What a Bear of a Week

Steroid Speculation Swirls Around Landis

High Levels of Testosterone Found in Tour Champ

LONDON - Floyd Landis' stunning Tour de France victory just four days earlier was thrown into question Thursday when his team said he tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race.

Floyd Landis' initial sampling came back positive. If he tests positive with the backup sample, he would then be considered guilty of using steroids.

If this proves to be true, I will never own another bicycle and never watch bicycle racing again or give them one measly line on my blog!!!!!







Speaking of bikes...

Nuns on Bikes Chase Suspected Thief

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Two Dutch nuns, wearing habits and riding bikes, chased a suspected thief through Amsterdam, police said Monday.

On Saturday evening, one of the sisters believed she recognized a man walking past their chapel in southern Amsterdam as a thief who snatched hundreds of dollars in cash from the building two weeks earlier.

She invited him inside for a drink and asked a fellow nun to alert police.

The man, apparently suspecting what was happening, fled the building and snatched a bicycle from a passer-by.

The nuns then grabbed their bikes and gave chase. They tried to grab him, but he managed to escape into a residential neighborhood and they lost him.

This guy better be careful he doesn't get into anymore "Bad Habits."







This is scary, I once again agree with the Mayor of Las Vegas.

Mayor suggests medieval punishment for taggers

Mayor Oscar Goodman is causing quite a stir with his newest plan for graffiti vandals. He wants to put them in medieval style stockades and let people paint their faces.

Right now the city attorney is researching whether this kind of punishment is legal. Of course, most people would agree graffiti is a big problem around town but one local graffiti artist we talked to says even if the mayor's plan is put into effect, it wouldn't be a deterrent to taggers.

Iceberg Slick is a local graffiti artist who runs a studio downtown. He gives young people a legal place to paint. And he says instead of stockades the mayor should be funding art programs to keep taggers off the streets. "Start focusing on programs to help so they can still have a creative outlet that's more acceptable to us and to everyone as a whole."

OK, Iceberg thinks like the lady that feeds the homeless mentioned in my blog Wednesday, July 26th - the taxpayer should be funding what is acceptable to them. Once again everyone wants something for nothing, and it's OK to break the law to get what they want!!!!!!!








Swiss zoo fights heat wave with meat ice cream

Alternative ice cream’ of berries, meat, bones has been a hit with animals

ZURICH, Switzerland - Zookeepers in the Swiss financial centre of Zurich are feeding animals a diet of frozen berries, meat and bones to help them stay cool in the sweltering summer heat.


The “alternative ice cream” offered to animals instead of their usual fare has been a big hit with large cats, apes and wolves, Zurich Zoo said in a statement. “The ice cream should at least offer the animals a temporary way to cool down,” it said.

Good thing for the animals they don't live in the Texas town that banished the ice cream man mentioned in my Thursday, July 27th blog.







Cops with sweet tooth arrested for candy theft

Two men suspected of taking 'significant' amount of stock from staff shop

LONDON - Two British police officers have been arrested by colleagues on suspicion of stealing candy from the staff confectionery shop.

An investigation was launched after “a significant stock loss” from the sweetshop at Hailsham Police Station in southern England, Sussex Police said on Friday.

The shop operates by officers helping themselves to the candy and drinks before leaving money in a tin.

Crooked cops, stealing from their fellow cops? One would understand if it were donuts they were stealing!!!!!







288-Pound Man Wins 288 Pounds of Jellybeans

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. - What do you get a 288-pound man for his birthday? How about 288 pounds of jelly beans?

His family didn't plan it that way, but when Mike Lively became the 1 millionth person to tour the Jelly Belly Center on his birthday Wednesday, he won his weight's worth of the sweet treats.

Since winning he has had to disconnect his phone because of the amount of calls he was receiving from the Two British police officers in the previous story!!!!!!!!!!







BAD NEWS OUT OF CHICAGO

Baker will manage Cubs for rest of year

GM reassures skipper, who is in fourth, final year of contract

Dusty Baker is in the fourth and final year of his contract for the Cubs, who are 39-61 this season.

For that stupid decision the GM should be fired as well!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I do a lot of stories about bears and the Cubs would qualify as a bear story.





I will close with this bit of trivia about a Bear and a picture as well:

Did you know at birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces?

A newborn panda cub sits on the back of its mother at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center in China July 22.





Say something nice to a stranger today!!
I be gone for now!!!!!!!!