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Tax payers should be angry

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Municipal waste?

The Havering town council in Romford, England, prepared a 300-page report in October, which was the result of a 12-month investigation, to find out who had heckled a speaker at a zoning meeting by making “baaa” noises. The authors said they had narrowed the list of suspects.

Can you believe a council would be created and money wasted to find a heckler? Is it so bad to be Baaaahed at a zoning meeting? I guess it is. If I was a tax payer in Romford they’d be hearing a lot more than Baaaing right now.

In September, London’s mayor Ken Livingstone defended his downtown anti-pigeon program, which consisted of empowering two hawks to scare the birds away, even though the three-year cost of the program, including a handler, was the equivalent of more than $400,000, which reduced the menace by 2,500 pigeons, or about $170 a bird.

The hawks probably got rid of a lot more than pigeons too. I think I’d be afraid to let a small dog or a cat outdoors there.






Most boring Art exhibit

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Simon Pope’s “Gallery Space Recall” exhibit at the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, in October is a startlingly empty room, with patrons called upon to supply the art by imagining another art show they have seen so that, wrote Pope, the two exhibits “exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there.”

Pope wrote that the exhibit suggested the brain-injury disorder “reduplicative paramnesia,” in which a person has a delusional belief that something exists at two places at once.

What about the people that have never been to an Art exhibit before? How could they imagine another exhibit that they attended? Art is supposed to be objective but I think this is going just a little bit too far.

Bush hides in the closet

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This past October, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was in Pittsburgh campaigning for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. Apparently Jeb Bush antagonized anti-Santorum demonstrators by blowing them a kiss. In the chaos that ensued Bush was forced to take refuge in a train station supply closet.

In other news Kansas state Rep. Vaughn Flora was charged with a misdemeanor after an October political event when he allegedly roughed up an anti-abortion protester dressed as a cockroach. Why would a protester dress as a cockroach? I think that’s a story in itself.

Last August, in Tampa, Tony Katz – a public-access TV host – threw a chair at his guest, county commission candidate Joe Redner, hitting him in the head after he had called Redner a liar and Redner had called him fat.

I thought politicians and TV Hosts were supposed to be refined folk? I guess not if this kind of behaviour proves anything.

Woman dies beside own grave

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How eerie is this? A Dutch woman, who had already planned her own funeral and purchased her plot after her husbands death last year, was found dead next to the grave in Amsterdam where she wanted to be buried.

The widow, 65, probably died of a heart attack while she was visiting the family grave where her name, but no date, was already inscribed.

She had been carrying a bag with her that containing her will and had already organised details of her funeral including the music she wanted played.

I wonder if she really did just happen to die beside her own grave to be, or if she committed suicide? The report doesn’t state whether an autopsy was performed.

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