Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Thursday
Heroic? How about "nuts"?
What were you doing on December 12, 2003? Quebec border services officer Yves Julien was working an overtime 11-hour shift, plus 3 extra hours, for which he received, respectively, time-and-a-half and double-time. During the three-hour stint, he spent $9 on a meal, and he put in for reimbursement. Gov't said no, no meal money on the job, and as to the fact that it's an extra shift, Julien was already getting generous pay. Following almost five years of meetings, paperwork, lawyers, rulings and counter-rulings, Julien finally won. Here's your damn $9. The Globe & Mail
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"Giant penis man needs re-chalking"
Well, that should be self-explanatory, so we'll move on to the next story.
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OK, OK. It's a huge, centuries-old carved-green-growth plot in Dorset (England), on a hillside and featuring a very large man with a very large endowment (the "Cerne Abbas giant"), and the summer rains have caused vegetation to grow over some of the chalk lines so that ya can't make out everything from a distance (which is the whole point). So, this weekend and next, volunteers will clear away the brush and re-chalk the carving. Metro.co.uk // Cerne Abbas giant
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Marc Allen Sauter, 26, seen here from the front and side, might have been the precipitator of a street brawl (along with his dad, Kevin Allen Sauter) that started when a neighbor dog allegedly menaced a kid. Billings Gazette
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More Things to Worry About on Thursday
A female soldier is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed in combat, said a House subcommittee chair, and a retired colonel would like to see warnings to that effect on recruiting office doors . . . . . The federal appeals court has granted Roy Pearson his one free appeal (of the dismissal of his famous $54m dry-cleaned-pants lawsuit) . . . . . The F State is finally, finally, cracking down on elderly drivers by, um, allowing 80-and-older drivers to renew their licenses for just six years instead of eight! . . . . . "A culture of ethical failure" at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior is all over the news this morning, featuring direct kickbacks, contracts by favoritism, cocaine sales in one office, and several episodes of contractor-contractee sex (which is always bad, or, as the inspector general put it, "Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot by definition be arms-length [relationships]" . . . . . The people in rural Pennsylvania around the Flight 93 crash site are trying, with discretion and dignity this September 11th, to set up a sorta "disaster memorial loop" tourist strip, so that visitors can knock off the crash site, the nearby 2002 mine rescue site, and the nearby 1889 Johnstown flood site, all in one holiday trip! Today's Newsrangers: Karl Olson, Perry Levin, Larry Ellis Reed, Candy Clouston, Bob Pert
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What were you doing on December 12, 2003? Quebec border services officer Yves Julien was working an overtime 11-hour shift, plus 3 extra hours, for which he received, respectively, time-and-a-half and double-time. During the three-hour stint, he spent $9 on a meal, and he put in for reimbursement. Gov't said no, no meal money on the job, and as to the fact that it's an extra shift, Julien was already getting generous pay. Following almost five years of meetings, paperwork, lawyers, rulings and counter-rulings, Julien finally won. Here's your damn $9. The Globe & Mail
Comments 'yves_julien'
"Giant penis man needs re-chalking"
Well, that should be self-explanatory, so we'll move on to the next story.
. . .
OK, OK. It's a huge, centuries-old carved-green-growth plot in Dorset (England), on a hillside and featuring a very large man with a very large endowment (the "Cerne Abbas giant"), and the summer rains have caused vegetation to grow over some of the chalk lines so that ya can't make out everything from a distance (which is the whole point). So, this weekend and next, volunteers will clear away the brush and re-chalk the carving. Metro.co.uk // Cerne Abbas giant
Comments 'giant_penisman'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Marc Allen Sauter, 26, seen here from the front and side, might have been the precipitator of a street brawl (along with his dad, Kevin Allen Sauter) that started when a neighbor dog allegedly menaced a kid. Billings Gazette
Comments 'marc_sauter'
More Things to Worry About on Thursday
A female soldier is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed in combat, said a House subcommittee chair, and a retired colonel would like to see warnings to that effect on recruiting office doors . . . . . The federal appeals court has granted Roy Pearson his one free appeal (of the dismissal of his famous $54m dry-cleaned-pants lawsuit) . . . . . The F State is finally, finally, cracking down on elderly drivers by, um, allowing 80-and-older drivers to renew their licenses for just six years instead of eight! . . . . . "A culture of ethical failure" at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior is all over the news this morning, featuring direct kickbacks, contracts by favoritism, cocaine sales in one office, and several episodes of contractor-contractee sex (which is always bad, or, as the inspector general put it, "Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot by definition be arms-length [relationships]" . . . . . The people in rural Pennsylvania around the Flight 93 crash site are trying, with discretion and dignity this September 11th, to set up a sorta "disaster memorial loop" tourist strip, so that visitors can knock off the crash site, the nearby 2002 mine rescue site, and the nearby 1889 Johnstown flood site, all in one holiday trip! Today's Newsrangers: Karl Olson, Perry Levin, Larry Ellis Reed, Candy Clouston, Bob Pert
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