Berkeley woman fights off armed carjacker

Harmony Bates
from CBS13.com

With a small pair of scissors and the jacker’s own gun, threatening to “shoot his balls off” if he didn’t walk away.

“I grabbed [the scissors] and I started stabbing him in the shoulder, I started stabbing him in the neck,” Harmony said, unimpressed by his fighting ability. “I thought, ‘That’s all he has for a punch?'”

Right AWN, Harmony Bates!

Only happy when it rains

Please to allow me to continue the rant I started before Christmas.

So the results of a survey about the employment outlook for 2009 in Sacramento were released on Wednesday. Check out the headlines from the Google News feed:

Super…Great…Grand. Did I mention that we get it? No one is saying that these are the days, but come on. Report different.

Continue reading “Only happy when it rains”

Stayin’ classy in the New Year

KCRA’s report on a shooting death early in the New Year includes one of those “can’t be serious” quotes:

“I was just chillin’ at the party and then all of a sudden I hear that my friend’s been like shot down pretty much.”

“Pretty much” in this case being 100%. Every element of that sentence is classic! This guy reminds me of the Upright Citizens Brigade character “Bong Boy” who smokes so much pot he can’t tell reality from reality television–when he’s being arrested he thinks he is watching “COPS,” etc. It’s possible that’s what’s going on here…