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March 8, 2010

SOME TRAVEL SCAMS TO WATCH FOR… I’VE SEEN SOME OF THESE

There is also the one I got stung with in NYC where you’re getting in a cab and somebody is looking for change for a hundred. He did change my hundred but for $0…

THE FLAT TIRE SCAM:

Not all moving vehicle scams involve taxi drivers, suggests Robert Siciliano, head of IDTheftSecurity.com. “My wife was traveling in Spain and stopped at a red light,” he recounts. “Someone knocked on her passenger window and kept pointing towards [the car] and saying ‘tire flat, tire flat.’ She got out of the car to look and they opened up the passenger door and took her purse off the seat.”

THE TROJAN HORSE SCAM:

Tour guide Ann Lombardi of the Trip Chicks says she “recently watched a schemer in action in Frankfurt Germany train station” perform the classic hollow suitcase with rollers and frame trick, which Lombardi says works thusly: “A distracted tourist takes his eyes off his bag for a second. Behind the tourist lurks a guy with an enormous suitcase. In a flash, the thief lifts the enormous hollow luggage, puts it over the tourist’s bag, and calmly wheels away with his prized catch.” Avoid such schemers by always protecting your luggage between your legs while in crowded transportation areas, she says.

THE BASKSHEESH SCAM:
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January 6, 2010

THIS WAS SOME BAD LUCK BUT HE SURVIVED TO 93

CATAGORIES: FASCINATING, History, REST IN PEACE, SCARY STUFF — Yarbz @ 8:45 am

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December 31, 2009

LEONARDO DICAPRIO’S METAMORPHOSIS INTO BURL IVES SNOWMAN:

December 1, 2009

TECHNICAL ERROR IN BBC STORY ON THE US MARINE CORPS:

MARINE CORPS STORY BBC 1
Can any of you spot the error?
See my comment back to the BBC via their error notification form:
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November 11, 2009

This is the DROID you’re looking for!

It was time for a new cell phone. After serious missing my iPhone for the last couple of years, I just had to bite the bullet:

MotorolaDroid

Got me a DROID from Verizon. Lovin’ it (so far).

November 3, 2009

The Prisoner Mini Series

That’s right!!!!Number 6 is back!!! This time it’s Jim Caviezel vs. Ian McKellen’s Number 2. The six episode miniseries (Two episodes per night….get it) begins Sunday Nov. 15 8 pm Eastern.

Be seeing you….

October 8, 2009

YOU’RE A FREAK I SAY! A FREAK!

CATAGORIES: FASCINATING, NEWS & BREAKING NEWS & FOLLOW-UP, WTF — Yarbz @ 7:19 am

Winning Pumpkin
Jackson Township resident Christy Harp shows off her world-record 1,725-pound Atlantic giant pumpkin on in Jackson Township, Ohio. Harp took first place at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh-off Saturday in Canfield. She won $2,500 and could claim the world title. Contest organizers say the entry topped the 1,689-pound record-holder grown in 2007 by Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I. (AP Photo, The Canton Repository, Scott Heckel)

September 28, 2009

MORE OF ‘FAKE’ (Modified Post for better Explanation…):

CATAGORIES: ART, FASCINATING, PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-LX3, PHOTOGRAPHY — Yarbz @ 7:56 am

A friend of mine wrote a screenplay and won some awards with it and is now directing the film in and around Connecticut with a lot of it shot in New Britain where I live… I am shooting stills for the production. Here is the IMDB link:

www.imdb.com/title/tt1507566/

P1050033 Fake w Robert Loggia 700

big keyboard scene sm
Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia in ‘Big”…

Here are some pics from a previous day that were shot in downtown New Britain CT at the old Post Office:

P1040880 FAKE ARREST SCENE NEW BRITAIN

P1040886 FAKE NEW BRITAIN CT 1024

P1040907 SCENE W CAM NEW BRIT 1024

P1040910 FISHER STEVENS W FANS NB 1024

P1040903 SCENE CLAP NB 1024

September 24, 2009

WTF?

CATAGORIES: FASCINATING, GENERAL NONSENSE, STAG ARMS, TRUE HUMOR, WTF — FloridaBill @ 3:54 pm

Gerenuk-2
I saw this pic at FUpenguin.com and just had to share…go and read the comments, some are pretty good. One of them was: This creature’s other car is a spaceship.

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