Making Eggs Without Chickens (Video)

 

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Lakers Fan Cancels Wedding To Watch Kobe Bryant’s Return

From San Diego:

28 year old Simon Bradley, a self-described ‘obsessed’ Laker fan decided to post-pone his wedding so he can attend Kobe Bryant’s highly anticipated return to the court from a torn Achilles this Sunday at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The man promised his fiance’ Melissa they will set a future date...

Melissa, save yourself a divorce and drop the guy now.

Jury finds girls, parents liable for calling teacher 'perv', 'creeper'

From San Jose, California:

Two years after San Jose schoolgirls branded a teacher as a "perv" and "creeper" who inappropriately touched kids and peeked into their restroom, a civil jury Friday found the children and their parents financially liable for defamation in a case that pitted the rights of the accused against the aim of reporting perceived abuse.

The jury awarded $362,653 in compensatory damages to former Catholic school physical education teacher John Fischler after finding the families spread false statements about him that damaged his reputation. The 49-year-old broke into a huge smile Friday when he heard the favorable verdict, which his lawyer characterized as "complete vindication."
"I'm grateful the jury was able to see through the smoke screen and the truth came out." Fischler said in a choked voice outside the courtroom. "There's always going to be a scar. But the jury saw through the deception."
The Santa Clara County Superior Court panel also found that one of the girls -- who was 11 years old at the time -- acted with malice and is liable for punitive damages. The jury will decide how much during the second phase of the trial, which begins Monday.
The unusual case began in 2011 when administrators at Holy Spirit school in Almaden Valley were told that teacher John Fischler had inappropriately touched their 10- and 11-year-old girls and peeked in a girls' bathroom. School officials and police cleared Fischler of sexual misconduct.But the teacher, claiming the ordeal had indelibly stained his reputation and ruined his teaching career, declined to return to what he called a poisonous atmosphere at work and filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million in damages.
The lawsuit contended he was the victim of a "conspiracy" by "classic parent bullies" and their daughters, including a popular girl he described as having a "gang-leader-like personality," to get him fired from the private Catholic school where he was an at-will employee.

Iowa's Bacon Fest will offer weddings in a Chapel O’ Bacon

All the glitter – and kitsch – of Las Vegas comes to Des Moines:

Tickets for the seventh annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival go on sale at 12:12 p.m. Dec. 12. The event will be held Feb. 1 at the Elwell Family Food Center, William C. Knapp Varied Industries Building and the Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. This year’s theme is “Viva Las Bacon: What happens at baconfest …,” and, yes, some lucky couples will be able to get married in a Vegas-themed “Chapel O’ Bacon.”
“Vegas taught us that it’s OK to enjoy life’s guilty pleasures every now and then; and Elvis showed us that bacon goes particularly well with peanut butter and bananas,” festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds said.
General admission tickets will cost $45 and include a shirt, beverage koozie, $5 in Bacon Bucks and two beverage tickets along with unlimited bacon samples.

Perhaps they were inspired by this June 2013 wedding:

One San Diego couple tied the knot Sunday, united by their love for each other -- and bacon.  Adrienne Dunvan and Eddie Quinones won a contest to get married during the Big Bite Bacon Fest at the San Diego County Fair in a bacon-themed celebration.  The couple, who bonded over their love of Puerto Rican pork shoulder, walked down a bacon-printed carpet to the altar, where local radio station Star 94.1 DJ Jesse Lozano officiated the ceremony, according to a press release.

Proposed Law Requires Protective Eyewear in Porno Shoots

In California, the porn producing capital of the world, that is:

In a recent amendment to a law regulating the porn industry, porn stars would be required to wear protective goggles.

The bill, which initially garnered attention by requiring the use of condoms in pornographic films, also requires that “personal protective equipment be visible in the final product of an adult film” so as to ”prevent contact of an employee’s eye; skin, mucous membranes, or genitals” with, well, most any kind of bodily fluid that might reasonably be present. The bill also mandates the use of gloves when touching contaminated laundry, plastic and disposable materials to clean up sets, and lubricants for use with condoms.

Chainsaw Massacre Averted in Bar Fight When Man’s Tool Stalls (Video)

An angry man in the town of Auburn, California brought a chainsaw into a bar to continue a fight that had begun earlier — but the machine refused to cooperate.

  

Weston Cecil Burton, 31, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. He is out on bail. No word about the current status of his chainsaw.