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I will admit right here, right now, sometimes I get on these cyber-stalking kicks and get a little google/facebook/twitter happy. I mean, who doesn’t?
What, just me? Now I feel awkward.
I should probably stop, because apparently you can get arrested for too much Googling… well, at least you can in England.
Elliot Fogel, a 34-year-old TV producer in jolly old England, was arrested for cyber-stalking an ex-classmate of his. He apparently Googled Claire Waxman 40,000 times in a 16-week period, downloaded her wedding photos off of Facebook and used Google Earth to pinpoint her address and see images of her home.
Apparently Fogel’s obsession with Waxman started when they were in college. Sensing his supreme creepiness then, she told him to stay away from her, which he did for 10 years. Recently she received a dinner invite from him which she inclined. When he started calling her, via info he found of her online, she got authorities involved.
Fogel was sentenced to a whopping six-weeks in the slammer, which makes Waxman and her hubby uneasy, but because he’s just creepy and not making any physical threats toward her well-being there is little the police can do.
Let this be a lesson to the rest of us, no more late night Facebook stalking. It can come to no good, really.
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Hey ladies, err, older ladies…
If you want to get away with a gaggle of your nearest and dearest girlfriends and pick up some studly younger men for a weekend of no-strings fun – all while traveling the Caribbean and sipping Mai Tais – you can’t do it on Carnival Cruise Line.
The company that hosts the Cougar & Cub themed parties proposed a second cruise event with the cruising giant, after a successful event last year, but the folks at Carnival said no-can-do.
Carnival admits that there were no problems to speak of with the last event, they just think it doesn’t fit in with their “family friendly” brand.
Of course, something tells me they won’t have any problem hosting Spring Break cruises for oodles of randy college students, but that’s another story.
The Cougars say they will take their business elsewhere, stating other cruise lines haven’t seen a problem with their theme.
Me-ow.
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An article in the New York Times recently revealed that the H&M in Herald Square had the policy to destroy any unsold clothing; slashing it with razors before discarding it.
That’s pretty cold considering how many people in this city are homeless or relying on public aid to get by.
Now the spokesperson from H&M, Nicole Christie, is on damage control duty, stating that the company promises to stop this practice and donate clothing in the future.
Christie claims she doesn’t know why the Herald Square Store was destroying the clothing when the company has the policy to donate unworn clothing, but did promise to look into whether other stores were doing the same.
I’m forever amazed at how wasteful some large companies can be, let’s hope that H&M is legit in their efforts to reform.
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Parents don’t try this at home, even if your kids beg and plea with you…
DO NOT TATTOO YOUR CHILDREN!!!
This lesson brought to you by Patty Jo Marsh and her husband Jacob Bartels. Marsh and Bartels apparently gave in to pleading from six of their seven children, the tykes who wanted tattoos so they could look like their parents, got a small cross tattoo with the family’s homemade tattoo machine.
Things were going fine until two of the kids, biologically not Marsh’s, went to visit their mother for the Christmas holiday, who got pretty peeved and reported the couple to the police and Child Protective Services.
The parents were jailed and kids taken away. In Georgia, where the family is from it is illegal for anyone who is not licensed to perform tattoos, it is also illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to get one.
The kids are back home with the couple now, but Marsh and Bartels are awaiting a court date to determine the future fate of their family. Marsh says “I’m their mother. Shouldn’t I be able to decide if they get one [tattoo]?”
Uh, no, not if they’re ten.
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Listen, friends don’t let friends be Ninjas…
So, if you’re out there, dressed in black, doing lunges in public and brandishing a sword – let’s just put a stop to it now, okay?
Of course this warning came a little to late for one Ninja in Seattle.
Monday night, on the evil streets of Seattle, one heroic Ninja tried to jump over a 5-foot fence. That IS what Ninjas do, after all. The fence had other plans though, and when the Ninja was mid-air it just went ahead and impaled him.
The cops say that they came to the Ninja’s rescue, which I don’t believe because real Ninja’s don’t need help from the cops. But whatever, their side of the story is not that the fence attacked the Ninja, but that the Ninja was not capable of jumping the fence in the first place and fell. Pish-posh, silly cops.
According to their story, a police officer was looking for an assault victim when he happened upon the injured Ninja screaming for help. More lies, a Ninja would never scream for help. And, what happened to that assault victim? Nothing, too busy aiding a poor defenseless Ninja? I think not.
Whomever is telling the truth, be warned, being a Ninja is dangerous business. There’s all sorts of landscaping out to get you. Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be Ninjas.
