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April 23, 2014
A group of people had an Easter service in an unlikely place Sunday. A gentleman's club in Guelph called The Manor.
A few months ago Jack Ninaber and his wife Sharon decided they would host a Christian fellowship service at the unconventional space.
“When we were going by The Manor I joked to Jack that we should do a worship in The Manor, then the idea really never left me,” says Sharon.
Read more: http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-gentlemen-s-club-to-start-hosting-church-service-1.1784066#ixzz2zgZJy8K7
I so want to hear Flo Rida's "You Spin Me Right Round" sung as a church hymn!
Ontario Strip Club Will Begin Religious Services
Yes you read that correctly, and no it's not Florida. It's Guelph, Ontario, Canada:
A group of people had an Easter service in an unlikely place Sunday. A gentleman's club in Guelph called The Manor.
A few months ago Jack Ninaber and his wife Sharon decided they would host a Christian fellowship service at the unconventional space.
“When we were going by The Manor I joked to Jack that we should do a worship in The Manor, then the idea really never left me,” says Sharon.
Read more: http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-gentlemen-s-club-to-start-hosting-church-service-1.1784066#ixzz2zgZJy8K7
I so want to hear Flo Rida's "You Spin Me Right Round" sung as a church hymn!
April 21, 2014
Love the billboards!
Dumb Criminals: Ypslanti, Michigan Police On Lookout For Playground Pooper
YPSILANTI, Mich. (WJBK) - A Michigan advertising and marketing firm is lending a hand after learning a person has been leaving feces on playground slides in Ypsilanti.
Adams Outdoor Advertising in Ann Arbor has set up a billboard along I-94 near South Huron Street, exit 183, encouraging the public to turn in the mystery pooper.
The eye-catching billboard toggles through these various slogans:
Help us flush the pooper #YPSIPOOPER
Do your civic doody report the pooper. #YPSIPOOPER
Help us catch the poopetrator #YPSIPOOPER
Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25279389/billboards-blast-mysterious-playground-pooper-in-ypsilanti#ixzz2zUPDIjaQ
Adams Outdoor Advertising in Ann Arbor has set up a billboard along I-94 near South Huron Street, exit 183, encouraging the public to turn in the mystery pooper.
The eye-catching billboard toggles through these various slogans:
Help us flush the pooper #YPSIPOOPER
Do your civic doody report the pooper. #YPSIPOOPER
Help us catch the poopetrator #YPSIPOOPER
Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25279389/billboards-blast-mysterious-playground-pooper-in-ypsilanti#ixzz2zUPDIjaQ
Love the billboards!
April 21, 2014
Michigan Kid Finds Rock That Turns Out To Be 10,000 Year Old Mastodon Tooth
(CNN) -- Mastodons -- elephant-like beasts that lumbered across North America more than 10,000 years ago -- are long extinct, but apparently it wasn't tooth decay that did them in.
A 9-year-old Michigan boy stumbled across something -- literally -- that, it turns out, is a mastodon tooth.
"I was walking down at the creek last summer. I felt something that I stepped on so I picked it up and everybody in the neighborhood thought it was pretty cool," Philip Stoll told CNN on Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/18/us/michigan-mastodon-tooth/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
A 9-year-old Michigan boy stumbled across something -- literally -- that, it turns out, is a mastodon tooth.
"I was walking down at the creek last summer. I felt something that I stepped on so I picked it up and everybody in the neighborhood thought it was pretty cool," Philip Stoll told CNN on Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/18/us/michigan-mastodon-tooth/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
April 21, 2014
Really Dumb Criminals: Austrian Man Stops By Police Station To See If He Is Under Investigation
VIENNA (AP) — A German sought by authorities for alleged fraud has been arrested in Austria — after dropping into a police station to ask officers whether he was under investigation.
Police in Salzburg said the 59-year-old man walked into a police station in the city on Friday night. Spokesman Anton Schentz told the Austria Press Agency on Saturday the man told officers he just wanted to check that they had "nothing on him."
