Network TV is reported to be developing a Texas version of “Survivor,” the popular TV show.
Contestants must travel from Amarillo through Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and back to Amarillo, through San Marcos and Lubbock. Each will be driving a Volvo with a bumper sticker that reads: “I voted for Kerry, I’m gay, and I’m here to take your guns.”
The first contestant to complete the round trip is the winner.
“Well, there was no sex for 14 days.” –California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on getting the cold shoulder from his wife after backing President George W. Bush at the Republican Convention
Two men, aged 50 and 36, who had taken a taxicab home so they wouldn’t be driving drunk, were killed when the cab was hit by a 21-year-old drunken driver (Albuquerque, November). And a 21-year-old Mormon man, riding in a truck at about 35 mph with his brothers, who were offending him by cussing, demanded that they stop or he would jump out; one of the brothers, perhaps jokingly, said, Go ahead, and the man did and was killed when his head hit the pavement (South Jordan, Utah, November). [Albuquerque Journal, 11-25-05] [KSL-TV (Salt Lake City), 11-12-05]
From http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw060115.html
I can only please one person a day. Today isn’t your day. Tomorrow doesn’t look good either.
Every workday for the past seven years, Paul R. Arsenault made his rounds of Boston’s 7,200 parking meters in a fresh blue uniform, carrying with him a special key and the responsibility for fixing his share of the hundreds of meters across the city that are jammed or broken.But on a cold, clear morning this week, it all came to an end. Police detectives working with an officer from the anticorruption unit confronted him, read him his rights, and took him downtown, removing from his black repairman’s van pieces of evidence.
The evidence: 34 quarters from his left pants pocket and 96 quarters and two nickels in a plastic sandwich baggie in his lunchbox.
”He was obviously taking taxpayers’ money and shoving it in his pocket, and that will not be tolerated,” said Thomas J. Tinlin, acting transportation commissioner.
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