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Jerry Giordano is happy…

Published by
Patrick
 on July 7, 2008

Jerry Giordano is the weekend anchor for some TV channel up in Tulsa. Here is a little section of his bio found over at KTUL News Channel 8:

When he’s not a work, you will probably find Jerry at home.

Yeah. I think the Tulsa Police Department would probably disagree with that statement, because according to them, you can also find Jerry crashing cars into yards. From an AP story about Jerry being arrested on both DUI and Hit & Run charges:

The police report notes that an area resident heard a collision from inside his home and chased a car driven by Giordano for two blocks before the car crashed in a yard.

The police report states that Giordano acknowledged he had been drinking.

I don’t know too much about Jerry Giordano, but I do know this: his mugshot is going to be more damaging to his career than the actual DUI and hit & run charges. Seriously, he looks like a cross between a jolly Remington Park jockey and a gay drifter. To ever get back on TV, he’s probably going to have to move to China or just go to KSBI Channel 52. You know, someplace where nobody in Oklahoma will be able to watch him.

Thanks to honorary Ogle Ryan from Oklahoma Rock for the tip.

Category: Unusual. 2 Comments

Maybe he’ll pursue an acting career…

Published by
Patrick
 on June 30, 2008

The beautiful guy pictured above is Dan Murdock. Dan Murdock is the General Counsel of the Oklahoma Bar Association. If you’ve been following the news at all today, you may know that Dan was arrested Saturday night on an alleged sexual battery complaint. From an article at NewsOK.com (for the juicy stuff, skip the article and download the crime report.)

A crying woman told police Oklahoma City attorney Dan Murdock got her alone at Remington Park Saturday night, asked if she is a tease, then pulled down her top and bit her on the breast, police reported.

The woman said he also grabbed her by the hair, bit her neck and grabbed her outside her clothes in her genital area.

“But he didn’t rape me,” she told police in tears…

The woman, who is in her 30s, said she had talked with Murdock at the wedding shower (at Remington Park), according to the report. She said she had been drinking wine. She said he told her he was divorced.

She said he wanted to show her his other suite and she agreed.

“Once inside the suite, she realized there was no one in there but her and” Murdock, police reported.

Well, this proves some theories. Don’t trust an attorney (obviously). Don’t trust a Remington Park multi-suite holder. And don’t pull the top off a random drunk woman and bite her on the breast.

Anyway, as it always is, I’m sure there is another side to this story…and if there is, I’m sure we’ll never hear about it. While we wait, I would recommend for Mr. Murdock to do these things.

• Get a good criminal defense attorney

• Get a good divorce attorney

• Read some of his own calm soothing articles over at the Oklahoma Bar Association website. You know, articles like “Making Life Better for Others,” “The Content of Our Character,” and “Clean Out Your Closet.”

• Get in touch with Mike Gassaway and pursue an acting career.

(Sorry it is buried down here, but if you only do one thing all day, you’ll click the very last link. I wish I would have discovered it earlier.)

Category: Unusual. 25 Comments

This was unexpected…

Published by
Patrick
 on June 25, 2008

So, it looks like Fark (forum link) decided to link to Cardboard Jim’s gay pride experience at about 5:15 (CST) today. Here is what it said:

Some dorks get a life-sized cardboard cut-out of a local homophobic right wing sports radio host and take it to the Gay Pride Festival, with photo goodness

Some thoughts:

• The stats you see above are from the Wordpress stats engine. Keep in mind that in the Wordpress stats world, a day starts at 6pm. That means that 4,609 referrals you see from Fark “yesterday” actually took place from 5:15pm - 6:00pm…a 45-minute window. To put that volume in perspective, we usually get a couple of thousand visitors an average day.

• We were already on the verge of being booted by our hosting provider (or be forced to move to an expensive dedicated server), and this may have sealed the deal. We host this site (and the surprisingly still active) HornetsCentral.com on a $8 a month shared server through GoDaddy.com. Between the two, we are basically allotted 50 simultaneous hits at one time. Safe to say, we have exceeded that a few times today. (Hint Hint: if anyone knows of a good place to host TLO, maybe send us an email)

• We have no clue how this got submitted to Fark. I have a hunch that I was done by someone at OPUBCO.

