Daily News December 17

Today is Thursday, December 17, 2009. It is the 351st day of the year with 14 to go.

Today’s History

In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted the first successful manpowered airplane flights.
In 1989, the TV series “The Simpsons” premiered on Fox.

Today’s News

Ooops, I Did It Again
The couple who crashed the White House state dinner wasn’t the first couple to randomly show up uninvited to an event. A nice Georgia couple accidentally showed up at the White House for a tour a day earlier than they were supposed to. They didn’t realize what was going on until a White House aide showed them into a room where a lavish buffet had been laid. The couple was surprised because they didn’t think breakfast was apart of the tour. The husband told the White House aide that he thought they might be in the wrong place, but the aide told them, “Just go with the flow.” The couple was properly screened and since they had already gone through background checks for the White House tour, they were allowed inside a buffet that was being held for veterans. White House spokespeople say it is not unusual for tour guests to be invited to other events if there is room and since the husband was indeed a veteran, there was no harm done. The couple got to have breakfast with President and Mrs. Obama.

I need them to get it together over there at the White House. Perhaps I’m a conspiracy theorist but how come the Secret Service is suddenly making all these mistakes? Has this ever happened before with previous presidents? Has the Secret Service allowed random people get into close proximity with the president before? Or is this something new? They need to get it together. Look what happened to Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi.

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A California father figured that his cell phone bill would probably go up a little bit after he decided to add his 13 year old son to his plan. He did not expect the bill to be nearly $22,000. Apparently, the family’s cell phone plan did not include data service (like text messaging and internet), and the boy downloaded 1.4 million kilobytes over the span of a month. Because there was no data plan, they were charged by the megabyte. Verizon has agreed to credit the account for the entire amount and the father has also suspended the son’s phone.

I hope they get a data plan. I guess they haven’t heard of the unlimited everything plan. For some families the unlimited everything plans are expensive, but I’m sure it’s MUCH cheaper than $22,000. What if Verizon had said, “Oh well, sorry for your luck! Bill’s due tomorrow.”

It’s Mine! Not It’s Mine!
A judge in France has decided the argument between two gamblers has gone on long enough and has ruled that the jackpot be split. The argument started between two friends who gambled together. They were playing the slots at a casino when the woman put 50 euros into the slot machine but the man was the one who pulled the lever. She hit the jackpot: 2 million euros which is about $3 million US. In France, there is no hard rule on who the winner is: the person who put in the money, or the person who pulled the switch. The judge decided that the jackpot would be split 80/20. The woman who put the money would get 80% and the man who pulled the switch would get the remaining 20.

Her first mistake was not leaving the country for an extended trip. She left the casino with her payout but her friend later sued. Three million dollars is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, but it’s enough for me to get gone. Depending on who this friend was that was gambling with me, he would not have got nothing! Like I said three mil ain’t a whole lot to be giving away $600,000 to someone who just pulled the switch.

Doped Up Daycare
A group of Ohio parents has decided to sue their daycare after they found out the caregivers were doping up the children at nap time. One parent claimed that their infant child always seemed strangely groggy after she came home from the daycare, but since this was their first child, they weren’t sure if something was wrong. Caregivers at the daycare admitted that they repeatedly gave children melatonin-laced candy so they would go to sleep at naptime. The daycare currently serves about 40-50 children, but this does not include all the children that have come and gone. So far, two workers have been fired, and there is no word on how long this has been going on. It is alleged that children as young as two months were being drugged and sedated with unauthorized medication. Many children suffered from headaches, abdominal discomfort, nightmares and dizziness. Melatonin is a hormone made in the brain to help control sleep, but the manufactured drug is not FDA-approved or regulated.

You just cannot trust people these days. What are working parents supposed to do? The days of single-income families are over, so mommies and daddies have to work to feed their families. Unless you have one of those jobs that lets you bring your kid safely to work, you’re forced to leave your kid with someone you think you can trust. Doping up the children so they would go to sleep? That is insanity. What if one of the kids had a bad reaction and died or was seriously injured? Then some of the kids were so young, two and three months old, they would never be able to tell someone what is happening to them or if something was wrong. The sad thing is that the daycare is merely being sued; no criminal charges have been filed. This is just as bad as the daycare that accidentally gave the kids anti-freeze instead of kool-aid.

Dead in the Bed
North Carolina police have arrested several members of a family after a body was discovered in their home. Police received a mysterious phone call from someone in the home stating that there was an elderly woman in the home who was not breathing and unconscious. When police arrived, they discovered that the 88 year old woman had been dead for eight months. Neighbours report the family as very friendly, coming and going like regular people. There was even a young child who went to school everyday. Nobody had any idea that the grandmother had died last spring and that she was still in the house. It is more than likely that the woman died of natural causes, but police do not understand why the family did not report the death as required by law. There is also no record of any social security fraud, so there really is no reason to hide the woman’s deat.

Didn’t it smell? A dead body in the house for eight months has to produce some sort of stank that is not appealing. Then on top of that, there’s a kid in the house and he’s not having nightmares about grandma being laid out in the next room? Either there is some scandal beneath all this or they are practicing some Incan death culture rituals. The Incans did not bury their dead, but kept them around the house and talked to them as if they were still alive. In their culture, the dead had more power than the living.

Joke’s On You
An Australian teen has gotten what she deserves after she decided that it would be amusing to flash drivers from the side of the road. The girl’s drunken friends dared her to show off her breasts at drivers while she stood in the middle of a busy intersection. One of the drivers got so distracted that he swerved off the road and hit her. Luckily, it was because he was so distracted that he was going much slower than the speed limit. The girl suffered minor injuries after rolling up onto the hood and hitting the windshield. In addition to being hit by a car, she is also being fine for causing a distraction on a motorway.

What goes around comes around, moron.

Today’s Thought

A fool and his money are soon parted, but you never call him a fool till the money is gone. ~Anonymous