Got My New Passport And Learned Some Things

Wow. I can’t believe I started looking into this whole passport process back in September. Well, I have good news and bad news on that front. The good news is I must have filled out the form correctly, because I have a shiny new passport. It arrived while I was home with the family. The …

The Stuff In The Store Was Free, But You’re Not

Here’s a weird one. There’s a store in Edmonton devoted to saving things from going into the landfill. People pay a couple of bucks to drop something off, and then it’s free for anyone to take. It’s called the free store. Yup, the free store. People just take stuff, ya know, for free. Well, somebody …

Ironyleaks

No matter how you feel about Wikileaks, it’s hard not to find this a tiny bit humourous on some level. Bjorn Hurtig, one of the lawyers representing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, isquite upset that somebody leaked confidential police documents related to the rape Case Assange is fighting to the media. According to The Australian, Assange’s …

Are You Ready For Some Jail Time?

Police were summoned to a Chicago home because a woman was seen drunk outside holding her three-month-old child under her armpit like a football. And why was Jamie Riley drunk? Oh, she and her husband were just celebrating the fact that the DCFS had dropped their investigation into the safety of their child. Consider the …

He’s Just Putting On An Itchy And Scratchy Show!

I saw the story of Charles Lickteig, a supervisor of a sex offender treatment program, getting busted for exposing himself at a traffic light, and thought I should probably post it. Then I forgot about it. Plus I couldn’t think of much to say except hmmm…wonder how it’ll feel to be a member of the …

Sir, Can You Come Over Here And Blow Into Yourself Please?

Looks like we can run the how many years in a row has some idiot been popped for drunk driving during Halloween season while dressed up as a Breathalyzer count to 2. Here’slast year’sin case you’ve forgotten it, and here’sthe story of 19-year-old Matthew Nieveen,2010’s entry. According to a police report, he was driving a …

I’m Just Passing On What I’ve Read, So Please, Don’t Shank The Messenger

I really appreciate it when people like Faribah Maradiaga make my job here easy for me. I say I appreciate her because if I just launch straight into the mockery I might get myselfstabbed,much like her anger management classmate. Maradiaga walked into a classroom on the Bellevue College campus, where a court services agency rents …

He’s A Friend, Not An Ambulance Driver!

Ya know, if Jimmy McCoy wants to help out a friend while he’s being transported to the hospital, he can maybe sit beside him and talk to him, or if his friend wants a hand to hold, he can hold his hand. Attempting to drive the ambulance to the hospital because he thinks he can …

Protect Your Limbs, Not The Animals!

Alexander Alcantare needs to learn from his mistakes, or one of his mistakes may kill him. He’s an animal lover, and doesn’t sit back and wait for others to do what needs to be done. So when he saw an aligator with an arrow in its head, he thought he’d trap it and get it …