A tagger caught scribbling on a hotel wall was grabbed and covered in green ink in front of cheering patrons.

Quentin McKelvey, 21, an orchard worker of Hastings, was caught at Havelock North’s Turks Bar last month, The Dominion Post reports.

When manager Dion Cooper tried to get McKelvey to clean up the scribble he said the tagger started swearing at him.

So he grabbed McKelvey and his thick green paint pen and started drawing on his face.

“I asked him, ‘How do you like that, mate? How do you like being drawn on?’ I put a bit on his clothes, said, ‘Oh sorry, mate, I’ve just wrecked your clothes, like you wrecked my wall, how did you like it?“‘

He then tossed McKelvey into the garden bar, and threw the pen at him.

“There were about 80 to 100 people cheering.”

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H/T Sondrak

The first surgeon, from New York , says, ‘I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.’

The second, from Chicago , responds, ‘Yeah, but you should try electricians!  Everything inside them is color coded.’

The third surgeon, from Dallas , says, ‘No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order’.

The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles chimes in: ‘You know, I like construction workers..  Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.’

But the fifth surgeon, from Washington, DC shut them all up when he observed: ‘You’re all wrong.  Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable

Rosie O’Donnell defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the “Today” show on Monday, saying Barack Obama’s former pastor “made sense to me.”

The comedian also compared herself to Wright, saying “some people confuse passion for rage.”

HODA KOTB, co-host: You know Rosie there has been a void on morning TV since we don’t hear your opinions. Every times there’s like, I was going through a story today “I wonder what Rosie thinks about that.” What about — can I ask you about just the little Jeremiah Wright thing?

11-Year-Old Girl Field Strips an AR-15 (M16) Training em` young!

Should be a heckuva “show’n tell” in class.

H/T SondraK

If harvesting cells from your placenta makes you queasy, and it’s too late to access some umbilical cord blood, there’s yet another medical waste product that may provide a new, uncontroversial source of stem cells: menstrual blood.

Dr. Amit Patel from the University of Pittsburgh found that the uterine lining, which is shed during menstruation, contains millions of stem cells. These cells are multipotent (can give rise to several different cell types) and have the capacity for self-renewal—two essential properties of stem cells. The study showed that menstrual stem cells (MenSCs) could differentiate into cells that give rise to fat, cartilage, bone, skin, muscle, heart, and brain cells (though it’s important to note that the MenSC’s did not actually differentiate into these cells—only into their predecessors). The cells actually showed greater potential capacity than bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, as they had some of the same properties as human embryonic stem cells.

After years of idealism, I have finally decided that I am sick and fucking tired of helping the disenfranchised and oppressed. I have a master’s degree in social work, and I’ve worked in a number of different settings. I’ve been a social worker for Children’s Protective Services, a therapist on a psych ward, and I’ve worked as a case manager for a non-profit that shall remain nameless. I’ve had a number of clients over the years that I would now like to thank for helping me come to the realization that certain people are beyond help.

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A municipal government worker here has been suspended from duty and demoted for viewing obscene websites on at least 140,000 occasions on his office computer during work hours, city officials said.

The Kinokawa Municipal Government suspended the 57-year-old deputy section chief of its construction department for three months beginning on Thursday and demoted him.

The official used a computer in his office to access obscene websites between June last year and February this year on hundreds of thousands of occasions, according to the municipal government’s personnel division.

Hahahahaha!

A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.

Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, was arrested on April 22 on an accusation of forgery, police said.

Police responded to a report of a man attempting to pass the check about 4 p.m. that day at the Chase bank in the 8600 block of South Hulen Street, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.

The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.

Mr. Fuller was also accused of unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana, Lt. Henderson said. He may also face a theft charge in Crowley.

Lt. Henderson said he did not know if Mr. Fuller and his girlfriend were still together.

*still laughing*

literally...

H/T S D A

Lawyers for the mothers of 462 children taken from a polygamist ranch in West Texas will ask a state appeals court for relief, but the process is slowed by problems in determining the children’s parentage. Texas family law officials continue to investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse. Wade Goodwyn and Liane Hansen discuss the legal proceedings.

Meanwhile, some of the children in the FLDS group suffer from fumarase deficiency, a genetic disease that causes acute retardation and physical deformation. The disease was spread through decades of inbreeding, according to John Dougherty, an investigative reporter who has written extensively about the polygamist sect.