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Wednesday August 15, 2007

- 2 Police Chief Chu’s first day and his boys are already shootin’ up the place. In all fairness, anyone that knocks a veteran police officer unconscious with a chain is going to get got. Or at least tasered, you know?

+1 The entire contents of failed living museum Storeyum–including the 100,000 square foot facility itself–are up for auction this Thursday. In an effort to encourage sales and unload inventory, actors will be sold six for one.

- 5 A Japanese biker fails to notice his leg is missing after a crash and bikes away, thus furthering the stereotype that Asians have far less sensitivity in their limbs than regular people.

+3 A Spanish company has announced plans to open the first ever hotel in outer space in 2012. How you gonna fake this one, NASA?

- 6 Toronto and Vancouver consider tougher laws for panhandlers, but admit they still have no idea how to enforce these laws.

+4 In a double dose of irony, the once prestigious Miss America Pageant is moving to cable network TLC, which once stood for The Learning Channel.

+ 1 An Alberta blogger inspired by Hunter S.Thompson and Eric Cartman was acquitted for threatening to kill PM Harper on his blog. The judge was comforted to know that no one actually read the man’s blog.

Today: - 5 This Year: +189