“As horrified travelers watched, a Greyhound Canada bus passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man who was sitting and sleeping beside him, a witness said Thursday.”
NewMexiKen took the bus from Orange County to San Francisco during the air traffic controllers strike. I always remember walking through the bus station and hearing one passenger to another, “Hey man, when did you get out?”
NewMexiKen couldn’t figure out why federal regulators seized Bernie Mac. He was just guilty of some crude humor at an Obama event.
Then I heard it was actually INDY Mac they seized.
“Animal welfare groups must be panting: Leona Helmsley reportedly directed that her fortune — up to $8 billion — be used for the care and welfare of dogs.”
A bitch, even in death.
“Workers at a marble company in Dallas say they have a slab of natural granite that has the image of Jesus in it.”
That must be the Rock of Ages we’ve heard about.
It has come to my attention that kids love Fred.
Who is Fred?
If you’re like me, you’ve never heard of Fred. And if you’re like me — or hell, even if you’re not like me — you will not understand why Fred is getting 3 million to 4 million hits every time he posts a video on YouTube.
Follow this link to Web Scout to learn more about Fred and see a sample video — a video already seen by 4,813,549 viewers.
This item was first posted here four years ago. I had found it at “Morning Briefing” in the Los Angeles Times.
There was an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO in February in which Larry David, the show’s star, creator and executive producer, took a lady of the evening to a Dodger game so he could use the carpool lane on the freeway.
Footage shot at Dodger Stadium for that show, The Times and other media outlets reported recently, exonerated Juan Catalan, who had been charged with murder.
Outtakes, viewed by Catalan’s attorney, showed that Catalan, as he had maintained, was at the Dodger game last May at the time he was accused of committing the murder of a 16-year-old girl in Sun Valley.
As a result, a judge set Catalan free.
The results of a Dallas City Council-sponsored poll to rename Industrial Boulevard were released late Friday and, by an overwhelming margin, voters chose César Chávez Boulevard.
The choice to name the road for the legendary civil-rights activist who agitated on behalf of farm workers but had scant ties to Dallas is certain to stir yet more controversy over the long-disputed Trinity River project.
. . .And in the past week, several council members have downplayed the poll’s importance in the effort to find a new, more glamorous name for Industrial, a road known more for its bars and bail bond shops than the river it winds along.
Bet the council members wouldn’t be second guessing if the choice had been Roger Staubach Boulevard or Owen Wilson Boulevard.
A woman who had her camera stolen got a close-up of the thieves when photos they took of themselves were automatically uploaded to her computer.
Alison DeLauzon had her digital camera stolen while she was on holiday in Florida, meaning she had to accept the loss of many treasured family snapshots.
But not only did she get those images back, she also got a few new ones – of the men who stole her camera posing with their prize, totally oblivious to the fact the pictures were being transmitted via cyberspace.
Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon’s camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but also uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.
A woman called Orem police Friday afternoon needing help because her battery died and she was locked inside her car.
When police arrived, they found the woman sitting in the car, unable to get herself out. She couldn’t hear the officers instructions through the rolled-up windows so she motioned to them to call her on her cell phone, according to police.
Once officers were able to talk to the woman on the phone, they were able to tell her how to manually operate the slide lock mechanism on the inside door panel to open the door and free herself.
Not that Michael Bolton. The Michael Bolton that worked with Peter Gibbons and Samir Nagheenanajar.
A California man has been indicted for an inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months — a few pennies at a time.
Michael Largent, of Plumas Lake, California, allegedly exploited a loophole in a common procedure both companies follow when a customer links his brokerage account to a bank account for the first time. To verify that the account number and routing information is correct, the brokerages automatically send small “micro-deposits” of between two cents to one dollar to the account, and ask the customer to verify that they’ve received it.
Largent allegedly used an automated script to open 58,000 online brokerage accounts, linking each of them to a handful of online bank accounts, and accumulating thousands of dollars in micro-deposits.
A Port St. Lucie, Fla., mother is outraged and considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
Melissa Barton says Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo had her son’s classmates say what they didn’t like about 5-year-old Alex. She says the teacher then had the students vote, and voted Alex, who is being evaluated for Asperger’s syndrome — an autism spectrum disorder — out of the class by a 14-2 margin.
Via Oh Fair New Mexico —
Several lanes of Interstate Highway 80 were shut down for hours overnight after a truck hauling Oreos crashed into a median, spilling tons of the chocolate cookies across the highway, police said.
The crash occurred at about 3:40 a.m. Monday on I-80 just east of Morris, said Master Sgt. Brian Mahoney of the Illinois State Police.
The truck was westbound, hauling about 20,000 pounds of Oreos, when the driver lost control and the rig hit a median before veering into the eastbound lanes. The impact ripped the trailer open, spilling its cargo across the eastbound lanes of the highway, he said.
The driver was not hurt, but police had to shut down the eastbound lanes for several hours while the cookies were cleaned up, Mahoney said.
I’m thinking the cleanup might have gone faster if the crew didn’t stop and split each cookie to lick the creamy stuff in the middle.
NewMexiKen once blew a VW Bug engine on I-80 near Morris, Illinois. But no, not an Oreo in sight that day.
Little girls have pretty curls
But I like Oreos
Chalk this one up to hard-to-believe: a substitute teacher in Florida lost his job in part because of a magic trick.
As reported by Channel 10 in Tampa, Jim Piculas did a magic trick where he makes a toothpick disappear and reappear. What happened next? The principal called him up to the office and told him he was being accused of — wait for it, wait for it — wizardry.
