Show Prep 205

Greetings and Salutations, People: Just for Elevation: I’d like to start off the show today by asking, “Why are Canadians funny?”

Now that that’s out of the way, let me tell you that you are listening to Vertically Striped Radio. I am your host, Craig Dodge, and I have been told that I am a sugar cookie amongst men. Not sure what that means, but I’ve been called worse.

Tweet of the Week:  

@FalconPenAgain
"I don't know, do you guys really think the first rule should be 'Must Wash Hands?'" early brainstorming session on Fight Club script.

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Things I liked this week:

60 degree weather

Officially running 10K distances

I have finally figured out Instagram

Today on VSR – 2012 in review, because hey…it’s March now. Other than that, it’s pretty much a slacker Saturday.

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(Bring on Face) – We lost one of the great ones this week. Wednesday, Stompin’ Tom Connors passed away. (Clip 50)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND – An English soccer fan was so outraged with the referee's decision to send off Manchester United's Nani during a Champions League clash with Real Madrid, that he dialed 999.

The 18-year-old Manchester United supporter was watching the second-leg tie at Old Trafford from his home in a village near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, at around 9.20pm on Tuesday when he made the call.

He felt the moment the Reds' Portuguese midfielder was controversially shown the red card by Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir for a high challenge on Real's Alvaro Albeloa was a crime and called police.

The fan later apologised for his actions, claiming to have been caught up in the excitement. United, who were leading 1-0 at the time of the dismissal, were reduced to 10 men and went on to lose the game 2-1 and were eliminated from the Champions League.

Police are now urging Nottinghamshire residents to think before they dial.

Police Inspector Ted Antill said: "It's no joke. In this case, the man realized his bad judgment and apologized and we decided not to pursue it further - but we can and we do prosecute people for wasting police time and making false reports."

Sorgues, FRANCE –  A woman has appeared in a French court after her three-year-old child named Jihad was sent to school wearing a T-shirt with the words "I am a bomb" inscribed on the front, and the words "Jihad, born September 11" on the back.

The principal and teachers at the school in Sorgues, southern France, notified authorities after Boucha Bagour sent her son to classes dressed in the shirt.

The expression plays on the popular French saying "Je suis la bombe", which translates roughly as "I am the best".

Ms Bagour, 35, was summoned to appear before the court after the school.

The shirt was given to the boy as a gift by his uncle. And Ms Bagour told the court the shirt was not worn with the no intention to provoke or shock.

Speaking to the court, Ms Bagour defended herself, saying: "For me, this is the name of my son and his date of birth."

The problem isn’t that she sent her son with a pro-terrorism shirt, no, the issue is that her son was born on September 11, 2010 and SHE NAMED HIM JIHAD.

She also apologized to the court, saying she thought the shirt might "make people laugh".

 Ms Bagour is facing a potential fine of slightly over $1,000 dollars if the court finds against her. The case will be decided on April 10.

YORK, England - A student who fried a hamster while drunk has been ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work in the community.

The hamster was found to have died from heart failure

Selby Magistrates' Court heard White had drunk so much in his flat in York he was "on the point of madness" and could not remember what happened.

Here’s what we DO know:

Police were called to a block of flats in York on February 2.

When officers arrived they found White extremely drunk and there was a "strong and pungent smell" and a "frying pan with a hamster in it".

According to the prosecutor, White told the officer: "What, I f****** fried it? I fried it."

The hamster, which belonged to White's flatmate, died from heart failure.

White’s attorney said the hamster's death was the result of "drunken foolishness" and there was "no deliberate intent".

James White, 21, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the female Syrian hamster after a court accepted it could not be established whether the animal was alive when it went into the pan.

District Judge Roy Anderson told White he was sentencing him on the basis the rodent died minutes before, when the defendant was handling it.

The judge said it was clear the hamster did not die from natural causes.

White, who is studying international relations and politics at York University, changed his plea to guilty on Thursday on the basis that his rough handling of the animal killed it before he put it in the pan.

District Judge Anderson said: "By virtue of your treatment of this small, unfortunate rodent you've destroyed your good character and acquired a criminal conviction.

"It's accepted now that there was rough handling of that animal but that it couldn't be established that it was putting it in the frying pan and applying heat that caused its death.

"Had that sadistic conduct been established I would be dealing with you in a far more serious way than I am."

White was also banned from keeping animals for eight years and ordered to pay a fine that equates to nearly 1500 dollars, American.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

Next Door Monkey (From watching Curious George)

2012 In Review:

Hostess out of Business

Joe Paterno dies

Facebook IPO

Giants Win! (SF and NY win championships)

Whitney Houston dies.

The Artist – Best Picture

Travon Martin killed

Rush Limbaugh calls a student a slut

Saints Bounty Scandal

Tim Tebow traded to the Jets

Peyton Manning to the Broncos

Secret Service Prostitute Scandal

Dick Clark died

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Sandy Hook Shooting

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

The Wallflowers – Angel on my Bike

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!