I sure hope that customers don’t make a habit out of this…
NEW PORT RICHEY - The Best Buy repairman had come several times to fix the woman’s television. But still on Friday he could not get it to work.
So, officials say, the woman pulled out a .38-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point rounds and told him: “You’re not leaving until the TV is fixed.”
Marlene Anne Bagnall, 44, of 1523 Davenport Drive was later arrested on charges of aggravated assault and false imprisonment.
Bagnall’s husband told a sheriff’s deputy she was diagnosed with a mental disorder for which she takes medication. She left the county jail early Saturday on $10,000 bail.
Bagnall told a deputy that she became enraged when the repairman, 58-year-old John Meyer, could not fix the television. She said she retrieved the gun from the glove box of her car in the garage, walked back into the living room and pulled the gun out of its case, a sheriff’s report said. She denied pointing it at the man.
The repairman escaped unhurt after he got a Best Buy clerk on the phone to promise Bagnall a new television. She seemed pleased and allowed him to leave, he told a deputy. Afterward, he called the Sheriff’s Office.
“John advised in his 30 years in retail he has never experienced such a thing and is glad to be okay,” the deputy reported.
Via St. Petersberg Times
Well, This week I fell two places to place fifth. Stupid Jeff Gordon ruined everything by coming in 30th. I hoping that I would have the chance to move up this week. But now, it’s going to get harder and harder to make that comeback.
The creator of BitTorrent just launched The BitTorrent Search Engine.
Yeah, I know I’m way behind on my final Deadwood posting, but there was just too much in it to rush this post. I just don’t know where to begin. How about the Wu redemption? All of it was arranged, of course, by Swearingen, who outdid himself in this episode. First, orchestrating the Wu takeover, then endearing himself the Hearst and undoing all of Tolliver’s work for the entire season.
Here’s some more LEGO Maddness. I found this LINK via MAKE: Blog. Some guy has built a VCR using LEGO Mindstorms.
It has a motorized top-loading deck, IR remote control and accepts a cassette that holds two imaginary reels of tape.
For all you paintball junkies. Combat Ball Paint Ball Simulator, it’s like paintball but with Velcro balls and suits, I think. Sounds like fun.
First, someone builds a LEGO Rubik’s Cube. Now, I found this LINK via MAKE: Blog. Someone has made a full-size working LEGO Harpsichord. With the exception of the wire strings, this instrument is entirely constructed out of Lego parts. There’s even a MP3 of it playing. Is there nothing Legos can not do?
Man Hooks World Record 124-Pound Catfish via ABC News
In a photo from Tim Pruitt and provided by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Tim Pruitt, of Alton, Ill., holds a 124-pound blue catfish early Sunday morning, May 22, 2005, that he hooked late Saturday on the Mississippi River near Alton. The fish is 58 inches long and 44 inches around. It took Pruitt more than a half-hour to drag the fish into his boat. It is the largest of its kind in state history, and is expected to be certified a world record by the International Game Fish Association. The fish has been kept alive and will be on display in a tank at the Cabela’s Outfitter store in Kansas City, Kan., according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
I’m ready to go fishing.
I’m not sure how, but the other day at work a few of us were talking about cartoons. So, in order to settle some sort of argument I started poking around the web looking for information. That’s when I came across Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes & Images. Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes & Images has just about everything you could ask for. A nostalgia trip for sure with lots of classic cartoon themes for your downloading pleasure. Looney Tunes, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Pinky and The Brain… they’re all here.
I was greatly disappointed to see that the nucluar missile solution was found so easily. The ability to find and track the missile was too predictable. Also, now that Jack Bauer is dead man, what are they going to do about next season? My guess is that next season will pick up shortly after where today ended, having something to do with the Chiness counsolate and Jack Bauer being out on the run. It was a great season. I’m already looking forward to the next.