Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
THE BITS…
Neil Patrick Harris now claims that there were no computer graphics used when he
went onstage at the Academy Awards in his underwear. However, he did admit to
having an Oscar statuette stuffed inside his briefs.
Acclaimed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking now says that in order for mankind to
survive, we've got to colonize outer space. Sure, now that a guy wins an Oscar for
playing him in a movie he thinks he’s some sort of scientist.
Alex Rodriguez showed up at the New York Yankees spring training facilities in
Tampa yesterday. For the first time in recent memory, hecklers were the only
things needling Rodriguez.
The Atlanta Braves’ B.J. Upton says he’s going back to his birth name of Melvin
Upton Jr. Hopefully, he doesn’t go back to asking his girlfriend for melvins.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has apologized for falsely claiming
he served with the Special Forces. Out of force of habit, McDonald was suspended
for six months by NBC News.
As of today, marijuana use is legal in Alaska. Just imagine what Sarah Palin will
be seeing from her house now.
Mattel is introducing a new version of Barbie that connects to the internet.
Unfortunately, she then gives Ken a computer virus.
Mattel is introducing a new version of Barbie that connects to the internet. The
problem is that after you connect Barbie to the Internet, you can’t get her to stop
uploading nude selfies.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
SON OF THE BITS…
According to a new study, spending time in a sauna may help you live longer.
Apparently Jacuzzis can also help you live longer. The guys in Hot Tub Time
Machine 2 went 10 years into the future and they still look the same.
A British woman claims that she hasn’t smiled or laughed for 40 years in order to
prevent wrinkles. The woman says she’s able to keep from laughing by watching
Adam Sandler movies.
A British woman claims that in order to prevent wrinkles she hasn’t smiled or
laughed for 40 years. The woman says it’s been easy not to smile or laugh for that
long because she’s been married 40 years.
A woman in Mexico was arrested after she was caught pleasuring herself in a
movie theater showing Fifty Shades of Grey. The good news for the woman is that
thanks to police she got to experience handcuffs.
A woman in Mexico was arrested after she was caught pleasuring herself in a
movie theater showing Fifty Shades of Grey. The strange thing is she did it before
the movie while they were showing the trivia questions.
Scientists now say that penguins can't taste the fish they eat. It’s sort of like when
people eat at Long John Silver’s.
A new report says online news websites are purposely posting false stories just to
get people to visit their sites. At least that’s what I read on an online news website.
Researches now say that early exposure to peanuts helps prevent allergies in kids.
However, they said there was no benefit in exposing kids to Wizard of Id.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
TODAY’S BITMAN AUDIO…
Today on the Bitman audio feed we have clips from The Bachelor, The
Voice season premiere, Better Call Saul and a late night roundup with
Dave, The Jimmys, Seth, Conan and the Late, Late Show.
It’s all at www.BitmanComedy.com
Not hearing anything? TV Sound bites are available at
BitmanComedy.com! If you need access to the site, contact Adrienne
Munos at United Stations Radio Network at 561-381-7598 or
amunos@unitedstations.com
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
TINSELTOWN TATTLER…
Make that 100 problems for JAY Z! An old photo of Jay Z and Wanda
Satterthwaite has surfaced. She’s the woman claiming to be the mother of his son,
Rymir. A source tells an online gossip site, “Jay Z knows he used to smash Wanda
[regularly] back in the day,” adding that “Wanda told Rymir that Jay Z is his dad.”
Rymir and his godmother Lillie Coley have taken legal action against Jay,
demanding that he take a paternity test. This isn’t a first for Jay Z as a model
named Shanelle Scott made similar claims a few years ago and he reportedly cut
her a seven-figure check to go away.
