Cold Tea

Delivery man for MA restaurant faces drug charges

QUINCY, Mass. -- Quincy police say a delivery man for Chinese restaurant in Milton was dropping off more than dinner.

Police arrested Chun Yeung Tang on Friday after allegedly finding 51 round pink pills believed to be Ecstasy in the Honda Civic he uses to deliver orders for Mr. Chan's restaurant.

Capt. John Dougan tells The Patriot-Ledger police also recovered $375 in cash. A search of Tang's home turned up another $20,000 cash and two more pills believed to be Ecstasy.

Tang is charged with possession of a class B drug, Ecstasy, with intent to distribute.

The arrest was the result of a two-month investigation.

Wow, this is kind of a surprise. Mr. Chan's is a pretty good place. It's no Great Chow, but it's good. I wonder how you "ordered" the ecstasy though. Was it something simple like the "Pizza with anchovies" from Loverboy with Patrick Dempsey? Or like the "cold tea" at the Moon Villa.

"Great Chow, can I help you?"
"Yeah, Hi, I wanted to place an order for delivery..."
"Ok, what would you like?"
"Ahhh, can I get an order of General Gau and ahhhhh, 15 orders of the "PINK" spareribs....."
"Oooooohhhhh, you want the regular spareribs or the "PINK" spareribs?"
"Ahhhh, the "PINK" ones....and an order of Pork Fried Rice."
"Ok, we'll be there in 15 minute."


If anyone told me that a restaurant in Quincy would be caught in a ecstasy delivery scheme, I have to be honest, I would've gone with Harry's Pizza & Seafood. Something real fishy that place. You get it, Harry's Seafood...fishy....thanks folks, I'll be here all week.

New Sheriff in Town

Last night, I went to bowling. I pulled into the Wright Brothers parking lot around 7:10pm(because it "starts" at 7pm sharp). Everything appeared to be normal....people outside smoking, the smell of old feet as you walk through the doors and at least one or two alleys "out of order" with the lights out.

I paid my $9.75 and said hello to a few people and took in the sights. I haven't been to bowling since Week 2 so I needed to catch up. Maybe it's because I haven't been there in a while, but there seemed to be a little electricity in the air. It was Fidler vs. Fidler down on the far left. Deej was practicing during his bye week over on the far right. Nutley was chucking practice throws, yelling "EASY GAME FELLAS!", while sleeveless Joe Sapp was on deck. "Warm ups" are usually a free for all where everything BUT warming up takes place. Last night kinda felt a little like Edgewater Drive on the 3rd(less the drunk underage kids and the bonfire).

So I'm filling in for Tommy Hawes on Kano's team and we start to bowl. People are yapping to each other 3 or 4 lanes over. Lots o chit chat. Beers were flowing and F-bombs were flying, usual stuff. The guy who runs the joint gets on a microphone and gets into the act by ribbing bowlers after they throw. Then he announces the "orange pin" is available. If the orange pin is set as the head pin, and you bowl a strike, you win $50. The place was buzzing, even though they do this every week. It didn't take long before Deej took down all 10 and took home $50.

As for the bowling action, it was fast and furious. Lot's of tight matches. Bo lost the first string by 1 pin. Kano was down by 7 going into the 3rd. Overall some good matches. At one point, I witnessed two strikes occurring at the same time on different lanes. Supposedly Dwyer got two strikes in a row, but I cannot confirm this.

I ended up bailing after the match, I didn't stay for the post game festivities, which typically conclude at the Hoffy. I needed to make a quick getaway before the Hoffy tractor beam could get a hold of me.

So anyway, the basic theme here is that the Hoffy Bowling League has evolved into a bona fide "good time". HBL'ers wake up on the right side of the bed on Thursday mornings. Softball may be the Hoffy's favorite past time, but it's looking in the rear view mirror as Bowling closes the gap(sorry Novak, Hockey is a distant 3rd). Some might even argue that it's better. I know Jim Fid would. If you're not in the league, try and sneak out to Wright Brothers on a random Thursday night between 7-9pm.

