Erika says:
Don't know if u can tell from the picture, but this D-Bag parked sideways in like 4 spots for no good reason! RUDE!
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-hmg
"Famous people say the darndest things!! Sometimes, these statements are so crazy sounding that they can make you down right afraid! At the very least, they will make you wonder about the people that we have made famous!!
If you don't see your "favorite" celebrity who is notorious for spilling a mouthful of "mush," jump to the end. We've given some of these "famous" people their own special category!
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin." - Laura Dern, actor, about the special effects in the movie Jurassic Park.
"If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?” - Cynthia Heimel, Author
"Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.” - Doug Collins, basketball commentator
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" - Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor and actor
"I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents.” - George Wallace 1968 presidential campaign
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player, on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
"The world is more like it is now then it ever has before." - Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.
"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.'" - Jessica Simpson
"When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class." - Fred Heineman, former Republic representative from North Carolina
"I'm not Jacko, I'm Jackson... 'Wacko Jacko' - Where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me, it's not nice." - Michael Jackson
"That's not a place where I'm considered good-looking." - Mark Hoppus, founding member of the pop punk band blink-182, on why he's never been to Kenya.
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on." - Samuel Goldwyn, early Hollywood movie producer.
"A proof is a proof. What kind of proof? It's a proof. A proof is proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it is proven." - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
"To me, the greatest book of all time is "The Bible" because there's some religious stuff in it!" - Jim Rosenberg, author."
Want more? Check the rest of the quotes here:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/qu-celebritystupid.html
-MRF
This guy was standing in line and messing around on the bars. Mom always said you would be hurt if you stood on the bars on the line. Maybe my Grandpa said it...whatever...you get the point [via The Orange County Register]
"ANAHEIM -- - A 20-year-old man was hospitalized after falling about 25 feet from a platform at The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's California Adventure Park Wednesday, police said.
The fall was reported at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and firefighters and police responded to the scene.
"The guest was standing in line with friends on a second-floor platform when he climbed over a barrier to the area below and lost his balance and fell approximately 25 feet, said Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown in a prepared statement.
Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez said the man made a comment about how it would be funny if someone fell just moments before the fall.
Brown said the man was taken to a hospital, treated and released.
Martinez said officers took a police report because of the nature of the call and where it occurred, but the incident does not require a police investigation.
Martinez said the incident appears to be an accident.
Tower of Terror opened in 2004 at the park, becoming the tallest building in the Disneyland Resort at 183 feet.
The state has received two reports of injuries on the ride in the last year and a half. One guest, who had a history of seizures, reported having a seizure on the ride. A 13-year-old girl reported that her eyes burned from a flash on the ride. State investigators found no safety hazards on the ride in both cases."
Click on the link for the full story: http://www.ocregister.com/news/fall-262779-disney-tower.html
-MRF
[image from Gothamist]Kameneva started the sing-a-longs two years ago, and attracted about 25 kids and their parents every week. But after finding broken chairs, shattered plates and bottled beverages pulled from the fridge, she posted a sign in her window saying the sing-along sessions would be no more. "I'm more surprised by the parents," she said. "There are playgrounds, and there are indoor places where you have to behave differently...Children could not act like this when I was growing up." And it's not like the place is banning children; one recent Yelp review said, "The staff here LOVE babies. One of the waitresses/counter people came over to my infant son and started playing with him. He loved it."
Parents argue their kids were doing nothing wrong. One mom said, "They were not running around or causing a ruckus. I didn't see anybody who truly neglected their kid or let them run wild." But dad Alexander Lagos reminded us that if there's one thing Brooklyn parents love, it's being told their little ones aren't welcome. "Brooklyn parents are really defensive. They don't like to hear any criticism of how they're raising their children." We'll say it: If your kids are breaking furniture at cafes, maybe they're not ready for the "adult world" quite yet.
Link to story: http://gothamist.com/
-hmg
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(CNN) -- It's safe to say air travelers are paying more attention -- and maybe giving a little more respect -- to flight attendants after the incident on a JetBlue flight that has mesmerized the country and put a new spotlight on the once-glamorous profession.
Crowded cabins, strict security and the lack of food and manners have affected flight attendants as much as passengers, but many fliers are just starting to realize their frustrations after Monday's altercation at New York's John F. Kennedy airport.
The details have already become legend.
Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant, got into an argument with a passenger who was trying to remove a bag from the overhead bin while the plane was still taxiing, according to a source familiar with the incident.
The source said Slater asked the passenger to sit down, but the passenger continued to remove the bag, which struck Slater in the head. Slater asked for an apology, and the passenger refused and cursed at him, the source said.
Slater then got on the plane's public address system to say he'd had it, grabbed a couple of beers and slid off a plane through the escape chute.
