A NOT SO Quirky News Bit

California law gives anyone the right to walk into a police department and inspect a wide variety of information, from crime and arrest reports to statistics on officer-misconduct complaints.

But a statewide audit of such access released today shows a wide gap between the law and the reality of what happens when people ask to see public information at California police stations.

Police often violated laws that mandate open access to public records and delayed for weeks the release of ordinary reports, intimidating people who asked for them and researching their backgrounds, according to the audit of more than 200 departments and California Highway Patrol offices, including 63 in the Bay Area.

Written requests for records were sometimes ignored and some departments even refused to accept them.

Full article found here.

Friday's Quirky Newsy Bits

My friend jblaque sent me this link yesterday and this morning I see SF Company launches "Meth Coffee." For the caffeine addict in ALL of us :)

It's the Year of the Pig so be ready for lots of porcine news this year.

In Lower Saxony pigs outnumber human citizens.

And in Serbia Three Little Pigs huffed and puffed and burned the house down.

Beer that makes yer boobs grow?! Only available in Bulgaria.

As if the migraine weren't bad enough!

THE Word of 2006 is: Plutoed.

I've heard the phrase fat cat before but, really.

Quote of the day:

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor