Home Decor Raid -

This is a followup to my previous entry
about the botched robbery at a Home Depot,
because we are still trying to make sense out of it.

What were the transvestites after?
Power tool batteries.

Wayne K Roustan reports:

:: early and then later augmented.

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When Nesting Trannies Attack -

Drag Dressers Pump
Pepper Spray at Shocked Shoppers . . .

A wild afternoon robbery invasion at a Boca Loca Home Depot featured cross-dressers armed with vapors, whooshing their way through the store as they scooped up merchandise, who then attempted to flee using a red Ford Explorer, but the accused miscreants were captured by Loss Prevention Officers before they could peel out of the parking lot.

The suspects are reported to be from the Miami area.

"Kendal Edgar Lowry, 26, of Opa-Locka, was wearing a yellow tank top, gray pants and mid-calf gray flat-heeled boots. David Tucker, 24, of Miami, wore a pink shirt, denim skirt and flip flops of unknown color."

No description of their hairstyles was available.

The store had to be evacuated to air out the fumes.

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Bookish: Passing Notes (8#) -

Brian McManus writes about Philadelphia Noir and author David Goodis. Francois Truffaut used a Goodis story called Down There as the basis for his movie Don't Shoot The Piano Player.

# Author Michael Chabon, who has been working on a new book lately, writes about his sense of place at The Atlantic.

# Alan Littell writes about his days at the old Paris Herald newspaper with the odd characters, including Art Buchwald, who used to work there, too.

# Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
reviewed at EW. Pop Culture memoir of teenage years.

# Readers name their favorite International Mysteries:
::::: Set in Europe ::: and Elsewhere :::

# Inside Nick Hornby's Ministry of Stories
is an imaginative creative writing laboratory
for children, Roger Tagholm reports.

# Do you live in one of the most literate
American cities? Seattle has fallen from first place.

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Drone Expected in SoFlo -

A new Eye in the Sky aid may be arriving soon at the Miami-Dade Police Department. Described as Honeywell's T-hawk, a 20-pound drone that can fly for 40 minutes at 10K feet and cruise at 46 miles an hour.

I believe the MDPD was lent the craft to try out not long ago, but no one even noticed it while it was aloft. The current article about it, however, seems to have kicked up quite a fuss.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office often uses a helicopter which used to have a big searchlight at night, but not anymore. I suspect they've switched to more modern night vision equipment on it which was originally developed for the military.

:: WSVN: Drone ::

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