Thursday, February 5, 2015
Lazy Person of the Day: Man Walks Dog While Driving Car in Dubai
And the laziest pet owner of the year award goes to this guy.
A man was spotted this week “walking” his dog around a parking lot in Dubai, the only problem was that he never got out of his car.
Local artist Jim Wheat spotted the scene and took a photo, saying he initially thought the dog was a bear because it was so big.
“It was like a dog on a treadmill,” he said.
They duo did 5 laps around the lot at about 3 mph before driving away.
Athlete of the Day: 84-Year-Old Bowling Grandma Gets a Strike
Here’s a little bit of inspiration for the day from an unlikely source.
This 84-year old woman may not be exactly sure how to bowl (or what bowling is for that matter) but she manages to get a strike on her very first try.
Watch as the entire room celebrates her accomplishment with a standing ovation.
Punishment of the Day: Georgia Barbershop Will Turn Your Naughty Kids Into Sad Old Men
Forget grounding your kid. Shaming your little troublemaker by making him look like George Costanza is the new hot trend in parenting.
The A-1 Kutz Barbershop & Salon in Snellville, Georgia has a unique (free) service called the "Benjamin Button Special," in which they will shave your child's head so he resembles a balding old man.
The owner of the shop, Russell Fredrick (aka "Rusty Fred") recently posted the picture on Instagram and Facebook, and it has since gotten a lot of attention online including an article in The Washington Post and video interviews with Fox 5 and Good Morning America.
He says the punishment should only be used as a last resort.
"I hope that most people won't have to do this unless it's an extreme circumstances and nothing else is working," Fredrick said. "First, you talk or implement your restrictions. But when the conventional ways don't work these days, you have to get creative."
He later posted an update about the kid in the photo above who was brought in by his mother for acting up in school.
"Welp…pic went so hard over the Internet @rusty_fred had to fix it today," he wrote. "But lil man says he's learned his lesson and he doesn't want them kinda problems again."
Fail of the Day: Brian Williams Misremembers Helicopter Story, Twitter Responds By Meme-Shaming Him
Well now neither does Williams, and he is apologizing publicly for the erroneous story which he has been telling for years after being called out by some of the troops who actually were in the attack.
“Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft,” said Lance Reynolds on Facebook. “I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”
He brought up the story in a news segment Friday about a tribute to a retired soldier at a New York Rangers game.
But crew members told the military news site “Stars & Stripes” that this never happened, and Williams issued a retraction.
“I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago,” Williams said on “NBC Nightly News” Wednesday. “I want to apologize.”
The soldiers of the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook which was actually shot down claim Williams was in a helicopter that arrived an hour later.
“I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.” Williams said.
He later elaborated and apologized further in a Facebook comment:
You are absolutely right and I was wrong. In fact, I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in ’08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.
Now people on Twitter have started a hashtag to shame him called #BrianWilliamsMisremembers, in which he claims he was part of some other major historical events.