Homeless man becomes famous. ( He is the last to know )

Somewhere back in this thread, there was a story about one of our local high schools issuing laptops to all students, then got caught remotely turning on the built in camera when a kid was at home.

Anyway, they just settled with the school district.
The kid got $175,000.






The kid's lawyer got $425,000. :rolleyes:

Usually the lawyer takes 1/3, I wonder what the difference was.

...expenses. fookers do it all the time.

By the way, the "usual" is now 40%.

Russian army in stitches over the blow up of tanks and rocket launchers

:lol2:

Potemkin revisited

Woman gives birth on three triple dates
 

I find it hard to believe the odds are only 50 million to one.

More

Bloodsport sans blood
 

NY Times

A Kind of Hunt That Even Deer Can Get Behind

Linky broken - here it is again

Great, if this catches on our car insurance will skyrocket. :rolleyes:

Were the labors induced, or maybe she had c-sections?

Not about how she did it, I should the odds against it themselves, would be more than 50 million to one.


Florida seems to be on a roll. :rolleyes:

Hey, Land Between The Lakes (where this round of the tournament took place) is my stomping grounds! Hunted in there many times since I was a boy.

This deer hunting tournament thing got started out as a non-"catch & release" venture, i.e., you hunt the deer, you shoot the deer, you kill the deer. That didn't go over too well. With anybody, it seems. Too much like a 'killing contest'. It morphed into this incarnation pretty quickly, though.

We literally hunt the hell outta deer, and there's more of them than we can stand to have, so I don't guess this will do any more harm.

An interesting article by Mike Yon.

Some fantastic pics as well. The setting is Nepal.

The Killing.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/ima...g-oct-2010.pdf

The mind boggles.

No Charges for Mom Whose Baby Lost Testicles in Dog Attack

The UK gov't just acknowledged that they had, during the days following the end of WWII, planted some limpet mines and incendiary devices, onto several of the ships transporting Jews to Palestine.

This was done at the request of several mid-eastern oil rich countries, who were blaming the British (who administered the area of Palestine under a UN mandate, at that time) for allowing these Jews to enter their former (prior to their expulsion by the Muslims around 460 A.D.), homeland.

Not entirely unexpected, since the Jewish hard liners in Palestine (Hagonah), were killing British soldiers by that time, with bombs, as well.

There's never a Samuel L Jackson around when you need one.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/c...-1225942045322

First I'm thinking "one alligator killed 19 people?--damn!" then I read the bullet point and I'm thinking "JESUS CHRIST, one little bitty alligator that fits inside a handbag kills 19 motherƒucking people??? WTF???"

Then it turns out that the stupid bastards offed themself by wrecking the plane. One final thought: this is why we have to have RULES in society, and, in general, why rules are better followed rather than ignored. A statistically significant percentage of people do shit like this.

Seriously. Or they sit at the public library sniffling and snorting and talking on their cell phone to Amaleen or Billy Ray while 15 tonne of mascara and eyeliner runs down their face and their face piercings leak an unidentifiable liquid substance.

I gotta go, I think the guy next to me is going to throw up.

It's a fucking freak circus here. I wish these people would get on a croc plane. I bet I can find 19 of them in about 3 seconds.

(Was only trying to waste some time before I'm scheduled to pick up my friend. Ugh.)

I believe it was Peter Griffin who identified public libraries as the place where homeless people go to do their BMs.

Say hi to Ugh for us. Is he Swedish?

It's refreshing to know that you don't have to trowel the underbelly of society to find truly weird news. Sometimes it lands in your lap courtesy of that American elite; Hollyweird.

So what about Randy Quaid? What went wrong here, and how did he manage to find a soulmate to join him in this death-spiral?

I'm only vaguely acquainted with the original media attention. Something I read in passing about his running out on a bill, vandalism and hanging out in a home he had sold and no longer had claim to.

This isn't completely surprising, odd, but I'm accustomed to the odd eccentricity of stars. Especially when fueled by a proper dose of alcohol, drugs, or general mental decline. Even running up to Canada to skip out on a bill I am fairly certain he could have just quietly paid and retained some dignity. But now this?

Arrested Hollywood star Randy Quaid and wife fear 'star whackers,' seek refugee status in Canada

Now, Ledger was a rising star, Carradine was managing a decent comeback lately, but I have to assume that some conspiracy would mean that they all had something shared in common that would make them a target. Their demises aren't even in alphabetical order.

I can think of at least a dozen other stars more deserving of being targeted by "STAR WHACKERS". While Ledger and Quaid shared a role in Brokeback Mountain, Carradine didn't. It would have been nice had they included a slightly longer list. After all, even a delusion has some base, but to create a shared delusion one would think would it would have to have a better grounding.

