04/01/2012 – Bacon, Trespassing, and Fools
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Dying to get bacon… literally
If you would love to be buried in bacon, your dream has now become reality. J&D’s Foods has now created the Bacon Coffin, a casket with a bacon design on the outside, bacon memorial tube, gold handles, adjustable bed and mattress, and ivory crepe linens. If these coffins tantalize your taste buds, you can have one for $2999.95, with an additional shipping cost. The company became famous for developing Bacon Salt, Baconnaise, and Bacon Lube (exactly what you think it is), believing the Bacon Coffin was (obviously) the next step.
Exercising Constitutional rights gets one man arrested
Mark Mackey stood outside the Hemet, California Division of Motor Vehicles, reading portions of the Bible to fifteen people who were waiting on the building to open. He is a reverend at Calvary Chapel Hemet, a church that promotes evangelism. An (unnamed) officer nearby decided to arrest him, saying he was preaching to a “captive audience.” “He does not have the right to intimidate others and force them to listen and impede their ability to do normal business activities such as going to the DMV. While being arrested, Mackey was quoted saying, “Folks, this is what the United States is coming to. You can talk about anything you want, but you can’t talk about the Bible.” In the end, he was charged only for trespassing, which doesn’t make sense either, considering it was a public place. “The devil is holding everyone captive to do his will,” said Mackey, as he was led away. “Repent, and trust in Jesus Christ. Judgment Day is coming, folks.”
One elaborate April Fools’ Day plan
Museums in over twenty states have been duped fifty times over for over thirty years, and the University of Cincinnati has had enough. Mark A. Landis has never been arrested for his art forgeries, due to the fact that he never accepts money for them, but the university decided to teach him a lesson in their own way. Faux Real, an exhibit depicting art forgeries with a special spotlight on Landis’s, opens April 1st.
Landis makes his works in a variety of mediums from copies of original art, and then donates them to museums, sometimes under pennames, other times in disguise. He has never been charged with a crime, since he doesn’t accept payment, but museums’ reputations can be damaged. Landis thinks it is “nice of them to do this.”
Faux Real runs through May 20th at the Dorothy W. and C. Lawson Reed Jr. Gallery.
