I'm Famous... Well, kind of!

[Mose]

Wow... I woke up earlier this week, turned on the news and what did I see? My small little hometown all over the national press. Unfortunately its b/c some idiot decided he was going to blow up the White House with gasoline and citris cleaner, but at least we're being mentioned and at least he was kind of enough to make sure it would have smelled nice!

This is actually the 2nd time we've been on CNN. The first was for dumbest criminal of the year after a former employee robbed our Burger King (day after he was fired mind you) without wearing a mask. To make it even better, his buddy who was filling up the getaway van with gas was sidetracked and just bought a candybar instead. Needless to say they ran out of gas, in the winter, and walked through the SNOW to hide their loot. They couldn't figure out how the cops were able to follow them and find the money...

I'm beginning to have 2nd thoughts about sending my son to our public schools :)

I realize this is a little late... the story is now old news, but I've been diagnosed with some weird virus and am confined to bed so ya'll are going to have to put up with me posting a lot of random and insipid thoughts!

[Richard Hell]

Wow... I woke up earlier this week, turned on the news and what did I see? My small little hometown all over the national press. Unfortunately its b/c some idiot decided he was going to blow up the White House with gasoline and citris cleaner, but at least we're being mentioned and at least he was kind of enough to make sure it would have smelled nice!



This is actually the 2nd time we've been on CNN. The first was for dumbest criminal of the year after a former employee robbed our Burger King (day after he was fired mind you) without wearing a mask. To make it even better, his buddy who was filling up the getaway van with gas was sidetracked and just bought a candybar instead. Needless to say they ran out of gas, in the winter, and walked through the SNOW to hide their loot. They couldn't figure out how the cops were able to follow them and find the money...

I'm beginning to have 2nd thoughts about sending my son to our public schools :)

I realize this is a little late... the story is now old news, but I've been diagnosed with some weird virus and am confined to bed so ya'll are going to have to put up with me posting a lot of random and insipid thoughts!

Get Well soon so I can here some more random things

[r3port3r66]

That's OK Mose, just get better soon (MMMMMM...confined to bed...)! Anyway, I didn't know citrus cleaner was an ingredient in home-made bombs--they don't showcase that on the infommercial! "Great for shower scum, oven grease, and blowing up the President! Get yours today with 3 easy payments of 12.99!"

[Mose]

Yeah... you really need to understand what my town is like though. When I moved here back in '94 or so it was a town of 3,000 people, had 3 trailer parks and 3 or 4 mobile home dealers... Now that's white trash baby!

[SamsoniteDelilah]

Congrats!
I know the feeling, sort of. My little hometown is the Chicken Dinner Capital of the WORLD. whee! That's seriously their claim to fame. Except in '84, when we had a reporter go undercover right after the big drug bust. :rolleyes:

[Mose]

Congrats!
I know the feeling, sort of. My little hometown is the Chicken Dinner Capital of the WORLD. whee! That's seriously their claim to fame. Except in '84, when we had a reporter go undercover right after the big drug bust. :rolleyes:

I can beat that! Not only are we home to one of the most moronic Presidential assasins, we are also the Red Flannel Capital. Yup, at one point we produced more Red Flannels (the kind with the little butt flap on back) than anywhere else in the world. Heck, we even have a parade every year! It was big news when I was in high school b/c Ronald McDonald AND Barney were going to be in the parade at the same time. Needless to say we were perched inside a friend's bedroom window with water balloons in hand... It was a glorious site watching that fat purple bastard dive for cover! Viva la resistance!

[Tea Barking]

Ronald McDonald AND Barney! Man that must of been fantastic! :eek:

[Piddzilla]

A few months ago there was a story on the biggest news channel here that Fox News had gone to the main city in the region in Sweden where I live, called Malmö. They wanted to do a story about how muslim and arab immigrants had "invaded" Malmö and caused riots and battles with the police and innocent civilians and were the root to all kinds of social problems. They showed Fox's story on swedish national tv and it was hillarious. Only, I can't understand how anyone can take these guys seriously.

[Lance McCool]

Yeah... you really need to understand what my town is like though. When I moved here back in '94 or so it was a town of 3,000 people, had 3 trailer parks and 3 or 4 mobile home dealers... Now that's white trash baby!

Well, I think that my little hamlet is a tad worse than yours, Mose. Vise President Gore was passing through the region while campaining back in '96 and our grand gift to him was a sack of dirty potatoes. Potatoes...

[Garrett]

I'm beginning to have 2nd thoughts about sending my son to our public schools


:laugh:

we are also the Red Flannel Capital.

I was somewhere in Michigan once that was the Red Flannel Capitol... you might have some competition (unless that's where you're from).

[Mose]

You must have been to Cedar Springs... It's a small world :)