Tuesday, August 19, 2003
TV ALERT: Tomorrow night on Court TV at 8pm Eastern is the debut of Smoking Gun TV, based on the famous website and hosted by ex-Daily Show personality Mo Rocca. If the 4 minute preview segment on the site is any indicator, we have nothing to worry about. The accent is definitely on humor, and Mo is in good form here. Definitely worth a look.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, today's Smoking Gun Doc of the Day details the first criminal case of a man stealing a Segway. The guy arrested said he bought the thing from a street vendor for $75 who said he "found it", sans keys. The guy thought it was a likely story, but he also thought it was a slick-looking thing. When he found out he had the ultra-swank urban toy of the moment, he decided to call the company and try to get some keys. Unfortunately, when he fed the technical rep the serial number, it matched up with a unit that was stolen from in front of a Queens Starbucks about two months ago. A meeting was arranged with the tech rep, and an arrest was arranged for the meeting. Since the Segway has a list price of $5,000, it's FELONY CITY, JERKY.
This is an inexplicably amusing story on a few levels, and maybe it has something to do with the fact that I haven't ever seen a Segway in the local area. When you live in a rural area, you drive or you're screwed. It doesn't help that my city doesn't really have a lot of sidewalks, so you'd be limited to a one mile stretch of midtown if you used it at all. Maybe some of the college kids would go for it...if they never left campus. And skimmed the five grand off of tuition.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, today's Smoking Gun Doc of the Day details the first criminal case of a man stealing a Segway. The guy arrested said he bought the thing from a street vendor for $75 who said he "found it", sans keys. The guy thought it was a likely story, but he also thought it was a slick-looking thing. When he found out he had the ultra-swank urban toy of the moment, he decided to call the company and try to get some keys. Unfortunately, when he fed the technical rep the serial number, it matched up with a unit that was stolen from in front of a Queens Starbucks about two months ago. A meeting was arranged with the tech rep, and an arrest was arranged for the meeting. Since the Segway has a list price of $5,000, it's FELONY CITY, JERKY.
This is an inexplicably amusing story on a few levels, and maybe it has something to do with the fact that I haven't ever seen a Segway in the local area. When you live in a rural area, you drive or you're screwed. It doesn't help that my city doesn't really have a lot of sidewalks, so you'd be limited to a one mile stretch of midtown if you used it at all. Maybe some of the college kids would go for it...if they never left campus. And skimmed the five grand off of tuition.
|| Eric 11:23 PM#
