Topical Chat, May 18, 2007

Happy Friday … but this one is happier, as I will be on vacation starting at 4:00 today!!!!

1. On a 36-year-old German mother-of-five driving her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm:
“Are you sure she wasn’t Polish?”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070516/od_nm/germany_crime_mother_dc

2. On patients having liposuction soon being able to store their stem cells taken from excised fat, according to the U.S. firm Bio-Matrix Scientific:
“I smell a new marketing campaign for Burger King!”
http://www.upi.com/Health_Business/Briefing/2007/05/16/lipo_patients_can_store_fat_stem_cells/1975/

3. On the New York Police Department announcing that it will deploy 10 Segway transporters this summer to help fight crime:
“But, wait until the skate-board crime fighting unit hears about this!”
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_136151100.html

4. On a 15-year-old girl who is recovering at home after she was attacked by two pit bulls and had to get 17 stitches:
“These dogs are about as friendly as pet wolves.”
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_051507_news_dog_attack.71c986e8.html

5. On Prince Harry not being sent to Iraq because of the "unacceptable risks:"
“Yeah, I’m as shocked about this as all of you … NOT!”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6663053.stm

6. On a substance-abuse counselor being arrested for running meth lab:
“It seemed like he had an endless supply of customers …”
http://www.newswatch50.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=dcaaca30-3e0d-4a0c-b6eb-686814069a47

7. A parent complaining to police after someone yanked his son’s pants down in front of a crowd at a school dance:
“Thank god they didn’t give him a ‘rusty trombone.’”
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070516/LOCAL/70516030

8. On a consumer group reporting that the average U.S. household is spending $1,000 more per year on gasoline than five years ago:
“Big Oil … it’s FAN-tastic!”
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20070516/D8P5FLS00.html