Now some of you may have read in the press of the trouble that the actor Russel Crowe has got himself into. In a fit of frustration at not being able to phone home from a New York hotel, he hurled a telephone handset towards a concierge, injuring him. According to the logic of these things, if an injury was caused by an object, then that object must have been a weapon! Russel Crowe is therefore charged with "4th degree Felony Possesion of a Weapon" (ie the hotel's telephone!). He is afraid that a conviction on a weapons offence will prevent him from entering and working again in "The land of the free and home of the brave". I think Americans would be much safer if they banned telephones altogether.
(In an interesting turnaround for the fickle media, Russel Crowe has always been referred to as an Australian Actor (particularly when picking up Oscar Awards), but is now being described as New Zealand-Born, while the Kiwi press are describing him as an "Angry Australian". Sucess has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.)
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14-06-05, 03:14
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