WI makes national news again

[oregonpackfan]

"Stupid is what stupid does..."

--from the Tom Hanks movie(I'm too stupid or too senior to remember the title)

[the_idle_threat]

Happy Gilmore

[packinpatland]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

[the_idle_threat]

Yes ... yes it does.

[oregonpackfan]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

You're absolutely right, PPL! Thanks for helping my eroding memory. Now, where did I leave my new box of Depends...

[packinpatland]

Happy Gilmore

I'm not sure what you meant by this^, but the stupid quote comes from Forrest Gump, I think.

You're absolutely right, PPL! Thanks for helping my eroding memory. Now, where did I leave my new box of Depends...

Neither one of us is that old!

[GBRulz]

Woah, Hwy 41 near Fond du Lac is shut down right now because a plane had to make an emergency landing on it. No news yet on what size plane is was or of injuries, etc.

I think EAA in Oshkosh starts this week, so I'm guessing it was a small plane.

[packinpatland]

Nothing is happening in Ct. Comared to WS, this is quite the boring place.

[swede]

Here in Sheerboredom County a mechanic from England, here for the Road America races in Elkhart Lake, was driving a rented SUV merrily along on the British side of the roadway when he struck another vehicle head-on, killing himself and the woman driving the other vehicle. The woman's son was also injured.


Earlier in the summer a 300 pound man from Sheerboredom drowned after becoming stuck in a storm sewer grating while trying to retrieve a cell phone he had dropped.

[retailguy]

Woah, Hwy 41 near Fond du Lac is shut down right now because a plane had to make an emergency landing on it. No news yet on what size plane is was or of injuries, etc.

I think EAA in Oshkosh starts this week, so I'm guessing it was a small plane.

Wow I just got home from visiting my mother. I usually go that way, but at the last minute decided to drive to Wausau and go down the 39... Crap that could've been me in that damn traffic jam! Whew! Hope no one was hurt.

[Little Whiskey]

heard it was a WWII area airplane that was headed to the flyin but was having engine problems.

[packinpatland]

You're Punishment? Watch a Bears Game!

Couple jailed for locking up boy during Packers games

Source: Associated Press

July 24, 2007

MILWAUKEE — A Greenfield couple who admitted locking a 7-year-old boy in his room with a bucket for a toilet while they watched Green Bay Packers games at a casino received jail sentences Monday.

Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner called the couple’s actions "abhorrent" and ordered them to undergo psychological screening.

"What both of you did certainly shocks the conscience of the community," Wagner said.

Scott Scherer, 39, and Melanie Hardrath, 30, admitted locking Hardrath’s son in his room with a loaf of bread, peanut butter and jelly and a bucket that he would have to clean when they returned.

They had enough money to hire a baby sitter, said Assistant District Attorney Chris Liege, who showed the judge photographs of the couple’s extensive collection of Packers memorabilia.

Wagner scolded Hardrath and Scherer, a former youth counselor, for not thinking about what would happen if the boy got sick or the house caught fire while they were at the casino.

He sentenced Hardrath to seven months in a county jail and Scherer to nine months. Both will serve four years of probation, with a stayed sentence of two years in prison and more extended supervision.

The couple also can’t have contact with each other in the presence of the boy, now 8. He is staying with relatives.

The couple’s defense attorney, Richard Johnson, said he couldn’t explain their behavior.

"What do you do?" he asked the judge. "Maybe this coming football season, lock them in a room with a bucket and make them watch Bears games

[GBRulz]

Wisconsin woman's dog eats nearly US$750; most recovered as piles of cash

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) - Debbie Hulleman's pet dog Pepper likes to chew things.



She's gnawed on lipstick canisters, shampoo bottles, ball point pens, toothpaste and now the list includes nearly US$750 in cash - gobbled right down.

"This is probably the worst," Hulleman said Thursday, recalling the nasty chore of recovering the money from vomit and - you guessed it - dog piles left in the yard.

"We all laughed about it," Hulleman said.

"As long as we were able to recover the money, it was funny. If I wouldn't have been able to recover it, I wouldn't have been happy."

While Hulleman and husband were on a four-day vacation in late June, she asked her mother in Oakdale, Minn., to take care of Pepper and Zach, the family's dogs.

Pepper found a purse belonging to a friend of Hulleman's mother and chewed the cash from an envelope.

Hulleman's mother recovered some of the money that Pepper spit out, thinking she had it all. But when Hulleman returned from the trip and went to clean up her dogs' mess outside, she noticed a $50 bill hanging from one pile.

The family gradually recovered $647 and swapped it for fresh currency at a bank.

"We have a $100 bill that can't be recovered because you need three-fourths of a bill and it is only half of a bill," Hulleman said, laughing.


The nasty chore of sorting through dog feces netted about $400, the 50-year-old dog lover said.

"It wasn't that bad. I soaked it and strained it and rinsed it. I just kept rinsing it and rinsing it."

"I had rubber gloves on of course," she said.

"Everyone said: 'I can't believe you did that.' Well, for $400, yeah, I would do that."

[the_idle_threat]

I'm sure the people at the bank were thrilled.

[GBRulz]

haha.... that hitting the fan icon takes on a whole new meaning after that story, eh, Idle?