Posted by on Jan 19, 2009 in
FELONIOUSNESS,
FOOLERY,
FORTEANA What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive. On the other hand, do so many jobs HAVE to require drug testing, credit checks and background checks? There is so much demand for this product that if these guys didn’t sell one, someone else would. I’m SURE that rip off products are being made overseas as we speak. More about the Whizzinator here.
‘Whizzinator’ sellers enter guilty pleas
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The owners of a California-based company that sold products to help people cheat workplace drug tests pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court, Downtown.
George W. Wills, 65, of San Pedro; Robert Dennis Catalano, 62, of Huntington Beach; and Puck Technology Inc., located in Signal Hill, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government and conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia.
Wills and Catalano sold contraptions called the “Whizzinator” and “Number 1,” which allow men and women to simulate urination in order to register a false negative during testing. Sentencing is scheduled Feb. 20 before U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone.
Posted by on Jan 17, 2009 in
FORTEANA A few pair of shoes that show up somewhere is no big deal, but THOUSANDS of them is indeed remarkable. It would seem a tractor trailer lost its load and the driver never ‘fessed up. But is there an underground economy that uses used shoes as currency? Odd indeed.
Charity takes shoes strewn along Palmetto Expressway
www.miamiherald.com | BY BREANNE GILPATRICK AND JOSE PAGLIERY
Remember the thousands of used shoes strewn about the Palmetto Expressway last week? The mystery remains about who dumped them on the busy highway, but the shoes themselves will be collected Tuesday by an international charity and distributed to the needy.
Soles4Souls, a shoe-giving charitable organization with projects around the world, gathered up the shoes from a location near the Golden Glades interchange in North Miami-Dade County.
The Tennessee-based nonprofit agreed to haul away the discarded shoes after it learned of last week’s bizarre discovery by the Florida Highway Patrol.
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Posted by on Jan 16, 2009 in
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FOOLERY,
FOUND PHOTOS Poor Marty Odom. Most photographers who work snapping pics of skiers and then hawking them to rich fat cats DREAM of getting the shots he did. When a poor schmuck got his pants stuck on a chair lift and was left dangling bare bottomed and upside down Marty did what ANYBODY would do, he took some great photos. Now it looks like he may lose his job, AND have to apologize… Sorry Marty, great pics though.
From the SmokingGun.com
JANUARY 14–Embarrassed that one of its employees took–and then distributed–photographs of a skier dangling upside down and pantsless from a Vail ski lift, a Colorado firm is threatening legal action in a bid to suppress any further publication of the now world famous images. In a cease and desist letter e-mailed today to The Smoking Gun, SharpShooter Imaging (SSI) claims that its employee took the photos “while on duty” and that he violated the firm’s “commitment to respect the privacy of all resort guests at every resort SSI represents.” The company, which employs photographers to take photos of visitors at various ski resorts and other attractions, contends that it owns the copyright to photos taken by Marty Odom of the January 1 mishap on a high-speed lift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin. Odom, who initially told TSG and other news outlets that he was not working when he took about six photos of the dangling skier, has since changed his story to say that he was on the SSI clock when he stumbled across the newsworthy incident. Odom was suspended from his job after one of his photos appeared in the Vail Daily News along with a photo credit. Two of Odom’s photos–along with three other images of the dangling skier–were published on January 6 by TSG, triggering stories worldwide about the bizarre Vail accident. The coverage was a black eye for the ritzy Vail ski retreat, which is operated by Vail Resorts, Inc. Since TSG’s publication of the dangling skier story, the firm’s stock price has dropped more than 20 percent (though disappointing early-season visitor numbers at its ski resorts were likely more responsible for that price dip).
Posted by on Jan 15, 2009 in
FOOLERY 
At long last dear reader, in these dark days, I bring you my completed 2009 calendar, COMFORT FOR THE DEPRESSED. (click the text below to automagically start download.)
missfidget_2009_cal.pdf
Best Wishes for a safe and happy year. If you can make a convincing argument why I should send you a deluxe, numbered, printed, hand bound version, leave a great comment, or contact me otherwise.
Best
Miss Fidget
Posted by on Jan 15, 2009 in
FORTEANA,
FOUND PHOTOS 
Special thanks to Nancy Evans, a former NASA planetary photo chief, who kept 4 1,000 pound machines in her garage so that these images would not be lost.
Earliest NASA Moon Images Restored
Seth Borenstein | Associated Press | Nov. 14, 2008
The old moon has never looked this good. Mankind’s first up-close photos of the lunar landscape have been rescued from four decades of dusty storage, and they’ve been restored to such a high quality that they rival anything taken by modern cameras.
NASA and some private space business leaders spent a quarter million dollars rescuing the historic photos from early NASA lunar robotic probes and restoring them in an abandoned McDonald’s.
The first refurbished image was released Thursday — a classic of the moon with Earth rising in the background.
“This is an incredible image,” said private space entrepreneur Dennis Wingo, who spearheaded the project. “In terms of raw resolution, there has been no mission that has flown since or even today that is as good.”
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Posted by on Jan 14, 2009 in
FOOLERY,
FORTEANA I do wonder what movies were playing?
One for the stalls: Horse walks into cinema
www.guardian.co.uk | Monday 5 January 2009
A Horse in the Foyer of the Cineworld cinema in Boldon, Sunderland Photograph: North News & Pictures Ltd
When a horse walked into a cinema near Gateshead, the CCTV camera sadly did not record whether the lady behind the counter said: “Why the long face? High School Musical 3 is about to start.” But studying the footage from 19 December, it is possible to see that a dark-coloured horse did indeed trot into the Boldon Cineworld. It entered via the automatic doors, jumped the queue and headed off down a corridor, before bolting out and back towards the farm from which it escaped. No one was hurt and the horse was captured shortly afterwards.
