Thanks to Scarlett, I'll be reliving some of her college glory this weekend, attending my first toga party and going to a football game. We did a whole lot of evil back in Isla Vista, but we never got so cozy with our Greek neighbors to suit up for their parties. And seeing as UCSB killed their pigskin program the summer before I arrived, there was never any stadium full of Gauchos to root on. and speaking of going back in time, lets look at the week...
Best of the week: Much time wasted.
Yeah, I'm going to bring it up again, because it's that important - 3000 posts! I went through over 100 categories from the more than 2 1/2 years of procrastination and obsessive-compulsive behavior to get some of the more interesting scraps for your entertainment and knowledge. We're one of the few sites that can make you smarter while you enjoy yourself. If we can only find a cure for your rash, we'd be the best ever!
Also: PA deadly!
Some people are just asking for trouble. And some folks in Pennsylvania are getting it. First, the last mistake you'll ever make - trying to clean a bear cage while the bear is still in it.
For nine years, Kelly Ann Walz kept the black bear she called "Teddy" as a pet, raising it from cubhood...until Sunday night! She went into Teddy's 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete cage, throwing a shovelful of dog food to one side to distract the bear while she cleaned the other side. "She's done it 1,000 times," said her friend and neighbor, Scott Castone. "And on 1,001, something happened."
The 350-pound bear turned on Walz and attacked. Walz's two young children and Castone's children saw the attack and summoned help. The bear was atop Walz when Castone arrived with a handgun. It had clambered off and was about to leave its cage when Castone opened fire and killed the bear. Lead cupcakes for desert! Walz (37) was pronounced extremely dead at the scene.
At one time, the Walzes kept an African lion, cougar, jaguar, tiger, bear, leopard and two servals on their wooded property in northeastern Pennsylvania. As of Monday, only the mountain lion and tiger remained - the rest had died of old age, and none had eaten or killed a family member.
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said Walz's husband Michael had longstanding permits to keep, sell and display exotic animals. The permits expired in June 2008, but a lapsed permit is considered a summary violation — similar to a traffic ticket — and would not have resulted in the removal of the animals. The most recent state inspection in 2007 did not turn up any problems, nor were any discovered when game commission investigators returned after the attack.
Tim Conway - no, not Dorf, an information and education supervisor with the game commission, said owners of wild animals usually have a two-section cage, allowing them to isolate the animal behind a locked gate while they clean the other part. "Why this woman chose to go in the same area that the bear was in is beyond me. It's a fatal mistake," he said. "These things are not tame animals; they're wild animals." And that's why she's dead.
The second part clearly illustrates that guns don't kill people, but people using guns kill people.
Meleanie Hain, the soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate last year after taking a loaded pistol to the daughter's soccer games was killed by her husband.
Scott Hain used his own gun to fire several shots into his wife, Meleanie, while her video chat was active as she washed dishes in their kitchen. The shooting was witnessed by her video chat partner. Scott Hain later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom, offline.
Meleanie Hain's loaded pistol — with a bullet ready in the chamber — was in a backpack hanging from the front door. Not that's a nice iconic image.
The online friend heard a shot and screams, and turned to see Scott Hain firing, "standing over where Meleanie was and discharging a handgun several times". The man, who was described as a friend of both Scott and Meleanie Hain, called 911. Yeah, that's not weird, and that there was an open webcam at the time. The man kept open the webcam but heard nothing or saw nothing after that. The chat was apparently not recorded. Damn it - I want to see that footage.
Bullet-sponge Hain became a voice of the gun-rights movement last year when she fought for the right to carry a holstered pistol at her young daughter's soccer games, y'know, just because. Other parents complained, prompting a sheriff to revoke her concealed-weapons permit, a decision a judge later overturned. The judge who restored Meleanie Hain's concealed-weapon permit last year questioned her judgment and said she had "scared the devil" out of other parents at the soccer field. I guess she was just trying to make a stand against having to bring orange slices.
Friends and neighbors told police the couple had been having marital problems, but police knew of no immediate cause of the violence. Let me help you flatfoots out - the cause of the violence was the marital problems. Hain was living at the family home at the time and he was a parole officer, which accounts for the 9 mm handgun used to kill his wife. He then killed himself with a shotgun (!!!). Police found several handguns, a shotgun, two rifles and several hundred rounds of ammunition in their home, as well as six spent shell casings in the kitchen.
Link bonus:
• Shooting a target with your political rival's initials is a bad idea
• A photo recreation of The Last Supper - with all down syndrome people
• Really going wireless: TV without audio, video, or power cables
• Punternet; it just sounds dirty.
Worst of the week: Celebritards clash with fashion...and lose
If you’ve ever wanted to dress like Lindsay Lohan, you are either a seven year old or have the IQ of one. Her debut show in Paris as "creative director" for the French fashion house Ungaro proved her a triple threat: equally shitty at acting, singing, and designing?
Best of the week: Much time wasted.Yeah, I'm going to bring it up again, because it's that important - 3000 posts! I went through over 100 categories from the more than 2 1/2 years of procrastination and obsessive-compulsive behavior to get some of the more interesting scraps for your entertainment and knowledge. We're one of the few sites that can make you smarter while you enjoy yourself. If we can only find a cure for your rash, we'd be the best ever!
Also: PA deadly!
Some people are just asking for trouble. And some folks in Pennsylvania are getting it. First, the last mistake you'll ever make - trying to clean a bear cage while the bear is still in it.
