MAN HElD FOR POSING AS COP FOR OVER 20 YEARS
A funeral home worker was arrested in Washington state after police said he pretended to be a retired officer for two decades and recently intervened in a fight.
Authorities became aware of suspect Jim Bailey last month after he tried to break up a dispute between a couple in a car by identifying himself as a retired cop and telling a witness to call 911, Oak Harbor Police Chief Edgar Green said.
An investigation determined the 69-year-old Bailey had been pretending to be a retired officer for more than 20 years, the chief said. Impersonating a police officer is a gross misdemeanor in Washington.
“We’re very proud of what we do and work very hard at what we do,” Green said. “So to find someone who comes along and just takes that for granted and pretends to be one of us, that’s upsetting.”
Bailey’s attorney says the situation is a misunderstanding and Bailey, who was arrested last week, is a good Samaritan who tried to help, KOMO reported. Bailey spent a few years as an Oak Harbor reserve officer in the late 1980s, but did not graduate from the police academy or become an officer.
(AP)
GET STONED WITH POT PIZZA SAUCE
looks like the pizza industry is going to pot — literally. los Angeles-based Podey Pizza has started selling jars of pot-infused pizza sauce at marijuana dispensaries in los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington State and Colorado.
Each five-ounce jar of Podey Pizza sauce sells for $20 and contains 300mg medical cannabis per jar, enough for one large pizza or two smaller ones, according to Steve Thomas, Podey Pizza’s vice-president of operations.
“You can eat three slices and be fully medicated,” he said.
Thomas believes his pot-laced pizza sauce is a good option for medical marijuana users who don’t to rely on sweets like candies and cookies to get their cannabis.
But getting there wasn’t easy. “We spent a lot of time getting it right so the sauce didn’t taste ‘green,’” Thomas said. “We probably made 150-200 pizzas and would invite three or four people to try them. We even put ads looking for people who were 300 pounds plus to make sure the dosage was right.”
Thomas said the sauce is slightly sweet and uses tomatoes, mixed with cannabis-laced safflower oil. “We may come out with a garlicky version or more of a butter sauce,” he said.
Podey Pizza is marketing itself as the world’s first pot-laced pizza sauce, but since Colorado and Washington legalised marijuana, a number of companies have been trying to make a lot of dough by selling pot-infused pizzas, and pizza products.
Stoned Oven Gourmet Mandibles, also based in los Angeles, just started selling six-inch pot pizzas for $10 each.
(The Huffington Post )
WINNER OF TOP IG NOBEl PRIZE IS... BANANA PEEl!
The winners of the Ig Nobel Prize conducted real science, but their projects will still make you laugh. The “24th First Annual” awarding of the spoof prize was recently celebrated at Harvard University, where a study examining the physics of slipping on a banana peel took home the top award. The prizes are meant to showcase “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think”, where the science is serious in intention. The banana peel study, conducted by Japanese researchers, measured the friction between a shoe and a banana skin, then the banana skin and the floor when stepped on.
The neuroscience prize went to scientists in China and Canada who attempted to understand what happens inside the brains of people who see the face of Jesus on toast. The psychology prize went to an American, Australian and British team that examined evidence that night owls tend to be more self-admiring, psychopathic and manipulative than early birds.
(UPI)
WOMAN SPENDS $50,000 TO BECOME A REAl-lIFE DOll
Being a model wasn’t enough for Victoria Wild. She wanted to be a real-life doll. To that end, Wild, 30, has spent the last five years getting surgical enhancements on her lips, hips and all points in between to make herself into a Barbie doll. It’s a dream she had since she was growing up in a small village in latvia.
“I had a very normal childhood, living in a small village in the countryside. I was very slim and blonde and people would call me Barbie. But I didn’t like myself or the way I looked. I had an inferiority complex,” she said, according to the Daily Mail.
“I didn’t know about plastic surgery at that age but I would always dream about resembling a bimbo doll with big lips. I loved the way dolls looked and how sexy they were. They are so bright and bold. It was this fantasy in my head,” she said.
Fantasy started becoming reality when she was 25 and met her boyfriend, an Italian businessman named Simon. He encouraged her dream of becoming a real-life doll and helped her fund $50,000 worth of cosmetic surgery.
(The Huffington Post)