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Archive for July, 2007
Deion Sanders Knows Athletes Who Fight Dogs
Jul 31st
This is unbelievable: the conceit and pure assinine comments written in a column by Former 49ers, Cowboys, Falcons, Ravens, Redskins defensive back Deion “Primetime” Sanders.
He says in his column here that Mike Vick loved his dogs as long as they were the meanest and baddest, and having that type of animal is a status symbol, like owning the fattest gold chain. And Whatev, other athletes “share his passion” for watching dogs kill each other.
And parents should monitor their kids’ Myspace activities!
This (Vick Scandal) is all the result of perspective.
This means its a black thang, you wouldn’t understand.
What a dog means to Vick might be a lot different than what he means to you or I. Hold on, don’t start shaking your head just yet. Listen to me.
Some people kiss their dogs on the mouth. Some people let their dogs eat from their plate. Some people dress their dogs in suits more expensive than mine, if you can believe that.
And some people enjoy proving they have the biggest, toughest dog on the street. You’re probably not going to believe this, but I bet Vick loves the dogs that were the biggest and the baddest. Maybe, he identified with them in some way.
I have three highly-trained protection German shepherds, just in case someone wants to rob my family. Believe me, you don’t want to deal with them. With one German command, our dog Yascho turns into Cujo.
Why are we indicting Vick? Was he the ringleader? Is he the big fish? Or is there someone else?
I believe Vick had a passion for dogfighting. I know many athletes who share his passion. The allure is the intensity and the challenge of a dog fighting to the death. It’s like ultimate fighting, but the dog doesn’t tap out when he knows he can’t win.
It reminds me of when I wore a lot of jewelry back in the day because I always wanted to have the biggest chain or the biggest, baddest car. It gives you status.
We’re attacking this dogfighting ring the same way a teenager attacks his MySpace page after school (by the way parents, make sure you monitor your kids).
Seriously, if that isn’t the most ignorant diatribe ever set to paper next to a Rosie O’Donnel blog entry, I don’t know what would be. So Deion knows other dog fighting athletes? Deion should tell us who they are.
Thanks to BWE for this incredible head-shaking moment.
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Loading ...Vista Due to Get First Service Pack
Jul 31st
Compared to the first six months of Windows XP, which noted 36 vulnerabilities, Vista’s first six months only had 12 vulnerabilities.
Microsoft may release Vista Service Pack 1 soon, according to NewsFactor here:
News outlets have been touting the rumored release of two big Windows Vista patches to beta testers, but the releases have been confirmed this week by a leak of those patches to various Web sites.
The Vista performance and compatibility packs reportedly address issues that some Vista users have been complaining about. Among other things, the fixes are designed to improve Vista’s performance when copying or moving large files or large directories. Issues with Vista’s memory manager — which can cause the system to lose its default gateway address — are also reportedly addressed in the packs.The running theme of the fixes is to improve the performance and reliability of Vista, as well as compatibility issues with printers, digital cameras, and other devices.
The official updates are expected to be available to the general public on August 14 as a 45-MB download over Windows Update, but impatient Vista users can instead choose to visit any of several sites to download the packs.
I don’t have very many performance issues with my version of Vista, and my overall experience with the new OS has been fantastic.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Assessor Mistakes Cubicle for Studio 54
Jul 31st
Meet Vickie Brown. She seems to be an aging, single, dedicated public servant, who threw away her career by snorting booger sugar at work.
Does my Coke Habit make me look fat? Note the cheap red-head dye job. Did you know that women dying their head red is usually an indication they are either looking for a new man, or have recently broken up with a man?
Her story is here at RockyMountain news:
The “odd long snorts” coming from Broomfield County Assessor Vickie Brown’s cubicle aroused her coworkers’ suspicions. Their decision to do some sleuthing led to Brown’s admission that she brought cocaine to work and to her resignation from the $83,054-a-year job she’s held since 2004.
Despite her admission, law enforcement officials said Monday they don’t have grounds to charge her with a crime.
After initially denying the accusations, Brown admitted bringing cocaine to work June 28, but only by accident.
The “accident” was that she was supposedly holding the illegal substances for a friend. Whatev! She should have done the Lindsay Lohan and instead of quitting her job, asked for drug counselling, which, I’m pretty sure, city employees are entitled to. Oh well, better luck next time.
If I was a resident of Bloomfield, I would abuse the opportunity to dispute my city assessment. Tell the government that taxes are higher than their cracked-out assessors!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...You Thought You Had a Hard Day?
