Countdown’s Top Five
This episode of Countdown featured the live destruction of the Bartman ball. As a result of the coverage, the formal countdown was a little disrupted.
- Bartman Ball coverage
- A mother of two from Rockaway Township, New Jersey, is suing the recording industry under provisions of this country`s RICO Act, the statute that permits the
government to go after .
- The song most often downloaded from the Internet in 2003, "Hey Ya" by OutKast, just about 110,000 last year, a lot of possible lawsuits.
- Deep sixed
- How the ball was blown up
- The "Bartman Ball" as it awaits its fate.
- Our viewers had some very creative suggestion on ridding this world of that ball:
- Remember you can e-mail us anytime at
- You may now kiss the bride, .
- Legislating morality
Today’s Top Three Newsmakers
- James Minder was named the new chairman of the gunmakers Smith & Wesson last month, today he resigned after that in the '50s and '60s, he had spent more than a decade in jail for armed robbery.
- GiGi Florin of Romania bet that he could swallow more coins than the man in France who recently died from swallowing too many coins. 120 of them before he had to be hospitalized.
- The Galic brothers of Bosnia. Throughout their 69 years, they could drink you under any table you chose, and they never got hangovers. Last week, Joseph Galic got into a car accident. Doctors discovered he has , so does his brother, Ante.