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captainsblogFrom just the past couple of weeks' editions, stories from places near and dear to me or Friends here:
This week's issue, from Kingsport, Tennessee:
Christopher Dougherty, 22, the subject of a “drunk pedestrian” police call in Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 14, was tracked to a Hardee’s restaurant, where he was face-down in a plate of gravy.
Also, at the moment I have two Friends (wot I know of) decamped in Austin, Texas. I've always had a special fondness for that town, an oasis of sanity among the surrounding desert of dumb there- brightened by Austin City Limits, Nanci Griffith, and Molly Ivins's reports from "the Lej"- but these make me rethink that love, at least a little.
From last week's issue:
Officials of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, initially agreed to host the annual multi-denominational Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Thanksgiving celebration last year, but abruptly canceled when they came to realize that Muslims might actually pray there. Under criticism, the church said that it "hopes" the religious community "will ... be tolerant of our church's beliefs" that necessitated the decision.
And, from the week before:
The Austin (Texas) Police Department announced in January that it had suspended Officer Scott Lando, 45, based on preliminary indications that he had been hiring a prostitute while on duty. According to a search warrant affidavit (disclosed in the Austin American-Statesman), Lando had paid for the woman's services in part by giving her free rein over part of Mrs. Lando's closet, declaring that his wife "would never miss" some of the items.
Not that Upstate New York gets away empty-handed. Or empty-toothed (another from the 2/3 report):
In October, Syracuse, N.Y., dentist George Trusty was sued in federal court after a drill bit snapped off and lodged near a patient's eye, allegedly because Trusty was dancing to the song "Car Wash" on the radio while tending to the patient.
Finally, one for Dr. & Mrs.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drbear from this week; although it comes from Madison rather than Green Bay, it does remind one of a certain former Packer player named Najeh Davenport:
Police in Madison, Wis., believe they ended the spree of vandal defecations in an apartment house on Schroeder Road (laundry room, hallways, items of clothing) with the January arrest of Ronnie Ballard, 19. At Ballard’s first court appearance, Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer set bail at $1,400 and issued a ruling he said he never imagined having to make: As a condition of release, should Ballard make bail, Meurer ordered him to defecate only in toilets.
Just think. Only eight and a half hours until the real news comes on.
This week's issue, from Kingsport, Tennessee:
Christopher Dougherty, 22, the subject of a “drunk pedestrian” police call in Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 14, was tracked to a Hardee’s restaurant, where he was face-down in a plate of gravy.
Also, at the moment I have two Friends (wot I know of) decamped in Austin, Texas. I've always had a special fondness for that town, an oasis of sanity among the surrounding desert of dumb there- brightened by Austin City Limits, Nanci Griffith, and Molly Ivins's reports from "the Lej"- but these make me rethink that love, at least a little.
From last week's issue:
Officials of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, initially agreed to host the annual multi-denominational Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Thanksgiving celebration last year, but abruptly canceled when they came to realize that Muslims might actually pray there. Under criticism, the church said that it "hopes" the religious community "will ... be tolerant of our church's beliefs" that necessitated the decision.
And, from the week before:
The Austin (Texas) Police Department announced in January that it had suspended Officer Scott Lando, 45, based on preliminary indications that he had been hiring a prostitute while on duty. According to a search warrant affidavit (disclosed in the Austin American-Statesman), Lando had paid for the woman's services in part by giving her free rein over part of Mrs. Lando's closet, declaring that his wife "would never miss" some of the items.
Not that Upstate New York gets away empty-handed. Or empty-toothed (another from the 2/3 report):
In October, Syracuse, N.Y., dentist George Trusty was sued in federal court after a drill bit snapped off and lodged near a patient's eye, allegedly because Trusty was dancing to the song "Car Wash" on the radio while tending to the patient.
Finally, one for Dr. & Mrs.
drbear from this week; although it comes from Madison rather than Green Bay, it does remind one of a certain former Packer player named Najeh Davenport:Police in Madison, Wis., believe they ended the spree of vandal defecations in an apartment house on Schroeder Road (laundry room, hallways, items of clothing) with the January arrest of Ronnie Ballard, 19. At Ballard’s first court appearance, Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer set bail at $1,400 and issued a ruling he said he never imagined having to make: As a condition of release, should Ballard make bail, Meurer ordered him to defecate only in toilets.
Just think. Only eight and a half hours until the real news comes on.
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Date: 2008-02-15 04:45 pm (UTC)Yay, Tennessee!!
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Date: 2008-02-15 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-15 10:42 pm (UTC)i am shrieking with laughter over this!!!!
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Date: 2008-02-16 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-16 06:49 am (UTC)There's a dermatologist back home named Dr. Rash.
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Date: 2008-02-16 05:17 pm (UTC)