"According to a restraining order, that was never filed, Miller, who played for the Indiana Pacers, met Ms Kay at a party in July last year.

In March of this year he then bumped into her at a grocery store, then waited outside for an hour until she left, before following her up a motorway.
Former NBA basketball player Reggie Miller

Allegations: Former NBA basketball player Reggie Miller

He also allegedly harassed her by phone, including sending her 53 text messages over the course of less than four hours.

According to the document, when confronted by Mr von Furstenberg, who owns a surf shop in Malibu, Miller turned threatening.

'He said he had friends with guns. He implied I would get hurt if I didn't stop questioning him on his inappropriate pursuit of my fiancee and his attempts to subvert his efforts,' Mr von Furstenberg wrote."

I just don't get it.

You're famous, and can have your pick (probably)...why embarrass yourself?

People are just stupid, and no amount of fame or money can buy sense.

Inequality 101

"What is believed to be North America's first women's-only pharmacy is set to open Tuesday in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside".

I consistently don't understand why certain groups need to make issues out of non-issues.
Why do women need their own pharmacy?
If mens' groups decided that they needed to have a "male only" pharmacy...certain womens' groups would lose their collective minds. Human Rights violation application at the mere mention of opening such a thing.

Why is it ok for women to discriminate?

I wanted a female GP, so I found a female GP.
If you want a female Pharmacist, there are plenty of them...go to a pharmacy that has one.

Fuck.

David Chen, the 35-year-old owner of the Lucky Moose Food Mart in Chinatown, chased down a man who had allegedly stolen a tray of potted plants on Saturday.

Another employee and his brother-in-law who was returning from a delivery helped grab the suspect. They tied his hands and feet and threw him into the back of the delivery van.

I dunno.
I would think that that it's a job hazard for a thief.
Just like getting shot by a thief is a job hazard for a cab driver or convenience store clerk.
Bravo to David Chen, boo hoo to the thief...and a giant GMAFB to the rules of law enforcement that charges Mr. Chen with more than the thief for protecting his business and goods.

(P.S.: The photo is not Mr Chen's store or thief. It's random from google images.)

War of Pretension Finally Over.

"Beach Hardware," the sign says. "Your One Stop Beaches BBQ Shop."

The singular vs. plural debate was supposed to end three years ago, when residents voted 58 per cent in favour of "The Beach" as the neighbourhood's official name and marketing brand.

The follow-up came yesterday, when Councillor Sandra Bussin unveiled the first street sign to carry the designation.

"The Beach" says the sign, decorated by three seagulls in flight and a wavy blue stripe, above the street name "Queen St. E."

Whatev.

Being a west ender, I find this petty, picayune, piddling about whether it's "the beach" or "the beaches" really the business of people who have little else to worry about over their Fair Trade Organic Roast, and Hoxton Tandem Strollers.

Being the west ender that I am, I'll still call it the beaches because there's more than one beach..duh.

My personal favourites from
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names:

Agnes Morehead
Alcoholocaust
Cream of Whoop-Ass Soup
Drew Barrymore's Dealer
Fearless Iranians From Hell
'57 Lesbian
Four Honkies In a Big Black Car
The Fred Mertz Experience
The Hurling Tandooris
Inhale Mary
Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program
Mussolini Headkick
Sharon Stoned
Shirley Temple of Doom
Sodom & Gomorrah Liberation Front


These are names of actual bands, past and present.

10 Dumb 911 Calls:

Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food "emergency." Latreasa Goodman, 27, called police to complain that a cashier would not give her a refund. When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." She was arrested and the Police pressed charges for misusing the 911 system.

Click on image for the rest.

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia New Democratic Party candidate has stepped down to stem a controversy over racy photos posted on his Facebook account.

“An issue was made regarding inappropriate material on my private Facebook page,” Ray Lam, NDP candidate for Vancouver False-Creek, said Sunday night in a statement.

Thanks for taking yourself out of the running Ray!
We have enough jackasses with bad judgment in parliament.

I scored 13 out of 16.

How did you do?

Legal, Bureaucratic Extortion

March 24th, 2009
On a rainy March night, I make a right turn on Victoria Park and St. Clair E on an amber.
Lightning strikes, and then I realize that it wasn't lightning, but the red light camera.

