- On one hand, it’s possible to feel a small shred of
sympathy for McLoud, Oklahoma resident Brad Davis. He’s headed to jail after pleading
guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the 2013 death of 58-year-old Denver St.
Clair. Davis told the judge in his case that the situation is "like a bad
dream” and in a sense, he might be right. On the other hand, if your method of accidentally
dispatching your stepfather from this mortal coil is by atomic wedgie, then
maybe sympathy is not what you deserve. That’s right, David admitted to
strangling his stepfather by pulling his stepfather's underwear over his head.
According to an autopsy, St. Clair died when the elastic band of his torn
underwear was pulled over his head from behind and pressed against his neck,
cutting off his airway. In court, Davis described the fight at a hearing
intended to help a judge decide what his sentence will be. He admitted to Pottawatomie
County District Judge John G. Canavan Jr. that he knocked his stepfather
unconscious before stretching the man's underwear as far up as he could.
"I never had any intention of killing that man," Davis said.
"There's no way I ever thought that could have happened." Spoken like
a true moron, Bradley. Idiots rarely see something catastrophic coming, but the
reality is that a grown man delivering an atomic wedgie to an older man
probably should not expect anything resembling a good outcome. What was the
reason, just for the hell of it? Davis said his stepfather was a bully and that
he wanted to embarrass him and copped to taking a picture of his stepfather
after pulling his underwear over his head. Combined IQ of the men involved
here? Probably south of 50………..
- Can a world-class athlete in a totally ignored, niche
sport get away with acting like a pompous, overly important a-hole? Austrian
Olympic super-G champion Anna Fenninger is trying her best and she continued
her snowy power play this week when she left a training camp with the Austrian women's
team in Cyprus amid an ongoing dispute with her national ski federation. The
two-time overall World Cup champion stormed out of camp and traveled back to
Austria to train individually, the federation said. The demanding skier and the
national governing body have been beefing for months over Fenniger’s personal
manager and her demand to have one of the team physicians working exclusively
for her. She’s hardly the first diva athlete to make a demand like this and she
laid out her stance in a letter to the federation that included her claim that she'd
rather leave the federation than part ways with her manager, Klaus Kaercher of
Germany. Amazingly, a letter that Fenninger doesn’t seem to have intended for
public consumption was nonetheless leaked and ended up on the website of
certain Austrian news outlets. For the record, at least publicly, the
federation says it has never asked Fenninger to break up with Kaercher. As
usual, odds are that the truth lies somewhere in between what each side is
saying and also that both are making up part of what they’re accusing the other
side of doing. Here’s hoping this one continues to be unnecessarily dramatic
and provides some more heinous accusations of unfairness from both sides………..
- As much as people around the world like to think they are
so different and so diverse, it’s nice to be reminded of the fact that so much
unites and binds us all. We all have hopes, we all have dreams and we share
many of the same fears….and also, criminals tend to be morons regardless of
where they are in the world. Witness the actions of an Australian man who has
submitted what is both the best and worst failed robbery attempt in recent
memory. Police in Townsville, Queensland are seeking this fool, who allegedly
stole a truck and used the vehicle in a failed attempt to steal an ATM from a
gas station. Any time footage of your crime goes viral, it’s never a good thing
and after police released CCTV footage of the failed robbery with the hope of
identifying the suspect, that’s precisely what happened. It spread quickly on
YouTube as viewers delighted in the sight of the man throwing an object at the
automated doors, only to have it bounce right back at him. Undeterred, he
eventually forced his way into the store by smashing the door with a hammer,
but even there his suffering and embarrassment were not over. His next struggle
was trying to attach a chain to the bank machine, but he was so focused on the
task at hand that he failed to notice the chain breaking outside of the gas
station. He continued to not notice the broken chain as he hopped back into the
stolen truck and drove off… without the ATM attached, “The only problem for the
offender was that he had not realized that his chain wasn’t attached and when
he attempted to drive off he left the ATM behind,” Detective Senior Sergeant
Chris Hicks said. The thief circled back to the store, tried in vain to reattach
the chain and eventually did what he should have done from the start and just went
away………..
- This never happens. A musician is releasing a new album
and he’s telling the world that this new project is better than anything he’s
ever put out before. In this case, it’s The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., who is releasing
a new solo album titled “Momentary Masters.” It’s the successor to his “AHJ” EP
two years ago, as well as full albums on his own in 2006 and 2008. The new
album isn't due out for two-plus months, but Hammond is pumped about its sound.
"I feel like the best songs I’ve written," Hammond said. "As
soon as I was done, I was like, 'Oh my God, I did it.’ But in that split second
that it comes, that feeling goes. It’s the same thing when you find complete
happiness, you find this complete low.” Hammond went on to say that his
creative process is all about being overflowing with emotions and being able to
capture that spirit, accept where you are and use it in the recording process.
He’s also become a domesticated animal of late and claims to have moved past
his drug-addled days to a life of tranquility and calm. "I've never been
in a better place in my life, in terms of feeling happy or good about myself,"
he said. "Don't get me wrong, there's definitely times where I want to
quit or don't understand anything I'm doing, but for the most part, I feel very
good. I cook a lot... [My wife and I] try to do two veggie days – she's a
vegetarian and eats fish – so we'll make meals with all these different veggies
like broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, and mushrooms with quinoa and lentils
and a little ricotta on top." Dammit, Hammond, there is nothing rock and
roll about lentils and quinoa and you know it. Stop denying who you are, find a
pile of blow to get yourself face-down in and let’s recapture that lost spirit
of rock and roll excess……….
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