Sprucing things up

Okay, apparently the "old" template coding I used for the Blapp Report was too 2006 for Blogger, so I had the glorious privilege of rebuilding things tonight.

Alas, the Blapp Report will look a bit different, and different is good, ya? It'll still be us on the other end of this world wide interweb thingy.

- jbc

What the ?!?!

Sorry -- it appears that the formatting of this page has become all gunked up. Will look into it. In the meantime, please excuse our mess...

- jbc

The wrong getaway car

The lead story in yesterday's Greenfield Recorder newspaper. Just so silly that it had to be shared:


GREENFIELD -- An Osgood Street man with a long record of fighting with police had an unpleasant shock -- in fact, several -- Tuesday night.

The first was when Douglas James Aprile, 40, attempted to evade police officers trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct by jumping into the back of a car parked in downtown Greenfield.

To his surprise, he found himself in the back of a car containing two narcotics detectives, Kevin Rowell and Lee Laster.

''He got into the vehicle and said 'Get out of here, the cops are chasing me!' said Greenfield Police Sgt. Ralph Odom later.

''And then he looked at Rowell and said 'Hey, you are a cop!'''

According to Odom, Aprile immediately tried to escape from the vehicle, but was stopped by Laster.