Not sure if this is staged, but it’s damned funny.
So is this, at least with my 12-year-old, locker room sense of humor.
Underage drinking at a fraternity party? Call the SWAT team!
This kid is smart. I remember a hilarious episode of The Gary Shandling Show where Gary couldn’t figure out why he kept finding dead birds on his patio. Turns out he had bought a bird feeder, but left it on a bookshelf near the glass patio door. The birds would see it, fly down to reach it, then conk their heads on the glass.
This is sort of your typical slightly-creepy Obama kitch (though from Japan). Until, that is, about two-thirds of the way down the page. Then it gets awesome.
America’s 78th-richest man, a real estate developer, is lobbying the federal government to bailout, you guessed it, real estate developers. He wants hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh, and he just bought a majority stake in the Miami Dolphins.
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Cracked has a great article on these TV infomercials, including the, ahem, Tiddy Bear.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15768_p2.html
“This kid” lost me at Global Warming.
So how soon until we hears stories of SWAT teams being deployed to restaurants that are suspected of violating local/state smoking bans??
Best man fail — staged.
From the SWAT article:
“We activated the SWAT team not because we needed special weapons and tactics, we just needed the bodies,” Tennant said.
This says something about the allocation of police resources.
“Eighth grader Charlie Sobcov wants to stop birds from dying in collisions with windows, but he doesn’t want to ruin anybody’s view.”
I think I’ll contact him for ideas on how to save dogs from being shot by cops.
Seems like a real go-getter, “think outside the box kind” of kid.
Josh: “So how soon until we hears stories of SWAT teams being deployed to restaurants that are suspected of violating local/state smoking bans??”
Their working on that:
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200901150866
I meant “They are working on that.”
I may have just lost my bid to become Barry’s Grammar Czar. Or did I…?
#5
I don’t think a decal would work in that situation, but maybe someone could come up with a spray for pets that contains a subtle scent of doughnuts only cops can smell.
I can’t get the kitschy, awesome Obama link to work. Anyone else?
Cynical — I think your name is appropriate, but I don’t think the best man fall is staged. You will notice that his foot slips back as he takes the first step. If he was trying to stage it, its more likely that he would just pretend not to step high enough and trip over the step. I think the lack of traction shows it is real.
You could be right, Bryan. I was judging by the reactions of the people. It smacked of acting. Good stunt, either way.
“someone could come up with a spray for pets that contains a subtle scent of doughnuts only cops can smell.”
Took me a while to stop laughing there.
But wouldn’t this have the opposite effect of making cops want to hunt down and eat dogs?
Probably too much effort for cops to hunt. Dogs would have to be sold at 7-11 for them to be in that much danger.
Maybe the spray-on scent could be the opposite of doughnuts. What’s the opposite of a doughnut?
What’s the opposite of a doughnut?
Runners.
Cops hate a runner.
If I’m not mistaken that wedding fail video is pretty old. Either that or one very similar appeared on AFV many years ago that preceded the YT video revolution. If that is the case then it is less likely to have been staged.
Making they could make a spray that made the dog smell like accountability…
Er..’maybe.’ Worst quip ever.
Speaking of the Miami Dolphins, I love that, after the election, the previous owner of the Dolphins sold and said (I’m paraphrasing here) “I’d rather GIVE the team away than have Obama get half the money.”
Thats good times
“I can’t get the kitschy, awesome Obama link to work. Anyone else?”
Unfortunately Google didn’t cache the photos, and the original site in Japan has for whatever reason taken the page down. It was the “Yes We Can” edition of Today’s Toys for Jan. 20th featuring Obama dolls (”action figures”) and accessories.
RE: The Pullman incident
Oh, don’t worry. When you activate SWAT, you’ll get bodies, alright…
We’re used to hearing that no arrests were made during one of these raids. The fact that no one was hurt must mean the students aren’t allowed to have dogs in the frat house…
All kidding aside, did the SWAT team show up in their ninja suits and bulletproof vests, or did they just look like normal cops? I ask because it seems like the incident was pretty peaceful and I wonder if part of the reason these things often go so badly is because the police showing up looking like they are heading into a war zone kinda sets the tone for all involved.
RE: “Best man fall’
A two for one wedding and baptism!
Stephen Ross…worst person in America? ED abuse alone qualifies him.
ED still doesn’t “stand” for erectile dysfunction.
Well, there is that possibility also. but considering the way he’s attempting to screw Americans, maybe not.
America’s 78th-richest man: poor thing… he’s only 78th
is this what was on the Obama kitch site?
http://i.gizmodo.com/5136576/best-obama-action-figure-ever-battles-darth-vader-terrorists-karaoke
I like how DHS is advertising here through google.
[...] The Agitator points us to this kid. Sobcov, who studies at the Turnbull School, a private school in Ottawa, said he first fell in love with birds while on a trip with his parents to Costa Rica four years ago. … He later read that about 500 million birds a year in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada were dying as a result of crashing into windows. … He started researching bird vision and found out that a bird’s eye view includes colours in the ultraviolet range. [...]
I think I’ll contact him for ideas on how to save dogs from being shot by cops.
Cynical: Clearly, we need to apply some sort of dye that humans can’t see, but police can.
Given the combined size of the Pullman and WSU police departments, I’m not surprised that extra “bodies” were called in. Pretty ridiculous anyhow, given that these sorts of parties happen all the time in Pullman anyway.
Perhaps not a valid dichotomy, but I love it anyways.
The only person arrested at WSU was a 25 year old bystander who was not at the party. 25 and not invited to a party, I smell grad student…