AMERICAN FORK, Utah – Four teenagers were cited by police in American Fork after they rapped their order at a McDonald’s drive-thru. The boys said the drive-thru worker was not amused and asked them to leave. American Fork police found the teens at a parking lot during a high school volleyball game and issued them a citation for being disorderly in public. An officer said this means the teens created public fear or a public scene and that continuing to rap when they were asked to repeat their order was enough to issue a citation.

The teens said an employee got their plate number and must have called police as they were leaving. They also said they did not think they were breaking the law while rapping their order. “It’s just a joke. Honestly they didn’t need to take it this far. It’s not a big deal.” said Gage Christensen, 17, one of the teens involved in the rap. FOX 13 News called the McDonald’s in American Fork and the night manager said the teens were cursing and disrupting business. The teens said that is not true and they were the only ones in the drive-thru.

“Who gives tickets to high school teenagers for rapping into a microphone at McDonalds? Who does this?” said a mother of one of the teens, Sharon Dauwalder. “I just don’t understand why or how this could have been blown out of proportion.” Thousands nationwide have made their own drive-thru rap videos and posted them on YouTube.

BRUCE SEZ:  One thing’s for sure… Whoever tried to take their order HATES rap music. “Oh my God, they’re RAPPING. Get their license plate number.”  Drag-out. Unless they rapped similar to Yung Berg. In that case, I would’ve called the cops on their asses, too!

Link to the original story:
Utah Teens Cited For Rapping Order at McDonald’s – KSTU

Cover your iPhone

Hold up your britches

Play Nintendo, while make-believing “Honey Shrunk The Kids.”

Make ♫”Computer Loooove”♫

Get a raggedy-assed, regrettable tattoo… Then, get that raggedy-assed tattoo filled IN.

Ring a bell

Sit coffee on it!

Serve it at a birthday party

Hide keys in that sumbitch

Cover your Wii (There’s a joke here somewhere…)

Cover your engine?

Cover your costs

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of wack ass shit.

Letters to Santa are always a great idea.  A letter from “Santa” might not be the best thing to conjure up for a little kid.  Wait– I take that back.  It might not be the best thing for a little kid’s close associates, friends, and/or peers.

I have many traumatizing Santa Claus stories I could share, including one that paired him with an evil pet monkey who would throw dust in your eyes if you weren’t asleep when he showed up (thanks, Mom).  Today, its the one about a 3rd grade classmate receiving a letter from “Santa”.

I don’t know who to blame… Lets blame the teacher, who let her share it with the class. I mean, this thing had a return address label with a Christmas tree on it and EVERYTHING.  It read:

Santa Claus

1 Candy Cane Lane

North Pole

All I remember thinking was, “How much ass kissing did this broad have to do to get a letter from Santa?!” Then quickly losing interest in the answer, because I knew it would be too much work.  But I was jealous nonetheless…   “So–Let me get this straight: Jesus loves us all the same, but Santa Claus plays favorites? Santa needs Jesus.”

In the end, I should be thankful.  Thankful I didn’t have parents that would dive THAT deep, into deceiving an innocent child.  But they most definitely waded in the kiddie pool.  Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad.

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This is part of a series of post on successful people and how they have integrated the 8 Cylinders of Success in their lives in their own words. Buy the book if you want to find and align your 8 Cylinder of Success.

1. Principles » Your Dashboard

What beliefs equate to success to me?

Number one albums. Telling my story. Record Sales.

“Yesterday I just passed Elvis for my 11th number one album. We were tied with 10. And the Stones I believe have 9. The Beatles of course have 19 so that’s my next goal.”

“I never wanted to be a famous person. That was never my intention to be famous. My intention was to tell my story the truth…tell a truth.”

BBC Interview

“We’re chasing history. That’s all we talk about…After a minute you know it’s not about the money anymore after you’ve been in the game for so long and money is not a problem for you. You can do two things: you either give up and retire on an island somewhere or you chase history and leave a legacy…do it better than anyone has ever done it, to push the envelope, to do new and exciting things, to come up with things no one has ever heard of that people emulate until it becomes a trend. All that is chasing history.”

Interview with Charlie Rose

“I’ve got this Elvis thing going on right here,” he says. By that he means that if opening-day projections are correct, American Gangster will be his tenth Number One album, tying him with the King. (Only the Beatles have more, with nineteen.) “What’s great about that,” he says, “is that I’ve never had a Number One single on any of my albums. People buy them for the body of work.”

Rolling Stones

“If the record’s two mil I’m just tryna move three.”

