I wonder if the cops ever thought of sending them to their rooms?
Random found image of bongs.
Pa. brothers face charges after broken bong brawl
January 23, 2012 | WPVI.com
Two western Pennsylvania brothers are charged with simple assault and marijuana possession charges after what police are calling a brawl over a broken bong
Ferndale police tell the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown they responded to a fight call Wednesday in which one man was reportedly brandishing a screwdriver while the other hid in his bedroom.
After investigating, police say 18-year-old Tyler Kamler told them 23-year-old Brandon Kamler became upset when Tyler asked him about the broken bong – a glass or plastic water pipe commonly used to smoke marijuana. Police say they later found some small bags of marijuana, an ashtray and two smoking pipes buried in a flower bed after asking Brandon Kamler if there were other drugs in the house.
The brothers don’t have attorneys and declined immediate comment when called at home Friday.
Drew Carey recently tweeted about the 10th anniversary of the “Price is Right” riots in Vegas. Which is a kind of a funny thing to riot about.
Random image showing the LA riots from 1992.
Vegas bets wrong in ‘Price’ riot
About 10,000 people waited for gamer’s anni show tickets
By Lily Oei | www.variety.com | Jan. 23, 2002
Hell hath no fury like an audience scorned, as the staff of Las Vegas’ Rio Hotel learned when a ticket giveaway for a taping of “The Price Is Right” turned into an episode of “Cops.”
Thousands of hopeful contestants — many of them retirees — flocked to the hotel Jan. 17 in search of tickets to a special anniversary taping of the classic gamer. Problem was, there were only 900 seats.
Show was celebrating 30th anniversary by taping at the Rio, the first time the program has ever filmed outside its usual Television City studio. Since contestants on the program are culled from the audience, some would-be participants began waiting as early as the night before; others had secured rooms at the hotel. An estimated 10,000 people showed up for the well-publicized taping.
The man was later identified as David Allen Canterbury. Maybe if he has used stuffed monkeys instead of a light saber he would not have been tasered.
David Allen Canterbury. Image kgw.com
Portland police arrest man after alleged ‘Star Wars’ light saber assault at Toys R Us
By Kate Mather, The Oregonian | December 14, 2011 | www.oregonlive.com
Police arrested a man who allegedly assaulted three people with a blue light saber at a Hayden Island Toys R Us Wednesday night.
A 9-1-1 caller reported the incident about 9:50 p.m. and said the man was inside the store, 1800 Jantzen Beach Center, swinging the “Star Wars” weapon of choice at customers, said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau. While the caller was on the phone, the man then left the store — light saber in hand — and walked out to the parking lot.
Get out your black cats, broken mirror, and horseshoes. Who knew there are 3 Friday the 13ths, 13 weeks apart in 2012? Um, actually, I did, but I didn’t know it was such a rarity.
Friday, January 13th is the first of 3 Friday the 13ths in 2012.
Three Friday the 13ths, 13 weeks apart, a rarity
By Wade Malcolm, The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal | Friday, January 13, 2012
It’s a bad year for people who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia — the fear of Friday the 13th.
Why? There are three this year, instead of the usual two. There was one in 2011.
That’s not all. For the first time since 1984, those three Friday the 13ths — today, April 13 and July 13 — are exactly 13 weeks apart.
Three Friday the 13ths happen every few years. The last was in 2009, and the next is 2015. What’s special about 2012 — and what won’t occur again until 2040 — is that this is happening during a leap year, says Tom Fernsler, a University of Delaware math professor who sometimes goes by the name Dr. 13.
Advertising executive sends Christmas greetings from the grave
By Tom Fontaine | PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW | December 9, 2011
Known for sending humorous Christmas cards each year to hundreds of friends, Bob McCully outdid himself this year — posthumously.
Last week, about 400 people received unexpected holiday greetings from McCully, a former advertising executive and satirical writer from Point Breeze who died in August at 88.
“Hello, please don’t call. I recently moved to a quiet neighborhood and …,” the front of the card read, the words appearing under a photo of McCully in an office talking on the phone.
