Australian Fireworks, Italian Nudes & German Directions
January 1st 2007 22:25
Australians welcoming in the New Year, A Cop Who Dislikes His Uniform, And An Imprecise German Gentleman......
NEWS:
Millions of people around Australia became some of the first in the world to celebrate the New Year, due to proximity to the international date-line.
Free concerts and dazzling fireworks helped welcome in 2007. There were more arrests than probably necessary and a riot in Victoria which marred the celebration - but all in all, a good time was had by all (mostly, except those arrested and involved in the riot). Once again, about 1 million people gathered around the Sydney Harbor to enjoy the fireworks .
VIEWS:
Those Australians get all the fun first again.
NEWS:
Seems like President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense will not be going to former President Gerald Ford’’s funeral after all. In July 2004 Ford made the statement, in an interview with reporter Bob Woodward, on condition that his words not be reported until after President Ford’s death,"I don't think I would have gone to war,".
President Ford further intimated that the primary reason for the Iraq war that the current administration gave to the public regarding ““weapons of mass destruction”” was a sham (which turned out to be true).
President Bush apparently has refused to cut into his vacation at his Texas ranch; Cheney has stated that the snow in Florida keeps him from attending (only snow reported in Florida is a small amount in the northeast part of the state) and Rumsfeld is just not going, no excuses necessary.
VIEWS:
The present administration certainly has a lot of class - mostly third. Gerald Ford came to the Presidency in a time of need for stability and sensibility - after Nixon had disgraced himself and the county with the Water-gate coverup. Come on, guys - show some class for once. Wasn’t President Bush vacationing in Texas when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans after much prior warning that the catastrophe was about to occur. Doesn’t anybody ever watch the store in D.C.?
Sergeant Greg Abrahams and two other of “New York’’s finest” were arrested on charges of assault. Seems that after the Sargent parked his car and went on duty, the three were dispatched to a call regarding a “Suspicious man inside a vehicle.”
It turns out that Alcado Gaspar of Brooklyn decided to steal the sergeant’s car, and things got out of hand, tempers and all, and the police officers allegedly beat the man up.
VIEWS:
One wonders if the same result would have occurred had Mr. Gaspar chosen a normal “Civilian’’s” car to steal. Hmmm
NEWS;
Tobi Gutt of Germany booked a flight online for Sydney, Australia - he thought.
Instead, he ended up in Billings, Montana, US, scheduled to board a commuter flight to Sidney, Montana.
Mr. Gutt was dressed in only a t-shirt and shorts, all prepared for the Australian summer, only to find himself in the middle of the Montana winter. Missed Sidney by13,000 km (8,077 mi) and instead of being “down-under, found himself “up-over.”
He had to wait 3 days at the Billings’’ airport for money from his parents to get a flight from there to Australia in his shorts, t-shirt and a thin jacket.
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That’’s funny; reminds you of “Wrong Way” Corrigan who was an experienced aviator back in 1938. Douglas Corrigan, about 31 at the time, started a trip from New York with the intention of flying to California.
After he landed in Ireland, he was tagged with the nickname “Wrong Way Corrigan,” became legendary, and a folk hero back in the days of the waning “Great Depression.”
To this day, people refer to anyone who goes the wrong way, as a “Wrong Way Corrigan. Now we also have “Wrong Way Tobi”
NEWS:
More police news. Seems an unnamed Italian policeman lost his job after being seen cross dressing (women’s earrings, t-shirt, and a mini skirt). Also neighbors had complained that he washed his car in the nude.
He argued to a local court that he was off-duty and the situation was not anybody’s business but his own, and not illegal. The court denied him his job back saying he displayed no sense of moral values and no respect for the police force.
VIEWS:
I guess it could have been worse. He could have been in the Montana winter with Tobi Gutt in his t-shirt and mini skirt. Brrr
THANKS FOR READING EVERYONE, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR’S!
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