Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Man Arrested by MBTA Police For Taking Pics of Men Pissing in Subway Bathrooms



(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A local man arrested at a Boston MBTA station for allegedly taking lewd photographs in a bathroom. MBTA police responded to reports on Saturday of a man taking pictures of other men at the urinals inside the men's bathroom at South Station. Police later arrested Kevin Wilkinson from Fall River. He had a cell phone and an iPod nano on him. On the iPod, officers found a video of a man urinating.

But...he told me he'd make me a star? Damnit, not again.

Seriously though, what's the protocol on this if you see it going down? Like do you ruin someone's day letting them know this bro was just filming them piss or do you go the ignorance is bliss route?

I only wonder because I ran into some creep snapping covert pics of some chic's legs on the green line about a month back and had no idea how to handle it.  Like the girl was oblivious, it was nothing salacious, just side profile of her leg, no cooter or anything, and yet it was still this skeevy guy with a man purse/satchel. Do I absolutely blow up her day, and alert everyone to this perv? Her day will be shot, she'll probably never ride public transportation again, I had no idea what to do.

Ultimately I settled on mean mugging the guy, he knew he was busted, pretended to be confused by his phone and got off on the next stop, but about a month later I still haven't shook it, I literally am clueless about what should be done there.  On the one hand he's a creep, on the other, there was nothing risque about the pic, I mean I've snapped pics of funny looking drunks and creepers and people making a scene on the train before...I don't know, just color me confused on the whole deal I guess.

Am I the Most Influential Blogger on the Planet? Netflix Publicly Responds to My Blog



Netflix has something to say: We're sorry. Reed Hastings, the CEO of the popular DVD-by-mail business, sent an email to customers offering an apology and an explanation for a recent rate hike and service transformation that had customers up in arms. "I messed up. I owe you an explanation," Hastings simply explained. "It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing." At the same time that Hastings offered his mea culpa, he also announced further changes: Netflix plans to separate its DVD-by-mail service and streaming video businesses, and to change the name of the original service from Netflix to Qwikster.

I'm not going to say I'm officially the most powerful blogger on the planet, but I think its safe to say I'm in the top 3 or so. I mean, not even 3 whole days after I post my open letter breaking up with Netflix, do they come out with national, hearfelt, public apology. And this isn't coincidental people. Netflix could have came out with this apology back in July after they made their announcement and every unhappy customer was flocking to Twitter to publicly express their inner rage in less than 140 characters...No, they waited. They weren't going to respond to incessant whining and bitching, plus how much PR damage can you do in less than 140 characters? So they just took it all in...until Friday when the Alt-Tab weighed in on the matter. And when CW weighs in on something, you've got to respond, and you've got to respond fast...I mean literally fast, I have a short attention span and I'll be on to the next topic within days. And respond they did.

Sadly, I'm a cold bastard, it's not enough to sway me.  I've moved on. I've re-ordered HBO, I hit up the Red Box, and frankly, the name Qwikster sucks. So no, I won't continue patronizing you. You're through. You broke my heart Netflix. Deal with it.

Man Who Fell on Subway Tracks, "Only Smoked A Little Bit of Weed" at Hempfest



If you missed it, top left at about the :27 second mark.

Universal Hub - Red Line service was briefly halted Saturday night when a man dropped onto the tracks at Park Street - just as a train was pulling into the station. The train driver was able to stop the train before hitting him; he then got up and climbed up onto the center platform, with the help of a T worker. According to an MBTA Transit Police report: As I spoke with [the man], he seemed to be alert but confused. {he} stated, "I don't really know what happened. I think I tripped and the next thing I knew I was in the pit with a train coming towards me. {he} stated, "I had come from the HempFest but had only smoked a little bit of weed."

At least he didn't block the door for people exiting the train...he's got a leg up on 75% of the tards regularly riding the train.

Stoners everywhere have to be pissed at this guy. Nothing  discredits the legalize it campaign worse than falling onto the subway tracks and blaming the weed. Just nine times out of 10 that's going to get you bad publicity. 

Has anyone else always been confused about the legality of Hempfest? What's the deal here? We've got Mayor Menino over here banning sugary drink throughout the city, and once a year everyone is allowed to travel into town and toke up on the common? This makes 0 sense. Is it just a strength in numbers thing? Like if 1000's of potheads come in its just too much for the cops so they just let it go? I just don't get it, Menino continues to confuse me. Somehow Bruins fans gathering at the Garden to celebrate the Stanley Cup clinching game is worse than a bunch of stoner brats (and yea, I'm going to say a fair amount are just high school brats who think this is "wicked cool"), high as fuck just falling on train tracks left and right.  Last I checked no drunk Bruins, Sox, Pats fans took a digger on the third rail recently. 