Video to come.

Records are made to be broken

University of Kentucky's Junior Guard Jodie Meeks broke the 39-year old single game scoring record by dropping 54 points on Tennessee. The previous record was 53 points set by Dan Issel in 1969.

In a eerily similar story Quincy High's Dougie "Great" Scott shattered the QHS single game scoring record by scoring 54 points. The previous record was 42 points(89 if you ask Kyle Robertson after 8 Miller Lites) set by Rob "Bob" Kane in 1993. Kano still holds the record for most points scored in a single game, in January, during an away game, by a player 5'6" or under.

Smooth Criminal

Police in southern New Zealand nabbed a would-be burglar after they posted security camera images of him trying to break into a safe on the popular social networking site, Facebook.

Having removed his balaclava after his efforts made him hot, the would-be burglar looks up at a security camera.

The Queenstown police are calling it their first Facebook arrest. The police department created its online presence on the site just two months ago, said Constable Sean Drader.

"It's pretty popular, isn't it, this site?" Drader told CNN Wednesday, surprised at the quick success.

The 21-year-old masked man allegedly broke into a local pub through a roof early Monday morning and spent considerable time trying to crack open a safe using an angle grinder.

Unable to break open the safe, the man gave up and got ready to leave, Drader said.

"He looks around to see if he's forgotten anything, and he looks up right at the camera. It was rather silly. We got a good look," he said.

The police department posted the surveillance camera photos on its Facebook page. By the next day, the man was in custody, fingered by viewers who recognized him from the images on the site, and from TV segments on the Facebook posting.

I'm not exactly sure what to say about this. On the one hand, Facebook actually serves the public in a positive way by identifying a burglar. On the other hand, Facebook is populated by a bunch of degenerate losers who aren't that bright. "Oh we need to identify a serial killer, we have his picture, but it's not coming up in the police database of most wanted criminals. Let's try Facebook!"

Is this going to be a new tool used by law enforcement? Instead of walking the beat(or going to Dunks), cops will be hanging out at local wi-fi spots Facebooking. I can see it now, Officer Smith is catching criminals right now!



I will not give in to the dark side.

Delay of Game

Coach Jeff Fischer and the Tennessee Titans were not happy with the officiating crew from Saturdays game. There was an apparent non-call of a delay of game against the Ravens on a pivotal play late in the game. The Titans eventually lost to the Ravens 13-10.

After the game, the refs were unavailable for comment. Actually they were available, but they were having too much fun to comment. Speaking through a spokesperson named Elvis, all they would say was "Yeeeeeaaaahhhhhhh!!! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"





NFL spokesperson Greg Aiello told reporters that this particular crew was by far the highest rated officiating crew in 2008 mainly because after the games they continue to officiate at tailgates and such.

Aaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

According to the Chinese Astrology, 2008 was the Year of the Rat. This would of course explain why G-Town beat the Neck in Football, and how Jimmy Fid posted a HBL record 161 pins in one string.

Aside from those G-Town Rats who rose to glory in 2008, there were also some big new stories from 2008 that involved a rat of a different kind. I'm speaking more about the scumbag, dirtball, frauds who earned international acclaim for their dubious behavior.

Here are the top 5 from this year:




5. Rod Blagojevich- f'ng politicians. after getting nabbed trying to extort future Senators for the vacant Obama seat, legal experts predicted he might use the insanity defense. Boy were they wrong. Instead he went with: "I've done nothing wrong. We'll actually I did plan to do something wrong, but I never got around to it. And plus the wire taps you used weren't legit, so I'm good. Ok, let's get back to work people, show's over, Chop! Chop!"



4. Clark Rockefeller - basically when confronted of his past, you know, being a complete fraud who is possibly an illegal alien from Germany that was linked to a double homicide 20 years ago, he came up with "I don't remember". Are you serious Clark?



