Chimp attack

2-23-09 5:13pm
This past week i heard about the extremely bizarre and unfortunate news about a chimpanzee who had brutally attacked a woman.. I guess if you haven't heard yet, Travis was a 200 pound domesticated chimpanzee who was cared for by Sandra Herold and had starred in a commercials for Old Navy and Coco Cola . Sandra had cared for the chimpanzee his entire life and was the only thing she had left after her husband and daughter had passed away. The day of the attack, the chimpanzee was acting differently and was refusing to go inside his house and that's when Sandra called her friend Charla Nash for some assistance on luring the animal back inside the house. The chimpanzee apparently went berserk when he came in contact with Charla and then brutally mauled and attacked her. The chimpanzee continued to attack Charla even after he was struck by a shovel and then stabbed with a knife by the owner. Eventually, Sandra had no choice but to call the authorities which consequently resulted in the enraged chimp being shot dead. There are several speculations as to why the chimp behave the way he did and one of them is that perhaps he was unfamiliar with Charla due to her new appearance and maybe she triggered something when she held a stuffed toy in front of her face to gain his attention. Whatever the case may be, I was just curious as to what you guys thought about all this and if there should be laws put in place to prevent people from having primates as pets.

Taken

2-16-2009 11:26pm


I caught the film Taken this weekend and was pleasantly surprised at how the plot just jumped right into the action at full throttle. I can honestly say there wasn't a dull moment in the entire movie.

The plot of film is about Bryan who is played by Liam Neeson and how he goes about on a warpath of destruction throughout Europe while beating on and tearing apart anyone who dares to stop him from rescuing his kidnapped teenage daughter. His daughter has been taken by an Albanian gang who specializes in trafficking of young women and he quickly hunts them down just like he promises and dishes out his retribution. The tag line of the flick is "I don't know who you are but if you don't let my daughter go..I will find you..I will kill you" and Liam Neeson does exactly that. Throughout the movie I'm pretty sure he killed at least sixty men by himself and hes comparable to James Bond..but on crack and if you don't believe me just go watch the fim.

A classic

2-10-2009 12:25am

The past week, my roommates and I decided to have a "movie night." I know that sounds quite homosexual but thats okay because its our favorite comedy of all time and we decided to make an exception with the movie being Super Troopers. The tag line of the film is "You don't mess with the law. The law messes with you" so of course you know hilarity ensues.

The film begins with three college kids on a road trip to visit Canada for some "french fries and gravy" or so they say but their fun comes to a premature halt when they are pulled over by two Vermont State Troopers. Little did the college students know, they were in for a ride of their lives because these were no ordinary officers of the law.

The film focuses on five state troopers who enjoy devising new ways to prank civilians way more than they enjoy enforcing the law. The plot is about how they actually have to become legitimate police officers or something close to it if they want to retain their jobs because they are on the verge of being shut down.

The film is created by the Broken Lizard crew and they have a new film coming out called "Slammin Salmon" and you can find the trailer here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sbmHw844E

Cardinals robbed of an opportunity?

2-3-2009 12:40am

By now most of us have already seen, if not heard about the stunning Steeler's victory over the cardinals in Superbowl forty-three. But what you may not have noticed or seen was the touchdown celebration late in the game by Santonio Holmes which ultimately decided the game. During his celebration Holmes uses the football as a prop which is clearly against regulations and is cause for an "excessive celebration" penalty. If that penalty had been recognized by the referees the Cardinals would have recieved an extra fifteen yards and may have approached the game with an entirely different offensive attitude and the Steelers may have had to switch up their mindset defensively. I'm not going as far as to say that this would've changed the final outcome of the game because it probably wouldn't have i'm just saying that the opportunity that could've arisen was denied.