Jul 31st
Try working as a pigeon hunter in downtown St. Louis.
FAIL!
From KSDK here:
A falcon soaring through downtown St. Louis made a rough landing Monday afternoon.
Drivers say it all started when the falcon swooped down after a pigeon.
“As I was approaching the light, he flew into the side of my van, then when I stopped he just walked up under,” said a driver on Tucker Boulevard.
The bird was able to get up and tried to take off, but then hit another van.
When police arrived on the scene, they stopped traffic until animal control arrived. The falcon is being treated at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park.
Thanks to Fark for the story and the pointer to this other bird who had troubles getting things going. Yoik and Away! Bam!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...FBI Art Crime Team Update
Jul 30th
The Art Crime Team added a new piece to their most wanted list. The painting below, titled “A Cavalier” is a tiny painting of oil on oak by a Dutch Master and is valued at over a million bucks.
Someone swiped it from a museum in Australia.
From the FBI here:
A Cavalier, by Dutch artist Frans Van Mieris was recently stolen from an Australian art gallery. Valued at more than $1 million, it is the latest addition to the FBI Top Ten Art Crimes list.
Here are the facts:
… The painting was taken on Sunday, June 10 from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney while the museum was open to the public.
… An oil on oak panel, it depicts a man believed to be the artist seated in a chair wearing a feathered cap and formal attire.
… The work of art is tiny—without the frame, the painting is just 20 centimeters high and 16 centimeters wide, or roughly 6 x 8 inches.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Ironman Teasers at ComicCon
Jul 30th
Thanks to HotAir, we have this awesome clip of Jon Favreau, director of the upcoming Ironman Movie, introducing clips from the movie.
We get to see some great character acting of Robert Downey, Jr. as the flippant, cocky Tony Stark, billionaire industrialist and weapons designer. When Stark is injured in a war theater, he improvises a suit, the ironman prototype, to escape. This is followed by awesome footage of the updated Ironman suit swooping through the skies with fighter jets. Click the video below to watch!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Lulz Cats
Jul 30th
My wife discovered this website last night and laughed so hard and for so long I thought she was going to make herself sick.
So this video is for her. Remember the Dramatic Prairie Dog? Well, here’s Dramatic Prairie Cat.
Thanks to Neatorama for the pointer to the Youtube vid.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Les Stroud Versus Bear Grylls
Jul 30th
I’m posting about this because I’ve become a fan of Les Stroud and his Survivorman series on Discovery Channel. Les truly goes it alone in the wilderness. He sets up his own cameras and kills his own food and manages to survive lonely, brutal conditions.
Bear Grylls, the British paratrooper who has a competing show on Discovery called Man Versus Wild, keeps a camera crew with him and doesn’t really tell the audience how to survive anything. Grylls performs stunts in the wilderness, such as drinking his own urine and drinking water squeezed out of elephant dung. Its like a contest of wills between Grylls and nature.
But now it seems that Bear Grylls has been faking it. UK’s channel 4 is investigating him for having slept at a hotel a few times when he was depicted on TV to be roughing it under the stars.
From Reuters here:
Bear Grylls is the star of “Man vs. Wild,” an increasingly popular series on Discovery Channel that recently concluded its second season. Each episode he parachutes into a different uninhabited territory without a map or much else in the way of camping equipment and spends several days trying to find his way back to civilization.
But this British adventurer is now the subject of an investigation by U.K.’s Channel 4, which already has confirmed that Grylls checked into motels on a few occasions when he was depicted on TV having slept under the stars. Other allegations have been made suggesting that the crew that records Grylls in action isn’t as hands-off as it might appear to viewers.
Truth be told, though, “Wild” isn’t so much 21st century “Gilligan’s Island” as it is a hybrid of “McGyver” and “Jackass.” Grylls has a knack for improvising solutions to dangerous predicaments and isn’t above grossing out everyone in the process.
Who can forget the time Grylls, burning up in the heat of the Moab desert, urinated on his own T-shirt, which he then wrapped around his head to cool his soaring body temperature. Or the time he hungrily bit the heads off maggots he found in a frozen animal carcass crushed by an avalanche, cheerfully explaining they were a good source of nutrition?
Grylls often commented on the painful loneliness of being alone in the wild, but unless his camera crew was staffed by bears, he did have some company out there.
