Stories and thoughts about news and current events from Inside Chris’s head

Stupid Criminals Dept: "Please Remove Your Disguise Sir"

Stupid Criminals Dept: "Please Remove Your Disguise Sir"

Filed Under: News

So you are a bank teller and someone comes in to rob the bank wearing a hood and a scarf to hide his features. How do you identify the criminal? You might [...]

New Navy Railgun

New Navy Railgun

SciFi.com’s Dvice blog had news about a new railgun the navy has. I find myself discourage that we continue to find more ways to kill each other and yet I must admit [...]

Barak Obama on Faith and Politics

Filed Under: Christianity, News, Podcasts

I found this speech by Barak Obama to support my impression that he is an interesting candidate. I continue to see him as someone who sounds reasonable. I wish that were not [...]

Bills' Last Days (Gates and Clinton)

Filed Under: Movies, News

When I showed my co-workers the video from CES of Bill Gates last day one of them was reminded of a similar short video from Bill Clinton’s last days in office.

Stop A Crime, Lose Your Job?

Stop A Crime, Lose Your Job?

Filed Under: News

I am sure someone somewhere in the Whole Foods management chain thinks this was a good idea but this story originally reported in mlive.com (I saw it on the Church of the [...]

Schnook Crook Didn't Look

Filed Under: News

The headlines practically writes itself in this stupid criminal story: BOSTON – An alleged bank robber in Boston should have been more aware of who was behind him in line. Police said [...]

Stupid Criminals Dept: That's My Boom Box!

Filed Under: News

A friend of mine has a friend who’s a retired DC cop. The ex-cop had Christmas dinner at my friends house, where he told a great old story: Patrolling the streets one [...]

Free Coffee… Pass It On

Filed Under: News

What happens when a simple generous act of buying coffee for a stranger meets the holiday spirit. It might become contagious as it did this week near Seattle, Washington. MARYSVILLE — Lindsey [...]

Catching Crooks With A Better Mousetrap

Catching Crooks With A Better Mousetrap

Filed Under: News

5 year old Harry Cordaiy is now called “Mousetrap Man” by his class mates. He and his classmates had been the victim of a thief or thieves at their school before Harry [...]

Let The Hat Go – Man Survives Six Story Fall into Trash Compactor

Filed Under: News

Fark had a story about a man who made an unwise decision regarding a lost hat: A man who fell six stories into a trash compactor that activated when he hit survived [...]