CNN.com reports: Texan, 91, arrested for bank robbery – Aug. 14, 2003. I guess you are never too old to be a fool. Apparantly it wasn’t the first time he did a robbery: Rountree left a prison in Florida, where he was the oldest prisoner in the state, about a year ago after serving a three-year sentence imposed on him for a 1999 bank robbery in Pensacola. He was caught holding up a bank in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1998 when he was 87, and given three years’ probation. Police said he always used the same tactic — walking unarmed into […]
I’m blogging this.
Recently I bought a T-shirt from Think Geek (“I see Fragged People”), but now they added a new new one that is kinda funny: ThinkGeek: I’m blogging this. Put the world on notice: I’m blogging this 🙂
Xmas in the States.
Ha, sometimes I suprise myself. I already booked my next vacation and I also got my tickets this week! This time I decided not to mess with renting a car and driving over to my girlfriend; I just transfer in Atlanta and fly to Tallahassee in a hour! I fly on December the 22nd and return on January the 4th 2004. The suprise this time came with my tickets: a booklet with all kinds of info on what I can take with me and what not. Also they made sure that insurance doesn’t pay more than 10-20k in case you […]
Enter the darkness
CNN.com – As power slowly returns, the questions begin – Aug. 15, 2003 The above article is a nice example of how authorities always try to blame others for mistakes and problems. Since I’m not old enough to consiously remember the poweroutage in new York in ’77, this one is having more of an impact. It was really weird seeing all the footage from a blocked up Times Square, people running around with flashlights and candles. Good to see though that – once again – New Yorkers are not in a state of panic. The power outtage in New York […]