Two years ago, back in 2007 an elderly German woman in Berlin took her Audi into the shop to have some repairs done. At the request of the woman, the car was driven back by the mechanic, parked in her garage – the keys and paperwork were placed in her mailbox.

When the woman went out to get her car, it was nowhere to be found, she called the police and reported it stolen.

This week, the woman’s neighbor went out to clean out his old unused garage and found the Audi under a centimeter deep layer of dust! Turns out the mechanic parked the car in the wrong garage!

I just have three words about this.

1.) What
2.) The
3.) F&$#

I thought I had heard everything – apparently not. Fifty year old Rodell Vereen of South Carolina was arrested this week for having sex with Sugar – Barbara Kenley’s horse – again! Yes again – this is his second offense!

Vereen was arrested back in 2007 and given 3 years probation for the first offense. Kenley suspected he was at it again, and without proof, she installed security cameras in her barn and caught him in the act 2 weeks later. (Thankfully the video has not been made public!) Kenley held Vereen at the end of her shotgun while she waited for police to arrive. If convicted he could face up to 5 year’s in prison.

Some people live on the edge, others live off of it.

Now I am sure that this is some kind of publicity stunt or something – these guys probably own the adjacent building, or have some kind of permit or something – perhaps it’s some kind of living art show – who knows, but regardless, it’s definately entertaining! If found these photos over at Offbeat Earth – be sure to check out their site!

Recently my wife, daughter, and I went camping at a local provincial campground. On the last evening of our stay, a branch fell from an obviously dead tree, and dented the roof of our car.

The damage to the car is around $270 – the deductible, $300 – So certainly there is nothing my insurance company can do.

I, as the victim, want the park to pay for the damage.

Now I realize that in the majority of cases, it would be considered an act of nature, and I would not have a leg to stand on – its just my tough luck. In this case, I feel it is different – I feel like there is some negligance involoved.

If a branch fell from a healthy tree, with or without wind, then so be it – its probably not preventable, but in this case, the branch that fell was dried up and dead, and fell from a dried up and dead tree – on a day with zero wind! To me this was 100% preventable. The tree was also located immediately along side the campsite, in plain view, its not like it was well hidden in the woods.

(Also, the park assigns you a spot, you dont get to choose your spot – so what is a person supposed to do if they are assigned a spot with a dead tree? refuse the spot, lose your reservation fee, and go home? Perhaps…)

Every year the provincial parks apparantly have arbourists evaluate the park and remove and handle “problem trees”. They missed this one – its obvious from the photos, that something should have been done to this tree.

I called the company that manages the provincial park, and they deny any responsibility to my claim and basically brushed me off. I honestly don’t think I will get any where, but needed to vent a little. Please vote and let me know your opinion.

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What is this world coming to?

If you think its time to trade in that old beater of a truck for a good ‘ol fancy new one, now’s the time if you live in Missouri!

Over at Max Motors, President Mark Muller is offering a free AK-47 with the purchase of a truck!

Now I am not convinced that this latest promotion is to try and sell more trucks – at least not directly. I am positive that it is simply to draw national and international attention to his business, and website, and as a result, well, he sells more trucks.

On his home page he has links to Fox, CNN, CNBC and other videos where he was interviewed about this promotion, and in some ways it is a genius way to get some serious link bait for his website. (It’s too bad he didn’t take the time to create decent looking site – looks like something I might have created way back in high school.)

I think if I had a car dealership I would offer a free bazooka with every purchase. That would be way cool.

Here is one interview that I will refrain from offering my opinion on – “Mama always said, if you don’t have anything nice to say…”

I guess with this, I am actually helping his efforts… oh well, its still interesting, and, I guess he still does deserve a little credit for creativity.

A few days ago I wrote a post and embedded a video about United Airlines breaking Musician, Dave Carroll’s Guitar. (You can see the original post here: United Airlines Will Break Your Guitar).

I recall that same day reading something online about Delta Airlines, and when I wrote the post about United, for some reason I ended up referencing Delta.  Not sure exactly how this happened, but its been fixed. For the record, to the best of my knowledge, Delta Airlines has not broken any guitars, but who knows, I didn’t research this much.

