Hey y’all, Happy New Year! It's a brisk weather we're starting off w/for the new year but we had a beautiful and sold out Save The Light Oyster Roast again this year. We'd like to thank the Save The Light folks for having us again this year, I understand we'll be back again next year. We missed the drone show on NYE, but I guess we really didn't miss anything, because whatever happened, we saw it on the news. I hope the peeps that were hit by falling drones won't be deterred from checking out other drone shows, maybe? I did read the same thing happened in Orlando, FL, a drone fell and hit a kid https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/us/orlando-holiday-drone-show-ends-with-technical-difficulties-systems-falling-from-the-sky/index.html Hopefully it'll be straightened out if it's scheduled for next year. We'll be playing for Bo's Oyster Roast later this month, here's the link for info and tickets https://bosroast.com/ It's at the James Is County park, check it out. We'll also be playing the Taste of Folly this year, we'll pass on time and location info as soon as we get it, we're looking forward to it! In case you missed it, Catch 23 (formerly Snapper Jack's) opened up back in November, had a few drinks there and the food looks awesome, I see lunch there in my future. Thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and see you soon, ciao’!
Twisted - Oregon Man Missing Since 2021 Remains Found
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Calling Their Bluff: Pastor Will Duffy of the Denver Bible Church, which is in ...well... Wheat Ridge, Colo., was surprised to learn that some people still believe the Earth is flat, so he invited several prominent Flat Earthers to accompany him to Antarctica. It seems FE’ers believe that Antarctica is the edge of the Earth, and that it’s “off limits” due to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 (despite tourists going there all the time), so they couldn’t go there to get proof of the Earth’s flatness. So let’s go, Duffy said, and he’d pay the expenses. “I created The Final Experiment to end this debate once and for all,” Duffy said. The result? “Sometimes you are wrong in life,” admitted FE’er Jeran Campanella of the YouTube channel “Jeranism” during a livestream from Antarctica. “Don’t listen to my beliefs or my opinion,” Campanella said, “but at least you should be able to accept that the sun does exactly what these guys said as far as [it] circles the southern continent.” FE’er Austin Whitsitt of “Witsit Gets It” agreed: “We were wrong,” he said. “After we go to Antarctica,” Duffy said before the trip, “no one has to waste any more time debating the shape of the Earth.” (News.com.au) ... They don’t have to, but they will.
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Full Circle: Richard Lacey admitted in Llandrindod Wells Magistrates Court that he drove while drunk in Talgarth, Wales. His alcohol level, as measured by a breathalyzer device, was 41 micrograms of alcohol in 100 ml of breath; the legal limit is 35 micrograms. Lacey, 70, came to police attention after crashing his car on a roundabout. “I misjudged how much I’d drunk,” he said, representing himself in court. “I had a couple of glasses of wine with lunch and a few pints of beer.” As for what he does for work, he replied, “I’m retired. I designed breathalyzers and used to work with the police.” (Shropshire Star) ...Pocket breathalyzers: as little as 20 pounds on Amazon.
Caped Crusader: Kyle Whiting was getting his hair cut in Warrington, Cheshire, England, when he noticed his barber was distracted by something going on outside. Whiting, 32, looked up to see a man attacking a police officer. “I thought, ‘I’m not sitting back and watching this’,” he said later. He leapt from the barber’s chair and ran to assist the officer, with the barber’s cape flying behind him in the wind. By the time he arrived the cop was on the ground with the attacker, and other passersby had come to help too. The attacker was arrested. After going back to finish his haircut, Whiting went to the hospital to pick up his girlfriend. She happened to be sitting next to the officer, who was waiting for an X-ray of his finger; it was broken in the incident. (BBC) ...Which Whiting quickly fixed up for the cop thanks to his X-ray vision.
Hindsight is 20/20 Florida Man ‘Should Have Hid His Cocaine’ Before Calling Deputies to Report a Break-In WTVT Tampa
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Topped Off with Christmas Pudding: Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks of North Yorkshire, England, baked 2,500 pies for a Christmas fair and had them all loaded into a refrigerated van for delivery. The van was stolen. Police recovered it, but the vehicle was trashed and the pies ruined. “A van is a van, but the amount of work that goes into making pies is huge,” the chef said. After reading a news story about the incident, Joshie Harris, 11, typed a message to his father: “I see sad man, pies finished.” Joshie is autistic, and non-verbal, said his father, Dan, “and it blew my mind that he had that kind of comprehension. It makes me incredibly proud that he could read the sentiment of the news article and understand that the man was sad.” The boy loves to cook, and immediately set about helping the chef replace them. Dan will drive him and his pies to the fair in York — about 125 miles — to deliver them. Should Tommy Banks not be able to use them for the market at the fair, Dan and Joshie will deliver them to a food bank. “He wanted to show especially at Christmas that these kinds of things shouldn’t be happening,” Dan said. “Also, it shows how that even though Joshie can’t speak, he can still be an active member of society doing good.” (BBC) ...A good number of people who can speak can’t meet that standard.
From Jimbo – "An elderly couple walked by me holding hands and as they did, I told the gentleman to have her home by 10, with a smile and a wink... The elderly man stopped in his tracks and without missing a beat said, with a returned smile and wink - "Don't worry, I will. Her husband comes back home at 11."