If the 28 year old man, (who is anonymous in many reports) hadn’t wrecked his motorized bar stool, he probably would never have gotten that DUI. In general I think the motorized barstool has too high a center of gravity for anything more than slow puttering around. For example an office chair can be suped up to incredible speeds, and lawn chairs are perfect for flight. Luckily, Kile Wygle, only suffered minor injuries.
A man was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after crashing his motorized barstool
Newark man makes costly spill from barstool
Police charge man with OVI after he crashed motorized bar stool
ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT • March 31, 2009
NEWARK — It was classified as “all others” under vehicle type in the Newark police crash report, but that category doesn’t do a motorized bar stool justice.
Its 28-year-old creator and operator was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he rolled the Frankenstein-esque lawnmower-bar stool hybrid, according to a police report and court records.
On March 4, Officer Michael Trotter, one of the two members of the traffic unit, responded to the 500 block of Kelley Lane to assist Newark fire with a man who had sustained injuries from a crash.
Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | March 17, 2009 | AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient the animals.
When the power lines run east-west, that’s the way grazing cattle tend to line up, researchers led by Hynek Burda and Sabine Begall of the faculty of biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany report in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Miss Fidget is pleased to bring you the most images of this amazing occurrence. OOhh video too.
Two semis collided Friday morning on Interstate 43 near county Highway AA, sending both drivers to the hospital and one truck over an embankment, scattering meat products along the highway. Photo by Eric Litke/The Sheboygan Press
Meat Products are strewn around near Dewitt Road and I-43 in Sheboygan County Friday after two trucks collided closing the southbound freeway for a while overnight. The freeway is now open but the cleanup is still going on as fire personnel and others clean up the meat.
Semi crash scatters meat across I-43, injures 2
By Eric Litke | Gannett Wisconsin Media | March 14, 2009
A semitrailer carrying a load of meat products crashed early Friday and scattered giant sausages across Interstate 43 near Oostburg, shutting down the roadway for about five hours, according to the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department.
The crash occurred about 1 a.m. at DeWitt Road, where firefighters spent hours clearing mounds of 2-foot-long tubes of meat from an embankment between I-43 and the rural roadway. Officials said the truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of meat, and about 3,000 pounds of that was strewn across the interstate.
The semi driver who caused the crash, Kenneth Diggs, 50, of Milwaukee, said he wasn’t watching the road when he rear-ended a semi ahead of him.
“He told officers that he was reaching across the cab to grab a CD,” said Lt. Mark Rupnik.
Photo is NOT of Mr Jones. I think Mr Jones got such a tough sentence because children were present during his crime. Google Maps indicate that 4820 Old Harrisburg Road, Lot 6,is probably a mobil home park, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Man pleads guilty to indecent exposure
Court records say he was naked when he challenged his neighbors to karate fight.
By STEVE MARRONI | The Evening Sun | 03/10/2009
A Gettysburg man accused of walking out of his home naked, then challenging his neighbors to a karate fight pleaded guilty to charges of indecent exposure in Adams County court.
The charges filed against Gary Jones, 47, of 4820 Old Harrisburg Road, Lot 6, are considered a misdemeanor of the first degree since three of those who saw him naked are under the age of 16.
Under a plea agreement reached with the Adams County District Attorney’s office, Jones will spend one month in jail, two months on house arrest and 21 months on probation, and is restricted from any contact with his neighbors. He is also to pay a $200 fine.
One part of me thinks, whoa, fried chicken named for America’s first president who identifies himself as black. Another part of me knows that at least 2 generations of American kids, of all stripes have grown up with chicken fingers as their favorite food. Thus, Miss Fidget thinks Obama Fingers are not offensive.
A company in German has just introduced a line of snacks called “Obama Fingers”: frozen chicken fingers with curry dip. To American ears this carries an offensive racial connotation Should the Germans have known better?
A company in German has just introduced a line of snacks called “Obama Fingers”: frozen chicken fingers with curry dip. To Americans, marketing a fried chicken dish with the name of our first African-American president instantly tingles our sensitivity to racial stereotyping and racist imagery.
According to the archaic stereotype, fried chicken is a preferred food choice of African Americans. But Americans know it’s just that — a stereotype — and that blacks here eat every kind of food whites do and everyone loves fried chicken. No American company would ever market a product like this for fear of being accused of mocking the nation’s first black president by associating him with an ugly stereotype. The fried chicken association is ugly to me because it brings back foul racial stereotypes from our nation’s past that I won’t repeat in this space.
