Wednesday's random 5

5 random things...I particularly loved Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy when SNL featured it.... someone recently sent me an email with a few of them, so here's 2 of my personal fav's along with some random news (true) from around the world this week:

1. The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

2. If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?

3. YOU HAVE TO WORK 113 DAYS JUST TO PAY TAXES
   As you head off to work this morning . . . preparing your heart and mind for another miserable day of toil for The Man . . . try not to think about how much of your paycheck goes to taxes . . .
   Every year at tax time, a group called the Tax Foundation releases a report that shows how many days you have to work in a given year to pay all your taxes. Here are their latest numbers:
   The amount of days you have to work on average each year JUST to pay your federal taxes is . . . 74 days. That's almost four months just to pay the Federal tax. Then you'll work another 39 days to pay for state and local taxes. In all, you'll work 113 days . . . just to pay taxes. That's about five-and-a-half months of your entire work year. (Reuters)

4. A LIBRARY WORKER GETS A PERVERT ARRESTED . . . THEN SHE GETS FIRED TWO DAYS LATER.

   On February 28th, 46-year-old Brenda Biesterfeld caught a man looking at dirty images of young boys on a computer in the library that she worked at in Lindsay, California.When Brenda told her boss about it, the boss told Brenda to tell the man to stop . . . but insisted that Brenda not call the police. The next day, Brenda went to the police station next door and told them what happened.The police told Brenda to call them if she caught the man looking at dirty pictures again. Well, a week later, Brenda saw the same man doing it again, so she called the cops and had the man arrested.Even though Brenda made the library a safer place for kids . . . her boss wasn't happy with Brenda because she said Brenda violated the privacy rights of the guy in the library. So, two days later . . . Brenda was FIRED.Now the town is furious. They're rallying around Brenda and saying that if the library is going to allow perverts to look at dirty pictures, they will stop using the library. Brenda has hired an attorney and she's considering suing. (LA Times)

5. Last one made me really laugh...

A GUY LEAVES HIS PHONE NUMBER AT THE SHOP HE'S ROBBING . . . SO HE CAN COME BACK LATER AND ROB THE OWNER WHEN HE GETS IN

On Monday morning around 8:00 A.M., 18-year-old Ruben Carate walked into a discount muffler store in Chicago wearing a mask and carrying a gun . . . and he demanded the employees empty the safe.

But the employees said that the owner was the only one who had access to the safe. So this idiot, Ruben, gave the employees TWO phone numbers and told them to call him when the owner got in . . . so he can come back later and rob the store. Then Ruben left.

About four hours later, Ruben got a call saying the owner of the shop was in . . . so he put on his mask and grabbed his gun and went BACK to the store to try and rob the place AGAIN.
But this time, the cops were waiting for him. When the cops tried to arrest him, Ruben allegedly assaulted one of the officers . . . so they SHOT him in the leg.

Now Ruben is in the hospital recovering from his wound. He's being charged with attempted armed robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer. (Associated Press)