MACK BROWN IS FUNNY!! WHO KNEW?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
DAMN IF THIS DOES NOT LOOK A LOT LIKE KEVIN HUGHES!!!!
Man Dons Mask for Speed-Camera Photos
(Sept. 8) - An Arizona man who has been served 37 speeding tickets in the mail is refusing to pay them because he says the pictures captured by the state's photo-enforcement cameras don't show that it's him driving, AZcentral.com reported Tuesday.
The photos on the tickets all show the driver wearing a monkey mask.Skip over this content
Arizona Department of Public Safety
This image captured by a speed camera in Phoenix shows a driver wearing a monkey mask. While the car belongs to Dave Vontesmar, he claims it's not him.
"Not one of them there is a picture where you can identify the driver," said Dave Vontesmar, a flight attendant who works at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. "The ball's in their court. I sent back all these ones I got with a copy of my driver's license and said, 'It's not me. I'm not paying them.' "
But police disagree and say they've been watching him closely.
"We watched him four different times put the monkey mask on and put the giraffe-style mask on," Officer Dave Porter told AZcentral.com. "Based on surveillance, we were positive that Vontesmar was the driver."
Still, Vontesmar is confident that he won't have to pay the fines, which could exceed $6,500.
"It's obviously a revenue grab," he said of the new photo-enforcement program. "They're required by law to ID the driver of the vehicle. If they can't identify the driver or the vehicle by the picture, what are they doing to identify the driver?"
Arizona police are having a hard time getting a lot of speeders to pay tickets they receive in the mail.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ YOU DUMB BITCH!!!
D-Day for Annie Leibovitz as she must repay £16m by today... or lose everything
D-Day: Annie Leibovitz must repay a £16million debt by tomorrow or facing losing the rights to her life's work
Famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz faces losing everything today with just hours to go before she must repay a £16million loan - or lose her four homes and the rights to her life's work.
As if things weren't bad enough, yesterday an Italian cameraman sued her for passing off his pictures as her own.
Miss Leibovitz, 59, whose controversial pictures include a series of the Queen and 1991’s famous nude of a heavily pregnant Demi Moore, is said to earn at least £3million a year from Vanity Fair magazine, and freelance assignments.
Her fame and the price tag for her work have grown since she first hit the headlines with a photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono curled naked in a foetal position, taken just hours before the ex-Beatle was shot in 1980.
But she is struggling under a mountain of debt after a series of financial bungles.
And yesterday Italian photographer Paolo Pizzetti claimed Miss Leibovitz used photos he took in Venice and Rome, and passed them off as her own in a 2009 calendar for a coffee company.
Mr Pizzetti said he took the photos to illustrate locations for Miss Leibovitz, who was then supposed to take her own pictures. He is seeking a court order to stop the images from being used and £183,000 for copyright infringement.
A far bigger headache is the Tuesday deadline she faces to repay £16million to a New York company described as ‘an upmarket pawn shop’ that specialises in short-term loans.
Court papers show that the company, Art Capital Group, loaned Miss Leibovitz £16million to pay off all her debts which include £10million in overdue mortgages on four properties; about £2million in taxes, unpaid since 2004; and at least £500,000 to stylists and designers who worked for her.
Two of Leibovitz's most famous images: First, John Lennon and Yoko Ono in a photograph taken the day he was shot to death...
... And second, the Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover from 1991
ACG took the properties – three historic town houses in New York’s trendy Greenwich Village and a country estate in Rheinbeck, upstate New York, as collateral for the loan along with all rights to her past and future work.
When she failed to meet a scheduled payment deadline in July, they sued for breach of contract and a judge gave Miss Leibovitz until Tuesday to pay back the full £16 million.
Today experts said Miss Leibovitz’s best bet was to file for bankruptcy reorganization, which would protect her assets and give her time to refinance.
Miss Leibovitz’s spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, accused ACG of harassment. He said: ‘There has been tension and dispute since the beginning.’
ACG spokesman Montieth Illingworth said: ‘We have clear contractual rights and will protect them in any scenario.’
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