ZONKS! Topsy Turvy - which side is up?

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Ya just gotta put the picture first on these kinds of things. It's the only correct way to announce crazy cool projects such as the Topsy-Turvy Bus created by art car artist Tom Kennedy from Oakland, CA with a team of ten other artists.

The idea for Topsy-Turvy came from Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s and president of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and artist Stefan Sagmeister.

Tom and Haideen Anderson are currently driving the bus around the US, blogging about their adventures, with stops planned in the same places, dates and times as the presidential primaries.

The Topsy-Turvy, painted in all it's yellow glory with a twin welded upside down to the roof was commissioned by Ben & Jerry's to protest U.S. military spending. Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is a non profit organization made up of 700 business leaders who want to reduce U.S. military spending.

"Essentially this is a marketing technique that I started doing at Ben and Jerry's," Cohen said.

"We find that dollar for dollar, it's more effective than run-of-the-mill TV advertising. Seeing this weird vehicle in three dimensions makes more of a lasting impression."

Lead art car builder Tom Kennedy said

“It's under the 13.6-foot height limit and within the weight limit for noncommercial vehicles.”

With rare exception, most police officers who pull him over just want a picture to show their families.

Photo credit: Ken Duffy

Sometimes, being wrong is a good thing.

Standing in line patiently waiting my turned to order, the cashier helped someone who had just walked in instead of me who had been waiting a few minutes. I was annoyed and the look on my face showed it. A senior citizen customer who had just been served and cashed out looked at me and gave a slight smile. I decided saying something wasn’t worth the trouble and promptly stepped up to the counter to ensure I was next.

The citizen customer came over to me and said

“Can I ask you a question?”

Slightly annoyed, wearing a t shirt that showed both my tattoos and already knowing what the previously asked question (from dozens of others) is going to be I said sure nonchalantly.

He asked, “Did it hurt?”

{Sigh} yep… there’s the question I always try to answer politely, every single time. So many times in fact that I bought myself a belt buckle of a tattoo gun with the words ‘YES, it hurt’ inscribed across it. But… I’m in a mood so I ask back nicely

Me:“did what hurt?”

Citizen customer: “Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?”

{blink blink / blank stare}

At the blank expression of my face, he laughed and said, "you looked like you needed a smile and I thought all angles as beautiful as you should be smiling not frowning."

I didn’t know what to say… I just kindly smiled and probably blushed… Than he handed me a small stack of business sized cards. I looked at them and they were the Mickey Mouse flipping the finger cards that says

“ Thanks for parking so f$#@ing lose to me. Next time leave me a f*&%ing can opener so I get into my car a$$hole!’

Before he walks away, he says, put one of these on the car that parks too close to you. It will give you a smile.

Cards are sitting in my change section of my car. Sometimes, I love when I am wrong. When I get into that mode when I think I know it all from “been there done that” past experiences and I’m proven wrong, it’s refreshing.

Henry Rollins - Drawing Conclusions - "Wall-Mart"

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Why education is a good thing

Orange County, Florida
Home to all of America's greatest dumbest criminal masterminds.

According to local police, the man – now identified as James Taylor – walked into a Bank of America branch located inside a grocery store, and showed the cashier a note and a gun, concealed inside a newspaper.

His robbery successfully completed, the robber walked outside, drove across the street, changed his shirt and went into a restaurant for a beer…presumably to celebrate his successful strategy.


However, a customer who was in the store at the same time as the robbery and was in Taylor’s bad luck -- directly behind him at the time of the robbery watched him leave and enter Giovanni's restaurant. The celebration ended early when the customer than called the police.


Scrap metal recycling is not this profitable.


According to local authorities, 18-year-old Damion M. Mosher who recycles scrap metal for a return of approximately $1.70 per pound. Unfortunately, he’s perfectly sensible irrational plan to get the shell casings off live bullets wasn’t well thought out and went off with a BaNg!

He placed live bullets in a vice, putting a screwdriver on the primer and hitting them with a hammer to get the shell casing off until one finally went off, leaving him with a bullet embedded half an inch into his abdomen.

Amazingly, Mosher had already emptied about 100-bullet in this method until I can only assume some higher deity decided he needed a good lesson in logical thinking.

Sorry, but Mosher is no Darwin winner. The scrap metal recycler of Lake Luzerne, New York, was treated in hospital and released.


Hissed Off Student

Even geese don’t like lawyers…

Final year law student Sam Rozati was walking home through the campus, past a lake at Essex University in Colchester when four bully geese decided to have a little fun with the student. In the moment of surprise Rozati dropped his cell phone in fright and one of the birds ran off with it in its beak.

“They flew over and started biting my hand until I dropped the phone. I've never been mugged by anyone before, but now I've been mugged by three geese,” said the 23-year-old.

Since the phone was set on Silent, he has been unable to locate the phone. The nationality of the geese is not noted, secret sources say the geese were probably of Romanian gyspy origin… J/K

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