Officers checked their records and found a recent arrest warrant from a Vienna court on four counts of fraud and embezzlement. Police say the man, whose name wasn't released, was taken to a Salzburg prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/20/criminal-checks-in-police-station-austria_n_5181888.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
Police in Salzburg said the 59-year-old man walked into a police station in the city on Friday night. Spokesman Anton Schentz told the Austria Press Agency on Saturday the man told officers he just wanted to check that they had "nothing on him."
Officers checked their records and found a recent arrest warrant from a Vienna court on four counts of fraud and embezzlement. Police say the man, whose name wasn't released, was taken to a Salzburg prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/20/criminal-checks-in-police-station-austria_n_5181888.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
April 19, 2014
Saw Dream Theater last night.
Holy crap they were amazing and they played a tiny little theater in Riverside, CA called The Fox Theater. So even if you were in the balcony you were able to be really up close with the band. Thanks to a computer error they sat me next to the band's equipment and after going to the usher about it, I got a nice upgrade to my seats.
This was the set list:
Set 1:
False Awakening Suite (DT history video intro)
The Enemy Inside
The Shattered Fortress
On The Backs Of Angels
The Looking Glass
Trail Of Tears (extended version with instrumental jam)
Enigma Machine (with Mike Mangini Drum Solo)
Along For The Ride
Breaking All Illusions
Set 2:
The Mirror
Lie
Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
Scarred
Space Dye Vest
Illumination Theory
Encore:
Overture 1928
Strange Deja Vu
The Dance Of Eternity
Finally Free
Give you an idea of how close to the stage I was:
April 18, 2014
What do you have to do to get banned from that website?
Frazier Glenn Cross (Jewish Community Center Murderer) Was Banned From Stormfront
The suspect in Sunday’s shooting outside two Jewish community centers in Kansas -- the most recent rampage based on the victims’ race, religion, sexual preference or membership in a particular group – had been blacklisted from Stormfront due to old disagreements with the site’s founder. He instead actively proselytized on a rival white power website.
In an interview with NBC News, Stormfront.org’s founder, Stephen Donald “Don” Black, called the SPLC report ludicrous.
“Anybody who comes on Stormfront and even suggests illegal violence ,they get shown the door,” he said. “I’m sure we’re stricter on that than Facebook or Twitter or Craigslist.”
“We have 286,000 registrations,” Black added. “The law of averages you’re going to have some people that lose it.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/report-users-white-power-website-have-committed-nearly-100-murders-n83231
In an interview with NBC News, Stormfront.org’s founder, Stephen Donald “Don” Black, called the SPLC report ludicrous.
“Anybody who comes on Stormfront and even suggests illegal violence ,they get shown the door,” he said. “I’m sure we’re stricter on that than Facebook or Twitter or Craigslist.”
“We have 286,000 registrations,” Black added. “The law of averages you’re going to have some people that lose it.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/report-users-white-power-website-have-committed-nearly-100-murders-n83231
What do you have to do to get banned from that website?
April 16, 2014
Oh this is one story where more details are definitely needed!
Rapper Andre Johnson Severs Penis, Survives Jumping Off Building
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rapper Andre Johnson severed his penis and jumped from a Los Angeles apartment building early Wednesday, police said.
Johnson was seriously injured, but survived the fall from the second level of the building in North Hollywood, Los Angeles Police Sgt. William Mann said.
Johnson, along with his recovered penis, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated, Mann said.
Details about what triggered the incident were not available.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/16/showbiz/rapper-severed-penis/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Johnson was seriously injured, but survived the fall from the second level of the building in North Hollywood, Los Angeles Police Sgt. William Mann said.
Johnson, along with his recovered penis, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated, Mann said.
Details about what triggered the incident were not available.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/16/showbiz/rapper-severed-penis/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Oh this is one story where more details are definitely needed!
April 16, 2014
Glad he's OK but seriously...
Nebraska Boy Presumed To Be Missing Found Alive In Bowling Alley Claw Machine
Child Gets Stuck Inside Claw Crane Machine
When a woman discovered her 3-year-old son was missing from her apartment...
A missing three-year-old Lincoln boy was discovered in a claw machine at a bowling alley Monday night.
Lincoln Police Department got a call Monday about a missing boy. His mother told police he'd slipped out an unlocked door of their apartment while she was in the bathroom.