Other tidbits are that Quaid has lots of "beard" and drives a 10 year old Camry. I guess the latter either implies he's a poor handler of his money, or rather conservative in his spending.

Quiet Vancouver neighbourhood privy to bizarre Randy Quaid arrest

After Mel Gibson I think that having lots of beard is now par for the course when you begin your decent.

Apparently Quaid was also banned for life from Actors' Equity Association and fined $81,572 stemming from complaints by all 26 members of the cast of "Lone Star Love". You can piss off some of the people some of the time, but to piss off all the people all of the time shows extraordinary effort.

I don't know what to make of that, but it did give rise to this most excellent quote:

Randy Quaid fined, banned for life by actors' union over Seattle imbroglio

You gotta love the bravado.

But now we get this:

uhh... traveling around getting arrested, missing court dates, fleeing the country and then proclaiming yourself the victim of a shadowy group murdering fellow actors isn't the best PR.

But then again, what do I know? He's got a lot to compete with these days. If the old adage, "Any publicity is good publicity", then Britney Spears surely upped the ante quite a bit.

Now, most of the pathos of the stars is just plain boring. I wouldn't know who Lohan or Hilton were except their latest escapades constantly being forced upon me. OJ and Robert Blake had to kill someone to get noticed, so I guess they're counted as worthy. Walking on a murder charge is also noteworthy. Never the less, I have to now wonder; just what has happened to Randy Quaid?

His brother Dennis does a charity golf event in town every year. So at least the genes aren't totally worthless.

I think it was Randy Quaid who once said "You ain't paranoid if they really are out to get you."

I remember, as a kid, it was more of a place of solitude and reverence. Librarians shushed you. Kids didn't run up and down the stairs whoopin' and hollerin'. The advent of the computer terminals has brought in a batch of folks that change the landscape. It IS a public place, but I miss the old days. I thought "you might not know it, but if you look around you will see thousands of wonderful books. Read a couple, see what you think."

And get offa my lawn!

Ha! Judging by the, em...size, I would certainly say he got in on the ground floor of the country's penis enlarger industry. :p:

Kidding, it was a g-friend, shopping for Halloween costumes for the Halloween wedding on Sunday.

I think I'll be a hippy.

Supposedly now they are going to have computers do that.:p:

Good idea, if the ambient noise level get too high the computer shuts down. If you're the one making the noise, you shut up, and if it's someone else, you knock 'em the fuck out. Very effective.

Libraries figured they had better get on the computer bandwagon, or get left behind.

Sometimes when you get on the bandwagon, you leave yourself behind.

I know. I just wax nostalgic for the wonder my library used to be for me. It still is: current city 'brary was made out of a turn of the century hotel that I feared for years would be torn down (used to take people on "tours" of the old hotel because the bar where I worked connected to the old run down place) and it is beautiful.

I have a thing for old buildings AND books.

I don't have a thing for in-bred stupidity and grossness.

The local branch of the library when I was a kid was a tall angular building of architectual wonder and mystery, with big exposed wooden ceiling beams reaching up overhead, creating a mystical realm which was treated with reverence. To enter, you had to pass through a semi-covered walkway area overhung by huge, ancient trees...you knew that you were entering a different type of place, almost like a cathedral.



When they rebuilt the Safeway around the corner, they revamped the entire shopping center, and the entire layout of the surrounding buildings. The old library and the ancient trees were torn down.



The new local branch of the library occupies an unassuming, sterile unit at the end of the "new & improved" strip mall. It resembles a 7-11 where you can get books. The children will never know what they've missed.

Yeah, that's going around. I still hear (even old) folks bitch about the cost to restore this beautiful building into one of the town's most important public places: but it is history. It's my Great grandfather's history and our town's history and my ancestor's history (and there is even a history book or two...heeheee) and I could almost get choked up in there sometimes.

Thanks for "getting it" Flint. :)

They tore down the old run down dump that was the neighborhood branch of our public library. The building was nothing special at all. Cramped or cozy, depending on you point of view. But the kids loved it. It was a great kid sized place, and the basement had a big rug where the kids would spread out with their books and/or have story time. We were on a first name basis with all the librarians.

The new place is a beautiful building. Huge two story rooms with picture windows floor to ceiling. Self checkout, so you never see the librarians. But it's very sterile and impersonal. Also much more crowded.

Our old library was nothing special (outside of the specialness of just being a library), and they tore it down. It took a few years, but they're rebuilding it now. It looks nice from the outside; hopefully it has a good atmosphere inside as well.

