Show Prep 210

Greetings and Salutations, People: It’s a day that should probably be celebrated as a holiday here in Colorado…4-20.

Tweet of the Week:  

@rolldiggity
"But... I can fix us!" the rocket scientist sobbed, as his wife picked up her suitcase. "Jim," she whispered. "This isn't rocket science."

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Things I liked this week:

Nuggets clinched the 3 seed in the West.

Booking guests for the show: Cory for today, Mike Pilot of the Mediocre Show and Obviously Oblivious will join us on May 4^th, and Adam Rank from NFL.com will join us on May 11^th.

Today on VSR – Cory Seymour from Backpage Press will join us and we’ll talk about his business and a recent bold life move, his frightening lack of familiarity with the NBA, and we’ll go head to in a edition of The Magnificent Seven – Top Seven Jobs we’d NEVER want to do.

If you’d like to join in the fun - (646) 716-7522 OR OHMS-1-MRLAB

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

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

Denver, COLORADO - A Colorado man whose dog dined on $500 (£325) says he will never leave his canine alone in a vehicle again.

Wayne Klinkel left Sundance in his car with five $100 notes and a $1 bill when he and his wife stopped for dinner in Denver at Christmas.

But while the Klinkels were enjoying their meal, Sundance was feasting on the cash.

The 12-year-old golden retriever ate all of the notes - except the $1 bill.

A determined Mr Klinkel said he donned rubber gloves and followed Sundance around the backyard as he went about his "business".

 

Mr Klinkel and his daughter collected the remnants of the bills

Mr Klinkel said he collected fragments from the droppings, and his daughter, who he was visiting in Denver, later found more when the snow melted.

Mr Klinkel, from the town of Helena, washed and bleached the remnants of the bills and sent them taped together to the Treasury Department in hopes of having them replaced.

That process could take up to two years.

"Sundance may have eaten my money, but what he took he gives back in unconditional love," he said.

Mr Klinkel also told the paper he was embarrassed by all the attention he had received.

"I got a call today from a guy I knew 20 years ago and he said he hasn’t stopped laughing about it," he said.

Mr Klinkel said he does not carry a wallet on his chiropractor's advice.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge in Oregon noticed an unexpected glow on a juror's chest while the courtroom lights were dimmed during video evidence in an armed-robbery trial.

The juror, it seemed, was texting.

Marion County Circuit Judge Dennis Graves cleared the courtroom and excused all jurors except 26-year-old Benjamin Kohler.

According to a news release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office, Kohler had no explanation for his actions.

Jurors in Oregon are given explicit instructions at the outset of each trial not to use cellphones in court.

Graves held Kohler in contempt, and Kohler spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday in the county jail. He was released Wednesday night.

Neither the nature of the text message nor its recipient was disclosed.

Kohler did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.

An alternate juror took his place. Sheriff's spokesman Don Thomson said the trial ended Thursday with the defendant found guilty.

Ionia County, MICHIGAN - Judge Raymond Voet has posted his policy in Ionia County District Court, letting all who enter his courtroom know that if their phones go off during proceedings, they’ll be confiscated and returned only after a $25 fine has been paid. Use your cell phone in Judge Raymond Voet’s Michigan courtroom and you’ll be held in contempt. Over the years, he’s confiscated phones from all sorts of people, even police officers.

So what happened when Voet’s own phone went off during the closing arguments of a trial?

Well, Fair is fair, even if you’re the one enforcing the rules, Voet, a man who honors his own convictions, fined himself $25 and held himself in contempt.

"Judges are humans," Voet said. "They're not above the rules. I broke the rule, and I have to live by it."

 “I detest the distraction in the courtroom, and here it happened to me,” he said.

The judge said he had his new Windows smartphone in his pocket during court on Friday but forgot to lock the touch screen, setting off the voice command function.

“The phone is saying, ‘Say a command,’” Voet said.

“The prosecutor was in the middle of his closing arguments. … He lost his train of thought and looked at me. I felt my face starting to burn red,” the judge said.

Voet said he turned off his phone, allowed the prosecutor to finish, and at the next recess, went and paid a $25 fine.

“I like my phones just like anyone else,” he said. “But it’s very distracting when a phone goes off.”

BROOKVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police in one western Pennsylvania town are investigating a case of bar kill: a groundhog and a grouse, both dead, tossed into a tavern by unsatisfied customers.

The (Dubois) Courier-Express reports that the animals were tossed into Bill's Bar hours apart Sunday in Brookville, about 70 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

Brookville police Chief Ken Dworek tells The Associated Press that the suspects are an underage man who was refused service at the bar and another who was turned away because of "an alcohol problem."

The chief says such use of animals is a fairly common problem in Brookville. He says, for example, "a guy will get in an argument and put a dead squirrel on his girlfriend's doorknob, that kind of thing."

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

Bring on Cory to talk Backpage Press AND his story…

The VSR James Lipton Questions:

1. What is the worst physical pain you have ever experienced?

2. Do you hate a vegetable?

3. What scares you?

4. What sports team do you most enjoy seeing lose?

5. What is a passion you have that might surprise people?

6. What movie would you estimate that you have you seen the most?

7. What is the prettiest place you have been?

8. Can you make a good Bruce Lee karate sound, and would you be willing to try right now?

9. Do you have a hero, and if so, who is it?

10. What is the best thing in your world?

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Sweet Caroline – Waylon Jennings or Julio Iglesias  (Went with Waylon)

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!