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Today on VSR – A crazy woman or perhaps just a good performance artist, a bedtime story fit for the Ed to read, and a Magnificent Seven list of our Top 7 Favorite Movie Characters.
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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
SAN FRANCISCO – A University of New Mexico football player's saggy pants led to his arrest and removal from an airplane at San Francisco International Airport, authorities said Thursday.
Deshon Marman, 20, was boarding a flight Wednesday to Albuquerque, N.M., when a U.S. Airways employee noticed his pants were below his buttocks, and his boxer shorts were showing, Sgt. Michael Rodriguez of the San Francisco Police Department told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Marman refused the employee's request to pull up his pants and failed to immediately comply when she asked him to get off the plane, Rodriguez said, adding Marman injured a police officer when he was being arrested.
The football player was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, battery of a police officer and obstruction of a police investigation, Rodriguez told The Associated Press.
Marman's mother, Donna Doyle, told the newspaper her son was emotionally fragile after attending the funeral of his close friend, who died 11 days after being shot.
Marman was being held in San Mateo County Jail while prosecutors determine whether to file charges, Rodriguez said.
US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder said the airline's dress code forbids indecent exposure or inappropriate attire.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A handshake wasn't enough for two Malaysian neighbors embroiled in a lengthy and bitter feud sparked by complaints over barking dogs -- the two actually signed a peace treaty.
The three-year battle began when one of the men complained to the police in Malaysia's southern Johor state, where they lived, about his neighbor's noisy dogs, the Star newspaper reported.
The dog owner retaliated by playing loud music at night, throwing cans of paint into his neighbor's house and driving his car into the gate. His neighbor filed a counter complaint about the music.
When both men decided to end the feud recently, they opted for a signed peace deal or "Memorandum of Understanding" to keep each other in check.
One of the main points in the peace deal, brokered by a public complaints bureau, is that the dog owner has to find a way to minimize barking at night.
"If either of the two men decides to break the Memorandum of Understanding, the other can bring this document and present it either to the police or in court," said mediator Michael Tay.
"I hope both men can live in peace with each other."
KABUL, Afganistan (Reuters) – Afghanistan's booming car sales industry has been thrown into chaos by a growing aversion to the number "39," which almost overnight has become an unlikely synonym for pimp and a mark of shame in this deeply conservative country.
Drivers of cars with number plates containing 39, bought before the once-harmless double digits took on their new meaning, are mocked and taunted across Kabul.
"Now even little kids say 'look, there goes the 39'. This car is a bad luck, I can't take my family out in it," said Mohammad Ashraf who works for a United Nations project.
Other "39" owners flew into a rage or refused to speak when asked whether their car was a burden.
No one is quite sure why the number became so contaminated so fast, but Kabul gossip blames a pimp in neighboring Iran, which shares a common language with much of Afghanistan.
His flashy car had a 39 in its number plate, the story goes, so he was nicknamed "39" and the tag spread.
The shunning of 39 comes just weeks after drivers raced to remove rainbow decorations that were spotted on imported cars and became fashionable until conservative Afghans learnt they were also gay pride symbols.
Dealers say thousands of dollars of stock is now sitting unwanted in their yards, with even a prime condition vehicle almost unsaleable if its plates bear the now-hated numerals.
Salesman Mohammad Jawed's concerns about a "39" Toyota corolla he bought months ago for $10,000 are typical.
"No one wants to buy this car anymore, even though I would sell it now for $6,000 now," he said despairingly.
COINCIDENCE OR GREED "39?"
The head of the union of car dealers in Kabul, Najibullah Amiri, blames corrupt police officers for fanning the trend.
The issue has gained prominence just as number plates for Afghan cars -- which carry five digits -- rolled over from the series that starts with 38, to a new series that starts with 39.
Amiri said officials at the police traffic department charge buyers between $200 and $500 to change a "39" number plate for a new car to something less offensive.
"It is a scheme by the police traffic department to earn money from buyers," he told Reuters in his office in a dusty car sales lot in the western outskirts of Kabul.
Akbar Khan, deputy chief executive of Kabul's Traffic Police rejects the charge of corruption and blames the capital's residents for taking something unimportant too seriously.
"This was stirred up by the residents of Herat and passed on to Kabul. I think it's nonsense," Khan told Reuters. Herat is a bustling city near the Iranian border, and an auto import hub.
He admitted however that the aversion to 39 has affected the registration of new cars, mandatory before imported vehicles can take to the crowded streets of Kabul.
"Before the 39 (series began), we issued 70 to 80 registration plates to customers each day, but nowadays there are only two or three coming in," Khan said.
I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Bring on The Whale:
Mark Cuban may not get rings: (Clip 40) Can’t decide if this is stupid or genius.
E-Harmony Video – Gotta be a Fake, or else this chick REALLY loves cats. I hear a snicker in the clip towards the end which makes me think this is totally a gag, but it’s either a completely insane woman or else good performance art. (Clip 39)
Magnificent Seven: Our 7 Favorite Movie Characters
Indiana Jones – Indiana Jones
Han Solo – Star Wars
Clark Griswald – Vacation
Rocky – Rocky
Keyser Soze – The Usual Suspects
Peter Venkman – Ghostbusters
Red – The Shawshank Redemption
Hannibal Lector – Silence of the Lambs
The Dude – The Big Lebowski
Maximus Decimus Meridius – Gladiator
Darth Vader – Star Wars
Col. Nathan Jessup – A Few Good Men
Rick Blaine – Casablanca
The Joker – The Dark Knight
Teddy KGB - Rounders
7. Cameron Frye – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Alan Ruck
6. Anton Chigurh – No Country For Old Men – Javier Bardem
5. Willy Wonka – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Gene Wilder
4. Irwin M Fletcher – Fletch – Chevy Chase
2. Walter Sobchak – The Big Lebowski – John Goodman
1. Cool Hand Luke – Cool Hand Luke – Paul Newman
I have found the bedtime story Ed must read to the baby, performed by Samuel L Jackson, naturally – (Clip 37 – Go the F to sleep)
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Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Jay J Matott and the Arctic – Wolf’s Blood (Clip 91)
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