So today at work I really didn't have anything to do, so they told me to surf the web until they found something. Since I didn't have much to surf, I ended up reading the news on the Road Runner website, and boy did I hit the motherload of stupidity. I mean honestly, some of the things I was reading today just made me wonder where people get some of these ideas.
Let's review.
CLEMSON, S.C. — A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger."
Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday.
In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends.
Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway.
No charges are expected against the driver. The name of the man who was struck has not been released. He was in stable condition Monday night.
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Okay, so what we have here is a man old enough to know better, who decided that yes, you can live your video game dreams! ...And so he ran headlong into oncoming traffic. I'm failing to see the logic in that one, and I really hope that he chooses not to pass his genetics on. Or if he does, that whatever gene it was that gave him that fantastic idea doesn't pass along as well. Wow.
SOQUEL, Calif. — A California medical marijuana dispensary has raked in food donations with a unique offer: free pot.
The Granny Purps dispensary in Soquel (soh-KEL'), about 60 miles southeast of San Francisco, offered a complimentary marijuana cigarette for every four cans of food a patient brought in this holiday season. Each patient was limited to a maximum of three cigarettes a day.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that the dispensary took in 11,000 pounds of food and handed out 2,000 marijuana cigarettes between November and Christmas Eve, when the promotion ended.
The food was donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank.
Second Harvest spokesman Danny Keith says Granny Purps, which only has eight employees, contributed the amount of food that would normally come from a business with 30 to 40 workers.
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Well, I guess there's no better way to get food to those who need it then by promising people free drugs. Kind of sad that people won't do something for nothing for their fellow American anymore though, or at least not the way they used to.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson's office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico's most famous Old West outlaws.
Richardson's office received 809 e-mails and letters in the survey that ended Sunday. Some 430 argued for a pardon and 379 opposed it.
The website was created in mid-December after Albuquerque attorney Randi McGinn petitioned for a pardon, contending New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace promised one in return for the Kid's testimony in a murder case against three men.
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He died in 1881. Back then, no one really kept good records, and there were a whole different set of playing rules. Let's get back to the America of today and maybe try pardoning the innocent who are stuck in prison instead, or spending that time looking into other pressing matters. Leave the history, and the legend, alone.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Police say a New York woman shared rum with two teenagers who helped her shovel snow.
White Plains public safety police commissioner, David Chong, says the boys' parents called police after the teens came home in a "highly intoxicated state" Monday.
The boys are 17 and 18. New York's legal drinking age is 21.
Police charged 41-year-old Silvia Deleon with unlawfully dealing with a minor, a misdemeanor.
Chong says Deleon shared a bottle of rum with the two boys after they shoveled her driveway. The boys then offered to dig her car out. Chong says she drove them to a liquor store and bought another rum bottle, which they consumed together.
There's no phone listing for Deleon and it wasn't clear if she had an attorney.
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Not only did she give them rum, but she went and bought more. Did she really think that she wouldn't get caught? Really? Wow...
SAN PABLO, Calif. — Authorities in Northern California say a man released from a hospital after a psychiatric evaluation stole a taxi and tried to register it at a Department of Motor Vehicles office.
Authorities tell the Contra Costa Times that 26-year-old Jermaine Grosse was arrested Monday on suspicion of auto theft and forgery.
Grosse had been sent to the county's regional medical center on an involuntary psychiatric hold.
After his release Sunday morning, he shared a taxi with a woman who was going to a San Pablo hospital.
Authorities say when they arrived, Grosse asked the driver to help with the woman's luggage, then drove away in the yellow minivan.
Grosse was arrested after a DMV worker in El Cerrito reported someone was using forged documents to register the cab.
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At least he's potentially insane. That's his only saving grace, and it's not saying much.
SEATTLE — Prosecutors in Washington state say a man was arrested when he was caught wheeling a 50-inch television in a shopping cart right past a police station.
Seattlepi.com reports that a bystander called 911 to report that she saw a man grab the TV out of the back of a delivery truck, load it in the cart and start pushing it away.
An Auburn police officer heard dispatchers relay the call as he was pulling into the police station parking lot _ and then he saw the man, dressed entirely in camouflage, walking by with the cart.
Charging documents say that when the officer asked 22-year-old Johnathon D. Barnes what he was doing, he said he bought the TV from and friend - and then he ran.
The officer caught up with Barnes and arrested him.
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It takes all kinds I suppose. But really, who steals a huge TV in broad daylight, and then walks past a police station with it? That wasn't a well-thought-out plan at all.
And I'm sure there have been, are, and will be plenty more articles just like these that make me question our society.
What's scary though folks, is that every one of these people has the right to vote. That's right, they're helping make the decisions for what's best for this country. And we really wonder what went wrong?
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