Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet

COVINGTON, La. – A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.

The 68-year-old man was bruised. He said doctors told him two things prevented worse injury, maybe even death: the phone, and the fact that the bullet came in at an angle rather than head-on.

Reports of pocket Bibles saving their owners' lives pop up every so often. Richard says he's sure that God told him to put the phone in his overalls chest pocket rather than a pants pocket as usual. He said that Saturday's incident increased his faith.

He figured the bullet was fired by a hunter in woods near his 5-acre property.

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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.timespicayune.com

Information from: WWL-TV, http://www.wwltv.com

Information from: WDSU-TV, http://www.wdsu.com

Calif. lapdogs can stay just that in moving cars

I don't know about the rest of you, but I love all this new technology. I have my iPod Touch, my cell phone (which takes some crummy pictures, but still it takes them), and now two digital cameras. I went out and bought a cheaper one that way I don't lose or break or ANYTHING my good one (it's discontinued). So because of all these things, which I love, I have a huge mess in my purse. Why can't all companies use the normal USB size? I don't have much in my purse, but I do have all my cords I need for all my electronics that are with me at all times (I plug into work and home). This means a digital camera cord, a phone cord, an iPod cord, AND those crummy little ear buds that iPod gives you (seriously, they suck). I can't even fit them in my ear due to a konch piercing that I have. I will go get better headphones, but then that's going to take up more room!!!

Come on companies!!! Make ALL your products use a typical USB cord on both ends and make life easier!! Then I would only need one cord in my purse, and might not need the xanax in there!

I hate people who will call 5 times, knowing they've got the wrong frickin' number!  What the first 4 times weren't enough for you? If there was a stupid stick someone must beat these people with it!

You pick up a call to get a recorded voice saying "please hold…..", screw that you're calling me if you are to busy to talk then don't bother, I'll hang up everytime.

We keep getting this advertising call for a cruise with a very loud foghorn sounding.  Its bad enough we get ads over the phone but ones that damage our hearing realy don't appeal to us at all.

I am sick sick sick sick sick of calling a company who has obviously sent their call center overseas but try and pull the wool over your eyes! They train these people to sound more American; wouldn't it be easier to just keep the jobs here?

I wanna pull someone's lips off when I excuse myself to get a pen or whatever but they continue talking anyway! People need to learn to listen and not talk!

People who will repeat the same info over and over and over! UGH, I got it the first two times you told me.

People who cannot speak properly just annoy the hell outta me.  Someone was spelling her name for me and said this "rahh" WTF what letter is that supposed to be?

You take a message with a phone number when someone says the number they gave you is not the number they can be reached at.  IF YOU CAN'T BE CONTACTED AT THAT NUMBER THEN WHY DID YOU GIVE IT TO ME!

No really, didn't this get SETTLED about a ZILLION times by EVERYone?!?!?!?! Somebody must need to send some kids off to college or buy ANOTHER house in the Hamptons!

as an employee,however, this MIGHT be a 'good' thing!

Okay, I realize I may be getting old here, but I have just about lost it with cell phones.

The other day on the way to work someone in another language, was sitting at the broadcasting everything he was saying.

Why, when people who use cell phones, must they speak so loudly, is the connection that bad, is the cell phone that bad?? Mostly I think not.

As I've stated before, people love being the center of attention.

Last week on the way to work at 4AM, some brat was whining about a break up with his girlfriend after being out drinking all night. This idiot was standing right behind me.

Do I have a cell phone?? Yes, but for pure emergencies only. I was assaulted a few years back & that's why I got one.

Working in phone tech support, there's nothing worse than a customer phoning in while driving asking for help. CALL FROM HOME!!!!

All I can say is please don't broadcast your business to everyone else while in public with a cell phone

In all due honesty, WE DON'T CARE!!!

Okay is it me or am I noticing a trend here??

How many times do you see people with cell phones acting really bizarre & hyper??

