Lego For Teens Only?

I came across this ad on Kijiji today and found this hilarious... Are they sure they meant 16 and not 34?
What 16 year old will be playing with this? Is this a typo?
Lego Fire Station...

My Secret Obsession

I have a secret obsession that's kind of embarassing. I have spent hundreds of dollars on it. It is... Happy Meal TOYS!! I gather the excitement of a 4 year old over them. Twice I spent quite a bit on huge boxes of unopened Happy Meals toys on Ebay. Then when they arrived I sat in silent ecstasy as I opened each one. There is something so wonderful about opening the little package and seeing the surprise inside. I especially love collecting full sets. I like how well they are made and the variety of brand name toys. The unopened 90's ones are fun because they bring back memories of popular shows when I was growing up. I recently found out there was a Cabbage Patch series in the 90's and some are on Kijiji right now! In fact here is the photo from the ad. So that is my obsession...
It makes me happy so :P

A Dear Deer Survives Bus Crash

Watch "Surveillance: Deer crashes through windshield of Johnstown, PA CamTran bus & walks out front door" on YouTube
A poor deer was galloping? prancing? Running across a road and hopped right through the windshield of the bus! This my road punk, way to show that bus! Could this be a cast member from Over the Hedge 2 trying to get publicity?
Seriously though, Im glad the poor dear little deer is ok. :D

Kijiji: Are You Afraid?

I use Kijiji regularly, usually to buy and sell video games. Today I sold an N64 and some games. Aware of what has just happened to Tim Bosma I offered to meet at a coffee shop. The person agreed and told me that even if I had asked him to meet at my house, he would have said no.
This means that this person is so scared that he would rather buy untested video games then go to a strangers house (they all worked but you get my point)
I feel like I do when I go into a shop and leave without buying something. Like the owners will think I'm a thief, Im thinking, 'act natual your innocent'.
This is the result of the fear caused by what happened to Tim. Now I am arranging to buy some DS games and I dont know if I should offer to pick them up at the lady's house. Will she become afraid? Im afraid... Damn this is scary stuff.

You cant trust anyone anymore. The best thing to do is not to sell very expensive things on a site like this and always meet in a public place like a coffee shop.

A spokesperson for Kijiji said that the company is “deeply disturbed by this development and are cooperating fully with the authorities.”

A man was shot dead a few years ago after putting a diamond ring ad on Craigslist. Now it looks like this man Tim Bosma is dead over a truck ad. Imagine the real terror of these situations. Here is the account of what happened to James Sanders. Will you still buy and sell on these sites?

It was around 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night, and James and Charlene were upstairs in their Edgewood, Wash., home with their two sons, Jimmy, 14, and Chandler, 10, watching a movie on television.

James was expecting a couple to come about buying the diamond ring he had advertised on Craigslist. He went downstairs when they arrived to show them the ring.

The woman who came to look at the ring said she wanted it as a possible Mother’s Day present. She was accompanied by a young man. Two other male accomplices remained hidden.

James showed the couple the ring. Charlene became involved when her husband called her downstairs to answer some questions about it.

“Do you want the ring?” the young man asked the young woman.

“Yes,” she said.

Charlene told Vieira the man pulled out a wad of cash and said to James Sanders, “How’s this?”

“That’s fine,” James Sanders replied.

“Well, how about this?” the man asked as he pulled out a gun.

“That’s how it all started,” Charlene said.

Panic and violence It was a nightmare, a blur of terror.

“I could feel rushing around. My husband and I were looking at each other, panicking, saying, ‘Just take it, take it, take anything you want,’ ” she told Vieira. “We just kept chanting it: ‘Take it.’ Then all of a sudden we’re getting zip-tied and put down on the floor in the kitchen. I could tell that people had been rushing in.”

Two more males joined the couple who initiated the robbery. Charlene said they went upstairs to bring down the two boys.

“I had a man come over to me with a gun to the back of my head,” Charlene said. The home invader started to count down, as if he were going to kill her, demanding to know, “Where’s the stuff? Where’s the stuff?”

“What stuff?” she said.

“Where’s the safe?” the man said.

“At one point he kicked me in the head,” Charlene told Vieira.

“I was screaming. The kids were standing there and I went, ‘Oh, please God, don’t let them kill me. Don’t let them kill my kids. Don’t let them kill me in front of my kids,’ ” Charlene said.

Someone pulled her wedding ring off her finger as the robbers took her husband to open the family’s safe, which was located in the garage. Charlene has said she’s not sure of the sequence of events, but she knows that Jimmy, her 14-year-old, at some point jumped on one of the robbers and got pistol-whipped. Her husband managed to break the zip ties that had bound his hands and went to Jimmy’s defense.

Charlene Sanders watched her husband James die before her eyes. Charlene heard three shots from the living room. When the robbers finally left, she found James dying.

One of the boys called 911, telling the dispatcher, “My dad has been shot. Please hurry! Hurry, please! We don’t know if they’re going to come back!”

Charlene cradled her 43-year-old husband in her arms.

“I just kept saying, ‘Honey, stay with me. Stay with us. Stay with us. Don’t go. Don’t go.’ And he was just barely gasping for air, and he was all white. He was starting to get white. I saw that half his ear was shot off and I thought maybe he’s just in shock. That’s why he’s white,” Charlene said.

