Four deaths and a life sentence
It's noon on Tuesday, and that can only mean one thing around these parts: MORBIDLY DEPRESSING NEWS HOUR.
1. Mark Langford, the head of a Manchester, England company who fired all 2,500 of his employees via text message was killed last night in a car crash in Marbella, Spain. The text message, which was the only information the employees at Langford's "The Accident Group" (HA!) company received upon dismissal, went a little something like this,
Via BBC:
Mr. Langford later told British courts that he added "one of those smiley faces at the end, the ones with the little winking eye" presumably to soften the blow, but that emoticon does not appear in any official documentation.
The fatal crash was not Mr. Langford's first fatal accident, however. In 2000, he struck a 73 year old man with his Ferrari, killing him.
2. Cartoonist Johnny Hart, who created "BC" and co-created "The Wizard of Id" died of a stroke on Saturday, while working. The strange thing is that he was working on creating a new comic at the time, which featured prominent politicians being caught in compromising situations with prostitutes, quite a departure from his previous work. Hart suffered the stroke while illustrating a particularly graphic scene.
"He died at his storyboard," his wife told the Associated Press.
3. The oldest inmate in the California prison system is John Rodriguez, 94. Rodriguez murdered his wife in a drunken rage in 1981, by stabbing her 26 times with a paring knife. He's been recommended for parole six times, but it has been denied. In a recent hearing, Lawrence Morrison, an LA county deputy district attorney had this to say,
via LATimes:
Morrison then added,
Does this look like the face of a menace to society? More like a menace to adult disposable diapers.
-j
1. Mark Langford, the head of a Manchester, England company who fired all 2,500 of his employees via text message was killed last night in a car crash in Marbella, Spain. The text message, which was the only information the employees at Langford's "The Accident Group" (HA!) company received upon dismissal, went a little something like this,
Via BBC:
"Urgent. Unfortunately salaries not paid. Please do not contact office. Full details to follow later...."
Mr. Langford later told British courts that he added "one of those smiley faces at the end, the ones with the little winking eye" presumably to soften the blow, but that emoticon does not appear in any official documentation.
The fatal crash was not Mr. Langford's first fatal accident, however. In 2000, he struck a 73 year old man with his Ferrari, killing him.
Mr Langford was fined £1,000 after being found guilty of careless driving but was cleared of causing death by dangerous driving.
2. Cartoonist Johnny Hart, who created "BC" and co-created "The Wizard of Id" died of a stroke on Saturday, while working. The strange thing is that he was working on creating a new comic at the time, which featured prominent politicians being caught in compromising situations with prostitutes, quite a departure from his previous work. Hart suffered the stroke while illustrating a particularly graphic scene.
"He died at his storyboard," his wife told the Associated Press.
3. The oldest inmate in the California prison system is John Rodriguez, 94. Rodriguez murdered his wife in a drunken rage in 1981, by stabbing her 26 times with a paring knife. He's been recommended for parole six times, but it has been denied. In a recent hearing, Lawrence Morrison, an LA county deputy district attorney had this to say,
via LATimes:
"Looking at the inmate right now, sitting in a wheelchair, he looks like everybody's grandparents."
Morrison then added,
"But give this guy two shots of taquilla, I mean even the really cheap shit, and he'll be tap dancing and stabbing young women 26 times with grapefruit knives. I am not joking."
Does this look like the face of a menace to society? More like a menace to adult disposable diapers.
-j
posted by jeff at 12:21 PM
2 Comments:
that son of a bitch.
He looks like the guy that tries to get me assistance in paying for my diabetes medicine during The Price is Right.
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