The battle over BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN continues as Nick Gordon tweeted a
screen grab of a text he sent Bobby Brown saying, "Man to man I love your
daughter... I don't know why you won't let me see her...Your daughter is going to
hate you when she wakes up. It's not like you know her anyways. What's her
favorite color? What's her favorite smell, movies, food. You don't know. I forgive
you she won't." However, Brown's lawyer says Nick apparently isn’t too desperate
to visit Bobbi Kristina, otherwise he’d talk to authorities regarding their criminal
investigation. The Brown family has reportedly told Nick he could visit her if he
comes clean about events surrounding the bathtub incident.
Fellow passengers aboard a JetBlue flight earlier this month from Los Angeles to
New York are dishing about what it was like to fly with LADY GAGA! They say
she made herself at home in the business-class Mint section of the flight with her
French bulldog Asia, who was wearing what looked like a diamond necklace.
While the dog visited passengers in nearby rows, two men stood guard near Gaga
for the entire flight. About 30 minutes before landing, a team of makeup and
wardrobe personnel began working on Gaga. A source said, "There were wigs
flying around and one "landed on a passenger's lap."
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
TINSELTOWN TATTLER 2…
If there is anything to those RIHANNA and LEONARDO DICAPRIO romance
rumors, CHRIS BROWN is giving it his blessing. In an interview, Brown said of
the possible relationship, "I respect her enough to respect her privacy and her
space, because I can't believe everything I hear in the news. But what I see, I'll be
like, 'OK cool, there might be something else going on.'" Brown added, "Ain't
nowhere else you could have went though. High five. You can only go up, and
that's the upper, upper echelon...I'm not even a hater. I'll give you a slap on the
back, booty, everything, 'Hey, do your thing. Good game.' In that situation, I just
tip my hat. I'm not a hater. I'm not envious, I don't feel jealous. Do your thing. I
can't have it all, brotha." (Hear here)
Some people are grumbling over the Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ segment. Melissa
Rivers was upset about her mom, JOAN RIVERS, being snubbed. While Joan
wasn’t known for movies, she did appear in several films and covered the red
carpet for years. Conrad Negron is also upset that his brother Taylor Negron, who
appeared in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "The Last Boy Scout," was left
out. Negron said, "They'll have Neil Patrick Harris come out in his underwear but
not take a few seconds to honor my brother." Taylor's cousin, Three Dog Night’s
Chuck Negron, added "They'll let Patricia Arquette go on and on forever but they
won't give Taylor the 15 minutes he deserved."
There were a couple of Oscars wardrobe malfunctions. While EMMA STONE
walked the red carpet she lifted up f her gown and exposed what was below.
Luckily for Emma, she wasn’t going commando! Meanwhile, at the Vanity Fair
after party, Victoria's Secret model BEHATI PRINSLOO suffered a nip slip!
What’s next for TOM BRADY after his football career comes to an end?
Following his cameo in the movie Ted 2, he reportedly wants to pursue acting.
However, rumor has it that wife GISELE BUNDCHEN doesn’t like the idea of
him cozying up to other actresses on set.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
TINSELTOWN TATTLER 3…
Celebrity chef GUY FIERI presided over a mass wedding for 101 same-sex
couples at Miami’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival this past weekend. Fieri
married all of the couples in honor of his late sister, who was a lesbian.
Star Trek actor LEONARD NIMOY was reportedly rushed to the hospital last
week with severe chest pains. Last year Nimoy revealed that he had the lung
ailment known as COPD due to smoking in his younger days. Nimoy has been in
and out of hospitals several times in the last few months. No word on whether he’s
out of the hospital yet, but Nimoy is tweeting and signing off those tweets with his
trademark ‘Live long and prosper.’
BEN WOOLF, who plays Meep on "American Horror Story: Freak Show," has
died from injuries suffered last week when he was hit by a passing car in
Hollywood. The official cause of death was a stroke that he suffered yesterday
afternoon while under heavy sedation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Woolf got
clipped in the head by the side view mirror of an SUV as he was jaywalking.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
DATELINE HOLLYWOOD…
New Movies on DVD:
Big Hero 6 - An animated robot tale.
