They claim they thought the machines in the Elks Club were legal because they had signs on them that said "For Amusement Purposes Only". The fact that the machines themselves didn't pay money out contributed to that view. However, the Elks Club cashier did pay out winnings on the machines.
Ignorance of the law is an excuse?
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The artist's rendering above shows the 66 foot high lighted soda pop bottle sculpture, the highlight of a new gas station under the pavilion next door, housing a convenience store and a 12,000 bottle pop bottle collection on Route 66 at the east end of the small burg known as Arcadia, Oklahoma. The name of this monstrosity? Pops. It is the dream child of Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon.
Arcadia, proud home of the big red round barn and Hillbillee's Cafe and B&B ...
... and now, Pops.
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Tom Mix, movie star yet to be discovered, was working as a cowboy on the 101 Ranch near Ponca City. A visiting filmmaker decided it would be the 23 skiddoo to film a horse and rider jumping off a cliff into a river. Tom Mix tied a kerchief around Tony's eyes and off into the Arkansas river they went. From there Tom Mix and his horse Tony starred and performed their own stunts in 370 full-length silent movies, in the Tom Mix Straight Shooters Show from 1920 to 1933, and on the radio from then until his death in 1940. Mix wrecked his Cord sports car in Arizona while returning to California from visiting an ex-wife in Oklahoma. Mix was married five or six times, twice to Oklahoma women.
Mix's radio programs were immensely popular and a huge financial success for Ralston cereal. Children in the Straight Shooters club would tune in regularly to decode secret messages using their Tom Mix decoder rings. Mix would sign off with "shoot straight and be honest." Some say Tom Mix was actually voiced by an actor on the radio. Mix only made 9 talking motion pictures.
Tom Mix's background was made a little hard to decipher, partly because of Mix himself having a habit of elaborating well beyond his actual experience. What is known for sure is he was a town marshal in Dewey, Oklahoma for a short while, and an army deserter that was never prosecuted for failing to return after a leave. Mix was portrayed by Bruce Willis as joining up with Wyatt Earp played by James Garner in the movie Sunset solving a murder, both having been "law dogs" in frontier towns.
Tom Mix was my father's hero. He would tuck in the top part of his farm boy overalls, pretending they were western dungarees, stick a toy gun in his belt, hop on his horse Flash at full gallop trying to rope hapless barnyard animals too slow to flee the scene.
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Anna Herrera-Gomez of Oklahoma City was practicing with her 9mm handgun when a hot shell casing flew down her shirt. As she grabbed for her chest she accidentally shot herself in the leg. She suffered a minor leg wound treated by a paramedic who happened to be target shooting at the range at the same time.
Lucky she didn't shoot herself in the chest, it might've exploded.
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Long John Silver's employee accidently spilled a drink on a customer at the drive-up window. The customer in the car began calling the employee names and brandished a handgun. The employee called 911. The police arrested Lawrence Johnson a short while later.
What would he have done if they forgot the tartar sauce?
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Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Jim Peek, Deputy Delmer Barthelme, and former Chickasha Officer, now Grady County jailer, Greg Parks,[/url] were each charged with a felony of a peace officer engaging in illegal gambling and a misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty.
That's what the defendants' attorneys are arguing in a pretrial hearing. I think the IRS might be in agreement as they will not allow you to deduct gambling losses except to offset winnings.
My losses always equal my winnings, no matter what.
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An owl or hawk has been attacking joggers in Tulsa River Parks. In some cases, taking the hat off their head. Tulsa County Game Warden Carlos Gomez says it might be a Mississippi Kite, a raptor larger than a pigeon. However, biologist Don Wolfe thinks it is probably a Great Horned Owl. At least one runner reported seeing an owl.
Ain't that a hoot?
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Anna Herrera-Gomez of Oklahoma City was practicing with her 9mm handgun when a hot shell casing flew down her shirt. As she grabbed for her chest she accidentally shot herself in the leg. She suffered a minor leg wound treated by a paramedic who happened to be target shooting at the range at the same time.
Which goes to show why shooting with any shirt that exposes cleavage (a catchment area) should not be worn on the range, even though there is great visual appeal to it...
NTM
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John Curry of Garvin County, Oklahoma suffered a heart attack, ran off the icy roadway and rolled his 2006 Chevy pickup 1-1/2 times, it coming to rest on it's side. Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports Curry died at the scene.
After two snow days in November and three more this week, Chickasha, Oklahoma schools are out of planned snow days. The State School Superintendent, Sandy Garrett, dashed any hopes that additional days missed will be forgiven. Students and staff will be required to make up any more days off by extending the school year, taking days away from Spring Break, or Saturday school, none of which is a popular idea for any of the people affected.
It would be a bummer to attend school in the summer.
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When Tulsa unearths a time capsule buried in 1957, they hope to find a well-preserved 1957 Plymouth, along with the following:
* 10 gallons of gasoline and 5 quarts of oil (who, in 1957 knew we'd still be using oil and gasoline by 2007?)
