Out in western Massachusetts, a woman taking part in a protest over an eviction was arrested and charged with four counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, three counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, and one count of disorderly conduct. The dangerous weapon in question? Bees.

A Massachusetts woman is facing numerous charges after she allegedly unleashed a hive full of bees on sheriff’s deputies, some of them allergic to bee stings, as they tried to serve an eviction notice in Longmeadow last week.

This does not seem well-thought-out.

Though it’s been a few years since the last edition, this site has long offered a sporadic post category known as “Real or Fake?”. I explained its origins way back in 2009:

For years, I’ve enjoyed a game with some friends called “Real or The Onion?”. To play, one person presents a headline or story and everyone else must decide if this is an actual story or merely a fabrication by that excellent humor site The Onion. Invariably, these stories are in fact real, but sound as if they belong in The Onion. I suppose it’s not really much of a game, so much as a pithier name for “the activity of linking to articles that should be fake, but are in actuality real”.

Recently, however, I saw a very real headline about The Onion: “The Onion files Supreme Court amicus brief defending the right to parody”.

“The Onion cannot stand idly by in the face of a ruling that threatens to disembowel a form of rhetoric that has existed for millennia, that is particularly potent in the realm of political debate, and that, purely incidentally, forms the basis of The Onion’s writers’ paychecks,” the brief says.

Good for them, and for all of us.

This past summer, I ate at a restaurant where the guacamole was listed as “market price”. I can’t say I’ve ever seen before, and I was greatly amused. Avocados aren’t lobster!

Today, thanks to friend-of-the-site Colin W., I can tell you that the current market price for avocados is $0.00. If you’re in Philadelphia, head over to FDR Park to get yourself some free fruit.

Me, I’m going back to “Taco Beach” to demand some free guacamole.

Ryan Crownholm is the founder of MySitePlan.com, a site that provides informal property maps created from existing data. He’s currently fighting the state of California to keep his business alive.

I know some poor Japanese woman is out $30,000, but the idea that someone got scammed into paying “landing fees” for a fake astronaut still cracks me up.