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Angry Palin fans jam company Twitter feed

CARNEGIE, Pa., June 14 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin fans, in an apparent act of revenge, jammed the Twitter feed of a Pennsylvania company that posted all of her e-mails, company officials say.

Crivella West Inc., a litigation research company in Carnegie that partnered with MSNBC on the project, got all 24,199 Palin e-mails on line 12 hours after the state of Alaska released them last week, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. Two days later, the company's Twitter feed was full of messages under the Crivella West handle praising Palin and knocking President Obama.

"To say it was hacking would be giving more credit than due. It was more like spamming," Crivella Chief Executive Officer Art Crivella said Monday.

He said the company inadvertently allowed the action by setting up a Twitter account for comments on the e-mails without including privacy controls.

The company got involved in the e-mails when it offered to get them on line for free after Alaska officials said the release would cost $15 million. Alaska never responded, but MSNBC did.

Crivella said there have been at least 5 million hits on the e-mails since they went up Friday, and he believes the MSNBC link to the e-mails has got an equal number.

Ice bar to be New Zealand's biggest

QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand, June 14 (UPI) -- Officials with an upcoming Below Zero bar in New Zealand said the establishment is planned to be the largest ice bar in that region of the world.

Blair Pattinson, general manager of the bar in Queenstown on Searle Lane, said the bar will be primarily made from 36 tons of ice imported from Las Vegas and will be the largest ice bar in New Zealand and Australia, the Otago Daily Times reported Tuesday.

"It's going to be the biggest and newest ice bar in Australasia, with things that have never been done in an ice bar before," Pattinson said. "It might be the biggest one in the southern hemisphere -- we can't find a bigger one so far."

Pattinson said a pair of Philadelphia ice sculptors responsible for ice bars in Las Vegas and Christchurch, New Zealand, will travel to Searle Lane to carve the ice.

Man blames crash on 'boogeyman'

GOLDEN GATE ESTATES, Fla., June 14 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said a man accused of crashing his motorcycle while drunk told officers the incident was the fault of the "boogeyman."

The Florida Highway Patrol said James Scarborough, 49, of Golden Gate Estates, was taken to Physicians Regional Hospital with minor injuries Sunday after he apparently crashed his motorcycle into some trees and became pinned under the vehicle, the Naples Daily News reported Tuesday.

17 Facts You Might Not Know about Bonanza

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1. The historic Virginia City was the center of the famed 1859 silver strike known as the Comstock Lode. It promptly became the very image of the Old West boom town, with fortunes won and lost, exploited Chinese laborers, glamorous and impoverished prostitutes, and violent struggles with Native Americans. Samuel Clemens worked as a reporter in Virginia City for two years and there selected his pen name of Mark Twain. In was this varied, colorful era and place that producer David Dortort decided would be ideal for the show.

2. When Bonanza premiered in 1959, the airwaves were saturated with sitcoms that depicted fathers as idiots managed by their wives. Dortort insisted that the show be an hour long instead of a half hour in order to ensure that he had time to depict Ben Cartwright as a father figure worthy of respect. It worked, and Lorne Greene received thousands of fan letters from teenage boys who wished that he was their father.