'Robert Fergus, 72, ran naked with a pair of scissors in the reception of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel' ? https://t.co/8AWacgLnzw
— Yoor Wullie (@YoorWullie) September 1, 2017
According to the BBC someone had a very good time*:
Robert Fergus, 72, ran naked with a pair of scissors in the public reception of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel and smashed a glass pane.
His wife Ruth, 69, threatened to shoot a staff member after “reacting badly” to the alcohol she consumed earlier.
The couple were fined £4,100 at Perth Sheriff Court.
Mr Fergus, from Troon, was also ordered to pay the hotel £800 compensation to cover the cost of the damage from the incident on 4 February.
He had admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards four staff members, wilfully destroying property, and drink driving.
The Guardian provides further details:
Michael Sweeney, fiscal depute, said the incident began after a guest was woken by banging on his door at 1.45am and saw Mrs Fergus, who became abusive, in the hallway. The guest informed reception, after which Mr Fergus appeared with no clothes on and began shouting abuse at the staff and guests in the foyer.
“Both accused were acting as if they were out of control,” Sweeney said. “He was observed to have a pair of scissors. Mrs Fergus said: ‘I’m going to get a gun and shoot you,’ at [staff member] Miss Titkova.
“On seeing the scissors, Miss Titkova shouted at the other staff and guests to run. They saw Mr Fergus pick up a sign and smash a glass pane in the door with it.”
At this point, Mr Fergus apparently tore through the foyer telling witnesses: “I’m going to slit you and kill you.”
Staff and guests ran from the hotel towards the village of Kinloch Rannoch, and the couple returned to their rooms to pack before driving off towards Perth.
The court heard that they flagged down a passing police car and accused hotel staff of attacking them.
Robert gave a positive breath test but told officers: “I had no intention of driving but I was forced to. Our lives were in danger from hotel staff.”
But CCTV footage at the hotel proved his story to be false.
Also, since a lot of us are keeping an eye on it, here’s a late evening Irma update:
11pm EDT advisory for #Irma. Chance of direct impacts continue to increase beginning later this week in the FL.https://t.co/XZO7pOrOHA pic.twitter.com/9Q2dfe6CNF
— NWS (@NWS) September 6, 2017
These are times for the most likely arrival of winds too strong to continue hurricane #Irma prep actions. Prep now!https://t.co/EtEGhob4E6 pic.twitter.com/TgM8s76VjI
— NWS (@NWS) September 6, 2017
11 pm AST forecast and key messages for Hurricane #Irma. Go to https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb for the latest forecast. pic.twitter.com/ozQfx3hdRB
— NHC Atlantic Ops (@NHC_Atlantic) September 6, 2017
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Mai.naem.mobile
So even Cher has NFLTG. She tweeted that everybody should shelter DACA recipients and she would . Some idiot decided to challenge her on whether she really would and Cher replied ‘Keep your eyes open bitch!’ Do not fuck with Cher!
Major Major Major Major
Well that’s what you get for inviting people from Troon.
encephalopath
And then there’s Jose, following on hard in the path of Irma.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/023618.shtml?cone#contents
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Och aye!
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
My kid is at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco on business. I don’t think anything like that is going on, but I’ll ask
Mnemosyne
I read the tweeters name as “Yoor Willie” and thought it was a little too on the nose, if you will.
I’m still trying to figure out how to work an axe attack by an enraged Scotsman into my novel. I think I can make it work. ?
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Borrow the woodsman from the alternate Snow White story.
JGabriel
Irma on the Puerto Rico satellite loops:
Infrared
Water Vapor
It’s not close enough to the mainland yet to show up on the East Coast loops.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: She’s actually referring to something that happened to me when I lived in Scotland.
Mike J
On to the 16th inning.
Mnemosyne
I decided to put on some 70s funk while I was cooking dinner tonight and ended up dancing around the kitchen.
The cats are still hiding. There’s a reason I rarely dance in public.
feebog
Saw Cher in concert in Vegas a couple weeks ago. She did a 10 minute monologue and mentioned she just turned 71. The audience started applauding and she shut it down quickly. She said getting old was nothing to cheer about. Then she said last week she did 100 butt crunches and a 5 minute plank. A 5 minute plank at 71. As she turned around to start her next number she said “what’s your granny doing tonight?”
