Seriously? OMG! WTF?

In a bizarre turn of events, the tour bus that normally carries country music’s long-haired beauty Crystal Gayle, was used as an escape vehicle by fugitive prison escapee Christopher Daniel Gay. Gay, who escaped while being transported between states, was eluding police when he began his journey to Florida from Tennessee in Gayle’s blue Prevost tour bus. “I am glad that no one is hurt. I wish he would have gone to see his mother, who is very sick, instead of joy riding in Florida.” said Gayle from her Nashville, Tenn. home. Thursday evening (Jan 25), at about 6:00 PM, Gayle’s office was contacted by USA International Speedway Operations Manager Barry Williams to inquire about Gayle’s bus being in Lakeland, Fla. Williams had quickly become suspicious of the driver who identified himself as Daniel Pitts and said he was at the track to pick up NASCAR driver Tony Stewart. After being questioned by Williams, the bus driver left “to get a sandwich.” Williams asked police to run the plates of the bus, thereby determining that it belonged to Gayle. Rumors of Gayle’s bus being abandoned by Gay and recovered by Florida police are circulating. There is no confirmation of that report and no information regarding the condition of the bus or the whereabouts of Gay.

Crystal Gayle 

How random is that?
BTW here is a great quote from her husband in the Miami Herald:
Her husband and manager, Bill Gatzimos, couldn’t immediately be reached for comment today, but he told WSMV-TV, “There’s got to be a country song in having your bus stolen and taken for a joyride by a fugitive.”

British movie star Ralph Fiennes is at the centre of a mile-high sex scandal after he allegedly became amorous with an Australian flight attendant during a long-haul flight, according to a report. A 38-year-old Qantas stewardess has been suspended and could lose her job after fellow crew members allegedly spotted her and Fiennes leaving the same aircraft toilet cubicle moments apart, The Sunday Telegraph said. In a statement lodged with her employer and obtained by the paper, Lisa Robertson said the actor had become "amorous" with her after the pair chatted together during a flight from Australia to India late last month. But she denied having sex with the 44-year-old star of "The English Patient" and "Schindler’s List". "While conversing with Mr Fiennes during my break, I expressed a need to go to the toilet," Robertson said in her statement. "I went to the nearby toilet and entered it, he followed me and entered the same toilet. "I explained to him that this was inappropriate and asked him to leave. Mr Fiennes became amorous towards me and, after a short period of time, I convinced him to leave the toilet, which he did. "I left the toilet a short time later." The newspaper was unable to get a comment from Robertson, but a spokesman for Qantas confirmed that a flight attendant had been stood down following an onboard incident.

AFP 

Seriously, who doesn’t lock their toilet when they are on plane? Her side of the story just doesn’t sound right to me. you know?

Six sets of twins over 32 hours wow parents, Sparrow workers

At 9:05 a.m. Tuesday, Chastity Keeler gave birth to a baby boy. One minute later, she gave birth to another.

Then, over the next 32 hours, five more couples at Sparrow Hospital experienced the joy of giving birth to twins.

It’s an event that Sparrow nurses, doctors and officials believe is a record for the hospital.

"We have a number of experienced nurses, and it’s the first time within their collective memory that we’ve had six sets of twins born in such close proximity," Sparrow spokeswoman Nan Simons said.

Keeler, of Jackson, said it’s a story she’ll tell her sons, Nick and Ty, as they grow up.

"That was an extraordinary couple of days, and they were part of it," Keeler said. "They will forever be known in Sparrow history, and that’s kind of cool."

Five sets of the twins were boys. The other two infants were girls.

"It’s fun for Sparrow to mark a record like this," Simons said. "Six sets of twins, that’s a lot of babies."

 Lansing State Journal

WFTV

That would scare the, well you know what, out of me.

U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country’s largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday. The report, conducted by Jon Gettman, a public policy analyst and former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, also concluded that five U.S. states produce more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington. California’s production alone was about $13.8 billion, according to Gettman, who waged an unsuccessful six-year legal battle to force the government to remove marijuana from a list of drugs deemed to have no medical value. Tom Riley, a spokesman for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, said he could not confirm the report’s conclusions on the size of the country’s marijuana crop. But he said the government estimated overall U.S. illegal drug use at $200 billion annually. Gettman’s figures were based on several government reports between 2002 and 2005 estimating the United States produced more than 10,000 metric tons of marijuana annually. He calculated the producer price per pound of marijuana at $1,606 based on national survey data showing retail prices of between $2,400 and $3,000 between 2001 and 2005. The total value of 10,000 metric tons of marijuana at $1,606 per pound would be $35.8 billion. By comparison, the United States produced an average of nearly $23.3 billion worth of corn annually from 2003 to 2005, $17.6 billion worth of soybeans, $12.2 billion worth of hay, nearly $11.1 billion worth of vegetables and $7.4 billion worth of wheat, the report said. Gettman said the 10-fold increase in U.S. marijuana production, from 1,000 metric tons in 1981 to 10,000 metric tons in 2006, showed the country was failing to control marijuana by making its cultivation and use illegal. "Marijuana has become a pervasive and ineradicable part of the economy of the United States," he said. "The contribution of this market to the nation’s gross domestic product is overlooked in the debate over effective control." "Like all profitable agricultural crops marijuana adds resources and value to the economy," he added. "The focus of public policy should be how to effectively control this market through regulation and taxation in order to achieve immediate and realistic goals, such as reducing teenage access." Riley said illegal drug use was a "serious part of the economy," but he rejected the notion of an economic argument for legalizing marijuana. He said marijuana use was an "inherently harmful activity" with serious physical and mental health consequences. He said more American teens were in treatment centers for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

Reuters

Imagine if the legallized marijuana how much they could make?

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