Horrible Bosses 2 - Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis kidnap their
investor's son.
New TV on DVD:
Mountain Men: Season 3
Sons of Anarchy: The Complete Series
The DANCING WITH THE STARS celebrities will be announced this morning on
Good Morning America and openly gay football player Michael Sam will
reportedly be one of them.
The TV ratings for THE ACADEMY AWARDS were down 16 percent from last
year with an average of just 36.6 million viewers tuning in. It was the lowest
ratings for the Oscars since 2009 when Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner.
WESLEY SNIPES has joined the cast of the NBC pilot Endgame. The show is set
in Las Vegas and follows a former sniper-turned-security expert who's drawn into
a mysterious conspiracy that forces him to complete a series of challenges in order
to save innocent lives.
CALISTA FLOCKHART has joined the cast of the CBS pilot Supergirl. She’ll
play the owner of the media empire that Supergirl works for under her secret
identity. GLEE'S MELISSA BENOIST will star as Supergirl.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
MUSIC NOTES…
New Music in Stores Today…
The Airborne Toxic Event - “Dope Machines”
Alien Ant Farm - “Always and Forever”
Big Sean - “Dark Sky Paradise” (guests: Drake, John Legend, Kanye West, Lil
Wayne, etc.)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Live in Paris” (CD/DVD set)
Chris Brown & Tyga - “Fan of a Fan: The Album”
Gang of Four - “What Happens Next”
Mat Kearney - “Just Kids”
Kid Rock - “First Kiss”
Andy Kim - “It’s Decided”
Scorpions - “Return to Forever”
Rick Springfield - “Stripped Down” (CD/DVD; from recent acoustic tour)
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
Chicago - “Live in ’75” (two-CD set)
Led Zeppelin - “Physical Graffiti (Deluxe Edition)” (1975 album; remastered, with
bonus material)
Melanie - “Candles in the Rain”
Vanity Fare - “I Live for the Sun: Complete Recordings 1968-74"
White Plains - “The Deram Records Singles Collection”
DVD / Blu-ray
The J. Geils Band - “House Party: Live in Germany [DVD]” (filmed at the
Grugahalle in Essen on April 21, 1979, for the German TV series “Rockpalast”)
The Who - “Live: Calgary Alberta CA 10/05/06 [DVD],” “Live: Holmdel NJ
09/21/06 [DVD],” “Live: London ON CA 09/30/06 [DVD],” “Live: Vancouver
CA 10/08/06 [DVD]”
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
MUSIC NOTES 2…
THE DARKNESS will release their next album, called Last of Our Kind, on June
1st. They also rolled out a new animated video for the first single "Barbarian,"
described as a tale of medieval violence. The band will also embark on what they
call "a small but perfectly formed tour" in March.
BEN HARPER got married on New Year’s Day to social advocate Jaclyn Matfus,
although they kept it under wraps until now. Harper and actor Laura Dern divorced
in 2013. Harper also announced plans to reunite The Innocent Criminals and
they’ll kick off a world tour on May 25th in San Francisco.
To celebrate their 40th anniversary, RUSH is reissuing albums from their Mercury
Records catalog in chronological order every month in 2015. For March, it’ll be
their classic 2112 that includes a hologram of the album art when played. Look for
it on March 17th. (See here)
SAM SMITH has announced plans for a North American tour. Smith kicks the tour
off on July 17th at the Forecastle Festival in Louisville. Tickets will go on sale
beginning Friday.
LORDE is getting set to hit the studio in the next few weeks to begin working on
her next album. Collaborator Joel Little said, “I think we're just going to start
writing and when it starts to feel right, we'll know that it's right."
KELLY CLARKSON’S new album Piece by Piece hits stores next week and she’s
released the second single, “Invincible,” which was written by SIA. (Hear here)
SIA actually showed off her face for cameras at Elton John's Oscar-viewing party.
