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Waste of beer

Allen R. Mobley is accused of striking a woman for “throwing his beer out the window of her vehicle,” according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

The woman suffered a broken arm, a cut lip and a bump on the back of her head, the release stated.
yes, it's a sad, sad truth: They'll kill you for a beer in Florida.
Palm Bay: Alan Tanguay was only 16-years-old when he reportedly stabbed his 58-year-old Palm Bay neighbor 37 times — just so he could steal $6 for a beer
Immokalee: Man savagely beaten for his beer
Kissimmee: Tiff over beer led to stabbing, deputies say
Remember Eduardo Adolfo Gonzalez?
He pleaded guilty for murdering a man over a spilled beer.
He was also charged with putting an apparent murder plot into motion from behind bars in an effort to kill witnesses to the spilled beer murder.

RIP Madam of Chicken Ranch Bordello

Photo by AP PhotoEdna Milton Chadwell, the last madam of the infamous Chicken Ranch brothel, died last week at the age of 84. The Chicken Ranch of La Grange, Texas, was the house of ill repute that inspired the Broadway musical, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." It later became a hit movie.

Chadwell's passing inspired a surge of interest in the 1982 film starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds. The flick was an enormous success, taking in nearly $70 million. It was one of the biggest musical hits of the decade, despite mixed reviews.
Parton's character wasn't directly based on Chadwell, but Parton clearly drew on Chadwell for her performance. Chadwell served as madam of the Chicken Ranch from 1962 until 1973, when it was shut down after a news exposé.
Photo by Everett CollectionAfter the Chicken Ranch's demise, Chadwell moved to Arizona where she met her husband and remained for the rest of her life. Her obituary from the Associated Press quotes her nephew, Robert Kleffman.
"She was a hard-nosed lady. She was very straightforward, didn't put up with no monkey business, no nonsense," he said. "Hard-nosed. But with a spine of steel and a heart of gold." Kleffman added that his aunt didn't like to talk about her time in La Grange, but she also wasn't ashamed of it.
When Chadwell purchased the property in 1962, she renamed it "Edna's Fashionable Ranch Boarding House." She turned what was already a profitable enterprise into something much more: an institution. She developed a good relationship with the sheriff, gave generously to local charities, and was careful about making sure her employees saw a doctor regularly. The money rolled in, until a TV station got word. The business was then shut down and an epic scandal erupted.
Apparently word about the Chicken Ranch's demise was slow to leak out. According to legend, customers were still showing up at the ranch two years after it shut its bedroom doors.
The Chicken Ranch was also the inspiration for "La Grange," a well-known rock song from ZZ Top. "Rumor spreadin' around in that Texas town, 'bout that shack outside La Grange, and you know what I'm talkin' about..."

Chuck Norris Bridge

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- Fact: Chuck Norris will soon span the river dividing Slovakia and Austria in just one bound ... if the residents of Bratislava get their way.
Civic authorities in the capital of the former eastern Bloc nation have asked residents to come up with a name for a new cycle bridge which crosses the Morava river north of Bratislava over the border to the Austrian village of Schlosshof.
Top of the list so far is the all-action martial arts "Delta Force" star, whose name is a byword for heroic -- and sometimes downright unbelievable -- feats even in this quiet corner of Europe.
As of Friday morning, after a day of online polling, Chuck Norris had garnered well over a thousand votes, beating Austro-Hungarian empress Maria Theresa, with just over a hundred votes, into a humiliating second place.
The vote will run until April.

Signs

Only in Florida

Emu on the lamb

SOUTH HERO, Vermont (AP) - An elusive emu on the lam in Vermont has been amusing residents in communities on Lake Champlain.

The 150-pound (68-kilogram) flightless bird looks like a small ostrich. It has been spotted wandering here and there in Grand Isle and South Hero since it escaped from a local farm five weeks ago.

It was spotted again Friday outside the South Hero elementary school, where it walked by a window of the principal's office. School worker Steve Berard tried to lasso it with an extension cord, but it broke free.

The emu's owner tells WCAX-TV he bought three emus for his grandchildren but they don't make great pets.

He's taken out an ad in a local newspaper saying, "Free emu if you can capture it."

Kidney for an Ipad 2

This guy sold one thing you don't need for another, which I guess makes sense.

Apple products are notoriously hard to get when they first come out, because as well all know, you either wait in line for days, or shell out an inordinate amount of cash or do the unforgivable and be a patient civilized human being, waiting a few extra weeks for something that will make your poops more fun.

Well, this 17 year-old Chinese teen just couldn't wait so instead of being patient, he became a patient. (*Catches the tomato you just threw and throws it back into the crowd screaming and ripping his shirt off*)

The kid, only identified by his surname Zheng since he's apparently a Dick Tracy villain of some kind (?), sold his kidney for an iPad 2. According to Shanghai Daily, the boy "wanted an iPad 2 but could not afford it." However, a "broker" (aka black market organ hustler) contacted the boy online and offered to help Zheng sell his kidney for 20,000 yuan (about $3,100). He agreed and had his kidney removed for an iPad 2 in what could only have been the safest of operating tables. Also, this almost makes me want to sell my kidney to finally afford that real doll I've been meaning to get for the carpool lane. I mean who needs two kidneys in this economy?

So he was given the money (roughly $3,400) right after the removal. He went home with an iPad and his mother asked where he got it (not where he was for days because I'm pretty sure surgery and recovery takes time if the movie 9 Months has taught me correctly). Anyway, he confessed to his mother what he had done and so she called the police like a jerk.

Strangely enough the police were unable to contact the black market dealer and brokers. Shocking that this guy was unreachable. And, of course, since the surgery Zheng has since had post-surgery issues. The hospital where his kidney was illegally removed wasn't qualified or equipped to do that kind of procedure. The hospital also claimed they had no knowledge of the surgery, though they did admit to contracting out the urology department to a Fijian businessman (the best urologists in the world).

Zheng's health continues to decline and while he may not be able to run and play sports like a normal 17 year-old he's already beat your high score on Angry Birds Seasons (2012) and your score on non-arcade Fruit Ninja.