Humpday Happenings...
Just when you thought it was safe to roll the hell out of bed...
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the first telecast of Rod Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE.
Here's the link to the story: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/092909_twilight_zone_50th_anniversary
I loved this show...scared the HELL out of me, and when you're not even 10 years old, you CRAVE that crap like a diabetic craves sugar!
I still watch the eps on the Sci-Fi (I refuse to say SYFY) channel.
And, in many ways, I can picture Rod Serling HIMSELF standing in front of my house, doing a narrative for a yet undiscovered episode.
"Submitted for your approval...a man in middle life, with his wife of a dozen years...striving to just live their lives as normal people do. What they haven't figured out yet, is that their neighborhood has a secret...a secret that's been closely guarded from the rest of the city for decades. What this couple will experience will change the way THEY live forever. The denizens inhabiting this neighborhood will force this couple to look at everyone differently. It will cause them to fall...quite abruptly...into a world laced with illegal activities, aberrations beyond their ability to reason, and crime that will entrench them firmly...in the TWILIGHT ZONE."
Yeah, the neighborhood IS like that, unfortunately...But MAN, I'd love to see Serling narrate THAT.
Here we are again with some more things in our world (and city) that make you just toss up your hands and go: "WTF is goin' on here, anyway?"
** With ALL the "stuff" happening right here in the USofA, you'd "think" Mr. President would want to get some of it taken care of....
Think again.
He's off to Copenhagen (nice city) to "lobby" for getting the 2016 OLYMPICS to come to Chi-Town.
That's right, the VERY same Chicago where an honor student was BEATEN TO DEATH by thugs when he got caught up in the midst of a gang fight...yeah, THAT city.
And, quaintly enough, he was not the FIRST teen killed in the windy city this year (homicide count stands at 345...so far).
Here's two links to this tragic story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33057768/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/Teen_Beaten_To_Death_On_South_Side (warning - video is a bit graphic)
"Oh, yeah...I want MY Olympic team going to the games held in THAT city"....(I can hear all the foreign team coaches yelling it now).
MY bid would be for Tokyo...or even Rio De Janiero (not that Brazil's crime rate is that much better...but they DO have eco-friendly vehicles powered by ETHANOL...and that should please the tree-huggers in the crowd).
** Fort Wayne had it's first bank robbery of the year, and GUESS who the lucky perp is?
If you said a member of our highly-regarded BLACK community...give yourself a GOLD STAR.
Here's the link to the story with description of the robber:
http://news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090930/NEWS/909300319
Now, I have to say the security cam did a nice job of showing the perp...it's just a shame the papers didn't do AS GOOD a job blowing it up and plastering it across the FRONT PAGE for all to see!
I did what I could to enlarge and clarify the picture here. Feel free to click on it for a larger picture.
And, As Billy Mays would say: "But wait...there's MORE"..."
** Pot, cocaine, cash found at 2 homes
A Fort Wayne man was arrested Tuesday after police raided two homes.
Police searched homes just before 3 p.m. at 912 Pemberton Drive and 4013 Bowser Ave.
They found a total of 20 pounds of marijuana, more than 1 pound of cocaine, 53 grams of crack cocaine and more than $75,000 in cash in the two homes.
Julius Sims, 25, of the Pemberton Drive address, faces four felony counts of dealing cocaine and one count each of possession of cocaine and dealing marijuana.
He is being held without bail.
Police said confidential informants purchased drugs from Sims for two months.
Sims sold the drugs out of his home and his mother’s Bowser Avenue home, police said.
Police expect more arrests in the case and Sims could face federal charges as well.
(THAT was a decent haul...now, if the FWPD would check into several houses I've got in mind in MY neighborhood...)
** 6 at home arrested in Albion pot bust
Six people were arrested Monday after Indiana State Police found a marijuana-growing operation inside an Albion home.
Police were serving an arrest warrant on Troy Miller, 43, at his Albion home about 7 p.m. Monday when an odor and haze of burnt marijuana greeted officers. Police found grow lamps, nine potted marijuana plants, drying marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The Noble County Division of Family and Children removed three children from the home, police said.
Miller was arrested on a Whitley County warrant and faces a new charge of possession of paraphernalia. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail at the Whitley County Jail.
Five other residents of the home were arrested on various charges, including cultivating marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and maintaining a common nuisance: April Miller, 19; Matthew Easterday, 28; Tina Easterday, 25; Kayley Marti, 21; and Jeremy Easterday, 30.
(breaks my heart....!)
** Local man charged in boy’s molesting
A local man is charged with child molesting, accused of abusing a 4-year-old boy.
Donald Biszmaier, 30, whom court records said lives in the 6000 block of Moeller Road, was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail. When arrested, Biszmaier gave police an address in the 9400 block of North Clinton Street.
New Haven police said they learned of Biszmaier’s actions after a complaint was made Aug. 10. Biszmaier sexually abused a 4-year-old boy, who told officers what happened, police said.
(does the word castration have ANY meaning these days?)
** Lastly, anyone who has been missing the Ken Burns show on our National Parks has been missing some of the BEST film of scenery I've seen in YEARS. Now, I've been to some interesting places, and stood under a waterfall in the mountains of PA, walked the sands of an island off the coast of Venezuela, climbed Vasquez Rocks in CA, flew over the Grand Canyon a few times, seen a sunset at Cabrillo Point in San Diego, and seen a sunrise on Daytona Beach (among other spots), but NOTHING is as awe-inspiring as watching this series.
When PBS decides to show it all in 2 days, I'll have to record it.
I thought it would be another "good" watch, but it's way better than that.
Makes me have a greater pride in what can be found in our great nation.
It makes me proud to be a part OF it...as an AMERICAN.
And maybe we all could use a little more of that in our lives...
Just a thought.
Stay safe out there, America.