Topical Chat, March 5, 2007

So, did anybody else think that the Anna Nicole funeral may have been a little overdone?

1. On Houston's new red-light cameras nabbing more than 100 government and school vehicles since the enforcement program began last fall, resulting in about $8,000 in fines:
“Be careful what you wish for, because it may come true.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4598828.html

2. On critics denouncing a Pizza Hut incentive program that rewards young readers with free pizzas:
“Certainly, offering spinach and asparagus sprouts would probably be a better idea.”
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/dining/orl-pizza0307mar03,0,6908011.story?coll=orl-caldiningtop

3. On an irate Italian family beating up a principal because they were unhappy with the grades a young relative had received and a ban on mobile phones at school:
“By any chance, was the family’s last name Mussolini?”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704040/

4. On a 17-year-old facing a felony charge of injury to a child after police found a videotape that appears to show him and another man teaching his 2- and 5-year-old nephews to smoke marijuana:
“I thought that Michael Jackson was in his 40’s.”
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2557814&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1

5. On a Chicago man who is suing a tattoo artist and North Side tattoo parlor for allegedly misspelling a tattoo on his chest that was dedicated to the city – the tattoo was misspelled Chi-Tonw:
“The tattoo artist was immediately offered a teaching position at Florida State”
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5084781

6. On banks being found to be overcharging customers for producing statements of their accounts so the customers can prove the bank has been overcharging them:
“Can’t fault the banks on this one – they are just trying to make sure you never question any of their sleazy motives.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2323398.ece

7. On a 420 pound woman, who was so large that no one -- including herself -- could tell she had carried a baby to term:
“This may be a hint to put down the carton of Twinkees and get on the treadmill.”
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1596265.php?tftf

8. On a car crash in the Netherlands that sent three tons of hash up in smoke:
“Funny thing is that nobody around the accident scene was angry … just a little hungry.”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2919259