The more I think about I am really beginning to wonder if there IS something about a cell phone mucking up people's behaviour.

Yes, I do have a cell phone, but only use it for emergencies & WILL NOT use it while driving. I learned my lesson on I-90 last year when driving to Ohio & did a 180 while changing cd's.

I DO find that people who use cell phones DO tend do be more.

It really amazes me how people can talk & drive at the same time especially trying to negotiate a turn.

Next time you're out keep your eyes peeled, I think you'll be amazed!!!

Peeve Meister here.

It makes me nuts when people are talking on the cell phone while they are in line paying at a store checkout.

Worse, did you ever notice that they don’t really ever have anything important to say to the person on the other end?

It’s always the people that are talking on the phones that are the people we all have to wait for — because they are not quite ready to pay or they have to find their money or card. How rude.

Why can’t people who are talking just set the phone down just for a few moments or call back? It will make things go easier and make the lines go faster.

I’m sure you’ve seen this. You might even be guilty of doing it yourself (No way!). What public display of rudeness (PDR) have you witnessed lately?

Peeve on!

Happy 4th of July.

The Peeve Meister

P.S. I’m sorry to report that there was no winner from last week’s Rant-of-the-Week contest. The response was deemed to be rather lame (maybe the rant was lame?). Anyway, good luck to all this week!

My Pet Peeve for this week? Cell phone rip-offs.

Did you ever notice that when you buy a new cell phone, you pay the sales tax on the original inflated retail price (“retail value” tax) of the phone – not on the discounted (or even free) final price of the phone?  Why is that?

Do you know of any other purchase or transaction where this is done?  If you buy a loaf of bread or a car that’s been discounted, you pay the amount of sales tax calculated on the DISCOUNTED purcahse price of the item. Right? 

So what’s the deal with the cell phone companies?  Obviously they’ve managed to lobby their way into this sweet deal by “persuading” our dedicated, hardworking and loyal legislators into allowing such a blatant scam to be imposed on the citizens of this country.

This is only one of the Pet Peeves that I have about the cell phone companies.  There are plenty of others.  What about you?  Do you have any?

Let us hear from you.

Peeve On!

The Peeve Meister

P.S. Congrats to conanabanana02, our Rant-of-the-Week winner from last week. And good luck to all you Super Peevers this week. We'll be awarding another set of prizes for the best comment to this week's "Rant of the Week."

Some of these are quite funny! Dealing with the gym.  Conanabanana, you will appreciate number 3.

http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=0hC3x-9s5Fo&feature=related

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/TrafficJamBlameCellPhoneUsers.aspx

I KNEW IT!! those idiots CAN'T talk and drive!! at least they should get in the right lane!!! whenever I'm stuck behind someone slow, I always glance over when I pass them and 99.9% of the time they are ON THE PHONE!!!!!! One even almost HIT ME from NOT paying attention!!!!

WHERE IS EVERYBODY TODAY???

I received a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician (could also be Telus) who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine(9), zero(0), the pound sign (#), and then hang up.

PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

So I pass it on to you guys as well!

I went to a haunted house and hayride tonight, I would have enjoyed myself except for some cheap tart who talked on the cell phone the whole damn time on the hayride. We left the ride and got in line for the haunted house and who should show up right behind us? You guessed it CHATTY KATHY. We had paid $20 for both attractions, she had already ruined half the thrill, so I politely asked that she turn the phone off during the haunting. She gave me the "AS IF" expression, being that we were before her in line, I had decided I let it go. I had thought we'd go in before and could avoid her sorry ass, no such luck. We lucked out when in the dark she bumped into me and dropped her cell phone. Here's the best part…the person behind her stepped on the phone and brokeit!  Oh yes there is a God and he F'in loves Halloween.

The whole ambiance (sp?) of a haunted house is thats its dark and scary, when someone is gabbing on the phone which has a light thats on, it kinda ruins the effect ya know? Thoughtless wench got what she had coming to her!

