The NFH is going ape at the thought of someone “lifting” bundles of newspapers from our stands. One of our “spies” told us he saw someone taking a batch of papers from one of our distribution points. Not a good idea: There are laws against it! Taking a few newspapers is acceptable; the whole stack is NOT! We will give you more papers if you desire.Get this …In 1979, a man sued the Coors beer company for turning him into an alcoholic. He claimed that Coors beer should have had a label printed on the can warning drinkers that it contained alcohol.Desperate for love …“I was a desperate man,” said 41-year-old Los Angeles resident Charles Gonsoulin. Barred from entering Canada due to a 1984 robbery conviction, Gonsoulin decided to sneak across the border by walking from Pembina, N.D., to Winnipeg, Man., Canada, to visit a Canadian woman he met in an Internet chat room. The February walk “was a lot worse than I thought,” Gonsoulin said. “When I found him, he was babbling and incoherent,” said Cpl. Don McKenna of the RCMP. “He didn’t know who he was or where he was.” In 100 hours of walking through heavy snow, Gonsoulin only traveled 7 km (4-1/3 miles). “I will never regret it. I’m in love,” he said, despite never getting to meet his girlfriend, being deported back to the U.S., and losing five toes and all of his fingers to frostbite. (Canadian Press, Winnipeg Sun)…Well, so much for typing messages in chat rooms.Cat burglar … literallyMaggie Leonard discovered her cat was missing during her 11th birthday party. A neighbor, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., firefighter Christopher Cortes was charged with theft after he allegedly admitted stealing the cat, driving the cat about 40 miles to the Everglades, and dumping it there because it had scratched his truck. James Benjamin, Cortes’ attorney, said his client did the cat a favor by dropping him off in a rural area, rather than taking it to the pound. “He took him to a safe-looking place where there are a lot of mice,” he said. Nearly two weeks later, the cat arrived back home, having walked back on his own. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)…Cortes’ truck is in real trouble now.EDUCATIONAL TV:After arresting a 14-year-old burglar who ripped off about 10 homes and 90 cars in just over a week, police in Seminole, Fla., asked him how he did it. The unnamed teen said he learned it all by watching “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” on TV. “He told us he doesn’t watch it for enjoyment,” said a detective, “he watches to learn how to commit crimes.” (St. Petersburg Times) …Apparently he didn’t watch the end, when the bad guy is always caught.(Desperate, cat burglar, T.V. story from www.thisistrue.com)RUMORS
- Wal-Mart is replacing King Soopers? We keep hearing this, but our calls to the corporation have not been answered. Our NO KING SOOPERS stance is still firm. We have a call into the Regency Centers corporate office, but, again, no one has returned the call. We’ll keep trying.
- We heard there is a new bank going in next to Falcon Physical Therapy.
- What Falcon chiropractor shaved his head to raise funds for childhood cancer? (And then ignored the NFH deadline so we couldn’t publish his picture.)
