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Floyd Briggs, pictured here, has given the best local television interview so far this year. Image from KFOR.
Floyd Briggs is going to join the pantheon of best local television interviews ever.
He'll join the ranks of the classic interviews, like the "apparently kid"at a Pennsylvania fair, the flair of Antoine Dodson,who foiled a creep who tried to sexually assault his sister, and the woman describing a destruction hailstorm at her house -- KABOOYA!!!
Floyd Briggs joins the list of these awesome interviews for describing for television station KFORhow he stopped a motorcyclist being chased by police in Chickasaw, Oklahoma.
Briggs is a camoflauge wearing big good ole' boy who stepped out into the street to make the motorcyclist crash, then chased him down.
Briggs admitted to the reporter that he got kind of winded chasing the guy down. "I was running out of steam very quick. I'm not very aerodynamic."
I also like how Briggs apologized to his neighbors during the interview for the salty language he used as he helped apprehended the perp, but I'm sure he's already forgiven. He seems like the type of guy that everyone would like.
"I did use some language that just isn't how I talk....Some of the words I used, I was pretty worked up. I'm sorry for that."
There were no serious injuries in the incident, and the motorcycle driver faces several criminal charges. But, we have a new news hero in Briggs.
By the way, Briggs' Facebook pagemight be a little lowbrow, in a very good way, and it's also pretty funny.
I know, I know. Too many people have covered that song. It's turning into a cliche.
But Nichole turned the song on its head, and turned it into one of the best performances I've seen on the show. She kind of turned the song into an epic play.
Watch what she does toward the end. The move downward is so brilliant. She made the song so complex, and totally renewed "Creep"
I'm gushing, but I'm hoping to hear a lot more from Kimberly Nichole in the future based on this video:
President Obama getting help at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner from Luther, his "anger translator"
At last night's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, we had the usual sharp, weird, often funny political jokes bandied about in a roomful of people who really don't like each other.
It's an odd annual tradition, but it's fun and we get some good laughs from it.
Maybe the best I've seen so far from this year's is "No Drama Obama" spicing things up a little with the help of Luther, Obama's Anger Translator.
Like him or not, Obama is not one to start yellling and screaming much like other politicians. So we had Luther, played by comedian Keegan-Michael Key, telling us what Obama really thought as he discussed the important issues of the day.
Sometimes I wish Obama acted like Luther in real life. A case is point is toward the end of the video you'll see below, when he's discussion climate change.
The President gets hotter than the increasingly torrid Earth when going on about it.
You'll see why Luther sloooowwwllly backs away.
Maybe we should draft Luther for President in 2016. Maybe more things will get done?
You be the judge by watching this really funny video:
Our Florida Man ice cream thief
flips the bird at the surveillance camera.
Before you say anything, remember, the following happened in Florida, which explains everything.
Surveillance video shows a guy stealing an ice cream cooler at a convenience store.
It might seem hard to do, taking a whole Good Humor cooler from a convenience store. You'd think somebody would notice, after all.
But,according to the Miami Herald the store clerk, Beauvais Guisman, was sound asleep, just inches away from where the cooler had been.
I never knew a convenience store was such a comfortable place to sleep. The things you learn!
I'm not sure what you'd do with a whole cooler of ice cream. You can only eat so much of it, after all.
But maybe the suspected thief, Dennis Norman, 25, was especially hungry.
The Miami Herald saidpolice figured out that Norman was a frequent visitor to the nearby Zoo Gym Health Club. He'd probably worked up an appetite from all those hours in the gym.
From gym records, police caught up with Norman at his home. He'd stashed the ice cream in his own freezer, but said he couldn't remember what he did with the Good Humor cooler from the store.
He couldn't remember? A big cooler is not like a set of car keys. It's kind of hard to misplace.
Then again, Guisman, the store clerk misplaced the cooler, too. After all, he slept through the whole theft.
Guisman is probably the former store clerk now, as sleeping on the job, especially during a theft, is likely a no-no. I'm afraid Guisman is going to get very tired again and fall asleep in a bad location.
All that pavement pounding looking for a new job has got to be tiring.
Here's the fun surveillance video of the incident: (The thief flipping the bird at the surveillance camera is a nice touch)
