Women Ripping Off Little Girls, Do You Know Who I Am?

Quick-hitters:

- My very quick thoughts on the NBA scandal involving referee Tom Donaghy and his alleged fixing of games:

• Not that we needed it (*cough* Lakers-Kings Game 6 *cough*), but now we apparently have concrete proof that some NBA officials fix games. Of course, we thought that the NBA was the one responsible for fixing, and not individual referees. So what's the truth? Do refs fix games for their own benefit? Does the NBA make refs fix games for the NBA's benefit? Or do some fans just imagine that some NBA games are fixed?
  
• Now that we know it happens, how do we know which games were fixed? And how do we know what impact these fixes had on playoff games of the last few years?
• So what happens next? How does the NBA recover from this black eye? Can we ever take another playoff game seriously again, without thinking, "Is one of the referees fixing this game?"

It'll be interesting to see how the NBA proceeds in this entire scandal, and how much the NBA will suffer in terms of popularity (if at all).

- I love watching Man vs Wild. Yeah, I don't care if it's slightly embellished, or totally set up. I'm pretty sure there's still an element of risk and danger running through the Amazon rain forest, or trekking through glaciers on Iceland, set up or not.

Ewww...host Bear Grylls just drank his own piss, clearly desperate for water

- (from Digg) You can file this story in the "Going Straight to Hell" department: two women in Goodyear, AZ, ripped off kids selling lemonade with a bogus $50 bill. The kids were trying to raise money for a trip to San Diego, CA, when one of the women presumably paid for some lemonade with a $50 bill. The girls handed back $38 in chance, apparently thinking they were getting a huge tip. Unfortunately, they only got scammed. Let this be a lesson to the girls: always carry a counterfeit money detector pen.

But seriously, how low do you have to be in your life to scam some little kids out of ~$40? What's next? Are those ladies going to take up collections outside of a department store for charity, only to pocket the money? Or maybe they're going to dress up as homeless people to get free meals from homeless shelters. People who scam social security and the welfare system think these two women are going straight to hell.

- (also from Digg) This is easily my favorite story of the day: a United passenger was angry that his flight was cancelled, and he threw a tantrum at the poor travel agent, screaming "I HAVE to be on this flight, and it has to be FIRST CLASS!" The agent apologized, and the irate passenger responded with "Do you have any idea who I am?"

(Tangent: I thought only rich and famous people use the "Do you know who I am?" blast. Oh well, I'm just assuming that this guy isn't rich or famous.)

The agent, to put it blunty, uber-pwned the moron:

Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention please?" she began, her voice bellowing through the terminal. " We have a passenger here at the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to gate 17."

With the folks behind him laughing in line hysterically, the man glare at the United agent, gritted his teeth and swore "F--- you." Without flinching, she smiled and said, " I'm sorry sir, but you will have to stand in line for that too."

Wow...just wow!

Travel agent eleventy-billion, moronic customer PWNED. The guy deserves to have his seat downgraded to the wing of the plane for that outburst.

(Yes, one trillion Stupid Points for that idiot.)

Happy blogging!

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