Wharf Kitties!

Sometimes when I take my lunch break, I am tethered to my desk. When the opportunity arises, however, I try to go for a walk on my break to get a little air and get out of the office. Often, I walk to the wharfs and try to spot seals. Recently I came across four cats that were napping on a wharf in Portland's commercial waterfront.


The one to the left is a Scottish Fold. (thanks Jenny) This is actually a pedigree cat and an expensive breed, and its living with 3 other ferals on the wharf and being taken care of by Friends of Feral Felines.

Two of the other cats were napping in LOBSTER TRAPS that were stacked on the wharf.

Clark Rockefeller

This case is very prominent in the media up here because it originated in Boston. I'm not sure how much coverage it is getting elsewhere. So if you are unfamiliar with Clark Rockefeller, here is the deal.

This guy, who is now in custody, is at the least a con man and kidnapper. His identity is fake. He passed himself off as a member of the affluent Rockefeller clan and used that pedigree to infiltrate affluent society, in a manner similar to the story Six Degrees Of Separation.

He wound up marrying a woman who shortly after their nuptuals began having some suspicions about his true identity. Eventually they divorced and 9 months afterwards, during a supervised visit with their daughter, he pushed the social worker who was supervising the visit and then fled with the girl. He was eventually picked-up in Baltimore, MD.

Police have no idea who he is. They have his prints and think he may be tied to a 1985 murder in California. But he won't talk to authorities. He won't tell anyone who he is and no one has any kind of documentation on him.

Here is my solution. Without documentation he cannot prove his citizenship. He terrorized his ex wife by abducting their daughter.

All we need to do is threaten to send him to Guantanamo Bay...I'm sure he'll be a lot more cooperative.

Morgan Freeman

Wow, Miss Daisy is lucky she wasn't hurt...

Anyway, reading online about Morgan Freeman's mishap and found this statement...

"When Freeman, lying prone on a backboard, noticed onlookers taking pictures with cell phones, McFerrin said he heard the actor joke, "No freebies, no freebies."

First of all...how fucked up are these people. Wow look a celebrity being pulled out of a car with the jaws of life let me take a picture. This really reminds me of the Terry Schiavo fiasco. If Freeman was more seriously hurt these onlookers would have been posting their pictures and cameraphone videos on youtube and flickr and tried to capitalize on Mr. Freeman's misfortune.

Freeman seemed to have a good attitude, joking with them about no freebies. If I were him, I would have said... Give me your contact info, when I get better I'll meet with you and you can take a picture of me WELL, please respect my privacy at this time. OR... I'd just tell them they are in violation of HIPPA. :)