golden Girls” intro.

It stars old saggy versions of Superman, Batman, Aquaman . . . and Robin.

Don’t miss Superman doing Blanche’s sexy strut at :25

A tightrope walker in China slipped and fell more than 600 feet, but SURVIVED with only minor injuries. Now the video is online.

He was walking BACKWARDS across a cable that was almost a half-mile long . . . and he was BLINDFOLDED. He says the fall was mostly caused by high winds.