While it wasn’t the first time she’s shown her face, it's been awhile. (See here)
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
MUSIC NOTES 3…
Will KANYE WEST and RIHANNA tour together? Live Nation in Finland
recently posted a show billed to "Kanye & Rihanna" set to take place on July 25th
in Estonia. The on-sale date was listed as March 5th, but the post was later
removed. Rihanna opened for Kanye on his Glow in the Dark tour in 2008.
A Cleveland TV news anchor found herself in hot water after commenting on
LADY GAGA’S Sound Of Music medley at the Oscars. Beauty queen-turnednews anchor Kristi Capel said, "It's hard to really hear [Gaga's] voice with all the
jigaboo music that she does, or whatever you want to call it. She has a gorgeous
voice -- I never knew!" Kristi later said she had no idea it was really a word or that
it was an old racial slur.
An expanded version of 1983’s MOTOWN 25 TV special will air on PBS this
Saturday. That’s the special where MICHAEL JACKSON unveiled the
"Moonwalk." PBS will offer up a new seven-CD box set of classic Motown hits,
album tracks and rarities for those who pledge, although the set will also be sold
elsewhere.
If you’re looking for a new house, RONNIE DEVOE of NEW EDITION and
BELL BIV DEVOE fame has just opened DeVoe Real Estate in Georgia and plans
to open a branch office in L.A. and partner with established brokers in the area.
KANYE WEST says that the other night when he went out to dinner with Taylor
Swift the restaurant was playing the Grammy-winning BECK album in the
background. Kanye says, "I was like, 'Man, this is kind of good. I ain't gonna lie.' I
got his number, and I'm supposed to call him, but just keep forgetting."
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
TUBULAR…
Daytime:
GMA: ``Dancing With the Stars'' celebrity cast announcement
Today: Kid Rock performs; Tiffani Thiessen
Kelly & Michael: Martin Short
The View: Guest hosts Stacy London and Samantha Ponder; Kate Walsh
The Talk: Entertainment reporter Jessica Radloff
Ellen: Will Smith; Little Big Town performs
Primetime:
Fox: Master Chef Junior Edition season finale
NBC: The Voice blind auditions continue, plus the series finale of Parks and
Recreation.
ESPN: College hoops Wisconsin at Maryland and Texas A&M at Arkansas
ESPN2: College hoops Texas at West Virginia
NBC Sports: NHL Flyers at Hurricanes
Late Night:
Jimmy Kimmel: Will Forte; Bella Thorne; Prince Royce performs
David Letterman: Matthew Broderick; JD McPherson performs
Jimmy Fallon: Josh Duhamel; Gabrielle Union; Charlie Wilson performs
Late, Late Show: Guest host Billy Gardell; TV host Jeff Probst
Seth Meyers: The cast of Parks and Recreation
Conan: Victoria Justice
Bitman
Bitman
By David
Evjen
By
David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Bitman1@aol.com
Friday,
May 29th, 2009
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
THE WATERCOOLER…
United Airlines recently goofed and accidentally posted $50 fares for first-class
overseas flights. A bunch of people snapped them up before United realized the
mistake and the airline said it wouldn’t honor the tickets. The people that bought
them went to the U.S. Department of Transportation arguing that United should be
bound by the agency's consumer protection rules requiring airlines to honor socalled mistake fares. However, the hopeful travelers are out of luck as the
department ruled United was off the hook in part because customers "had to
manipulate the search process" to produce a "conversion error" to get the low fares.
Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in Alaska starting
today. Alaska has become the third state to legalize recreational marijuana thanks
to an unlikely coalition of libertarians, individualists and small-government
Republicans. Voters approved legalizing marijuana last November by a margin of
52-48 percent. However, smoking marijuana in public is still banned and while
adult Alaskans can keep, use, transport, grow and give pot away, they can’t sell it.
A regulated and taxed marijuana market won't start until 2016 at the earliest.
