Our first Freaky Friday stop this week comes compliments of The Smoking Gun, where we learn a California man is suing a sperm bank for a hidden camera he found in one of their donor rooms:
Claiming that he found a video camera hidden in the ceiling of a sperm bank’s “donation room,” a Los Angeles man is suing the firm for negligence and emotional distress. Ken Rigberg, 27, charges that he discovered the pinhole camera during a June 2005 visit to Pasadena’s Pacific Reproductive Services. According to Rigberg’s Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, a copy of which you’ll find below, he “noticed an unusual hole in the ceiling tile” of a private donation room, where he had just finished masturbating into a cup. Upon inspection, Rigberg realized that “there was a hidden surveillance camera on top of the ceiling tile, with the lens of the camera positioned to…capture the activity within the private donor room.” Rigberg is described in the lawsuit as a “regular sperm donor” who went to Pacific “to provide an honorable and essential benefit to his community.”
Because as we all know, sperm and cameras only belong together on the internet.
Now to Denver where Peter Coors, the CEO of Coors Brewery fell victim to the effect of his own product:
Beer baron Peter Coors’ driver’s license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.
Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign on May 28 and was driving intoxicated.
Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving a wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces a July 20 arraignment and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.
“I made a mistake. I should have planned ahead for a ride,” Coors said in a statement. “For years, I’ve advocated the responsible use of our company’s products.”
Coors’ spokeswoman, Kabira Hatland, said Coors was charged with driving while under the influence. Coors’ lawyer, Steve Higgens, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Will he go through AA and have to condemn the own product that has made his family famous? This could lead to a very interesting dilemma for Peter Coors.
From former Senatorial candidate to current Senator, the next stop involves Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak), who bagged herself one hell of a prize:
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (news, bio, voting record) had the home river advantage. She caught a 63-pound king salmon in the 11th annual Kenai River Classic, the biggest catch among the nine senators who took part in the annual fundraiser July 6-10 for conservation of habitat along the Kenai River.
Participants included Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.
BP Vice President Peggy Hudson caught the largest fish, a 67-pound king. The event raised about $800,000.
Alaska’s other U.S. senator, Ted Stevens, and Gov. Frank Murkowski co-hosted this year’s event. It drew about 200 people, many of them lobbyists and executives from major U.S. industries.
Unlike Bush’s fish tale, Sen. Murkowski did have people to back this up. Of course many of those people there to back it up were lobbyists.
Now on over to Europe, where we encounter another episode of stupid criminals:
Two Irish men who stole a fishing trawler after missing their ferry had to be rescued off the British coast where they were going in circles because they did not know how to sail.
After hours at sea, the men called what they thought was the Irish coastguard for help.
“They thought they were just off the coast of Ireland,” said Ray Steadman, press officer of the Holyhead lifeboat in north Wales, about 66 miles east of Ireland.
In fact, the two were just 12 miles north of where they started in Holyhead and had called the British coastguard, Steadman told Irish broadcaster RTE Monday.
And speaking of stupid criminals in Europe, how about speeding while in a funeral procession?
An Irish hearse driver has been fined for speeding — while leading a funeral cortege.
Police ordered undertaker John Carr to pay an 80 euro ($102) fine and gave him two penalty points for driving at 69 km/hr (43 miles/hour) in a 50 km/hr zone.
Several other vehicles in the cortege — on its way to a funeral in County Donegal, northwest Ireland — were also fined and their drivers threatened with prosecution if they did not pay.
Hundreds of people were caught in the same area during a police crackdown last month, including parents taking their children to school.
Even when dead, Johnny law is still after you.
Stay tuned next week for another episode of “Freaky Friday”