So to combat the apparent fakery that has been going on with the Man vs Wild show, the show is supposed to become “more transparent” whatever that means. I guess it will show the cameramen sharing PB&J’s with Grylls around the campfire.
Les Stroud’s official site is here. Check it out, especially the FAQ and his Blog.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Congrats to the Iraqi Soccer Team
Jul 30th
Iraq is bubbling in celebration and joy as a soccer team united a country that has been torn asunder for years- first under Saddam’s mad regime and then under the sectarian war and bitter insurgency.
Lets hope that this new national unity lasts. Awesome job to the Lions of the Two Rivers Team!
From the AP here:
After the team’s victory in the prestigious 2007 Asian Cup, the Iraqi people seemed far ahead of their leaders in letting sectarian bygones be bygones and allowing ethnic atrocities to fade.
The Iraq team’s win dripped with symbolism, not least in the makeup of its front-line strikers: one Kurd, one Shiite, one Sunni.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was on the phone in seconds talking to the victors. The dour, hard-line Shiite leader announced only minutes into the game that each team member had been awarded $10,000.
“There is a big difference between The Lions of the Two Rivers who struggle to put a smile on the faces of their people and those who work in dark corners strewing death and sorrow in the paths of innocent people. We are proud of you. You deserve all our love and respect.”
The U.S. military command issued a message shortly afterward.
“Throughout this demanding competition, you represented Iraq with distinction and honor, inspiring all Iraqis by your unity, teamwork, dedication and athletic ability. We salute you and congratulate you on this tremendous achievement.”
Iraq will one day be at peace again, and strong national pride will go a very long way toward that goal.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Reebok Stiffarms Vick
Jul 27th
Unlike the NFL, Reebok has no problem reading a federal indictment and making a decision. Reebok wants nothing to do with Vick. They have suspended all sales of his jersey.
From FoxNews here:
Nike just did it. Now Reebok has followed suit, announcing on Friday the retail giant will no longer sell Michael Vick NFL products at its retail locations nor on its Web site, citing concerns over the dogfighting allegations against the Falcons quarterback.
“While we respect the legal process we find the allegations against Mr. Vick too disturbing to ignore; therefore, we have decided to immediately suspend selling Vick NFL product [sic], both at retail and online through the Reebok Web site,” the company announced in a press release.
Although Reebok does not have an individual endorsement deal with the football player, the company is the official supplier of apparel and equipment to all 32 NFL teams and the league’s 1,800 players.
Maybe Pit Bulls wouldn’t be such vicious dogs if assholes like Vick didn’t breed them to be so vicious. And I have a sneaky feeling that there are other NFL players involved in dog fighting.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Pepsi Busting Bottled Water Mythos
Jul 27th
This article ought to go on the Belch.com main page since it deals with potables, but the environmental angle of this makes it belong here. Essentially, if you drink bottled water in preference to tap water, you are wasting your money and probably helping to pollute the environment.
Bottled water usually comes from city tap water at the source of the bottling. And it tastes like the inside of a plastic bottle too. The only water bottle that should be socially acceptable to carry should be a squeeze bottle like bicyclists use or a good old fashioned canteen, which you fill up before you leave or from a icy cold water fountain. Better yet, a waterskin, made of leather would be cooler. If Coach started producing leather waterskins, women would beat down their doors to have them.
From Reuters here:
PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.
According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, the world’s No. 2 beverage company will include the words “Public Water Source” on Aquafina labels.
Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola Co’s Dasani are both made from purified water sourced from public reservoirs, as opposed to Danone’s Evian or Nestle’s Poland Spring, so-called “spring waters,” shipped from specific locations the companies say have notably clean water.
Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world’s population is without access to clean water.
And according to BWE here, a five year supply of bottled water will run about one thousand dollars compared to the buck-sixty-five if you use tap water.
And if you don’t think drinking bottled water is BS now, watch the below video from Penn and Teller.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Alvin and His Cannibal Chipmunk Buddies
Jul 27th
I have written before about chipmunks. I have several that live just outside my front door, getting fat on the birdseed that falls out of the bird feeder. One of those chipmunks only has one eye, swear to God. I think maybe it lost a fight with a stray cat who has taken to stalking the above-mentioned fat chipmunks by hiding out under my SSR. Its a whole horrifying circle of life thing I have going on at my doorstep.
Anyways, now it seems that they are making a movie about Alvin and the Chipmunks, starring CGI critters and Jason Lee who has finally sold the remainder of his soul to the devil to appear in this flick.
