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8/9 http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-08-09-mic-onboard_x.htm \_ couldn't happen to a more ridiculous band. -tom http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/2707648 What is it, stupid texans day? \_ my older brother's notebook was stolen out of his rental car trunk last week in San Antonio while he was having lunch. no broken windows, it just had an iffy trunk latch, and there was a high school nearby. he hadn't backed up in a year. oops!! (stupid californian day) |
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| www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-08-09-mic-onboard_x.htm Band member won't be taking his mic onboard anymore FORT WORTH (AP) -- It was Brian Teasley's custom-made microphone that was responsible for shutting down five gates in Terminal C at Dallas Fort Worth-International Airport last week. Next time, he'll ship it instead of carrying it in his baggage, he promised in a story in Saturday editions of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Airport scare, evacuation caused by microphone) Teasley, a member of Dallas-based pop-rock band Polyphonic Spree, had been in Austin where the group taped an episode of Austin City Limits. The percussionist for the 25-member band had planned to do some recording at home, so he put the microphone in his suitcase. When his suitcase didn't show up on the baggage carousel in Birmingham, he filled out the missing-luggage paperwork and went home. He didn't know the suitcase wasn't there because it was under scrutiny at the Texas airport. A DFW terminal area and several gates were closed briefly after a routine baggage screening detected the device, which raised concerns because of the wires and threading caps running through it. A bomb disposal robot removed it, and it was taken to an open field. By the time Teasley arrived home, he had quite a reception. "I had Taco Bell in my hand, and all of a sudden, these cars block me in my driveway. They've all got tinted windows, 'X-Files' style," he said. "Then here comes one guy with a bulletproof vest on, another with a gun showing. Teasley explained that the item in question was not a pipe bomb, but a microphone. "I told them we had just used it when we were on Craig Kilborn's show," he said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
| www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/2707648 Printer-friendly format July 29, 2004, 1:58PM Plant is called hibiscus, but it won't get you high Officials mistake the popular foliage for pot and storm home of contractor By SK BARDWELL Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle hibiscus Meg Loucks/ Houston Chronicle Blair Davis with his Texas Star hibiscus plant. Landscape contractor Blair Davis was in his northwest Harris County home around 2 pm Tuesday when there was a knock at his door. Davis said he hadn't even gotten his hand on the doorknob when it flew open and he was looking at the barrel of a pistol. Behind the gun were about 10 members of the Harris County Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force, who burst into the home, guns drawn, and began shouting at him to get down on the floor. There on the floor, Davis said, it took a while to figure out that what had caused the swarm of lawmen to descend upon him was the hibiscus in his front yard. The foliage of the Texas Star hibiscus, a native plant that's growing in popularity, vaguely resembles that of marijuana. Davis had several of the plants in his yard, where he grows stock for his business. "They were in containers," he said: "I don't want to say potted plants." Evidently, some well-meaning but horticulturally challenged citizen turned Davis in. Davis said the team of narcotics officers combed his house for about an hour, at one point discussing whether red and gold bamboo growing in his window might be marijuana. They also asked what he did with the watermelons and cantaloupes growing in his back yard. Finally the officers gave up and left, leaving Davis only a "citizen's information card" with "closed-report" written on it. "I realize they have a job to do, but this seems a little bizarre." Davis hasn't let the episode put him off the Texas Star hibiscus. |