Fire and Ice

Today most of the people in Kansas City are trying to scoop their way out due to snow storm that rolled through most of the Midwest.  It was a thunder snowstorm which made it somewhat unusual. While digging out driveways with 12+ inches of snow may not be everyone's idea of a good time, we have been in a serious drought for quite a long time.  At this point, any precipitation is a GOOD thing.   I have found it rather amusing,  with the non-stop weather reports, that all the stations keep showing us the various weather cams around town.

This weather camera is looking toward Country Club Plaza.

Looking at downtown KC

They should put Crabby Pant's snowman on the news. 

Dog Gone Funny

A few policeman are under investigation in West Midlands, England for filling out a witness statement form.  The problem started when  officers became exasperated because  prosecutors asked them numerous times to get a witness statement from PC Peach.  The officers responded by telling Crown Prosecution Services that that would be difficult to get PD (not PC) Peach to fill out a witness statement. While PD Peach is very intelligent, the PD stands for Police Dog.

Again the CPS insisted that they get a written statement. Somewhere the message wasn't getting across.   So the officers filled one out on behalf
of  PC Peach.

The West Midland Police found the whole thing funny and posted pictures of the Witness statement on both Facebook and Twitter.  The CPS didn't find it funny at all and felt like they were being made the punchline of a joke. Now the matter is being investigated  by  the Professional Standards Department who had just set some new guidelines regarding use of the Internet and advising officers not to share "operational materials" on line.  (Oopsie...bad timing)

Two things are very clear:

1. The Crown Prosecution Service doesn't have any sense of humor.
2. PD Peach is a good boy.... a really good boy, and quite cute as well

If You Won A Lottery What Would You Buy?

Two brothers in Wichita, Kansas were celebrating their good fortune.  They had won $75,000 from the Kansas Lottery and purchased enough drugs to raise the roof. 

One of the brothers went into the kitchen of their home to refuel the butane torches that they were using to light their bongs.  According to Sgt. Bruce Watts of the Wichita Police Department, "The butane vapor reached the pilot light in the furnace, and as you might expect ka-boom." The boys managed to blow up part of the house.

One brother had burns to his hands, arms and torso and was taken to the emergency room by his girlfriend.

The other brother was visited by the police department and taken to jail. There was marijuana and methamphetamine in the home...or at least what was left of the home.

It would seem that the brothers were both.... winners and losers.

Mall Cops

 Florida police said they arrested a pair of teenagers accused of using an iPhone app to imitate police lights and pull over motorists near a mall.

Naples police said an officer patrolling the parking lot of the Coastland Center Mall in Naples just prior to 7 p.m. saw a tan Ford Ranger pickup flashing red and blue lights behind another vehicle and recognized the driver as Ryan McMahon Schulze, 19, who is not in law enforcement, the Naples Daily News reported Wednesday.

The officer stopped the truck and Schulze and passenger Matthew Levi Davis, 18, said they "were just messing around" while waiting for a friend who worked at the mall.

The teenagers said they were using an iPhone app called "Police Lights" to mimic emergency lights and a text message found on Davis' phone said, "Another person pulled over," the police report stated.

Schulze was arrested on a  charge of impersonating an officer and a misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of blue lights.
Davis was arrested on the same charges as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

There is an app for that.