• Clark Matthews was excited that we were referred to as “Dorks.”

• Jim Traber has to be proud of how popular is cardboard counterpart has become. Also, this publicity may boost the ratings for The Locker Room from a 0.1 to a 0.3.

12:30pm Update: We have already set a new traffic record today at The Lost Ogle with over 16,000 views and counting.  This easily surpasses the previous record of 12,000 views achieved when DeadSpin linked to our Sunni Kate Golloway post.  Call me crazy, but I think the picture of Sunni Kate is better than all the ones of Cardboard Jim combined.- Patrick

Category: Cardboard Jim Traber, Jim Traber, The Lost Ogle and Unusual. 21 Comments

Bawk! Bawk-bawk-bawk!!!

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on June 9, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNuMXJjoWY

Oklahomans need to grow up.

In a Q&A session with constituents, Oklahoma’s junior Senator Tom Coburn had this little nugget of information:

“Never was there a risk for the flying public,” Coburn said. “Not once. And the FAA will tell you that. But they’re chickens.”

In his defense, there are no reports of Coburn tucking his thumbs under his armpits and strutting around, but one would think a man elected to represent the state in Washington might be a little more, shall we say, restrained.  When contacted for rebuttal, an FAA spokesman responded, “We’re rubber, he’s glue.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJPAWG-BC0

Then this:

When a friend of Ronnie Silman’s son pulled out a gun, Silman dared him to pull the trigger, police said. Then a bullet tore through his leg.

Be careful what you wish for, I guess.  The best part of this story is that Silman was apparently the only “adult” involved in this confrontation (the final line of the article “Silman’s and Williams’ ages were not released” suggests the other two participants were minors), and he was the one issuing playground taunts.  Normally, I’d hesitate to make fun of a guy who was shot, but normally the person being shot does not request the shooter pull the trigger.

Category: Oklahoma Politics, Uncategorized and Unusual. 10 Comments

Bull Semen!

Published by
Patrick
 on June 6, 2008

For some reason, when I first read the headline of this article from NewsOK.com, I thought Brent Skarky could be the culprit. But then I realized that he wasn’t from Tahlequah:

Texas ranch sues Tahlequah man over disputed bull semen

A Texas ranch company is suing a Missouri genetics company and an Oklahoma rancher over bull semen alleged to have been extracted from a bull named Mommas Boy over a 13-day period in April.

The suit alleges that the ranch company paid for Mommas Boy on April 2, but didn’t receive the bull until April 15. The suit claims the seller, Dale Glory of Tahlequah, Okla., and two co-defendants collected sperm specimens from the bull during the 13 days between sale and delivery, and had some of them taken to Genex for storing.

The suit also is seeking punitive damages of $100,000 from Glory, Debra Garland and Peter Maubach, who are accused of taking sperm specimens from the bull.

Well, I guess it’s nice to know that there are other things to do in Tahlequah than get amazingly drunk and float a polluted river. Too bad that “other thing to do” is stealing semen from a bull named Mommas Boy. Seriously, the only thing that could have made this story any better was if he was named Chubbie Johnson or Randy Terrill.

Anyway, since that’s NOT the case, I don’t think there’s too much more that we can add to this story. I couldn’t find any pictures of the conspirators, but I did find Dale Glory’s bull website. Unfortunately, it kind of sucked. It looked like it was designed in FrontPage and the only pictures on it were of his bulls Swamp Fox, Old School and Jack Bowen.  Weird, huh..

