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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 9, 2005 0:06:21 GMT -5
Kind of funny, they body search 80 year olds of being suspected terrorists, but a guy that looks like that, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood, they just take those away from him and say "Come on in, you're cool to go!"
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 7, 2005 20:19:34 GMT -5
BOSTON — On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States. The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. The man's head was in a pillow case under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom. Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next month. At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country? Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question. Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed "every conceivable method" to check for warrants or see if Despres had broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country. "Nobody asked us to detain him," Anthony said. "Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up. ... We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any regulations." Anthony conceded it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what appeared to be a bloody chain saw could not be detained. But he added: "Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint." Sgt. Gary Cameron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would not comment on whether it was, in fact, blood on the chain saw. On the same day Despres crossed the border, he was due in a Canadian court to be sentenced on charges he assaulted and threatened to kill Fulton's son-in-law, Frederick Mowat, last August. Mowat told police Despres had been bothering his father-in-law for the past month. When Mowat confronted him, Despres allegedly pulled a knife, pointed it at Mowat's chest and said he was "going to get you all." Police believe the dispute between the neighbors boiled over in the early-morning hours of April 24, when Despres allegedly broke into Fulton's home and stabbed the couple. Fulton's daughter found her father's body two days later. His car was later found in a gravel pit on a highway leading to the U.S. border. Despres hitchhiked to the border crossing. After the bodies were found on the afternoon of April 26, police set up roadblocks and sent out a bulletin that identified Despres as a "person of interest" in the slayings, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The bulletin caught the eye of a Quincy police dispatcher because it gave the suspect's Massachusetts driver's license number, missing a character. The dispatcher plugged in numbers and letters until she found a last known address for Despres in Mattapoisett. She alerted police in that town, and an officer quickly spotted Despres. In state court the next day, Despres told a judge that he is affiliated with NASA and was on his way to a Marine Corps base in Kansas at the time of his arrest. After the case was transferred to federal court, Despres' attorney, Michael Andrews, questioned whether his client is mentally competent. Fulton's friends in Minto, a village of 2,700 people, told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal that he was a popular musician, a guitarist known as the "Chet Atkins of Minto" and a 2001 inductee in the Minto Country Music Wall of Fame.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 3, 2005 10:32:46 GMT -5
6/02/05 - THURMAN, NY) — A tip for would-be gasoline thieves. When stealing gas in the dark, don't use a lighter to see how you're doing. Police in Warren County say that's what Glen Germain Junior did when he was siphoning gas from a dump truck at a business in the Adirondacks last month.
The sheriff's department says Germain was transferring the fuel from the truck to a gas can when he used a lighter to see how full the container had become. That sparked a fire that caused minor burns to his face and hands. The fire spread to a nearby forklift, which was destroyed in the blaze.
Germain has been charged with petit larceny and criminal mischief. The arrest was Germain's second in a month for stealing gasoline from businesses in the town of Thurman, about 65 miles north of Alba
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Jun 9, 2005 0:18:52 GMT -5
TAMPA, Fla. (June 8) - A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a pizza delivery man from making his rounds, pies in hand.
Thomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie's Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh.
Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached Stefanelli, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.
The shooter eventually fled with a second man.
''They figured they were going to make an easy mark by robbing a pizza delivery person,'' said police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police.
Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries.
''It bled a little bit, not much,'' he said.
He was treated and released from a hospital.
No arrests have been made, but police have identified several suspects, Durkin said.
AP-NY-06-08-05 1306EDT
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 25, 2005 2:34:55 GMT -5
(5/24/05 - FOREMAN, AR) — A leap of faith proved hazardous for a smoker in need of a cigarette fix after a night on the town.
Jeff Foran suffered trauma to his nose, eyes and chin after jumping from a car traveling 55-60 mph. Authorities said he was trying to retrieve a cigarette blown out of the passenger-side window.
Foran, 38, took the leap Saturday night, state police Trooper Jamie Gravier said.
The driver of the car, Jerry Glenn Nelson, said Foran had asked him earlier in the evening to be a designated driver after a night of drinking.
"Foran did the right thing and asked his buddy to drive him home," Gravier said. "It was obvious he was extremely intoxicated."
Gravier added: "If anything could make him stop smoking, this should be it. The man is lucky to be alive."
