Bottom of the News… Friday, May 14, 2010

Good morning my fellow Rotarians. This morning we have three real news stories from around the world…

(San Francisco Chronicle) Several floors of a San Francisco office building were evacuated after a man walked into a law firm's office with a pipe with blinking lights strapped to his chest. He told everyone he had a bomb, and he "threatened to blow the place up," said Assistant District Attorney Andrew Clark. The "bomb" with blinky lights was eventually determined to be fake. Antonio Scardina, 44, told police he “snapped” when his life long dream was not realized earlier that day. Scardina was turned down as a contestant on the game show "The Price is Right."

(Monroe Monitor, WA) After an armored car was robbed in front of a bank in Monroe, Wash., police were reasonably confident they'd find the culprit who was described as wearing a yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask, and a blue shirt. But when officers arrived on the scenes they found more than a dozen men dressed in exactly the same way. All responding to an ad on Craigslists for road workers, who were told to meet at the bank at that time wearing a "Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask ... and, if possible, a blue shirt.” The robber has still not been found.


(Nashville Tennessean) A driver of an SUV hit a fox near Dover, TN and decided to retrieve the animal because he wanted the bushy tail. He put the body of the fox in his back seat and continued toward home. Soon he heard noise in his back seat and realized the fox was still alive. The angry fox jumped toward the driver and as he tried to shield himself he lost control and rolled the vehicle. Police reported there were one injury and one fatality… The driver sustained minor injuries and the fox was now really dead. And… driver's name was Tommy Fox.

And there you have it that is our Bottom of News for this Friday, May 14, 2010.
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