- When looking to make a case for police brutality, it’s
best not to cut out the middleman. So learned Lucerne, California
resident Aleksander Robin Tomaszewski through a disappointing and
unproductive encounter with Lane County Sheriff’s Department deputies.
According to Lane County authorities, Tomaszewski was brought in for
questioning on a case that's under investigation. This is clearly a man with
some self-hate issues and possibly a mental illness or two because unlike most
suspects trying to get over on the cops, he didn’t immediately lawyer up or
even invoke his right against self-incrimination. No, this genius instead went
Manny Pacquiao on himself, beating the hell out of himself in what turned out
to be an ill-reasoned attempt to get over on police with a case of police
brutality. According to police, Tomaszewski punched himself in the face and
then signed an assault complaint against detectives, not realizing that when a
person is sitting in an interrogation room and there’s that black box thingy high
on the wall with what looks like a lens on the front of it, that tends to be
what we know as a camera. The camera captured footage of Tomaszewski hitting
himself, leaving two black eyes. When presented with the evidence that he was a
self-abusing idiot and a pretty terrible con man, he told investigators he
hoped filing a complaint would get him released. Instead, he was charged with
initiating a false report and attempted coercion and after being convicted, he was
sentenced to 20 days in jail and fined $500. Maybe while he’s behind bars he
can find someone willing to assault him for real………
- Racism and soccer…they go together like rancid peanut
butter and way-past-due grape jelly on a couple slices of moldy bread. Whether
it’s bigoted fans chanting racial slurs at black players, hatemongers throwing
objects on the field at players of a different race or ugly stereotypes being
carried on ages past when they were laid down by every reasonably decent person
in the world, soccer knows how to keep the hate alive like no other sports.
It’s definitely alive and well in Italy, where coaching legend Arrigo Sacchi decided to enlighten the world to the real problem
plaguing his country’s underperforming national team. As with all racists, he
made sure he tried to preempt the guaranteed outrage over his bigoted views by
insisting that he is not, in fact, a racist. "I'm certainly not racist and
my history as a coach proves that, starting from [Frank] Rijkaard," Sacchi
said at an awards ceremony. "But looking at the Viareggio tournament I
feel like saying that there are too many black players, even in the youth teams.”
Oh, you’re not a racist, you just think there should be fewer players of one
particular race on the team because they’re making the team weaker. That’s not
racist at all. "Italy has no dignity, no pride. It's not possible that our
teams should have 15 foreign players in the squad,” Sacchi added. The
tournament of which he speaks is a prestigious international youth competition
held annually in Viareggio, Tuscany. Apparently, it would be a lot better if
only Italians played in it. Of course, the former AC Milan coach tried to
double back on his comments and hide behind the always popular “taken out of
context” excuse. "I've been misinterpreted, you think I'm really racist?
All I said was I saw a game featuring a team who fielded four colored
players," Sacchi added. “My history speaks for itself. Sorry, Arrigo. No
one who uses the words “colored players” in 2015 qualifies as a racist in any
corner of the globe………
- There was just no way to see this one coming. For as long
as they have existed, Southern California rappers Cypress Hill have been about
good, clean fun and they’ve enjoyed rapping about such diverse topics as air
travel and hot air balloon rides. Don’t believe it? How else do you explain
their 1995 hit “I Wanna Get High (So High)” and its deep, soul-searching lyrics?
If that song isn't about climbing into the gondola of a hot air balloon and
soaring through a summer sky, then what is it about? That’s what makes it all
the more perplexing that Cypress Hill member B-Real is set to open
a medical marijuana dispensary in Orange County. Somehow, B-Real – real name Louis
Freese – was one of six applicants out of 630 granted the right to open his own
ganja business in the area. "I definitely want it to be eye candy,
eye-popping, eye-catching, an experience. We want it to be a place where you
can come get quality meds responsibly and all that stuff, but we want it to be
an experience as well,” Freese said of his new business. As for the idea that
he might use his celebrity and skills on the mic to draw in stoners, he was
open to the notion. “If we could lay it out properly to where the city is okay
with that, sure. Or if there's enough room within the complex that we're
operating out of, yeah,” Freese said. “That's not something that would be
foreign to us because we have the ability to put that on. We have the
experience and we have the right people in place to make that happen."
Perhaps with the most fortuitous timing ever, B-Real just happens to have a new
album he dropped under the stage name Dr. Greenthumb and it will feature a
guest spot from noted chron aficionado Snoop Dogg. A new Cypress Hill album is
due out later this year and when the fellas need to score some quality herb to
chill out and celebrate their newest release, they know where to find it………..
- What comes to mind when you think about the Sundance Film
Festival? A bunch of wannabe Steven Spielbergs and Francis Ford Coppolas
selling their indie film like nobody’s business, the occasional A-lister
popping in and enjoying a lavish studio after party….and an accomplished actor
channeling his inner Ray Rice on a female studio executive for reasons that
remain unclear but probably involve massive quantities of alcohol. Enter Emile
Hirsch, who went to Sundance for the premiere of "Ten Thousands
Saints," in which he stars with Ethan Hawke, but left with an open
invitation from local law enforcement to return on March 16 for his court
appearance in an alleged assault on Paramount executive Daniele Bernfeld. Hirsh
is staring down charges of felony aggravated assault and intoxication,
prosecuting attorney Ryan Stack of the Summit County (Utah) Attorney's Office
said. The incident in question allegedly occurred at TAO nightclub in Park City
during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in January and took place in the early
morning hours. Court documents have Hirsch reportedly locking Bernfeld into a
chokehold so forceful that she "couldn't breathe," causing her to
black out. A couple of fellow clubbers pulled Hirsch off of Bernfeld before
police arrived and officers found some redness around Bernfeld's neck. The sh*t
went sideways after Hirsch allegedly confronted Bernfeld, calling her a
"rich kid" and questioning why she looked "so tough." He
admitted to the altercation and told police he’d had three or four drinks that
evening, which in lush language means six or seven. That seems to be Hirsch’s
new story, as his attorney Robert Offer now claims his client consumed an
"enormous amount of alcohol that night" and has since checked himself
into an alcohol rehabilitation facility. Oh, and Hirsh now claims to remember
nothing about that night, which might actually be true given how hammered he
seems to have been……….
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