Want to take some time off during March Madness week?

Well the Springfield ore. Oregon Urology Institute has come up with an idea that will gives guys a very valid excuse to sit around watching college basketball games.

Get a vasectomy.

That’s right. They are suggesting that it’s the perfect time to get a vasectomy.

“When March Madness approaches you need an excuse … to stay at home in front of the big screen,” the clinic’s radio ad says. “Get your vasectomy at Oregon Urology Institute the day before the tournament starts. It’s snip city.”

Men generally need two to four days to recover from the procedure and it seems that men are taking the suggestion seriously. The administrator of the Institute has already reserved dozens of appointment slots for March 19th, the day before the first NCAA tipoffs. He’s also got at least a dozen appointments set for March 26th - just before the tournaments second week begins.

A local sports radio station has been broadcasting the clinics ads and they’ve promised to send each patient a recovery kit that includes sports magazines, a bag of frozen peas (for relief) and free pizza delivery.

So who’s in?

Did you hear about the kind New Zealand burglar?

He snuck into a home through a window and stole several items such as the property owners laptop, camera and wallet. Unfortunately the couple were unable to make insurance claims on these items for some reason.

A short while after the burglary the couple returned home to find their missing items along with gloves and a basketball that had been purchased using their credit card. The kind hearted burglar had left a note apologizing for robbing them and stated that he’d leave money in their mailbox to pay for the window that he’d broken.

I wish all burglars only borrowed things!

If you came here for Photo Hunters I haven’t thought of anything for this theme yet. I may still come up with something … but I’m trying to figure out how to combine Salty - this weeks theme - and funny. Give me some time - I may still come up with something yet!

I did come up with something - see photo below!

In other news - I slowed down on posting this week. Sorry about that. It’s not that there’s been a lack of Odd news, weird news or dumb criminal stories to write about. Nope, I don’t think that people will stop doing stupid things. It’s just that work has been so busy this week that I’ve been exhausted by the time I come home and haven’t put much time into bloggin’. Sorry about that!

I’ll leave you with a funny photo. I was saving this one as a blooper since it looks like none of the ladies from either basketball team wanted to catch the ball. However, now that I take a better look at the photo it might fit the theme this week … those ladies have got to be sweaty after running around playing basketball … and sweat is salty .. so yeah, this fits this weeks theme:

Salty, stunned basketball teams:

There’s nothing like a game of one on one when you get home from work or on the weekend with some pals. I used to have my very own basketball hoop near my desk at a place I used to work. I was in the computer field at the time and the place I worked in had this huge warehouse and that’s where the basketball hoop was. It was fantastic. Take a break and thow some hoops every now and then, or play a game on your lunch break. Very cool.

I’d be great to be able to put a basketball hoop system in here at the house but we don’t have a garage. Our neighbors do though - and the back of their garage touches the side of our garden. I wonder if I could attach a hoop there and play in the back yard. Nahhh I’d probably end up ruining the plants.

One hoop system that I like is the Hoops Pro Dunk Diamond. It’s a new high end residential basketball hoop system, and it sounds great. It’s got an 8″ X 8″ pole, and a 5′ foot extension arm, rather than the 4′ extension arm that comes with most systems. The rim and backboard are NCAA grade too.

If I can ever figure out how to put in a basketball hoop system here at our small house that’s the system I’d like to get.

How about my readers? Do any of you have basketball hoops at your home? Do you use them?