Saturday, April 05, 2003

Ok, so I'm trying to wake up. I go to Sylvains, he asks if I've met Maru the Crankpot.
I have not.
So I think, crankpot? What better way to start out the day?
I go there.
I'm lookin' at the pretty pictures.
I'm checkin' out just how cranky Maru is (with Sylvain, you're never sure what kind of crankpot you're gonna get).
I'm minding my own business when, 3rd story down, I see THIS;

You can't make stuff like this up
Former Tulsa mayoral candidate Paul Tay has been arrested again. Tay has been a lightning rod for controversy lately for riding his bicycle around Tulsa with a giant, inflated penis on the back.

I know what's going on in Umm Qasr.

I know what's going on in Qarah Tappah.

How could I have missed this, I LIVE here!!!

And while I've boycotted the local news wonks for years, I can't believe I missed this in my neverending quest for things to point at and laugh.

So here's the story. Thanks to Syl for the intro, thanks to Maru for the heads up that this is loose in my city.
Guess I'll have to start paying attention in traffic now.


Former Tulsa mayoral candidate arrested

Former mayoral candidate Paul Tay has been arrested again. Tay has been a lightning rod for controversy lately for riding his bicycle around Tulsa with a giant, inflated penis on the back. Tulsa Police can't arrest him for that because of freedom of speech issues.

However, they say when a driver swerved toward Tay's bicycle, Tay threw a bottle at the driver's windshield, breaking it. Throwing something at a moving vehicle is a felony.

It's also a felony to wear body armor while committing a felony, so Tay was arrested for that as well, since he was wearing a bulletproof vest. He's in the Tulsa County jail.

Now, I've never heard of this guy, so I did some checking.

Apparently, Paul Tay likes bicycles.
He likes them ALOT.

THIS is why he went to jail once;

On March 5, I waved the American flag on the median of Highway 169, soliciting votes.

he goes on;

Then, Max snaps me out of the stinkin' thinkin'. He reminds me I am a political prisoner, in jail for soliciting votes while waving the American flag. I am not just another petty thief. Damn, I am proud to be an American.

Um, Highway 169, at it's narrowest is four lanes, eight lanes at it's widest.

Another ticket, another highway. Broken Arrow Hwy-- six lanes narrowest, eight lanes widest.

Need Exposure? Paul is your guy.

Try though I may, I cannot find a single story on the whole giant inflated penis episode. Not one. And I've looked.
You have no idea what you come up with when you put a combination of those words into Google....

Kansas @ 3:49 PM