Maybe if more people drove vehicles with manual transmissions, less of them would get stolen.
Perhaps...
This would almost be funny if not for the seriousness of the situation. Randolph Beane was waiting outside of an Orlando hospital to pick his wife up from work in his Corvette. He was later approached by his three would-be carjackers.
"Beene, 51, said one of the thieves pointed a gun at him while asking how to use the car. 'They apparently couldn't start it. I had to tell him four different times to push in the clutch, because it's a standard transmission.'" Complete story from WOFL-TV (Fox) in Orlando
Cheers, all.
24-year-old Joanna Saunders of Jonesboro, Arkansas must have anticipated being stopped by police; it appears she was using a certain female body part to hide some illegal substances, among other things...
"Jailers told Officer McEntire they found and removed from Saunders’ vaginal cavity “1.1 grams of marijuana packaged in a clear small plastic baggie, one blue glass tube or pipe containing a white powder residue, and metal container, key chain containing 14 small bags of a crystal-like substance believed to be methamphetamine.” Jailers also said they found $419 cash concealed in her bra."
When working in TV news, you often times come across some very "interesting" people. More often that not, they're just that; interesting. You end up recording an interview that's unusable and never goes to air, usually ending up of the Christmas tape.
But every once in a while, you come across a fellow like Kai. He's a homeless hitchhiker in the Fresno, California area. He also carries a hatchet. Add a chaotic situation with a nut claiming to be Jesus trying to plow down a utility worker with his car and beating a woman, and all of a sudden a hatchet wielding homeless dude swoops in and saves the day.
Kai's account of what went down that day is one of legendary status. KMPH (Fox) reporter Jessob Reisbeck has posted the raw interview with Kai. The package that aired on TV is wild in its own right, but the unedited one-on-one with Kai is, well, short of amazing.
Here's what aired on channel 26:
And here's what ended up on the cutting room floor (NSFW. Kai loves the F-bomb):
Kai's heroic act has been a subject of conversation on Twitter:
Internet, meet you new local news hero: Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. He could give Sweet Brown a run for her $ bit.ly/WYBGx9
Canadian smartphone company BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) has finally unveiled its long-awaited and much overdue devices, the 10 and the z10 (the "zed ten", not the "zee ten"; this is a Canadian phone). For the most part, the phones are getting very positive reviews. With upgraded multimedia features and enhanced versions of its web browser and BlackBerry Messenger (I know people who cannot live without BBM), the new BlackBerry seems to be on its way back into the forefront, after years of dismal performance by RIM. Some believe this to be BlackBerry's last chance for survival in a world of smartphones and devices dominated by cheap handsets that run Android's open source OS and Apple's designer, status satisfying design-over-usability driven iPhones.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship national TV news program The National took an in-depth look at the work that went into developing BlackBerry's new phone. Inside BlackBerry is a 16 minute feature that takes a look inside the company and profiles the dynamic people behind what could very well be the comeback story of 2013.
It must be the beginning of February, because all the outrageous news stories are popping up on the evening news...
Jeff Chirico, an investigative reporter for Atlanta's CBS affiliate WGCL, was doing a story about a man who owned a used car lot. Richard Wilder, a 43-year-old man who has operated multiple used car lots, was suspected of using his newest lot to solicit customers for his tax preparation services. So channel 46 set up a hidden camera investigation (you're probably asking, "What can go wrong with this?"). Chirico approaches Wilder for a comment at the car lot, but to no avail. Then, Wilder's father, Donald, wanted his 15 minutes of fame. He punched Chirico in the chin and knocked him to the ground. Video from CBS Atlanta News
This is officially the third time I have launched this blog. It began life in 2005. Then I abandoned it for a while, until about 2007. Then I killed it.
Again, back in 2009, I decided to relaunch The World of Shaun Fossett. It stuck around for about a year. I lost focus. After a while I stopped blogging. Then I killed it.
So here goes. This is try number 3. I promised myself and the few readers of my previous blogs that I'd try to stick around. I intend to keep my word. So stick around; I guarantee that this peek into my world will be interesting, entertaining and hopefully, enlightening. That's if I'm lucky enough, at least.
