As the rest of the East Coast hunkered down and prepared for the worst, we just sat here and let the winter winds blow back into our lives all we thought we'd left behind. Like this chick:
Jasmine Tridevil, the Bay area woman who made viral-news waves last year with her fake third boob, was arrested for suspicion of DUI in Tampa early Monday morning. As with most wannabe reality stars, she wasn't doing the thing that made her sorta famous (i.e. flashing said fake third boob) at her time of arrest, and didn't have $500 to make bail.
A Lithia woman wants to know why, even after they accidentally put nine holes in her house while firing an AK-47 next door (including shattering the glass of a door to her toddler's room), a Sheriff's detention deputy and Hillsborough firefighter have yet to be charged with anything. Let's play a game! The answer to her question is hidden in that first sentence. If you're having trouble ferreting it out, we'll add that the deputy's dad is a supervisor where his son works, and that nobody makes cops responsible for anything anymore.
An allegedly human Holiday man allegedly tried to give his 7-months-pregnant girlfriend an unwanted late-term abortion by hitting her with his Dodge Charger. Apparently, the incident was caught on video, and the allegedly human man tried to flee the accident, as allegedly human men are prone to do when faced with being held accountable for their alleged violent stupidity. I've really got nothing else to say on this matter, largely because the allegedly human man's photo pretty much says it all.
And finally, HBO's provocative film Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief is said to have inspired a standing ovation at Sundance this past weekend. The Times clearly gives itself one in the piece as well, for the long-term reporting on the subject that earned it a Pulitzer. We get it.
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2015.