BlogNet News WisconsinFor some reason, there’ s a sudden interest in “cat urine drug” or some combination thereof. I’ve had almost 1000 hits since last Thursday, including my best day since moving to WordPress (691 on Thursday) resulting from searches for that phrase or similar because this post ranks second. But I haven’t heard any news about it since that post.
Oh well, as long as I get hits.
Sacked Mental drummer wins pay-off
The former drummer for the hugely popular Australian band Mental As Anything, accused of playing ‘like a chimpanzee on speed’, has won a legal action for unfair dismissal.
Other band members told a Sydney court that Dave Twohill didn’t play in time with the rest of the band, refused to carry his own luggage at the airport and was drunk, aggressive and always in a bad mood.
A judge awarded him £5,000 because the band didn’t give him notice that he was in danger of being sacked. [emphasis mine]
From The News Star (Monroe, LA)
A victorious video gamer’s triumphant telephone call apparently led to his arrest this morning.
The Louisiana State Police arrested Thomas Ballard, 29, of Delhi, after a concerned citizen called authorities saying she received a call shortly after midnight saying, “I have killed them all.”
Ballard’s telephone number was on her caller ID.
When troopers arrived at his house, Ballard reportedly said he had killed the “bad guys” on his video game and called a friend to share the news. After searching his home to ensure no one had been murdered on the scene, police found a 5-year-old warrant from Baton Rouge for failure to appear on a possession of cocaine charge.
Courtesy of The Week Magazine.
Al-Qaeda offers cellphone video downloads
Video messages of al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri can now be downloaded to cellphones, the terror network announced as part of its attempts to extend its influence.
She seems odd, but there must be more to it.
An Emmy-winning news anchor from Philadelphia is in hot water for punching a police officer here in New York, officials said.
Alycia Lane, a Long Island native who co-anchors the nightly news for a local station in the City of Brotherly Love, was arrested for hitting a female police officer in the face early this morning in Manhattan, and charged with assaulting a police officer.
The police officer was taken to the hospital to be treated, and has been released.
Lane was arraigned and pled not guilty to the charges.
A spokeswoman for Lane’s CBS-affiliate station in Philadelphia said management was “very concerned for Alycia.”
“We are still trying to sort out exactly what happened,” she said in a statement. “We’re confident that after a full investigation of the facts she’ll be cleared of these charges.
Earlier this year, 35-year-old Lane made headlines when she e-mailed photos of herself clad in a revealing bikini to NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen. The images were discovered by Eisen’s wife, but Lane insisted the pictures were only meant as a good-humored joke.
Odd behavior, but she is good looking.
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