Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Homeless But Honest

Dave Tally is a 49-year-old recovering alcoholic from Tempe, Arizona, who is currently homeless. Dave Tally also recently found an abandoned backpack at a light-rail station that contained $3300 and a laptop computer. I think that many of us, if faced with his financial challenges, would likely succumb to the temptation to treat this like lucky lottery earnings that we could put to good use. Tally, however, instead turned the backpack into his boss, who was able to identify its owner, an Arizona State University student who was planning to use the cash to purchase a car. Afterward, Tally said, "It wasn't my money. I didn't earn it. I'm the one that has to lay down every day and deal with myself. If I'd done anything different than what I did, I don't know if I could handle that." Since the students mother called "The Arizona Republic" to report the good deed, Tally has apparently received a number of cash reward offers by those inspired by wishing to commend him for his honesty.  This blind Bambi also salutes Dave Tally.  God Bless him.  I hope that he earns much more from this response to his act of integrity than he would have from keeping the money he found as his own.  Even if he does not, however, his unselfish act is humbling.  I am not homeless, and hence cannot walk in his shoes, but I would hope that the personal pride he can take providing inspiration to the rest of us about the good in humanity and our society is priceless.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Perfect Weather for This Punter

Here's a video worth checking out.  This is a clip of an 86 yard punt from a high school football game.  Over half of that distance, however, was on the ground.  This was not your standard end over end roll due to the momentum of the kick.  Instead, the wind sustained a long, slow roll until the kicking team finally downed it on the four yard line.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

That's A Lot of Money In Her Underwear

The FBI was investigating allegations of real estate developers in Prince Georges County, Maryland, offering rewards to county officials in exchange for personal and business favors. When agents went to visit the home of County Executive Jack Johnson, his wife, Leslie, who was also recently elected to the County Council, called her husband. Unknown to them, the FBI had a wiretapping warrant and recorded their conversation. They discussed destroying and flushing a $100,000 check from a real estate developer and removing cash from the home by stuffing it in her underwear. When the federal agents entered the home, they found $79,600 hidden on her person. Even if that was all in $100 bills, that seems to this blind Bambi like a lot of cash to stuff in your underwear. This hill-billy has probably never even had almost 800 one dollar bills at any given time, but it seems like, say, 796 one hundred dollar bills would amount to a substantial stack of cash to hide in your bra. The couple is now charged with evidence tampering.