Heart Of The City

2. Passions » Your Keys

What do I love doing and why?

Rapping. Selling Stuff. Developing Talent.

“Luckily for me I had a God-given talent. It took me a while to really realize it. I had this talent my whole life. I started writing since I was nine. My first album didn’t come out until I was 26 cause I was running the streets and I thought that was more important. It was a good thing that I had a lot of good people around me. They would push me like “You’re wasting your talent. You’re wasting your talent.” Finally I listened. Once I took that right turn to be an entertainer I never looked back.

Interview with Charlie Rose

“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business…mannnn!”

Diamonds Are Forever Remix

I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell
I am a hustler baby, I’ll sell water to a well

U Don’t Know

“I believe that anything you do in life, you have to have passion about what you do cause it’s hard work. But I love it. I love the results…I think its the passion for what you do when you find something you can be true to, something that really close to who you are as a person.”

Interview with Oprah

“I love what I’m doing. I love the artist I’m developing. I love the whole thing about it.”

December 2007 XXL Interview

“Who ever thought young Shawn Carter would change the game?
Used to rap to the raindrops off my window pane”

Hova Song Outro

3. Problems » Your Fuel

What social, scientific, technical, and/or personal problem do I want to solve?

(Cross-)Cultural ignorance.

I penetrate pop culture, bring ‘em a lot closer to the block where they
pop toasters, and they live with they moms

Renegade

“I look at myself as an ambassador for hip hop, like I said, when I do things I try to represent the culture in a positive light to show that we can mature. You know I was that guy as well. I was reckless and the whole nine. I was a product of my environment. But as I grew and got to see things my sophistication level rose…no pun intended.”

Interview with Charlie Rose

“The problem is racism. That’s really the problem.”

Interview with Oprah

“People was poor before the hurricane came
But the down pour poured is like when Mary J. sang
Every day it rains, so every day the pain
But ignored them, and showed em the risk was to blame
For life is a chain, cause and effected
Niggas off the chain because they affected
It’s a dirty game so whatever is effective
From weed to selling kane, gotta put that in effect.”

Minority Report

4. People » Your Motor

Whom do I want to serve?

My culture. The brothers. Those with single parents.

“I bring the brothers to the building give a feeling that I don’t
give a fuck we just chillin watchin chandelier ceilings high as fuck
Old lady, don’t blow my high
’specially if you don’t know my life, don’t make me bring
Sharpton in it cause I’m dark-skinneded or
dude with the ‘fro and the Rainbow Coalition, I’ma
victim of a single parent household, born in a mousehole
Mousetrap, niggaz wanna know
How so, how Jay get up out that, here, yeah
I snatched purses I per-se-vered, yeah”

Diamond Is Forever

“Everything I do, I do it with the culture in mind…with hip hop and with our culture in mind.”

Interview with Charlie Rose

“I do this for my culture
To let ‘em know what a nigga look like…when a nigga in a roadster
Show ‘em how to move in a room full ‘o vultures
Industry shady it need to be taken over
Label owners hate me I’m raisin’ the status quo up
I’m overchargin’ niggaz for what they did to the Cold Crush
Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you ho’d us
We can talk, but money talks so talk mo’ bucks”

H To The Izzo

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A husband who hacked his wife to death with a meat cleaver in fury over her Facebook entry was jailed for a minimum of 14 years at the Old Bailey today.

Wayne Forrester, 34, drank alcohol and took cocaine before driving 15 miles to the family home to attack wife Emma as she lay in bed.

The couple had separated four days before the murder in February and Forrester later told police he had been provoked by his wife changing her marital status to “single” on her Facebook entry, the court heard.

Forrester, a HGV driver, admitted murder in February this year in New Addington, near Croydon.
Emma was found in a pool of blood after neighbours were woken at 6.30am by her screams. Near her body was a large kitchen knife and in another room a blood-soaked meat cleaver.
Jailing him for life, the Common Serjeant of London Brian Barker QC said: “Your wife ended the relationship. Your reaction was one of anger and resentment.
“There is no possible excuse or justification.
“This is a tragic killing of a young woman and what you have done has called untold anguish.”
The court heard that the Forresters had a “volatile and unstable marriage characterised by periods of separation and reconciliation”.
Alex Lewis, prosecuting, said that while Forrester was in and out of work and cared little for family life, his wife took two jobs to make ends meet.
Her parents supported the pair financially and moved home closer to them to help their daughter.
Four days before the murder Forrester moved out of the family home to stay with his sister in Paddington. He repeatedly called home and threatened to kill her.
Ms Lewis said: “He was angry about an entry on Facebook he said made him look like a fool as she had advertised her marital status as single. He accused her of having an affair.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078514/Husband-hacked-wife-death-meat-cleaver-changed-Facebook-status-single.html#ixzz0U7KAshQE

I don’t know why, but this seems to fit here:

Sue me.

