From My Journal - - Observations On The News

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
     A report written for Reuters by Letitia Stein, explains how many companies have a bring-your-son/daughter-to-work-day. In the same spirit, Corey, a self-employed Dad, found a way to do the same thing with his young son.

The self-employment was home burglary. This 22-year old Florida guy took his 5-month old to work with him as he acted as a lookout while his partner broke into a house.

    Corey saw the homeowner coming, so alerted his partner, who left in a hurry. The homeowner chased Corey down the alley where this dedicated father put his kid on the ground (the kid was in a car seat), so he could pull a knife on the homeowner.

    The police had a whole menu of charges to choose from, but they decided not to decide, and just threw the whole book at him.

    This might not be the best example of how to take your kid to work.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    You may have heard of truck surfing. It is the practice of driving you car close behind a truck in order to cut down on wind resistance and therefore get better gas mileage. In years past, when gas prices got overly high, like up to almost $1.00 per gallon, this was a somewhat common practice by people who’d risk their lives to save $.25 on a trip across the state.

    I haven’t heard of this practice being used lately, even with gas prices up around $4.00 per gallon. But we have one guy who tried it recently, although accidently.

This family was driving their mini-van in almost whiteout conditions, when they struck the rear end of the truck in front of them and got their van lodged under the truck. The family in the van called the State Patrol and asked them to stop the truck. Sixteen miles later, the police finally got the truck pulled over at a rest stop. The driver had no idea what was wrong.

    That’s what you’d call extreme surfing. 

    

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 Don’t you love people who can think outside of the box? Like the middle school principal in Alabama. Schools everywhere are learning how to handle school intruders. Classroom teachers learn how to barricade doors, and other useful things. In a recent communiqué, this principal is asking parents to send a can of corn and peas, to school with their kids. The object---if someone breaks into a classroom, the kids can throw these cans at the intruder and discourage them from hanging around. Or again, it just might make him mad enough to escalate his actions to another level.

    I can just hear two would-be school intruders discussing which school to hit. Pat suggests Swampscott Middle School. Mike says, “No way, they’ve got vegetables, we’re not messing with them.”