Saturday, July 08, 2006
2 comments 0 commentsUPenn still sucks
A Penn police officer shot and wounded a man in the area of 300 S. 33rd Street on Tuesday, but the reason he fired is still unknown.
According to Penn's Division of Public Safety, 25 year-old Brahim Johnson and 40 year-old Wendell Moore were trying to steal a bicycle from a bicycle rack at approximately 4:45 p.m. when Penn police attempted to arrest the two men.
During the course of the arrests, Johnson sustained a gunshot wound from the arresting officers. Moore was arrested without incident and the police officers were not injured in the incident.
According to Penn's Division of Public Safety, 25 year-old Brahim Johnson and 40 year-old Wendell Moore were trying to steal a bicycle from a bicycle rack at approximately 4:45 p.m. when Penn police attempted to arrest the two men.
During the course of the arrests, Johnson sustained a gunshot wound from the arresting officers. Moore was arrested without incident and the police officers were not injured in the incident.
Nine ways to save on gas for the summer
Gas costs have become an unnerving new concern when planning vacations. An increase of about a dollar per gallon in the past two years, or around 30-35 percent, is no minor addition to the already often considerable expense of traveling.
It's not a problem that is likely to go away. While we may see a leveling off of average prices, most experts don't expect prices to go down very much in the future. The fact is, the days of the $2 and under gallon of gas are almost certainly over -- but we've managed to come up with a few ways to save at the pump.
Father of the Year nominee
Authorities say a Virginia man was too drunk to drive. So, he let his 14-year-old son get behind the wheel. The story only gets more bizarre from there. To make matters worse, deputies say, the child had been drinking, too.
The father and son were headed through Hanover County when they crashed.
The pair left their home just outside of Harrisonburg Friday night headed to Virginia Beach for the holiday. Authorities don't know exactly when the 14-year-old got behind the wheel.
The pair left their home just outside of Harrisonburg Friday night headed to Virginia Beach for the holiday. Authorities don't know exactly when the 14-year-old got behind the wheel.
The father and son were headed through Hanover County when they crashed.
The pair left their home just outside of Harrisonburg Friday night headed to Virginia Beach for the holiday. Authorities don't know exactly when the 14-year-old got behind the wheel.
The pair left their home just outside of Harrisonburg Friday night headed to Virginia Beach for the holiday. Authorities don't know exactly when the 14-year-old got behind the wheel.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
0 commentsThe $100 burger
A hundred bucks might buy you more than six dozen burgers from McDonald's, but the swanky Old Homestead Steakhouse will sell you one brawny beef sandwich for the same price.
Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams could barely speak between bites as he devoured the 20-ounce, $100 hamburger billed as the "beluga caviar of sandwiches."
"Heaven on a bun," restaurant owner Marc Sherry said.
Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams could barely speak between bites as he devoured the 20-ounce, $100 hamburger billed as the "beluga caviar of sandwiches."
"Heaven on a bun," restaurant owner Marc Sherry said.
Learn how to open a coconut
Everone has a few problems the first time they try and learn how to open a coconut. These little guys must be the most well protected nut in all of the world, but we humans can't just sit around and let monkeys show us up, right? In this site I will detail the most common method of opening up a coconut along with pictures of the process. It is fairly simple, but does take some time to do.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
0 comments 1 comments"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"
See how many movies you can name. Add a comment with your guesses. And don't forget to leave your name!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
0 commentsKilladelphia is #2, but still, everything's bigger in Texas
Philadelphia suffered one of the worst increases in homicides among major cities last year, the FBI reported yesterday.
Of the nation's largest cities, only Houston saw a bigger increase, while many other cities, such as New York, saw decreases.
And the violence in Philadelphia continues to escalate.
Of the nation's largest cities, only Houston saw a bigger increase, while many other cities, such as New York, saw decreases.
And the violence in Philadelphia continues to escalate.
Best buildings of the year
The 11 projects recognized with this year's AIA Honor Awards for Architecture include several museums, as might be expected given the undiminished power of museum mania. But there are also an equal number of libraries and government buildings — a happy sign that municipal agencies are increasingly respectful of good design.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
0 commentsWhy 6/6/06 is just another day
Somewhere, Revelation's author is having a big laugh.
Sure, his book of the Bible is filled with dragons, locusts, plagues, oceans of blood and rivers of fire. Oh, yeah, and the beast. The beast that branded the godless with the number 666 - a sign of their devotion to him.
But he was really just warning churches about the evils of emperor worship. Or was he?
Monday, June 05, 2006
0 commentsNow based on a true story
The much-talked-about movie "Snakes on a Plane" doesn't open until August. But Monty Coles doesn't have to see it. He's lived it.
Three-thousand feet in the air on Saturday, he discovered a four-and-a-half-foot black snake peering out at him from the instrument panel of his Piper Cherokee.
He'd already been preparing to land in southern Ohio after a flight from West Virginia.
Cat Apolcalypse
What’s furry, has claws and triggers the end of the world? You guessed it. It’s your trusted, feline friend: your cat. And cats are not the only animals causing problems. Rabbits do it. Frogs do. Yes, even the cute Giant Panda is helping to blow the world to kingdom come. Sit back -- and shiver!
If you felt sorry for the dinosaurs, consider this. At this very moment, we’re in the middle of a period of mass extinction that’s actually WORSE than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. You read that right. More species go extinct at this very moment than during the last days of the dinosaur!
You see, it took the dinosaurs thousands of years to die out altogether. Today, the speed of extinction is higher -- much higher. Each day, an estimated seventy species go bust. That’s seventy species! Gone. Not to be seen ever again. A few centuries more, and half of all species will no longer be here. Thanks to the meteor impact called 'mankind'.
