Jun.30.2009 Quote of the Day
I’m not sure what’s more troubling about this story…that someone has to specifically ask not to have their lawn defecated on or that the other guy doing the defecating was so angered and offended that he couldn’t do it. Either way, this amused me.
It was a simple request: “Don’t defecate on my lawn.” But shortly after making it, the head of homeowner Elias Ramirez of Bridgeport was met by a black plastic milk crate Saturday night, police told the Connecticut Post.
Gabriel Venegas, 34, was apparently the guy who unbuckled his pants and squat on Ramirez’s lawn. When ordered off the property, he apparently became enraged, threw the milk crate and took off.
Police picked him up a short time later. In booking, the Connecticut Post reports he became uncooperative, refusing to give his name and birthday.
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Jun.29.2009 Quote of the Day
This is just an odd story…not a quote, but quite possibly the oddest sentence written in the history of journalism. Video of the incident in question is here.
Police in Warren, Ohio, released video of a woman who was interrogated by officers with a baby squirrel in her shirt.
She was brought into the station to be questioned about a crime.
The detective sat amazed as the woman continued the conversation while tucking the squirrel into her cleavage.
Police let the woman and her animal friend go.
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Jun.26.2009 Quote of the Day
Some guy wielding a shotgun threatened to kill a man. But he got charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. Yeah. You think about that.
Carrying a 20-gauge shotgun, Jack Evan Williams, 54, chased a man home after their heated argument. Williams pointed the shotgun at the man and said, “I’m gonna kill you (expletive).”
The man ran into his neighbor’s home to get away from Williams.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Williams June 18, the night of the incident, after finding the gun in his bedroom.
Based on the investigation, William’s arrest report said he willingly and knowingly violated “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.”
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Jun.25.2009 Quote of the Day
Art is very subjective, but rarely delicious. Fortunately, some heroes in New Jersey are fixing that by turning french fries into sculptures in an annual contest.
Each year on the boardwalk, thousands of french fries are consumed by beachgoers, snatched by seagulls or tossed in the trash at the end of the day.
But once a year, the truly lucky ones become art.
Entrants in the city’s french fry sculpting contest take paper plates full of deep-fried potatoes and mash them together in previously unimaginable ways to produce oily, high-carb masterpieces.
“Anybody can work in paint or clay,” said Kevin Brown, one of about 150 contestants this year. “But it takes a real artist to work in potatoes.”
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Jun.24.2009 Quote of the Day
People think US President Barack Obama is cool. You forget he’s a dorky black guy who studied enough to go to Yale. But if you want to see cool, look no further than the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi…this quote is probably the best one a politician has ever given. Ever.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has refuted allegations that he paid prostitutes to attend parties he hosted at his various homes.
In an interview with Italian magazine “Chi,” the 72-year old denied he had ever paid for sex.
”I’ve never paid a woman. I never understood where the satisfaction is when you’re missing the pleasure of conquest,” Berlusconi told Chi.
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Jun.23.2009 Quote of the Day
Wives always think their husbands are perverts for stuff like asking to do it in the butt or asking her to pee on him while he’s dressed like a schoolgirl. Okay, I guess the latter would be accurate. Here’s another case in which a woman may be accurate in calling her husband a pervert…filming a teenage girl with a hidden camera in a heat vent.
A 31-year-old Sheboygan man will spend no time in jail for using a webcam concealed in a heat vent to watch and make recordings as a teenage girl changed clothes, according to court records released today
Joseph J. Weisfeld, of 1615 Ashland Ave., reach (sp) a plea deal under which two felonies and three misdemeanors were dismissed in exchange for a no contest plea to a single misdemeanor count of invading privacy by use of a surveillance device. He was sentenced last week by Judge Timothy Van Akkeren to a year of probation and fined $504.
Weisfeld’s wife called police March 29 after the teenager, whom Weisfeld knows, discovered recordings of herself on Weisfeld’s computer, according to a criminal complaint. The wife greeted police by yelling, “You need to go arrest my husband. He’s a pervert.”
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Jun.22.2009 Quote of the Day
This quote isn’t so great, but I want you guys to read this Slate piece on how as a result of the economy taking a shit, more and more women are getting into the sex trade. Also: There’s a market for 55 year-old women working as prostitutes? I don’t know what’s more depressing…that she has to do it or that someone would pay.
Take 55-year-old Jennifer of the Bronx, N.Y., who was laid off from her financial bookkeeping job: She talks about her entry into sex work with the shell-shocked detachment of someone who’s recently lost a loved one. “It’s hard. It’s an awful thing to have to do.”
