December 4th, 2007 at 12:01 am
A sculpture in a Norfolk gallery caused a stir among some residents in November forcing the removal of the Buddha statue. Police told staff that the figure was offensive.
The piece was called A Trilogy: The Iconoclasts and it featured the religious figure with it’s genitals comprised of a banana and eggs!
In other strange statue news:
Yorkshire residents were bemused by the appearance of 19 carved stone heads. The heads were adorned with a symbol that seemed to spell Paradox. The heads showed up in Goathland, Kilburn, Rotherham and Arthrington and they had a note attached which read “Twinkle twinkle like a star, does love blaze less from afar?”
Were these stone heads a message for a loved one? Perhaps.
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January 28th, 2007 at 4:42 am
This past October National Public Radio reported that there might be thousands of prison inmates using cell phones while in jail.
The problem with this of course is that cell phones are contraband in all correctional facilities.
The problem has gotten so bad that Maryland State Senator Ed DeGrange said he was sitting at his desk when an inmate called him on his cell phone with a list of general complaints!
A warden in Texas also reported that he had received a call from the mother of an inmate demanding that the warden do something to improve cell phone reception in the prison so that she could talk to her son easily.
I guess we might as well oblige the inmates and set up their cells like the photo above?
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December 6th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Do you think this fitness club went too far?
Albert Argibay of Beacon New York, ended up being escorted by police from a gym earlier this week. Why? Because he was grunting, which is apparently against Planet Fitness’ rules. The club wants to maintain a non-intimidating atmosphere. Planet fitness markets itself as a judgment free Zone.
This is recent trend in gyms and fitness clubs – no hogging of machines, can’t wear flip flogs, and no grunting.
Argibay, who is a 40 year old corrections officer, stated “Perhaps I grunted, perhaps I didn’t. It’s open to interpretation”. He’d had his headset on when he was lifting 500 pounds on a squat machine.
Posted in the gym are rules that state that members cannot wear bandannas, grunt or bang weights on the ground. If an offender is spotted a lunk alarm sounds to warn the member. There is at least one expulsion every two weeks across the locations, said Mike Grondahl, CEO of Planet Fitness. He said grunting and dropping weights are the most common offenses.
The gyms general manager, Carol Palazzolo, said that the grunt that Argibay emitted Monday evening, a peak time for gyms, could be heard from across the room, even though “the place was a zoo.”
“He was looking directly at me and he did it four times,” she said. “I’m not a doctor, but as far as I know, a grunt is a noise that comes out of one’s body that is loud and is intimidating.”
When the manager confronted him an argument took place, and the police were called in, Argibay was escorted out of the gym, but no charges were filed.
“It’s an embarrassing situation to be in, over a grunt,” Argibay said.
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