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 25, 2005 2:32:30 GMT -5
5/24/05 - CHARLOTTE, NC) — An 86-year-old woman has been sent to jail after police said she called 911 dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour to complain about a pizza parlor. Dorothy Densmore remained in jail Tuesday charged with misusing the 911 system, a jail spokeswoman said.
She told dispatchers Sunday that a local pizza shop refused to deliver a pie to her south Charlotte apartment, said Officer Mandy Giannini, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokeswoman. She also complained that someone at the shop called her a "crazy old coot," Giannini said.
Densmore wanted them arrested. Instead, police came to arrest her, and she resisted, Giannini said.
It's unusual for someone to face charges for nonemergency calls, Giannini said. But on Sunday, Densmore kept calling 911, even after she was told to stop, Giannini said.
When an officer arrived at her apartment, the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him, Giannini said. Densmore scratched him, kicked and bit his hand, she said.
Densmore is also charged with resisting a public officer and two counts of misusing the 911 system, jail records show.
It was the second time she'd been charged with misusing the emergency system, court records show.
In March 2004, police said she called 911 about 10 times after she was asked to stop, a police report says. She then threatened to hit the officer with a chair when he came to arrest her, the report states.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 10, 2005 10:58:22 GMT -5
SALT LAKE CITY - Two brothers didn't brother to hide the stash before calling the cops.
At least that's what authorities in Salt Lake County are saying. Sheriff's Sgt. Darren Carr says the brothers called authorities to report a break-in at their apartment.
But the supposed crime victims are the ones who ended up behind bars. Deputies say they found a pound of pot, two pounds of psychedelic mushrooms and guns lying around in plain view.
The brothers claim someone must have broken in and planted the drugs, but the deputies didn't buy it. The brothers now face felony drug and gun charges.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 21, 2005 9:42:30 GMT -5
A 2-year-old boy locked in his father's vehicle calls for help leading to the pot discovery.
Albuquerque, NM -- Sheriff's deputies in Bernalillo County, NM, found nearly a ton of pot at a home, thanks to a toddler and an OnStar in-vehicle safety and security system.
The Albuquerque Journal reported Friday that a 2-year-old boy who was locked in his father's Cadillac Escalade in southeast Albuquerque pushed the OnStar button in the car for help. The device not only can guide a motorist to a location, it can also unlock doors and call for help.
Officials responded to the OnStar alert, and when deputies arrived, they became suspicious when they found a large trailer in the garage.
Inside the trailer, deputies found 1,700 pounds of marijuana worth more than a half-million dollars.
Four men were arrested and are now in federal custody on drug trafficking charges, deputies said.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 21, 2005 9:50:12 GMT -5
So what your saying is, "it's not O.K. to store our deceased family members in the freezer?". Geeze! See. They're just forcing us to cough up the funeral expenses... damn communists! You'd think with real estate becoming scarce they'd actually encourage this, besides, think how easy it'd be to make a visit to "mom" on special occasions..just open the freezer and there she is, with gas prices being as high as they are this would be a gas saver too, saving all those trips out to the cemetary, and doing your part to conserve our natural resources
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 26, 2005 13:58:16 GMT -5
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A man told police he kept his mother's corpse in a basement freezer for more than four years while he collected her Social Security checks, authorities said Monday. A body was found encased in ice, in a sitting position.
Philip Schuth, 52, told police his elderly mother, Edith, died of natural causes in August 2000, but that he didn't tell anyone because he was afraid police would blame him, according to documents filed in court Monday.
He said his mother years beforehand was attacked by a cat and her blood was on the walls in the house they shared, and he feared police would think he killed her, according to the documents.
Police recovered a chest-type freezer in Schuth's basement, and after chipping away at a block of ice, discovered a human knee.
Sheriff's Capt. Jeff Wolf said a body appears to be in the block, intact in a sitting position. The body has not been identified; an autopsy is set for later this week.
Investigators found the freezer at the end of an all-night standoff at Schuth's home in the Town of Campbell, located on French Island in the Mississippi River about 110 miles northwest of Madison. The standoff began Friday when a 10-year-old boy told his father that Schuth had hit him.
The boy's father, mother and the child confronted Schuth at his home. After admitting he had hit the boy, Schuth pulled out a handgun and opened fire, according to court documents. The father was hit three times, and the family fled and called police. The father was treated and released for his wounds.
Schuth retreated into his house and when SWAT teams arrived, he told negotiators he had "more than 10 but less than 100" bombs and 16 firearms, and that it would be "high noon" when he surrendered, according to court documents.
