Saturday, August 25, 2012
Greetings fellow Bizarros:This is not an advertisement for a better wireless network or something. This is an actual news story from the Associated Press which will give you an idea of how dependent people have become on technology and how even the most fundamentals of common sense have flown out of the window when some people receive orders from their electronic masters.
Poor advice from a car's GPS unit led a man to drive off the ferry in Whittier, Alaska and straight into the small boat harbor.
The Anchorage Daily News reports the man and his two dogs were fine, but a cat inside a carrier drowned.
The unnamed man had just arrived in Alaska from the Lower 48. He drove off the ferry but after about 400 feet, the GPS unit in the man's car told him to make a hard right turn.
Whittier public safety director Dave Schofield says that was a misdirection, and it led the man down the ramp where people launch boats.
The car was fully submerged when a man jumped in the water and broke the window open, allowing the driver and his dogs to escape. I'm not surprised the driver couldn't save himself. He was probably waiting for his GPS to tell him what to do.
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Email Lewis*-- Mom wants school's dress code revised --*OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma mother wants her 5-year-old son's school to revise its dress code after he was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out. Shannon Barton said she was shocked to find out her son, Cooper, had been made to turn his T-shirt inside out at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City because the district's dress code only allows college apparel from Oklahoma schools, KWTV, Oklahoma City, reported Thursday. "They should really worry about academics. It wasn't offensive. He's 5," Barton said. District officials said the policy, which also bans professional sports team apparel, was created in 2005 with the help of an Anti-Gang Task Force. Superintendant Karl Springer said the policy will be reviewed by officials.
*-- Turtle taped to balloons in California --*OCEANSIDE, Calif. - Authorities in California said they were trying to determine who attached a box turtle to several balloons and sent it aloft. Residents of the Oceanside neighborhood said they called police and the Humane Society when they saw the turtle, which was taped to some balloons, stuck in a tree, KGTV, San Diego, reported Thursday. The fire department attempted a rescue about an hour later, but a gust of wind blew the turtle and its balloons back down to the ground. The box turtle was freed by a Humane Society worker. The Humane Society said the turtle was being cared for and officials were working to identify the owner, who they said could face animal abuse charges.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*FYI...even Golf can be a dangerous sport. My Brother-in-law in Florida parked his cart a little too close to the ball and asked his friend to move it for him while he picked his club up from behind. His "friend" didn't know reverse from forward evidently as he gunned it in reverse. This ran into my Brother-in-law knocking him down and then all four wheels of the cart ran over him. Left tire tracks across his chest and skinned up his knee pretty bad, lucky his knee was a titanium implant. Good thing his friend is a retired Doctor so he could check him out for any critical injuries. Didn't finish the golf game anyway -Dan
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Yeah, that sounds like one of those classic golf injuries. Basketball players are prone to ACL tears, football players to concussions and golfers to getting run over by golf carts. Just part of the game.]
They use prisoners to clean the road side trash where I live. They don't look demeaned to me. They look like they actually enjoy being outside doing something then sitting in a jail cell 24/7. You have to apply and qualify to do outside jobs in the state where I live so they must want to do it or they wouldn't apply. I agree with a 2 year service to the country for each person either while they are in high school or soon after they graduate before or during college or serve in the military for 2 years. Could stop some delinquency. But then I'm one of the strange ones. You know, the non-existent moderate liberal that has some really strange leanings to one side or the other.
As a payroll preparer, I am fully aware that there are some classes of workers that are exempt from minimum wage. The point was that jurors, who do not (by and large) want to be there, are really underpaid for the responsible work that they do. And people wonder why jurors are as crazy as they are.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. Just tell them you are a firm believer in jury nullification.]
Hi Lewis: Sheriff Joe has reinstated chain gangs using people who were jailed in his tent city. Sheriff Joe should run for President, except that no Sheriff should have to work in an office that has been reduced to the demeaning status it has recently become.
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That guy is a little bit crazy, isn't he?]
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