Don't fret about desecration coming to an end soon...

The Oregon Utilities Board made a change about overhead (electric) lines,
and it's probably coming soon to your neighborhood.
Now the tree-cutters can top off trees and limbs within 20 ft of the lines.

Of course, Douglas fir and cedar and sequoia don't do well after being topped out,
so now 50 - 100 - 200 year old tress are going into the chippers,
and the broad leaf trees are being cut into squatty-bodies.

Some trees are far enough back from the right-of-ways that
they are just being skinned of their limbs on one side,
making them look even more naked and mal-formed.

Happily, the locals in my town (I don't actually live there, but the post office says I do!) saved the old hospital by moving it to a new location and renovating it. :)

Paul the World Cup Octopus Dies in his Tank

Paul the octopus, an unlikely star of the 2010 World Cup who 'predicted' the outcome of eight matches, has died at an aquarium in Germany.

Staff at the Sea Life centre in Oberhausen said they were "devastated" to learn that he had passed away during the night.

Paul made his name by successfully choosing a mussel from one of two boxes bearing the flags of competing nations.

Octopuses rarely live beyond two years so his death was not unexpected.

You can't see all the details in the exterior in this photo (all kinds of faces, snakes coiled sneakily...)

Another shot and an artist's rendering.

I love this story...of course it's not a cell phone, but it's fun anyway:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/....html?iref=NS1

Make sure to read all the way to the last sentence.:lol2:

Masked man nabbed on flight to B.C. from Asia
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/ph...t-disguise.jpg
Read more:

Just bizarre on so many levels.

The hands.
It's always the hands that give them away.

He would have gotten away with it, were it not for those meddling kids.

I thought that was Old Man Jenkins...

This dope makes that Vick jerk look positively wholesome.

From here:

Simulated? Sounds like nobody can take a joke.

I haven't seen the picture, and don't want to, but at least the bestiality was only "simulated" and not real.

"... but you screw just one goat..." :p:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010...robably-a-jet/

Happenings that make you say, hummm.

The Gov't is claiming that it was an optical illusion.

I thought it was an optional illusion.

It must be one of ours otherwise they'd be all flipped out and telling us all to buy duct tape and blue plastic tarps. Oh wait, maybe I've got it backwards. It must not be one of ours, that's why they are acting all casual and such-- don't want to create a panic.

Missile? Hell, damifino. Must be those goddam kids on my lawn.

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Another weird news report. Worthy or not?


http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/71127


Abraham Lincoln is undoubtedly one of the most easily recognizable people in U.S. history. His height (6’4”), stovepipe hat, and beard made him stand out in a crowd and in the collective American consciousness.

Credit for part of his signature look goes to Grace Greenwood Bedell Billings. In October 1860, the eleven-year-old Bedell saw a campaign photo of Lincoln and was inspired—150 years ago this month—to write to him and urge him to grow a beard to improve his appearance.

Hon A B Lincoln…

Dear Sir

My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter. I have got 4 brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chautauqua County New York.

I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye

Grace Bedell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bedell

Interesting time frame for a life. 1848-1936 From the Mexican War almost to WWII...

I wondered if she was bitter about Lincoln not answering either of her later letters

Ky. Man Says He Was Forced To Eat Beard
 

from Lexington Herald-Leader via Kentucky.com

That must have been hairy.

Is this really serious?

Dictionnary Ban

From my French point of view, it's even worse than stupid.

Serious as a heart attack. Psychiatrists everywhere are thinking, kaching kaching. :(

Well, at the very least, someone is going to make a lot of money with edited version of dictionnaries...

I'll will always be amazed by the relation (pun intended) between American people and the sex world.

This is an proper way for School Boards to respond to the deterioration
of society and to involve parents in the education of their children.

The Committee reviewing the dictionary is going to make a list of questionable words and email it to all parents.
That way the parents can go over the list with their children to see which words are offensive to their family values.

Words that offend will be highlighted with yellow markers, and the students will bring the lists to back to school.
Each teacher will make a new list of the highlighted words from their own class so they will know which words to avoid.
The teachers will post these lists of offensive words on their classroom bulletin boards.

A glass jar with a metal lid will be placed on the teacher's desk.
Each time someone uses one of these offensive words they must put a quarter in the jar.

When enough quarters have been collected, the classroom computers will be connected to the internet
so students can access dictionaries on-line, and the paper dictionaries in the school library will be burned.

These procedures have worked well in the past...

The Reviewing Committee will then turn it's attention to the school's books on Art and Photography.