Game Over Man!!

Shawshank State Prison escapee Frank Freshwater (really?!) has been recaptured after 56 years on the run. No,this is not Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who featured in the film The Shawshank Redemption. It appears he is still on the run. The Shawshank State Prison was also known as the Ohio State Reformatory.



The GAMEOVER Task Force has arrested a fugitive who escaped from an Ohio prison in 1959. 79-year-old Frank Freshwater was arrested yesterday at 1200 Jones Road, Melbourne, after information was received from the Cold Case Unit of the U.S. Marshal’s Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force in Ohio that Freshwater might be in the Brevard Count.

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Horse in McDonald's: Rider fined after 'drive-thru' refusal

Copied from Sky News - I can't add anything to this except that it brightened my day up no end, and much more interesting that waiting for news of the Dutchess of Cambridge in labour! NJ

A woman has been fined for taking her horse into a McDonald's restaurant in Greater Manchester.

Police said the woman, who has not been named, was in the saddle when she was initially turned away from the drive-through kiosk on Bury New Road.

The woman then led the animal inside, where it "ended up doing his business on the floor", a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said.

McDonald's said it was unable to serve customers on horseback.

'Distress to customers'

A spokeswoman for the company said: "On 20 July a woman allowed her pony to enter our restaurant in Whitefield after being refused service in the drive-thru lane.

"The incident caused distress to customers and disruption for the restaurant, and the police issued the woman with a fixed penalty notice."

She added: "The health and safety of our customers and staff is our top priority, and for this reason we are unable to serve pedestrians, bicycle riders or customers on horseback through the drive-thru."

Greater Manchester Police said: "The sight and smell of this caused obvious distress and upset to customers trying to eat, as well as staff members.

"Officers arrived at the location and the woman was issued [with] a fixed penalty notice for causing alarm and distress to other customers and staff."

Mercury Heads for 32 Degrees C

That was the heading today on the Sky News website - what? The temperature on the surface of Mercury should be around 426 degrees C!! Is the sun dying? Or has Mercury spun off into an orbit much, much further from the sun?

Mercury ... no the planet silly!!!

Don't worry! The heading was very misleading - clicking on this astonishing link on the Sky News main page takes us to a more sensible headline: "Weather : Heatwave Health Alert as Mercury Rises". But why oh why does it have to include a negative slant on what really is brilliant news? The temperature in the UK hovering around 30 degrees is great news - as William Paxman put it, "It's amazing ... I've used my barbecue more times this year than in the past 6 years!"; last year Mr Paxman was calling it "Game over, man" as he was concerned the summer was over.

According to Sky News:

After five consecutive days basking in 30C-plus temperatures, forecasters said Britain was in the midst of its first prolonged heatwave since 2006.

The Met Office responded by issuing a "level three heat health watch" for London and the South East and advised "alertness and readiness" for those in the North West and North East.

Level three warnings are only one notch below the most serious alerts and are put out when high temperatures place the very young, the very old and those with chronic diseases at risk.

Forecasters said Wednesday could break the record for the warmest day of the year, with temperatures expected to creep as high as 32C (89.7F) in parts of England.

I say let's have some more ... and can it be extended up to Aberdeen? It's ok here just now but a few more degrees would be nice.

Why do news websites have to focus on negative aspects of any story and give the bad news rather than the good news. NMNB is a positive and happy website - we see the glass half full rather than half empty ... and long may it continue!!

Science Finally Dumbed Down Enough to Matter

Football enthusiast, apparently

In an interview with BBC Breakfast this morning, celebrated particle physicist Prof. Brian Cox and his colleague Jeff Forshaw were hammered with inane questions regarding quantum physics until they finally broke down and described science in the most mundane terms imaginable.

Game Over?

Scorchio? Not in the UK!

"Game over man, game over! Summer is spiralling away and I've only used the barbecue once so far!", said William Paxton earlier. And I can understand his concern - the summer solstice is over and the longest day of 2012 has passed us by. We've only had one really nice day so far.

So what is happening to our weather? Is this the beginning of the so called 'End of Times'? Are we heading for Armageddon? Who knows, but recently news broke that the 'End of the World' date had been cancelled, so that seems very positive and good news.

Thank you, Mr Carr!

Jimmy Carr doing what he does best ... 
certainly not his tax return!

Award-winning comedian Jimmy Carr made a statement on his Twitter account saying he "made a terrible error of judgement" and is no longer involved in the K2 tax shelter. Jimmy also confided that "people expect me to 'make light' of the situation, but I'm not going to in this statement". Whether he will make light of this issue in his 'usually-funny' act is another matter, and we at NMNB (usually pronounced 'num-nub') certainly hope he feels free to do so once this terribly-debilitating issue has blown over. He is, after all one of the UK's top (and highly-paid!) comedians.

Crisis as 'Good News' Blog Falls Out of Favour

Panic on the streets of London

It began life as a feel-good news site, reporting only the happy occurrences from around the world and leaving the doom and gloom to more established broadcasters. Early examples included a story about former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney's 70th birthday and another about gorillas using 'baby talk' sign language with their infants.

However, the mood at No More News Blues (num-nub for short) quickly turned sour as previously good-natured reports became bitter, sarcastic jibes chiefly about the weather.