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More Things to Worry About
Cliché Come to Life: Charming New York art dealer Mark Zaplin said it's not his fault if those nuns he bought the $2.2M painting from for $450,000 don't have any business sense. [Ed.: Wait, what's the cliché here? Oh, yeah, I forgot: Zaplin's doomed, according to two dozen or so horror movies.] New York Post
Life Is Too Long: (1) John Allwood, 29, broke his own world record by smashing 47 watermelons over his head at the Chinchilla Melon Festival in Australia. (2) So far, 18,000 have signed up to watch, over the 'net, the first-ever live birth of an elephant. Australian Broadcasting Corp. News /// Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
Undignified Death: A 28-yr-old man was run over on Miami's Palmetto Expressway in the middle of the night after he fell off an over-the-highway sign he was tagging. (Upstate, in Fort Walton Beach, a 25-yr-old man didn't quite cross over . . yet, anyway . . in his try, but he did get arrested for trespass because apparently he had to use his neighbor's garage to gas himself.) WPLG-TV (Miami) /// Northwest Florida Daily News
Recurring Themes: (1) A high official at OSHA ($150k/yr) has been on paid leave for nearly 19 months with utterly no work to do after a spit-spat with his boss. (2) An Arkansas insurance company is the latest to deny an employee's worker compensation claim because the employee, on the job but in violation of the rules, was badly injured when he went to help a female customer who was getting beaten up. Washington Post /// KLRT-TV (Little Rock)
Cliché Come to Life: Charming New York art dealer Mark Zaplin said it's not his fault if those nuns he bought the $2.2M painting from for $450,000 don't have any business sense. [Ed.: Wait, what's the cliché here? Oh, yeah, I forgot: Zaplin's doomed, according to two dozen or so horror movies.] New York Post
Life Is Too Long: (1) John Allwood, 29, broke his own world record by smashing 47 watermelons over his head at the Chinchilla Melon Festival in Australia. (2) So far, 18,000 have signed up to watch, over the 'net, the first-ever live birth of an elephant. Australian Broadcasting Corp. News /// Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
Undignified Death: A 28-yr-old man was run over on Miami's Palmetto Expressway in the middle of the night after he fell off an over-the-highway sign he was tagging. (Upstate, in Fort Walton Beach, a 25-yr-old man didn't quite cross over . . yet, anyway . . in his try, but he did get arrested for trespass because apparently he had to use his neighbor's garage to gas himself.) WPLG-TV (Miami) /// Northwest Florida Daily News
Recurring Themes: (1) A high official at OSHA ($150k/yr) has been on paid leave for nearly 19 months with utterly no work to do after a spit-spat with his boss. (2) An Arkansas insurance company is the latest to deny an employee's worker compensation claim because the employee, on the job but in violation of the rules, was badly injured when he went to help a female customer who was getting beaten up. Washington Post /// KLRT-TV (Little Rock)
Comments
Cliché Come to Life I'd normally scream caveat emptor (the nuns should understand a little Latin) but the Catholic church owns enough art that the nuns had ample access to experts.
Watermelons What's one got to do with the other? Some Aussie's using his head (finally). And 18k people want to see something rare that, I'd bet, less than 0.01% of the population of the world has seen.
Darwin Award Nominees We'd like to extend cudos to the tagger for a well deserved entry but we'll have to pass on the dude who imposed himself on his neighbor.
Recurring Themes Once again cudos go to the 1st contestant for being able to do the most harm to the parent company with the least amount of effort.
And why would anyone, in their right mind, go to anyone's assistance whilst on the job even if that job was insurance and the individual was a customer? Tisk, tisk.
BTW, read this story and vote. Very interesting.
Watermelons What's one got to do with the other? Some Aussie's using his head (finally). And 18k people want to see something rare that, I'd bet, less than 0.01% of the population of the world has seen.
Darwin Award Nominees We'd like to extend cudos to the tagger for a well deserved entry but we'll have to pass on the dude who imposed himself on his neighbor.
Recurring Themes Once again cudos go to the 1st contestant for being able to do the most harm to the parent company with the least amount of effort.
And why would anyone, in their right mind, go to anyone's assistance whilst on the job even if that job was insurance and the individual was a customer? Tisk, tisk.
BTW, read this story and vote. Very interesting.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/23/09 at 10:18 AM
Not all taggers are cockroaches. Many posses great talents as artists. How they choose to express themselves is definitely a nuisance and illegal, but really cool to see.
When I worked for an office supply store, we were instructed that if someone shoplifts, the moment they set foot on the parking lot, they are no longer our responsibility. That may be the way their looking at it. No good deed goes unpunished. Bastards.
When I worked for an office supply store, we were instructed that if someone shoplifts, the moment they set foot on the parking lot, they are no longer our responsibility. That may be the way their looking at it. No good deed goes unpunished. Bastards.
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/24/09 at 01:43 AM
"How they choose to express themselves is definitely a nuisance and illegal"
Did you miss that part of it Stumpy? 😉
Don't think I condone their actions, but I don't think they should be put to death for their crimes. You get caught tagging, here's a roller and some paint. You're now in charge of erasing all the graffiti on these 9 square blocks.
And sadly the cool looking stuff is few and far between the annoying trash.
Did you miss that part of it Stumpy? 😉
Don't think I condone their actions, but I don't think they should be put to death for their crimes. You get caught tagging, here's a roller and some paint. You're now in charge of erasing all the graffiti on these 9 square blocks.
And sadly the cool looking stuff is few and far between the annoying trash.
Posted by DownCrisis on 02/25/09 at 12:00 AM
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