3. Eliot Spitzer - He was Elliot Ness at work, but at play, he acted more like Patrick Ewing in the Gold Room. Or maybe Duante Culpepper on the Minnesota Vikings "Love Boat". Or Eugene Robinson the night before the Superbowl. Or...thats all i got. By the way, Spitzer's favorite movie is Pretty Woman.

2. Roger Clemens - See, Clark Rockefeller, only substitute being a German fraud with cheating at baseball by inhaling steroids and replace "I don't remember" with "I misremember". Other than that, basically the same dude.





1. Bernard Madoff - "ponzi scheme". I don't even know what a Ponzi scheme is....well actually I do but I don't like it because the first thing I think of is Fonzi, who was by no way imaginable, a fraud. Fonzi was the genuine article. Bernie Madoff was not. He bilked $50 billion from close friends and relatives while serving as Chairman of the NASDAQ. He also spoke in public forums regarding the need for regulation by the SEC. That would be like the aformentioned Fonz speaking to a high school Virgin Club about the importance of abstinence. You see my point here.

No Trespassing

Here's a list of organizations that I'm not on board with:

1. Al-Qaeda
2. Facebook
3. NY Yankees
4. Scientology
5. OPEC

That's right, I'd rather become a Scientologist or a NY Yankee than a Facebooker.

G'day Mate

I watched that show "The Mentalist" last night. It's kinda like CSI meets Psych. Overall a decent show.

The thing that gets me is that the lead actor is a guy named Simon Baker. He's the dreamy blond dude in this clip:



Anyway, you can't tell from the clip, but the guys actually from Australia. So in real life, he usually sounds like this:



As you can see, in real life, he's still dreamy, but he talks all Australiany. I have to be honest I didn't see that one coming. And it's not the first time one of these foreign actors really fooled me on the whole American accent thing. You know that show "House"? Same friggin thing. The main guy is from England.

These Australians though, they really have it down. Hugh Jackman? Australian. The late Heath Ledger? Australian. Mel Gibson? Australianish.

Who else? Croc Dundee? Yep, Australian.


Not to mention, Russel Crowe, plus a personal favorite of mine, the late Steve Irwin. These bushwackers are everywhere. Needless to say, Australia is cranking out some serious theatrical talent.

But getting back to the accent thing, do you think an American Actor, let's say with a heavy Boston accent, could pull off a TV show Down Under? I mean, I can rip off a "G'day Govenor...How bout a little shrimp on the Barbie?" like the best of em, but I don't think I could keep it up for an entire show. "Hey Mate, where should I paaaaaak the caaaaaaaaa?" But then again, I'm not a professional actor.

Suede Pumas

Apparently this new "Facebook" thing is all the rage, while Blogging is old news. It's that simple.

But I've never been one to jump ship. Loyalty is one of my best attributes. Case in point, I stuck with my button up Izod sweater and suede Pumas when everybody else switched over to the Champion sweatshirt/Adidas Gazelle look.

I've seen too many good bloggers who've been bit by the Facebook bug. The Professional Man of Leisure used to be part of my morning tea. And now, he's been through 4 different countries since his last post, and we haven't heard a peep. I'd check McInnis Carpentry after every softball game. Apparently, he's just a seasonal blogger. And Insufficient Funds....Insufficient Fund, I have a real bone to pick with Insufficient Funds. This guy was a prodigy. Blogging was made for him, and he for blogging. And then kablammo, enter facebook, eeeeeeeyaaaalater Insufficient Funds. Kinda reminds me of Roy McElroy of Tin Cup. He's just wasting his talents away at a driving range in Arizona, or in this case some crappy facebook page.

I'm sticking to my guns and will continue to post uninteresting blurbs about once a week. It may not be as entertaining as "tagging" friends and telling everybody what I'm "doing right now", but I still have my integrity. I will blog with my head held high.

And then there was one.