Posted by Bret Weaver
June 1st, 2007
I’ve always liked the ladies that refuse to wear pants… ZING!!!
(Thanks, I’ll be here all week)
Earthtimes.org
Pentecostalist refuses to wear pants
NEW YORK, May 31 A bus driver of the Pentecostal faith said she may sue the New York Transit Association for firing her just because she refused to wear pants.
Tahita Jenkins, 33, explained to her bosses that the standard issue bus driver’s uniform, which required the wearing of pants, was against her religion, The New York Post reported Thursday.
She even went as far as to bring in a note from her pastor at the Holy Ghost Headquarters Prayer Band Mission of New Beginning Deliverance Church in Far Rockaway, in the New York borough of Queens, requesting that she be allowed to wear a skirt at work.
But even that didn’t work and officials in the transit department insisted that she must either wear pants or culottes or lose her job.
Transit officials fired Jenkins on Tuesday and she is now considering filing a lawsuit.
A similar suit involving Brinks Inc., the armored security service, resulted in a Pentecostal woman being awarded $30,000 and offered her job back, although she had to wear culottes as a compromise.
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Posted by diggable
April 25th, 2007
BERLIN - An early-morning bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse at the automatic teller machine.
The horse’s owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank’s heated foyer, police said Tuesday.
The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had “a few beers” with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit the hay in the bank on his way home.
Confronted with the lack of a hitching-post, he brought the 6-year-old horse, named Sammy, in with him.
When a customer came across the horse and sleeping rider in the bank at 4:15 a.m. Monday, he called police, who then came and woke the owner up and sent him on his way.
No charges were filed, but there might be some cleanup needed: Apparently Sammy made his own after-hours deposit on the carpet.
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Posted by Will Hortman
April 24th, 2007
It’s true! There are only so many people I can care about in this world, and it’s sorta-scientifically proven by the ‘monkeysphere’.
Here’s the Osama example from the full post on pointlesswasteoftime.com:
But think of Osama Bin Laden. Did you just picture a camouflaged man hiding in a cave, drawing up suicide missions? Or are you thinking of a man who gets hungry and has a favorite food and who had a childhood crush on a girl and who has athelete’s foot and chronic headaches and laughs when a friend farts, a man who wakes up in the morning with a boner and loves volleyball and fusses over his spoiled children and haggles over the price of a car and who goes on Seinfeld-esque rants about too much ice in his drinks?
Something in you, just now, probably was offended by that. You think I’m trying to build sympathy for the murderous bastard. Do you see the equation? Simply knowing random human facts about him immediately tugs at our sympathy strings. He comes closer to our Monkeysphere, he takes on dimension.
Obviously, there’s more to it than that.
Thanks, Adam, for the new word!
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