Archive: July 8, 2007 - July 14, 2007
This Week in OFF/beat crime 7.12.2007
Tommy Vercetti they ain't. (Rockstar Games) It's Monday again, and we're looking back on another week in OFF/beat crime. Here are your nominees for last week's "Stupidest Criminal Award:" * First is a Montenegrin murderer with a flair for romance. Dragan Boskovic, 26, overpowered guards, scaled a 10-foot wall and beelined straight to his girlfriend's house to wish her a happy birthday. He turned himself in two hours later and resumed his life sentence. Said Boskovic: "I promised my girlfriend that, no matter what, I would say happy birthday to her but I wasn't allowed to use the prison phone. I had no other option but to get the message to her personally." ** Next is a Niagara Falls thief who left an unwise calling card -- his driver's license. According to a police report, Joel Zsebenazy Walked into a Walgreen's and asked a cashier for a carton of...
By Michael Corones | July 12, 2007; 9:04 PM ET | Email a Comment
Thursday Breakfast Bender
During Emil's absence, opinions producer and sometime Celebritologist Michael Corones will be handling OFF/beat duties. Welcome to July 12th! On this day 74 years ago Congress passed the first federal minimum wage bill -- 33 cents per hour. And now here is your Thursday Breakfast Bender Top 5: 5) North Korean Karaoke Crackdown The South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo reported Wednesday that North Korea's Ministry of People's Security has banned all Internet cafes, video screening rooms and karaoke bars, citing their threat to society. The newspaper quoted North Korea's Random Propaganda Gibberish Generator (RPGG) as saying: "It is so promulgated under the mandate of the Republic in order to crush enemy scheming and to squarely confront those who threaten the maintenance of the socialist system." Can't argue with that. 4) Honeymoon in the Hoosgow A Scottish bride spent the weekend of her wedding in jail after attacking her new husband...
By Michael Corones | July 12, 2007; 7:00 AM ET | Email a Comment
Tuesday Breakfast Bender -- Non-Human Edition
During Emil's absence, opinions producer and sometime Celebritologist Michael Corones will be handling OFF/beat duties. Welcome to July 10th! On this day 81 years ago Harvard graduate Fred Gwynne, of Herman Munster fame, was born in New York City. It is also Silence Day for the followers of Meher Baba. And now here is your Tuesday Breakfast Bender Top 4 -- Non-Human Edition: 4) Yuck A Taiwanese chef has drawn criticism for serving patrons deep-fried carp -- with the head still twitching. Apparently popular in China, the "yin yang fish" is meant to show customers how fresh the catch is. However, "animal lovers criticize the practice, saying deep-frying will cause a fish extreme pain." You don't say. Tahoe and Lillie: a sign of the apocalypse? (AP) 3) Cute Up is down. Down is up. Red Sox and Yankees fans are living together. And stray kittens are being nursed back to...
By Michael Corones | July 10, 2007; 11:00 AM ET | Email a Comment
Monday Lunchtime Round-up
During Emil's absence, opinions producer and sometime Celebritologist Michael Corones will be handling OFF/beat duties. Welcome to July 9th! On this day five years ago the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, held at Miller Park in Milwaukee, ended in an ignominious tie as both squads ran out of pitchers. And now here is your Monday Lunchtime Round-up: 4) Flatfoots Find Smelly Feet With an awful stench emanating from the apartment and a mailbox full of uncollected mail, Police in the German town of Kaiserslautern feared the worst. However, instead of finding a dead body, they were *pleasantly* surprised to find the tenant alive, albeit with "very smelly feet, asleep in bed next to a pile of foul-smelling laundry." 3) Who Would Jesus Enroll? A Melbourne, Australia family has caused an imbroglio by trying to send Hell to a Catholic school. Alex Hell and his wife originally enrolled their son, Max...
By Michael Corones | July 9, 2007; 2:41 PM ET | Email a Comment
