Timothy Paez is the man. He’s got moves that, well, nobody else has ever tried. And with good reason. The only date he picked up last Saturday night was an arraignment date. Paez went out to Shooter’s Bar & Grill in Boulder, Colorado. At 11:45, a woman caught his eye, and Paez knew better than…
It’s to be expected that tensions are heightened at movie theaters around the country following the recent mass murder at a theater in Aurora, Colorado. It’s no surprise then that police were called by theater employees in Cookeville, TN, when a patron was seen with a holstered gun. When police arrived, they made an annoucement…
44-year-old David Martin Escamillo was drunk, and he was angry. He had just gotten into an altercation with another moviegoer. He stood up in the aisle and shouted “This Is It”, triggering a stampede of the audience out the door of the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises”. Wary after last week’s movie theater…
In 1979, after a stampeded at an Ohio concert by The Who killed 11 people, Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Buddy Cianci cancelled the upcoming The Who concert. Most fans, while disappointed, got their refunds. But a few lazy fans didn’t bother and kept the worthless piece of paper for 33 years. Now some of them…
It’s been a tough summer for 63 year old Everglades City airboat captain Wallace Weatherholt. On June 12, an alligator jumped out of the water as he dangled a fish, biting off his hand. Though wildlife officials were able to track and kill the 9 foot alligator, and removed the hand from its stomach, doctors…
It has been said that life is highway. For two twins born to Siobhan Anderson, the beginning of life is a highway. Mrs. Anderson and her husband were en route to the hospital, when the twins could wait no longer. The first was born on a stretcher on the side of the Southern State Parkway,…
What do you do when a customer keels over and dies in the middle of your fast food restaurant? If you’re the manager of a certain Croatian McDonald’s, the answer is apparently to cover her with a sheet and continue selling your heart-stopping Big Macs and french fries. The company denies the restaurant remained open,…
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit and founder of Dozuki. Wiens caught our attention this week due to a piece he wrote which appeared on a Harvard Business Review blog. Wiens gives all potential hires a mandatory grammar test, and rejects candidates who don’t pass. If you think an apostrophe was one of the…
Hell hath no fury like.. well.. a Casey James Fury anxious. Fury became anxious and wanted to leave work and as a result he will likely never have to worry about work again. The 24 year old Fury was working as a sandblaster and painter on the nuclear submarine USS Miami while it was in…
A quote in today’s Wall Street Journalabout mass murdering theater shooter James Egan Holmes reminded us of the classic Arlo Guthrie song, Alice’s Restaurant. In an attempt to get out of army service, Guthrie’s character presents himself to the psychiatrist as a crazy killer- which is apparently just what the army is looking for: And…