Live Nativity Scene Lamb Born On Christmas Eve
by Korva Coleman | http://www.npr.org | December 27, 2011
It’s almost too charming to be true – a sheep that’s part of a live nativity scene at a Cincinnati park gave birth to a lamb on Christmas Eve. Really.
The baby arrived late on Friday night at the Krohn Conservatory, but only a night watchman was present to witness the event, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both the sheep and the lamb – a female – are in good health.
Who would boo jolly old Saint Nick? Who could possibly throw snowballs at Santa right before Christmas? Philadelphia eagles Fans that’s who. It sounds like sports mythology but it is true. Don’t feel bad Santa, Philly don’t care much for Nicole Snooki Sneakers either.
Merry Christmas. Stay safe Santa!
Does the source of his fame bother Frank Olivo? "Well, naturally, I love it," Olivo said. "I'm the guy that wanted to be in show business, so this is as far as I got." Image Drew Hallowell for ESPN.com
Philly booed Santa, but Santa still smiles Frank Olivo, who was once pelted with snowballs, still loves fans in Philadelphia
By Elizabeth Merrill | ESPN.com | December 22, 2011
PHILADELPHIA — The old suit fell apart around the same time the old man’s body did. There have been a hundred stories written about Frank Olivo’s Santa costume, and most of them, he said, have been inaccurate. It was not a frumpy suit; it cost $100, which was big money back in the 1960s. It lasted nearly 40 Christmases, thanks to a lot of sewing and mending by his wife, but the corduroy finally gave, and Olivo sighed when the suit had to be put to rest.
A long time ago, before that suit became infamous, Rosalie Olivo swore she’d never end up with a guy like Frank. Italian men, she said, were not her type. They expected their women to mother them, to take care of them. But how could she resist when he came to her job at the luncheonette, reading tarot cards, saying she was destined to marry a fat barber? How could she know that years later, she’d quit her job to take care of him?
Frank Olivo is a romantic, but most of all, he is a ham. That’s why he used to show up for the Philadelphia Eagles’ final home game every season dressed in a Santa suit. He loved Christmas, loved his Eagles and loved the attention. And then one snowy day, Dec. 15, 1968, a halftime show was in jeopardy, a fan base was cold and discontented, and Olivo was summoned from the stands to walk the length of the football field and wave to the crowd and entertain them.
What happened in the next few minutes of this seemingly innocuous event became a staple of Philadelphia history. Santa was booed and pelted with snowballs, and a city cemented its reputation as the harshest place in sports. The story never died, and is still brought up 43 years later, every time a legend is jeered or a car with out-of-state license plates is trashed.
“Philadelphia sports fans have the reputation of being the worst in the country,” Olivo said, “and it’s bull. Because the Philadelphia sports fan, regardless of whether the team is good or bad, they will fill these stadiums, they’ll put their money out to go to these games, they’ll support the team.
“They’re smart fans. They live and die with their teams. I do.”
Oh to be a zillionaire, with these sorts of problems. The way the world work’s I bet with insurance some of these rich tossers will make a profit.
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Eight Ferraris Crash at ‘Gathering of Narcissists’
By Cheng Herng Shinn | http://www.bloomberg.com/news | Dec 5, 2011
Eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini were part of a 14-car crash in Japan yesterday that wrecked more than $1 million of vehicles.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching from the right lane to the left and skidded,” said Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police unit. “It was a gathering of narcissists.” The drivers were aged between 37 and 60 years old, he said.
The accident, at 10:16 a.m. on the rain-soaked Chugoku Expressway in Yamaguchi Prefecture at the western tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu, also involved three Mercedes Benz (DAI) vehicles and two Toyotas, police said. The convoy was heading from Kyushu to Hiroshima when the accident occurred. No fatalities were reported and 10 people sustained bruising and minor injuries.
The person suspected of causing the accident, a 60-year-old self-employed man from Fukuoka prefecture, may face up to three months in jail or a fine of as much as 100,000 yen ($1,280), said Isejima. The accident included a Ferrari F-360 that costs more than 18 million yen. It took longer than six hours to clear the highway of wreckage, Isejima said.
