It's now or never for ex-gov's stuff

Stiffed storage facility owner to put Blagojevich's belongings on the block

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-blago-storage-facility-20100726-39,0,2159242.story

Excerpts from the Police blotter of a suburb close by:

10:54 p.m. – 36500 block Chester Road, about 10 younger adults jumped the fence to access the pool at Avon Apartments, advised of trespassing and left.

8:34 a.m. – 37700 block N. Doovys St., house egged.

6:21 p.m. – 2300 block Chelsea Street, dog poop found in mailbox.

12:40 a.m. – Detroit Road and Stoney Ridge Road, female passed out in gazebo, male passed out in bushes, both transported to St. John West Shore.

9:06 p.m. – 35800 Detroit Road, woman found intoxicated and drinking wine in ladies room at Target, she admits to buying a bottle of wine at the store and going into the ladies room to drink it. Woman is not charged, but is barred from store and taken home by police.

8:14 p.m. – 32700 block Avon Road, large snake in yard, removed.

9:42 a.m. – 200 block Lear Road, woman outside with no clothes on.

11:29 p.m. – 31900 block Starboard Cove, report of juvenile burning jersey in the street.

6:29 p.m. – 100 block Parkwood Ave., complaint that neighbor’s cat came into yard and bit resident.

11:51 p.m. – 32500 block Captains Galley, house toilet­papered.

Just a hotbed of crime 

Last night, eight dairy cows were electrocuted in Monroe, WI.  They could have gone to the safety of the barn, but instead they chose to huddle under a tree.  The local NBC affiliate aired a photo of the deceased bovines, all in a circle around the shattered tree.

I haven't spent enough time on the farm to call myself an expert, but putting the livestock in the barn when an electrical storm is coming was a no-brainer back when I did herd cattle.  WTF?

 Proclivities wrote: 
the neighborhood is one of the highest in the city.   gramercy park.   it's exclusive actually.    it is just the high school.  which has a new crowd as of 5 years ago. i guess the high school will change the reputation of that neighborhood.

 rachlan wrote: 
What an awful story.  I went to college around that neigborhood and that High School didn't seem too bad (if it's the one I'm thinking of) - of course that was almost 30 years ago.

From our local police blotter

Sunday, July 18

6:25 a.m. – 1000 block Glendalough, a man reported that his vehicle was coated with syrup and other condiments.

 rachlan wrote: 
People who chose to behave as barbarians should be treated as barbarians.  Sadly, doing so isn't politically correct.

:(   one half block from where I live.   It is a very very wealthy neighborhood one block up from the school which is a block and a half up and one block over from me.   but those kids hang around my block all the time.  my friends from the suburbs just told me about it.   I had no idea.

Pregnant woman assault

 Inamorato wrote: 


Greece also suffers from the "God is on MY side" approach to driving.  Atr least if he wasn't you get a very nice roadside shrine later. 

/mrshj logged in incorrectly again

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Costa Rica has worked hard to attain its status of being #2 in the world for fatalities per km driven. Many of the male drivers find it an intolerable affront to their manhood to see another driver in front of them. I first understood this on a winding mountain road of washboard dirt in Puntarenas when a guy on a motorcycle passed me on a hairpin holding a baby on the gas tank.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
I'm not a proponent of traffic circles but highway engineers claim they reduce the number and severity of accidents. In most suburbs, real estate is not at a premium and pedestrians are an afterthought. I expect the snow plowing is just a matter of getting used to them and probably wasn't much of an adjustment for the plow drivers around here with the profusion of cul-de-sacs making it necessary for any travel over a half mile to be on a county road! Don't know nuthin' 'bout pulling trailers.

 Manbird wrote: 
Yes, you can, but the express lane is reserved for genies between 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m., Mon. - Sat.

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: 
You can add San Jose or just about anywhere in Costa Rica too.

 meower wrote: 
Mo says the same thing about Cairo.

 meower wrote: 
How about riding on a magic carpet?

In Istanbul, there are no rules when driving or walking. 

 Manbird wrote: 
That actually sounds pretty interesting, I like shit like that, very creative idea for a story.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I read a great novel once about a guy who wrecks his car in the middle of some sort of inner city spaghetti freeway junction. His car rolls down into some weird position where it not visible to any traffic. His legs are really badly injured but not life threatening. He ends up having to survive down in this bizarre no-man's land for months before he's finally rescued. He crawls around subsisting off scraps of food and trash people throw out of their car windows, rats and bugs, gutter water, etc. while multiple lanes of traffic speed by constantly all day and night - just out of sight. Good book. Wish I could remember the title. 

 cookinlover wrote: 
I have vowed never to go any closer to the metropolis for the rest of my life unless it is an emergency situation (like my son insisting I take him to a Braves game). I live only 30 miles away from the city limits and fully intend to fulfill this promise!

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I learned every possible back road in order to avoid 75 and 285 while living in Atlanta... it still took forever to get where I was going, but at least we were moving.