Because of the fires in southern California, all of our cell phone services are messed up.  Apparently a lot of the towers burned down, so the service is in the toilet now. This is going to be challenging.

 I wonder how long it will take to get this fixed.

see link in my first comment!

Here is my list of peeves from the last two weeks:

1. When a customer/client asks for a simple, quick class on how to do something, don't make me do a HUGE presentation and then tell me it was crap and I need to learn how to do one properly.

2. Dont drive and text message someone at all.  ESP. during rush hour.

3.  Don't friggin stop at the last minute and give me a dirty look for gonig around you and honking my horn.

4. The A/C went out in my office.  I work in a building that has a lot of computers and it is hot in my office.  I would rather work in the rain.

5. Stop calling me fifteen times in five minutes b/c i didn't answer the phone when you called.  I have caller ID and I was busy.

6. Telemarketers- when i say I don't want something, end the call right there.  I won't change my mind.

7. Stop asking me for information that I don't have or can't get.  I am not the friggen phone book.  Call 411  that is what they get paid to do.

8. I hate people who cut across three lanes of traffic just to turn in front of you.  Go ahead and total my car and YOU will buy me a new one and I won't be cheap.

9. Don't compare your life to mine.  My life isn't as rosy as you think. People must not think I have any problems in my life.

10. I am so sick of certain people in my hubby's family who won't admit that they don't like me and they will shun me everytime i get online.  F*&K u!

I have more but I am not trying to type all day long.

I can't be the only person this has happened to and on more than one occasion.

Have you ever called someone and had them answer, only to find out that they had carried their cell phone/cordless handset into the bathroom with them. You start carrying on a conversation until you realize where they are and quite possible what they are doing?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I just got it today and I can’t stop playing with it!!!
it has so many functions that I’m having fun exploring it all and figuring out all that it can do!
it didn’t cost too much and it had a rebate on it also.
I wanted a pink one but it only came in black, blue and red, so I got blue, it was the cutest, I was tired of the black ones and red wasn’t that cute! I had to get the guy who sold it to me to show me how to use it, but he couldn’t show me everything in the store! it’s LOUD like I like and I can personalize it and add all the stuff I like to it!!

wanna know what I got??

New California Laws effective 7/1/07
New Driving Fines for 2007

9.  As of 07/01/07 cell phone use must be “hands free” while driving.
Ticket is $285. They will be looking for this like crazy - easy money
for police department.

I just went to get my oil changed and there was a girl talking on her cell in the waiting room.  She couldn’t have been more than 18 years old.  She was complaining about how they charged her extra because they had to put special oil in her Mercedes.  She was like, “Yeah, they charged me up the ass!” 

I guess she was on the phone with one of her parents and she had the nerve to say that she wanted them to reimburse her because she paid with her debit card.  I wanted to get up and smack her right then and there!  I also wanted to take the phone and talk to her retarded parents for their warped little contribution to society.

Thanks a lot!

My sister has a prepaid cell phone.  She won’t answer her calls because she wants to save her minutes. 

Yesterday she sent me a text to call my mom and give her a message.  I knew she was on the bus stop so I called my mom and gave her the message.  My mom was upset about the contents of the message so she wanted me to text my sister back with a question, which meant that I would have to wait for the answer and then call my mom and give her the answer. 

I was just pulling out of the parking lot after work and I was not about to sit in the hot car waiting for text messages and phone calls back and forth.  I wanted to go home!  I told mom that I couldn’t text because I was driving so she would have to call sis and talk to her.  She said that she never answers the phone.  And how is that MY problem? 

She actually had the nerve to sound pissed off when she hung up. 

OH MY GOD PEOPLE HANG UP THE F*CKING PHONE AND STOP PUTTING YOUR G-D MONEY ON THE F*CKING COUNTER… I’m not your slave, your bitch, or invisible. I am your f*cking BARISTA… don’t make me wound you.

