Those in the news business know firsthand that editors and news people are often proud of certain headlines they’ve written. Those old newspaper people may regale anyone who will listen with tales of fantastic headlines that just seemed to work. This one caught my eye and I suspect it is the product of a proud editor:
Las Vegas police: New York man fights one-legged man, strips naked, dances on top of poker table
I thought it was funny. But maybe that’s just an average night in Las Vegas.
The story goes on to explain that the police arrested a fellow named Brian Danilczyk after he apparently assaulted a fellow with one leg, ran off to the Linq, stripped naked, and then ran off to Harrah where he climbed on a poker table game and flaunted his junk while ‘gyrating.’”
He was arrested and questioned, and apparently he did not remember anything of it. Sadly, what happens in Vegas can end up on the internet. And can make for an entertaining headline.
Police calls for naked males gyrating on poker tables are rare. Calls in response to screaming are a regular occurrence, however, and often these calls are distressing for the police as the screaming person may be facing a dire threat. Or they may be pinned under something heavy.
Polly Wants A Investigation Opened?
I suppose there are various scenarios one could imagine. One you might not have imagined is the situation that faced the police in Essex England. They responded to a reports of a screaming woman. When they arrived the door was opened by Mr. Steve Wood who explained that one of his 22 parrots made the screaming noise.
Satisfied with that the police went on their way. But one must wonder, how did the parrot learn to scream. Parrots parrot. Which means they copy a sound they have heard. And so if Mr. Wood’s parrot was screaming, it follows that it learned this screaming from a human.
The Essex police might want to poke around on the woods around Mr. Wood to determine how the parrot learned to scream.
So many of us took up more artistic activities over the last few years. Some, interpretive naked dance on poker tables. Others, creating entertaining TikTok videos.
Get Down (feat. ‘Sal Tortorella’)
And look, I’m the first one to support bending the rules and even breaking them for the sake of art, but sometimes one can take it a little too far. Take, for example, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Gary Wilcox.
Judge Wilcox apparently created a burner account under the alias ‘Sal Tortorella’ where he posted videos including references to violence, sex and misogyny.
A Harvard graduate, Wilcox apparently posted a video in which he walked through the courthouse in a Beavis and Butt-Head T-shirt as the song ‘Get Down’ played which includes derogatory lyrics and make reference to killing a doctor who treated a gang member.
I’m all for art for the sake of art but it sounds like this may have crossed a line. But who knows. The line is always moving.