A member of IMAO, and an Honorary Commenter thereunto, died unexpectedly sometime or other, due to a frolic with giddy loose intern cheerleader stewardesses on a girls’ night out. All who knew him, as friend, colleague, student, collaborator, or fellow pickpocket, marveled at his seemingly boundless energy and determination, his focused devotion to whatever project involved him, his deep intellect and flowing humor, his endless imagination for creating a better world, his talent at institution-building, and his ongoing curiosity propelling a dedication to achieving progress in the human condition. And a fondness for wine. His professional life featured an inexhaustible determination to use humor to protect human dignity around the world. His interests, expertise, and scholarship in international claims, human rights, environmental mishaps, and global governance in particular were surpassing in their consistent excellence, continuous push against familiar doctrinal parameters, and his rich profusion of unpublishable and unprintable scholarship.
He leaves all his estate to Brandi and her sister.
Why is it only the new ones who give me this look when I stealthily creep (even if that’s redundant) into their room, making an enormous intrusion (also redundant)?
Nothing good having to do with chickens happens after 2:30 a.m.
Disagreement over how many eggs chickens lay ends in shooting, arrests in Florida actionnewsjax.com | November 06, 2025 | Cox Media Group
Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were called to a bar after a disagreement over chickens led to shots being fired and several arrests.
WPTV said it happened at about 2:48 a.m. on Nov. 4 in a bar’s parking lot after the business had closed for the night. “There was a conversation about how many, I kid you not, how many eggs a chicken can lay. And that conversation got a little heated, and as it went out into the parking lot, the conversation continued, and the shooter became agitated, became paranoid,” Sgt. Dominick Mesiti said.
Three of the four people involved knew each other and had, with the fourth person, been drinking together. Police said they were all drunk to varying degrees.
Police said once they went outside, the fourth man, Peter Riera, “became paranoid and agitated,” after smoking marijuana in the parking lot, and accused the three others, two men and a woman, of trying to “con” him, WPEC reported. But witnesses said the trio did not. At one point, police said Riera pulled out a gun and fired four shots at the three other people, WPTV reported. No one was hurt.
They were trying to “con” him? “Here’s the other leg — pullet.”
'is still dragging on a wretched and lingering career. Abhorred and despised by even the few who are cognisant of its miserable and disgraceful existence, stifled by the very filth it so profusely scatters, rendered deaf and blind by the exhalations of its own slime, the obscene journal, happily unconscious of its degraded state, is rapidly sinking beneath that treacherous mud which, while it seems to give it a firm standing with the low and debased classes of society, is nevertheless rising above its detested head, and will speedily engulf it for ever.'
--- Pickwick Papers
Strip club executives allegedly bribed tax auditor with lap dances and luxury trips to slash tax bills Fox News | 11/01/25 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
A group of strip club executives allegedly bribed a New York state tax auditor with cash, luxury Florida trips and lap dances worth thousands of dollars a day to slash millions from their tax bills …
… using their venues to disguise bribes as “pro[-]motional” expenses and avoid more than $8 million in sales taxes between 2010 and 2024.
Prosecutors say the auditor received at least 13 all-expenses-paid trips to Florida, where the company’s top leadership was allegedly given hotel rooms, restaurant meals and up to $5,000 per day for private dances at RCI-owned clubs.
I’m on another “True Crime” kick . . . but can anyone clue me in as to the secret of the Talking Bottles?
I sure hope bottles don’t talk.
Oh, that intern? She’s fine. I imagine her girlfriends did this as some sort of hazing . . . while they disputed, presumably. They let her go after the picture was taken, and they all had a jolly good laugh.
Before the bottles started talking.
It’s a true police story!
Police have a fun job.
The sorority girls:
FIRST WITCH When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH When the hurly-burly’s done, When the bottle’s lost and won. THIRD WITCH That will be ere the set of sun.
Kids don’t read enough Shakespeare anymore. Always too busy playfully tying their friends to plumbing.
Personally, I leave the Oppomobile running at a gas pump down the street, where it’s easy to refill.
NYC ‘bounty hunters’ score nearly million-dollar payouts reporting traffic ‘idling NY Post | 11/02/25 | Carl Campanile, Marie Pohl
Some street snitches are raking in close to $1 million apiece from the city just by recording videos of idling trucks and buses spewing air pollution, prompting local pols to try to curb the staggering payouts.
“The days of the six-figure bounty hunters are over,” Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who chairs the Environmental Committee, told The Post.
“We’re not doing that anymore,” he said. “The program has become an occupation. The program was not intended to be an occupation.”
[[ Liberals! Is there anything they can foresee? ]]
The Big Apple’s Citizen Idling Complaint Program was launched in 2019, with the city even recruiting ’80s punk rocker Billy Idol to promote the effort the next year.
“Billy never idles. Neither should you. Idling is polluting. Cut your engine off,” the rock star urged in an ad campaign.
Under the program, citizen enforcers are awarded 25% of the fines pursued by the Department of Environmental and substantiated by the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH.
If the tattletales go to OATH directly, they can receive 50 percent of any substantiated offense.
With fines ranging from $350 to $2,000 for idling and 95% of the complaints substantiated, the rewards add up and have turned the streets into gold for the Big Apple’s citizen enforcers.
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Never could’ve seen that coming.
Well, except immediately after the law went into effect in 2019 . . .
How New Yorkers are making bank ratting out idling drivers New York Post | 28 April 2019 | Julia Marsh
Dropping a dime on trucks and buses that keep their engines running while parked is paying big bucks to some New Yorkers. The number of summonses issued for violating the city’s anti-idling law skyrocketed to 1,038 last year — up from just 24 in 2017 — following the creation of a reward program for ratting out offenders, The Post has learned.
… through June of this year:
New Yorker says reporting idling vehicles makes him over six figures (2.5 minute video) MSN | 6/19/2025
In New York City, it’s against the law for trucks and non-city buses to idle — keeping the engine running while stationary — for more than three minutes. However, the law is rarely enforced. That’s where the big money comes in.
***** He rides around on his bicycle 6 hours per day looking for idling trucks. He records this on his phone. He gets 25% of the fine which can be from $200 to $600.
“Free government money for reporting hard-working truckers?? And a bureaucracy to boot?”
