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Police: Teen makes mistake of trying to rob former U.S. Marine

Bay City News Service
Article Launched: 03/27/2008 10:39:20 AM PDT

SANTA ROSA - A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police said today.

Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said that's what happened around 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of Fourth Street. The elderly man was walking with a grocery bag in each arm when the boy approached him with a large knife, Bair said.

The boy said, "Old man, give me your wallet or I'll cut you," Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.

The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over, Bair said.

The man reported the attempted robbery to police 45 minutes later.

Bair said the teen is described only as 15 or 16 years old. Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department.


That is the funniest shit I've read in ages!

F*ck Swimming

Fuck me do I hate swimming.
Firstly, it's a sport (actually its not really a sport, rather a physical activity*) for social misfits who are too unco-ordinated to play any real sports, you know, the ones that involve balls, scoreboards and those things. Swimmers also thinks that the following things are good ideas-
1. Getting up to train at 4.30 am every day to train
2. training for about 5 hours a day
3. never getting drunk or eating anything you'd actually enjoy eating
4. stinking like fucking chlorine all the time
5. hanging out with other fuckwit swimmers

It especially shits me that on free-to-air primetime TV we are shown any swim meet, even Olympic trials. ITS NOT EVEN INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING!!! Fair enough the Olympics, but thats IT! We should see swimming once every 4 years and then only if we are thumping Christ out of the Yanks- that is the ONLY interest in swimming.
The fact that swimming gets so much coverage is despicable- there are whole sporting leagues in Australia that cant get on TV yet watching a bunch of retards splash up and down a pool gets primetime coverage. All you are watching is a stopwatch and a splashing blur- it is the most tedious thing on earth to watch. We hang shit on soccer as a spectator sport but at least something interesting or spectacular occasionally happens. It just shows how stupid and blindly patriotic the TV stations and most sports fans in this country are when we watch the most boring sport on earth just because Aussies are good at it. Fuck I hate society sometimes.

(* stay tuned for my manifesto of what does and doesnt constitute a sport)

Mr Versatility

Is it a sign of brilliance when a player can turn up to a trial game of rugby and then play in 4 different positions?

Is it a sign of brilliance when those positions include forwards and backs?

Or is it just reality catching up to an aging fat winger who is desperate to find the place where he fits into this brave new world?

The name of this hapless individual? Our very own Roscoe!

That's right - SCOE IN THE ROW!!!

In the most amazing feat since socket last made a tackle, (which I believe predates jesus), Roscoe turned out for the mighty Blueys in the No.4 jersey. Was it fate, was it lack of numbers, or was it resignation to the fact that he's not the spring chicken he once was, and he weighs more than most of the break-aways in the club (all 482 of them).

While i realize that most of you would have sold off your first born to witness this momentous historical event, and think you've missed the defining point of your life. I can assure you that after watching him play, he is eventually destined to rise from a lowly back to the glory of being a real man - a rugby forward!

For all his normal whinging, bleating and hair product, Roscoe actually acquitted himself quite well. It's amazing what a back is capable of when the pressure is on to conform to a completely foreign environment. He was involved in rucks, mauls and tackles (all in the same game as opposed to one of each over a series of weeks), As well as the eye opening experience of lineouts and scrums.

It makes me smile to think that while writing this, he's at home lying on his lounge whingeing like a bitch because he's so sore from doing more work in one game than the last 2 seasons combined.

I never knew Robbie Williams was so funny.

Robbie Williams' Alien Obsession

(Soundbuzz, Monday March 10, 12:00 PM)

British singer Robbie Williams would dump his pop career to become an alien investigator, according to a new interview. The Angels star was being interviewed by soul singer Joss Stone for a British radio show and even tried to enlist the 20-year-old's help in his search for extra terrestrials.
He tells Stone, "Seriously, I want to go out and investigate these things. I'm stopping being a pop star and becoming a full-time ufologist. We could be like Mulder and Scully in real life. You're always mega-busy but I've got nothing on at the minute."
Williams also claims he has been visited by aliens on at least three occasions, and witnessed a "big strip of black light" during recording in a studio in Los Angeles. Williams adds, "People will think, 'This geezer's been in rehab, he's off his head.' How mental are they going to make me out in the papers." (wenn)

mmmmmmmm.......Pretty fucking mental my man!! Why on earth would they think that ???

CUCKOO, CUCKOO, CUCKOO, CUCKOO (is it slack to take the piss out of drug-addled retards?)

I never knew Bob Saget was so funny !!!