I won’t be seeing it, mostly because I know that one-eyed chipmunks can be cannibalistic, and that’s too creepy.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...DHS Invents Light Sabre “Pukinator”
Jul 27th
Its a flashlight that strobes just right to make you toss your cookies. They plan on using it on illegal border crossers, and maybe even hijackers. I have a feeling the boys from Jackass will be using this on each other soon.
From Homelandsecurity.org here:
Its inventors call it the LED Incapacitator (L-E-D, as in light-emitting diode). Weapons buffs call it a nonlethal weapon. But test subjects who have buckled and reeled from its nauseating strobe call it other names—none printable.
A later version of the LED Incapacitator, featuring a trimmer head. A flashlight designed to make you nauseatingly ill? What fiendish minds would invent such a tool? Two physicists are refining an ultra-bright, multicolored, pulsing “lightsaber” that’s more disorienting, dazzling, and dizzying—though a tad less dangerous—than disco. It’s enough to make you sick.
How does the LED Incapacitator incapacitate? By simultaneously overwhelming the subject both physiologically (temporarily blinding him) and psychophysically (disorienting him). A built-in rangefinder measures the distance to the nearest pair of eyeballs. Then, a “governor” sets the output and pulse train (a series of pulses and rests) to a level, frequency, and duration that are effective, but safe. The colors and pulses continuously change, leaving no time for the brain or eyes to adapt. After a few minutes, the effects wear off.
The light could be used to make a bad guy turn away or shut his eyes, giving authorities enough time to tackle the suspect and apply the cuffs … all while sparing the lives of passersby, hostages, or airline passengers.
Personally, I’d like to see border agents start using Ninja stars.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Vick Booed; Pleads Not Guilty
Jul 26th
Michael Vick was booed outside of the courthouse in Richmond by protesters. Vick marched inside and told the judge he didn’t help abuse those dogs and conspire to run illegal dog fighting operations out of his property he owned in Surry county, VA.
I love the first sign- “Help control the A-Hole Population.”
From the AP here:
Amid boos from spectators, NFL star Michael Vick arrived at a federal courthouse Thursday to answer accusations that he was involved in a brutal dogfighting operation.
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback appeared at a bond hearing and enter a plea of not guilty on dogfighting conspiracy charges. He said nothing as he walked into the courthouse, which was lined by spectators who began gathering at dawn.Vick arrived at 3 p.m. in a black sport utility vehicle and was booed by a crowd of hundreds.
Vick is accused with three others of conspiracy involving competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting, and conducting the enterprise across state lines. Federal prosecutors allege the operation — known as Bad Newz Kennels — operated on Vick’s property in Surry County.
Get used to the sound of Boo’s Vick ol’ Boy. You will likely never hear cheering again.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Geekrage- Pyrodice Gets 7 Years for Arson
Jul 26th
Russel Tavares, aka “Pyrodice” became livid in an online flame war and drove 1,300 miles to Texas from Virginia and burned down the home of his internet rival.
He pleaded no contest and was given 7 years in the poke. Below is a picture of Tavares from his Myspace Page here dressed as a metrosexual pirate at a Renaissance Festival. Seriously, how could you get so pissed off if someone calls you a nerd when you post these pictures? What a dork.
From the AP here:
A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a “nerd” over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.
As he made his way toward Texas, Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares posted photos online showing the welcome signs at several states’ borders, as if to prove to his Internet friends that he meant business.When he finally arrived, Tavares burned the guy’s trailer down.
This week, Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson and admitting he set the blaze.
If you can’t handle the flame wars, stay off the internets.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Dredded Hippie Protester Tasered
Jul 26th
A kooky dredded eco-religionist, Johnathan “Slugger” Crowell of West Dummerston, Vermont, tied his dumb ass to a drum in a field that is slated to be turned into a gas station. Four cops take turns asking him to untie himself and leave. When Crowell calls them fascists and corporate stooges, the cops commence to tasering him.
Here is Johnathan Crowell below, taken from his MySpace page here.
Thanks to Fark, from Reformer.com here:
Is it appropriate to use a Taser on non-violent protesters? That’s the question that many people in Windham County are asking after a pair of volunteer gardeners who were trespassing on private property were stunned by police Tasers after they refused to leave.
The two, Jonathan “Slug” Crowell and Samantha Kilmurray, of Dummerston, were part of a small group of people who “occupied” a vacant lot on Putney Road where King’s Bowling Center used to stand, planting shrubs, flowers and even a tree.