But he wasn’t in shock.

“He died,” Charlene said.

A father’s example Craigslist released a statement saying violent acts related to ads on the popular site are rare. But Detective Ed Troyer, who is investigating the case for the Pierce County Sheriff’s office, warned: “If you have something nice, somebody’s going to figure out a way to take it from you. Craigslist is a tool to do that.”

(Now so is Kijiji)

Did Snoop Dogg Really Become Christian?

The answer is no, he did not become a Christian. He changed his name to Snoop Lion and became Rastafarian.
Rastafarianism holds that the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was not only the messiah, he also descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. According to the biblical Book of 1 Kings, the two rulers met briefly and seemed to hit it off.

The lion was the symbol of Solomon's Tribe of Judah (Christians see Jesus as the lion of Judah). Bob Marley, the reggae star and most famous Rasta, sang often of the "lion of Zion," referring to Selassie.

So Snoop worships a dead emperor named Selassie and thinks he is Bob Marley reincarnate.

I wonder if Bow Wow will follow his uncles footsteps and change his name to Roar Roar?

Teen Suicide and Jeremy

Watch "Pearl Jam - Jeremy" on YouTube

Growing up in the 90's I listened to Pearl Jam a bit. I never knew the song Jeremy was about a real boy. I memorised the lyrics and sang along.
It helped relieve some of my pain from bullying and rejection. I had no idea it was about a 15 year old boy who felt so desperate he shot himself.
I wonder what it is that makes some kids give up and others fight. Most teens deal with hard issues, like Jeremy, his parents divorced when he was 5.
At 15 I felt that desperation and pain too. I was living in a group home called Crossroads and felt ignored by a staff named Jim.
My reasoning was to climb the fire escape to the roof. Jim went up after me and I told him I was going to jump.
He said, 'no your not.' So I went towards the fire escape and then turned and ran for the edge. Jim tried to grab me but I darted around him and leapt.
I remeber seeing the ground rush towards me. I heard 3 cracks when I landed and one of the kids asking if I was ok.
That night while I was in hospital, I later found out, another kid went and sat on the roof threatening to jump.
She didn't though so that leads me back to the question what makes some kids give up and others fight? Mental illness? All I felt then and even still is desperation to get away from myself.
I tried to kill myself again at 17. A long history of cutting led me to slit my wrists and wind up with 60 stitches.
Teen suicide is like a tragic epidemic now. Something has gone terribly wrong with this society and system we live in and changes aren't happening.
Life is really short, especially when you break it up into decades.
3 decades have just flashed by me like nothing. I have maybe 4 more to live.
It seems like yesterday I was listening to Micheal Jackson tapes on my walkman and making Jazzy Jewlery.
The only hope I've found in this life is Jesus. Like Im dangling off a cliff and He is not letting go of my hand. :'-)
Rest in Peace Jeremy...
9:40 a.m. –Jeremy comes to class late.

He says he lost his slip to admit him back to class after in-school suspension and he would get another one from the office. He gets a hall pass from the teacher, Mrs. Barnett, then walks to the back of the room, takes off his coat and puts it on his desk. He leaves the room, goes to his locker and removes something, presumably a gun. While walking back to the room, a classmate calls his name but he doesn't turn around. He enters the room, puts his hall pass on Barnett’s desk and says something similar to "Miss, this is what I went for." He then pulls out a gun, puts it in his mouth and shoots. His suicide occurred in room B201 with a .357 Smith & Wesson model 19-4, in front of a full classroom of 30 students

9:47 a.m. –Suicide reported to police

10:30 a.m. –Medical examiner notified

11:00 a.m. –Medical examiner arrives at the scene; Jeremy pronounced dead

12:01 p.m. –Medical examiner orders body to morgue

12:02-12:15 p.m. –Police inspect Jeremy’s locker, #540

12:30 p.m. –Medical examiner transports body by ambulance to morgue

12:50 p.m. –Police attempt to contact Wanda; Joseph already has been contacted, and he notified Wanda's husband

1:20 p.m. –Police arrive at Wanda’s work, after Joseph and his girlfriend; Wanda's husband was expected at 1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. –Medical examiner performs an autopsy on 5-foot-8, 128-pound Jeremy. He had green eyes, straight brown hair and three tattoos: a cross on his upper left chest, a "13" on the back of his left hand, and an unspecified one on his left arm. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt, gray T-shirt, jeans, leather belt, white thermal underwear, two pairs of white socks and brown leather work boots. He had a gold left earring, gold necklace, silver watch on his left wrist, black comb in pocket and brown holster in waistband. There were powder burns on his left hand. Later toxicological tests were negative.

Toddlers Everywhere!

Toddlers, toddlers, marching around.
One runs up, one falls down. Looking for something, what can I grab?
How about the tail of a cat? Climbing up and reaching down.... Mom wont imagine what we found! Just one taste... I won't bite!
Bright objects are such a delight.
I am in charge! I am in control.
I can outrun you, and it shows! Toddlers toddlers where did we go?

In a split second you wont know. Bouncing on our heels, dancing on our toes.
Let's redecorate the walls... with what you don't want to know!
Now run all around!
Mom wont get mad, she gets lost in these bright eyes we have!
Now pick me up and cuddle me close.
Jesus loves me don't you know!