[News] Catch-Up: News I Shoulda Posted Last Week
Aussie Malcolm Biggs said he was a big fan of Steve Irwin's and that that gave him an over-inflated sense of confidence to try to rescue the wounded red-bellied black snake (which is venomous, and btw, snakes do not co-operate with "rescues"). [Ed.: About emulating Steve Irwin . . .] Courier Mail (Brisbane)
A Florida state senator with a fabulous first name, Larcenia Bullard of Miami, in a debate on the proposed legislation to make bestiality a crime but carving out an exception for legitimate "animal husbandry" work: "People are taking these animals as their husbands? . . . So that maybe was the reason the lady was so upset about the monkey (referring probably to the recent incident in Connecticut in which the chimp went crazy)?" Orlando Sentinel [scroll down]
Hundreds of independent gas station owners in New England who followed oil-disposal laws to the letter, dumping their used oil at a legal site in New Hampshire, are starting to be billed amounts into five figures to clean up the site, which is now a Superfund hell-pit, because the site's owner is broke. (Bonus: The independents who dumped their oil illegally are home-free.) Boston Globe
A House subcommittee found that, in a sampling, 56% of TARP bailout recipients last year owed back federal taxes at the time, yet the CEOs had sworn in writing that they didn't (and IRS is said to be "investigating"). Washington Post
Veteran prolific, old-school Tennessee moonshiner "Popcorn" Sutton, 61, was found dead, probably by suicide because he was scheduled to do a stretch in prison, since revenooers had raided his humongous stills (and also found a gun). Wall Street Journal /// Knoxville News-Sentinel [another classic photo]
A Florida state senator with a fabulous first name, Larcenia Bullard of Miami, in a debate on the proposed legislation to make bestiality a crime but carving out an exception for legitimate "animal husbandry" work: "People are taking these animals as their husbands? . . . So that maybe was the reason the lady was so upset about the monkey (referring probably to the recent incident in Connecticut in which the chimp went crazy)?" Orlando Sentinel [scroll down]
Hundreds of independent gas station owners in New England who followed oil-disposal laws to the letter, dumping their used oil at a legal site in New Hampshire, are starting to be billed amounts into five figures to clean up the site, which is now a Superfund hell-pit, because the site's owner is broke. (Bonus: The independents who dumped their oil illegally are home-free.) Boston Globe
A House subcommittee found that, in a sampling, 56% of TARP bailout recipients last year owed back federal taxes at the time, yet the CEOs had sworn in writing that they didn't (and IRS is said to be "investigating"). Washington Post
Veteran prolific, old-school Tennessee moonshiner "Popcorn" Sutton, 61, was found dead, probably by suicide because he was scheduled to do a stretch in prison, since revenooers had raided his humongous stills (and also found a gun). Wall Street Journal /// Knoxville News-Sentinel [another classic photo]
Comments
Snakes "Boys and girls take warning, when you go near the lake. Keep your eyes wide open and look for sneaky snake." Words to live by.
Miami That's still part of Florida? I thought they broke away last year sometime. But, hay, gotta make those laws ambiguous or lawyers will be out of work.
Oil Dumping "No good deed goes unpunished."
IRS Can't go after the rich and powerful. It's not cost effective what with the law suits and all.
Moonshiner Gasp! He had a gun! If this dude had lived in Japan he'd have been declared a national treasure.
Miami That's still part of Florida? I thought they broke away last year sometime. But, hay, gotta make those laws ambiguous or lawyers will be out of work.
Oil Dumping "No good deed goes unpunished."
IRS Can't go after the rich and powerful. It's not cost effective what with the law suits and all.
Moonshiner Gasp! He had a gun! If this dude had lived in Japan he'd have been declared a national treasure.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/23/09 at 12:07 PM
red-bellied black snake
Jack-ass!! Too bad he has already reproduced.
Jules, I agree the guy looks as though he has been chasing the dragon well before trying to rescue a snake.
Jack-ass!! Too bad he has already reproduced.
Jules, I agree the guy looks as though he has been chasing the dragon well before trying to rescue a snake.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 03/23/09 at 12:47 PM
what a shame about Popcorn. They should have destroyed the stills and let the man live in peace. Moonshine should be decriminalized along with marijuana.
go to the knoxville article, and check out the reader's posts at the bottom. is this a guy who should be imprisoned for years???
go to the knoxville article, and check out the reader's posts at the bottom. is this a guy who should be imprisoned for years???
Posted by mrjazz on 03/23/09 at 01:26 PM
Beastiality - "That's seven different shades of nasty," says the reporter. You can't judge such a thing without trying it first. It could only be four different shades of nasty, you don't know.
Moonshine - Why, in God's name, is this still illegal? (Hah, I made a Pun! A still, and it's illegal, still! Get it?)
Moonshine - Why, in God's name, is this still illegal? (Hah, I made a Pun! A still, and it's illegal, still! Get it?)
Posted by Nethie on 03/23/09 at 05:19 PM
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