- How many times does it have to be said? If you’re going to
own a pet and that pet may get out of your yard and cause havoc, then put up a
fence or keep the damn thing on a leash. Dogs, cats and yes, even turtles all
fall under this heading and a Sarasota, Fla. resident named Ryan Adams needs to
learn that lesson and learn it now. Adams is the proud – and negligent – owner of
Dozer, a wayward
100-pound tortoise that successfully brought traffic to a crawl at a Sarasota,
Fla., intersection. Deputies with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department
arrived on the scene following reports of a big turtle blocking the road at
Webber Street and Honore Avenue. Sadly, it appears the department’s fitness
program is a bit lacking at present and so removing what should be a relatively
light impediment from the road was tougher than it otherwise would have been if
deputies spent any significant time in the weight room on a regular basis. "We
were able to get the tortoise out of the road. It was quite heavy. It took a
couple of people, but we put it in our truck and tried to make attempts to find
its owners," Capt. Ron Locke said. After evicting Dozer from the roadway,
deputies were able to locate the turtle’s lackadaisical owners through
Facebook. "This tortoise belongs to us. His name is Dozer," Adams
wrote in a post on the department’s Facebook page. Adams and his runaway turtle
were reunited the following day and Adams said Dozer escaped through a hole in
the fence around his yard. Step your home maintenance game up, Adams………
- Legit, creative and intelligent rookie hazing in
professional sports is the best. Out with lame stunts like shaving ugly designs
into guys’ hair, taping them to goal posts or throwing their clothes in the
toilet and leaving a ballerina’s outfit in their place. Instead, let’s have
more of the hijinks the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled for the first game of their
weekend series in Chicago. The Dodgers, who are headed for the postseason but
have plenty of rookies on the roster this month due to September call-ups, have
some of the best players in baseball on their roster, but also the best
pranksters. Some of those pranksters got over on top prospect Joc Pederson, who is rated by many as one
of the top young players in the game. He was named the Pacific Coast League's
MVP last month after batting .303 with 33 home runs, 78 RBIs, 106 runs scored
and 30 stolen bases for the Dodgers' Triple-A Albuquerque affiliate this season,
but those accolades were not enough to keep his veteran teammates from sending
him on the most hilarious coffee run ever. An Instagram photo of Pederson
surfaced showing him wearing his Los Angeles Dodgers uniform, and a clubhouse
attendant fetching coffee and other beverages for his teammates. Pederson was
strolling down the street outside the stadium, toting a beverage carrier full
of overpriced coffee, as other pedestrians did double takes at the professional
athlete taking time out of his day to carry some caramel macchiatos, skinny
lattes and cappuccinos just like they do when their office manager sends them on
a coffee run. It’s probably not what a guy who became the first Pacific Coast
League player to record at least 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season
since 1934 was building toward in the weight room and on the field all season,
but it’s still awesome……….
- The Turkey-Syria border isn't a happy place right now. That’s
a given when one nation is being slowly overrun by an Islamic terrorist group
hell-bent on world domination, what with the number of people who try to flee
said nation to save their own lives. But with the number of refugees seeking shelter in
Turkey from the Islamic State group's advance across northeastern Syria
cracking six figures, life at the border has become even uglier of late.
Tensions reached a breaking point over the weekend as clashes broke out on the
border between Turkish security guards and Kurds. According to the head of
Turkey's AFAD disaster management agency, Fuat Oktay, refugees continue to
bum-rush the area near the Syrian border town Kobani, where fighting has raged
between ISIS and Kurdish fighters since Thursday. United Nations officials
claim that some 70,000 Syrians crossed into Turkey in a 24-hour period
following the onset of the fighting, with more expected in the days ahead. Most
of those trying to jump the border are ethnic Kurds trying to escape the
bullets and machetes of religious extremists storming across Syria. Some of the
most violent fighting in the area broke out Sunday between ISIS and Kurdish
fighters only a few miles from Kobani, which is also known as Ayn Arab. The
terrorists bombarded villagers with tanks, artillery and multiple rocket
launchers, according to officials at the defense office in Syria's Kurdish.
Officials reported seeing extremists even target those fleeing from them in
arguably one of the cruelest and most sadistic displays imaginable. That was
all before the clashes between Kurds trying to approach the crossing from
inside Turkey and security forces, who greeted them with tear gas, paint
pellets, and water as the Kurds returned fire with stones and little else. The
scene was an horrific one on every front and it doesn’t look to be getting any
better day by day……….
- Action was the order of the weekend at the box office,
with a pair of new films all about ass kicking and lots of energy led the way. “The
Maze Runner” sprinted to first place with a $32.5 million debut, topping a trio
of newcomers at the top of the earnings list. A distant second was the latest
film about Liam Neeson beating the holy hell out of everyone, “A Walk
Among the Tombstones,” which claimed second place with $13.1 million. That was
just enough to best “This is Where I Leave You,” which opened to $11.9 million
in a respectable first-weekend showing. Reigning box office king “No Good Deed”
tumbled to fourth place and saw its earnings plummet 58 percent to $10.2
million, good for a cumulative domestic total of $40.1 million. “Dolphin Tale 2”
landed in fifth place with $9 million and with Morgan Freeman’s dulcet tones
leading the way, the family flick has earned $27 million domestically in two
weeks. “Guardians of the Galaxy” extend its top 10 run to two months and
counting by finishing sixth and earning another $5.2 million, good for an eight
week total of $313.7 million. “Let’s Be Cops” placed seventh and earned $2.7
million, enough to push it to $77.1 million in domestic earnings against a
scant $17 million budget. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” continued to
underwhelm with $2.6 million and eighth place for the weekend. Megan Fox’s
terrible acting notwithstanding, the live action take on the Turtles has
grossed $185 million so far. “The Drop” dropped three spots to ninth place with
$2 million, giving it $7.7 million in two weeks of limited release. The final
top 10 spot went to “If I Stay” thanks to a $1.8 million effort to give it $47.6
million in total domestic earnings. “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (No. 11), “The
Giver” (No. 13) and “The November Man” all dropped out from last weekend’s top
10………
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