Tuesday, March 23, 2010

News Oddities For March

It's time once again for more news of the weird and wacky with a few comments by me thrown in for good measure.


A 25-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail. Authorities say he tried to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center. He was caught and hospitalized with severe cuts from the barbed wire. He had been released a week earlier after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.
**Is the food really that good in Florida prisons? Either that or he missed some of that sweet sweet inmate lovin'.**


Two golfers at a San Diego area country club sank a most unlikely pair of aces. Charles T. White nailed a hole-in-one on the ninth hole at Bernardo Heights Country Club. Next up in the foursome was Kitty Tinker, who matched it. A spokesman for the club confirmed the consecutive aces. A 2000 Golf Digest study calculated the odds of two golfers in the same foursome acing the same hole at 17 million to one.
**Even Tiger Woods has never seen that happen although that hasn't stopped him from trying to sink more than one in the same night before.**


A college student proposed to his girlfriend on a New Jersey Transit bus at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal. Leora Feigenbaum was on her way home from Manhattan when a Port Authority employee escorted the 20-year-old from the back of the line to the bus. On board, she found flowers, decorations and boyfriend Adam Frohlinger holding an engagement ring. Frohlinger, who is 21, says he picked the bus because he knew it was the last place his girlfriend would expect a proposal.
**Really, do ya think so? I'm sure all girls dream of being proposed to on a bus with the sweet smell of urine hanging in the air and the dazzling array of day old newspapers and garbage lining the floor.**

OK, I never promised my punchlines would be funny.

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