Raindrops can fall at 20 miles per hour causing what is called "splash erosion" of soil. Soil erosion caused by rain is a major problem that costs businesses, individuals and governments money every year. In agriculture alone water erosion causes an estimated $27 billion in on-site losses, and frequently causes economic losses downstream as well.

Vandals have destroyed an estimated $10,000 in sod, and possibly the livelihood of a family-owned business that has been farming since 1868. David Motz, owner of Motz Turf Farms, near Newtown in Ohio, says, an acre and a half of recently seeded grass, which is sold to developers and landscapers, was vandalized.

If a local ballot initiative passes in Eureka Springs this November, people can smoke the green, green grass of home and not be in the jailhouse now. To the surprise of pot enthusiasts statewide, local leaders of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws have been able to gather enough signatures in this Bible Belt, small tourist economy based town, to put on the election ballot a proposed change in the catagory for minor marijuana offences.

A cemetery in Argentina is offering die-hard fans of the popular football club Boca Juniors a chance to rest in peace amongst star football players, club executives and fellow fans. Three-thousand plots have been set aside for these football lovers in the Iraola cemetery, abut 37 miles from Buenos Aires. The club, known by Argentineans as Club Atletico Boca Juniors, is well known for its football team. Its home base is in the neighborhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires, where it hosts its home games at the Bombonera stadium.

A small town mayor in Kentucky refuses to cut his grass. Blackey Mayor Mike Dixon hasn't cut his lawn in over a year, and has simply posted a sign reading, "there are more important things in life than tall grass. "