This Cop Got up on the wrong side of the bed…
A woman from the Maryland suburbs showed a reporter a
traffic citation she had just received, ticketing her for driving in the left
lane on Interstate 95 in Laurel while going only 63 mph -- compared to the
posted ("maximum") speed of 65. The citation read, "Failure of
driver ... to keep right."
Can you trust that car salesperson?
Last year Palmen Motors in Kenosha, Wis., sold a brand-new
GMC Terrain SUV to an elderly couple, 90 and 89, in which the husband was
legally blind and in hospice care, on morphine, and the wife had dementia and
could barely walk. According to the couple's daughter, it was her brother,
David McMurray, who wanted the SUV but could not qualify financially and so
drove his mother from Illinois to Kenosha to sign the documents while a Palmen
employee traveled to Illinois to get the father's signature (three weeks before
he passed away, it turns out).
Now here’s someone who feels “entitled”…
John Leopold, the former county executive of Anne Arundel
County, Md., serving 30 days in jail for illegally forcing his government
security detail and another employee to perform personal errands, apparently
wasted no time in March displaying a similar attitude toward his jailers. He
quickly demanded that the jailers serve him a breakfast of Cheerios, skim milk,
bananas and orange juice instead of the scheduled fare. (Last year, Anders
Breivik, the imprisoned 2011 mass murderer of 77 in Norway, famously began a
hunger strike when rebuffed over his 27-page list of demands, including
Internet access and a series of menu and climate-control improvements.)
It’s just different in some places….
Saudi Arabia:
(1) A newspaper in the capital city of Riyadh reported in April
that three men from the United Arab Emirates were booted out of a religious
festival by Saudi morality police because they were thought to be "too
handsome" and would make Saudi women improperly attracted to them. (I have this problem all the time...)
(2) Another Saudi daily reported in April that a
schoolteacher had agreed to marry her suitor but only provided that the man
take on two of her colleagues as extra wives. (Saudi Arabia allows men as many
as four). The newspaper reported that the woman had rented three apartments in
the same building, signaling that the deal had perhaps been sealed.
You are now leaving the Twilight Zone for today (at least I
think so…)
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