- Walter
White’s influence knows no limits. “Breaking Bad” may have ended last year and
sent everyone’s favorite chemistry teacher turned meth manufacturer off into TV
retirement, but White’s impact on the real world is anything but over. Just as
the three French students charged with killing a
woman over an alleged $6,600 drug debt and then trying to dissolve her body in
a plot reportedly inspired by "Breaking Bad." Authorities discovered
the decomposing body of Eva Bourseau, who was studying art history, inside a
plastic container filled with acid in her Toulouse apartment last month. According
to prosecutors, one student admitted to police that the suspect attempted to
replicate a scene from the show in which White and one of his former students
use acid to dispose of the body of a murdered rival. These three would be
criminal masterminds, who were not identified, allegedly purchased acid and a
plastic trunk to immerse the body and dissolve it. It all began when two of the
students allegedly went to Bourseau’s home and attacked her with a crowbar and
brass knuckles because she refused to pay money she owed to them. The thuggish,
murderous attack was the first of multiple visits the suspects made to the
apartment over the following days to check on the condition of the body, using
air fresheners to cover up its smell. Right, because you don’t want to screw up
your carpet and furniture by offing someone at your home and disposing of the
body, so you kill them right where they are. Bourseau’s mother eventually
became concerned when her daughter stopped returning her calls and visited the
apartment, where she made the horrific find. Two of the suspects have been
placed under formal investigation -- equivalent in France to being charged with
murder -- with the third member of their posse charged as an accomplice………..
- Maybe
this is why soccer players almost never score goals. Sure, goal-free games for
as many as 120 minutes of action are incredibly boring and having 22 dudes with
various forms of a permed mullet flopping, diving and erroneously kicking the
ball in the general direction of the goal isn't good viewing, but look what
happens when one of these divas actually puts the ball in the back of the net. Seattle Sounders forward Chad Barrett shocked damn near
everyone in the stadium when he scored a goal in the first minute of the
Sounders' match against the L.A. Galaxy, putting his team temporarily ahead in
a game they would come from behind to lose 3-1. Maybe the Sounders would have
had more success on the scoreboard if only the man who strikes quick and
parties hard when he scores had remained on the pitch instead of ending up in a
crumpled heap on the floor in the middle of a circle of confused teammates. Barrett
performed a soccer miracle by scoring just 50 seconds into a game, but his goal
was the last play in which he would participate on the day. He managed to
strain his hamstring during his celebration and was quickly subbed out of the
match. He does earn points as the rare soccer player who went down on the field
and was actually injured, but loses all of those points and then some by
injuring himself during the post-goal celebration. Next time, he should forget
about jumping and wildly gesticulating when he finds the back of the net and
settle for something simpler, like ripping off his jersey or sitting down with
five of his teammates and pretending they’re all taking a family ride in their
imaginary minivan…………
- Being
a low-level government employee is neither a lucrative nor an especially fun
gig. Such jobs tend to be highly repetitive and demand relatively little from a
person on an intellectual level, making the small paycheck even harder to
swallow. Bearing that in mind, don’t be too hard on the state Department of Motor Vehicles employees on the alleged receiving
end of large bribes from commercial truck drivers for illegal California licenses. According to
federal authorities, as many as 100 commercial truck drivers paid up to $5,000
each in the scam. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento announced that Emma
Klem, a Salinas DMV employee, and a trucking school owner from Turlock each
pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bribery and to commit identity
fraud. Klem is merely the tip of the corruption iceberg, as two other DMV
employees in Salinas and Sacramento and two other trucking school operators
face similar charges. Two pleaded not guilty and the others are awaiting
arraignment, so it appears at least a few members of this alleged scam have
more of a spine than Klem. Unfortunately, having a spine doesn’t change the
fact that prosecutors have court records showing that the employees changed computer records to
falsely show that drivers passed written and behind-the-wheel tests. Those same
prosecutors claim that the owners of three truck driving schools bribed the DMV
employees between June 2011 and March 2015, but to be honest, what harm could
there possibly be in authorizing men and women to drive the biggest vehicles on
the road when they have clearly demonstrated during official testing that they
don’t have the necessary skills to do so? Lighten up, people……….
- This
is a new one. Artists will re-release an album for many reasons, virtually all
of which have to do with making more money, but Warren G has found a different
reason to crank out a new version of his 1994 album
'Regulate.” The West Coast rapper and
producer wants to recreate his classic album not so he can jam one new, lame
track on the end and get diehard fans to pay for the whole thing, but in an
attempt to control its master recordings, which label Def Jam has owned for two
decades. News of the re-recorded album comes one week after Warren
released G Funk Era Pt II,” a sequel to “Regulate.”
He explained his decision to lay down the entirety of arguably his best album. "I'm
gonna re-record it. I'm gonna do a re-recording of the whole album, so then I
own my masters," he said. “They don't want to give them back and I need to
get them back because they been living off me for over 20 years. I just want to
be able to get my music back in my possession and I owe it. I could live off my
own music. If they don't give them back to me, I'll re-record the whole album
and then that's considered... I would own the masters of those master
recordings. That would all be for me." It’s a solid line of thinking,
albeit one that fails to understand the basic tenets of contract law and the
way the music industry works. Still, one has to admire Warren G being willing
to go through the entire recording process for an album he already released,
taking the time to spit the same rhymes over and over again until he gets it
right … again………
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