Billy’s solution to the problem of the cold weather he had to endure on his ride to work was ingenious, although the inclusion of a boiler, battery and fuel and water tanks on a separate trailer, did rather render the whole system a little too unwieldy for everyday use.
Pete failed almost every test that the Institute of Electrical Engineers could think of, but nobody ever doubted that he was the “go to” man when you needed sheer, unadulterated blind stupidity to get a job finished on time.
In St. Paul, Minnesota a man came home to find his house open, cash & other items missing…….. & a stranger’s Facebook profile open on his computer, it was reported this week.
Nicholas Wig has been charged with second degree burglary, also left his wet jeans, shoes & belt lying on the floor by the computer in the house, according to the police.
It appears that a local resident called police last Thursday & told them he had come home to find his house “ransacked” with the front door unlocked & open. He also saw that “Nick Dub’s” Facebook profile was open on his computer, someone he did not know or recognise.
Items missing included cash, a chequebook, credit cards, keys & a watch, the report said.
Later on Thursday, the resident recognised Wig on the street from his Facebook picture & again called the police, who found him wearing a watch like one taken in the burglary; when police searched Wig they found car keys & an iPod shuffle, which the resident identified along with the watch, the report said.
Wig admitted entering the house, swapping his rain-soaked clothes for some from the house, logging on to Facebook & taking the items reported stolen, the complaint said.
It’s a good thing stupidity isn’t a crime but this puts a whole new slant on those annoying “Do you know…..” e-mails that Facebook keep sending you, doesn’t it?
PayPal, the “give-us-your-cash” arm of eBay, said over the weekend that it had fired a recently-hired strategy executive after he posted a series of offensive (& frankly incoherent) tweets.
“Rakesh Agrawal is no longer with the company,” PayPal said in a tweet of its own on Saturday. “Treat everyone with respect. No excuses. PayPal has zero tolerance.”
Agrawal, who was hired a couple of months ago, has so far declined to comment.
He sent several messages on Twitter, which have since been deleted, while attending a jazz festival in New Orleans, including some that specifically insulted Christina Smedley, the VP of Global Communications at PayPal.
One tweet said, “Duck you Smedley, you useless middle manager,” according to copies of the tweets posted by news website Business Insider.
“Fearless” does not begin to cover it.
In Texas a woman who complained to police that a drug dealer sold her a weak strain of marijuana that did not deliver much fun has been arrested, police said this week.
Evelyn Hamilton was jailed last Friday after also telling police in Lufkin, Texas, that the dealer had refused a refund when she complained. She was later released on $500 bail after being charged with a “drug paraphernalia” offence.
She took with her to the police a bag with a small amount of the pot, said a Lufkin police spokesman, as proof of her complaint.
The person Hamilton said was the dealer was not arrested.
A day after her release, the woman was again taken into custody, this time on for public drunkenness. She was allegedly yelling at invisible people in the street when she was arrested outside a downtown bar.
At least she didn’t have grounds for a complaint against the bar owner.
ThursdayAgain 
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