Wisconsin Official Redneck award for the day!

[AJE]

Hi all the entire way to work I had a riot just listening to the local radio station discuss the so called SUCCESS of this recent Martinifest in at the Milwaukee Art Museam. Let see what the rest of the state would like to say about this event. :lol:

"It was crazy. People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork. "

- Kathleen Christians,39, attendee

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Martinifest leaves art museum shaken and stirred
Booking procedures reviewed after wild rental event; 2 artworks being examined
By MARY LOUISE SCHUMACHER
mschumacher@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Feb. 27, 2006

The glistening white Santiago Calatrava addition has made the Milwaukee Art Museum one of the city's classiest social addresses. But a recent martini fete held there turned into an overcrowded, drunken affair. Some unruly guests accosted artworks, which have been taken off display for a checkup.

People threw up, passed out, were injured, got into altercations and climbed onto sculptures at Martinifest, a semi- formal event organized by Clear Channel Radio and held at the museum Feb. 11, according to several people who attended or worked at the event.

"Hindsight is 20-20 . . . it was probably too cheap," Kerry Wolfe, a local programming director for Clear Channel, said of the event's premise - unlimited martinis for $30.

Intro paragraphs from the Feb. 28, 2006 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (the rest cut out by 'keith' so we don't get sued by the venerable newspaper monopoly, er, company)

[AJE]

" You might be a redneck if you go to the museum to drink!"

From: Lauri :P

[Kris10]

It's funny because it's true. Leave it to Milwaukee to put up a beautiful museum and turn it into a frat house.

[AJE]

lol :wink:

[Crys]

Gods... just... gods...

(goes and cries quietly in a corner somewhere)

People who act that way in a museum need to be taken to the tip-top point of the Calatrava and forcibly ejected (maybe with a small canon) toward the street, at an angle so they don't bounce off the bridge and disrupt the intelligent people trying to get into or out of the museum.

I really hope they close off any other areas with art for any future rent-outs, or remove the art until after the event. What a disgrace.

[AJE]

Student Charged
September 28, 2006
FOX 11 WLUK

OSHKOSH, Wis. - A UW-Oshkosh student is charged with threatening to blow up buildings on campus because she needed more time to finish an assignment.

A criminal complaint says 19-year-old Jennifer Merrigan of Bonduel sent an e-mail to university officials from a campus computer lab.

Investigators used surveillance video to determine who had been using the computer when the threat was sent earlier this week.

Prosecutors say Merrigan thought making the threat would cancel classes and give her time to work on a speech for a communications class.

The charge against Merrigan carries up to three and a-half years
in prison and a $10,000 fine. She's been ordered not to have any contact with campus, except to gather her belongings while under police escort.

[j10asen]

wow
"The glistening white Santiago Calatrava addition has made the Milwaukee Art Museum one of the city's classiest social addresses. But a recent martini fete held there turned into an overcrowded, drunken affair. Some unruly guests accosted artworks, which have been taken off display for a checkup."

That goes to show that regardless of the sophictication, a drunk is still a DRUNK!!!!!


and
OSHKOSH, Wis. - A UW-Oshkosh student is charged with threatening to blow up buildings on campus because she needed more time to finish an assignment.

I always wanted to somehow back date my work so it would be in ontime.

Well desperate times calls for desperate measures!!!

I am not sure this is true renecks, I might say red in the face ops:

[MrKhay]

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).

He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin.
It's mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR. They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the decoys to float on. Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce.

So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a sh ort 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), decide on the following course of action:

They light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...???

Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it: the dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.

The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.

One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.

The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog's rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.

Then " "" "" "" "" " BOOOOOOOOOOOOM "" "" "" "" "" ! !
! !

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.

The dog is okay. .doing fine. And you thought Rednecks lived in the South......

THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!!

http://inmyjammies.blogspot.com/2006...win-award.html

[j10asen]

Originally Posted by Brain

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).


So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a sh ort 40 second-fuse.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...???

Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it:One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.

The dog is okay. .doing fine. And you thought Rednecks lived in the South......

THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!!

This is a very funny story but sad to know it is true.
What astonishes me?

Well that a bank would loan this person $42,000.00. Did they have no character judgment?

Who is his employer that someone that stupid could earn enough money to get a $42,000 .00 loan for a vehicle. An act this stupid is not a once in a lifetime occurrence.

What idiot runs around duck hunting with a dynamite in the back of a $42,000.00 vehicle?

Anyone shooting a dog should be shot!!!!!

and

What insurance company would provide insurance to a person like that?

I must really be stupid that all I can afford is a 1999 Saturn!!!!
:cry:

[pk]

Wow... and this is true? It takes all kinds.

[AJE]

‘Jackass’ movie copycat lands in hospital
March 8, 2007
Associated Press


Wisconsin man suffers burns to genitals; second man faces criminal charges

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Attempts to duplicate a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges.

The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the “Jackass” movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
:arrow:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17515065/

[kmfarm]

I've seen the movie(s). I don't recall anyone on the movie lighting his genitals on fire. So the movie may have "inspired" the two drunks, but they weren't "duplicating" anything. That's why I don't trust the media. They get their facts wrong often. That's also why quoting the media as a "source" usually doesn't impress me.

Mark

[CarolsCritterCare]

Originally Posted by AJE

‘Jackass’ movie copycat lands in hospital

The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the “Jackass” movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
:arrow:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17515065/

hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm one would want to copy this because??????

Carol

[pk]

hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm one would want to copy this because??????

LOL, exactly what I was wondering. Maybe it's a guy thing that women just can't understand? Any men care to comment???

lol

pk

[kmfarm]

Nothing I would try ladies. Sometimes guys are just stupid. Obviously way too much time on their hands.

Mark