I promised you a picture of the BOSS chair and there it is. A hundred and two jails throughout the United Kingdom have installed these chairs at the cost of $10,000.00 each. BOSS stands for "Body Orifice Security Scanner". Prisoners sit in it and their butts are given a non-intrusive scan for contraband, such as drugs, weapons and cell phones. CELL PHONES!!?? This is why, again, I say never buy a used cell phone. You just don't know where's it been. Ten thousands dollars is a lot of money, but for the corrections officers who used to have to do this job by hand, it's worth every penny.Happy Birthday today to Clint Black.
He's 47.Speaking of being 47, there was a "psychic" by the name of Jeanne Dixon. She was very popular back in the 60's and 70's. Like most so-called psychics, her predictions were always very cryptic, very vague, very non-committal. This way, whenever something major would happen in the world, she would then spin her ramblings to make it appear that she had actually predicted it. Fantasy peddlers do the same thing with the writings of Nostradamus. Dixon fooled a lot of people. Of course, if you're the type of person who is bent in believing this sort of thing, it doesn't take much. To this day, many people believe she predicted the Kennedy (JFK) assassination. She didn't. What does this have to do with being 47? Dixon once said that the Antichrist was born on February 5, 1962. That means that person would be 47 tomorrow. So, if you know or work with someone whose celebrating a birthday tomorrow and is 47, I'd keep a close eye on that person.
Planning a trip to New York City? I can tell you where NOT to stay.
The Hotel Carter has once again earned the title "The World's Dirtiest & Worst Hotel" onTripAdvisor.com. People who have written reviews of the hotel on TripAdvisor.com say the place has roaches, rats, mold, bed bugs and "mysterious" stains. One guest said, "The Bathroom made me want to vomit." Another guest advised to "not look under the bed!", probably referring to a 2007 incident in which a maid found a dead body in a trash bag under a mattress...........not under the bed, under the MATTRESS. A dead body under the mattress!!???? It sounds like the Sicilian version of "The Princess & The Pea". The current manager of the Hotel Carter says they've recently made improvements and cleaned things up. What does that mean? They put the dead body in a brand new Hefty Bag? An on-duty desk clerk recently interviewed said "Most people don't spend much time in the rooms anyway." Gee, I wonder why. Go to Wikipedia and look up Hotel Carter and read through the "memorable events and dates". If you have a twisted sense of humor (which I do), you will laugh your butt off.
Before we get into this last story, I'm sure just about all of you, at one time or another, have been driving down the highway and you saw what they used to call chain gangs. Obviously, we don't chain them together anymore, but the basic idea is the same. It's a bunch a prisoners from a local jail picking up litter and cleaning the highway. I always supported that idea. Put these deadbeats out to work and do some community service instead of sitting around watching Hanna Montana reruns and and working out in the prison gym. Well, here's the case of Mario Mendez of San Diego, California. You know, New York is nuts, but when it comes to real, hardcore, off-the-chart insanity, you just can't beat California. Mendez lives along Route 54 and he got sick and tired of the litter along his street. So, he went out, on his own, voluntarily and decided to start cleaning it up. He expected nothing in return, except to be able to live along a cleaner highway. It turns out that in California, you are not allowed to pick up litter and garbage unless you join the "Adopt A Highway" program. It also happens that there's a statewide moratorium on new applications for the "Adopt A Highway" program. Mendez was told that if he continues to pick up trash without a permit, he'd be given a ticket. If he continued to do it beyond that, he'd be arrested. Now.........let's say he repeatedly defies the law and goes out and picks up trash along the roadside. He'll be arrested and go to jail, and when he gets to jail, what will they do with him? THEY'LL SEND HIM OUT WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER PRISONERS TO PICK UP TRASH ALONG THE ROADSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know. Is it me?
