The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Chevron, Valero Energy, Anheuser-Busch, Oil Expectations or iPhone 'Refusal'

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• A warning from Chevron Corp. (CVX)...
• A warning from Valero Energy (VLO)...
• Word that at least one person has gone "on record" as saying they won't by Apple's (AAPL) iPhone...
• Optimism on Anheuser-Busch (BUD)...
• Heavy call options activity [subscription required] on Baker Hughes (BHI) and Halliburton Co. (HAL)...
• A recap of the FOMC minutes and the belief that "policy makers signaled they are in no hurry to reduce interest rates again"...
• Expectations from a Goldman Sachs commodities analyst that oil is set to soar...
• A look under the surface of VMware (VMW)...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest news is one of the articles below, I am just not sure which one...

First we have this submission from Brent -

"Nick, Sorry to litter your inbox, but I saw this news headline and thought I should pass it along - Man who kept exotic animals killed by deer. I'm with you on this animal uprising thing. I can see my dog right now looking at me through the back door and I wonder what she's thinking. This is getting pretty serious."

For those who haven't been following the stories that suggests an animal uprising is looming - you can click here for more info.

The second article is one that I found. What strikes me isn't so much the text of the article (though that itself is important) but the placement. I found this article - Police use of Tasers causes few injuries? - under Reuters "Oddly Enough" section? The article notes a research study that "tracked police Taser use on 962 people in six jurisdictions around the country" and said - "The data that we've got supports the safety of these devices, in that 99.7 percent of the people on the receiving end in the real world had either no injury or mild injury"

Is the "generally excepted idea" that Tasers are dangerous so pervasive that evidence to the contrary is labeled as "odd" news??? Maybe it was just tagged incorrectly? As far as the "content" of the article, it comes at an interesting time as TASR shares are flirting with their annual high. (For those who missed it - I recently discussed TASER International and the video below offers its own "odd" look into the stock...)

Click here to see the vidoe.