Me & Ernie Lee‏

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Originally posted on September 17, 2009

Current mood:  amused
Category: News and Politics

As I may have mentioned before, I'm a straight CNN.com junkie. Despite how much I write, I profess to not like reading but I can't get through the work day without consulting CNN.com constantly.  I was reading a story today about a guy in Denver dubbed "The S Bandit" by police because he only robbed stores beginning with the letter S. The article was cleverly titled Suspected 'S Bandit' Sitting In Slammer.  According to police, Subway, Safeway, Sally Beauty Supply and Sinclair businesses were robbed during the spree between July and September. (Too bad there aren't two months beginning with the letter S.) According to a District Attorney spokesperson, 46 year old Ernie Lee Calbert would steal money from cash registers and safes.  He was charged with nine counts of aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree kidnapping in connection with eight separate cases. Get this; he was arrested after dropping his probation card at the scene of the one of the robberies, it apparently fell out of his car at the last robbery on September 2nd. Call me crazy but if he dropped his probation card on September Second, S is probably not a very good letter for him. I'm not sure why, but while reading that story (and hours after), I couldn't stop laughing. I mean like, doubled-over uncontrollable crying laughing. I mean sure, the story itself is plenty funny on it's own but I just couldn't gain my composure on this. I think the gloomy morning I was having made my body physically retaliate and flood my innards with an overdose of hilarity.  Boy did I ever need it too. Living with sis insures a hefty dose of laughter on a very regular basis but when I have time alone to over-think, imagine, conjure and create, the results can be disastrous. I don't ever want to be one of those people that nobody ever wants to be around because they're always complaining, depressed or in a murky mood. Those people suck!  At least I have the common decency to voluntarily alienate myself from the general public when I'm feeling ominous.  Some people need constant emotional 'reinforcement' and it can be so pathetically exhausting.  I'm quite satisfied with my own exhaustingly pathetic issues thank you. And it's now, that I want to give a great big ole "thank you" to my new hero, Ernie Lee Calbert♥ aka "The S Bandit." Thank you so much for showing me that repeat-offending, aggravated robbing kidnappers can greatly enrich our lives too.