SNIPPETS

THURSDAY,  JULY 2,  2009

LONDON (Reuters) - A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day "live sculpture" exercise.  "One & Other" is a work devised by sculptor Antony Gormley for the square's empty plinth, now a platform for temporary works of art.

Trafalgar Square commemorates Britain's victory in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805).  And this is what it's come to.

KALAMAZOO, Mich., July 1 (UPI) -- A Michigan college student was sentenced to 180 days for what the judge described as "the dumbest crime I've heard today" -- stealing a computer from a jail.  William Bradley, 25, a student at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, was convicted of larceny after he took a computer that was delivered to the jail while he was serving a sentence for a separate case and concealed it behind some trash bins to be picked up later, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported Wednesday.

What really should be investigated are the admissions standards at Western Michigan.

WEDNESDAY,  JULY 1,  2009

From AP:  Fox Snatches Lunch From Boy Before Attacking Woman, 76

The lefties are correct.  It's a violent news network.

JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 30 (UPI) -- Police said a gun-wielding man who robbed a New Jersey gas station was holding a potato in his free hand.  Investigators said the man entered the Gulf station in Jersey City near the Holland Tunnel with a gun in one hand and the potato in the other, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reported Tuesday.

Everyone knows that gas station owners are afraid of potatoes.

ARLINGTON, Wash., June 30 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said a woman accused of stealing money from her ex-husband's bank account said her dog's actions forced her to commit the crime..."Her dog got into her purse and ate all her personal checks," police spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said. The spokeswoman said the ex-wife told police she felt like she had no choice but to take money from the victim's account.

This provides Obama with a perfect explanation of where all the bailout money went.  You know, all those dogs out there...

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