Time for another "Thinker AND Doer" Award

Reynold Joseph has good enough taste in cars. Right before being shuttered by GM Pontiac was making great cars, the 2009 Vibe was nominated for Motor Trend's Car of the Year and the G8 was based on the Aussie Holden with the big blindingly fast motor and the car played to great reviews. One of the last 8 cylinder cars around.

Joseph's trouble was selling the car to a woman on Long Island.....then using a scheme to go steal it back so he could sell it again on Craigslist. Like we said, a thinker AND a doer.

Joseph sold the car to the Long Island woman via Craigslist and after she found out she had the wrong title (*cough cough* how did that happen?) he took it out to her address (what a guy!). Later that night she noticed her car was *GASP* stolen! She of course reported it stolen. Wile E.'s plan began to fall apart after he was pulled over in scenic Mahwah because the windows were tinted too dark. The first thing Mahwah Officer David Vega picked up on was Reynold was not allowed to drive in New Jersey or New York, license suspension issues and so forth. NJ.com tells us the rest:

Joseph claimed that he had just purchased the car after responding to a Craigslist ad, and produced a title to show he was the legal owner.

Vega was suspicious, however, and after running the Vehicle Identification Number through a national database, determined that the car had been reported stolen out of Nassau County, N.Y. Joseph was arrested, and a subsequent search of his vehicle found two "master keys" used to open Acura vehicles and Toyota Camry models.

What? Master keys what? That's crazy. They must have been left by ________________.

After he got the car home police say Joseph planned to re-list the same car on Craigslist and perhaps play a game of "Pontiac presents: lather, rinse, repeat." Joseph wins the Thinker and Doer Award because he might just have hit on phase two of how the South Park Underpants Gnomes can make money. Previously the plan consisted of:

Phase 1) Collect underpants
Phase 2)
Phase 3) Profit!

Joseph solves the riddle here by showing Phase 2 is actually selling the underpants back to the victims. If only he'd have used his considerable business acumen for good. Pity.

So the voters have spoken, the new Monopoly piece is CAT

The Monopoly game people decided they needed to shake things up and bring attention to a good but now dusty old board game. So to Facebook it was and they asked which piece should they adopt (CAT) and which one should they lose. The answer to that was the lowly iron. All those irons now being tossed away and 30-40% of them will hit Wile E. Coyote. Nobody listened to Johnny once again. He had ideas but no, they asked America a question via the internet and the answer came back CAT. Who would have imagined that? Some of Johnny's better ideas?

iPhone
Prescription pill bottle
Hindenburg
Bar of soap
Sonja Henie
AK societal chaos rifle
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Hungry Hippo (just one use of the word 'hungry' so as not to run afoul of copyright laws)
And of course 8-track player

CAT.

Your thoughts dear readers?

If you're going to rob a supermarket, here's what NOT to do

Our teacher in this robbery exercise is one Charles "Fat Chubby" Boxton of Newark. Fat Chubby decided to rob a supermarket in Kearny. So in he sauntered and went right for the DVD section in the Passaic Avenue ShopRite. Fat Chubby didn't know he was being watched by store security who promptly took him to the back of the store to answer some questions.

This is where the learning part comes in. Now, Fat Chubby knew he was in hot water. So, he decided to raise the stakes by pulling out a black 9mm handgun and make his escape running from the ShopRite as fast as a Fat Chubby can run. His plan was flawless if by flawless you mean leaving his wallet in the security office as he bolted AND left behind his mother and 17 year old son in the ShopRite as he fled in a 1999 Ford Contour (Ford--Drive One).

Oh Fat Chubby, don't look at this as time behind bars in the clink, look at it as a learning tool for others like you who might want to steal from a ShopRite but were planning on leaving personal identification and family members behind.

Police video shows some John Q. Lawmen trying to capture a coyote over in Chelsea

Wile E. Coyote did manage to finally evade capture at 12th Ave and 24th and FOX News reports he was last seen up around 50th St.

Check out the video (And there is some rough policeman type language) of the 'chase' here.

A before school cartoon, just like the olden days

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