Category: Top Stories

This Week’s Weirdest Wild Animal Incidents

A 51-year-old man shot a red-bellied woodpecker that was eating plums from trees that his mother had given him. The man was sorry, he said, but he was very attached to those plums. After setting out to collect 67 million walleye eggs this spring, the state of South Dakota announced it was only able to collect 60 million walleye eggs, leaving South Dakota 7 million walleye eggs short of its “walleye egg-collection goal.” Scientists […]

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Governor Finally Remembers He Has One Latino On His Staff

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) remembered the one Latino in his administration on Thursday, one day after ThinkProgress highlighted an exchange in which he said “we do not have any staff members ” who are Latino. The remarks, filmed last week during a roundtable discussion hosted by ALDÍA NewsMedia , also captured Corbett joking that Latino people don’t live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On Thursday, Corbett’s staff identified Maria Montero, the Director of the Governor’s […]

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Comedian Fired After Getting Heckled

Show us your skivvies!

Somebody needs to remind the audience there’s a difference between a comedy club and a strip club. Strippers get paid a whole lot more.

From The Globe And Mail…

A Canadian comedian has lost an upcoming gig at Casino Niagara’s Yuk Yuk’s after she confronted a casino staff member about being sexually heckled – or harassed – during a performance at the comedy club. Christina Walkinshaw was about five minutes into her routine, when the heckling began from a group of eight to 10 guys, as she recalls, at a table to her immediate left. “Shows us your tits! Show us your tits! Show us your tits!”

The story gets worse. After the comedy show the heckler went to a strip club and screamed, “Make fun of airlines!”  The comedian blames the bouncers. The bouncers on her chest? Or the ones at the back of the room?

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Canadian comedian loses gig at casino after heckling incident – The Globe and Mail.

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