Aren’t you curious about my new tenant? Come on with a name like Vandelay Industries – for a bl0g? You must wonder. Go on, check out my site and then move on to my renters for a visit. 🙂
And in Wrestling news
Can you imagine being trapped in these jaws?
A 61 year old Australian woman Alicia Sorohan was recently awarded Australia’s star of bravery which recognizes citizens for outstanding acts of bravery.
In October, 2004 she was camping with friends on the Northern Cape York Peninsula when she was awakened early one morning byt the sound of screaming. The family friend, Andrew Kerr, was being dragged out of his tent by a 300kg 4 metre long salt water crocodile.
Lucky for Kerr, Sorohan had eaten her Wheaties that morning and she promptly “did what anyone would do” (Would You?) and jumped onto it’s back and started wrestling with it to free her friend from the jaws of the large reptile.
Disrupted from it’s attempt at a free meal the croc turned on her, breaking her nose and almost ripping her arm off before the gigantic crocodilian was shot by her son Jason. Sorohan sustained permanent damage to her arm, stating she doesn’t have full movement. Repairs included two permanent plates and 12 screws in her arm.
She says “It was pretty scary but it’s one of those things – if you see someone in trouble you’ve got to help them. He was a big one but I’d do the same again.” Sorohan and her family have since returned to the campsite, reasoning that there is risk anywhere, and that she could just as easily be run over by a bus while crossing the road.
That’s one brave lady!
BTW I didn’t add this story to enforce the fear of reptiles in people. I’m actually a reptile owner and one of my good internet friends Dr. Adam Britton does quite a bit of research on Crocodile and alligator populations worldwide.
To die for parking tickets
Creative new way to get out of paying parking fines:
Kimberly Du of Iowa wanted to avoid paying her parking tickets. So much so that she faked her own death to avoid paying the $500 fine. Du went so far as to write her own phoney obituary, made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register’s website. She also forged a letter telling a judge that she had died in a car crash.
Wouldn’t there have been a police report for the car crash? Especially if it resulted in someone’s death? Perhaps criminal charges if another driver were involved? I guess the judge didn’t check on the letter or the obituary because Du was caught one month later when she received another parking ticket. I’ve heard of zealous traffic police, but ticketing the dead is taking it too far. 🙂
Du now faces up to five years in prison for fraud.
What have you done to get out of paying parking tickets?
Confederate Dress
Now I always thought that going to your prom meant getting dressed up in a fancy gown, having a great date to enjoy the night with, partying with your friends and perhaps being chauffeured around in your first ever limo rental.
Am I right? Isn’t that what most girls dream of for prom night?
Well it seems that Jacqueline Duty, of Lexington, Ky. had slightly different thoughts. She wanted to celebrate her heritage by wearing a Confederate flag prom dress. It seems to School district didn’t like her choice of Prom wear and they decided to ban her from the prom. This took place back in 2004. Jacqueline sued the school district and the county and won an out of court settlement valued at $50,000.
Poor girl, she missed the prom but ended up with a windfall!