Tim Hamlyn, of Cineworld, said he was puzzled to get a report from staff headed Horse in Cinema. The incident lasted less than a minute but prompted quips about mati-neighs and stalls. Hamlyn said: “I thought it was a joke initially. It’s the first time I’ve heard of anything as big as a horse getting into one of our cinemas.” Other similar invasions in recent years have included three goats that settled in a shopping centre car park at Guiseley, West Yorkshire.
Posted by on Jan 12, 2009 in
FELONIOUSNESS,
FORTEANA This is THE BEST superhero dressed person scaring off an intruder story of 2009. Click here to read about the Power Ranger kid who saved his family years back.
For the love of Pete, LOOK AT THAT MAN! He REALLLY looks like he knows how to swing a hammer. What a manly manly man wearing a home made tin foil get up. It seems Mr Alexander focuses on stone work and masonry more than home building so he REALLY does have hammer skills. Gee whiz, gosh, I’m blushing, editors aren’t supposed to blush, damn you Thor.
Mr Alexander decided to dress as the Norse God of Thunder becuase they both have names of Norwegian origin Photo: KENT NEWS AND PICTURES LTD.
Burglar scared off by man dressed as Thor after New Year party
A construction firm manager returning from New Year’s Eve fancy dress party scared off a burglar by charging at him dressed as the Norse god Thor.
LTD.www.telegraph.co.uk | Last Updated: 11:58AM GMT 01 Jan 2009
Six-foot tall Torvald Alexander, 38, was wearing a red cape and the thunder god’s silver-winged helmet when he spotted the raider in his front room rifling through a desk.
Mr Alexander, who runs building firm Alexander & Summers in Edinburgh, Scotland, said the burglar threw himself out of a first floor window of his £350,000 home in the Inverleith area of the city after being caught red handed.
Mr Alexander said: “As soon as he saw me his eyes went wide with terror.
“He looked like he had had a few drinks and decided to do a late night break in, but he hadn’t counted on the God of Thunder living here.”
He added: “I had just got back from a fancy dress New Year’s party and because I have a Norwegian name I decided to go as Thor.
“It took ages making the cape, helmet and breast plate, and I must admit it was a bit chilly walking home, but when I saw that guy I just went mad and charged at him, my cape flying behind me.
“I think if I had had Thor’s hammer with me I might have scared him to death.”
Norse legend Thor has a magical hammer, called Mjolnir, which returns to him after knocking out his enemies foe magically returns to the superhero. It can also throw lightning bolts at enemies.
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Posted by admin on Jan 11, 2009 in
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FORTEANA,
fatu·ous·ness Nuisance lawsuit? I dunno. A cracked toilet that fails on a 120-130 woman is badly broken. Now the courts get to decide how humiliating is it to have to ask for help getting your butt unstuck.
Unrelated photo of a broken toilet.
New Jersey woman sues Starters Pub for injuries caused by a cracked toilet seat
Friday, December 05, 2008 | By JD MALONE | The Express-Times
L. SAUCON TWP. | A New Jersey woman claims a defective toilet seat led to a harrowing situation in a bathroom at Starters Pub which left her with permanent injuries, according to a federal lawsuit.
Kathleen Hewko, of Burlington County, alleged that a handicapped toilet seat split, depositing her into the ceramic bowl where she was trapped for 20 minutes. She filed the suit last month for the incident November 2006 at the pub on Route 378.
Hewko was recovering from a hip injury at the time, according to her lawyer, John D. Cirrinicione of Philadelphia. Along with aggravating her injury, she hurt her back and thigh, the suit says.
She seeks at least $150,000 in damages from Starters and the Kohler Co. — the manufacturer of the toilet seat. Her husband, John Hewko, seeks at least $75,000 from both defendants for loss of companionship from his wife.
Starters owner Dave Rank said he could not comment on the lawsuit. A representative of Kohler did not immediately return a phone call and an e-mail seeking comment.
The lawsuit claims the restaurant knew of the cracked seat and that a similar incident occurred earlier the same week. Cirrinicione declined to comment on the prior incident, just saying he had reason to believe the restaurant knew of the defective seat.
The suit also claims a properly built toilet seat would have accommodated Hewko.
The suit says the seat split in half as she sat on it and should not have since she weighs 130-140 pounds, according to court papers. It dropped her into the bowl where she had to cry for help before being freed, the suit says.
The Hewkos, along with their son, Colin, ate at the restaurant in the afternoon when Kathleen Hewko needed to use the bathroom. Court papers said her injuries will not heal and that she suffered severe mental anguish.
Posted by on Jan 9, 2009 in
FAREWELL,
FASHION,
FOOLERY,
FORTEANA The oddest thing is Mr Mankini is a ginger and as such should be extra careful of how much sun he gets down under. The fact he is not the original or most famous of Australian Mankini men is not shocking, nor is the fact he’s riding what appears to be a Ruckus.
Mankini man flashes around
DANIEL BOURCHIER | November 23rd, 2008 | www.ntnews.com.au
RIDING FREE: The mankini-clad rider was letting most of it hang out as he rode down the Stuart Highway yesterday
A MAN caused a stir on Top End streets yesterday by cruising around on a motorised scooter wearing just a mankini.
The red-headed, tattooed man stopped traffic and turned the heads of many Saturday morning shoppers.
He was wearing a slimming black mankini, shoes and a helmet.
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Tags: Australia
Posted by on Jan 6, 2009 in
FOOLERY dawn makes a promise
waves worry. sand shrugs. birds laugh.
sky’s blush brighten’s fast.