He's in trouble with the law, but not with the public, where there's growing support for his dramatic exit.
"Wow, it's been very, very appreciated and it seems like something has resonated with a few people and that's kind of neat," Slater told CNN affiliate WABC.
Flight attendant released on bail
'Constant belittlement'
Many flight attendants and airline industry workers have been leaving comments on CNN.com to voice their support for Slater and vent their frustrations about rude passengers.
"As a flight attendant for a major U.S. international flag carrier, I've been called a b**** and assorted other names while on board an aircraft, had food trays thrown at me, and treated worse in this job than any other. There are days after constant belittlement and attempted subjugation I wanted to do the same thing," wrote stewRN.
Time: The stress of being a flight attendant
Others were concerned that the flying public sees them as little more than waiters and waitresses in the sky. For one, the indignities of the profession were just too much.
"I used to be a flight attendant. I left just after 1.5 years on the job. I was tired of not being treated with respect by passengers and management. After all these years, I still remember this kid saying loudly, 'Here comes the trash lady.' His father was laughing next to him," wrote a poster who identified herself as soundoff123.
Another former flight attendant recalled being horrified by the treatment airline employees receive from passengers.
"The flying public in America is the rudest bunch of people I've ever seen. In my short experience, I was cussed out, spit at, had things thrown at me, and [was] threatened with all sorts of violence. The traveling public believes they should be able to ignore rules and do whatever they want and you are a just a slave there just to serve them, that is until the plane crashes then you're supposed to be their savior," said ben5339.
Rudeness 'can be unbearable'...
Read the rest of the article here : http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/11/flight.attendant.reactions/

Dear D-Bag on line at the airport-
Officer John Rocha spotted the infraction, and summoned Castillo off the train. Ordinarily, this sort of thing results in a summons, and the perpetrator is not taken into custody. But for reasons left unexplained by the tabloid, Castillo was arrested. He claims he was assured by other cops that he would be released "shortly" and that they brushed off his pleas for insulin. And when he called his sister, police allegedly told her not to deliver insulin because he'd be out soon.
Instead, they took him to Queens Central Booking and threw him in a holding cell, where he "began to throw up and... started drifting in and out of consciousness," according to the lawsuit Castillo's filing against the city. 30 hours after cops found him, Castillo was brought before a judge, who dismissed the charge. But he had to be taken to Metropolitan Hospital, where he remained for two days. He's suing the city for an undisclosed sum, and the NYPD's gonna to need to write a lot more summonses to help cover the cost."
-hmg
[photo by Robert Kalfus, NY Post]You have the right to look ridiculous.
A Bronx judge has thrown out a summons issued against a Bronx man for wearing saggy pants, finding that "the Constitution still leaves some opportunity for people to be foolish if they so desire."
Judge Ruben Franco said that although Julio Martinez may have offended the fashion police with his low-hanging and underwear-exposing pants, his manner of dress didn't deserve a ticket from a cop.
"While most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to wear one's pants so low as to expose the underwear . . . people can dress as they please, wear anything, so long as they do not offend public order and decency," the judge wrote.
Martinez was given his summons for disorderly conduct on April 20 of last year.
The summons by the unidentified police officer charged that Martinez had acted in a disorderly manner because he had "his pants down below his buttocks exposing underwear [and] potentially showing private parts."
There was no other reason listed for the ticket besides Martinez's pants, and Franco noted: "The issuance of this summons appears to be an attempt by one police officer to show his displeasure with a particular style of dress."
The officer has plenty of company -- the sloppy look has been the subject of derision from people ranging from Bill Cosby to President Obama, and the super-low rider has been banned in numerous towns across the country.
In New York, the boxers-baring look has been the subject of a targeted campaign by state Sen. Eric Adams of Brooklyn, who put up billboards urging youngsters to "Stop the Sag." He has said he doesn't want to criminalize saggy pants -- he just wants youngsters to know it's time to send the fashion trend the way of the legwarmer.
"You can raise your level of respect if you raise your pants," Adams said in a YouTube video.

Yes, it is hot and sticky outside, being that it is summer and all. All of us, yes, ALL, of us, suffer from ole "swamp-ass" in one form or t'other, this is a fact. But, dude on the subway, why must ye reach UNDER your shorts' and underwear's waistbands, whilst you are sitting and reading your past-trendy Stieg Larsson "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" book, and obviously untangle your man-junk? Why? Why do I have to witness this, o forty-something yuppy-looking guy? I,too, am uncomfortable and bunched up and all, but I WAIT. To do things like this in private. Not when we are all packed in like sardines, staring at one another's crotch areas. Please keep your balls-fingers far, far away from me, grossman. Blechhhhhhh.
