Topical Chat, June 5, 2007

Sorry about the lack of postings … I had my birthday barbecue bash to plan … I’m sure you understand, right?

1. On a Canadian police chief who’s plan to reduce crime in his city is to remove pay phones:
“Maybe making it illegal for the local hockey team to have hockey-stick night might not be a bad step either.”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/06/04/phones.html

2. On the news that despite ballooning gas prices and rising environmental concerns, Ford's biggest-ever trucks are flying off of dealer lots:
“These will be fantastic permanent fixtures on the front lawns of people’s houses …”
http://news.windingroad.com/earningsfinancials/despite-gas-hike-ford-super-duties-flying-off-dealer-lots/

3. On a homeless man who was arrested after asking a policeman for a dollar getting the judge to throw out the case by arguing that begging is a form of free speech:
“Who was his lawyer, Lassie?”
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-odd-begging-free-speech,0,1833181.story

4. On an overworked policeman who stabbed himself in the stomach so he could get time off:
“Doesn’t anybody use the influenza excuse anymore?”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1268897,00.html?f=rss

5. On doctors claiming that "Heelys" are dangerous:
“Funny how I always get the urge to clothes-line those little twirps that skate by me in the mall with them …”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/4858479.html

6. On a study that finds that 885,000 Britons accidentally flush their cell phones down the toilet every year:
“Can you hear me now?”
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/342m+of+mobile+phones+flushed+away/545047

7. On an 84-year-old passenger threatening to blow up an Amtrak train because it was late being taken into police custody:
“I thought Castro was already dead …”
http://www.cbs6albany.com/articles/train_22968___article.html/amtrak_schenectady.html

8. On a report that more people died last year from eating spinach than from smoking pot:
“If only Popeye knew …”
http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/127744.html