Though this wife beating thug is a sorta handsome, he does have “Runaway Bride Eyes” too much white, all the way around. This tasty tidbit came to be from Elizabeth Fiend and was originally posted on the Smoking Gun. One of my favorite sites and one of my favorite people.
Fashion Faux Popped
Man wearing “I ♥ My Marriage” t-shirt busted for domestic battery
From The Smoking Gun | March 16, 2009
MARCH 16–A Florida man wearing an “I ♥ My Marriage” t-shirt was arrested last night for allegedly choking his wife during an argument in their Tampa-area home. Bradley Gellert, a 32-year-old financial consultant, was busted by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies and booked into jail on a felony domestic battery by strangulation charge. According to a police report, Gellert, pictured in the below mug shot, got into an argument with his wife and “screamed at the victim and threw numerous items.” He then allegedly “grabbed the victim’s neck and strangled her,” which “prevented the victim from breathing normally.” Gellert’s wife subsequently fled the couple’s Apollo Beach home and went to a nearby sheriff’s office to report the incident. Investigators noted that the woman had been “taken to the ground by the arrestee and suffered an abrasion to her knee and red marks on her neck.” The “I ♥ My Marriage” shirt was a promotional item tied to the 2008 movie “Fireproof,” a Christian-themed film starring Kirk Cameron. The movie, a hit in evangelical circles, centers on a fireman’s religious awakening and his simultaneous effort to save a failing marriage.
Kenley Collins is famous for her design and sewing prowess as much as her bitchy, snippy pouty demeanor on the reality show Project Runway. Ms Collins had the gall to snipe at the shows beloved “teacher/guru/mentor” Tim Gunn. Now that the limelight has dimmed, Kenley and fiance Penely have been fighting loudly in their trendy Williamsburg Brooklyn pad for weeks.
One can’t help but sympathize with Penely, there is a fine line between self defense and domestic battery. In Collin’s defense, she flung her own laptop, and generally kitties and apples when thrown by a girl are NOT deadly weapons. (Apologies for sexist “throw like a girl” remark.) I would LOVE to hear the 911 transcript where Kenley screeches in the background and Penley says “ouch, she’s throwing apples at me, help”
As editor, I should mind my tone on this post, because domestic violence is not funny. (but apples and kitties make this so fricking funny I can’t help it)
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My brilliant pal from Kittyville gave me the best punch line for this story, after I published it…. PUSSY WHIPPED.
Ms Collins, alleged cat flinger and man beater.
Collins collection shown at Fashion Week featured a frothy feathered bridal gown.
The Kenley Penley couple in happier times.
ZAK PENLEY B'klyn ex-fiancé got pummeled.
one of her cats Sandra (left) or Arlo as a weapon.
TV’S WACKY EX AND THE KITTY
‘RUNWAY’ GAL IN PUSS-TOSS BUST
www.nypost.com | By JAMIE SCHRAM, AMBER SUTHERLAND and JEREMY OLSHAN | Last updated: 8:44 am, March 19, 2009, Posted: 3:00 am, March 19, 2009
Kenley Collins, the catty, batty finalist on “Project Runway,” really let the fur fly when she assaulted her now ex-fiancé with their pet feline in their Williamsburg apartment, authorities said yesterday.
The fashion designer, 26, was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon the weapon being the cat itself for her crazed attack on Zak Penley, 28, prosecutors said.
“It was a miscommunication,” Kenley told The Post after getting released without bail from Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday morning. “Fights happen, and that’s that.”
On the plus side: She will not be changing her name to Kenley Penley.
According to sources, the fur began to fly at 7 a.m. when Collins cocked her arm and threw one of the couple’s two cats Arlo or Sandra at Penley, who was sleeping at the time.
Let’s celebrate the things cultures share – like dragons, ghosts and giants.
The Commonalities of Mythical Beings
By Christine Lin | Epoch Times Staff | Feb 25, 2009
Every culture has its myths—tales of monsters and humanoids, spirits and apparitions both friendly and fearsome. Some of these oral traditions date back centuries in each corner of the globe. They evolve independently of each other, yet they bear many similarities.
