An irate Briton, determined to stand up to authorities, sawed his stepson's car in half, all for the reason of making a point. The man, 40-year old Ian Taylor, decided to go to drastic measures after his son's Ford Fiesta was clamped and impounded by authorities accusing it of having been illegally parked. The ruling was made, however, with merely two inches of the vehicle's rear wheel sticking out of the driveway.

It all began 30 years ago today. The mother lode of all spam - the bane of everyone's online existence - was first sent out via the U. S. Defense Department's Arpanet by a salesman named Gary Thuerk. The first junk mail or "Spam" as we know it today, was an invitation for a demo of the new system-20 mini computers being marketed by the Digital Equipment Corp.

Consumer magazine Which? has found that computer keyboards can be a home to bacteria that may cause food poisoning symptoms and stomach upsets. Tests made on 33 keyboards at its office here showed four posed a health risk, with one being host to five times more germs than the office's toilet seats.

Marine biologists in New Zealand are thawing out a 1,000 pound squid from a huge ice block in order to study it. The analysis of the 1,089-pound, 26-foot long colossal squid, set to begin Wednesday, will help determine how the creatures live and breed. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa will broadcast the thawing and examination live on the Internet.

A soccer game was punctuated when an irate priest hurled his shirt at the game referee, resulting in the priest's ejection from the field. The surprising show of anger from the holy man occurred at the Vatican City, during a Clericus Cup, an international football tournament participated in by priests and seminarians.