- Sometimes,
a thief has to improvise when a robbery goes wrong. Take, for example, a thief
in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania who tried to
rob a bar in the town of Slickville but his plan to make off with all of the
bar’s cash was anything but smooth. The suspect forced his way into the Silver
Star Bar, but he couldn’t force its cash register to open and spill its wares
for him. State police have released surveillance video showing the thief trying
to get into the bar’s cash register drawer, making several attempts to pry it
open before giving up and pulling a “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” by busting
out his smartphone and calling a friend, possibly to get some advice on what he
should do next. That advice was clearly not good, because what followed was a
scene straight out of “C.O.P.S.” minus about 50 IQ points from the tools who
normally fill its episodes. The thief got away with the jukebox cash, about $40
in the register and the register itself, which was worth around $450, but also
received a mild electric shock when his friend’s advice to use scissors to
sever the register’s power cord led to this physics-ignorant fool having a nice
surge of electricity sent through his body. Police are still seeking the thief,
who has despite his clear lack of both criminal skills and general
intelligence, has so far managed to evade capture and remain at large………
- It’s
a bit disturbing to imagine legendary director Woody Allen sitting around
watching old-school Disney Channel staple “Hannah Montana.” Yet apparently the
story of why Allen cast “Hannah Montana” star Miley
Cyrus in the cast for his forthcoming Amazon series has a lot to do with him
tuning into a show that he never had any business watching. "I noticed years ago that my kids would
be watching Hannah Montana. And
I would say: "Who is that girl? She's got such a good delivery,’” Allen
said. “You know, she snaps those lines off so well. The show is a silly little
show, but she's very good at what she does. And then she emerged as a singer,
and someone showed me a little clip of hers from Saturday Night Live, and I said, "It confirms what I always
thought about her: She is very good, she is really a talented girl." Emerged
as a singer is a loose term because Cyrus has always sucked as a singer, but is
so outlandish and over-the-top in the sort-of music she makes that she’s still
sold a lot of songs and albums. But it’s because of her humble Disney
beginnings, Allen wanted her in his new Amazon show, which he has confirmed to
be six half-hour episodes, but has yet to give a title. "She wanted to
take some time off, but she [agreed to do the series] because the role
interested her. So I met her right here [in the screening room],” Allen said.
There is no scheduled release date for the show, which is now in the editing
stage, but given Allen’s penchant for incessant tinkering, this could take a
while to see the light of day………..
- You
may have our koalas, our rugby stars and our eucalyptus, but you can never take
our cattle! Such is the message from Australia's treasurer, who says his
government will never sell the country’s largest cattle empire to foreigners.
Treasurer Scott Morrison sparked the drama when he announced last week that a
preliminary view that the sale to Chinese-based Dakang Australia Holdings was
contrary to the national interest. In the aftermath of the announcement, Dakang
Australia Holdings withdrew its application to buy an 80 percent stake in
Australia's largest private landholding. Morrison explained that the main
reason he opposed the 371 million Australian dollars ($284 million) sale was
that the collection of cattle ranches was too big, but the idea of giving
control of that quantity of future beef patties to foreigners cannot sit well
with any nation. The current owner, S. Kidman & Co. Ltd., owns 10 cattle
ranches, a bull breeding stud and a feed lot covering 101,411 square kilometers
(39,155 square miles) in four states. To put that sort of real estate into
perspective, it encompasses area bigger than South Korea and almost the size of
the U.S. state of Virginia. Cattle is an unusual commodity to get possessive
about, but Australia is an island nation full of people who like to drink,
travel and fight, so expecting it to behave like other large countries with
more resources and sobriety is not always reasonable. Fight on, keep your cows
and tell China to take its beef buyout elsewhere, Aussies……..
- Russell
Wilson rarely has much of a strong opinion on anything. It makes sense that if
he is going to have a forceful take on a topic, it’s going to be something with
which no one can really have a beef - i.e. frustration over Seattle's failure
to bring an NBA team back to the city. After the city council voted against
giving part of Occidental Avenue South to an entrepreneur who wants to build an
arena, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback took to Twitter to share his feelings
on the issue. He’s tweeted about the topic before, back in September 2014, when
he posted a message about bringing the Atlanta Hawks to the city, and in March
2015, when he asked, "What do I have to do to bring the Sonics back to the
NBA?" This time, he urged fans to start a petition to take advantage of the
fact that entrepreneur Chris Hansen has a memorandum of understanding with the
city and King County through November 2017 about building an arena. In the wake
of this week’s decision, the odds of that deal happening are declining fast and
in a statement on his website, SonicsArena.com, Hansen said, "Today's City
Council vote was disappointing but we don't believe it is the end of the road
in our quest to bring the NBA and NHL back to Seattle." The council voted
no after debating factors including traffic issues and conflicts with Port of
Seattle and union workers. There’s also NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s
insistence that before expansion talks could even begin, the league had to get
through collective bargaining, which could take until 2017. But maybe, just
maybe, a top-notch NFL quarterback and his social media followers can affect
change where none is happening……..
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