The Hairy Humanoid
Canadians call it the Sasquatch, Himalayans call it the Yeti, Mongolians and Russians call it the Almas, Americans call it Bigfoot, and all of them claim they have seen it. Photos have been taken of a large, gorilla-like creature that walks on two legs and is covered in brown, black, or white fur. Disbelievers insist that the photos are of some genetic variant of a gorilla.
In 2007, nine U.S. producers from Destination Truth, a paranormal research TV series, traveled to Nepal where they found foot-long footprints in the banks of a river. The lead researcher, Josh Gates, said he believed they are not prints of a documented species.
Sherpas tell tales of yeti, whose calls sound like those of the loon. Native tribes in Southwest Alaska also tell of a similar creature, called Urayuli, with the same voice.
This is not a new story, but oh, its a good one. I tried to link to the video and couldn’t so I include a grab of the best part of it.
Man’s penis stuck in park bench
By staff writers | NEWS.com.au | August 13, 2008 04:24pm
MAN is lucky to still have a penis after he inserted it in a metal park bench and became stuck, doctors say.
At least a dozen police and emergency services workers were called to the park in Hong Kong after 41-year-old Le Xing’s penis became trapped in a hole, apparently after he became aroused.
According to reports from Hong Kong, the “lonely and disturbed” Mr Xing told police he thought it would be fun to have sex with the bench, UK’s The Telegraph reported.
Unfortunately for Mr Xing, news crews descended on the park to film the rescue effort:
Doctors had tried to drain some of Mr Xing’s blood in an attempt to loosen his penis, but to no avail.
Rescuers eventually cut away part of the bench and Mr Xing was taken to hospital where doctors took another four hours to free him.
They said if Mr Xing had been stuck for another hour they would have had to amputate his penis.
MissFidget.com reader’s will be familiar with Mr Pigeon Pants. I find it extremely interesting to see all the many ways people try to smuggle things they shouldn’t.
Australian Customs recently foiled this man's attempt to smuggle in two live pigeons concealed inside his pants in tubes strapped to his calves.
This photo released by Spanish Police shows a 66-year-old Chilean man who tried to smuggle drugs into the Barcelona airport with a cast made of cocaine. The man had an actual fracture, which police suspect was done on purpose to throw officials off the scent of the drugs. The man also had cocaine in his luggage and the legs of two aluminum stools he was transporting.
These are bars of heroin (7 pounds total) cleverly disguised as chocolate candy bars. The bars were seized at Newark Liberty Airport in mid-February 2009 after they were discovered in the luggage of a woman traveling from Bogata, Colombia.
This bushmeat was confiscated in mid-February 2009 at Newark Liberty Airport. The term "bushmeat" refers to meat from animals living in "the bush" or forest - often rats, antelope or monkeys - and is usually intercepted coming from Africa.
These valuable Faberge ormanents worth an estimated $250,000 were seized at JFK International Airport in January 2009. Two British travelers failed to declare the items, which were later found to be stolen.
Customs officials in Newark busted a 27-year-old woman - a U.S. citizen returning from the island of Antigua in early Febrary - with this bottle of liquid cocaine disguised as Kahlua coffee liquor. There were also narcotics in the cap. The drugs were valued at $125,000
An 18-year-old American woman was busted returning from the Domincan Republic with these packages of cocaine disguised as canned vegetables on New Year's Eve. The six cans holding about 4.3 pounds of cocaine had an estimated street value of $200,000.
These diamonds, woth $1.2 million, were seized at JFK in late December 2008 from a U.S. citizen arriving from Tel Aviv - like most busts, this one occurred after the traveler displayed "nervous behavior."
These wooden boxes containing a total of 10 birds were confiscated at JFK in April 2008 from the luggage of three Chinese travelers. Illegal birds are euthanized to prevent the spread of foreign diseases. These wooden boxes containing a total of 10 birds were confiscated at JFK in April 2008 from the luggage of three Chinese travelers. Illegal birds are euthanized to prevent the spread of foreign diseases.
The weird & wacky stuff confiscated at New York Customs
BY Lauren Johnston | nydailynews.com | Monday, March 2nd 2009
From l., heroin concealed in candy bars, bags of cocaine and $1.2m worth of diamonds.
A man recently attempted to smuggle in two live pigeons inside his pants.
A man recently attempted to smuggle in two live pigeons inside his pants.
Attention, airline passengers: Leave the chain saws, chocolate-covered heroin bars and frozen monkey heads at home. Read more…
