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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
U.S. national debt is racing toward $14 trillion. How, a
lot of people ask, can it possibly get that bad? Well,
there are stories like the one that broke recently about
the Illinois state prison board member who took an 18 month
sick leave while collecting a salary of $85,000-a-year.
Of course, that affects the state budget, not the federal
budget, but you know, in a bureaucracy the size of the
federal government, that kind of thing is going on all over
the place. However, there is a much more telling example of
mind-numbing waste from another monstrous bureaucracy, the
British Government.
It seems the British tax-payers, through a grant from the
British Arts Council, have paid for an exhibit of invisible
pictures.
Polish artist Agnieszka Kurant got a grant for a show that
included "a painting that hasn't been painted yet".
Kurant's exhibition also had "an invisible sculpture" and
"a movie shot with no film in the camera".
Culture Department officials insisted there were "substantial
benefits for English artists and audiences."
Maybe I'm in the wrong racket. Apparently I should have gone
to work for the state of Illinois. I'm too old for that now,
but I can still take up art. There is already a painting that
hasn't been painted yet, and an invisible sculpture, but
maybe I can write a book with no words in it, or compose a
song with no music. No, wait, rap already exists.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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-------- German unmasked in 'Operation Spiderman' --------
LOS ANGELES - Inspectors in Los Angeles say "Operation
Spiderman" ended with the arrest of a German man who
allegedly mailed hundreds of live tarantulas to the
United States. Sven Koppler, 37, Watchberg, Germany, was
picked up shortly after arriving in Los Angeles to meet
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Koppler allegedly twice shipped boxes packed with between
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discovery of one of the shipments during a routine inspect-
ion of international mail sparked the undercover operation
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ulas. Among the spiders were several Mexican red-kneed
tarantulas, a species that is protected under international
law, the statement said.
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-------- Student's picture wrongly used for convict --------
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida student said
he searched his name on Google and found authorities were
using his picture to represent a similarly named convict.
Zachary Garcia, a student at the Gainesville school, said
an online search for his name brought up his picture
associated with a Polk County Sheriff's Office report of a
murder convict named Zachery Garcia, who spells his first
name with an "e" rather than an "a," WTSP-TV, Tampa, Fla.,
reported Thursday. "I was just very shocked to find my
picture and the article saying that I was convicted of a
felony murder charge," the student said, "and I was just
very shocked and angry that someone put my name up there
and said I did something I didn't do." "Everybody makes
mistakes," Garcia said. "I work at Publix and I might get
somebody's sub (order) wrong. But for somebody to get (the
photo of a suspect) wrong ... it's not a sandwich, it's
somebody's life you're playing with."
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Lewis. About that cop in Georgia who got canned for shagging
the underage teen....He was just seeing what it's like to be
an "undercover" detective! -BB
[Well, now he'll know what it's like to be "unemployed" and
"facing a criminal investigation" for statutory rape.]
Lewis, You asked why the cop in the driveway didn't have his
lights on. Well, my guess is that he was in such a hurry to
get in the girl's bed that he didn't think of it or he would
have. Another reason is that he was saving the lights and
siren for afterwards. Instead of having a cigarette when
they're done he goes out and hits the lights and siren and
yells "WHOOPEE!!!" so everybody will know that they "made it".
Just a thought.
[That's what I always do. My neighbors hate me.]
Lewis, Regarding the police officer getting fired for having
all out sex with the minor, I'm thinking he went too far...He
probably should have stopped at "copping" a feel.
-Jack in Michigan
[I'll take care of the jokes, Jack, thanks.]
I live in Ga. and I read that story too, Never did find out
what happened to the cop, probably nothing. They protect each
other down here. Just one more case of the Cops being the
biggest Criminals.
[If you hear any follow-up let us know!]
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