Cannibals and Clowns
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 15:55
Posted by Marcel Strigberger
The following story is for mature audiences only. Caution strongly advised.
This was not a good week for cannibals and clowns.
Three homeless men were arrested in a Russian town called Perm, located about 1150 kilometres from Moscow. They apparently murdered a man, ate some of him and then sold the leftovers to a kebab and pie restaurant.
My question: how easy was it to sell the apparent meat products to the eatery? It’s not as if these homeless guys wore white coats and pulled up to the loading dock in a Maple Leaf truck.
After hearing this story, words like “Whopper" and “Big Mac” start to sound like something edible. I guess in that case in Russia the delicacy of the day may indeed originally literally have been the latter.
There are no reports of any Canadians having eaten any of the kebob.
Still Russian, Alexander Alhovsky is a professional clown now living in New York. A couple of years ago he forgot a bag containing a balloon inflating machine at a Starbucks. Some brilliant barista thought the bag looked suspicious and called the police who dispatched the bomb squad. The cops soon caught up with Alexander and arrested him. His pleas that he was a professional clown and he used that contraption with tubes and wires to make balloon poodles fell on deaf ears. The cops proceeded to rough him up and even raided his house. He sued and his action against New York’s finest just got tossed out by a jury. I don’t think this clown is laughing on the outside anymore. Fortunately the charges against him of assault police were also recently dismissed as a jury did not buy the prosecution’s evidence that he sprayed 3 officers with seltzer.
I guess it may not be that safe to visit New York either, not even for coffee.
On the bright side of things, the good news is People Magazine just declared Johnny Depp the “sexist man alive”. Feeling better?
This was not a good week for cannibals and clowns.
Three homeless men were arrested in a Russian town called Perm, located about 1150 kilometres from Moscow. They apparently murdered a man, ate some of him and then sold the leftovers to a kebab and pie restaurant.
My question: how easy was it to sell the apparent meat products to the eatery? It’s not as if these homeless guys wore white coats and pulled up to the loading dock in a Maple Leaf truck.
After hearing this story, words like “Whopper" and “Big Mac” start to sound like something edible. I guess in that case in Russia the delicacy of the day may indeed originally literally have been the latter.
There are no reports of any Canadians having eaten any of the kebob.
Still Russian, Alexander Alhovsky is a professional clown now living in New York. A couple of years ago he forgot a bag containing a balloon inflating machine at a Starbucks. Some brilliant barista thought the bag looked suspicious and called the police who dispatched the bomb squad. The cops soon caught up with Alexander and arrested him. His pleas that he was a professional clown and he used that contraption with tubes and wires to make balloon poodles fell on deaf ears. The cops proceeded to rough him up and even raided his house. He sued and his action against New York’s finest just got tossed out by a jury. I don’t think this clown is laughing on the outside anymore. Fortunately the charges against him of assault police were also recently dismissed as a jury did not buy the prosecution’s evidence that he sprayed 3 officers with seltzer.
I guess it may not be that safe to visit New York either, not even for coffee.
On the bright side of things, the good news is People Magazine just declared Johnny Depp the “sexist man alive”. Feeling better?
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