- Whoever
finds a missing white 2015 Lamborghini Aventador
Convertible last seen on the streets of New York City on October 28 is going to
have a difficult decision to make. On one hand, that person could cash in on
the $100,000 reward the legendary private detective agency is offering for
information leading to the recovery of the vehicle. That seems like a sweet
deal, right up to the point where you realize that this is a badass whip worth
$450,000. The car was spotted in Flushing, Queens, before it disappeared and
authorities believe could be parked hidden in some sort of shipping container,
headed to an overseas buyer. Further thickening the plot, NYPD officials said
they have no report of a stolen Lamborghini fitting the description. Whoever
stole it either wanted to add it to their collection or plans to send it
overseas because rolling that sort of heat on American streets would be far too
conspicuous. The owner of the car hasn’t been identified, but the vehicle was
parked near the Al Oerter Recreation Complex, a facility named for the
legendary Olympic discus thrower. One possible place to look for suspects is a luxury
car theft ring known to have been operating in the New York and New Jersey area
in recent months, stealing Bentleys, Land Rovers and Maseratis. A total of 21
suspects have been charged in conjunction with that ring, according to the New
Jersey State Police and Attorney General's office. Cars like this brand-new
Lamborghini are extremely distinctive and owning it is almost a bigger deal
than driving it for the rich, pompous pricks who tend to own such vehicles……..
- The
inevitable has happened. Snoop Dogg has been deep in a giant pile of ganja for
most of his life and has bought/been given/passed along so much of the hippie
lettuce that he’s practically been running his own pot business for years. If
anyone can be called a sticky icky aficionado, it’s Snoop. It’s a mere
formality that the rapper and television personality
has launched his own cannabis brand he has dubbed Leafs By Snoop. Because pot
is legal in Colorado, that’s where the company will sell "the finest
quality cannabis one could imagine," according to a release. "Wherever my musical journey has taken me around the
world, it’s beautiful to see how chronic leafs are a common source of peace,
love and soul that connects us all," Snoop wrote on the company’s website.
"Since I’ve been at the forefront of this movement for over 20 years now,
I’m a master of marijuana. Leafs By Snoop is truly the first mainstream
cannabis brand in the world and proud to be a pioneer." What’s amazing
here - aside from the fact that Snoop can't actually own the company because he
is not a resident of Colorado - is the fact that he’s willing to get rid of any
dank instead of keeping it all for himself. In the end, there are only so many
bowls one can pack and so many bongs to fill, so when the state of Colorado
legalized both medical and recreational use of marijuana in 2012, this day was
inevitable. Hopefully CEO Dogg will be the chief keef product tester, bringing
his vast expertise to the process of selecting only the best weed for his
customers……….
- Hey
residents of Srebrenica, remember those 8,000
Muslim men and boys of yours who wartime Serbs slaughtered 20 years ago and
have shown far too little contrition for over the years? How about the Serbian government
chips you off a paltry sum of money as a far-too-late, far-too-little apology
for that massacre? The number is $5.4 million, money the government will to
rejuvenate the Bosnian town. That amount of money may seem like a lot when you
see it at first glance, but when you consider the prevalence of government
waste and how quickly 5 million euros can go from an impressive sum to, “Where
the hell did all of that money go and how did we only get a couple of new
sidewalks and a park bench out of it?” that number is much less impressive. Prime
Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced the blood money payment at an investment
conference in the eastern town, promising that the first 2 million euros will
arrive by Monday and that Srebrenica should become a bridge of cooperation
between Serbia and Bosnia. However, that bridge has been (allegedly) in the
process of being built with hollow gesture after hollow gesture. If any of
those gestures meant anything, they wouldn’t keep coming and coming. Anyone who
thinks these gestures men anything clearly wasn’t paying attention back in
July, when Vucic had to flee events in Srebrenica marking the killings' 20th
anniversary because enraged demonstrators blasted he and his entourage with
rocks during the funeral of 136 massacre victims found in nearby mass graves. One
inalienable truth the whole world ‘round is that when all else fails, you throw
a massive pile of money at the problem and hope it goes away……….
- The
University of Alabama-Birmingham is a hot fiscal mess right now. The school
best known for shuttering its football program last year with its
administration claiming it lacked the finances to keep the team alive only to
face a massive backlash and an investigation that revealed its fiscal claims
were bogus, then have to double back and revive the program when a grassroots
campaign raised money to bring football back. Now, UAB is an the awkward
position of not being able to cover the full cost of attendance for its
student-athletes this year and if not for men’s basketball coach Jerod Haase,
this situation could have taken an ugly turn. Haase stepped in to donate $46,000,
or $23,000 to the men's and women's basketball teams, to make sure athletes on
both squads had their tuition covered. The coach decided to pay the bulk of
players' stipends out of his own pocket and did so while drawing no attention
to himself and being reticent to even talk about it. He later addressed it and
while a guy who makes $1 million annually, $46,000 is a relatively minor sum,
but he explained that for the goals the university has for its programs,
covering the full cost of attendance was vital. "Jerod's generosity is appreciated.
To make that type of commitment shows what type of person he is,” women's coach
Randy Norton said. UAB athletic director Mark Ingram said that the school will
pay for the cost of attendance for all student-athletes beginning in the next
budget cycle, but came up short because
the budget already had been determined when the NCAA passed the cost of
attendance -- money given to players to help pay for college attendance, travel
and other expenses. Given the way the university treated the football team and
its issues financing scholarships for basketball - its two biggest sports - its
other, lower-profile teams should probably keep their eyes peeled for a giant
ax being swung at their budgets going forward……….
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