WTF Friday

• 2 "Japanese" men in their late 50's are stopped on a train between Italy & Switzerland with $134 billion in US Treasury bills. A total of 259 pieces of paper. Officials: "Probably counterfeit, damned Mafia!" And for the conspiracy folks out there...
• In Denver, a clerk at a Mickey D's drive-thru says one of Denver's boys in blue pulled a gun when he thought his order was taking too long. Better watch out pizza guys!
• Lotta people surprised by all the weather happening this week. I gotta wonder why. Maybe my memory is hazy, but doesn't the Arts Festival usually signal the start of the shitty weather season here in Seattle East.
• Speaking of the recent weather, I'm never disappointed by the balls of the locals in these parts. During Wednesday's episode I was in my local supermarket. Giant Eagle, to be exact. (Seems like I'm always at Giant Eagle. Almost an unnatural amount of time.) Anyway, the rain's pouring and the store is taking on alot of water. Funny how things like that happen when you build a store below street level. Seems this shopping center was built a long time ago on an old swamp,but I digress. The store's taking on water, the store folks are trying to block off lakes, abandon ship horns are going off, the Coast Guard's picking up the lifeboats, you get the picture. Anyway, all this is going on and I'm watching the locals getting very pissed because the lifeguard won't allow swimming up the Oreo aisle. They can't get through the driftwood to get to the Snickers bars. The Fish and Wildlife guys are stocking trout in front of the ice cream cones. There was even some jackass-ette playing in the puddles barefoot in front of the National Enquirers. WTF is wrong with people? And even more pathetic, after the store was finally able to close, (4 hours early), some of the store people were on the front sidewalk being compared, by some of their loyal (??) customers, to parts of the female anatomy (not the first metatarsal, I assure you) for closing early. These jerkoffs were going apeshit because Grandma needed her Chesterfields or Puffy needed her Whiska Lickins so badly that they drove through water midway up their car doors and the store had the nerve to be closed because they were concerned for safety of their customers. Damn you Giant Eagle!