Good morning to you, today
is Tuesday, February 7, and I am your humble host, the sultan of satire, the
purveyor of non-pertinent information and as always the troublemaker
extraordinaire and I am coming to you recorded from the Eagle’s nest here at
wake up central with news you can’t use here on the Tuesday edition of The
Morning Wake Up Call.
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Election
Today is primary day for
Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri. Check
in tomorrow for the results.
Recording
Your Arrest
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —
Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong. When two Chicago
police officers tried to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint
against one of their colleagues in 2010, she wanted to record her conversation
with them on her smartphone.
Moore was promptly
arrested and charged for violating a strict Illinois eavesdropping law that
bars audio recordings unless all involved parties agree to it. Moore, then 20, spent
more than two weeks in jail and faced up to 15 years in prison.
In Illinois, documenting
life in the era of smartphones and YouTube can result in felony charges. The
little-known law could draw more attention come May, when thousands of
protesters and journalists descend on Chicago for the NATO and G8 summits and
someone unknowingly may try to record a clash with police.
Some state legislators say
it's time to rewrite the law, which faces state and federal challenges.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the state Supreme Court to
address whether it is constitutional.
Claw
Machine
Three-year-old Noah
Jeffrey really wanted a toy, and he wasted no time
trying to get it.
The Australian boy climbed inside a vending
machine in a restaurant play area Sunday
and sat amid the candies and Spongebob toys, handing out items to a group of
onlookers, the Herald Sun reports.
Noah was in the machine
for about 10 minutes before his mother coaxed him out with the promise of
another toy.
While the boy thought the
incident was all fun and games, hot temperatures and a lack of oxygen could've
put the tot in danger. A writer for Hypervocal jokingly
stated he was
"surprised no one tried to grab him with the claw."
The vending machine
company said they would install a bar to prevent similar accidents in the
future, according to the Herald Sun.
Bank
Robber Gone Wild
Sure, this alleged bank
robber puts his pants on one leg at a time just like the rest of us -- but then
he wears shorts on his head.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office
in Florida says43-year-old Eli Escalera tried to rob a bank in Stock
Island, Fla., with a pair of shorts on his noggin.
According to a Sheriff's
department press release,
Escalera gave the bank teller a note that said "give me what are 20s and
50s."
"What do you
want?" the teller then asked, perhaps confused by the phrasing of
Escalera's note, if not the shorts on his head.
Escalera then said
"never mind" and walked out of the bank, according to the Sheriff's
department.
Puzzlingly, the release
says police were told to look for "a Hispanic male wearing a blue shirt,
dark colored cargo pants, with scars on his face." But, we have to wonder,
why not also look for a man wearing pants on his head?
Nevertheless, the
description was enough to lead police to Escalera, who was seen taking off a
pair of dark-colored pants, according to the release.
Escalera was then arrested and charged with robbery.
But the Miami
New Times points out
that there's still one nagging loose end that begs to be tied up.
"Left unanswered,
though, is the key question of why Escalera wore shorts in lieu of a baseball
cap,"the New Times wrote. "Did he
think the shorts covered his face?"
Quote of the Day
A proper history of the United States would
have much to recommend it: in some respects it would be … unlike all others; it
would develop the great plan of Providence, for causing this extensive part of
our world to be discovered, and these “uttermost parts of the earth” to be
gradually filled with civilized and Christian people and nations.… The
historian, in the course of the work, is never to lose sight of that great
plan. – John Jay
Legal Mumbo Jumbo
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