- Drug smuggling and dealing are all about capitalizing on
opportunity. If the holiday season for a particular special day affords you the
chance to use what would normally be considered a children’s toy as a means of
smuggling your illicit product across county or state lines, you had best cash
in on that golden chance. Take the case of the stuffed Easter Bunny who pulled
double duty as arguably the most peculiar drug mule police in Oklahoma have
encountered in a long time. Tahlequah City police intercepted the rabbit
stuffed with a pound of meth, street value around $30,000, when a police dog in
Tulsa County sniffed out the methamphetamine before the package was to be
delivered to the home of Carolyn Ross in Tahlequah. “We’ve intercepted
narcotics in the mail before,” Police Chief Nate King told. “The Easter Bunny I
thought was a strange touch.” Once police knew about the package and its
contents, they set up a sting operation to take down whoever was involved with
trying to pervert the symbol of the commercialized version of Easter. An officer
posed as a delivery man and went to Ross’ home to give her the package and when
she signed for the drug bunny and took possession of the white trash drug of
choice, she was arrested. Ross allegedly confessed to knowing about the meth
and is being held on $75,000 bond. Police didn’t provide any details on who
sent the package, but given the low level of sophistication here, it shouldn’t take
a tremendous amount of time to unravel this yarn of criminality………
- Protect the assets, NBA players. That’s the lesson from
the past week thanks to a pair of groin-punching points guards who decided that
going below the belt on 7-footers was the way to even the score. First, Los
Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul delivered a questionable low blow to
Portland center Chris Kaman in a Thursday night game, prompting Kaman to
retaliate by knocking Paul out of bounds on the next trip up the court and Paul
getting up looking like he was ready for a fight despite the 12-inch height differential.
But the more contentious of the two incident came when Golden State Warriors guard Shaun
Livingston attacked the manhood of Dallas Mavericks star Dirk
Nowitzki two days later, when the German icon was posting up the 6-foot-7
Livingston late in the third quarter and Livingston reached between Nowitzki's
legs and struck him in the groin. Nowitzki doubled over in pain and let out a
few choice words before turning around and briefly confronting Livingston, who
insisted he did not mean to hit Nowitzki in the nether regions. Nowitzki said
he'd give "the benefit of the doubt" to Livingston despite the guard
being hit with a flagrant foul 1. "Well, I give him the benefit of the
doubt because he's really not that type of player," Nowitzki said. "He
hasn't been his entire career. I'm not really sure what he was trying to do
there, if he was trying to get to the ball through my legs or anything. But
like I said, he's not a dirty player. He's actually a really, really good dude.”
Mavs owner Mark Cuban and coach Rick Carlisle weren't so magnanimous, with Cuban
stopping Warriors coach Steve Kerr after the game for a chat about the
incident. Maybe it’s time for NBA big men to either start wearing cups or start
dishing out some old-school justice to put an end to this nonsense……….
- Some beefs are universal and some fights are liable to
happen around the world despite cultural differences simply because there are
a-holes in the world and they need to be dealt with. Enter South
American neighbors Guyana and Suriname, two countries now in a diplomatic
pissing match on account of what else, parking problems. Brawls over parking
spaces and who has a right to them are a near-universal reason to go and this
one has caused a minor diplomatic row between two countries that aren't exactly
world powers who might be tempted to go nuclear on each other’s asses should
this whole mess kick up a notch in the days ahead. Guyana's government is
accusing two Surinamese policemen of assaulting and trying to arrest Ambassador
Keith George over an incident than began when a drunk driver blocked the
entrance to the embassy in Suriname's capital and began arguing with a security
guard after refusing to remove his car. Drunken morons are another universal
aggravation and dealing with them is enough to piss off even the most sagacious
among us, so it’s no surprise that George and other officials intervened and
called police. What is odd is how the situation unfolded from there. According
to Guyanese officials, the officers who responded to the incident scuffled with
George and entered the embassy to try to arrest him. In the resulting chaos,
and this is truly tear-jerking, embassy staffers were allegedly traumatized by
the actions of Surinamese police. Yes, being protected embassy employees who
have to witness local police attempting to arrest your boss is a harrowing
experience and if nothing else, Suriname needs to pony up enough money for some
psychological counseling to these poor, fragile, traumatized souls………..
- Sentimentality and lots of testosterone fueled the opening
run of “Furious 7,” which easily outpaced the box office field for the win with
$143.6 million in opening-weekend domestic earnings. Needless to say, the rest
of the movies in theaters didn’t earn as much combined as the fast-driving
drama, with “Home” dropping from the top spot one week ago to second and
banking another $27.4 million to up its overall domestic haul to $95.6 million
in two weeks. The inexplicable success of “Get Hard” continued for another week
as Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart powered the comedy to $12.9 million for a
two-week tally of $57 million. “Cinderella” held onto fourth place with $10.3
million in it fourth weekend and has raked in $167.3 million in one month of
work. “The
Divergent Series: Insurgent” stepped down two spots to fifth with a $10 million
weekend, allowing the dystopian drama to break through the $100 million mark in
just three weeks at $103.4 million. “It Follows” followed in sixth place at a
scant $2.5 million and in four weeks of limited release, it has managed just
$8.5 million. The second newcomer of the top 10 was Helen Mirren’s “Woman in
Gold” in seventh place with $2 million in an underwhelming debut. “Kingsman:
The Secret Service” claimed the eighth slot with a meager $1.7 million to make
its two-month domestic total a solid $122.3 million. “Do You Believe?” found
enough faith for $1.5 million and a three-week bank roll of $9.8 million. That
left the final top 10 spot for “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” which
brought in just $1 million this time around and $30 million overall. “Run All
Night” (No. 12) and “The Gunman” (No. 16) both tumbled out of the top 10 from
one week ago………
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