Flutterby™! :

Well, I got a few e-mails about my "crush video" skepticism. Peter said Kibo had mentioned them in some of his Usenet postings, so I went to DejaNews and found the usual Kibo postings, which only made me more skeptical (although Kibo is rather entertaining in a bizarre sort of way). Then Jesse James Garrett passed along these URLs, apparently he's using a better search engine than I am, and I suppose I'm willing to admit that there are some videos and pictures of women's feet crushing bugs, slugs, small rodents, and food and GI Joe dolls.

"Vanessa's Frog Stomp. It's either a dance craze or a disease. (The best are both, like St. Vitus's.)"

--- Kibo

So you may have noticed the media furor over something called "crush videos", allegedly movies of women in high heels killing insects and small rodents by stepping on them. Since this is supposed to be an Internet phenomenon, and you can put in almost anything else related to sex into a search engine and get lots of pages that have faked keywords to draw you there. So I went to a couple of search engines and tried looking for "crush videos". Funny that the only thing I found was the news stories on the topic, huh? Seems to me that there's a media spoofer out there preying on the feeble-minded (ie: journalists and politicians).