Wednesday, October 21, 2015

India v. tattoos, the "Trainspotting" sequel and Immigration and Customs Enforcement orgies


- See what University of Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak has inspired? Krystkowiak famously went amateur crime stopper a couple years ago when he spotted and detained an on-campus bicycle thief and it appears at least one fellow coach was inspired to follow his example. Unfortunately for New Orleans Saints linebackers coach Joe Vitt, his efforts to bring citizen-fueled justice to the world didn’t end as well as they did for Krystkowiak, who walked away from his heroic act in good health. Vitt’s fate was decidedly more painful after he chased away a man and woman who were attempting to steal his car and a neighbor's car at his Metairie home early in the morning. The 61-year-old Vitt was walking through his kitchen when he noticed a shadow running across his front lawn. For most people, the only reason to be up at 4 a.m. on a Saturday is that they’re just getting home from an epic night out or they woke up to tend to a crying baby, but NFL coaches are notorious for not sleeping much and working too many hours, so it makes sense that Vitt was up and went outside to investigate, at which point he noticed a white female with blonde hair wearing khaki shorts and gloves attempting to enter a neighbor's vehicle. According to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman Col. John Fortunato, Vitt then looked toward his own car and saw a white male inside the vehicle. When this amateur crime duo saw Vitt, they took off running, according to Fortunato. When the veteran coach gave chase, he tripped shortly into his run and suffered a torn Achilles tendon and a broken wrist after falling. Vitt, who was the Saints' interim head coach during Sean Payton's bounty suspension in 2012 and as the St. Louis Rams' interim head coach in 2005, will probably keep on working through the pain and get himself a scooter to get around the office, but maybe he also needs a golf cart at his home in case he needs to chase any future car thieves………..


- Way to encourage tourism and spread love to the world, India. Someone shows up from a foreign country, spending their money to boost your economy and looking to experience a great, unique culture they once visited and enjoyed, and you harass them using the police because of a small bit of ink on their leg? Such is life in Bangalore, where an Australian couple said they were harassed by people who objected to a tattoo on Matt Keith’s leg. Keith and his girlfriend were having lunch at a restaurant in the city in southern India when fellow patrons spotted Keith’s tattoo of a Hindu goddess. A small crowd grew around the couple and these intolerant fools angrily claimed that the design g offended their religion. Had this story ended with the angry mob running the couple out of the restaurant, it would have been an ugly tale of intolerance, but wait, there’s more. Somehow, the crowd pulled the local police into their hate fest and Keith and his girlfriend were taken to the police station, where Keith was forced to write a letter of apology before they were allowed to leave. He later detailed the situation in a Facebook post. "I love India which is why we came back to visit," he wrote. “We have heard about the growing Hindu nationalism, but nothing justifies the way we were treated.” Indeed, India has seen a rise in incidents of religious intolerance over the past year thanks largely to a bunch of ass-hatted Hindu nationalists trying to create a more Hindu-centric country. Thank God Keith’s second tattoo of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha on his back wasn’t in a visible spot or he may have been tarred and feathered for his evil deeds……….


- Such are the perils of making sequels to classic movies that should be left alone, director Danny Boyle. Boyle, who helmed the classic cult favorite movie “Trainspotting,” is hoping to shoot the long-planned sequel to the movie next year and admitted that the prospect of making “Trainspotting 2” is "worrying" because, as director, he will get "absolutely crucified" if it sucks. Boyle confirmed that the key original cast members from his 1996 black comedy, which came about as an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. "We're going up to Scotland very early and we're going to do a week's workshop up in Edinburgh working on the script and we're filming in May and June of next year,” Boyle said. “Obviously it's worrying because people will kill us if we made a bad job of it. I will get absolutely crucified. But you have to thrive on that potential danger within it and if it feeds into it, you might get a decent film out of it, you know." Yes, but that’s why you make a lot of money and get a lot of autonomy to make these movies, Danny. The director upped the ante by saying that he is trying to have the sequel ready in time for Trainspotting's 20th anniversary next year. "Hopefully we can get it finished in time to release it in 2016 which is the 20th anniversary year. So yes, we're on it, and it's looking good,” he added. Apparently, the sequel is "very loosely based" on “Porno,” Welsh's own sequel to “Trainspotting.” Screenwriter John Hodge, who penned to script for the original film, is also on board with the project………..


- This could be a big reason the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is having a hard time finding and retaining good employees. When a supervisor is using his authority and resources to recruit employees during work hours to join sex parties with him and his wife at their home, people aren't going to have much of an interest in that gig. That scenario is exactly what ICE investigators are looking into at the agency's San Diego office following a complaint alleging that the issue has been going on for about a year. Because some of these employees are subordinates, the allegations would represent an abuse of authority if proven true. In the complaint, some of the taken-advantage-of workers were identified as "rookie employees" who may have gone along because they were "intimidated, afraid or foolishly 'wow'd' -- thinking participation will land them a promotion." If engaging in some swingers action with your middle-aged boss and his old lady is the price for a promotion.....maybe it’s time to a) find a new job or b) get a lawyer and try to expose this sick freak. According to the complaint, the pervy supervisor and his wife went to great lengths to assure privacy at these parties, going so far as to ban their “guests” from bringing cellphones into the house. "The parties take place while their kids are watching a movie in their rooms," the complaint says. "Kids are told that mom and dad are working on a project with the other couples and not to disturb them nor knock on the bedroom door for at least an hour." Wow. If you’re having an orgy in your bedroom with your kids in the house and telling them that the sounds they hear are just mom and dad “working on a project” with some strangers, you are a sick freak without a soul………..

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