If you’re worried about the dangers of marijuana – don’t be. New research finds
that among things people take to get high or drunk, marijuana is the least fatal.
Researchers compared lethal doses of various recreational substances to the
amount people normally consume and found that the deadliest is alcohol, followed
by heroin, cocaine, tobacco, ecstasy, and meth. The conclusion was that marijuana
was 114 times less likely to kill you than alcohol. In fact, the study found that
marijuana is the only drug that posed a low mortality risk to its users. However,
researches noted that marijuana is still addictive, you shouldn’t smoke it while
pregnant, and it may be a threat to cognitive functioning.
Bitman
Bitman
By David
Evjen
By
David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Bitman1@aol.com
Friday,
May 29th, 2009
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
THE WATERCOOLER 2…
A so-called Fair DUI Flyer has been posted online and it’s going viral. Some
attorneys say it’s a legal loophole drivers can use to get through sobriety
checkpoints without speaking with officers. One attorney posted a video that
shows a clear plastic bag hanging out of his closed car window displaying his
driver's license, insurance card and registration and his flyer that reads I will
remain silent, comply with state law but am not opening my window. Attorney
Warren Redlich notes that the second you open your window they can smell
alcohol. Another attorney says that when you drive into a DUI checkpoint you
don’t have to roll down your window, speak, or get out of your car. While the
Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that DUI checkpoints were legal, they never specified
a driver's rights once in that checkpoint. Of course, some are worried this may
encourage drunk driving.
You may not know if you’re on a bad Tinder date, but your bartender does!
YouTube user The Daily Share interviewed all-knowing bartenders about those
awkward meet ups and they told stories of people taking off while their date was in
the bathroom, girls giving bartenders secret hand signals when their date's profile
picture is phony, and taking bets on which dates are going to last. (See here)
According to a study of Finnish men, frequent sauna baths may help you live
longer. Previous research suggested that saunas might improve blood vessel
function and lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension. However, the new
study links long, hot and frequent sauna baths with even more benefits, such as
fewer deaths from heart attacks and strokes and other causes. In fact, they found
that deaths from heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems were nearly two
times more common in men who used saunas once weekly than in those who used
saunas at least four times per week. They also found that heart-related deaths were
less common in men whose sauna sessions lasted more than 19 minutes, compared
with those who spent less than 11 minutes in the sauna.
Bitman
Bitman
By David
Evjen
By
David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Bitman1@aol.com
Friday,
May 29th, 2009
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
THE WATERCOOLER 3…
For more than 18 months, Cincinnati’s Fraser Cunningham has commuted 16.5
miles each way to work using only his bicycle. Unlike the guy in Michigan who
walked over 20 miles to work for the past decade until a social media fundraiser
raised over $300,000 to buy him a car, Fraser’s commute is voluntary. No matter
how cold or how hot, every single morning at 5:30 the 56-year-old GE engineer
hops on his bicycle and rides to work. Recently it was so cold, that his eyes
literally froze open during the trip. Fraser hasn't missed a day commuting by
bicycle since July 22, 2013 and is hoping to beat out his personal best continuous
streak of one year, eight-and-a-half months. Fraser said his 16-inch beard, which
his wife, Kathy, calls "chinsulation," helps keep him warm. For Fraser, getting in
the car to go to work is an option, but only in an absolute, dire emergency.
Dutch newlyweds narrowly avoided an early arrival of the "till death do us part"
portion of their vows. While visiting Sri Lanka’s World's End cliff, Mamitho
Lendas attempted to take a photo of his wife when he backed up and over the edge
of the cliff. Lendas became the first person to tumble from the top of the 4,000-foot
cliff and survive, thanks to a tree that broke his fall about 150 feet from the top.
