- Score
another one for those who know that the “Do you know who I am?” card never
plays well in an encounter with the law. One guy who is still under the
impression that uttering those six words will lead to a positive outcome is Jonathan
Scott, the building contractor half of HGTV's “Property Brothers.” Scott, who
works with his brother Drew Scott to renovate and/or find new homes for people
who have little sense of how crappy their current home is or what they can get for
the meager budget they have for a new one, found himself in a bit of a tight spot
when he and his brother were in Fargo to speak at a design conference recently.
Jonathan Scott was hanging out at Dempsey's Public House when bar employees
informed them that it was closing time and they needed to surrender their
drinks and take the party elsewhere. Scott, who was presumably a few drinks in,
was led along with several other patrons out of the bar's back entrance, only
to return and have to be kicked out again. When he was asked to give up his
glass and go home, he resisted, was placed in a chokehold by bar security and
uttered those famous word: “Do you know who I am?” As always, if you have to
ask, they either don’t know or do know but don’t care and Scott succeeded only
in getting himself arrested. However, the small-town legal eagles in the
prosecutor’s office in Fargo decided there was insufficient evidence to charge
him with any crime, so Scott can go back to upgrading kitchens with subway tile
backsplashes, installing new hardwood flooring and trying to get homeowners
than extra $10,000 they need for the sale of their current home so they can
afford that dream home down the road…….
- There
is never a good time to be arrested, but it’s hard to think of many worse than
what happened to Belleville, Illinois resident and job-seeker Reginald Curry. Curry
was interviewing for a kitchen job at Tavern on Main when his interview was
hijacked by the long arm of the law. During the interview, police interrupted
and took him into custody in connection with a bank robbery in Belleville. “He
told me to stand up and put my hands behind my back and put handcuffs on me and
then walked me outside,” Curry said. Police hauled him off to the bank, where
they quickly learned that they had made a mistake. A witness said he wasn’t the
robber and Curry was summarily set free, with officers later arresting a man
named William Grier for the crime. Even though the incident may have caused
Curry a chance for the job, the police weren't exactly apologetic for the
mix-up. “Descriptions can be off a little bit so we look to refine that
information as we go along and in the case of the gentlemen detained [Curry],
he matched the description at the time,” said Sgt. Mark Heffernan of the
Belleville Police Department. Heffernan said security footage from the bank and
a tip led them to Curry, but after that information proved wrong, Curry said police
didn’t do anything to show his potential employer that he was not involved with
the robbery. “The fact that they couldn’t come back and tell everyone it was a
big misunderstanding and say, ‘We found the real guy.’ They didn’t do
anything to make the situation better for me,” he added. Thanks for nothing,
Belleville police……
- When
a professional athlete walks into your gym, it should be a great day. When that
athlete it the fittest man in the NFL, the gym’s owners should be fired up and
asking that athlete to pose for pictures and offer advice for everyone else
working out in the facility. Neither happened when NFL punter Steve Weatherford
walked into a Planet Fitness last week and sought to get his workout on
alongside dozens of non-athletes and office workers. Weatherford, who is
notorious for being an absolute gym rat, has appeared on numerous magazine
covers and been celebrated for his shredded physique even though his position
doesn’t demand that level of fitness. None of that matters to Planet Fitness
staffers who decided that he was a nuisance to other customers and asked him to
leave for making too much noise during his workout. Weatherford posted a video
on Instagram offering his “sincerest apologies” to employees at Planet Fitness
for “being such a savage,” saying that he was asked to leave for doing what so
many workout warriors do while getting their lift on. “ Today I was
unceremoniously kicked out of@planetfitness for excessive breathing/
grunting. A gym should be a place that encourages, motivates, and
inspires you to build the best version of yourself possible. Not a place that
has a built in siren the manager activates when someone is working hard and
breathes heavily. I'm embarrassed to say I paid $20 to this establishment. I'm
fortunate to be an overly confident person. Can you imagine how embarrassing
this would be to someone trying hard to change their image through hard work
and they let a more than quiet breath out. The gym can already be a very
intimidating place, clients don't need to worry about being completely
humiliated for working hard,” Weatherford wrote in his post. Way to miss a
golden chance for some great, free PR, Planet Fitness staffers……..
- Life
in Zimbabwe can be rough. Maybe a tiny bird can make it better. In a nation
with thousands of unemployed people, folks who are toiling under the repressive
yolk of dictator Bob Mugabe need some way to find hope and in the fact of dire
economic conditions in the southern African country, citizens are looking to
the quail as an answer for what ails them. Quail farming is huge in other
countries, including India, but until recently, few Zimbabweans had much to do
with the small bird until rumors spread months ago that the bird has medicinal
value. Since then, the quail has gained huge economic, political, religious,
medicinal and entertainment value. In a land where the official statistics
agency says the majority of citizens survive on just a dollar a day, turning a
buck off a small bird is a big deal. Many citizens have turned their backyards
into breeding zones and the less savory among them have gone poacher, risking
lion attacks to sneak into national parks to hunt quail birds. Environment Minister
Oppah Muchinguri addressed parliament recently in regard to the trend and
painted a jarring picture. "Some were almost shot by rangers," she
said. Shortly thereafter, Muchinguri announced a ban on backyard quail breeding
pending research on the supposed medicinal qualities. In the resulting
backlash, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy president, said quail are yummy. "The
birds are very delicious," announced in an attempt to cool down lawmakers
angered by the ban, adding that people would be allowed to continue breeding.
So valued are quail that their products now sell for triple the price of
chicken products and a friend quail egg costs a whopping $5 at many restaurants. In related news, it’s
not a good time to be quail in Zimbabwe………
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