The Linkage for March 6th

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from March 3rd to March 6th:

Movie bootlegger arrested after sending ad to police chief
Hint: if you’re operating an illegal business, it’s probably best to rely on word-of-mouth advertising rather than sticking fliers in people’s mailboxes.
Tags: texas stupid crime freeport

Nuts getting worked up about 2012
After reading this entire article, all I can say is that I’m disappointed in John Cusack.
Tags: society stupid

Memo shows Bush administration weighed restricting First Amendment rights
Wow. Just wow. Glad to see that cooler heads prevailed on that one.
Tags: media government censorship constitution presidents

Woman calls 911 thrice over McNuggets “emergency”
No matter how hungry you are, failure to get Chicken McNuggets is not a life-threatening emergency. This lady was stubborn too – she called 911 again after getting ticketed for misusing the service.
Tags: stupid mcdonalds food crime florida

Jug of WWII-era plutonium found in the trash
A safe discovered in a waste trench five years ago has turned out to contain a jug with some of the earliest plutonium-239 known to exist. And that’s why you don’t play in landfills. (Especially ones at nuclear research facilities.)
Tags: history cold_war washington world_war_2

New park to include a really lame time capsule
To dedicate their brand new park, the folks of West Columbia are planting a time capsule, which they plan to unearth just TEN YEARS from now. Come on people, I’ve got shirts older than that. What’s the point of having a time capsule if it’s going to be filled with stuff everyone remembers?
Tags: texas stupid west_columbia

Phil Collins is crazy about the Alamo
If I were to pick a person who was obsessed with the Alamo and the history surrounding, it probably wouldn’t have been Phil Collins. Apparently he’s got quite the collection of Alamo artifacts.
Tags: history texas music san_antonio

Dalek found submerged in pond
And that’s why you don’t go swimming in murky ponds!
Tags: doctor_who uk

Shiner’s guerilla marketing steals thunder from Heineken
The Little Brewery’s marketing team handed out 10,000 koozies at last year’s ACL music festival so drinkers could cover up the label of the festival’s paid, official beer sponsor – Heineken.
Tags: business advertising shiner beer

World’s lamest code cracked by police
If your secret code is going to be this lame, why even bother?
Tags: funny stupid crime pennsylvania

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