A local crook thought he could jump from his 2nd-floor window to elude police, only to find out that the ground hurts. He was treated and released at the hospital, and subsequently thrown in Deschutes County Jail.
Month: June 2004
Thank Goodness for Low Budgets
I’m sure that if the folks at the Oregon Health Plan weren’t under a budget crunch, they would’ve just paid for this.
An Oregon doctor, who had sex with a patient and then charged the state about $5,000 for his “treatments,” has been jailed for 60 days and stripped of his license, officials said on Friday.
Dr. Randall J. Smith, 50, told the woman that massaging her “trigger points” would ease her pelvic pain. The treatments led to sexual intercourse and Smith billed the Oregon Health Plan for the 45-minute sessions at the Adventist Health Medical Group clinic in Gresham, Oregon, near Portland.
Link from Rob.
No Surprise Here
Barney just sent me this joke:
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with the US auto makers for the past five years, whereby the auto makers were installing black boxes in four-wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 45 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, “Oh, Shit!”
Only the states of North Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Alabama were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were “Hold my beer and watch this!”
Poker With Dick Cheney
I don’t usually link to political blog posts, but I found this very entertaining. Thanks Roger for the link.
Moron For The Day
EMT arrives at scene of fatal hit-and-run only to realize that he’d run the man over right about here the night before. Full Story.
Just a bit off course
The pilots delayed their passengers for three hours because they mistakenly landed at an Air Force Base. Whoops.
The Smartest Guy Alive?
This guy is brilliant. How in the hell can anybody go 13 episodes straight on Jeopardy and not lose? He’s amassed $440,158 so far (2nd item). Reading some of the stories on the guy he doesn’t appear to be slowing down at all. Fascinating…
Another Scary Stat
Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries. Wal-Mart and their Supercenters aren’t even the biggest corporation on the list (#2 corp, #25 overall) — that prize belongs to General Motors (#23 overall).
A Scary Stat
A Wal-Mart Supercenter opens in American every 1.65 days. Just think how many Mom-and-Pop-type shops are getting driven out by these folks. Scary. Link via Kottke.
The Perfect Rate Sheet
I know that when I get going independent on a more regular basis, I have to make sure I setup a rate card like this:
* $150/hr Standard Rate
* $200/hr if you want it NOW
* $250/hr if you want to watch over my shoulder while I work
* $300/hr if you want to help
* $400/hr if you worked on it first
Along the same lines, Richard’s thinking about charging double for table-based designs. I don’t blame him. I just couldn’t get away with that as my CSS skills are pretty crappy right now.