Yes it’s true, some guy in Fontana, CA had such a craving for carnitas that he robbed a guy on a bicycle at gunpoint for $20 worth of tacos. Now I love a good carnitas taco as much as (or more than) the next guy but that’s kind of silly. And what was the victim doing with that may tacos? Around here that would be enough food for 3-4 people, wonder if he had some half-baked friends waiting for him at home? That’s a sad thought: the poor courier showing up at the house empty handed, the wailing of two other stoners about the lack of munchies. What a shame.

FONTANA, Calif. (AP) - A hunger for carnitas nearly led to some carnage after a Fontana man was robbed of a bag of tacos at gunpoint.

Police Sergeant Jeff Decker said the 35-year-old victim had just bought about $20 in tacos from a street-corner stand Sunday night and was bicycling home when the suspect confronted him and said “Give me your tacos.”

Decker said the suspect grabbed the bag of food, punched the victim in the face and began to flee.

When the victim demanded his tacos back, the suspect pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the man and threatened to kill him before running away.

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Yep, the Christ Redeemer statue in Brazil took a lightning strike on the shoulder recently, made for quite a picture.

Story here

This is probably the most handwriting I’ve seen on one piece of currency:

I’ve seen two horrible vanity plates lately that deserve to be mocked.

“WIFSCAD” was on a new pearl white Cadillac DTS. Something tells me she didn’t pick out that plate herself.

“SIXVI6″ must be a guy who really wants to show the world his love for Satan. I wonder what he put in the explanation section of the application to get it by the censor (or maybe the censors only care about sex & drugs, not Satan).  He probably thinks he’s soooo clever.

I originally saw this a long time ago but today when a guy at work asked if I had heard of LARPing (sadly I have) I decided to  hunt down the image and post it myself. I don’t know about you but I find it quite humorous and based on some grain(s) of truth. If you don’t know what LARPing is just go to YouTube and search on LARP and you’ll be horrified. Lightning Bolt!!

Boy this one is wacky: not only does a cat fly from Florida to Texas in a suitcase but it isn’t even the owner who opens up the suitcase. Can you imagine picking up someone else’s suitcase by mistake, getting all the way home with it and then seeing a cat jump out when you open it?

I actually originally saw this story on my cell phone but found the full story at the AP web site when I got home. And wait, it gets better, while looking for this story I ran across another story where a Canadian lady ended up checking her cat by mistake also. This story was titled Cat is out of the bag on Saint John Airport Security though, leave it to the media to make everything sound scary.

“They had asked me, when they put … the luggage through the X-ray, whether I had a turkey,” Martell said.

“[Security] kept going back and forth with [the suitcase],” Martell said. “I was adamant. ‘Look, I have no turkey.’”

These cool sculptures were on the back page of Reason magazine this month and I thought that they were just cool looking in their own right but there’s more: they are made solely from objects seized (rightly or wrongly) by TSA agents at airport screenings. Read all about it in the original article.

This fella got some great pictures of the Fleet Week air show in San Francisco recently. Take special note of the Blue Angels shots, I can’t believe how low they got.

A friend at work sent me this link to some nice NASA photos from the shuttle Endeavour, no idea what the source is though. I swear the third one looks like a model though.

Here’s Terry’s memorable (if obvious) quote of the day:

Proactive is proactive until it is reactive.