Fun un the news
Here's a confession. I watch So You Think You can Dance. I have been devoting 3 hours a week to the show. And really, I'm ussualy just flipping channels and it really is the best thing on. Yesterday, it was that or World's Deadlies Catch, which is also a damn fine show.
Anyway, I watched the results show and then went back the the new Joan Hess book I started this afternoon, but the local news had story after story that were deffinately attention getting.
The Funniet, Dallas County Commissioner, John Wiley Price was offended during a meeting where another commisioner refered to the central collections office as a "black hole," because they have such a huge back up of fines that have not been collected. I'm sure any intellegent person is going to know that in astronomy a black hole is a collapsed star that sucks in all light and matted that come close to it and nothing can escape. However, John Wiley Price has taken this as a racist statement and has demanded an appology. The other commisioner, Kenneth Mayfield, said he thought Price's reaction during the meeting was tongue and cheek and that if he was truley offended, Price had a lot of problems and needed theoropy. I am paraphrasing, but Bwa ha ha!
Some guy doing community service brought cookies he baked to police stations around Fort Worth. Some officers thought they smelled like pot. a drug dog reacted to them. Preliminary tests showed they were positive for LSD. The guy was arrested and has spent 3 days in jail. the medicle examiner said today, there was nothing in the cookies. Guy admits, well, some of his friends may have been smoking pot while he baked and packaged the cookies. My thought- What a moron! Cops know what pot smells like, you don;t take them things that smell like pot unless you want to go to jail on suspision of trying to drug them. And one report said that the cookies were negative but some of the cops were positive.
Men were arrested for stealing an ATM. The cops followed the get away van and arrested everyone in the house. The report this evening made it sound like they were trying to break into it where the neibors could see.
And I give a thumbs up to the business owner in Garland who slept on the roof of his business to stop cable theives from destroying their air conditioners Again. This would have been the 6th time. And each time has cost them over a thousand dollars. He shot the thief who jumped off the roof and expired in the parking lot.