Each day people come into my store chatting away on their phones and completely ignore the baristas, and this is a worldwide issue. We may act nonchalant about it but we certainly are very much bothered by it and find it not only a nuisance, but also an albatross of annoyance. You see, when we ask what we can get started for you we actually mean, HI THERE HOW ARE YOU WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DRINK? But people just stand there on their phones and whisper their order to us in order to keep the other party on the phone from knowing that they are in Starbucks, or when they come in the drivethrough and are on the phone, completely ignoring us and WORSE, driving through the order screen area and coming directly to the window, then getting frustrated with US WHEN WE TAKE ORDERS FROM PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY FOLLOW THE F*CKING RULES and order at the screen, and then get to them. They look at us all exasperated and annoyed as if we are the reason they are so goddamn ignorant, rude, and presumptuous.

YOU MAY THINK YOUR TIME IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OURS AND YOU SIMPLY MUST BE TREATED AS IF YOUR SH*IT DON’T STINK but sweetheart, you don’t mean any more to us than to anyone else. You are a customer, a number to be counted, a drink to be made, and you are exactly the same as the other three thousand people that come through my store every day. You are no more special than them, and certainly no less. Everyone gets the same treatment and when someone tries to break the rules and get their own way they must be corrected in order to assure the balance of power, which by the way lies with us, the Baristas.

We make your drink do we not? You treat us badly and then expect us to make a beverage that is going to pass through your lips, down your throat, and into your stomach? DO YOU THINK WE OVERLOOK THIS?

Just a note… there are four people in this lifetime that you never wish to make angry, that is your mother, your boss, the police, and the people who handle your food…

So a few rules of etiquette, a few guidelines for living, and some helpful advice from the Advice Queen… Next time you go anywhere, ANYWHERE AT ALL, make sure you are off of your phone, if you are in the checkout line at the store, at your coffee house, restaurant, or gas station, GET OFF THE PHONE! It is only considerate, and you would certainly not appreciate the treatment if you had to stand waiting while we took care of our own conversations on the phone and completely ignored you. ALSO DO NOT PUT YOUR MONEY DOWN ON THE COUNTER… THAT IS SO INCREDIBLY RUDE RUDE RUDE RUDE RUDE… It is one of the Queen’s pet peeves, and certainly that of pretty much any other sentient being in the service industry. YOU WOULD NOT BE HAPPY IF WE WERE TO THROW YOUR CHANGE ON THE COUNTER the way you throw your money down on the counter at us. You are subversively saying that we aren’t even worth handing something to, that we are so base that to even risk touching us would be a degredation to your very BEING! How dare you! HOW DARE YOU! For shame American public and your rude, crude, and sociopolitcally unacceptable behaviour.

Love you all for now… but who knows about later…

I read and heard a news report this morning that blew my mind (not that I had one to begin with). It stated that people who exercise with ipods shouldn’t wear them in lightning storms. There were two cases of people getting struck by lightning while wearing ipods. WTF!!!! ipods make you a bigger target???

First of all you are a dumba$$ if you’re still outside during adverse weather. If lightning is going to strike you, it is going to strike you just because of your location, not because you are wearing an ipod. If it is raining and nasty outside, take shelter. Exercise will wait for you. DUH!!! come on people. Is there anything is this world that won’t hurt you? I think that people would have to live in a bubble in the middle of nowhere in order to live in a perfect world free of all harm.

Here’s an example of a brain dead jerk off who should be lined up and shot in the head:

I stopped into our local Subway today for a small sandwhich, I had wanted to get in and out quickly, but there was someone ahead of me, so I waited. This guy ahead of me had a cell phone to his ear talking and not paying attention to anything or anyone around him (he was talking to his wife about her yeast infection, nice subject in a restuarant, right)? Finally its his turn to order, he takes the phone off his ear long enough to say “Give me a 12 inch ham and cheese on Itallian bread”, then is back on the phone.  So then the woman behind the counter makes his sandwhich, she asks what he wants on it TWICE he then mutters what he wants, and she finished making the sandwhich. The man sits down at the table after paying (this time totally ignoring the waitress altogther).

