A Donut shop in Toronto was the scene of an explosion (or possibly a fire). A man entered a washroom at a Tim Horton’s shop in Toronto. An explosion of rapid fire ensued, and the man was killed.
It may be nothing; it is too early to tell. It is unusual for a person to spontaneously combust, however. Police have been seen detonating abandoned duffel bags in the area and are investigating suspicious packages. All those details make it sound as if it may not be minor, even though only one person died.
UPDATE: Toronto police now report this was a gasoline explosion/fire. They are not sure whether the individual was trying to kill himself or just start a fire. They say no explosive device was involved. Thank heavens nobody else was injured.
Frankly, when I read this article, two things crossed my mind:
One, the writer (or whoever edited the piece) is almost incoherent at stringing all this material together. Two, if this accurately portrays "sex experts" and the state of research today, we really need to get some new experts.
This line was particularly troubling:
While cyber-sex fueled by drugs such as Viagra might be tempting, it is "built for disappointment" because real life can seldom compete with fantasies, panelists said.
Cybersex fueled by Viagra? You’d need a new monitor every week.
Read it yourself and see if you find the same problems.
Yesterday, I poked some fun at George Clooney. Today he’s in the news - you just can’t make this stuff up. It seems he is having a battle with an on-line celebrity site called gawker.com. Gawker has started a service (I use the term loosely) to track celebrity sightings in real time. Aptly named Gawker Stalker maps combine tips sent in to the site with Google mapping technology. Fans can keep track of their favorite celebrities. Some publicists have complained vociferously, warning that this could possibly make it easier for real stalkers to track celebrities down.
Clooney on the other hand has come up with a different strategy: Bombard the gawker site with fake sightings.
"A couple hundred conflicting sightings and this Website is worthless," Clooney wrote, per the New York Post, which first leaked the email Friday. "No need to try to create laws to restrict free speech. Just make them useless. That’s the fun of it."
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are not sure as to what Mr. Clooney was trying to say. Does he want to make free speech useless? Or the laws against free speech? But we digress.
Our intrepid magic 8-ball photographer has obtained (yet another) exclusive photo! Here we see Clooney proudly leading an army of clones, on their way to many locations in New York City to put Clooney’s master plan to work.
The gawker should be afraid…..
Someone has stolen Jerry Garcia’s toilet.
The toilet was actually the focus of a lawsuit between the man who bought Garcia’s former home and the person who in turn bought the house in a later sale. The toilet had been sold to GoldenPalace, the on-line casino that buys quite a few unusual items (to get free publicity - just like this!).
I would have loved to be in that courtroom. The judge must have had fun with it……
Incidentally, there is a reward for the return of the toilet.
Loots together.
My daughter, the budding assassin, competed in her first shooting event, a paper-target "turkey shoot". It was the first time she had even held a 20 gauge shotgun.
She took first place and won a Mossberg model 702 Plinkster .22 caliber rifle. It’s a special edition with a National Wild Turkey Federation medallion. (NWTF sponsored the event).
The local NWTF group wanted to present it to her at their annual banquet, so we dutifully bought tickets and went last night. These banquets are how groups like the NWTF raise funds, so there are raffles, drawings, silent auctions and a live auction as well. A lot of really nice wildlife art, sculptures and paintings both. And they have limited edition guns, too. So we dutifully bought tickets for various guns being drawn for, and bid on a couple of silent auction items.
We ended up with a really pretty duck sculpture, and a Leatherman tool my wife really wanted from the silent auction.
When the gun drawings started at the end of the evening, one of the guns was a Harrington & Richardson Handi Rifle in .243 Winchester caliber. Mrs. Arbo won it.
Then they drew for a Winchester 1300 12 gauge. (Destined to be a real collectors item since Winchester ceased production earlier this year.) I won that.
We left the banquet better armed than some small countries. My daughter is so very proud of her first gun - she won it all by herself. (I don’t think it was beginners luck, either. She literally can draw a smiley face on a target with a .22 caliber pistol.)
I can’t believe how lucky we were last night. Warning to anyone sitting next to my son when he reads this post. Stand back, spittle will be flying. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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