“All they had to do was take our water away from us and we would have been gone in 48 hours,” said Kilmurray.
“We were surprised that they were going to resort to such extreme tactics so quickly,” said Crowell.
Both Crowell and Kilmurray said police officers threatened them with the Tasers several times, physically waving it at them before they actually used it.
Kilmurray was shocked twice before agreeing to remove her arm from the barrel. Crowell was shocked at least five times before he made the same decision.
Taserin’ hippies sounds like a cool video game. But “volunteer gardeners?” Puh-Leeze! Cut your hair and get a job now, okay?
Here is the video, with the priveleged American cameraman likening the police action to “torture.” Funny, I don’t think real torture victims smile and mug at the camera as they are being arrested.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Oscar the “Soul Reaver” Nursing Home Cat
Jul 26th
A doctor at a nursing home had an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine documenting a phenomena whereby Oscar the Cat sucks the souls out of his patients.
Sensing weakness, the furry feline pounces and then feasts upon the soul of the sick elderly, like the dementors in the Harry Potter films. And then it simply walks away to hack up a furball or lick its butt.
From the AP here:
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He’d sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours.
Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his “compassionate hospice care.”
Seriously, why anyone would want a four-footed grim reaper is beyond me. I say put this animal down before it kills again!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Modern Artists
Jul 26th
Neatorama has a short lesson on its pages here today talking about the artists that led the modern art movement.
I’m not real keen on most modern art. A lot of it always seems pretentious to me for some reason. But Wassily Kandinsky’s art is different. The use of color and movement of objects in his Composition series is almost hypnotic, and I found myself just staring at this picture below for quite a while.
According to his Wikipedia article here, Kandinsky’s first three compositions were destroyed by the Nazis in Germany as an example of “degenerate art.” And Kandinsky could “hear colors,” a condition known as synesthesia.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...MySpace Gang Sword Attack
Jul 25th
Wanna-be Thugs in a Wanna-be City use a Wanna-be Weapon to almost sever the arm off of a teenager.
These idiots are losers on the fast-track to life in prison. William Taylor and Jason Rodriguez of Virginia Beach want to be gangsters so bad, although neither is black nor italian, they listen to stupid hip-hop and want to maim someone just so they can be in a Myspace group. They remind me more of hobbits with swords.
From the Daily Press here:
A teenager’s arm was nearly severed in a sword attack by three men affiliated with an Filipino gang, police said.
The attack occurred last month and is believed to have been part of an initiation into another gang as well as revenge for an insult. According to police, this initiation required the severing of a limb from another person.
Police said Tuesday that two men believed to be affiliated with the Bahala Na Gang were arrested on a felony charge of malicious wounding. They were identified as William K. Taylor Jr., 21, and Jason R. Rodriguez, 20, both of Virginia Beach.
A third suspect is expected to surrender, police said.
An acquaintance of the 15-year-old victim made disparaging statements about Bahala Na Gang on Myspace.com, the online community. Several users claim affiliation with the gang in profiles and messages at the popular Web site.
Rodriguez learned that the teenager was visiting at the friend’s house, and he, Taylor and the third suspect confronted him there, Ball said. She said the trio attacked the teen, and Taylor used a sword to slice the teenager’s arm and shoulder. He was cut all the way to the bone, and the bone was almost severed.
Willie Taylor- good luck being the white Korean kid in prison who wanted to be black. I don’t think any of the real gangs that are in prison will tolerate your stupid ghetto attitude. And Jason Rodriguez, I don’t think real Latino gang members in prison will think you are cool for wanting to be in a Filipino gang either.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Busted Speeding 205mph in a 65 Zone
Jul 25th
I very much enjoyed my stay at the Stations Inn over the weekend. As a motorcyclist’s resort, it has quite a bit of memorabilia on its walls, along with ubiquitous photos of bikes, beer, boobs and patrons of the establishment. Below is a photo of a speeding ticket they had tacked up to a bulletin board.
This ticket is from Minnesota, showing that motorcyclist Samuel Tilley was hauling ass at 205 miles per hour in a 65 zone. He was tracked by a helicopter and it may be the nation’s highest recorded speed on a ticket.
The guy was going as fast as an Indy car.
From the USA today here in 2004:
With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a Stillwater motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.
When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.
The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license — and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.
Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200 mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175 mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph. Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.
I found tilley’s old Myspace Page here. Its very stale, but I took this picture below from his site, showing him and his motorcycle.
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