This woman takes my order and this moron from hell throws the sandwhich he just got over the glass and DEMANDS that she remake it right there and now (with the cell still seemingly glued to his ear; I would have gladly glued it up his ass).  The waitress explained that she would indeed get him a new sandwhich as soon as she was done with mine, this guy blows a gasket!  He makes this huge scene, with the cell still on his ear, and demands the manager come out and fire this “rude bitch”. 

The manager came out and he began telling her about the bad service the waitress had given him (keep in mind the waitress was polite the whole time). I had heard enough.  I said right to the guy: “She did everything you asked her to do, had you got off the damn cell to tell her what you wanted then I’m sure everything would have been great. You threw the sandwhich back at her and interupted my order, so if anyone was rude it was YOU. Finally, if you’re going to talk on the phone the please consider those around you, none of us wants to hear about your wife’s burning vaginia especially while we’re trying to eat”.

This guy’s face turned shades of red I have never even seen before, the waitress, manager, and every one else in the place is busting a gut! The Manager ends up refunding him the money and telling him not to come back again or she’ll have him arrested. I hope while he was out that he managed to stop for some coochie cream for that yeast infection so no one else’s meal would be ruined by it!

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I spilled a cup of soda on my brand new Cingular phone completely by accident and fried the SIM card. Of course it is uninsured (they don’t cover water damage anyway) and the girl at the Cingular store told me I had to buy a whole new phone AT full price! This phone was actually free when I signed up on my mother’s family plan and now I think I have to buy a whole new phone.
My phone is like another child to me and I take it everywhere! Just wanted to vent.

Alicia

Today I was in a hospital with multiple signs on every corner prohibiting the use of cell phones. Didn’t matter. I came across at least five people blabbing away, some of them doing it right in front of the signs. One of the cell phonies, I pointed to the sign; he simply retorted that he was discussing some important business. Didn’t matter that there was a bank of pay phones not 20 feet away from him. Another idiot was chatting up a storm in the radiology department, of all places. He was similarly not persuaded by my entreaties to observe the prohibition on cell phones. I am really sick and tired of these inconsiderate boors who insist on inflicting their cell phone noise pollution on others, or who simply ignore prohibitions in hospitals. At the same time, I didn’t notice any hospital staff enforcing the rules either. Nonsense!

This Idea going around on the net not to buy gas for just one day is senseless! You will need that gas later!
What will work is NOT going anywhere for a day!
Stay home Sunday May 20th, that will SAVE MILLIONS of Gallons of gas. Making the oil companies inventory sore,bringing down the price.
If you work in retail and restaurants, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to stay home, that’s where the FAT CATS that can afford these high prices go, they don’t care about us peons! WE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SUFFERING, along with older people on fixed incomes. Go to church only,if you feel the need. STAY AT HOME with your families, like people did in the 40’s thru the 60’s. Try it, you may like it!
If your boss hassles you for not working, remind him of the Commandment, “Keep the Lords Day Holy”.
YOU Minsters SHOULD BE Preaching this! Especially YOU CATHOLIC Priests, that USED to ‘drill’ that into our heads, but do to the PRESSURE of the retail industry you gave IN!!!
EVERYONE NOT USING GAS FOR ONE DAY WILL BRING DOWN THE PROFITS!!!
OK, You people headed to NASCAR Races and other sports events, try and take public transportation or car pool!
Lets pull together and HELP US ALL! Bush and Cheney are not going to help, there last job where with the Oil companies!! Congress has been bought, Neil Cavuto believes the propaganda, Bill O’Reily seems to have given up…

MAY THE HIGHER POWER OF YOUR CHOICE BLESS YOU.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am, Radar