Lendas clung to a tree branch for three-and-a-half hours until some 40 soldiers
used ropes to pull him up and then carried him 3 miles to a point where a vehicle
could reach him and take him to a hospital.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
SPORTS SHIRT…
For the fourth straight week the Kentucky Wildcats are the unanimous No. 1 in
The Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll. The rest of the top five in the
poll were Virginia, Gonzaga, Duke and Wisconsin, while Northern Iowa cracked
the top 10 for the first time in school history.
Alex Rodriguez showed up at the New York Yankees spring training facilities in
Tampa yesterday. Rodriguez was forced to address the press in the middle of a
driveway and he was denied access to their minor-league complex until he first
underwent a physical.
After hitting a dismal .184 and .208 in the first two years of a five-year, $75.25
million deal, the Atlanta Braves’ B.J. Upton says he’ll go by his birth name of
Melvin Upton Jr. for the upcoming season. B.J. is short for “Bossman Junior” as
Bossman was his father Melvin’s longtime nickname.
Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams said the team told him in a
meeting last week that they plan to release him after nine seasons. While the team
confirmed the meeting, they said Williams hasn’t been released and that no action
would be taken Monday.
The Arizona Cardinals have extended the contracts of coach Bruce Arians and
general manager Steve Keim through the 2018 season with a team option for 2019.
This comes after consecutive seasons with double-digit wins.
Stewart-Haas Racing says Regan Smith will again drive in place of suspended Kurt
Busch in the NASCAR race at Atlanta this weekend. However, co-owner Gene
Haas, who added the car to the team specifically for Busch, declined to comment
whether he would consider disbanding the team.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
Scoreboard
NBA:
Miami 119 Philadelphia 108 Final
Chicago 87 Milwaukee 71 Final
Houston 113 Minnesota 102 Final
New Orleans 100 Toronto 97 Final
Brooklyn 110 Denver 82 Final
Boston 115 Phoenix 110 Final
Utah 90 San Antonio 81 Final
Memphis 90 L.A. Clippers 87 Final
NHL:
New Jersey 3 Arizona 0 Final
Anaheim 4 Detroit 3 Final SO
Men's NCAAB:
Kansas St. 70 Kansas 63 Final
Louisville 52 Georgia Tech 51 Final
Today’s Games
NBA:
Golden State at Washington (7:00 PM)
Cleveland at Detroit (7:30 PM)
Indiana at Oklahoma City (8:00 PM)
Toronto at Dallas (8:30 PM)
NHL:
Vancouver at Boston (7:00 PM)
Arizona at N.Y. Islanders (7:00 PM)
Calgary at N.Y. Rangers (7:00 PM)
Philadelphia at Carolina (7:00 PM)
Buffalo at Columbus (7:00 PM)
Montreal at St. Louis (8:00 PM)
Colorado at Nashville (8:00 PM)
Edmonton at Minnesota (8:00 PM)
Dallas at Winnipeg (8:00 PM)
Florida at Chicago (8:30 PM)
Detroit at Los Angeles (10:30 PM)
Men's NCAAB:
Wisconsin at Maryland (7:00 PM)
Providence at Villanova (7:00 PM)
Syracuse at Notre Dame (8:00 PM)
Texas A&M at Arkansas (9:00 PM)
N.C. State at North Carolina (8:00 PM)
Texas at West Virginia (7:00 PM)
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
DUH…
Stamford, Connecticut’s Alan Becker had a bad hair day. After getting a $50
haircut and seeing his new look in the mirror, the 47-year-old Becker was
somewhat less than pleased. Becker expressed his displeasure towards the staff by
kicking a hole in the wall of the salon and throwing a candle display and other
items around before leaving. Becker later returned and demanded that the staff fix
his haircut, but they refused and he was later arrested on charges of breach of the
peace and criminal mischief.