For nine years, Kelly Ann Walz kept the black bear she called "Teddy" as a pet, raising it from cubhood...until Sunday night! She went into Teddy's 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete cage, throwing a shovelful of dog food to one side to distract the bear while she cleaned the other side. "She's done it 1,000 times," said her friend and neighbor, Scott Castone. "And on 1,001, something happened."
The 350-pound bear turned on Walz and attacked. Walz's two young children and Castone's children saw the attack and summoned help. The bear was atop Walz when Castone arrived with a handgun. It had clambered off and was about to leave its cage when Castone opened fire and killed the bear. Lead cupcakes for desert! Walz (37) was pronounced extremely dead at the scene.
At one time, the Walzes kept an African lion, cougar, jaguar, tiger, bear, leopard and two servals on their wooded property in northeastern Pennsylvania. As of Monday, only the mountain lion and tiger remained - the rest had died of old age, and none had eaten or killed a family member.
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said Walz's husband Michael had longstanding permits to keep, sell and display exotic animals. The permits expired in June 2008, but a lapsed permit is considered a summary violation — similar to a traffic ticket — and would not have resulted in the removal of the animals. The most recent state inspection in 2007 did not turn up any problems, nor were any discovered when game commission investigators returned after the attack.
Tim Conway - no, not Dorf, an information and education supervisor with the game commission, said owners of wild animals usually have a two-section cage, allowing them to isolate the animal behind a locked gate while they clean the other part. "Why this woman chose to go in the same area that the bear was in is beyond me. It's a fatal mistake," he said. "These things are not tame animals; they're wild animals." And that's why she's dead.
The second part clearly illustrates that guns don't kill people, but people using guns kill people.
Meleanie Hain, the soccer mom who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate last year after taking a loaded pistol to the daughter's soccer games was killed by her husband.Scott Hain used his own gun to fire several shots into his wife, Meleanie, while her video chat was active as she washed dishes in their kitchen. The shooting was witnessed by her video chat partner. Scott Hain later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom, offline.
Meleanie Hain's loaded pistol — with a bullet ready in the chamber — was in a backpack hanging from the front door. Not that's a nice iconic image.
The online friend heard a shot and screams, and turned to see Scott Hain firing, "standing over where Meleanie was and discharging a handgun several times". The man, who was described as a friend of both Scott and Meleanie Hain, called 911. Yeah, that's not weird, and that there was an open webcam at the time. The man kept open the webcam but heard nothing or saw nothing after that. The chat was apparently not recorded. Damn it - I want to see that footage.
Bullet-sponge Hain became a voice of the gun-rights movement last year when she fought for the right to carry a holstered pistol at her young daughter's soccer games, y'know, just because. Other parents complained, prompting a sheriff to revoke her concealed-weapons permit, a decision a judge later overturned. The judge who restored Meleanie Hain's concealed-weapon permit last year questioned her judgment and said she had "scared the devil" out of other parents at the soccer field. I guess she was just trying to make a stand against having to bring orange slices.
Friends and neighbors told police the couple had been having marital problems, but police knew of no immediate cause of the violence. Let me help you flatfoots out - the cause of the violence was the marital problems. Hain was living at the family home at the time and he was a parole officer, which accounts for the 9 mm handgun used to kill his wife. He then killed himself with a shotgun (!!!). Police found several handguns, a shotgun, two rifles and several hundred rounds of ammunition in their home, as well as six spent shell casings in the kitchen.
Link bonus:
• Shooting a target with your political rival's initials is a bad idea
• A photo recreation of The Last Supper - with all down syndrome people
• Really going wireless: TV without audio, video, or power cables
• Punternet; it just sounds dirty.
Worst of the week: Celebritards clash with fashion...and lose
If you’ve ever wanted to dress like Lindsay Lohan, you are either a seven year old or have the IQ of one. Her debut show in Paris as "creative director" for the French fashion house Ungaro proved her a triple threat: equally shitty at acting, singing, and designing?
- But don't feel bad for Lindsay Lohan; she is a genius. It’s official because her mom said so. Hurt by the just criticism of her debut, Dina Lohan retorted, “The critics can say whatever they want, but Lindsay is a genius.” Well, that solves that!
She said that, despite her deal with the French fashion house, Lindsay would also be creatively involved in Dina’s shoe line … “she will definitely have input because she is so talented.” Yes, like in applying makeup. Defend your little cash generator mommy!
Also: Just when we had cleared that Kanye hurdle, we're back to it again.
Beyonce had to open her fat mouth to say, "Well, I knew his intentions, and I knew he was standing up for art; and he told me before, when they said the nominees, he's like, 'You have this award'." Art? Your music video was a work of art? And Kanye is the defender of artistic integrity in the world? Wow, you are delusional.
"When they didn't call my name, he was, like, completely shocked," Knowles says. "And when he walked on the stage, I was like, 'No, no, no!' and then he spoke, and I was like, 'Oh, no, no, no!'" So, you knew his intentions but you're stunned by his actions? Yes, you're the real victim here, for having your wonderful accomplishment tarnished on top of being robbed of your rightful prize. Do something important, like make a wireless TV power source - not give gay men and overweight women something to YouTube themselves doing. Now shut the fuck up.
And: DJ AM's intervention-reality show, Gone Too Far, will air. Fuck you MTV!
The eight-hour series, in which Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein tries to help young addicts on the path to sobriety while failing on his own, will premiere Oct. 12.
"Recovery can be extremely difficult and requires constant attention," said an executive vice president of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "But it's important to know that it is in fact possible to present examples of people who are recognizing the need for treatment and beginning that journey." And then being hypocritical and ODing.
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