He surrendered early Saturday without incident. Investigators found 15 to 20 homemade explosive devices, packed with nails, heavy staples and other metal items, a sawed-off shotgun along with 15 other firearms, documents said.
La Crosse County District Attorney Scott Horne said he plans to charge Schuth next week with attempted homicide and reckless endangerment for allegedly shooting at the family, as well as having improvised explosives and concealing a corpse.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 7, 2005 19:45:19 GMT -5
Associated Press May. 5, 2005 01:30 PM
NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. - An immigrant from Guatemala was killed Wednesday when he was sucked into a wood chipper while working on a tree-cutting job here, authorities said.
Julio Hernandez, 42, of Highland Mills was working behind a home putting cut pieces of wood into the chipper when the accident happened, said police.
When the machine suddenly stopped operating, the owner of the tree service that employed Hernandez went to check out what happened and found the body in the chipper. "It was an instant death," said Orange County Coroner Kevin Quigley, who pronounced the victim dead at the scene.
Authorities were not sure how Hernandez got caught up in the machinery, although Quigley told the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that Hernandez "could have been dragged in by the branches."
Police said there was some indication Hernandez went in feet first, but that could not be confirmed.
Hernandez left behind a wife and several children, most of whom are living in Guatemala.
New Windsor is 50 miles north of New York City.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 15, 2005 13:00:45 GMT -5
FORT MYERS, Florida (AP) -- An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall.
"She must have panicked," said Joe Sica, sales manager at Honda of Fort Myers.
The new Honda Accord shot backward after Dorothy Byrum got behind the wheel and apparently stepped on the wrong pedal Wednesday.
The open car door hit her 88-year-old husband, Robert, and the salesman. Then the car struck the parked car, the tree and the wall. The air bag deployed, and Byrum was not injured.
Her husband was knocked down but was in good condition the following day. The salesman was released after treatment and is expected to be out of work for about a week, Sica said.
The car was written off.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 3, 2005 16:09:06 GMT -5
hey what are you in for.."they didn't have fries" what a maroon
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 3, 2005 15:28:49 GMT -5
April 26, 2005 (DuBOIS, Pa.) — A Burger King customer who berated the employees when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries has been convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Authorities said Gregg Luttman made an obscene gesture at the clerk, cursed staffers and nearly hit an employee with his truck. When police tried to arrest him, Luttman allegedly scuffled with an officer and kicked out the back window of a cruiser.
Luttman pleaded guilty to assault, resisting arrest, institutional vandalism and other charges stemming from the confrontation on New Year's Day.
Besides jail time, Luttman last week was fined $150 and ordered to serve two years' probation.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 22, 2005 12:35:29 GMT -5
LAS VEGAS - The woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of Wendy’s chili last month has been arrested, the latest twist in a bizarre case about how the 1 1/2-inch finger tip ended up in a bowl of fast food.
Anna Ayala was taken into custody late Thursday at her Las Vegas home. She was arrested on a warrant alleging grand larceny and attempted grand larceny, Las Vegas Police Sgt. Chris Jones said.
Authorities said would not provide further details until a news conference Friday afternoon in San Jose, Calif. — the city where Ayala claimed she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew.
Ayala’s 18-year-old son, Guadalupe Reyes, said he had gone to the store around 9 p.m. when he got a phone call from a friend who was back at the Las Vegas home.
“We rushed back and she was already gone,” Reyes said.
Reyes said he had no other details and was waiting to hear from his mother. A handwritten sign on the door of her home Friday morning instructed reporters not to knock, and telephone messages were not returned.
Ayala, 39, was held overnight at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, where records showed she was being held without bail.
In Ohio, Wendy’s officials praised the police’s actions. “We’re thrilled that an arrest has been made,” Tom Mueller, president and chief operating officer of Wendy’s North America, said in a statement.
Mysterious case Ayala’s claim that she found the fingertip, complete with a well-manicured nail, on March 22 initially drew sympathy. But when police and health officials failed to find any missing digits among the workers involved in the restaurant’s supply chain, suspicion fell on Ayala, and her story has become a late-night punch line.
Ayala hired a lawyer and filed a claim against the Wendy’s franchise owner, Fresno-based JEM Management. But after police searched her home in Las Vegas and continued to question her family, she dropped the lawsuit threat, saying the whole situation was just too stressful.
