Security guards shoot man hawking bootleg CDs in Times Square. In the latest move to curb music piracy, armed guards hired by several record companies shot and killed a man who was peddling pirated CDs at a booth in Times Square in New York. Raymond Martinez, 25, was ordered by the Pinkerton guards to “drop the jewel cases and step back away from the booth.” When Martinez failed to comply and sold a Madonna disc to a tourist, the guards opened fire. At a press conference later that day an unnamed RIAA official called the shooting “a sad but necessary step in the continuing war on music piracy.”

NRA starts weapons wiki. Trying to improve its tarnished public image and boost its flagging membership, the National Rifle Association has started the Internet Movie Firearms Database (imfdb). The wiki describes the types of guns used in various action-adventure films, with various other information.  NRA’s executive VP, Wayne LaPierre, gushed with giddy excitement: “we’re making guns and gunplay cool once again!”

Elderly British man dragged by horse while performing sex act. David Chamberlin, 71, was in the throes of equine ecstasy with a mare, when the horse suddenly decided it didn’t want to continue, bolting and dragging the hapless 71-year-old man through a pasture. The Middlesbrough man was charged with lewd conduct. The judge, trying his best to hold back the laughter, admonished Chamberlin in court, saying “you’re just not stable.” Chamberlin was given a court order barring him from having “unsupervised contact with farm animals.” There seems to be a rash of this sort of thing in Britain recently.

This week’s edition of NFTS was compiled by Tina, who amuses herself to no end by feeding hot peppers to Bill the Weather Dog and then watching him drink the toilet dry afterward.