Zero sense.

Robber Breaks into House, Uses Man's Toothbrush and Takes Photos of Himself



My Fox Boston - Authorities in Georgia say three young intruders broke into a home, washed a dog in the bathroom, used a toothbrush and ate some birthday cake in the kitchen before leaving behind a key piece of evidence: pictures of themselves on the homeowner's camera. WSB-TV in Atlanta reports that Roderick Ward says he was gone for 10 days and became suspicious after returning home to find his air conditioner running and his back doors unlocked. Ward found a camera that had been left behind and on it were photos of two teenagers and a younger child. Newton County authorities identified the youths and contacted their parents. Two other cameras and Ward's spare house keys were returned and the parents apologized. Ward says he does not plan to press charges.

Bro, you've got to press charges, what the hell are you thinking? The guy used your toothbrush! Get that man off the streets now.

The guy didn't even steal anything, just broke in with the sole purpose of using this guys toothbrush, do you know how sick that is? I'm going to be dead-ass honest here, I hate using my toothbrush...Don't worry, it's not like I'm walking around with stank breath or anything, I'm still brushing, I'm just saying the toothbrush creeps me out each and every morning.

It's a disgusting tool. Just running roughshod in your mouth morning and night (yea and sometimes in the afternoon), cleaning out the day's waste and odor, and then what do you do? You rinse it real quick and take one of three options: 1) You have one of those toothbrush stands, your tooth brush is out in the open air, collecting diseases, all the while everything from the head of the toothbrush is slowly dripping down the handle, by about day 3 that thing is gross, crusty mess. 2) You've got one of those travel tubes or plastic heads...hate to break it to those people, but this is worse than the open air approach. Much worse. You're just locking in bacteria and moisture every day and letting your toothbrush stew in there. You literally couldn't rinse the toothbrush under enough hot water to convince me that thing is clean the next day. 3) You just lie it flat down on the sink or in the cabinet. You've given up, you know its filthy daily ritual and there's nothing you can do about it, why postpone the inevitable, right?

Now that whole ridiculously long winded paragraph was just about my own toothbrush...now think about breaking into someones house just to use theirs...FREAK. That man is a danger to society and needs to be locked up now before he starts torturing neighborhood animals and graduates to storing bodies in vats of acid in his studio apartment while listening to Huey Lewis and the News.

Saints Fan Freaking Out At TV Over Bad Call During Bears Game



Putting aside the repressed childhood issues this man clearly has, here's a question, how fucking old is that Deuce Mcallister jersey? That thing has seen some frigen battles.

And I wonder this, because its  not like Deuce is some dude from the mid 90's or anything where it would make sense for the shirt to look like an oil rag from this guys surely redneck garage. The guy played from 2001-2009. So the shirt, at it's absolute oldest, is 10 years old, but I'm not buying that. This is a rational guy, I'm going to say he didn't rush out to buy this on draft day, I'm going to say he waited until Deuce's 1600 yard breakout season in 2003, so we're saying its 8 years old.

Now, that's pretty old, but its not faded and tattered old. I have a Tom Brady jersey that I've rocked every Sunday since mid-way through 06. While it doesn't look new, I don't exactly look like a City of Boston garbage man when I wear it either, it's still respectable. And since it's a jersey it only gets worn 16-19x per season.  I think I can safely extrapolate the wear and tear over the next 3 years and definitively say it will not look like this guys shirt in 2014 at which point it will also be 8 years old. 

So what's this guys deal then? Is this shirt more than just a Sunday routine for him? Does he just stake out that rocking chair every day in the Mcallister jersey and just wait for football season to come around? Has to be, right? I'm not one to criticize someone for flipping out as a fan during a football game, I once punched a whole straight through our ramshackle coffee table (allright, it was an orange storage container that we used as a coffee table, semantics), but I can tell this guy takes it to a whole other level. You see his youngest son accidentally stumble into the living room? Deer in the headlights. Made his exit as soon as his dad started to get on a roll.  There's a reason that tv room only has one chair, and that's because no one, NO ONE, bothers dad on game day in that house. GODDAMN BULLSHIT! 20 YEARS OF THIS SHIT!