"all being done in the name of good summertime fun"

[Baliset]

Police say they are mystified. And it appears there is nothing they can do to stop it since it's all being done in the name of good summertime fun. At least, that's what the kids say. Teens in Whale Harbor in Islamorada, Florida are entertaining themselves by dangling from meat hooks on a popular sandbar, reports Reuters.

Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Monroe County sheriff's office found five young people had erected a bamboo tripod on the sandbar and hung meat hooks from it. The Coast Guard shot a videotape of one teen girl who had embedded the meat hooks in her shoulders and dangled from them with her feet brushing the surface of the shallow water. Reuters notes she didn't seem to mind the hooks. A young man who also dangled from the meat hooks told the Coast Guard the group was "just enjoying the afternoon."

Even though the meat hooks are embedded in the skin, there appears to be little pain and there is very little blood, indicating to authorities that the group has done this before and know what they are doing. A Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami told Reuters the teenagers intend to post photographs of themselves on a Web site dedicated to "body modification" and the ritualistic piercing of the body. "As long as they weren't creating any kind of ruckus or riot within a crowd, they really weren't breaking any laws," the Coast Guard spokeswoman told Reuters.

 

[lizard]

see, that's the thing I was asking about ... the Columbus Hell City Tattoo Festival had some of those people.

and to continue the fun, and I'm not trying to steal Greg's thread, I don't want to make one for another wacky story

Nude man caught covered in nacho cheese

2004-07-19
by Lance Coleman
of The Daily Times Staff

A Maryville man spent his 23rd birthday in custody after police said they found him early Sunday running nude from the John Sevier pool snack bar with a box of stolen snacks.

Authorities said the man had apparently scaled an 8-foot tall fence while naked and covered in nacho cheese and was seen running toward a Jeep in which officers found clothing and an open bottle of vodka.

According to Maryville police, Michael P. Monn, born July 18, 1981, of McCall Road, Maryville, was arrested by officer Scott Spicer at 5 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the pool at John Sevier School, Sequoyah Avenue. Monn was charged with burglary, theft of property less than $500, vandalism less than $500 and public intoxication. He was also cited with indecent exposure. Monn was held at the Blount County Jail in lieu of $9,300 bond pending a 9 a.m. Aug. 3 General Sessions Court hearing.

Spicer reported at 3:38 a.m. Sunday he saw a Jeep CJ-7 in the parking lot of the pool and saw an open bottle of vodka in the console along with various articles of clothing. Minutes later, a nude man carrying a cardboard box ran toward the Jeep before Spicer stopped him and found the box filled with Frito Lay snacks and a container of nacho cheese.

``In addition, the male had nacho cheese in his hair, on his face and on his shoulders,'' Spicer reported. ``The nude male had a strong odor of alcohol and was semi-incoherent.''

An official with Maryville Alcoa Blount County Parks and Recreation was called to the scene and together with police, they searched the facility. They found someone had climbed an 8 foot fence, broke into the snack bar through a window, ransacked the facility, left the freezer door open and caused $100 damage by ripping the water heater from the wall, according to a report.

Authorities reported someone also defecated in a garbage can, threw nacho cheese on the exterior wall of the snack bar and scattered chips on the ground outside the facility. About $40 in chips and $7 in nacho cheese were stolen from the snack bar, police said.

 

[xfer]

they measured how much nacho cheese was on him and gauged the value of it!

"Seven dollars on the nose, men."

 

[avi]

at first I was worried that second article was about Maryland and was going to say "Josh Seipp-Williams"

 

[lizard]

!!!!!!!!!!
this is too good.

Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer
ROGERSVILLE, Tennessee - With their cell doors accidentally left unlocked, four county jail inmates escaped only to return the same night — with beer.

The Hawkins County Jail inmates, who bought four cases of beer before returning to the jail, were charged Monday with escape and introduction of intoxicants into a penal institution, the Kingsport Times-News newspaper reported Tuesday.

"I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape, but they were wrong," Sheriff Warren Rimer said.

Ridgy Dean Coleman, Jimmy Joe Stapleton, David Wayne Blizzard and David Allen Hopkins escaped Thursday night when their cell block doors were unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Rimer said.

Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, left the door propped open with a small Bible and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a nearby market and bought the beer.

The inmates did not raise alarm at the store because they were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail doesn't have enough orange jumpsuits for all of its inmates.

The sheriff pointed out that all 36 inmates on the cell block might have tried to escaped while the doors were unlocked.

"At least they came back," he said.

 

[avi]

<- speechless

 

[azal]

haha

that rules.