The staff of the Circle K store in Globe, Arizona received a phone call from
corporate security, telling them that a silent fire alarm had gone off and they were
to discharge fire extinguishers in the store, throw the extinguishers through the
windows and destroy merchandise, computers, cash registers and security
televisions. After about five minutes and $30,000 in damage to their own store, the
staff got a tad suspicious. The pranksters have yet to be caught, but police say the
employees are unlikely to face charges, although their job status is uncertain.
Circle K corporate offices asked local not to report on the incident.
Belfast, Ireland’s 20-year-old Joseph McMahon recently found out how important
it is to get a good night’s sleep before going to work. Joseph allegedly stole cell
phones form a shop before attempting to get away on a double-decker bus.
Joseph’s next in a series of poor decisions was to attempt to steal that bus. Police
found Joseph passed out on the bus and in possession of marijuana. In addition to
the other crimes, Joseph is charged with disorderly conduct at the hospital he was
taken to and he did all this while on probation.
A Wasilla, Alaska mother, but probably not that one, recently taught her 4-year-old
son a lesson in gun safety. Unfortunately, mom taught her son this lesson when her
.357-caliber handgun fell out of its holster, hit the ground and fired. The bullet
went through the boy’s leg and lodged in a building. No one has been charged.
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
MO’ DUH…
Roy Bieluch made a semi-successful escape from Idaho’s Shoshone County Jail.
Roy crawled through the ceiling of a storage closet and then bolted past a cleaning
woman when she opened the door, eventually finding his way to Brian Becker's
yard. That’s where Roy’s escape turned unsuccessful as Becker is a Marine and
former law enforcement officer. When Becker's dog started barking, he grabbed his
pistol and went to investigate. Becker found Roy hiding near a tree and recognized
him from his mug shot. When Roy refused to take his hands out of his pockets and
stepped toward Becker, he shot him in the leg and he was returned to jail.
Edinburgh, Scotland student Mariano Colsa-Gonzalez got into the wrong car.
Unfortunately, Mariano didn’t realize his mistake until after he noticed the two
men inside the car. Even worse, those two men were police officers on their tea
break. Mariano apologized and immediately exited the vehicle, but his suspicious
behavior prompted the cops to follow him. A subsequent search found eight bags
of marijuana on Mariano’s person and a further search at his home found 13 more
bags and over $3,000 in cash and he’s been sentenced to community service.
Russia’s Ivan Ozerov smelled soup and went searching for the source of the
delicious aroma. Unfortunately, in Ivan’s inebriated state he felt the best path to the
aroma was through a 14-inch ventilation shaft. There was no soup for Ivan as he
promptly got stuck and lost his pants in an attempt to free himself. A fire crew
eventually tore down a wall to extract Ivan. (See here)
An 18-year-old Radnor Township, Pennsylvania college student, identified only as
Dean, ordered fake IDs from China for himself and his buddies. As fate would
have it, our friend Dean shared his last name with one of the college’s deans. When
Dean the student had his fake I.D.s shipped to him on campus, they were
mistakenly delivered to the dean with the same last name. The students aren’t
facing criminal charges but have been referred to their parents and Radnor Police
Superintendent William Colarulo said, "You can't make this up."
Bitman
By David Evjen
Bitman1@aol.com
Tuesday,
February 24th, 2015
HISTORY LESSON…
1868: President Andrew Johnson was impeached
1914: Clarence Crane invented Life Savers candy
1976: The Eagles' Greatest Hits became the first album to go platinum
1981: Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady
Diana
1987: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had scored 36,000 NBA points, sank his first
three-point shot
1992: The U.S. Post Office unveiled two designs for an Elvis Presley stamp
1998: Elton John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
1998: Tommy Lee was arrested on charges of attacking wife Pamela Anderson Lee
2008: Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president, succeeding his brother Fidel
Birthday Partiers:
actor Abe Vigoda (The Godfather, Barney Miller, Fish) 94
actor Barry Bostwick (Spin City, Spy Hard, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) 70
actor Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica, Selena, Miami Vice) 68
singer Rupert Holmes 68
boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. 38