* A Douglas Aircraft Co. aerial map of airport facilities and legend (a little outdated)
* Statement from Tulsa council of Churches – and prayer for greatest good next 50 years a recently completed history of churches in Tulsa and a directory of the present churches (not outdated at all, with the exception of the Oral Roberts Tomorrowland Park)
* Statement from board of education – historical data related to 50 years of education in Tulsa and copies of "School Life" all-high school publication issued by Tulsa high schools each month (Dead and gone like Buddy Holly)
* Statements from Mayor and Chamber of Commerce officials (Who, in 1957, would've thought we'd still have politicians by now?)
* Flags which have been flown over the national capitol, state capitol and in the county and city
* Other aerial photos of the area
* Statement from Tulsa Trades and Labor Council
* Statements from all former mayors of the city – their record of service and civic accomplishments in the city, state and nationally
There remains the problem of who wins a contest that was announced to award the car and a $100 savings account to the person who came closest to guessing Tulsa's population in 2007. Finding that person or his or her heirs may not be easy. The guesses were recorded on microfilm and sealed in a steel container buried with the car in 1957. This should be interesting.
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This should be very interesting. I wonder just how well the car might have been preserved. I hope this gets decent news coverage outside of the Tulsa area, but then again, if not, I can always check on this thread.
Neil Havens Rodreick II, the 29 year old convicted pedophile that posed as a 12-year old boy to get into a middle school in Chino Valley, Arizona is from Oklahoma and has spent time in prison after being convicted of "Lewd and Indecent Proposal to Minor" in Grady County in 1996. He was released in 2002.
His cellmate in prison was Brian Nellis, released in 2000 after serving time for his conviction on "Lewd or Indecent Proposals/Acts to Child" charges in Kay County, Oklahoma.
Lonnie "Grandpa" Stiffler and Robert James Snow first made contact with "Casey Price" via an internet chat room. They traveled to Oklahoma to meet with the "boy" in a motel room and took him back to Arizona with them, believing him to be a 10-year old boy.
Arizona authorities believe the purpose behind enrolling the "boy" in school was trolling for other young boys. It seems they never caught on that Rodreick was shaving his body hair and using makeup to conceal his true age.
All four men have been arrested, Stiffler on charges of forgery and hindering prosecution, and the other three for failing to register as sex offenders. Additional charges may be in the works.
Law enforcement personnel stated that Stiffler and Snow became dismayed and angry when they learned they had been conned into having sex with a grown man, thinking he was a pre-teen boy.
I don't think I want to know what this Stiffler's mom looks like.
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A Kellyville, Oklahoma woman had a 93 pound ovarian cyst removed intact. Her surgeon said the cyst contained 12 gallons of fluid and surely would've killed her if it had burst as the result of a car accident. The operation was likened to removing a 12 year-old child via C-section. Gaah.
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The hamburger sandwich was invented in Oklahoma by Oscar Weber. Oscar married into the Bilby family and settled near the rest of the Bilby clan on land near Sapulpa, Oklahoma Territory. Uncle Web, as Oscar was known then, cooked his now locally famous hamburgers for the first time at the family's annual July 4th celebration in 1991 on a grill of his own manufacture, a 3" thick piece of pig iron. That grill is reportedly still in use today in Weber's Root Beer and Hamburgers on Peoria in Tulsa. I know for a fact, Weber's makes the best dang root beer around, a 14 natural ingredient recipe Uncle Web came up with even before grilling that first hamburger. Their burgers aren't bad now either, if you like old fashioned greasy hamburgers wrapped in waxed paper.
Now that I've read about this, I firmly believe that family's holiday gathering and many subsequent ones were held on my property. Up on the hill behind my house is an large stone chimney for a large BBQ grill and a stone and concrete picnic table with benches that is about 25 feet long. Right next door to my property is the old stone farmhouse that no doubt dates back to that era. My five acres used to be part of that farm. The Bilby family has property all around me.
"I'm just doing my job." whines Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy director Bryan "Mister" Potter as he is trying to force Target and Walmart stores to raise prices on their highly publicized $4 generic precriptions after a few stick-up-their-butt pharmacists complained. Both store chains claim to not be selling generic prescriptions for less than their cost. As stated above, the law only requires a 6% markup over cost.
Walmart and Target should tell Mr. Potter to go Scrooge himself.
Mom gets 15-1/2 years for making her daughter sick by injecting her with human feces, one year for each time the daughter ended up in the hospital and 2-1/2 year for how long the abuse occurred. She also got 14-1/2 years of probation and psychiatric treatment. Ignorant fuck of a dad gets off.
Mom used to feed us kids full of shit too.
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Retired IRS agent Richard Joseph Whitburn acknowledges he took advantage of his position with Century Financial Group to transfer over $900,000 to his personal bank accounts. He will be sentenced in a few months.
I bet they caught him because he paid income taxes on the money.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville put 2007-2008 tuition, fees, and room and board up for eBay auction, starting at one cent with no reserve. The university reports the value of what they've put up for auction is approximately $23,000. Currently it's up to $19,800, only a 13.9% discount off the regular price.
I've decided that auctions make people temporarily insane.
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It appears a bullet ricocheted off a feral hog's head and struck 17 year-old Chris Kaiser in the chest, killing him. Kaiser and two others had gone hog hunting in rural Choctaw County. The OBI (Oklahoma state Bureau of Investigations) is performing an autopsy to determine if the shooting was an accident.
What about the hog?
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