Blah Blah of the Blah Blah’s Sheriff’s Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Blah said it’s possible the boy had fallen out. The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said. The helium balloon was tethered to the boy’s family home in Fort Collins, the Blah Blah Sheriff’s Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it. The department said the dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high.

“The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won’t withstand any kind of a crash at all,” said Blah Blah, Blah County emergency manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.   The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans. CNN meteorologist Blah Blah estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground. A dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted, Blah County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Blah Blah said.

A balloon company has been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters, Davis said.

“We’re trying to determine the best course of action,” Davis said. “This is a first and we’ll do what we need to do.”

BRUCE SEZ: Textbook CHILD NEGLECT. They know damn well THEY put that baby in that balloon.  He was the only one in the family light enough to see if it would float.  That shit flew away, and they panicked. But NNNOT before  their parents got their story straight!  My five year old son was once accused of dismantling a 10 foot, roll-away outdoor basketball hoop.  From the BOTTOM of the pole. Apparently, i’m missing something: Kids these days must walk around with tool belts and ratchet sets!  Bob the Builder must have MIND CONTROL over the wee ones!

Well, on the bright side, when he lands, at least he can sell his story to Disney or Pixar! I’d go see that shit!

read the original story on CNN HERE

We have exclusive word straight from the folks at HP about what makes the upcoming Dr. Dre HP Envy laptop so freakin’ special. The most obvious difference is the all black matte casing with the glowing Dr. Dre “Beats” logo on the top…Yea. Hell Yea… but it doesn’t take a computer genius to see that difference. What will make the Dr. Dre x HP Envy so special in which they declare as the “Mac killer” is not just the sleek design but true to Dr. Dre style…it’s all about the sound. The HP Envy will be the first laptop to feature a “cutting-edge” sound system designed by Dr. Dre’s sound engineers labeled “Beats Audio.”

The “Beats Audio” sound software was developed by the same folks that engineer Dre’s tracks and also helped design the Beats by Dre headphone line. According to HP, Dre has developed “…a unique, high-performance audio software solution. Available exclusively on the HP Envy, Beats Audio offers users playing music or audio through headphones or external speakers the optimal sound experience – the way the artist intended it.”

HP would not give us any further details at this time about the Beats Audio software but did mention for us (and our readers) to be on the lookout for more information as the HP Envy and the Dr. Dre Edition hit stores on October 18th with prices starting at a very Mac-like $1,699 and up. Rumors that the Dr. Dre edition will include the Beats by Dre headphones were neither confirmed or denied. More info. to come.

via woooha.com 

There were only four pieces of furniture, but they were all I needed:
Let’s see… “Chairy” from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,

The leg lamp from “A Christmas Story”

A car bed,

And a glass fish tank-coffee table.

As a kid, this was the coolest shit to me. Wait– Who am I kidding?! As an adult, Its STILL the coolest shit to me!  The only thing stopping me from furnishing my home with these items TODAY is the fear of ending up in the Guinness Book of World Records for THE CREEPIEST BACHELOR PAD.

Shannon D. Jackson, 36, was arrested Friday, Sept. 25 for allegedly violating an order of protection.According to the affidavit filed in Sumner County General Sessions Court, Jackson is accused of using the “poke” option on Facebook to contact a Hendersonville woman, thus violating the terms of the order of protection, which stipulates “no telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner.”

Poking is a feature unique to Facebook that conveys no other message but informing a user they have been “poked” by another user.

Jackson declined to comment Thursday afternoon.

Hendersonville police have made copies of the page in which the alleged victim is shown to be “poked,” according to the affidavit.

Violating an order of protection is a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, violators can be punished with up to 11 months, 29 days in jail and a possible fine of up to $2,500.

Jackson was transported to Sumner County Jail. Her bond was set at $1,500. She is scheduled to appear in Sumner County General Sessions Court in Gallatin on Oct. 28.

Via http://current.com

SURE… You ate well, and you were sheltered for FREE.  But was that any consolation for the constant chores, beatings, and the inability to challenge the thinking of an authority figure?

Wait–Were we talking about childhood, or SLAVERY???