It's Sad When it Affects the Children

(AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Katie Drake)

Pyper, 7, and Sadie Vance, 9, hold signs in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, June 23, 2008 to protest against high gas prices. The sisters decided to demonstrate after their mother was unable to pay the cable bill for their cartoons due to high fuel costs.

I think it's probably a good thing their mother's "monny" is no longer going for "cabel."

I wonder what Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker has to say on the subject. That's whose campaign sign Sadie has chosen as the canvas for her protest sign.

Missing a Sock?

You know how socks always seem to come up missing and you end up with a sock with no mate?

If you're a woman living in Belleville, Ill., perhaps this guy has paid you a visit:

(AP) James Dowdy has gone to prison three times, and may go there again, for the same crime: burglarizing homes and stealing women's socks.
Dowdy's mother, Linda, said he needs to be institutionalized to get psychiatric treatment for the fixation she says has tormented him most of his life. She thinks the fetish took hold when he clung to some of her socks as keepsakes when he was forced to live for a year with his dad as a child.
In 1994, Dowdy was sentenced to three years in prison for trying to burglarize a home, ultimately getting caught by police with a bag of socks.
Early Monday, a man told police he saw a stranger crawling out of his basement window after his 15-year-old daughter heard someone downstairs. Sax said police dogs led officers to the house where Dowdy lives with his mother, and socks taken from the caller's basement laundry room were found in his bedroom.

It's kinda creepy and a little sad. Click here for the full story.

Cooper Craziness

The serial number 30755 and the date Feb. 21, 1946, are stamped on a parachute found in North Clark County, Wash. as seen in Seattle on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. The FBI is working to find out if it is linked to the infamous D.B. Cooper case from 1971.

(AP Photo/Kevin P. Casey)

Some kids in Washington state allegedly unearthed a parachute that the FBI is examining to see if might have belonged to the infamous D.B. Cooper.

Supposedly the kids' father was grading a new road when and they saw the material sticking up from the ground.

For the uninitiated, D.B. Cooper became famous for hijacking a plane in 1971 and demanding $200,000. After he received the money, he parachuted out of the plane near the Oregon line.
Cooper is somewhat of a folk hero around that part of the country. The Ariel Store in Ariel, Wash., celebrates D.B. Cooper Days every year.

There is debate about whether or not Cooper survived the jump. His body was never found, and in 1980, a family found nearly $6,000 of Cooper's money near Vancouver. One theory is that the money was carried there by the Washougal River.

The AP story quotes a local saying, "I think he's out there enjoying his money. Most people here say they think he made it. We may never know."

To that I say: He would have had to have been an awfully good investor to be living off of $194,000 for 36 years.

Something tells me he was of a mind to spend.