Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Martinsville Tickets, Texting While Driving & A Little Something Extra With Your Potato Chips.
The Answer to this morning's More's Mystery: Richard Heene, the father of Balloon Boy.
Over the course of the next two days, we will be giving away tickets to the Tums Fast Relief 500 Sprint Cup Race coming up at Martinsville this Sunday. I'll be giving away a pair of tickets tomorrow morning and Friday morning. In addition, the Thunder Road Crew will be out and about both afternoons with more chances to win. They'll be Liberty Pawn & Gold on Route 3 in Fredericksburg tomorrow afternoon and Farmer's Foods on Main Street in Louisa Friday afternoon. Keep listening for details, but get ready to win those tickets starting tomorrow morning!!!!
In the "I Smell A Lawsuit Coming" department: Jack Hines of Havre, Montana, a 66 year-old former laborer and contractor says he was snacking on some Frito-Lay potato chips last week, when he reached into the bag and pulled out a deep-fried mouse. Jared Dougherty, a spokesperson for Frito-Lay, says the claim is "unsubstantiated". He added that a representative of the company has gone out to Montana to retrieve the ban AND the mouse. Hines took a picture of the mouse (which I haven't been able to find online). Dougherty says the photo makes him "very skeptical" that the mouse entered the bag during the manufacturing process. Hines had the bag at home for about two weeks before he opened it, and Frito believes it was sometime during those two weeks that the mouse entered the bag...................................but deep-fried??
Anyway, it's great to know that potato chips now come with a secret prize in the bag.
My vacation last week was hardly a relaxing week off. As many of you know, I have a stage show, a club act that I do and often work on weekends. In October, every weekend, I work Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey. This particular show is called HYPNOSTERIA. I do eight shows per weekend at a venue called The Showcase Theater. It's a 1,200-seat theater, and I'm proud of the fact that we pack the theater for every show. In fact, the show has been running for ten years! So, the bottom line is I did eighteen shows during vacation (we were open for Columbus Day as well).
I was driving up to Jersey. I had just gotten on to 95 North, right around Stafford Airport, when I looked over at the car to my left and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was a young lady, maybe around the age of 18 or 19. She was in the car by herself and driving at around the same speed I was, around 65 - 70 miles per hour. I know some people do this all the time, but I've never actually seen it with my own eyes. SHE WAS TEXT MESSAGING WHILE DRIVING!!! I seriously wished I could pull her over to inform her of how stupid she was being, because obviously she was clueless.
The reason I bring this up is because there was a new Rassmussen poll out this morning (which we talked about on the air) showing 91% of adults would approve of banning texting while driving (which I believe they did here in Virginia recently). 30% say it's more dangerous than drinking and driving.
70% said they believe it's even more dangerous than riding in a car being driven by Nick Nolte.
posted by Denny # 5:23 PM 
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