First, he was accused of pursuing an alternative lifestyle (nothing wrong with that, and he wouldn’t be the first celebrity to do so); now it appears that, according to the London Free Press, Tinky Winky has really hit the skids:
Halloween took a bizarre and frightening turn in London this weekend when a man dressed as a children’s television character, a purple teletubby, robbed a woman at gunpoint near the city’s core.
London police say a costume-wearing, gun-toting teletubby confronted the woman near the intersection of Talbot and Mill streets just after midnight and demanded cash.
The woman, in her 20’s, gave an undisclosed amount of cash to the robber, who then ran south on Talbot.
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Guelph, Ontario, until Dec. 20 – Mug shots, especially those of miscreant celebrities, are endlessly fascinating, and can be analyzed for all kinds of emotions, like shame, regret, disinterest, defiance (nay, puckishness), and even, well, whatever it is that Nick Nolte was feeling.
This is the thinking behind an ongoing exhibit of Ontario Provincial Police [Yeah, you know me--ed] mugshots at the Guelph Civic Museum, most of which are a century old. These aren’t celebrities, obviously, but rather plain-old “pickpockets, confidence men, escaped fugitives, shoplifters, horse thieves, and even murderers.” The fascination is the same, however. (And Nolte probably stole a horse or two in his time.)
We are living in a time of economic unrest and upheaval. People are losing their jobs, their homes and their sense of security. Difficult times like these force the average person to take a deep introspective look at what matters in life, and/or collosally overeact to minor irritations.
Consider the case of a Fort Pierce, Florida woman who called 911 three times after McDonald’s employee informed her they had run out of Chicken McNuggets. (Hat tip to TCPalm.com)
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In a event that sits at a nexus between two areas of concern here at DRIVENmag.com (laptop theft and Facebook addiction), the admittedly amusing news has surfaced, in an Associated Press report, that a man has been arrested in Brandenton, Florida, for stealing a laptop from a fellow Starbucks patron, because the thief really wanted to check Facebook. Read More
