- It’s
about damn time Coke starting living up to its name. For too long now, Coke has
merely meant Coca-Cola, a wildly overrated cola drink that’s a step below other
stars of the carbonated beverage world and must resort to tricks like infusing
vanilla or cherry flavor to convince people it’s not glorified battery acid.
But maybe that’s all changing if you take a look across the Atlantic Ocean to
Europe, where workers at a Coca-Cola factory in southern France opened a
shipment expecting to find sugary drinks inside, but found a huge shipment of
cocaine instead. The Coca-Cola factory in the town of Signes, near the
Mediterranean coast, produces concentrates for a variety of drinks, none of
which ostensibly include the Colombian nose candy in their recipe. Sadly, the
squares who work at this factory didn’t appreciate their chance to toot some
blow on the job and instead of breaking out a credit card, a mirror and a
rolled up piece of paper money, they immediately notified police. Authorities
have launched an investigation to determine from whence the Bolivian marching
powder came. The shipment contained sacks filled with 815 pounds of the sticky
icky, which were hidden in a shipping container holding orange juice from Costa
Rica. The Marseille prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation
into trafficking and importing illegal drugs, perhaps sent by someone under the
impression that Coca-Cola still used the original recipe cooked up for its soda
in the 19th century using coca leaves………
- College
football players are really making an impact this season - at least on the
police blotter. The season still hasn’t kicked off in earnest, but players at
major Division I programs are making their presence felt at local jails across
America, be it for offenses involving alcohol, abusing animals or in the case
of USC linebacker Osa Masina, potentially launching an interstate chain of
illegal activities toward women. Masina is under criminal investigation in two
states -- California and Utah -- for separate incidents, a spokesman for the
Cottonwood Heights (Utah) Police Department confirmed, and it’s known that
authorities in Utah are investigating allegations of sexual assault against
him, although no charges have been filed. Cottonwood Heights police are working
with the Los Angeles Police Department, but a departmental spokesman would not
confirm any specific details about the investigation, other than saying that a
search warrant was served to Masina on campus at USC last week. The Los Angeles
Police Department said it has
interviewed Masina in relation to a case it is investigating, but did not
expound. The timeline for the cases is that the alleged incident in Utah
happened after an alleged incident in Los Angeles and Masina’s family has
retained a Salt Lake City-based attorney. He won't travel with the team for
Saturday's game against Alabama in Arlington, Texas eve though he’s listed at
No. 2 on USC's depth chart and played in 12 games last year. It’s generally a
good idea not to allow a guy who may soon face multiple felony charges in two
different states to cross state lines and suit up for your team………
- Fish
on Adderall? What the hell is going on over there, Baltimore? Seriously, we
knew that your city’s waterways are filthy with waste and we know that your
town was the setting for “The Wire” for a reason, but is there really a need to
combine the two and leave your lakes and rivers contaminated with chemical
residues of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and even illicit drugs?
Researchers have determined that traces of amphetamines from prescription drugs
and methamphetamine are prevalent in Baltimore’s water supply, meaning fish are
now peaking on greenies, drugs are making algae produce less oxygen, Dexedrine is
speeding the growth
of midge flies and meth is mixing up bacteria on stream bottoms, according to
scientists who have been gathering data from the Gwynns Falls for nearly two
decades. Drugs have long been detected in urban waterways, but Emma
Rosi-Marshall, an aquatic ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
in New York and co-director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, noted that this
is the first time that the chemicals can
cause chain reactions up the food chain long after their effects wear off for
users. "We have not done this kind of research before," Marshall
said. "We didn't know this was the case." Even with this study, the
researchers still don’t understand how the cocktail of chemicals carried in
human waste affects streams in combination. The study has spanned 18 years and has
produced similar research papers explaining the effects of antibiotics,
antibacterial soaps and antihistamines on aquatic ecosystems. While its
conclusions are unclear, no one can dispute the reality that tweaker fish
swimming around with bugged-out eyes and an unhealthy level of paranoia - and
sans teeth if meth is one of the prominent amphetamines in their environment -
is something no one needs……..
- The
strange will continue at Netflix. The streaming service has confirmed that “Stranger Things” will return for a
second season in 2017, posting a cryptic teaser clip for Season 2 on Twitter
with the caption: "Message from the Upside Down: #StrangerThings 2 is
coming in 2017." Although that was the official announcement of the second
season, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings previously said it "would be dumb not
to" commission a second season of the cult favorite show. That second
season will feature nine episodes - one more than the first season, Netflix has
confirmed, with co-creators Matt and Ross Duffy returning to keep the magic
flowing. They recently said that the second season will "draw influence
from a lot of [1984] cinema,” which sounds like an odd choice, but Duffy and
Duffy have a reason behind the choice. "It was an awesome year for cinema, so
we're trying, hopefully, to capture a little bit of the magic of those films.
Something like ‘Temple of Doom,’" Matt Duffy explained. "I actually
really love ‘Temple of Doom,’ I love that it gets a little darker and weirder
from ‘Raiders.’" Weird as in a dude having his heart ripped out of his
chest by another man? Well said, Duff, and thanks for admitting that Temple of
Doom "messed up a lot of kids" but adding that it’s one of the
reasons you love the movie. Loving a movie because “it really traumatized some
children” is a bit perverse even though some kids are extremely annoying and
might benefit from having their world turned inside out by a movie or TV show
every now and then……..
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