- And the trend continues. Professional athletes cashing in
on their name - surname, nickname or otherwise - is picking up steam and after
Dallas Cowboys rookie Taco Charlton used his nickname to lock down an
endorsement with a Texas-based Mexican eatery, a much better player with a name
he came by naturally. Oakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack, an All-Pro at
two different positions in the same season, is now a spokesman for Mack Trucks
as part of its new marketing campaign. Mack got the idea from Golden State
Warriors forward Draymond Green and the suggestion triggered some potent
childhood memories. "Whenever we were on the road when I was younger, I
remember my father pointing out the trucks that had Mack on them," Mack
said. He dialed up his agent Joel Segal, president of team sports for sports
agency Lagardere, and had Segal make a cold call to the company. He learned
that Mack Trucks had talked about his client before and had an existing interest
in teaming up with him. "Obviously we share the same name, but what really
drew us to him, based on what we had heard, was that we seemed to share the
same fundamentally American values of hard work, family, honesty and
humility," said John Walsh, Mack's vice president of global marketing and
brand management. Along with Mack Trucks, Khalil Mack also endorses Nike and
New Era , but this will be his first one in the area of heavy duty equipment,
making him the latest athlete to cash in on the name on his paycheck, but
certainly not the last given the amount of money that is out there to be made……
- Use what you’ve got an exploit ‘em if they’ll let you. So
says the police force in Surrey, England, where the Surrey constabulary made a
flashy effort to pull in new recruits by posting a very attractive selfie of a
new female recruit on its Facebook page. The department clearly thought it
would attract new recruits by uploading the photo of officer Claire Binksy, yet
when users flooded the comment section with all sorts of not-so-clever,
law-enforcement-related innuendo, they pretended to be offended. “It’s 10pm and
our night turn are starting their shift keeping Surrey safe through until
morning,” the department wrote in its post. “If the 9-5 is not for you, and
you’re energised and focused whatever the time of day or night, could you join
our police family as a trainee officer? We can offer a job that mixes the
ordinary with the highly extraordinary and definitely isn’t your average desk
job, and a starting salary of £25k.” After the slightly lewd comments began
pouring in, a spokeswoman for Surrey Police responded with the requisite amount
of feigned outrage. “As a police officer or a member of the public, featuring
on social media does not mean it is acceptable for other people or the media to
objectify or subject you to comments based on your gender or appearance. “This
kind of behavior is completely inappropriate and just reflects the immaturity
of those posting,” the public mouthpiece of the department snarked……..
- Stay bitter and condescending, The Smiths guitarist Johnny
Marr. Marr is an arrogant a-hole who knows that fans of the iconic, melodic British
rockers have been clamoring for a reunion and when a fan hit him up on social
media to make a request directly, Marr went to great lengths to be a colossal
prick. The guitarist tweeted a picture of himself standing in front of the
Candy Darling-featuring artwork for The Smiths single ‘Sheila Take A Bow’ and
captioned the image, “Candy says ‘back with news very soon.’” It was a
shameless tease, one that drew the desired response when a fan soon replied, “A
miraculous Smith’s reunion??” Marr pounced, snapping at the fan to, “Get a
grip.” Fact is, The Smiths have been the subject of constant speculation over a
possible reunion since their split in 1987 and Marr himself fueled that
speculation last year when he revealed that he met up with Morrissey in 2008, a
meeting in which the iconic duo discussed the possibility of reuniting the
band. He’s since said that he has no intention of a reunion and Morrissey has
also said that reuniting The Smiths with Marr “doesn’t make sense any more,”
but fans will hang on as long as both men are alive. Such reunions typically
happen at the point when all involved parties are either broke and destitute or
simply can’t live any longer without the drug that is fame, but maybe the
perpetually melancholy band that is The Smiths will be the one act that manages
to avoid the draw of the spotlight for good……
- Why is it that law enforcement can't do its damn job and
help citizens find their stolen property? If they would just do the one job
they have, cops would have helped Okaloosa, Florida resident David Blackmon
instead of (or at least before) putting him in cuffs. When this entrepreneurial
citizen called the sheriff’s department to report some of his property had been
stolen, it shouldn’t have mattered that what had been taken from him was
illegal narcotics in the form of a bag of cocaine. He dialed 911 and the
self-described Florida drug dealer clearly expected Okaloosa Sheriff's
Department deputies to come to his rescue. According to authorities, Blackmon
called 911 to report a robbery in Fort Walton Beach and told the responding
deputy that someone entered his car and took $50 and about a quarter ounce of
cocaine from the center console. Sadly for Blackmon, he is an idiot and left
some cocaine and a crack rock on the console and a crack pipe on the floorboard
by the driver's side door, making it easy for a deputy to spot them and have
all the cause he needed to arrest this citizen in distress. Blackmon was taken
into custody and charged with possession of cocaine and resisting arrest
without violence…….
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