- The whole
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” catch phrase has long since jumped the
shark. It’s been hijacked by every other city more than two tourists has ever
visited and been overused to the point of museum, maybe even to the point where
it has been concealing something as awesome as…..wait for it…. ninjas in Las
Vegas. What other explanation could there be for a clerk at a Las Vegas Dairy Queen
shooting and killing a sword-wielding, masked man who tried to rob the
restaurant. Yes, a kook with a sword that was at least three-feet long charged
into a Dairy Queen looking to hold up a fast food chain and was gunned down by
an employee. There are so many unbelievable angles on this one, from wondering
how a person wielding a 36-inch sword is wandering the streets to why a Dairy
Queen employee is coming to work and serving Blizzards and soft-serve ice cream
cones while packing heat. According to detectives, suspect was shot twice and
was lying just outside the doors when officers arrived around 12:15 p.m. Sunday
and died at a hospital. Police Lt. Les Lane said the shooting appears to have
been in self-defense but that detectives were investigating whether the gun
used was properly registered. At the time of the shooting, which OCCURRED IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING DAY, there were only two employees and no customers
in the restaurant. Hopefully the incident was captured on security cameras
because that is one showdown that should not be missed……..
- Police in Mexico are not exactly known for being the most
honest, upright law enforcement professionals. While it’s tough to completely condemn a low-paid officer who
has the choice of accepting a bribe from a cartel and keeping their mouth
closed or seeing their wife and children kidnapped and murdered in brutal
fashion, the rampant corruption across the country can be difficult to stomach.
The unhappiness with their performance reached new heights over the weekend as Mexico's federal police replaced all 348
officers assigned to security details at the Mexico City International Airport
in the wake of the June 25 shooting deaths of three federal policemen killed by
fellow officers believed to be involved in trafficking drugs through the
terminal. Federal Police regional security chief Luis Cardenas Palomino announced
the overhaul and said the airport agents have been reassigned to different
states, where theoretically they won't be in a position to help a cartel
smuggle cocaine and marijuana out of the country. So far, only one of the three
officers sought in the shooting has been captured. There is a reward of 3.4
million pesos, or $259,000, for information leading to their arrest on charges
of not only murder, but participation in a trafficking ring that flew in
cocaine from Peru. In their place at the airport will be federal police who
have passed double vetting and background checks. The countdown until the first
of those officers being corrupted and joining the dark side is already on…………
- In a celebrity pairing so logical and likely that it’s
stunning it took so long to happen, the man who became a child star decades ago
for playing wholesome, All-American good kid Richie Cunningham will finally work
with the man whose best-known song states, “I got 99 problems but a b*tch ain’t
one.” Yes, “The Da Vinci Code” director Ron Howard is teaming up with Jay-Z at
the rapper’s two-day Made In America festival for a new documentary. Howard
will roll tape on the build-up to the festival, the event itself and its
aftermath. He will be working with creative partner Brian Grazer, with whom he
founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986, to tell the story of the festival, which
has a diverse lineup featuring Drake,
Pearl Jam, Run-DMC, Skrillex and
Jay-Z himself.
It will be a definite musical step up for Grazer, who produced
the “Katy Perry: Part Of Me” cinematic horror-fest of bad music and a
colossal waste of two hours on every screen on which is played. The festival
takes place Sept. 1-2 and Grazer explained the reason it is worth its own
documentary. "The festival showcases 20 pre-eminent artists that speak to
the new generation. I am producing the film with Steve Stoute and Jay. Ron is
directing. It is going to be born through Jay-Z's perspective, how he puts the
event together," Grazer said. "Jay stayed the king for a very long
time...I can't even begin to explain how he is capable of remaining relevant.
He is a phenom, like a musical Michael Jordan.” A musical Michael
Jordan…..interesting parallel and on some level, it works, except Jay-Z never
showed up for a terrible attempt at minor-league baseball during his time away
from the rap game. As for Howard, once he wraps up the festival project, he will
make his return to acting by appearing in the upcoming fourth season of
“Arrested Development” as the show makes its much-awaited return………
- Sweden has given much to the world, culturally and
otherwise. Some of it has been great, some of it has been comedic fodder, but
it is usually memorable. From ABBA to the Hives, Elin Nordegren to the Swedish
Chef of “Sesame Street” fame, the fair-haired people from the western reaches
of Scandinavia have been a valuable part of the world. Whether their latest
offering continues that legacy….will take some time to determine. The Hövding is an inflatable "invisible
helmet" that slips around a person’s neck when deflated and contains accelerometers
and gyroscopes that can detect when a uses is in the process of falling off
their bike, rapidly filling a nylon bag with helium. Its purpose is to cushion
a person’s head from potentially brain-damaging impacts. The Hövding takes
one-tenth of a second to inflate and it is fitting that the invention comes
from the Swedes, who made wearing bike helmets compulsory 15 years ago.
"To people like us, who wouldn't be seen dead in a polystyrene helmet, the
thought that we might be forced to wear one by law was cause for concern,"
Hövding creators Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin explained. "Producing a
bicycle helmet that people would be happy to put on looked like a much better
way to go than legislation forcing people to wear one or else." Anyone who
has seen a picture of the Hövding may dispute the part about being happy to put
it on, but Haupt and Alstin deserve respect for working diligently on the idea
since 2005, pouring $10 million into the project. Oh, and anyone dumb enough to
pay $600 for a helmet that only works once deserves contempt, not respect…………
- The New York Giants are the defending Super Bowl
champions and being the champ requires carrying oneself with a certain amount
of swagger. An idiot punter rolling tape on his iPhone as a 270-pound defensive
end picks up a second-year defensive back, tosses him over his shoulder like a
sack of flour and dumps him head-first into a cold tub in the locker room
doesn’t qualify as swagger. It qualifies as outright stupidity and Steve Weatherford and Jason Pierre-Paul
are the chief idiots on this one. Their hazing stunt is receiving attention
because Weatherford was clueless enough to film as Pierre-Paul dumps Prince
Amukamara into an ice tub in what appeared to be a prank that Amukamara didn’t find
too funny. Weatherford then posted the video on YouTube and tweeted the link
out to his followers. The video contains harsh language and features being
dumped into the tub, which appeared to be made of plastic or rubber. Although
he didn’t put up a struggle while on Pierre-Paul's shoulder, Amukamara is
visibly upset as he emerges from the tub. Pierre-Paul goes NSFW by cursing and
using insensitive language before high-fiving a teammate as he makes it sound
as if he was putting Amukamara in his place. Head coach Tom Coughlin, who has
to know that his players are hazing their younger teammates like in any other
locker room in the NFL, sounded pissed to be dealing with totally unnecessary
drama with the season just a few weeks away. "I'm learning about that
today," Coughlin said in a conference call with the media. "I really
didn't have any information about that until maybe an hour before this
conference call. I am going to look into it and talk to the parties involved. There
may have ... as I'm understanding it, there were some parts of it that were
inappropriate. In no way is anything that occurs within this family or within
our group should that be a part of any social media aspect.” In other words, don’t
tweet it out, morons. Weatherford realized his mistake and tweeted out an
apology Sunday. "I want to apologize to the fans... The video I posted was
distasteful," Weatherford wrote. "Our team is a family, and we love
each other. I am sorry to the fans." The victim of the prank expressed
befuddlement and dismay over the incident. "Yeah, um, well, I mean, I just
don't get it. I don't understand the rules," Amukamara said. "I'm not
a rookie anymore, so I don't know why I'm getting thrown in the tub.” That
makes at least two of us, Prince…………
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