Duffy's Rant Netcast

Next time you see the cops on a coffee break, remember this story about burglars who were not the brightest bulbs in the lamp!

Coffee Break Pays Off

Check this out!

This is today’s Heathcliff cartoon from Arcamax:

If you haven’t seen it yet, here ya go.

The MOST fun I’ve ever seen to start off a wedding ceremony!

Here ya go…the one, the only…

RAPPIN’ DANCIN’ BABIES

You’ve heard of the Odd Couple?

Check this out.

Buddies

A woman in Arnold, Mo. was arrested for shoplifting when she was slow in figuring out that she was trying to get out an automatic enter door and quite loud in expressing her frustration. (From News of the Weird and KSDK, St. Louis)

A guy named Nathaniel Johnson was arrested in March in Tampa, Fl. on burglary charges when the police had evidence of his presence in a neighborhood that was having a rash of break-ins.  The evidence?  He was wearing an ankle monitor from a previous arrest! (From News of the Weird and WFTS, Tampa)

SHEESH!

Dvorak came across this wacked video of a traffic accident.  It appears that the vehicle being tracked was a mule for illegal immigrants.

John counted *27* from the van.  Try your luck.

There’s  lake near Webster, MA that folks have been calling Lake Webster simply because the real name of the place is **45** letters long!  GAK!

The real name of the lake is:

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

What a mouthful!  Anyhow, apparently, the local paper and the Chamber of Commerce didn’t have anything better to do so they set out to see if the name’s spelled right.  Okaaaayyyyyyy.

Here’s what they came up with:

After researching historical spelling combinations, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester said local Chamber of Commerce officials agreed that some signs were wrong. There was an "o" at letter 20 where a "u" should have been, and an "h" at letter 38 where an "n" should go.

No wonder the newspaper biz is having troubles.