- I’m torn on this next store, because it involves a cute college girl, which I love, and it involves someone fighting back against The Man. Unfortunately, it also involves someone playing the “Do you know who I am card,” which is one of my least favorite things in this world. Fact is, if you have to ask that question, they either don’t know or know and don’t care who you are. So I’m not sure quite what to do with Jillian K. McCarney (check out the link to see just how cute she is), the daughter of former Iowa State football coach Dan McCarney, who was arrested Saturday night and charged Saturday night with assaulting a police officer after allegedly striking and threatening an Iowa City cop. According to the police report, Jillian McCarney swore at an officer before striking him with her left shoulder and trying to kick him before telling the officer that all charges against her would eventually be dropped because her family has "a lot of money." She also said that her father would fight them and threatened violence against them several times, all of which came after she was clearly drunk and disorderly in a public place. But best of all, she asked the officer, "Do you know who my dad is? He is Dan McCarney." That might carry a little more weight if the dad whose name you were tossing around hadn’t compiled a 56-85 record in 12 seasons at Iowa State before resigning in 2006. If your dad was Pete Carroll or Urban Meyer, that might get you off on all charges against you. You may have been better pulling out the, “Do you know who my grandpa is” card, because Jillian McCarney’s grandfather is Patrick McCarney, the former police chief of Iowa City. Still, pulling that kind of crap is always bush league and you almost deserve to spend the night in jail just for asking if the cops know who you are. Jillian, you’re cute, I assume you like to party base on your act over the weekend, so you’ve got a lot going for you. Just stop asking if people know who your dad is when you act like a drunken fool and life should improve………
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! This might be my all-time favorite riot if not for the fact that it just wasn’t violent enough. The riot combines to of my favorite things, one being social dissidence and the other being great rock music. It occurred last night after an AC/DC concert at the Telenor Arena in Fornebu, Norway. What odd is that the riot didn’t occur for the reasons it normally would at a concert - the band doesn’t show up, shows up several hours late or gives a crappy, truncated performance that leaves fans feeling ripped off after paying exorbitant ticket prices, etc. No, the riot occurred after the concert, after Angus Young and the fellas had ripped through a killer set highlighted by songs from the group’s latest album, Black Ice. As fans were spilling out of the arena and into the streets, presumably with a high aggregate level of BAC, they were forced to endure long traffic jams. I think we can all sympathize with that plight, because anyone who has ever been to a concert or sporting event in a large metropolitan area and had to sit in traffic on the way out for nearly as long as the entire commute home should take knows how frustrating it is. Add in the fact that more than a few of these people were likely fueled up by beer and lots of it and you have a recipe for a riot. It’s just too bad that things didn’t get more violent, because the extent of the riot was concertgoers chucking beer bottles at the cops and tearing down crowd-control fences erected outside of the venue. Still, with no arrests or injuries, this barely qualifies as a riot at all. Norwegian AC/DC fans, you are hard rock fans who like to drink and party, so you need to do better if you’re going to riot. Step your game up……..
- Call me a cynic, but how do we know for sure that 86-year-old Arlene Hald of Bellevue, Neb. isn’t lying about a) having a credit card and b) being a regular solicitor of phone sex services? Yes, it may seem unlikely that an octogenarian from the heartland who claims to never even had had a credit card actually ran up the $1,000 in phone sex charges for which she recently received a bill. It seems even more unlikely that the bill is legit because it was addressed to her husband, Sylvester, who has been dead for nearly 20 years. But folks, I’m in the business of believing the impossible. "I've never had a credit card, so I figure it's too late in my life to get started with one," Hald said. She also claims he late husband never had a credit card, either, yet an account in his name was charged for phone sex services. "We knew this was wrong," said Hald's daughter, Peggy Rytych. Hang on, both of you. You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t automatically believe your claims that this whole mess isn’t your doing and that the late Sylvester Hald was actually the victim of identity theft. Sure, Preferred Platinum Plan, the billing company, was given a failing grade by the Better Business Bureau. And yes, the California-based company agreed to forgive the charges. But if that was really case closed, why did Arlene Hald then receive a second bill from PPP for $71.49? I’m just going to set aside the fact that the Preferred Platinum Plan has received hundreds of similar complaints nationwide as well. The company was nice enough to remove the latest charge and promise never to bill Hald again, even though I think it’s pretty obvious she’s responsible for all of those phone sex calls. Count your blessings, Arlene, you dodged a real bullet here………
- I don’t know exactly what you need to do to get yourself banned from the college campus where you were once the men’s basketball team’s star player, I just know that if that ban gets dropped on you, you should probably not be showing up for very public events like men’s basketball games against prominent opponents like Duke. Sean Williams is now a forward with the New Jersey Nets, but recently he felt the need to go back and visit the old alma mater. Unfortunately, doing so meant he was arrested for allegedly violating a no-trespassing order. Williams was arrested Sunday shortly before the Eagles played Duke for violating an order issued in May. Like I said, you need to be a pretty bad guy to have your school put a restraining order on you. It’s odd because usually it’s an abused former girlfriend who drops one of those on you and has the court order you to remain at least 500 feet from her at all times. Maybe Williams was physically abusive to the campus when he was there, called it all sorts of hurtful names and be-downgraded it (thanks for that word, Mike Gundy) and that was the cause for the restraining order. For his part, Williams maintains that he was invited to Sunday's game by a member of Boston College's coaching staff and blamed the arrest on "lack of communication" between the staffer and campus police. Sean, a word of advice for you: the cops, even campus police, trump an alleged verbal invite from an assistant basketball coach. Campus police may not be real police, but one thing they can do is boot you off campus if there is a restraining order against you. It’s your job to make sure you are allowed on campus if you intend to go and know there’s a restraining order against you. Oh, and you might not want to be belligerent when police try to arrest and pull the oh, so clever move of writing obscenities instead of your name on the fingerprint card and trespass warning. And no, it’s not “just human nature to act that way when someone is invited to an event and then placed under arrest," as Williams’ attorney Howard Fisher said. Oh, and I should also mention that the reason Williams is persona non grata at BC is probably because he was dismissed from the Boston College team in January 2007 for multiple rules violations that included an arrest for marijuana possession in 2005. That charge was dropped after he completed a rehabilitation program, but the school doesn’t seem to care. Boy, I just hate it when a stoner basketball player and an overpriced, arrogant university in Boston can’t just get along…….
- My reaction to the decapitation of a statue that has stood in front of St. Anthony High School in San Antonio for 97 years isn’t what you might expect. Okay, so it probably is, but my approach to this topic is still out of left field. Obviously, I appreciate funny acts of vandalism like someone shooting at or throwing something to knock the head off the statue of St. Joseph in front of the school. Sure it’s juvenile and sophomoric, but it’s also freaking hilarious….just not as freaking hilarious as the reaction of St. Anthony's principal Henry Galindo to the incident. "It's a part of our community, and for it to be destroyed like that, we did take it very personally." Galindo said. He added that he hopes police will catch the culprit because, "It's like our campus was violated," Galindo said. that. "Crimes like this need not go unpunished.” Taking yourself and your school a little too seriously there, amigo. They didn’t harm any living thing, they didn’t ruin the building; they just knocked the head off of a big hunk of rock carved to look like St. Joseph. They didn’t desecrate the saint’s grave, they just decapitated a stone likeness of him. Whoever did this sometime between Monday night or early Tuesday wasn’t looking to ruin your life or break your spirit, they were just looking to pull a stupid prank like smashing a mailbox or TP’ing a house. Get the statue fixed, get over yourself and lose that misguided sense of importance you have of your school……..
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