WTF?:
A burglar gave a 35-year-old woman a shoulder massage for several hours after breaking into her apartment in central Tokyo and tying her up, police were quoted as saying Friday.
He stole 210,000 yen ($1,900) in cash and her bank cash card, though he later mailed the card to her as she requested after withdrawing 980,000 yen from her account, Kyodo news agency said.
It said Lee Jin-se, 29, a South Korean, admitted the burglary and told police he lingered in the woman’s apartment and gave her the massage “to relax her.”
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Jeezus, can’t this pig stay awake in the middle of the day? How the hell can anyone think of impeaching Bush with Cheney on deck?
Dude, should we check his pulse?
I kind of think it looks like Cheney is praying. Maybe something like, “Please, make him shut up.” Or, “Let this ‘meeting’ end.”
Btw, my preference is a multiple impeachment. 🙂
I think it’s more like Cheney is dejected and thinking, “Why can’t he stick to the script I gave him.”
What makes me feel better is none of them look like they’re having much fun. I love imagining how grim and pissed off and/or dejected they all are. They can’t believe their house of cards is coming down.
I think he’s perfected this particular pose. My high school senior does something similar involving an open notebook and pen to hide the fact that he’s totally snoozed out in class.
Ah yes – contemplation of the deep thoughts to be found in the brain waves of light sleep.
Wonder if he ever drools? Cheney, not your son!
I said it before and I’ll say it again …
If Bush goes down, Cheney will either go down with him or be the lamest lame duck in history. He won’t be able to spit on the sidewalk without being called on it.
He’ll be lucky if his fellow Repubs don’t have him assassinated.
Looks like they’re in the dock at the Hague, charged with war crimes. Cheney just bit down on the hidden cianide tablet, and Condi realizes that the decider has just sealed their fate with his testimony.
this disturbing headline:
14:10 12May2006 RTRS-KING ABDULLAH REMOVES HEAD OF SAUDI STOCK MARKET REGULATOR AFTER CRASH – AL ARABIYA TV
he wrote: “people wondered if the King had actually decapitated this guy. Did he wield the sword? Boy that would send the right kinda message to Wall Street, wouldn’t it?”
the later revised editions:
14:34 12May2006 RTRS-RPT-KING ABDULLAH REPLACES SAUDI STOCK MARKET REGULATOR CHIEF AFTER CRASH – AL ARABIYA TV
14:41 12May2006 RTRS-Saudi names new bourse regulator after crash -TV
those updated headlines don’t actually negate the original … naming a new chief would in fact be logical and necessary.
That better have been one hell of a massage.
There’s an old Zen story about a thief who broke into the home of a monk who was praying at the time. As he reached for the bag of money near the monk’s bed the monk stopped praying and said, “Go ahead, if you need it more than I do, take it.” The thief, ashamed, took the bag, but as he went to leave the monk said, “Tomorrow is tax day, you know. Could you please leave me a couple of coins so I can pay my taxes?” The monk sheepishly left two coins behind and turned to go.
“What kind of son did your mother raise?” the monk called. “When a man gives you something, do you not thank him?”
“Th-th-th-thank you,” the thief stammered, and hurried away from the monk’s hut.
The next day the police caught the thief and asked the monk to identify him. “Thief?” the monk said. “He is no thief. He needed money and I gave it to him, and he thanked me for it.” Since the monk wouldn’t testify against him, they let the thief go. The thief was so impressed that he immediately took up the study of Zen and eventually became a great monk himself.
I don’t think any of the versions of this koan I’ve read said anything about a massage, though.