as you can tell.....

Thanks to you all for the over 200,000 hits from 161 countries!  It has been fun... 

I just need a break for now.

Steve (friendinME)

more strangeness on the police blotter

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novel ideas for Halloween

school bus driver allows kids to drive bus

A school bus driver in Dodge County, Georgia has been suspended from her job for allowing two students to drive the bus along her bus route.

Patricia Cuda, a 9-year veteran driver, allowed two students, ages 13 and 15, to drive the bus for about a mile.  There were other students on the bus at the time, ranging from 10 to 15 years old.

School officials were perplexed as to why a professional bus driver would do such a dangerous thing.  Cuda's explanation?  The boys asked to drive.

Well, that's good enough for me.

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signable warners of the engrish speaking

wanted: newspaper copy proof-readers

speeding watermelon -- right on the nose

amazingly, she continued on unscathed...

the one semester of Spanish love song

for those of us who took Spanish in high school... I loved this.

Liu Wei - armless pianist from China's Got Talent

In this video, he starts playing a couple minutes in. You might want to click to it... but either way, it is worth the wait. :)

great horse race call from Monmouth Park: my wife knows...

(yes, it was an actual race. :) This video came from SportsCenter (ESPN), shot on my phone.)

today's special- free fish & chips

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man robs pharmacy, then picks up prescription

memo: it probably isn't a good idea to rob your pharmacy and pick up your prescription later.  

Here is the story from Springfield, MO:

A Springfield man has been charged with felony pharmacy robbery after a clerk recognized him when he returned to get his prescription filled.

Douglas F. Manning, 31, is accused of being the masked robber who displayed a gun and demanded narcotics from a clerk at the Walgreens Pharmacy at 2681 W. Republic Road on July 30.

The clerk described the suspect as a white male wearing a tan jacket, gloves and a mask at the time. She also described his silver four-door passenger car, according to a news release.

A few days later Manning returned to the Walgreens to get a prescription filled, where the clerk recognized him and his vehicle.

She called police with a license plate number. Springfield police advised other local agencies that Manning was wanted, and the Republic Police Department arrested him at noon Tuesday, according to a news release.

Manning was charged with felony pharmacy robbery and is being held in Greene County Jail on $150,000 bond.
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