NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. - A central Kentucky judge had a suspicious mind when an Elvis Presley impersonator showed up for court apparently drunk and sporting sunglasses and a rhinestone-studded shirt with a scarf draped around his neck.
County Attorney Brian Goettl said that as a result, the judge had David Blaisdell, 64, tested for intoxication and sentenced him to three days in jail for contempt of court when it was determined that the man's blood-alcohol level was nearly twice that at which a person in Kentucky is considered legally drunk.
Blaisdell, who was in court for a pretrial conference on misdemeanor charges of stalking and violating a protective order, told the judge he had had a few drinks the night before, Goettl said.
Good to know those drunk Elvis impersonators aren't getting off easy in the ol' hometown! ;)
I can't remember ever hearing a news story about a plain-looking, regular student killed in a wreck. They're always beautiful and sociable and everyone in the school knew them. Do news outlets just not bother with the unpopular kids, or are popular kids more likely to get in wrecks?
He's right. Shut up about celebrities, stay out of people's private lives, and focus on what's important. Yes, fans do mourn Heath Ledger. But they can do that on their own time; they don't need a TV show to help them.
And don't argue that it's a happy-shiny morning show, and what Montel said was too depressing. If that's the case, then why talk about death at all? Are you then saying that Heath Ledger's death is a lighthearted one?
Members of a local tourism association and other people formed a volunteer group Monday supporting Obama and put up campaign posters at a local hotel.
"We'd like him to win the election and visit our city as president," said 55-year-old Kiyoji Fujihara, a group representative.
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According to the city government, the move arose out of an e-mail sent to city hall by a local resident in late 2006.
The message said Obama had joked "I'm from Obama" on TV when visiting Japan and that the city should consider giving him an award for the comment that became good publicity for the city.
It is not known if he actually did make such a comment, but the city last year sent Obama a letter and lacquered chopsticks, a local specialty, city officials said.
Most exciting to me, though, was this bit:
The group is also considering selling Japanese-style "manju" sweets with Obama's portrait on them.
A man pushed his Ford Mustang down a mountain as part of a scheme to claim it was stolen, authorities said.
Richard Way Jr., 28, pushed the car down an embankment along Wopsy Mountain in Blair County last year, then reported it had been stolen from the parking lot of a hot dog restaurant, the Pennsylvania attorney general's office said.
Way, of Claysburg, was arraigned last week on charges of filing false police reports, theft and insurance fraud.
A cousin, Travis Knox, told police he saw Way remove stereo equipment from the Mustang and was asked to help push the car off a cliff, according to the arrest affidavit. Knox said he refused to help, and told investigators that Way confessed the crime to him a few days later.
The commercial annoys me every time I see it, because I'm a goody two shoes and can't stand it when our entertainment media encourages us to commit crimes (an ad for a film where two bank employees hatch a plan to rob the place played before Enchanted! WTF?), and because this is yet another example of the "I deserve it, and I have no responsibilities" mindset.
I wondered the first time I saw it if it would happen in real life. This isn't exactly the same, but...
(Apologies to Dariush for stealing his headline meme ;>)
A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about toy robots, officials said Friday.
The agriculture ministry said the bureaucrat, whose name was not released, contributed 260 times to the Japanese-language Wikipedia entry on Gundam, a popular, long-running animated series about giant robots that has spun off intricate toys popular among children and adults who belong to the so-called "otaku culture" of fascination with comic books, animation and robots.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam," ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura said.
The agriculture ministry verbally reprimanded five other bureaucrats who contributed to entries on movies, typographical mistakes in billboard signs and local politics. The six employees together made 408 entries on the popular Internet encyclopedia from ministry computers since 2003.
The ministry did not object to employees making limited contributions on World Trade Organization and free trade agreements.
"Yeah," I responded, suddenly realizing what that meant. I hadn't thought about it when I got dressed this morning. "I'm in support!"
I suppose I am. Honestly, I find the situation to be a little more problematic than a simple "right" vs. "wrong". Injustice was done at least twice that I know of, and apparently on a regular basis (what's with a tree "reserved" for white people?) and it is important to stand up to that. But at the same time, I do not condone violence to solve problems.
There should be some punishment there, but it should fit the crime.
So yeah, I suppose I am in support :>
(My outfit is actually black and white...think that means anything?)
Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton's life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.
A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.
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He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.
The guy's from Hamamatsu. I used to read the blog of a guy who lived there, though he stopped posting shortly after his baby daughter was born. I wonder if he's still there. I wonder if he knows this guy :>
I don't want to read about what celebrities are doing on the main page of news sites. If I really care about what they're doing, I can go to a gossip page. But honestly, I think celebrity "news" has gotten way out of hand. A lot of what's "reported" is none of our business. Would you want that sort of information about yourself broadcast across the world? What makes it okay to tell stories like that about celebrities?
I say nix this sort of "news" and cover something important. There are things happening in the world that aren't scandals and trash talk. And I'm not just talking about crime and disasters!
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