Today’s Jon Carroll column on SFGate is terrific. “They took a villain and made him a hero: Hooray for our zany space agency.”
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Weird News
There’s just something wrong with my personality, that I really enjoy weird news like this.
In Virginia, where relatives of two girls who were switched at birth have married. Carlton Conley, the biological father of Rebecca Grace Chittum, wed Pamela Miskovsky, the biological aunt of Callie Marie Conley, on Saturday, making Conely both the uncle and father to Callie, which should prove a delightful addition to her life when she reaches that tender psychotherapy age.
Oh, and the quote above is from the SFGate Daily Fix, written by Mark Morford who puts out an amusing and edgy daily digest for the ‘gate.
Tales of the weird…
A woman goes in for surgery to have excess flabby skin removed. Instead (actually, in addition) the surgeon moved some of the tissue to her breasts, thus performing an impromptu but apparently quite impressive breast augmentation. The woman sued and was awarded $1 million plus.
The interesting thing (besides the obvious weirdness factor) is that the appellate court threw out the $250k limit set by state law for medical malpractice claims, saying that the operation went beyond malpractice and was an act of battery.
The article does not state whether she had the augmentation removed.
Bad Joke
A US spy plane is flying in international airspace (just) hoping to pick up information about China’s nuclear testing facilities when two Chinese jets pull up alongside.
The pilots ask the plane to shift its course. The jet on the right pulls away and the US plane is urged to turn in that direction. The US pilot wrongly starts to move left. “No! Wang Wei! Wang Wei!” cries a voice just before the impact….
Another funny photo
Stolen from Cam Barrett (as was the previous link) (Happy Birthday Cam!) It’s Ninja Kitty! Off with his head!
Hey, Easter Bunny!
Look both ways before crossing the street. This is sick, but funny nevertheless. Probably not to be viewed if you’re an animal lover or have kids who believe in the Easter Bunny.
Schadenfreude
So I’m driving back from the grocery store late last night. I’m stopped at a red light in the center of town, waiting for the trolley crossing gates to open. I notice that the La Mesa PD has pulled over a guy in a nice new Lexus.
He’s standing on the curb, in the rain, and the cops are giving him a field sobriety test, which he is very obviously failing. (Useful tip for drunk drivers: “I’m too drunk to walk, so I had to drive” is probably not a good excuse.)
A quite attractive but very wet woman, presumably the passenger, is standing next to the police car, apparently arguing with another cop. It appears she’s about two seconds away from wearing handcuffs herself, which will very definitely not match her ensemble.
As the trolley gates went up, and the light turned green, and I headed on my way, I burst out laughing as I noticed the license plate on the Lexus: CU NV ME.