Well, it looks like people raised enough money so that the Chinese kids who previously heaved themselves over a raging river on a cable to go to school can now cross a bridge to get there, and it’s about time.
Season Until Slightly Stupid
A pair of bank robbers burst into tears and collapsed choking in Poland after they tried to use pepper spray on a cashier in front of an air conditioning unit.
The wind blew the spray back over the pair, who staggered from the bank in the south-western city of Wroclaw empty handed.
A local police spokesman said: “They told the cashier to open the till and then tried to put her out of action to grab the cash – but the pepper sprayed back in their faces because of the blast of warm air from the heater.
“They only managed to escape because they had a pal outside in a getaway car.”
Full story
here.
Irrepressible Bad Boy Slays Seven
The writing here reminds me way too much of the crap on
eTalk Daily, the one ironic difference being that it’s actually entertaining.
I Think the Daily Mail Has A Fear Of Good Questions
How is it possible to write an entire story on a
famous chef with a food phobia so intense that all he could eat was cookies
without asking him why, if the fear was so bad, he decided to build his entire life around cooking? Call me crazy, but it seems to me that would be the first thing most people would want to know.
Hopefully the
Freaky Eaters
people will do the basic journalism that the Daily Mail should have done and get to the bottom of this mystery once and for all.
Trixie, Are You A Dog, Or A mountain Goat?
Hey there Trixie. Why at the end of the winter have you decided that the only place for your poop to go is high up on the nearby snowbank that has recently formed? Don’t you realize that I have to line myself up with your butt so I can pick it up? This means that I have to become a mountaineer to get to it, and then when you do your victory dance, you send me straightdown onto my butt. I’m sure I look really funny to passers-by. I’m a blink at the end of a leash falling on my butt in a snowbank behind some dog poop. Dandy! Isn’t that flat spot right in front of us good enough? Why must you brave new frontiers just to poop? Do other dogs do this? What’s up with that? Do you have to find virgin territory to poop on? You’re pooping! Just poop, and poop where it’s flat, please!
Wash Your Face While We Watch Your Face.
So, if you’re a British kid, you might be RFID tagged like warehouse inventory *and* watched when you go to the john. Maybe all this surveillance is why British kids are so unhappy.
Did They Give Him Truth Serum First?
You’ll never meet a more honest criminal than Christopher Chubasco Wilkins. I guess his honesty made the juror’s jobs easier.
Believe It Or Not, Record Companies Make Mistakes
Whenever there’s a chance to rag on the utter stupidity of the music industry, I’m so there. So in that spirit, here is Blender’s list of
the 20 biggest screw-ups in its history.
I’m sure they could have stretched it out longer, but who’s got that much time?
Anyway, this list is a great read. Passing on artists who made millions, albums and artists that never were, trying to fight file sharing rather than doing the smart thing and monetizing it, it’s all here.
And speaking of the music industry, there’s a chance that all of the underhanded tactics that the RIAA likes using to file ridiculous lawsuits against you and I and our grandmothers, the ones that they’d rather us not know about,
could become public knowledge real soon.
Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels. Soon afterwards, discovery will begin, and all sorts of unsavory details about the RIAA’s legal campaign against suspected file-sharers are likely to emerge.
Andersen is a single mother living in Oregon who was sued by the record labels in February 2005. She eventually filed a counterclaim against the RIAA, and when the labels voluntarily dismissed their case against her last June, she filed a malicious-prosecution lawsuit. In it, Andersen accuses the RIAA of fraud, racketeering, invasion of privacy, libel, slander, deceptive business practices, and violations of the Oregon state RICO Act.
This has the potential to get very, very interesting.
Good luck Tanya. Everybody with a clue is pulling for you.
Muslim Group For What?
Uh, if you want to do something more violent than protest, then you’d better change your name to something other than Muslim Group for Peace. I’m just sayin’.
By Accident?
Wow. I can’t believe that defense Barraster Craig Eberhardt managed to convince a judge that his client, Thomas James Anthony Wilson,
- downloaded 8000 pictures by accident,
- was looking at these photos to address issues of his own sexuality as a younger man, but he’s *not* a pedophile,
- and sending him to jail would be a bad idea because he’s an x-cop.
Um, first off, what sane man would believe that Wilson signed up for a child porn site, which included coughing up $35, and downloaded 8000 pictures by accident? That was no accident!
And don’t a lot of pedophiles have issues with their sexuality as younger men? Weren’t a lot of them molested as children? How can his lawyer be so sure he’s not a pedophile? He mentions medical evidence. What the fuck kind of evidence could that be? Even if he, fluke of flukes, had no balls or wang, his brain is where the problem starts.
And if no x-cop should go to jail because it would be too hard on him, isn’t that sort of opening the flood gates for the more crooked cops to commit more crimes? It kind of makes a crime offset credit system.
All I can say is what a naive judge.