Sobering Consequences

When you’ve been drinking, decide to drive home, but then think it’s a bad idea, do you…a. stop and call a cab?b. let someone else drive?c. Stay somewhere?or… d. call 911 and say you might need some help because you’re too intoxicated to drive? If you chose D, welcome to the Pat Dykstra club. Strangely …

Haw Haw Haw, You Really Got Me There

You’d think that of all the people who should know that pretending to break into somebody’s house as a joke is a dumb idea, a police officer would be right at the top of the list, but apparently not. Perhaps the bullet the doctors had to dig out of his stomach will serve as a …

Was There Nothing Else Going On That Day?

Car chases happen all the time, but rarely does it take2240 officers, 460 police cars and a helicopterto catch one guy, and nobody seems to know why this one did. But here’s the best part. After all that time and I guess effort, the guy wound up basically catching himself when he hit a bridge …

We Do Not Run An Opinionated Blog

Beauty pageant dumps tarot card reading judge I know I shouldn’t, but I find it somewhat odd that an organization claiming to have no religious slant is getting so worked up over something so trivial in such a religious fashion. When you send somebody a letter saying “tarot card reading is witchcraft and is used …

Sing Sing Singing A Different Tune

Now there’s a sucky day. A guy broke into a minimart, but was scared off by police. He ran and ran and ran…and ran onto the grounds of Sing Sing State Prison! Woops! Needless to say, he’s not running anymore. A guard got him, and off he went to jail. But you know what his …

Craig’s Hit List

Here’s another one for the You’re stupid files. Ann Marie Linscott decided that the wife of a man with whom she had an affair must die. But who was going to do it? She decided to find the hitman by posting an ad on Craigslist, the popular buy and sell site. She didn’t exactly say …

But But But What About My Car?

You’ve got to be a special kind of prick to hit a kid, kill him, and sue his family so you can repair the damage to your car. If that’s not prickish enough, this quote should seal it. “I’m also a victim in all of this, you can’t fix the lad’s problems, but you can …