- Bad postal worker or hero to us all? That question is up
for debate after a postal worker in Neenah, Wisc. was placed under
investigation for allegedly not delivering political mailers. This would-be
hero is suspected to be responsible for the U.S. Postal Service finding 879
pieces of campaign mail in a dumpster last week and that didn’t sit well with
candidate Mike Rohrkaste, who said a voter showed him hundreds of his campaign
flyers stuffed into a dumpster at the Foxwood Crossing Apartments in Neenah. The
fliers were connected to three separate Republican campaigns and given the
deluge of campaign mail and ads that voters are overrun by in the weeks leading
up to elections, the mailman responsible for the massive mailer dump should be
hailed, not harangued, right? “It’s obviously very disturbing, I paid to have
these delivered. I wanted to get my message out to the voters of the 55th
District,” Rohrkaste said. The candidate said he paid $5,000 to get that
message out and seeing his fliers where they were going to end up anyway but
simply put there by a different person enraged him. He snapped a few pictures
and called the local post office. “They had a supervisor out within a half
hour. This supervisor, she took a lot of pictures, actually got into the
dumpster. She collected all the documents. It was filled up with boxes, and
then she took them with her,” Rohrkaste added. The fact that a government
employee moved that quickly AND got into a dumpster is a minor miracle, so that
was another great result of this mess. The USPS said it is investigating the
matter, including why no Democratic flyers were found………
- Being smart and solving problems are valuable skills to
have for a hockey goalie. So is understanding the rules and realizing that
blatant cheating in front of dozens and dozens of fans and the opposing team
won't work even if it seems like a good idea in the moment. Meet Bridgeport
Sound Tigers goalie David Leggio, who may not make it to the NHL any time soon
– or ever – but did provide a memorable moment in an American Hockey League
game against the Springfield Falcons when a challenging situation came his way
and he reacted the way a desperate man might be expected to react. With his
team locked in a close game, Leggio found himself facing a two-on-none break.
Laden with all of his goalie padding and realizing that he had little chance of
outwitting and outplaying two streaking forwards aiming to put the puck in his
net, Leggio had two options. He could man up, face the challenge and do his
best, or he could intentinally knock his net out of place to force a stoppage
in play. Being the courageous soul he is, Leggio chose the second option and
play was indeed stopped. However, the referees awarded Springfield a penalty
shot as a result of the Bridgeport goalie's actions and this time, the net
stayed in place. Leggio did not and stopped the penalty shot, which would have
been a linchpin moment for a big win had the Falcons not won the game anyhow,
downing the Tigers 4-3……….
- Fights and injuries from fights are an everyday occurrence
in the Middle East. However, these brawls are typically religious and deeply cultural in nature, featuring
Jews and Arabs going at each other over centuries of hate, killing and
bitterness. None of those were in play Tuesday when rival Israeli
football fans brawled outside a Tel Aviv courthouse that was extending the
arrests of other fans who had stormed the field and halted a league match.
Video from the scene showed what looked much like an actual soccer game – minus
the 90 minutes of boring action as dudes run around on a big grass lawn not
kicking the ball into the goal – with fans flailing wildly on the street and
hitting each other with belts and sticks for several minutes. It was a
continuation of rising soccer violence that resulted in the abandonment of
Monday night's game between local rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv. Police
spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that six people were arrested following
Tuesday's street fight and said police would investigate the video further to
determine if additional arrests were needed. The drama began when Maccabi and
Hapoel were tied at 1-1 in the first half and a shirtless fan ran onto the
field and began hitting and kicking Maccabi midfielder Eran Zehavi. This
standard soccer hooligan had been arrested 11 times for acts of violence, so it
should surprise no one that he crossed the goal line and kicked Zehavi after he
had tied the score with a penalty kick. Not satisfied, this hooligan then taunted
the Hapoel bleacher section by simulating gunshots toward them. Zehavi
responded with a shove to the throat of Alroee Yadai, who threw an errant punch
before Zehavi landed the final blow, a flying kick that ended the fight as security
and other players intervened. Amazingly, the referee then showed Zehavi a red
card and the game continued before more fans stormed the field, chaos ensued
and the game was halted. The violence, though, not so easy to stop……….
- Walter White’s influence knows no bounds. He’s gone from
our lives in terms of new episodes of “Breaking Bad,” but he’s still making
waves in society. There’s the drama over action figures from the hit AMC drama
being sold at Toys ‘R Us and now, some European professor is accusing the show
of being responsible for the rise in crystal meth use in Britain and Europe. Acccording
to statistics
from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, attempts to
smuggle the drug into the United Kingdom have risen 400 percent in the past
year while seizures of the drug have quadrupled. Why anyone needs to import
crystal meth rather than find a filthy basement and the cheap collection of
chemicals and equipment needed to make the white trash drug of choice is
unclear, but professor Ellis Cashmore, an author on celebrity and media culture
at Staffordshire University knows who’s to blame for all of this. "Although
the show does not go out to glamorize the drug, its very inclusion promotes
interest in that substance,” Cashmore said of “Breaking Bad” and its influence.
"The fact it is a central premise to almost the entire series would serve
to boost this interest for people who perhaps had not encountered it before. We
live in a hedonistic generation where people are seeking pleasure from various
sources, and increasingly these are be found in the most illicit forms. Even if
a TV show, like Breaking Bad, portrays drugs in a negative aspect and showing its
most destructive side, it will still appeal to somebody.” Sorry E., but this
who notion of pawning blame for societal ills off on TV shows, movies, music
and video games is lame, tired and out of date. The 17,000 Brits believed to
have used crystal meth in 2013 aren't doing so because Walter White made it
cool. They’re doing so because they are people struggling in life and making
poor choices because of it………
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