Whooops! This ladies and gentlemen is a near textbook example of a Freudian slip.
Out of respect for the alleged victims, I will show an empty space in a mural where Sandusky once was.
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer cites gay phone sex line in stating case
http://www.suntimes.com | December 14, 2011
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s decision Tuesday to waive his preliminary hearing shifts the focus in the child sex-abuse scandal to two Penn State administrators accused of failing to properly report suspected abuse and lying to the grand jury investigating Sandusky.
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz face their own pretrial hearing on Friday in Harrisburg, and although the charges are much different, with far less severe potential penalties, their cases could hinge on a man also expected to be a prime witness against Sandusky: assistant football coach Mike McQueary.
Awww, they look so young for their age, doncha think?
Yakity-Yak: 60 Years of Teeth That Talk Back
By Lisa Hix | www.collectorsweekly.com | October 24th, 2011
Chattering teeth image from www.collectorsweekly.com
There’s something to be said for being easily amused. In the 1940s, toy inventor Eddie Goldfarb saw an ad for a false-teeth holder called a “Tooth Garage” and he started cracking up. In his head, he saw a pair of dentures, chomping and sputtering down the road like a car, and parking on their own.
Thus, in 1949, Yakity-Yak Talking Teeth—the wildly popular wind-up gag commonly known as “chattering teeth”—were born.
Goldfarb took his invention to toy kingpin Marvin Glass, who showed it to his buddy, Irving Fishlove, of Chicago’s famed novelty concern, H. Fishlove & Co. That sort of ridiculous and obvious slapstick humor is exactly the sort of thing Fishlove, who also introduced latex fake vomit to the world, lived for.
The Yakity-Yak chompers made their official debut in 1950. “Amazing!” reads the box. “Look! They Walk! They Talk! They’re Alive!”
At the time, America was enjoying a Golden Era for toys and games, thanks to the wartime invention of plastics and injection-molding, and these men were turning the industry on its ear. Goldfarb went on to invent games like Battling Tops, Kerplunk!, and Shark Attack!, as well as novelty items like an egg-laying toy chicken called Busy Biddy and the Giant Bubble Gun. Marvin Glass & Associates brought the world Mousetrap, Operation, and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. Fishlove, meanwhile, produced some of the highest-selling lowbrow gags in the business.
Little boys grow up and become big boys. Hooray for fun! Congratulations Mr. Foust on a good safe stunt.
Team Hot Wheels and Tanner Foust Make Record Jump
motortrend.com | Jason Udy | May 31 2011
Remember the orange Hot Wheels V-Drop Super Velocity Track Set you played with as a kid – or maybe over the past weekend? You know the one that you attached to the back of your bedroom door and fantasized about going down inside in a real car? Well you’re not the only one.
Team Hot Wheels built a life-size version of the orange V-Drop Super Velocity Track Set at the “IZOD Presents Hot Wheels Fearless at the 500” for the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, Sunday May 29, 2011. The Mystery Yellow Driver, later revealed as Tanner Foust, set a new world record with a 332 foot jump with a four-wheeled vehicle. Foust broke the previous record by 31 feet.
“Fans witnessed not only a record-breaking jump today, but also an incredible childhood fantasy come to life which engaged multiple generations,” said Simon Waldron, vice president of marketing for Hot Wheels. “Hot Wheels has a deep and rich history in racing that spans over 40 years and there was no better global stage than the Indy 500 to create this once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
Foust, known at the time merely as the Mystery Yellow Driver, dropped down the 90 foot ramp of the life-size V-Drop Super Velocity Track Set, which was suspended to a 10-story high door, on his way to the record-setting jump. Foust was revealed as the mystery Team Hot Wheels™ Yellow Driver moments after the jump.
“As a kid playing with Hot Wheels I could only dream of experiencing something as outrageous as a life-sized V-Drop track set, and today it became reality,” said Tanner Foust, Team Hot Wheels Yellow Driver. “There’s a lot that goes into being on Team Hot Wheels and the training and testing leading up to the jump gave me the confidence needed to push the mechanical and mental limits of the challenge and land the world-record title.”
