Helicopter: you're doing it wrong

A Topeka Police Department helicopter crashed Friday night in a parking lot at Stoffer Science Hall on the Washburn University campus, said police officer Dave Johnson.

Officers who had been in the helicopter apparently weren't hurt, Johnson said....

...The crash occurred about 11 hours after Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten vetoed a resolution that would have reauthorized the city's purchase of a second, new Robinson R-44 for the police department. Council members on Friday appeared unlikely to be able to muster the seven votes needed to override the vote.

Half of the money used to buy the Robinson R-44 had been received by the city in an insurance settlement following its last police helicopter crash, a forced landing that occurred in November 2005 in a pasture near Manhattan. That helicopter's lone occupant, a police officer who was piloting it, wasn't hurt.

The we-want-a-new-helicopter tantrum has been amusing from afar, but the timing is just bizarre -- from the veto-new-helicopter story:

Councilwoman Lana Kennedy, who voted "no" on both resolutions, said Friday she has no intentions of voting to override Bunten's vetoes, "as of now — who knows what the next five minutes will bring, or the next five hours?"

Hrm.

Picspam, Gaius in Castle Anthrax edition

I've not done this for a while, sorry about that. I've been remiss. It's not huge, but it's at least extant. One f-bomb dropped below. *shrug* ( 23 pics below.... )

Fuck you, Best Buy

Spindle of 100 DVD+Rs on a shelf for $22. Not an impossible, but a good deal. At checkout: "That'll be $62." Uh, no.

Went back to shelf, checked price code. Yep, that's the right spindle. Asked wandering blueshirt WTF. "Oh, that's left over from March." Blueshirt takes price down, advises that there are other deals on other spindles, if I just check the circular. Well, look what's on a nearby shelf: a circular with two 50-DVD spindles on sale for reasonable sums. Prices are not marked on shelf. Of course, I could pick one up, carry it the length of the store to the register and just hope that the circular price carries over.

Or I could just say "Fuck it" and go to Staples tomorrow, which is eminently more reasonable.

People. It's not that hard.

I guess that's what I get for going to Best Buy.