Pride Weekend

The city may host about 500,000 people in the downtown area this Sunday once again as the huge gay/lesbian/transgenered (etc.) parade moves up Market Street to the Civic Center Plaza for the annual celebration there.

Getting people into the city from the East Bay will be complicated this year by the fact that the Oakland A's are playing the SF Giants at Pacific Bell Park so the two crowds will mix it up on BART. Also, with the new extension to the airport now perating I am sure that some tourists will get caught up in the scene as well.

The fog has started moving back into the city. Thursday it was 98, Friday it was 86 and today it was in the seventies. By tomorrow we should have normal high temperatures in the sixties. How do you spell relief? F-O-G

Oh, this is funny.
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HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese man who used cow fat and paint to pass off a lump of iron as valuable black bronze found buyers -- but was paid $64,000 in counterfeit bills.
A justice official said 12 people involved in both frauds were arrested and were undergoing trial in southern An Giang province.

Eight were accomplices of the accused metal fraudster, while three were involved in the alleged counterfeiting, the prosecutor said.

State-run Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported that Huynh Van Gat confessed he had painted a one kg iron lump with cow fat and black paint and tried to pass it off as black bronze and sought to sell it for one billion dong ($64,683). Black bronze is used in making jewelry and ornamental objects like statues.

A group of three business people from Ho Chi Minh City who were negotiating to buy the black bronze, which is valued on the market at around $1 million, bought a printer to produce 900 million Vietnamese dong ($58,214) to pay for the deal.

Gat and his accomplices were arrested a few days later when local shops tipped off the police about the fake dong.

The men told the police they didn't know the money was counterfeit and revealed where it came from -- leading to the arrest of the others.

The justice official said the trial would last several days.

Counterfeiting money carries a penalty ranging from three years in prison to death by firing squad in communist Vietnam.
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Well, the last part is not funny but I found it amusing nevertheless. What some people will do to get something for nothing. hahaha

And with that I am out of here. Enjoy your weekend.