- Drugs are a powerful thing. Sure, police aren't saying
that meth, cocaine or some other mind-altering substance was a factor in a Palm
Bay, Florida man’s recent, very peculiar break-in, but if this guy wasn’t
peaking on something illegal, than he’s simply a far bigger moron than we
should ever allow to walk among us. Timothy Tomlinson smashed his way into a
house on Emerson Drive by breaking a kitchen window, but it’s his actions once
inside the house that left everyone wondering what the hell he had just shot,
snorted or ingested. Upon breaking and entering, Tomlinson elected not to do
what most burglars do by stealing items of value from inside the house.
Instead, he headed straight for the
bathroom and because no one likes a dirty, smelly criminal, he took a nice,
long shower. After making sure he was clean and fresh, he then made his way to
the kitchen, where he raided the fridge and found a leftover slice of pizza.
Pizza is great when you’ve worked up a solid hunger with some mid-day breaking
and entering, but you need something to wash it down and Tomlinson accomplished
that by downing two bottles of water. At that point, he apparently had what he
came for and left the house without actually stealing a single item of value.
Amazingly, he was soon tracked down by police and charged with burglary for
unlawfully entering the residence with the intent to commit petit theft and
criminal mischief for damages to the window. The good news is that he can
probably earn himself a nice, long trip to a place where he won’t have to break
in and can regularly receive free food and water, along with a daily shower………
- Former child stars with delusions of musical grandeur have
feelings too. Corey Feldman has been bouncing around the reality television
world and trying to fashion some sort of musical career for years now, given
that his roles in '80s films “The Goonies,” “Stand by Me” and “The Lost Boys”
don’t have a lot of fuel left in them at this point. His most recent musical
endeavor isn't going very well for him and as it turns out, appears to have left
him with a tremendous amount of emotional pain. Feldman has spoken out after
his musical performance on the “Today” show went viral for all the wrong
reasons last week. He played his song 'Go 4 It' with his band Corey's Angels, a
performance that was equal parts bad and bizarre, and the effort earned him all
manner of social media scorn and derision. Apparently under the impression that
his music is actually good, Feldman reacted angrily in now-deleted Facebook
Live video in which he broke down in tears while addressing the backlash to the
performance. "We just wanted to tell everybody that, like, it's been
really painful," Feldman said. "We put ourselves out there and we did
the best that we could. And, like, I've never had such mean things said about
me. Like constantly. All we can say is that we tried really hard. Because we
love our fans and we just wanted to give them the best show that we could. But
we don't deserve... these things that are said about us are awful." It’s
all part of the artist’s life, C., and by now you should know that when you
perform, people will criticize……..
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! It got real in a hurry over the
weekend near a national park in northeastern India as police clashed with angry
locals protesting the demolition of their homes. Police spokesman Mukesh
Aggarwal said authorities ordered the demolition of 300 houses in three
villages to evict people living on the periphery of the Kaziranga rhino
sanctuary to stop rampant poaching of the rare animal, but the reasoning behind
tearing people’s homes down typically takes a back seat to the fact that those
people are about to become homeless, at least in their minds. Thus, you have
enraged villagers hurling stones at police in an effort to stave off the
inevitable and police responding in totally logical fashion by firing their
guns into the crowd. That oh, so predictable turn to use of excessive force
turned out to be a deadly choice, as two people were killed and several others
injured in the chaos. This battle is happening because an estimated 2,500 out
of the world's 3,000 one-horned rhinos live in Kaziranga and those animals are
a target because powder made from their horns is coveted in many Asian
countries as a medicine or an aphrodisiac. Protecting them is an important
issue, but maybe one that you don’t want to handle by displacing hundreds of
people and then shooting them dead when they rise up against your short-sighted
plan. This one isn't over and it also isn't going to end well for anyone
involved……
- The mystery surrounding the NBA’s next great free-agent target
has been diffused before it could even begin. Rudy Gay, like actual elite
players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant before him, realized there might be
questions about where he would take his talents when he became a free agent
following the coming seasons, so he moved to eliminate the mystery. Gay, who
averaged 17.2 points and 6.5 rebounds for the 33-win Sacramento Kings last
season, has given the Sacramento Kings advance notice that he plans to depart
from the franchise as a free agent next summer. He’s a good player to be sure,
but has never developed even a decent ability to shoot from deep and won't ever
be mistaken for one of the best in the league. So while it’s nice that he has
informed the Kings that he will exercise a clause in his contract to become an
unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2017 and bolt a team that has not made
the playoffs in 10 years, it really wasn’t necessary. The Kings suck, they keep
cycling through coaches and general managers at an alarming rate and while Gay
will make $13.3 million next season and has a $14.3 million player option for
the 2017-18 season, he clearly sees the salary cap going up, players getting
paid far more than their skills actually warrant and he figures that he can get
some extra cash while also escaping one of the true outposts of the
Association. "It's not rocket science," Gay said about his decision.
No, and that’s probably why the Kings have let teams around the league know
that Gay is extremely available in a potential trade any time now……..
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