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No Dorothy, Elmo Doesn’t Like Strangers Attacking Him

September 27th, 2010. By LucyC

See What Happens When You Leave the ‘Hood, Elmo? Poor old Elmo—he certainly isn’t having an easy time of it these days. In addition to having his duet with Katy Perry yanked from the scheduled November 3rd air time of the Street, because Katy was showing a little too much T&A for the PTA, he was attacked at a music store in Winter Park, Florida last week. Just for clarity—he didn’t write the song… 

Apparently the man hired to wear the Elmo suit for an event at Winter Park Village was on his break and went to check out some tunes in a local music store (don’t even go there), when a complete stranger attacked him. But Elmo fought back—broke two of the assailant’s fingers! I like his style! 

The attack was “unprovoked ” according to Winter Park police Lt. Wayne Farrell. “He immediately thought (the man dressed as Elmo) was a threat,” Farrell told the Orlando Sentinel. Farrell called the ensuing struggle a “very physical fight,” with multiple punches thrown. Now that is something I would like to have seen! 

“Elmo got the best of the guy,” Farrell said. And Elmo’s attacker? Taken to hospital to have his fingers mended and undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Maybe that test should be administered to the conscientious objectors of the Street’s video.

In case you haven’t seen the offending Katy Perry video, it’s right up at top.

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Dog Poop Thrower Arrested for Doing what we all Wish we Could

September 21st, 2010. By LucyC

Welcome to Totally Tortelicious—a review of some of the more bizarre legal stories making news—and there’s certainly no shortage of them.

She’s in Deep Doo-Doo Now. Ever been out walking and stepped in pile of dog pooh? It’s pretty annoying. And while you might harbor secret fantasies about picking it up and hucking it at the errant dog owner, what you really do is swear under your breath and walk on. Well, not so for a woman in Illinois, who clearly had had enough.  

Police in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, have said that the woman, Susan Miller, stepped in dog feces outside her apartment and retaliated by heaving it at the door of her neighbor who owns a dog. (Don’t grin too loudly). So they charged her with disorderly conduct. 

The local paper, The Naperville Sun, also reported that Miller apparently uprooted a sign telling residents to pick up dog waste and placed it on the neighbor’s patio. The neighbor, no doubt afraid of what may be coming next, called the police who arrested Ms. Miller. 

She was quite unapologetic, stating that if she could pick up the poop from her 80-pound dog, then her neighbors could do the same for their 20-pound pooch. Seems reasonable…

Hey, at the very least, maybe Ms. Miller could just suggest the PooTrap, shown above. We’re not proponents of it, but perhaps it’s a solution for those who don’t quite get that owning a dog comes with some, uhh, responsibilities…

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