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.

moses was high

Posted on March 5, 2008

When you think you’ve heard it all … a RESEARCHER at Hebrew University of Jerusalem submits a study claiming Moses was high on psychotropic drugs when he received the ten commandments and saw the burning bush. Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

Later in the article we find the reason for his claim:

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil’s Amazon forest in 1991. “I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations,” Shanon said.

Well, there you go. Here’s the article. The picture is from worth1000.com.

HG

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 –

to market, to market

Posted on January 30, 2008

Ok, from the weirdness files.

My question is … what happened to the one little piggie who got away (top carrier, empty) … a snack?, traded it for gas?, traded it for the cool helmet? over the weight limit for the scooter?

I guess I shouldn’t laugh … if our economy does not turn around soon … this might be a common site in the US.

But, that’s a lot of pork patties at IHOP.

hg

wholesale screen printing

not a good day for a marathon

Posted on January 28, 2008

In December, the city of Bangalore, India, staged its fifth annual marathon,
with an elite group of runners that officials thought would bring the city recognition
in the world racing community, but problems occurred, the least of which were the city’s
ubiquitous potholes and pollution. At about the 20 km mark, the leaders were chased down
the street by barking dogs snapping at their heels. Twice during the race, runners were
forced to stop and take breaks because impatient motorists were disregarding traffic controls
to reclaim their roads.
[The Times of India, 12-17-07]

im listening to coldplay this morning on my ipod

hg

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