About this Burbia Blogger

- added on 10/23/2009

Steve Becker

Steve Becker is a writer and humorist whose fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in numerous publications.

Blogs by Steve Becker

Gary Schlitzner Wins Third Straight Reebock World’s Weakest (Non-Disabled) Man Competition

[Burbia Satire Wire] Miami, October 30 - Gary Schlitzner, of Conshohocken, PA, sealed his third straight Reebock World's Weakest (Non-Disabled) Man Competition when he failed to hoist a 15-pound pumpkin over his head and needed his girlfriend, Brianna, to help him lower the pumpkin from his waistline to "protect against hernia injury." Schlitzner earned 5 points in the event to edge out Sweden's Sven ...read more.

Doctors, Targeting Prostate, Mistakenly Remove Man's Prostrate

Minneapolis, 10/26
[Burbia Satire Wire] - Doctors, performing prostate surgery on a man in Minneapolis, mistakenly removed his prostrate, leaving the man with his diseased prostate and, now, without a perfectly healthy prostrate. The patient, Leonard Gold, 67, was outraged and expressed as much when, from his hospital bed, told of the medical error, he shouted ...read more.