only in tulsa
Posted on March 10, 2008
TULSA, Okla. - Two fortune cookies helped Tulsa police make an arrest after a pair of break-ins Chinese restaurants. Terrence Middleton, 30, was booked Friday on charges of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary after police responded to a burglar alarm to find him with more than $20 in coins and the cookies in his pockets, Officer Leland Ashley said.
Middleton was being held on $15,000 bond.
Ashley said police were able to link Middleton to the Asian Express that was robbed because he had possession of the same type of fortune cookies that were at the restaurant.
The alarm went off at the Asian Express about 14 minutes after one sounded at the Chinese Chef Restaurant down the street Thursday night, Ashley said.
When officers arrived, both restaurants had their front doors broken. At the second restaurant, the cash register had been pulled open.
Minutes later, officers stopped Middleton, who was walking down the street, and he dropped various coins and a prison identification card, Ashley said.
Ashley said it appeared there was nothing stolen from the first restaurant, and all that was missing from the second restaurant was $20 in change — and the fortune cookies.
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emergency? wow
Posted on March 1, 2008
If you were there and needed an emergency phone … it probably wouldn’t be an emergency any more.
humorous huh?
For my motorcycle readers … typepad has been so kind as to not take down the harleyghost.typepad.com … site for quite sometime now … I’ve still be making money off of it thru google adsense all this time as well … so I decided to re-instate the blog and just put up motorcycle stuff … since this one has pretty much wandered off it’s intended course.
I get about 700 readers a day off of this blog … why, I don’t know … but I do … there are a lot of archived stuff here that some would have beneficial.
Anyway … the original harleyghost site is also available … plus if you like any of the google ads … they do make me a little jingle.
hg
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jason kidd returns
Posted on February 23, 2008
Michael was able to beat me to the punch on his blog … since I was ill all week. Here is a blast from the past … we sent Michael to Jason Kidd’s basketball camp when he was in 8th grade. It was Michael’s first time away from home without chaperone’s that he knew. It was a little overwhelming to take him to Southwest Texas State and drop him off.
It was good for him. It is also good for the Mavericks to have a really good ball handler on the floor. Kidd does turn up the intensity of the game. In case Mark Cuban blinks into my blog: It would be cool to have Michael come out for a shoot around at a home game for some home town pr … Michael is 25 now. Cool story … huh, Cuban? We would be able to do this all for 11 court side seats … at any game of your choosing, Mr. Cuban.
We sacrificed so much for him to go to camp that week. We had to eat bologna and macaroni for a month. (not really, darrah)
It was worth it for the picture.
hg
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the dead moose ministry
Posted on February 19, 2008
Story out of Anchorage, Alaska. (Check out last line of article.)
Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 feet in front of his patrol car. “Falling rock!” he thought, ready to steer clear if it bounced onto the highway.
The thing didn’t roll or shatter. It turned out to be a moose that fell from cliffs next to the highway.
Drivers often see Dall sheep on the cliffs but rarely moose. Peterson estimates the animal fell 150 feet or more.
It was windy that night, Peterson said, and a gust may have startled the moose into a fatal fall.
“They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us,” said wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott. “They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way.”
Sinnott has heard or moose dying in strange ways — breaking through ice and drowning, jumping off railroad bridges at the sound of a train, falling off small banks. Once he saw the remains of two bulls that died during a rutting battle when their antlers got hooked together by a single piece of barbed wire.
A fall off a cliff probably doesn’t happen often, he said.
Peterson treated the dead animal the same way he handles moose killed by cars. After snapping photos, Peterson called one of the charities that salvage road kill.
Names of charities or ministries that would pick up road kill ??
Moose Meat Minstry
Bullwinkle Memorial
Moose Can Academy
Road Kill Food Bank
Holy Scavengers, Batman.
HG –
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decision 2008
Posted on February 14, 2008
It was a decision in the 70’s as I am sure it is today.
I do love signs. I spend a lot of times reading signs and making signs. Signs are good.
By the way, we start with a little contract today with a dealership installing signs on FEDex trucks. A pretty good deal. FedEX corporate supplies the materials and we just put them on. I might put up our first one tomorrow on the blog.
Do yourself a favor. Go to college. There’s more weed there.
HG –
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