Category Archives: Off Topic

Bumper Stickers Equate To Anger, Road Rage

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Interesting, but true in experience.
Bumper Stickers

A compelling but puzzling finding from Colorado State University says motorists who put bumper stickers on their cars are more likely to show aggressive road rage than those who don’t.

The key apparently lies in the idea of territoriality, according to the report, which is being published in several scientific journals.

Drivers who personalize their cars using bumper stickers, window decals and vanity plates, the researchers claim, see their cars in the same way as they see their homes and bedrooms — as deeply personal space, or primary territory.

Bumper Stickers Equate To Anger, Road Rage

Is This Why Teachers Need More Money?

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To support cocaine habits? The next time you get a letter from skool asking for permission to drug test your children, say “only if the faculty goes first…”

Raul Herrera Arteaga

Greenfield police and officials from the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office raided the north Salinas home of Raul Herrera-Arteaga on Tuesday morning, removing computers, animals and other items. When he returned to his home Tuesday afternoon, police said they found two bags of cocaine in his right sock and arrested him on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance.

Herrera was lodged at Monterey County Jail with bail set at $10,000.

Is This Why Teachers Need More Money?

Joy Colangelo – Darwin Theory In Practice

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I’ve been carless for three months after my car caught fire while being repaired at the dealer. I ride my bike daily and have lost 10 pounds, which I really didn’t need to lose. I eat more than my teenage children, who are junior Olympians.

I canceled my auto insurance. I fly by gas pumps and have a cholesterol ratio that defies science. But I don’t wear a helmet. And I don’t use bike lanes.

Okaaaaaay. In today’s Letters From The Editor, Greg Lindsey writes:

As a former traffic cop, I could only shake my head after reading Joy Colangelo’s column Sunday.

Apparently, she doesn’t understand the traffic laws applicable to bicycles. Riders are required to ride as far right on the roadway as possible. The only two general circumstances where a bicyclist can be out in traffic is when they’re making a left turn or are riding as fast as the traffic is moving.

Cycle Against Oil

Joy Colangelo – Darwin Theory In Practice

Cat Owners Just As Crazy

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Dog owners not alone .

Declawing.

Modesto police are blaming a scratching cat for an accident that toppled a power pole and shut down a street for nearly an hour.

A police sergeant said Friday that a woman was driving with a cat in her lap. The animal scratched her, and she drove into the pole.

The woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The cat was taken to a vet to treat an injured eye.

Cat Owners Just As Crazy

Ransom A Car? Right.

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Troy Hill

Troy William Hill. Add your name to the list of those arrested for being stupid: Nicholas Gore , Sean Conners and Kirby Bruno Jr.

The caller told the victim, who was not identified by police, that he would return the vehicle if she brought him $1,000. She was instructed to meet the caller at the McDonald’s in Sand City.

A surveillance and sting operation was conducted at the restaurant with the assistance of Monterey, Sand City, Seaside and Pacific Grove police departments, said Carmel police Sgt. Michael Calhoun.

Ransom A Car? Right.

Tree Kills Woman – In SF

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(KTVU 2 News)

SAN FRANCISCO — A woman is dead following a freak accident in which a fallen branch from a Redwood tree struck her near Stern Grove in San Francisco Monday.

The woman, who was possibly in her 50s, was letting her dog into her Subaru Outback in a parking lot off Sloat Boulevard at Sigmund Stern Grove when the branch fell and struck her and the car around 11:30 a.m.

Tree Kills Woman – In SF

Don’t Ever Mess With The Marines

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No matter how old or frail they look.
Usmc

SANTA ROSA – A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police said today.

The boy said, “Old man, give me your wallet or I’ll cut you,” Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.

The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over, Bair said.

Don’t Ever Mess With The Marines

Mexico Will Ban California Produce – LBAM

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Was anyone thinking about others’ fears? Want to think global or not?

Mothra

Mexican officials have banned all strawberries from the Central Coast if they are within 1.9 miles of a light brown apple moth meaning strawberries from fields like these off San Andreas Road likely won’t be going to Mexico.

If the ban stays in effect through this year’s strawberry season, it could cost county growers about $1.9 million in lost revenue, according to local estimates. Virtually no Santa Cruz County strawberries — by far the county’s largest crop — would be allowed across the border.

Mexico Will Ban California Produce – LBAM

Sam The Sham Calls Police Officers Nazis And Harbors Illegal Immigrants

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Farr Piggy

Farr made the remark Tuesday when Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chief Julie Meyers was addressing concerns about federal raids of illegal immigrants before the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, which Farr sits on.

“What happens is the public image of you becomes one of not this compassionate law enforcement agency but essentially a Gestapo-type agency that is knocking down doors,” Farr said, according to preliminary transcripts of the hearing.

Meyers interrupted Farr and said: “We are not the Gestapo.”

Replied Farr: “I appreciate that, and I know that. I’m just telling you that there is a very ill will public opinion in the counties I represent about ICE.”

Farr has not withdrawn the remark. He said it came from the impression many of his constituents have of ICE, which periodically rounds up people without proper documents and deports them.

Over in Sam’s represented county, crime is out of control, there are Mexican gang members shooting each other all over town at and hard working businesses getting robbed every week. Even the Mayor of Salinas had his home burglarized. It’s certainly not the ICE agents causing the crime wave, Sam the Sham shows his support for the criminals and not the protectors.

Sam The Sham Calls Police Officers Nazis And Harbors Illegal Immigrants