The Economy in One Lesson: A nixed subdivision site in Skyway has become an illegal dumping ground. The developer is unreachable and the county can’t act without a court order.
It’s Good to be a Cop: A Snohomish County cop allegedly left his radio on while having sex on duty in his squad car. The poor guy is now on paid administrative leave. I’m shedding a tear.
A Happy Democrat: With the top two Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee sent home, SeaTac’s Adam Smith is gunning for the ranking job. Area defense contractors figure to be pleased.
Hey, Sugar Tits: Maryland official caught in a bribe scandal had his wife hide $80k in her bra. They also flushed a check for $100k.
Another Interesting Lottery Winner: Last week it was a nice gay couple in Canada winning God’s favor. This week it was employees from a porn shop in Michigan.
One More of the PIIGS Comes to the Bailout Trough: Following in the footsteps of Greece, Ireland is in talks to get a bailout from the EU. Irish housing values have fallen 50-60% since 2008. Will the Germans say no this time?
Fight Clubs in Canada: Canadian schoolboys attract attention for friendly fighting. Isn’t putting a fight on YouTube violating the first rule of Fight Club? I guess lame trend stories aren’t just an American phenomenon.
Tears for the Tiergarten: A fire at a zoo in Karlsruhe, Germany killed 26 animals. Among the dead were “ponies, sheep, goats and a llama.”
Best News of the Day: Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. She immediately held a meeting with other dissidents. That’s courage.
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Doesn’t it seem like some of these news interns hang around forever? An internship is only supposed to be like 3 months or something right?
Worse still, that cop probably wasn’t even married to that moaning woman in his patrol car.
I like Unpaid Intern, I think it’s funny how he manages to get everyone all riled up, me included. Besides, who else is going to start your day with a little patrol car sex? (…and FYI, the cops, and Navy SEALS, and etc. are always doing stuff like that in “Bad Boys in Uniform”, it’s no biggie…)
Yippee! I’m moving from Seattle to Prince Georges County in Maryland at the end of the year. Not even there yet and they have a better political scandal going than anything I’ve seen in 21 years in the Northwest (with the possible exception of Rep. Richard Curtis getting caught cross-dressing and rolled by a male hooker in Spokane).
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I have never, ever had sex in a patrol car.
Well, unless you count blowjobs, but Bill Clinton says that’s not sex, so I’m OK.
Wonder how long before someone makes a porno parody of the whole cop car bit?
@8 Done repeatedly.
@4: only someone who is putting effort into being ignorant could compare this guy to either of those people.
Also: “paid administrative leave”. Ha. In any other situation, we’d call that a vacation. Why is it that when cops fuck up, they get rewarded?
From the article: “It was absolutely unacceptable, but does that make him a bad officer?” she asked.
Yes! Duh!
@5, I had sex with a Navy SEAL a couple of times. Nice endowment but he came too fast for my taste.
@11
I don’t want people to think that I’m soft on crime. See, the implication goes to my sexuality and ability to maintain an erection. That’s why I think all cops should be forgiven every indiscretion and mistake, even murder– my heterosexuality and virility depend on it.
Sorry, Cato, I don’t know what to tell you…in the books I’ve read, they always last about 45 minutes, and manage to put together a nice chicken cacciatore at the same time. Oh, and they’re all 6′ 5″…
Fifty-Two-Eighty–I’ve had sex in a squad car. My husband was a cop, I don’t remeber if he was on duty or not though. But it was fun!
How does someone hide $80K in her bra? There isn’t room for anything in my bra other than my tits. And if you’re blackmailing someone for $100K, why in the fuck would you take a check?
Regarding the people who don’t want to be “patted down” or X-Rayed at airports…
Which do you prefer:
(1) a frisk or X-Ray to determine if you are concealing any weapons or a bomb
(2) looking out the window of your airplane and seeing that you are about to smash into an office building?
These are your two choices. There are no others. “Low probability” is not the same as “impossible.”
“How can you be so obtuse? Is it deliberate?” Thus spake Andy Dufrense in [i]The Shawshank Redemption[/i]. It’s the same question I would ask the people who are seriously saying these frisks and X-Ray images are an invasion of privacy.
I do not want any of you people on my airplane! You have shit for brains, and it stinks.