On a more sober note, we have many friends and acquaintances on Virgin Gorda (BVI) which looks like now like it will take a direct hit from hurricane Irma. At this point I am resigned to the fact there will be total desolation of the island, which is one of the prettiest places on earth. I just hope there is no loss of life. If you are the praying sort, say one for them tonight. If not, keep them close in your thoughts.
cain
I wonder if Trump is worried about Mar-A-Largo? At least I know that fool won’t be vacationing/playing golf there anytime soon. If there was a god, that place would be the only building wrecked and everything else untouched. (with no loss of life of course)
West of the Rockies (been a while)
The incident above sounds like a particularly bad episode of Monarch of the Glen, season 6.
cain
Let’s all hope that Puerto Rico and Cuba and the other islands in the Carribean will be safe. They are going to be hit first.
JGabriel
@Mnemosyne:
How hard can it be?
NoraLenderbee
@feebog: Still performing at 71? That’s great!
. . .
Holy fucking shit, CHER is 71??????????
sm*t cl*de
Scottish persons prove incapable of holding their whisky.
Probably Campbells.
sm*t cl*de
“Running with scissors” is what turns the whole episode into a scene from a Tom Sharpe novel.
efgoldman
@cain:
I’d love to see Mal a Loco destroyed, and all the tasteless crap float out to sea. But he’ll make a hugely exaggerated insurance claim, and then keep the insurance companies in court for years until they finally give up.
nickrud
Fergus. Love me some Fergus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0n-zSeqB-0”
(for those who haven’t heard this yet, it’s about Trump. Richard may be getting up in age but he can still write some biting lyrics.)
Adam L Silverman
@cain: His Caribbean property is directly in the path of the storm. It is also up for sale.
feebog
@NoraLenderbee:
And has the body of someone half her age. Pretty freaking amazing woman.
Adam L Silverman
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne:
Well, to paraphrase Ray Chandler, when in doubt, have a man come through the door with an axe in his hand.
nickrud
@Major Major Major Major: Tell him Trump is building another golf course.
JGabriel
@cain:
If there was a merciful god, Trump wouldn’t be president. Note that I’m not discounting the possibility of a vengeful god, or one with a really sick sense of humor.
Fair Economist
@feebog: The fear about Irma next week in FL and the aftermath of Harvey are distracting people from what may well be the worst hurricane strike in the Lesser Antilles for at least 250 years (since the Great Hurricane of 1780). They’re going to need help afterwards too and I hope they don’t get overlooked.
Mai.naem.mobile
I wonder if the Caribbean has flood insurance. Will Dolt45 try and scam that insurance for his property if it is available?
Adam L Silverman
@cain: They’re going to get hammered. Unfortunately.
Barbuda is about to take a direct hit.
Mnemosyne
You guys …
I’M FINALLY SEEING HAMILTON TOMORROW!!!
Yes. I am excited.
Fair Economist
@feebog:
Hey, I saw her supposed farewell tour twelve years ago. I wuz cheated, she didn’t quit!
Fair Economist
@feebog:
Most women don’t look that good at ANY age. Nor most men, including me.
Fair Economist
@Mnemosyne:
(cue choir of angels)
Mai.naem.mobile
I never paid attention to Cher(not the kind of music i like) until i happened to be watching CSPAN and heard this call in 2003:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4532037/cher-calls-c-span
If you haven’t heard it before it’s worth the few minutes of listening. The host later on said he was a huge fan of Cher and kind of guessed it was Cher even though she was trying to hide it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: I can feel the vibrations from here. I hope it is everything you want to experience.
Mnemosyne
@Fair Economist:
Now I have to try and not accidentally injure myself between now and tomorrow night. I have unfortunately been known to get clumsy at the worst possible time, like right before I left for Hawaii and Disney World.
patrick II
It is a little disorienting that I am reading about this second immense hurricane withing two weeks the day after I read that the EPA will no longer accept submissions for funding science projects that mention the words “climate change”. All submissions must pass through the office of John Konkus, the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs. Mr. Konkus is not a scientist, but a politician and has no idea of the scientific value of any of the papers submitted. All he knows is that they can’t have the words “climate change” anywhere in them. This is reminiscent to me of the Soviet-Russia era when each government unit had a political officer attached to assure noting would be done or talked about that was out of line with communist party policy or ideology. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. (M. Twain).
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Hey, cool, enjoy!
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: Congrats! Enjoy yourself!
some guy
@feebog:
the location of my Mom’s 85th birthday party. my wife learned snorkeling so she could fit in at the Baths. the whole clan was there. 2 houses rented, a week long vaccionne for the clan.
be well Gorda
Fair Economist
@Mnemosyne: Maybe a day off work listening to the Hamilton soundtrack? Hmm, maybe not; I could see some unpleasant household accidents from acting out parts. I see your problem.
