A 60-year-old Washington woman vacationing in Wisconsin was pulled over three times in three days for driving under the influence of alcohol according to a report from the Boston Globe.
The first day she was arrested after trying to drive her car out of a ditch at around 2 p.m. She was only wearing one shoe and had a blood-alcohol level of .21.
The next day she was found stuck in the snow in a park campground that was closed for the winter. She reportedly told the officer that, "I am still finishing up the box of wine in my car from yesterday."
Apparently not learning her lesson from the previous two days and spending 12 hours in jail, the woman was pulled over a third day after it was reported that she was driving all over the road. Officers found a partially consumed bottle of wine in the car and the woman blew a .16.
According to police reports the woman has been sentenced to one month in jail and a $3,000 fine. Which will probably make her trip to Wisconsin her longest and most expensive vacation yet!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Soundslides
I don't really understand why it's all cut off but here's the link:
http://amandadee1.webng.com/slideshow/
Friday, March 13, 2009
If it bleeds, it ledes. Or if it doesn't have hands, it probably also ledes.
This is absolutely ridiculous
I didn't even have to read the rest of the story to understand that Nicholas Kristoff is a fail. Who says stuff like that? Better yet, who says stuff like that so the entire world can read it?
Damn, little boy. Guess if you had hands you'd be more excited right now. Too bad. Now what will you do to make celebratory noises?
Redic. I can't believe they let that fly. I'm all for being edgy and creative in a lede, but low-blowing an 8-year-old's lack of hands?
I didn't even have to read the rest of the story to understand that Nicholas Kristoff is a fail. Who says stuff like that? Better yet, who says stuff like that so the entire world can read it?
Damn, little boy. Guess if you had hands you'd be more excited right now. Too bad. Now what will you do to make celebratory noises?
Redic. I can't believe they let that fly. I'm all for being edgy and creative in a lede, but low-blowing an 8-year-old's lack of hands?
Monday, March 9, 2009
I'm Loving It
Who would have known that those toys I couldn't have until all my nuggets were gone could have paid for a portion of my college education? If only I had had eBay when I was a 6-year-old (and the will power to not remove the toys from their original packaging).
An 11-year-old boy named Luke Underwood of Notts, England just scored $11,000 for auctioning off his 7000-piece Happy Meal Collection to buyers all over the world according to an post on parentdish.com. His collection included the only known complete set of the 101 Dalmatians.
It is estimated that Underwood would have had to eat 10,000 Happy Meals to amass such a collection, but he didn't eat them all himself. He apparently convinced his father to buy another collection with toys from the 90s for about $35o...not a bad return on his investment if you ask me.
Personally, I think it would have drove me a little crazy to have all those toys and not be able to play with them. Some of my favorite toys as a kid came out of a Happy Meal box. Oh, how can I forget the Barbie/Hotwheel days or the Halloween McNugget Buddies that entertained me for hours on end? No, I don't think I could trade all the hours of fun I had with those free toys for $11,000. It's like the MasterCard commercial says, somethings are just priceless.
An 11-year-old boy named Luke Underwood of Notts, England just scored $11,000 for auctioning off his 7000-piece Happy Meal Collection to buyers all over the world according to an post on parentdish.com. His collection included the only known complete set of the 101 Dalmatians.
It is estimated that Underwood would have had to eat 10,000 Happy Meals to amass such a collection, but he didn't eat them all himself. He apparently convinced his father to buy another collection with toys from the 90s for about $35o...not a bad return on his investment if you ask me.
Personally, I think it would have drove me a little crazy to have all those toys and not be able to play with them. Some of my favorite toys as a kid came out of a Happy Meal box. Oh, how can I forget the Barbie/Hotwheel days or the Halloween McNugget Buddies that entertained me for hours on end? No, I don't think I could trade all the hours of fun I had with those free toys for $11,000. It's like the MasterCard commercial says, somethings are just priceless.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Woman Swallows Engagement Ring
So typically I only blog about news articles I find, but this story from Monday's Today Show was just too good to pass up.
Apparently a man intending to propose to his girlfriend put the ring in a Wendy's frosty only to find out that when she had finished it, the ring was nowhere to be found. That's right...she swallowed her engagement ring.
He finally had to break down and tell her that he had hid the ring in her milkshake and after getting an x-ray to verify that she had indeed ingested the ring, he got down on one knee...how romantic!
Today's Matt Lauer asked the man if the thought had occurred to him that she might actually swallow the ring to which he replied, "No, it's not that small of a ring so I thought she would have no problem finding it."
The bride-to-be said she swallowed the ring on Tuesday and was finally able to put the ring on her finger sometime Thursday morning.
Now that's a story to tell their kids someday.
Apparently a man intending to propose to his girlfriend put the ring in a Wendy's frosty only to find out that when she had finished it, the ring was nowhere to be found. That's right...she swallowed her engagement ring.
He finally had to break down and tell her that he had hid the ring in her milkshake and after getting an x-ray to verify that she had indeed ingested the ring, he got down on one knee...how romantic!
Today's Matt Lauer asked the man if the thought had occurred to him that she might actually swallow the ring to which he replied, "No, it's not that small of a ring so I thought she would have no problem finding it."
The bride-to-be said she swallowed the ring on Tuesday and was finally able to put the ring on her finger sometime Thursday morning.
Now that's a story to tell their kids someday.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
How to Score a Man
I'm not exactly sure why this story was even newsworthy, but apparently it's intended to make those women still in search for Mr. Right feel better about themselves, in a screwed up kind of way.
In a post on lemondrop.com 40-year-old Adele Parks explains why she was proposed to seven times (turning them all down) by the time she was 23. Parks explains that her "trick of the trade" was simple enough...not being herself.
Apparently Park molded herself to suit the type of man she was at the time while hiding other "less-desirable" qualities. She told a British newspaper, "Some of these men didn't even know how many siblings I have, but believed I was their ideal woman."
Well now I know the next time I go through a break up and I'm sitting on my couch stuffing my face with a pint of Ben and Jerry's it was because I was simply being myself...that's real comforting.
In a post on lemondrop.com 40-year-old Adele Parks explains why she was proposed to seven times (turning them all down) by the time she was 23. Parks explains that her "trick of the trade" was simple enough...not being herself.
Apparently Park molded herself to suit the type of man she was at the time while hiding other "less-desirable" qualities. She told a British newspaper, "Some of these men didn't even know how many siblings I have, but believed I was their ideal woman."
Well now I know the next time I go through a break up and I'm sitting on my couch stuffing my face with a pint of Ben and Jerry's it was because I was simply being myself...that's real comforting.
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