As it turns out, Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, including a former employer and General Motors, though it is unclear from court records whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from El Pollo Loco after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the chain’s Las Vegas-area restaurants. But El Pollo Loco spokeswoman Julie Weeks said last week that the company reviewed Ayala’s February 2004 claim and paid her nothing.
Wendy's doesn't find a link Earlier Thursday, Wendy’s International Inc. announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.
Sales have dropped at franchises in Northern California, forcing layoffs and reduced hours, the company said. Wendy’s also has hired private investigators, set up a hot line for tips and offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who provides information leading to the finger’s original owner.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 22, 2005 0:30:45 GMT -5
Sandi has corn, will that due ? ;D As long as it's not cream corn Here's a rare pic of Sandi hard at work at the Aerosmith forum Thank God for digital cameras
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 21, 2005 15:53:57 GMT -5
I think Sandi is from the capuchin monkey family, Sandi has been known for performing daily tasks, such as serving food and woofing food down, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing her own hair. No word yet on if she has stopped eating her own poop. Serving food??? where are our snacks dammit??
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 19, 2005 11:11:16 GMT -5
MESA, Ariz. -- The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it's looking to a monkey.
"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business."
Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.
The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.
Since 1979, capuchin monkeys have been trained to be companions for people who are quadriplegics by performing daily tasks, such as serving food, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing hair.
Truelove hopes the same training could prepare a monkey for special-ops intelligence.
Weighing only 3 to 8 pounds with tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills, Truelove said it could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. Dressed in a Kevlar vest, video camera and two-way radio, the small monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go.
It has been a little over a year since Truelove filed a grant proposal with the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and he is still waiting for word.
If the grant goes through, Truelove plans on learning how to train the monkey himself and keeping the sociable monkey at home, just like a K-9 officer would. He projects that $85,000 in grant money would outfit the monkey with gear and pay for veterinarian care, food and habitat for three years.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Apr 30, 2005 10:13:06 GMT -5
April 28 - Tommy Chong is in a tight spot, man. To hear him discuss it, you’d almost think he’s describing the plot of one of the skits he used to do with his partner, Cheech Marin. But for a comedian who manages to find humor even in the nine-month prison term he recently served for selling bongs, his new legal woes aren’t exactly cracking him up. Forced, he says, by the terms of his parole to quit a stage production called “The Marijuana-Logues,” and uncomfortable with rejoining the cast even after his parole is over in July, Chong is now being sued by the show’s producers for breach of contract.
As the hippy half of Cheech and Chong, a bizarro stoned Abbot and Costello, Chong became a pop pot icon along with Marin upon the release of their eponymous 1971 debut. The album of skits and songs included the classics “Dave”—with Marin as a dealer on the lam, begging his blitzed roommate to unlock the door for him—and “Cruising with Pedro de Pacas,” which also plumbs the theme of dumb druggies dodging cops. But the real-life law caught up with the real-life Chong two years ago for having invested in a business that sells bongs online. On parole now, he tells NEWSWEEK that he can’t do “The Marijuana-Logues” legally until he gets off probation. Still, even after his probation expires, he says, “I don’t feel comfortable because I’m trying to get my record expunged. I’d still be thumbing my nose at the government [that] just finished putting me in jail.”
A.C. Lichtenstein, one of the producers of the play, says he was happy to let Chong meet the terms of his parole, but once those terms expire in July, Chong should honor his contract to do 36 shows on the road. “This is nothing more than an excuse by Mr. Chong to get out of his contractual obligations.”
The show, which borrows its title, if not its tone, from Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” is a juvenile, silly and often very funny ode to dope. The cast trades riffs, one-liners and little stories about their favorite herb, relying heavily on hazy zingers like: “Everybody claims that they have the best weed and I tend to agree,” and “My girlfriend thinks that I smoke too much pot ... I think, on the other hand, that I don’t smoke enough pot because if I did, I’d be finished.”
After a successful two-week run in New York last December, Chong and writers Doug Benson, Tony Camin and Arj Barker took the show on the road. It was during performances in Vancouver and Seattle where Chong began getting paranoid about his parole—which, he says, not only forbids him from smoking marijuana but from even entering a head shop where paraphernalia is sold. “I’m allowed to be in a play because I have the freedom of speech,” he says. But when the play left New York to hit bigger concert venues, he says people began lighting up in the audience. “This turned out to be a Tommy Chong smoke-out.” So he quit the tour. (His parole officer declined to discuss the terms of Chong’s probation, citing confidentiality .
