Category Archives: General Foolishness

“Please, don’t take the steam tray. Sir!”

Man Protests All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant After Getting Kicked Out for Eating Too Much

Part of my job is to get published. Or, failing that, quoted. Today was not my most influential citation, but it’s still one I’m quite proud of: Dave Barry’s blog over at the Miami Herald website. Click here to see a truly awful pun.

CNN reports:

Violence marred Black Friday shopping in at least seven states, including California, where police say a woman doused fellow shoppers with pepper spray in a bid to snag a discounted video game console…

Incidents also occurred in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Alabama and Connecticut, with most of the reported incidents happening at or near Walmart stores.

See also an older post on the economics of Black Friday.

In Mason, Ohio, being a jerk can be a crime. Police arrested a man for barking at a police dog that was sitting in a patrol car. At the subsequent trial, he defended himself on First Amendment grounds, and cited a similar case where the charges were dropped.

The judge didn’t buy it.

His next line of defense?

Stephens claimed “the dog started it,” police reports said.