When I returned yesterday form a weekend camping trip I found a comment from “tex” basically calling me a twit for my error, and went on a little rant. While his response was somewhat inappropriate, I corrected my mistake then decided to approve his comment, and a nice little thread began to emerge for that post. (I don’t think tex likes me, but maybe if he got to know me we could be friends? I hope so, otherwise it will make me very very sad)

I really don’t know what got into him – perhaps he was having a bad day, perhaps he is just some guy trying to have a little fun, and wrote his replies with a grin on his face – truth is, it doesn’t matter, it was fun – I enjoy a little arguing now and then. (My wife told me to just delete his first comment and block him – but where is the fun in that?)

My question at this point is, do you think he was a little over the top? Do you feel his response was inappropriate? Be sure to vote to let me know – I am curious. If I find that an overwhelming majority take his side I’ll… well, I’ll probably not do anything, but I will be humbled for knowing that I was “wronger” than I though. (Yes ‘tex’, I know “wronger” is not a word, please don’t call me out for misleading youngsters learning to master the English language).

I for one will be making sure to be as accurate in my posts as possible as to not offend the all-mighty tex in the future.

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If you are like me, you saw Borat. If you are like me you got something you didnt expect. My expectations for Boart were for a funny movie, but I certainly didnt expect the shocking nature and incredibly politically incorrect & offensive jokes – was this a problem? Hell no – I LOVED the movie, not sure I ever laughed so hard in my life! Probably the funniest off-beat thing I had seen since Jackass!. Now with Bruno in theatres I need to get out and see this. I need a good laugh.

The best part about these Sacha Baron Cohen movies is that they are “leave your brain at the door funny.” You have to be able to put your guard down and just be entertained. If you are offended easily, skip his movies – they’ll anger you – but if you are able to just sit back and laugh, then its probably a must see!

During my work day, my boss of all people shared the Sacha Baron Cohen David Letterman interview with me. What a great interview. It then led me to watch the Bruno trailer, and then the Bruno top ten list. What a great way to start the work day, with a good ‘ol laugh.

If you’ve seen the movie, PLEASE drop a comment with your review, I want to know if its really as funny as I am anticipating – I am sure it will be as offensive

I wanted to also display the official trailer, but embedding has been disabled over at YouTube, so here it is wrapped up in another post, just have to scroll ahead a minute or so to get to it:

Do you ever fly? Has an airline ever lost your luggage? Have they ever damaged your luggage? Have they ever damaged your luggage before your own eyes and refused to take responsibility for it?

Musician Dave Carroll had this happen when United Airlines baggage handlers destroyed his $3500 guitar as he watched from inside the plane!

Here is an excerpt from his website:

“…my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn’t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people I communicated with put the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate me for my loss…”

His website goes into great detail telling the story and unsuccessful ordeal of what he went through trying to get United Airlines to pay up for their mistake. He vowed to the last employee he spoke with that he would write three songs about what happened.

Below is the first song – its kinda catchy. Thanks to Ross Dunn for sending me the video – I suggest everyone share this story, as these big corporations should not be able to get away with behaviour like this.

It seems odd to me. The Canadian government spends countless funds on so called “free” health care. The truth is, no, it is not free. Cheap yes, but free – no. I pay $108 a month for my wife, daughter and I, in MSP (Medical Service Plan) premiums. This is mandatory. In exchange I can walk into any hospital in Canada and be treated without having to ever EVER pull out my credit card.

I admit, that $108/month is a good deal when it all boils down to it.. I am not trying to knock the system, but it certainly is not free.

But I think that that MSP premiums could be eliminated if the medical system could cut costs. Probably the biggest way to cut costs would be to reduce the number of patients. You can reduce the number of patients by having a healthier society. If you want a healthier society, why not offer tax breaks for things that can improve overall health: recreational programs, gym memberships, etc, and tax the crap out of things that are bad for you; Candy, fast food, alcohol, smokes (I know booze and cig’s are taxed like crazy as it is, but tax them more, and make it harder and harder to smoke – I hate that stuff soooo much)

If the government allowed you to write off anything that would improve your health, the money they lose in taxes would be far outweighed by the money they save in health care costs.

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