Exploding Snails, Lawsuits and Theraflu

This isn't something I just made up. There's a guy somewhere in California suing a restaurant because a snail exploded and squirted sizzling hot butter in his face. A lawsuit over a hot snail exploding in your face?  Gimmie a break. I'll get to the Theraflu stuff later. I just feel like ranting about exploding snails awhile longer.

What kinda knucklehead thinks he should get money for biting into a hot snail?  Where's Judge Judy when we need her?  Is she still on TV these days?  I haven't tuned in for a few years. But, when I used to watch TV, I always thought she'd make a great President. She would tell it like it is. Once she told this gal, "You're too stupid to have babies. Don't have any more!"  Man, what an ideal Presidential Candidate she'd make. I'd vote !

Back to the snails. Could this be something, maybe the TSA should get involved in?  Possibly the snails got wind of that guy with the exploding underwear. We are all gonna suffer slow, painful, hot-buttered deaths.

But, that's not all. The guy is only suing for $7,500 due to his pain and suffering. How about the poor freakin' snail who got thrown in to boiling-hot butter, somewhere in California? Where do these people who ask for hot-buttered snails think they are, in France?

Wait !  It gets even better. This case has a precedence. It happened in upstate New York, way back in 1988. A woman got her eye burned from one of those evil, hot-buttered critters. This was way before exploding underpants ever came into vogue (That's French, ain't it ?) and she brought a lawsuit against that restaurant.

Hang-in, this gets even better.

In both cases, the sales of exploding escargo (snails) skyrocketed.   More knuckleheads want to go to the restaurants and try their luck with hot-buttered, American-style, exploding snails. I'm not kidding !

This is a story worth following. Keep up to date on it right HERE. It's all true; I double check everything.

NOW FOR THE THERAFLU PART OF THIS POST, I PRESENT YOU THIS:

Theraflu is some real powerful stuff. I never had it before this past Sunday. Now, I have no idea what day it is and don't really care to find out. I took this photo with my cell phone camera just after reading about the exploding snails and just before gulping down my two tablespoons (or was it teaspoons?) of the stuff. Woo!

That Theraflu stuff makes you feel good. It stopped my runny nose, uncongested my congestion, made me quit coughing, numbed my headache and even made me turn the dogs loose to walk by themselves. And the best part of the deal; it's nightime medicine.

I took some for breakfast and will have two more doses before the sun even thinks about setting tonight.

My recommendation to those people in New York and California would be:
QUIT TRYING TO ACT LIKE YOU'RE IN FRANCE. QUIT EATING EXPLODING SNAILS.
QUIT FILING LAWSUITS AGAINST RESTAURANTS. DRINK THERAFLU AND CHILL-OUT !

An Experiment With Flickr

Here's a shot of Masateru Yamamoto (Center) surrounded by Tatsuya Taujino, Hideyuki Kurasawa, Norimasa Tanaka and Yoshimitsu Shinkawa a fine group of folks I met in the village of Ada Kunigami Okinawa, Japan when I was getting ready to climb the mountain just before the Shinugu Matsuri. They were visitors to Okinawa from somewhere up in the mainland and I got the big fellow to sign a release form in exchange for a promise to email him a copy of the photo.

My wife made me these neat Model Release Forms (In Japanese Kanji). They say something like "Put your name, address, email, phone number HERE and the guy with the camera will give you a FREE PHOTO. In exchange for that you give him permission to enter your photo in contests, have it published in magazines, sold in his gallery, or anything else that ain't against the law, like printed on Madonna's underwear she keeps forgettin' to wear.

Anyhow, after emailing the big guy the photo and finding out he wanted a larger size, I asked him if he'd like to have it published in a magazine. The only catch being, everybody in the photo would have to give me their names and consent to be published. Some magazines are picky about things like that, so, I have to make sure I do the stuff legal-like; magazines don't want to get sued and neither do I, over a picture I took.

Well, a few days later Masateru emailed me with everybody's names and not only permission to have the photo published, they asked to be published and wanted me to tell them where and when they'd be published. So, I stuck the photo on flickr and emailed them a LINK to show them their photo with names in the caption and everything. Then, I went about trying to REALLY GET THEM PUBLISHED. I could tell they had been looking and showing their girlfriends, or somebody, because as of yesterday the photo IMGP4586 had EIGHT VIEWS !!!

Last night the photo was REALLY PUBLISHED and I StumbledUpon, Tweeted, Delicious Bookmarked and FaceBooked it. Then, went back and added
my magic to the photo on Flickr.

Them Dudes got A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR HITS, OVERNIGHT !

That's the magic of using Model Releases, your social networks and Flickr, properly and legally. They get their names and faces in print and all kinda folks hittin' on them and I can't get sued.

Gotta run now, though. I think Madonna's lookin' for me!