April 3rd, 2009
I receive a $180 ticket for making a right turn on an amber, which turned red when I was 1.9 seconds into the intersection. Considering I've been told on numerous occasions that I should get new plates because my number isn't clear enough. My license plate number is surprisingly clear in the photo.
I decide to fight said ticket, since had I attempted to stop, I probably would have lost control of my vehicle since the conditions were wet, and my tires suck.
I have until April 8th to set a court date in person. Contrary to what it says on my ticket, I cannot make an appointment by phone. Rather obvious, since the telephone number on the ticket is manned by automated prompts that repeat the same things, with no "person" option, and with a built in disconnect if you hit "0"...HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh, that's hilarious!

April 8th, 2009
I decide to go to the Markham Rd office on this day because I'm rarely in Scarborough, but I would be on that day.
I take a number in a room that has people packed into it like sardines. I'm T417, and they are currently serving T009. Only 3 wickets are open, and there are 4 categories of ticket numbers. I've been to offices in the west end. I've never seen shit like this before.
I'm there for an hour and a half and they are only at T089. I realize that I only paid for an hour and a half in the parking lot, and wouldn't it be sardonic if I got a ticket trying to get a court date to fight a ticket.
I then realize that there appears to be a method to this madness.
If you cram 800 people into a small room with only 100 chairs, and 3 wickets open, and it takes an hour and a half to service 80 people...anyone who can afford it will leave, and pay the ticket...because it's just not worth it.

It's license to print money.
It's fucking genius...I tell you.

Immature jackasses will UNITE, and high five this idiot.

(I hope she wasn't stupid enough to let him take nude pictures of her....)

......oh, and how's this for freedom?

Were they suspects, or wanted?

Ikea Housewarming Party

About 30-40 people showed up to one of the living room/kitchen sets at the Ikea in Burbank, bringing gifts (mostly things from other departments at the store). Many people brought cookies and snacks, and games like Jenga. The party was cut off after about twenty minutes by the Ikea staff, at which point Agent Tuttle, the “host” of the party, yelled out that it looks like we’re being too loud and that “the neighbors called the cops”.

I know a lot of people find this kind of thing amusing, and hilarious.

I find it kinda stupid.

It's the sort of thing we used to do in high school...you know...go down to Union Station and follow people around with newspapers in front of us with holes cut out for eyes, or sticking people in the ass with pins on the crowded midway at the Ex (true, actually done stupidness, when we didn't know any better, and thought we were funny...and grew up right downtown with no organized sports and nothing to do).

But, these are adults.

I feel sorry for the Ikea staff who have to deal with it, and clean up after it.
As if they don't have enough shit to deal with.

“It was never about money — it was Mel’s way of asking Eddie to show consideration for Angel.”

LOL.
Yeah.
Ok.

More money than sense alert:

Erykah Badu names her kid "Twitty Milk", a sister for her other two children "Seven Sirius" and "Puma Rose".

No.
But, really...

Emo Phillips has a daughter...who knew?

Ok.

This is neither here nor there and certainly none of my business...but, one of my pet peeves is white mothers of black or bi-racial children who never learn to do their hair.

I see it time and time again...and it bugs me.

Take a course from a black woman...take your kid to a black salon, but for Godssake, condition and comb the childs' hair!

"The French say they need the largest condoms in Europe while Greeks get by on smaller ones, according to a Europe-wide study by a German consultancy that provides advice on condoms.

The snappily named Singen-based Institute of Condom Consultancy asked 10,500 men in 25 countries to measure their penis and enter the number into a database."

LOL...and the hidden study in this study is that the French are also the biggest liars...

No, but...for real...

" The city's newest firearms amnesty was launched yesterday, in the shape of a four-week, guns-for-cameras program sponsored by the Henry's photo store chain.

Anyone who turns in a gun - legal or illegal - will receive a digital camera and photography lessons."

Am I the only one who finds this endeavour hilarious?

I'm sure that Toronto "gangstas" are frustrated artists just dying for an opportunity to express themselves through photography.

Monkies think Slav jokes are funny...

Today's WTF?

The other day, I deleted 52 camera phone pictures of the inside of my purse.

Some with my thumb in them, but mostly without.
How ridiculous is that?