Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Greetings fellow Bizarros:Your ex-husband and his new girlfriend move right next door to you. You teach your cockatoo to swear at them. That's the Rhode Island way.
A Rhode Island woman has been accused by her neighbors of violating an animal-noise ordinance by training her cockatoo to cuss.
Lynne Taylor is accused of training the bird, Willy, to say expletives.
The bird allegedly aimed the invectives at the neighbors, who happen to be Taylor's ex-husband and his girlfriend.
A municipal judge on Thursday denied Taylor's request to dismiss the case.
The neighbors, Kathleen Melker and Craig Fontaine, say they have been subjected to repeated curses from the bird, at one point for 15 minutes at a time.
The animal noise ordinance imposes a small fine on any pet owner whose animal creates habitual noise. A judge has issued restraining orders telling both women to have no contact.
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Email Lewis*-- Elvis' dirty underwear fails to sell --*STOCKPORT, England - A British auction house said a pair of unwashed underpants worn by Elvis Presley failed to sell at a weekend auction. Omega Auctions in Stockport, England, said the blue briefs -- which feature a slight stain in the crotch area -- were expected to sell for $16,000 at the auction but only attracted a high bid of $8,000, far less than the $11,200 reserve price, The Independent reported Monday. The auction house said the underpants, which were among 100 pieces of Elvis memorabilia being sold at the auction to mark the 35th anniversary of his death, were worn by the performer under one of his iconic white jumpsuits during a 1977 concert.
*-- S.D. marathoner only ran half the race --*SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Organizers of the Sioux Falls Marathon in South Dakota said they disqualified a runner as the winner after realizing he only ran half the race. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported that while Olok Nykew, 37, a St. Paul, Minn., resident who is originally from Sudan, crossed the finish line first Sunday morning, officials determined he had run the half-marathon course, not the full 26.2-mile marathon course. The companion events followed separate, but sometimes overlapping, routes through the city before ending at the same spot. The marathoners wore black numbers and the half-marathoners wore red. Nykew who came in 25 minutes faster than the event's record, was wearing a black number but finished among runners wearing red ones. "He registered for the marathon and ended up running the half and came in 25 minutes before the record," assistant race director Jason Richards told the newspaper. "They figured it out and disqualified him." Nykew expressed confusion and said he realized when he reached the finish line so quickly something must have gone wrong. "I thought, what is this? When I got there, I thought it was not long enough. I'm thinking I'm not cheating. I was just confused. It was an honest mistake," he said. The real winner was Justin Gillette, 29, of Goshen, Ind., who broke the event record he set last year with a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes and 10 seconds.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*The statement about getting a moral compass by the teenage years or will never have it seems so true. I'm a counselor for the county's probation. Some of the clients on probation for theft or robbery have an attitude of; If you have it and I can get it from you, then "I" deserve to have it. No guilt, shame, remorse. Our job is to try to reconnect the moral compass of those who have disconnected.
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You have a tough job. And an important one. I hope you don't get burned out on the little criminals.]
Got to tell you that I am offended that you did not mask the words used by Doug. A simple F*** or C*** would have been enough to get the point across, but then I am not surprised that a solid citizen liberal like Doug would use such language. For the record our President had 2 years of a democratic House and a Democratic Senate that gave him every program he wanted. The "blocking" only came after the mid-term elections. It seems so easy for the liberal left to forget that we independents gave them what they wanted and when they failed we took it away. -Marty
Funny, I was in the military during the Viet Nam war, the only thing they taught me was how to hate. Hate the morons trying to tell me how to do my job because they graduated from college. The fact is the only reason for the existence of the US military is to keep the world friendly to US business interests. The CIA has run this country since they killed the Kennedys and they are controlled by the "Military Industrial (congressional) complex. Also, since decoding the DNA genome they have found out (much to the dismay of the political correctness police) that much of this anti social behavior is genetic. -jm
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I am not surprised that it is easier to brainwash someone to be a killer than an altruist, but being a soldier isn't easy. I'm sorry you had to go through what you went through, but I appreciate your service.]
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