b-rad’s posterous

mom's bumper sticker: "My son is blogger of the month at the internet"

Tags

"the box was too big to go inside the van"

So a mom is driving down the road in her van with her 13 year old daughter. Nothing out of ordinary here. The kid is not in the van riding shotgun or in the bag. So where is the daughter? In a box on top of the van held down with a clothes hanger. When police questioned her she says "the box was too big to go inside the van and she would be able to hold it down if she was inside the box".

When asked about the safety of her daughter "that the box was tied to the van with a clothes hanger". Well she does have a good point. http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=11260749

Loading mentions Retweet
tags:
0 Comments

Summertime in Gaza

</object>
Loading mentions Retweet
tags:
0 Comments

“Off the Deep End: A Look at the Decline of Dubai” Slideshow | Fast Company

By: Lauren Greenfield | Photographs by: Lauren Greenfield

Deserts have a way of reclaiming whatever is built upon them. In the case of Dubai, the global financial implosion has sent that process into overdrive. After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the emirate's population grew at 7% annually and nearly $600 billion went into construction (the world's tallest building! the world's largest shopping mall! the biggest man-made island! an indoor ski resort!), reality has come rushing into view.

 

The government will not release numbers, but it's estimated that more than 3,000 abandoned cars have been found in 2009, many with keys in the ignition, an apology note on the windshield, or maxed-out credit cards in the glove compartment.


Today, large swathes of the city have no sewage connections, so it is collected by hundreds of trucks and ferried into the desert to Dubai's only sewage repository, 35 miles outside city limits. During the boom, the trip took as long as 17 hours (depopulation has since cut that time), and it became routine for drivers to short-circuit the process by dumping into drainpipes along the way, sending the waste flowing back to Dubai to reappear on its upscale beaches.

 


 

 


 

Loading mentions Retweet
0 Comments
brad jackson

brad jackson

Im a graphic designer. Check out my portfolio

Other interest are music, movies, technology, travel among other things.

Im on the web at other places too:

Delicious

iLike

Mixx

StumbleUpon

My friend's blogs:
Carter Photo Design
Sayed Alamy Jr.
85Lives

My Other Sites
           
Subscriptions