Consult the photo above for a shot of a REAL ninja…
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By Kimberly Miller for 92.3 NOW
“I’ve had it with these monkey fighting mice on this Monday to Friday plane!!!“
It doesn’t really sound as dangerous as Snakes on a Plane, does it? In fact, if there were indeed snakes on a London bound flight on Sunday, perhaps they could have eaten the mouse and the plane could have been on its merry way.
Yup, you get the gist. This past Sunday, the pilot of a Delta flight leaving from JFK and landing at London’s Heathrow noticed something that scared the bejebus out of him, something that would ground the plane… (eek!) a mouse.
Yup, those cute little rodents, popular in science labs the world over are really evil, vicious killers. Not purposefully however. The pilot grounded the flight because he was afraid there was a very real possibility that the mouse could gnaw through important wiring-dooming the flight to a crash landing (Sully was not on the plane, unfortunately).
Passengers were peeved to be stuck on the tarmac for three hours while another plane was summoned in the middle of the night. Personally, I would have hated for my demise to come at the hands of mouse. Yay for paranoid pilots!
Oh, and seriously, perhaps Delta should invest in better cleaning staff. I’m going to go out on a limb and say there shouldn’t be mice roaming around planes. I suggest our Panamanian maintenance pal, Eloy, over here at the CBS Radio offices for the job… just sayin’. He’s a pro.
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By Kimberly Miller for 92.3 NOW
This story is a little old but we felt like sharing it anyway, in case you missed it.
Now, I did some stupid stuff when I was a kid, but not quite as stupid as 15 year old, Brooklyn native, Khamir Grant. You see, Grant, trying his darndest to seem bada** thought it would be a great idea to pack some gunnage. Unfortunately, Grant doesn’t seem to know what a “safety” is, or have a proper harness for his new toy.
On Sunday night, when the gun slipped from his waistband, Grant trying to catch the gun, ended up shooting himself in the package.
Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark.
The 15 year old hobbled home to Mommy, who took him to the hospital where he was treated, released and promptly arrested for reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo[/youtube]
He is soooooo grounded.
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By Kimberly Miller for 92.3 NOW
Night time eating has been a debate for years.
While some diet gurus say we should put our forks down after 7pm, others say it’s not when you eat but the amount of calories you consume that matters.
Personally, I’ve always been a proponent of the latter, but I may just have been proven wrong. Researchers at Northwestern University decided to delve further into the great weight debate by researching the circadian rhythms of mice and eating. Many scientific studies start with mice and move on to humans, so take this information with a mouse sized grain of salt.
Researchers played around with the eating habits of mice; feeding both the control group and the experimental group exactly the same diet for the duration of the six week study. What they found was surprising, at least to me, the experimental group, eating the majority of their calories closer to bedtime, gained 48% more weight than the control group.
That’s a lot of weight!
Could the timing of our meals be effecting the human waist line? The same sort of study for humans is in the works, but I won’t be volunteering. I’ll be keeping the majority of my calorie intake to the daylight hours. You know, just in case.
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By Kimberly Miller for 92.3 NOW
A Secretary of State’s job is never done…
Not only does Hilary Clinton have diplomacy to deal with on a daily basis, she also has to weed out potential suitors for her only child, Chelsea.
On a recent trip to Kenya, a seemingly pretty well off gentleman offered 40 goats and 20 cows to Hilary in return for Chelsea’s hand in marriage. No she didn’t run off screaming… she graciously, told the fellow “My daughter is her own person, very independent, so I will convey this very kind offer.”
Thanks mom… pass the buck, make that poor girl break this guys heart.
I think Hilary’s answer shows class, more so than Bill when the same offer (20 cows, 40 goats) was made for Chelsea’s hand back in 2000, by a different Kenyan man. Bill just said, “No.” Ouch.
Besides knowing that Hil is better with diplomacy, now we also know that Kenyans have a thing for Chelsea Clinton. All in all, a great day of learning.
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We’ve all been there, right?
The girl or guy wearing enough eau de stink on the subway to force you to give up your seat and move to the other end of the car? Some people just don’t have proper spritz-ing etiquette.
Well get this… a woman in Texas cleared out a bank with her perfume.
Lady Reek, was bored on line, I guess, when she decided to freshen her scent and spritz the unknown perfume all over her. Within minutes, a few of the bank tellers complained of chest pains and headaches. Bank officials made the announcement that anyone feeling ill should vacate the bank and all 150 people inside jetted for the door, twelve of which were sent to the hospital.
The fire department was called to investigate what they thought was a carbon monoxide leak, but instead found only traces of perfume.
Let this be a lesson to you, leave the spritzer at home.
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By Kimberly Miller for 92.3 NOW FM
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