Arresting stupidity
Published 6:10 pm Saturday, September 4, 2010
Item No. 1: An Everett man was arrested after he robbed a fast-food restaurant once, then attempted to rob it a second time, police allege, making sure employees understood he was back for seconds.
tem No. 2: A Bozeman, Mont., police officer has resigned after he wrote a post on Facebook that said the police ought to be allowed to take people to jail for being stupid.
Conclusion No. 1: Don’t they already do that?
Conclusion No. 2: It would explain the overcrowding in our nation’s prisons.
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Don’t tread on me kilt: Separatists in Scotland say they intend to seek a referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
They’ve already started work on rallying cries, including “Give me liberty or give me haggis” and “Single malt if by land; blended if by sea.”
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Waiter, there’s a frog in my soda: A Florida man claims that he popped open a can of Diet Pepsi and found a frog inside. While the man says he’s certain the frog was in the can before he opened it, Pepsi says it would be virtually impossible for a frog to get in a can during the production process.
Furthermore, Pepsi reserves its supply of frogs for its line of Amp energy drinks.
