- There are lots of unsavory, unsanitary aspects of camping.
The list of long and unpleasant, but anyone who agrees to go camping signs on
to deal with them…not the least of which is going to the bathroom in the woods.
For a German man who went camping in the forests of Spain's Canary Islands,
dealing with the less-appealing side of camping in the wrong manner is why a
Spanish court has sentenced him to 3 1/2 years in prison, all on account of a
slight case of pyromania mixed with human waste. This tool sparked a massive
forest fire that killed one worker last summer and his fire-starting tactic was
burning his soiled toilet paper. He didn’t have much hope of getting out of the
charges against him, as he already admitted, when he was detained in July last
year, that he accidentally started the blaze by torching his used bathroom
tissue. Civil guard agents found him near the source of the fire in the
Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma and he quickly caved, conceding culpability
in a blaze that destroyed nearly 12,300 acres of forest and prompted the
evacuation of thousands of residents. The provincial court in Santa Cruz de
Tenerife ruled that the man should also pay $2 million for the restoration of
the affected forest areas and compensate the relatives of the deceased forest
worker, all of which are going to be mighty difficult while spending the next three years in prison and not being able to work anywhere other than the prison
laundry……..
- The world will have to live with the litany of weird,
twisted and disturbing films it already has from David Lynch, because the
veteran director says he’s done helming movies. Lynch is suggesting that he has
no plans to pursue any future feature film director’s chairs, so the man who
gave the world classic films such as “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive,”
“Eraserhead” and “The Elephant Man” is apparently done, the victim of what he
sees as people being too enamored with crappy, big-budget movies and not fond
enough of artistic masterpieces like this movies. “So many films were not doing
well at the box office even though they might have been great films and the
things that were doing well at the box office weren’t the things that I would
want to do,” Lynch said. So the film industry has grown and changed and rather
than grow and change with it, Lynch is just going to walk away. Granted, much
of his work lives on and he can enjoy that, including his cult favorite TV show
“Twin Peaks,” which only aired for two seasons but will return later this month
after a 16-year hiatus. When it comes to Lynch and the movies, his last film
came 11 years ago, with 2006’s “Inland Empire” serving as capstone to his
directorial career. It was a forgettable movie and since he hasn’t directed
since then, it’s not as if this proclamation of the end of his career is a
sudden, shocking plot twist……..
- Because #Florida. Where else are you going to have an
escaped zebra wreaking havoc in a neighborhood and yet, it’s not even one of
the 10 weirdest stories in the state for the week? In this case, a zebra on the
loose rattled the cages of homeowners in a Balm neighborhood, managing to evade
sheriff’s deputies trying to corral it and even injuring a driver after running
into a vehicle. The first spotting of the wild animal on the loose came from
homeowner Mark Ross, who was letting his dogs out into his backyard when he was
startled by a massive quadruped blazing by in a flurry of black and white
stripes. The zebra stopped to graze on the grass behind his RV, but when the
animal saw Ross and his two mangy mutts, it charged at him and nearly trucked
him like Marshawn Lynch taking on an overmatched free safety. This being 2017,
he still made sure to grab his phone and record video of the zebra hauling tail
through several neighboring yards. Sheriff’s deputies were on the scene within
a few minutes and they, with help from locals, tried to help block the zebra
into Ross' eight-house neighborhood, but it managed to escape and was later
spotted running alongside a local highway, where a driver reported the animal
smashing into the side of his truck, shattering the side-view mirror and
sending glass flying everywhere. The zebra was eventually captured, but not
before wreaking lots of havoc firmly establishing itself as the 11th-weirdest
Florida-based story of the week……..
- Do they allow smoking in the Fox broadcast booth? Here’s
hoping so, or that they alter that policy, because Smokin’ Jay Cutler is on his
way, set to join play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and analyst Charles
Davis in a three-man booth next season. It’s a move that will effectively end
Cutler's 11-year NFL career, taking him from mediocre quarterback with a big
arm to rookie color commentator for Fox Sports. Rather than hang on to the last
vestiges of a thoroughly forgettable career, Cutler is owning the fact that his
days as a player are over because no team believes he’s good enough to play for
them. "I don't really see anything
else happening," Cutler said. "I'm happy with where I am in my life
and in the future going forward. So we can go ahead and stamp that -- it's
permanent." His start with Fox will mirror that of former Dallas Cowboys
signal caller Troy Aikman when he entered broadcasting in 2002 and while there
have been rumors that Cutler could have a clause in his TV deal that would
allow him to leave for a quarterback job, he doesn’t sound like he’s holding
out hope. Right now, Cutler just sounds like a man who’s accepted that he has
no choice but to hang up his cleats. "Words can't express how grateful I
am to everyone who helped me along my journey," Cutler said. "I
started playing tackle football at the age of 10 and was so lucky to have
supportive parents and great coaches along the way that made my path possible.
If I listed each person individually, this would quickly turn into an essay,
but you know who you are and I wouldn't be in this situation without you. So
thank you.” So here’s to the end of a career that no one is going to miss………
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