Flatulence forces plane to land NASHVILLE, Tenn. – An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said. The Dallas-bound flight was diverted to Nashville after several passengers reported smelling burning sulfur from the matches, said Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. All 99 passengers and five crew members were taken off and screened while the plane was searched and luggage was screened. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches in an attempt to conceal a […]
The Kama Sutras Will No Longer Assume The Position:
CLUB PLANS ON HALTING SEX PARTIES COOPERSBURG, Pa. — The party’s over for a controversial sex club in Lehigh County. For $60 a couple, there was dancing, a buffet, and 12 hotel rooms for private get-togethers. But a judge ruled that’s a violation of zoning rules.Officials said the Silhouette Showbar has tentatively agreed to stop hosting sex club events. The settlement is only tentative until a written agreement is signed by the parties and approved Monday by the borough’s Zoning Hearing Board, borough solicitor Maryann Higgins said.Bruce Young, co-owner of Coopersburg Holdings Inc., owner of the Silhouette, said he understood […]
GUNCRAZY: Villanova Campus Locked Down After Gunman Shoots At Cops 10 Times Then Audits A Few Classes
Villanova University’s south campus [NOT pictured, left] was on lockdown most of Wednesday morning as police searched the grounds for a gunman who opened fire on three Radnor officers in nearby Bryn Mawr. Six dorms and a cafeteria were located in the school’s lockdown area. Some morning classes were also canceled at the university. Radnor police called off the search at Villanova around 10:20 a.m., and classes resumed about an hour later, university spokeswoman Barbara Clement said. NBC10: Can’t Help But Feel That ALL of the Main Line Was Let Down Tonight *About this picture
GUNCRAZY: From The Dept. Of Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Boy Shot In Groin Outside North Philly Theater PHILADELPHIA — A 16-year-old male was shot in the groin on Wednesday outside of a North Philadelphia movie theater.The shooting occurred outside the Pearl Movie Theatre, located at Oxford and Carlisle streets, next to Temple University’s campus.The boy was reported to be in critical condition.There was no information as to a possible suspect or a motive. NBC10 News reported that the weapon used in the shooting was a Tech-9 semi-automatic pistol. NBC10: Can’t Help Feeling That ALL Of North Philly Was Let Down Tonight PREVIOUSLY: Blatstein Gives Folks Seven More Screens To […]
FASTFOOD NATION: Taco Bell Shitstorm Not Playing Well In Tiananmen Square, Not At All
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) — The Taco Bell E. coli connection continued to grow Wednesday when the fast-food chain shut down all of its restaurants in Philadelphia after the bacteria outbreak in three states was linked to a food preparation and distribution center in New Jersey. […] “I have contacted company officials and asked that they voluntarily close all 15 of their establishments in Philadelphia until they are given approval by the health department,” said Philadelphia interim health commissioner Carmen I. Paris in a statement. XINHUA: ???????!
Stop The Presses: MEXICAN STANDOFF After Talks Breakdown Over Pension Fund Deal-Breaker, From The Look Of Things Christmas May Have To Be Cancelled
SGT. BYKO REPORTS: Today, the Company refused to move on its plan to freeze the pension fund. It wouldn’t budge on its desire to take full control of our fund away from the joint board of trustees. The Company wants all that power as it, and it alone, seeks a multi-employer plan in which to place the frozen fund. The Guild negotiating team told the Company it would go into a multi-employer pension fund, but it would not relinquish its place in the decision making process. Under the Guild plan, the pension trustees — composed of an equal number of […]
Puff The Magic of The LUCKY DRAGONS
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: Windows by The Lucky Dragons To be honest, we don’t know shit about these guys. Walk into AKA Music the other day and these sounds — sounds we had never heard before — are quietly fragmenting and recombining into new fractals in the background. It seems to be annoying most people in the store but we like it. A lot. What is this? we ask the clerk sitting at the register, poring over his Nancy comic. Without looking up, he just grunts something that later we figured out to be: “It’s Windows, the new album […]
IT’S ACADEMIC: Rendell IS Gamblor
FROM THE ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL: “The governor recently told the Lancaster New Era editorial board that for every one person addicted to gambling or who lost a pay check to gambling, he can show us 500 who go and have the time of their life. I wonder how these numbers were produced. They are far out of line with the best social science research in the state and the country about the numbers of people with gambling compulsions. Let us compare the governor’s numbers with those produced by national experts regarding the prevalence of gambling problems in the general adult […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
Fresh Air from WHYY, December 6, 2006 ? Brian Whitaker is the Middle East editor for the British newspaper The Guardian, and his new book is Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East. Whitaker also runs the al-Bab Web site, which aims to provide Arab cultural and political information to non-Arabs. ALSO, Israeli gay rights activist Noa Sattath is the executive director of Jerusalem Open House, an organization devoted to fostering gay pride. Last month, the city hosted WorldPride 2006: Love Without Borders, an international pride gathering. A gay pride rally was held at a university stadium […]
HOLLA: Mr. Lif Literally On Fire After Tour Bus Crash Fux His Shit Up, ‘Everybody Essentially OK’ Sez Label
THE WOOK REPORTS: In the annals of hip-hop conspiracy theories, I guarantee this brush with def will force The Coup and Fishtown’s Mr. Lif to check themselves twice before they wiggity-wreck themselves for reals. I also theorize that this was due to interference from The Man, i.e. the same dark forces that found Robert Van Winkle, killed Tupac, and made Flavor Flav a reality television star. From CMJ: About an hour after their departure from San Diego, the tour bus carrying Mr. Lif, the Coup, DJ Big Wiz, Metro and friends tumbled across the highway and burst into flames. According […]
THE NEW PANIC: Sex Offenders Have REALLY AWESOME MySpace Pages
Just to be clear, saying you found sex offenders on MySpace is like saying you found sex offenders in the phone book. To which we say, would you like a medal or a monument, Sherlock? Of the almost two dozen pages on MySpace that matched names and cities of local sex offenders, law-enforcement officials confirmed nine were on Florida’s sex offender registry and six others “were probably” on the list, officials said. However, the lack of pictures and information on some of the pages made it difficult for officials to positively link all of the sites to sex offenders. Detectives […]
MAILBAG: Ah, You Said Pieter!
Hi there! This is Pieter from Holland. I maintain the online Tom Waits Supplement. Phawker has a link to this site. This is to inform you that the Tom Waits Supplement has been renamed Tom Waits Library and moved to a domain of its own. Would you please change the link(s) on your site(s)? Thanks! [Done. –Ed.] Pieter from Holland Tom Waits Library PREVIOUSLY: The Man Who Howled Wolf