Category: News

  • semitough

    Flashback

    I knew all day what day it was. I put the flag out at sunrise. Had a short conversation with a colleague in Frankfurt who shared his remembrances of that day from his perspective. But for the most part it was just another routine day at the home office. But then on the way home from practice pickup I was…

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    Organ Grinder Faces Life In Prison

    Having solved all other crime in the Big Apple, NYPD has focused its’ resources to bring down one of NYC’s most notorious criminals, Freddie Johnson, a “recidivist transit grinder”. About two weeks after he was released from prison, Freddie Johnson boarded a crowded subway train during morning rush hour in Manhattan, squeezed in behind a woman and ground his pelvis…

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    Man Acquitted of Smuggling Iguanas … in Prosthetic Leg

    Sometimes they write themselves. But he did have a hollow leg full of iguanas. And he was convicted of a lesser charge, facing prison time. New cell mate: “Is that an iguana in your leg or are you just glad to see me?”

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    NCAA Tourney Taint

    I knew I couldn’t let the pictures speak for themselves. I was interested in what might be out there in the press. Without exception, all of the major sports outlets contained virtually identical articles, all with the same spin, same quotes, same same. Must have pulled it off the AP teletype, penciled their names at the top, faxed it to…