Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx
why the fuck cant we text the police
lets say there is a murderer in ur house and you’re hiding behind your sofa and you do have your phone with you but you can’t call the police because the murderer might hear you
Here in Canada you can
Here in England we just… scream and run
Here in Scotland we paint our faces and run towards the murderer
Here in Australia you are the murderer
This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
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(I’m running errands for my pregnant wife. While walking to a nearby store, I see two teenagers harassing a child that is only four or five years old. I shoo them away from the boy, and he introduces himself.)
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Me:
“So, where’s your mom at?”
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Boy:
“She’s in the store. Do you have kids?”
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Me:
“Not yet. We’re expecting a baby girl soon, though.”
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Boy:
“Well, she’s going to turn out nice, like you! So, I’m going to marry her someday!”
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(I laugh, and play along while I bring him to the service desk, and wait until his mom picks him up. Six years later, my daughter comes home from school and introduces us to a friend that defended her against a bully on the playground. I didn’t recognize him, but he certainly knew who I was!)
I always think of Canada as the lovechild of England and France after they had a drunken one night stand and England just left it to grow up with its big brother America who was like the rebel of the family.
why can’t you go into history class on the first day, and have the teacher write this on the board, and boom, done history for the semester.
that-flighty-temptress-adventure:
#Homer Simpson don’t give a fuck about homosexuality.
there’s something bothering me about this place…the girl in green becomes black in the last gif. ಠ_ಠ
And the girl at the bar suddenly has a tattoo.
Lesbians are not bound to the same laws as you mere mortals
cogsworthhasenteredthebuilding:
never not reblog this ever
The one time Fox News does something okay.
This has to be on my blog a good 15 times. I regret nothing.
What a sassy republican.
reblogigng for the sass and only the sass
what do #1 pencils look like