Category: Brent Skarky and Unusual. 8 Comments

Vian students have poor taste…

Published by
Patrick
 on May 20, 2008

The two women pictured above are (former) Vian High School teachers. The reason they are former teachers is because they like to **allegedly** have sexual relations with their students. In case you haven’t heard about it, here’s some snippets from NewsOK.com:

Jennifer Cowart (top pic), 35 and Tracy Ann Boshers (bottom pic), 34, are under investigation over allegations of inappropriate relationships with male students at the high school. They resigned just before termination hearings were to proceed by the school district. The district, which was prepared to air the results of its investigation, accepted the resignations to avoid ongoing litigation, Superintendent Lawrence Barnes said…

An affidavit for a search warrant, filed by Hoover in April, has witnesses saying Boshers sent sexual text messages to cell phones of high school boys. One boy told police that Boshers performed oral sex on him at the school and in her vehicle…

“I knew that she had sex with another student, so why not me?” the former Vian student told police. “She put off the vibes. I hit her up about it, and she did it…”

Few of the boys are speaking with police about suspected relationships with Boshers. During his investigation, Hoover requested copies of Boshers’s phone records and text messages…

Many students and former students haven’t cooperated with the police investigation of Boshers, a popular teacher who once coached a decorated cheerleading squad and is the daughter of the school district’s business manager…

Okay, lets just get this out of the way, what Ms. Cowart and Ms. Boshers did was wrong…very wrong. High school teachers, whether they are male, female, or Tyson Meade, should not have sex with their students. That being said…

What the hell are the high school guys in Vian thinking!?!

Are there no pretty, perky high school girls to go after? Seriously, these teachers look like they own meth labs in Arkansas and have profiles on Adult Friend Finder. My perverted roommate wouldn’t even touch them if he was drunk, alone and using Al Eschbach’s elbow. I bet Chubby Johnson would even stay away.

Anyway, since these teachers lost their jobs, I think that the male students they hooked up with should be suspended for having terrible taste. Or better yet, simply be forced to chauffeur Van Shae Iven around town if he ever comes out to cover a football game. That will teach them.

(Thanks to Honorary Lost Ogle Ryan from OklahomaRock for the heads up on the pictures)

Category: Unusual. 18 Comments

A Lost Ogle Q & A: The Manny Ramirez High Five Guy

Published by
Tony
 on May 16, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWsyqne9JE

If you spend even a small amount of time watching sports highlights, you saw Manny Ramirez high five a fan in the outfield BETWEEN catching a fly ball and assisting on a double play. It was a hilarious “Manny being Manny” play that will be the part of Best Damn Top 50 countdowns for years to come. Fortunately, there is even a local aspect to this story, as the fan who got high-fived was an Edmond resident by the name of Randy Dunning. He was nice enough to answer a few questions for us. For that, we are willing to forgive his being a Red Sox fan. You can read the Q & A after the jump.

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Category: The Lost Ogle and Unusual. 30 Comments

Isn’t Murder Bad?

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on May 7, 2008

Meet Andrew Harshman. Mr. Harshman apparently lost his girlfriend to Enid businessman Rick Childs. In response, Harshman did what any red blooded male does when trying to recapture their woman. He tried to hire a hitman. Luckily for Rick, Harshman was not very clever in his attempts. According to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs:

The investigation started when Enid Police learned that Mr. Harshman was actively soliciting the murder of a local business man and was offering to pay for the potential murder.

The Enid Police Narcotics Unit, EPD Investigative Service Division, along with an Agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs combined efforts to investigate this allegation. Officers were able to introduce an undercover officer to Harshman as the person who would potentially carry out the murder for hire. The undercover officer obtained enough information from Harshman to establish the solicitation, and through technical investigative procedures, surveillance, and outstanding undercover work by the OBN Agent, officers were able to establish probable cause to arrest Mr. Harshman Tuesday morning.

Bravo to Enid law enforcement, right? They saved a man’s life and set it up so Andrew Harshman will not be able to hurt anyone else. Well, at least not unless he does it during the week.

I know what you’re asking, “What?” Great question. According to this News9 article, Harshman was convicted of trying to hire one person to murder another person and his penalty is 60 weekends (a total of 120 days) in jail. Making it even less constricting is that they aren’t even consecutive weekends. The penalty requires that he spend at least one weekend per month in prison.

One weekend a month? Isn’t that what Army reservists have to commit? Of course, the reservists have the additional burden of possibly being sent to Iraq for an unspecified length of time. So, I guess the lesson is that reservists should offer an undercover police officer $36K to murder their ex-girlfriend’s new husbands.

Category: Unusual. 13 Comments
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