A lot of zeros: Chares Ray Fuller, the police say, had it in mind last week to start a record business, and figured he might as well finance it by cashing a forged check drawn on his girlfriend’s mother’s account, The Associated Press reported this morning. Not that The Lede has any firsthand experience with this, but one imagines that a check-forger-to-be inevitably faces a moment when, with pen poised, he or she must decide exactly what amount to try for.
How about, oh, $360,000,000,000? Yeah, that ought to do it.
At the Chase Bank branch in Fort Worth, Texas, where the police said he tried to cash the check, the teller apparently thought something was amiss, seeing as how the amount far exceeded the bank’s total market capitalization and all, so officials contacted the account owner. When she told them that, no, she hadn’t written any multibillion-dollar checks, Mr. Fuller was arrested and charged with forgery (not to mention possession of a small amount of marijuana and a .25-caliber pistol), and later was released on $3,750 bail — cash or bond, please, no personal checks.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Sort of the anti-spam.
The headline was: Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross.
I wasn’t going to post anything about this lunacy when the story came out on this date four years ago, but then I saw the money quote:
“When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,” Boucher said.
The original story was in the Portland Press Herald.
Everyone knows the pecking order in a family has everything to do with age. The oldest sibling usually rules the roost. But what if you get cheated out of the title because of Daylight Saving Time?+
Peter Sullivan Cirioli was dubbed “Baby A” at WakeMed Cary when he arrived early Sunday morning.
“Yes, Peter was born first, it was at 1:32 a.m.,” mother Laura Cirioli said.
Thirty-four minutes later, Peter’s twin sister, Allison Raye Cirioli, known as “Baby B,” made her entrance into the world.
Because of Daylight Saving Time, Allison’s time of birth was 1:06 a.m., which makes her 26 minutes older than her brother even though he was born first.
I’m thinking even in North Carolina they ought to be able to figure this out.
Did TSA screeners hassle this woman — or not?
Read “Sippy Cup Spill Sparks Tiff at National Airport” from The Washington Post.
You may see Paris, you may see France, but in Delcambre, Lousiana, you won’t see underpants.
In an attack on baggy trousers, the Mayor is signing an ordinance that imposes a possible 6 month jail sentence and hefty fine for those who wear baggy pants that expose their underwear.
Albuquerque’s Mayor Marty just unilaterally prohibited smoking on all city property extended the no smoking ban to all city property — even outside (parks, bus stops). I’m no smoker and hate being around second-hand smoke, but I hate living in a nanny community more. Add the mayor’s smoking ban to redlight cameras, the APD party patrols, DUI roadblocks, cell phone bans and what do you have? When does nanny end and fascist begin?
The themes of the [Creation Museum] exhibits resound in the theater presentations: Men in White, Six Days of Creation, The Last Adam, and Dinosaurs and Dragons. Our Special Effects Theater, complete with rumbling seats and rising mists, takes visitors on a fantastic quest to find the real purpose and meaning of life.
Each seat is a rocket launching pad in our Stargazers Planetarium. Prepare for lift-off. The digital projector showcases a spectacular gravity-defying spaceflight, a thrilling 22-minute ride billions of light years away to the vast outer regions of our universe. Breathtaking images and inconceivable distances make this cosmic journey under the dome a fully engaging experience.
Creation Museum [emphasis added]
Billions of light years? What’s up with that? I thought we were dealing with about 6,000 years since the Biblical creation.
Idea from Jesus’ General.
Oh, and as long as I’m borrowing, I have a take on a cartoon in the current New Yorker caption contest.
The cartoon depicts Noah’s ark with pairs of animals — including a human pair. There are three potential winning captions (all of them good).
But my version would be the ark with pairs of animals including a pair of dinosaurs. And the dinosaur male says to the female dinosaur, “Don’t tell Noah about the vasectomy.”
(Here’s that particular Cartoon Caption Contest.)
I’d sworn to myself that I wouldn’t have any more stuff about P.H., but some of Tommy Chong on The Colbert Report is pretty funny.
By the way, during all the “health” issues last week, did anyone mention that Ms. Hilton just maybe was going through drug and alcohol withdrawal? If so, I didn’t see or read about it.
Although I suppose it’s not as if the L.A. County Jail is a drug free zone.
Video via Crooks and Liars.
Elsewhere, the best Paris Hilton-related line of the day, so far:
This guy [Dr. Steven Hoefflin who saw Paris Hilton while she was at home last week] used to be Michael Jackson’s former plastic surgeon and has also done work on Sylvester Stallone, Joan Rivers, and Janet Jackson. So really, he’s less of a doctor, and more of a guy with a scalpel who has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. I really have no idea why Paris would be seeing him, since you’d get about the same quality of work from a blender.
What is wrong with these people?
Paris Hilton is supposedly at the breaking point in jail — but she’ll be breaking out the champagne and partying like mad the second she’s released, if her parents get their way.
Page Six has learned that the celebutard’s doting daddy, Rick Hilton, was recently shopping a “Get Out of Jail” bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs, including Pure, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Palms.
Meanwhile —
Paris Hilton says she’s found God behind bars – and will dump the ditzy-blonde persona that’s made her a world-famous celebutante.
“My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen, and that is why I was sent to jail. God has released me,” Hilton told Barbara Walters in a collect call from the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles.
What do this famous photo
and this photo of Paris Hilton taken today
have in common?
Same photographer — Nick Ut. June 8, 1972 and June 8, 2007.
From Acephalous.
Time Magazine has a report on July 7, 2007, The Most Popular Wedding Day Ever.