Lichtenstein, the promoter, says he had “no firsthand knowledge” of people smoking marijuana in the audience but agreed to postpone Chong’s contractual obligations until he was no longer on parole. But Chong decided that, given the reasons for which he was arrested in 2003, he wouldn’t feel comfortable participating in a performance that may be construed as encouraging audience members to get high.
It’s easy to see why he might be concerned: Chong was arrested as part of Operation Pipe Dreams, a crackdown, instigated by Attorney General John Ashcroft, on businesses that sell drug paraphernalia over the Internet. Chong served nine months because he was a principal investor in his son’s business, which sold glass-blown bongs over the Web with no explicit reference at any time to marijuana use. (His son was not convicted of any crime in the case.) Chong likes to call himself “a political prisoner.” Still, his contract obliges him to travel with the show for up to 36 performances after parole. “The reason he was hired in the first place is because he is the original pot icon,” says Lichtenstein. “His failure to perform has cost us excessive amounts of money out of pocket and future earnings.” Chong says he is considering a countersuit for unpaid wages and damages.
Up until this contractual kerfuffle, Chong, 66, handled his legal problems with cottonmouth charm. He did his time. “Prison was devastating to my family, especially my wife,” he tells NEWSWEEK. “It wasn’t tough on me. Actually it was quite a nice experience.” He says he approached it as a religious retreat—he attended Jewish services, Catholic mass and even frequented Lakota Indian sweat lodge ceremonies—and is now writing a book about the experience tentatively called “I Chong,” a pun on the ancient Taoist tome “I Ching.”
Although his solo career was never as successful as Cheech Marin’s, Chong does have a recurring role on “That 70’s Show” and is working on another book, this one about Cheech and Chong. “I was never a pot activist,” he says, looking back on his career. “I was an actor that showed you what it was like to get stoned. I made a living making records about how ridiculous the pot laws are.” And for that, he believes he was made a target by the Justice Department. (Mary Beth Buchanan, the Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted Chong, told National Public Radio in February that “his prior conduct, being involved in comedy or other endeavors, didn’t make him a target.”)
The most exciting news for fans, however, is that he is collaborating with his old partner again. Cheech and Chong have written a sequel to their film debut, the 1978 monster hit “Up in Smoke.” The movie—with the working title “Holy Smoke,” even though Chong’s wife preferred “Grumpy Old Stoners”—catches up with the aging potheads 30 years after we last saw them. Chong, who says he has not touched a joint in more than two years, will have to rely on sense memory to reprise the role of Man. Three decades ago, he sang: “When troubled times begin to bother me/I take a toke and all my cares go up in smoke.” Pot icon or no, these days it would probably behoove him to ignore his own advice.
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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on May 3, 2005 15:22:53 GMT -5
May 2, 2005 (FARGO, N.D.) — Police arrested a 21-year-old man early Saturday after he allegedly assaulted a pizza delivery driver who refused to take marijuana as payment for a pie, police said. The man, charged with robbery, was released from the Cass County Jail after posting $5,000 bond.
Pizza Patrol driver Atif Yasin thought the man was asleep when he arrived to deliver a medium pizza and 20-ounce soda. After knocking a few times and calling the man on his cell phone, Yasin said he answered the door in his boxers.
The man took the pizza, spent a few minutes looking for money and then offered to pay with marijuana, Yasin said.
Yason said when he told the man that he either needed money or the pizza, the man began to yell and pushed him and punched him in the face.
After calling police and waiting for officers to arrive, Yasin delivered two more orders that were waiting in his car.
Officers who arrested the man said he was intoxicated, Sgt. Shannon Ruziska said.
Because the man is accused of assaulting Yasin while committing a theft, he was arrested on suspicion of robbery, Ruziska said.
Yasin did not seek medical attention for his injuries. The right side of his face was still red and swollen Saturday afternoon, he said.
Yasin, a 22-year-old Minnesota State University Moorhead student, said it is the first time he's been assaulted in three years delivering pizza.
He said he was a little nervous to work his next shift, which began at midnight on Sunday. Yasin said he'll handle it differently if he encounters a similar situation again.
"I won't argue to the people who took the pizza," he said. "I'll just leave right away."
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