- Alfred Hitchcock, your spirit lives on in central Florida.
At least it lives at the 30-acre Wells Park in Melbourne, where some
homicidal birds are chasing, dive-bombing and menacing people and disrupting
traffic. This menagerie of avian offenders includes ducks, geese, ibis,
seagulls and other birds that flock to the park and these predators are losing
their fear of people and proving that maybe the state’s proclivity for firearms
anywhere it can make it legal to take them hasn’t gone quite far enough. Part
of the problem – and this is focused mostly on you, friendless old people with
your bags of stale bread and far too much free time – is park visitors who feed
the birds, emboldening the animals to seek handouts from anyone who sets foot
inside its green confines. This week, workers installed 'Feeding Wildlife
Prohibited' sign and the problem hit home for city manager Mike McNees,
who said he was chased by three white geese during a run in the park this week.
McNees had difficulty fending off the birds and is worried that an elderly
person or child might not have the wherewithal to fight off an angry bird. Parks manager Steve Graham knows that feeding the ducks is a
popular past time, but said the problem has gotten out of control and despite
the objections of some friendless old timers who say the feeding ban is unfair,
Graham is right. It’s either you stop feeding the ducks or else it’s time to
send out some park rangers with rifles to take care of this problem, senior
citizens. Your call………..
- NWA want you to know that they are not a bunch of
foul-mouth misogynists. They have an upcoming biopic about their legendary existence
and Dr. Dre wants the world to know that the dudes portraying them on the big
screen will not be depicting guys who, despite their violent lyrics, don’t
respect women and treat them right. Dr. Dre and Eazy-E are played by newcomers Corey
Hawkins and Jason Mitchell in the movie, while Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr.
portrays his father. Interestingly, Dre said he initially was against doing the
movie, but agreed once he realized that it could be a chance to change people’s
perceptions of NWA. "We really wanted to get across, one of the things,
was how we feel about women because there's a big misconception, how much we
respect our women,” Dre said. “Cube actually quarterbacked it. He went out and
got the first draft for the script done. I read it and was like, 'OK, we can
work with this. We can turn this into something.’” Here’s hoping that message
of appreciating and treasuring women shines through because there simply aren’t
enough rap outfits who truly promote the kind love of their b’otches. In
addition, Dre said he is also working on a record deal inspired by the movie,
making it another chance to grab some cash out of a project that he says made
him “a little emotional” while he was on set. For anyone who goes to see this
film, make sure to pay attention for how well women are treated in it………
- Get ready for more of Johnny Law up in your bidness,
Turkey. The corrupt scumbags you elected to parliament have approved a controversial security bill giving police heightened
powers to search, arrest and use firearms, trampling the voices of opposition
parties who say the government is leading Turkey toward authoritarianism. It’s
an accurate claim and yet, it could not matter less in a country where
tolerance for dissenting views is about as low as the ratings for your average
new NBC sitcom a few weeks into the fall TV season. Not only is this bill
discomfiting for anyone who isn't a government sycophant, it is also a major
setback for a Kurdish peace process aimed at ending an insurgency that has
killed tens of thousands of people. Now, police can use guns, search people or
vehicles and detain individuals for up to 48 hours without court authorization.
With a police force that seems to have no scruples or integrity whatsoever,
that is a scary expansion of authority that looks set to end badly, especially
for the very opposition groups who opposed the bill and can now be targeted
without restraint by a police force with an ax to grind. Oh, and this
overreaching law will also give governors — not just prosecutors and judges —
the right to order arrests. If that isn't circumventing the spirit of the law,
then nothing is. The opposition law promised to take the measure to Turkey's
Constitutional Court seeking its overturn and given that a few opposition
lawmakers literally started in-chamber brawls during debate over the bill,
maybe there’s hope yet…………
- Spring training has gone on just about long enough for
Major League Baseball teams. You can always tell when a squad has gotten in
enough work to get ready for the year ahead and it has nothing to do with the
pitcher making sure to cover at first base on a slow roller to the right side
of the infield or the center fielder hitting the cutoff on his relay throw from
the warning track. No, it’s much simpler and more juvenile than that; it
centers on 3,000-pound automobiles and police officers entering the clubhouse
toting three returned home run balls from a game the previous day. Enter the
Cleveland Indians, a darkhorse pick in the American League Central and the
clubhouse leader in goofy pranks on their own. First, manager Terry Francona
had a Goodyear police officer come to the locker room the day after a loss to
the Chicago Cubs and return the three pieces of evidence – i.e. home run balls
served up – that pitcher Trevor Bauer allowed to leave the yard. But that was
just an appetizer and the players turned their wacky hijinks on one of their
own later in the week as they got some sweet retribution on shortstop Jose
Ramirez, who apparently has an annoying habit of parking wherever he wants in
the players’ lot. To get some payback, his teammates took his shiny BMW and put
it where the sun really shines. When the players took the field for practice,
that BMW was parked at the No. 6
position in the infield dirt. It was a not-so-subtle message about respecting
the sanctity of the parking lot and those weird little lines segmenting it up. "I
just saw his car parked a little far from the curb. It was a little awkward and
there were a lot of spaces around," veteran infielder Mike Aviles said. "We
just figured we would park it somewhere a little more comfortable. Hey, he
parks anywhere so you might as well park it in a comfortable spot. When you
park it anywhere, what's the difference between the field and the parking
lot?" Ah, the MLB equivalent of taking apart the principal’s car, carrying
it into the school in pieces and reassembling it in the middle of the gym for
all too see first thing on a Friday morning. Baseball, you done done it
again……….
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