The Long Weekend is Over

Oh Mon, watt a weekend donca tink?








Pilot Locks Himself Out of Cockpit During Flight

OTTAWA - The pilot of a Canadian airliner who went to the washroom during a flight found himself locked out of the cockpit, forcing the crew to remove the door from its hinges to let him back in, the airline said Wednesday.

The incident occurred aboard a flight from Ottawa to Winnipeg. The regional jet, capable of carrying 50 people, was operated by Air Canada's Jazz subsidiary.

Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stewart said that with 30 minutes of the flight to go, the pilot went to the washroom, leaving the first officer in charge. But when he tried to get back into the cockpit, the door would not open. "The door malfunctioned ... this is a very rare occurrence," Stewart said, adding that the crew's decision to remove the door had been in line with company policy.

A report in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper said that for about 10 minutes "passengers described seeing the pilot bang on the door and communicating with the cockpit though an internal telephone, but being unable to open the door."

Knock Knock
Who's there?
The Captain!
The Captain who?

Captain: Open the door damn it, I'm not a terrorist. I am the captain, now open the door!
Co-pilot: How do I know you are the captain?
Captain: Because I am telling you, I am he captain!
Co-pilot: And you want me to fall for that, duh?
Captain: Do you know how to land the plane?
Co-pilot: How do we remove the door?










Duluth police pot holds pot

IRONY: Police attribute a dozen marijuana plants at the West Duluth substation to a joker.

Like all good reporters, the News Tribune's Janna Goerdt has learned to keep her ears and eyes open for whatever might be encountered on an assignment.

Goerdt accompanied law enforcement officials Saturday as they searched for people illegally using all-terrain vehicles in Duluth. She wrote a story about the enforcement campaign for Sunday's newspaper.

Goerdt also uncovered a dozen marijuana plants growing in western Duluth. Goerdt heard two members of a rival news team talking about "something interesting" in front of the police station.

When that assignment was over, Goerdt returned to the police station and took a walk around the building. She found the marijuana plants. Although she said she didn't know that they were marijuana plants.

She plucked one of the leaves and brought it back to the newspaper. "I needed some evidence," she said. "I didn't know if anyone would believe me. I didn't think it was a big deal. I just thought it was rather amusing."
Duluth City Gardner Tom Kasper was given the leaf for inspection Monday and confirmed that it came from a marijuana plant.

Kasper immediately traveled to the West Duluth police substation to inform neighborhood supervising police Lt. John Beyer of the pot growing in the front-yard planter.

Beyer pointed out that he, his police officers and the public use the backdoor entrance to the police station. The front door just off busy Grand Avenue is usually locked and not used.

The gardener dug out the 12 marijuana plants by their roots. They were 4 to 6 inches high and Kasper estimated they had been growing about three weeks.

Several questions here:

The front door just off busy Grand Avenue is usually locked and not used. So if you see the police station and need help, you are supposed to know the front door is locked?

The news lady did not know what marijuana was? Yeah, right!!

I wonder if the back door was close to the doughnut shop?










Bartender Gets $10,000 Tip on $26 Tab

HUTCHINSON, Kan. - One of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros.

Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man - for a $26 meal - on Sunday. "I couldn't move," Kienow said. "I didn't know what to say. He said, `This will buy you something kind of nice, huh?' And I said, `Yeah, it will.'"

Kienow said the man comes in several times a month and eats at the end of the bar. He has always tipped well, she said, usually leaving $15 on a $30 tab.

Then came the $100 tip, followed by the real shocker. "He usually signs his ticket and flips it upside down," said Kienow, 35, who has worked at the restaurant for eight years. "But this time, he had it right-side up and said `I want you to know this is not a joke.

Kienow said that while she always talks with the man when he comes in - usually about current events or the weather - she can't think of anything that would have prompted the huge tip.

"I've been waiting on him for about three years," Kienow said. "We'd just talk across the bar he's a really nice guy. I hope he comes back in so I can tell him thank you, because the other day I was kind of dumbfounded."

Kienow, whose father will have to take some time off work for surgery on both of his knees, said she hasn't decided what to do with the money. "I'd like to take care of my parents, since they always took care of me," she said. "But I feel like he wanted me to buy something for myself, and there's a Jeep that I've had my eye on for a while."

Well, it's called good service. These days people tip for bad service rather than only for good service. This guy wanted to make a statement to the rest of us: Tip for good service, don't tip for bad service!










Labor Day is over but the Parades, Oh my the parades!!!

Easy Riders Competitors carry inflatable sex dolls on their bicycles at the fourth annual Bubble Baba Challenge on in Russia. The win goes to the fastest course finisher, and additional prizes are awarded for the doll decoration and name.







And there you have it, the three day weekend is over and it's back to the grind!

For all the news you can use come on back tomorrow!!