Tuesday, July 20, 2004

It's snack Time!

As I said earlier, I'm a big Tom Waits fan.  A few years back, Frito Lay was sued by Waits because they used a sound alike singer, singing a parody of his song "Step Right Up" in a Salsa Rio chip ad- Frito's lost the case and I am happy to report that the company has found a new spokesman:
 
Mon Jul 19, 4:36 PM ET
MARYVILLE, Tenn. - A man was arrested on his 23rd birthday after a police officer saw him nude and covered with nacho cheese from a pool snack bar.  
 
Michael P. Monn was arrested early Sunday in the parking lot outside the pool.

An officer saw a nude man carrying a box of Frito Lay snacks and a container of nacho cheese run toward a Jeep in the lot and stopped him.

"The male had nacho cheese in his hair, on his face and on his shoulders," Maryville Police Department officer Scott Spicer reported. "The nude male had a strong odor of alcohol and was semi-incoherent

 
 
 




Crime and punishment

I'll admit I have had my problems in the past- I have at times enjoyed the baloney samiches of the county lunchroom, and like most involuntary guests, I felt that the punishment did not fit the crime.
 
I am happy to report that the judicial system is finally coming around. 
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -Mon Jul 19,10:13 AM ET
In an experimental public education campaign, motorcycle drivers who break the rules are being pulled over and asked to play hopscotch on a mat displaying traffic signs.

Medellin, Colombia's third-largest city, is notoriously violent and traffic-clogged. "Sicarios" -- infamous hitmen normally on the payroll of drug lords -- normally use motorcycles as escape vehicles after carrying an attack.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20040719/od_nm/odd_colombia_motorcycles_dc
 
Imagine the possibilities:
DUI? - Jax for Jack Daniels. Pull up a chair and go for twosees
Armed Robbery? - Paper-rock-scissors-gun- Extended index finger beats everything
Rape? - Spin the bottle
Kidnapping: - Hide and seek and ransom.
 
Prison will now be called Camp Kumawneyewannarapya
 
Crafts day will include "How to make a shiv out of an empty cigarette pack",  "Pruno- the lost art of waste basket distillery" and don't forget "Your anus: what can it carry?"
 
Everyone looks forward to the movie night double feature "American Me" & "The Shawshank Redemption" along with two "Rocky the dope smuggling ferret" cartoons.
 
See ya there!