After arriving at the scene, police were told a child matching the boy's description was at Madsen's Bowling & Billiards, 4700 Dudley St., across the street from where the boy lives.
An LPD sergeant went to investigate and saw the three-year-old boy had crawled inside the claw machine at the bowling alley. He was uninjured and playing happily with the stuffed animals in the machine, said Katie Flood, public information officer with LPD. Madsen's employees, along with a vending machine company, helped remove the child safely.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20140415/GO/140418861/1685#.U070JFchUX5
When a woman discovered her 3-year-old son was missing from her apartment...
A missing three-year-old Lincoln boy was discovered in a claw machine at a bowling alley Monday night.
Lincoln Police Department got a call Monday about a missing boy. His mother told police he'd slipped out an unlocked door of their apartment while she was in the bathroom.
After arriving at the scene, police were told a child matching the boy's description was at Madsen's Bowling & Billiards, 4700 Dudley St., across the street from where the boy lives.
An LPD sergeant went to investigate and saw the three-year-old boy had crawled inside the claw machine at the bowling alley. He was uninjured and playing happily with the stuffed animals in the machine, said Katie Flood, public information officer with LPD. Madsen's employees, along with a vending machine company, helped remove the child safely.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20140415/GO/140418861/1685#.U070JFchUX5
Glad he's OK but seriously...
April 16, 2014
Dumb Criminals: Montana Man Gets Arrested For Licking Cop's Eyeball
Christopher Nicholas Hiatt, 34, is in jail on a felony charge of assault on a peace officer and misdemeanor charges of assault with a bodily fluid, criminal contempt and probation violation.
Police say Hiatt called to report a theft on Saturday night and dispatchers realized he was wanted on a contempt warrant out of Lewis and Clark County. Officers later found Hiatt outside of Pisser’s Palace in Walkerville.
When officers attempted to apprehend Hiatt, he fought and wouldn’t let them handcuff him. Police say when officers tried to put him in a patrol car; he licked one of their eyes. The assault with a bodily fluid charge stems from the saliva.
Hiatt is behind bars on $26,000 bond.
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/police-suspect-licks-officer-s-eye-during-arrest/article_dbcf573b-a7aa-551f-a195-2ad500ac7baf.html#ixzz2z5QYBKj4
Police say Hiatt called to report a theft on Saturday night and dispatchers realized he was wanted on a contempt warrant out of Lewis and Clark County. Officers later found Hiatt outside of Pisser’s Palace in Walkerville.
When officers attempted to apprehend Hiatt, he fought and wouldn’t let them handcuff him. Police say when officers tried to put him in a patrol car; he licked one of their eyes. The assault with a bodily fluid charge stems from the saliva.
Hiatt is behind bars on $26,000 bond.
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/police-suspect-licks-officer-s-eye-during-arrest/article_dbcf573b-a7aa-551f-a195-2ad500ac7baf.html#ixzz2z5QYBKj4
April 16, 2014
Your move, Orkin Man!
Florida Man Sets Apartment On Fire To "Kill Bugs"
A man who burned down his apartment told police he started the fire to kill an infestation of bugs in his home.
The unidentified resident was so annoyed by the presence of the insects he tried to burn them out - destroying his apartment and hospitalising himself in the process.
He allegedly authorities he had started the fire to “to burn the bugs in his home and computer".
Orlando Police, who attended the scene, found his Florida home was littered with rubbish in all rooms, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
One officer described the conditions inside as “deplorable” in his police report. "There was trash and empty beer cans covering the majority of the floor in the living area and the kitchen," the officer said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-sets-apartment-on-fire-while-trying-to-burn-the-bugs-out-of-his-home-9248593.html
The unidentified resident was so annoyed by the presence of the insects he tried to burn them out - destroying his apartment and hospitalising himself in the process.
He allegedly authorities he had started the fire to “to burn the bugs in his home and computer".
Orlando Police, who attended the scene, found his Florida home was littered with rubbish in all rooms, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
One officer described the conditions inside as “deplorable” in his police report. "There was trash and empty beer cans covering the majority of the floor in the living area and the kitchen," the officer said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-sets-apartment-on-fire-while-trying-to-burn-the-bugs-out-of-his-home-9248593.html
Your move, Orkin Man!
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