Mart
My wife and I met an Irish couple at a sea side hotel on the mostly tourist free Atlantic side of a Caribbean Island. They were hilarious. He told us he was dying of cancer (that part was not hilarious) and his goal was to spend all his money before the fucking kids get their paws on it. He invited us to his awesome giant room overlooking the beach. On top of the kitchen cabinets he had every brand of Rum from the region, and then some. Had to carry my wife to the room on my back. Fell a few times, bruised the knees pretty good. Never thought of threatening the staff naked with scissors, but would not have put it past us. The sugar headache the next morning was god-awful. Saw the Irish guy laying by the pool and told him he was a dirty M F’er. Made him and his wife laugh.
Mike J
@nickrud:
How did you guess?
Fergus he builds and builds
Yet small is his erection
Fergus has a fine head of hair
When the wind’s in the right direction
I saw him at Iota outside DC years ago. Great show.
lollipopguild
@Mnemosyne: Hamilton? What eeze this Hamilton thing that you speak of?
Mai.naem.mobile
@Mnemosyne: hope it’s as good as you think it’ll be.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Mnemosyne: Enjoy!
Oatler.
In “Life in a Scotch Sitting-Room”, Ivor Cutler observed that there are a lot of thistles in Scotland.
danielx
Really wish I’d gone to the Keys a few months back. I suspect a whole way of life is about to disappear.
CZanne
@Mnemosyne: And on the 245th anniversary of his Hurricane Letter — it’s what got him off Nevis. Which is getting hit tomorrow. His hurricane was on Aug 31, and he managed to write a week later, which was published and got a 17 year old enough money to go to the mainland as an immigrant, where he made a whole lot out of himself.
The description of that hurricane in the Chernow book can’t pin a CAT rating on it, but it was considered the worst that had hit in memory, and it devastated the Caribbean.
History resonates hard when it decides to resonate.
Enjoy every second.
Mnemosyne
@Fair Economist:
Both of my pre-vacation accidents happened at home: a broken toe (pinky toe) and a sprained knee. I’m probably better off out of the house where I might be more cautious.
Mary G
@Mnemosyne: Jealous! Enjoy. Talk about it on here all day Thursday, just for Omnes.
Mary G
@Adam L Silverman: I’m sorry, but by the time I got to “Miss Titkova” I was convinced that this isn’t a news story, but a rejected Mike Myers script.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
Ah, what’s a hamilton? No need to yell, I’m not that old.
Redshift
@Mnemosyne: Yay! We’ll talk afterwards.
bemused senior
It seems Rushbaugh thinks the Irma predictions are a scam to enrich Big Water (as in bottled). It is also a plot by Algore and other climate change believers. ” But I’m not a meteorologist.. .” ( Seen on his website via Twitter mockery.)
Omnes Omnibus
@Mary G: ????
Mnemosyne
Thanks, everybody! I think it’s going to be good, but one never knows when the cast will have an off night. That’s what makes it live theater.
@Mary G:
I think that several conversations established that OO is actually an OG Alexander Hamilton fan from long before the musical was written, and he considers the rest of us to be poseurs and bandwagon-jumpers. He liked Hamilton before Hamilton was cool. ?
opiejeanne
@Mike J: 16th inning? Is that the Mariners? I’m watching the Angels pitchers just screw up another game. They set the AL record for most pitchers used during a game, with a total of 12. No one is capable of throwing the damned ball.
trollhattan
@Fair Economist:
Did she stipulate length of farewell tour?
Adam L Silverman
@Mary G: Apparently the hotel was collecting kompromat on the guests…
Major Major Major Major
@bemused senior: I am fine with his followers taking his advice.
Mike J
@opiejeanne:
Red Sox about to start the 19th v Toronto.
trollhattan
@Oatler.:
Ivor Cutler! Still have my copy of “Velvet Donkey.” What a treasure he was.
Mike J
@Mike J: Red Sox win!
Amir Khalid
@NoraLenderbee:
Cher first became a star in the 1960s. Time does fly, doesn’t it?
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: @Mnemosyne: What Mnem said. Just snarling at you a bit for engaging with the returned troll in the last thread. I have never used a pie filter, but if the dope keeps coming back I may have to reconsider.
opiejeanne
@NoraLenderbee: She and Sonny played at my husband’s HS at a dance in the gym his senior year, 1965. They had a record climbing the charts but they’d already signed the contract so they showed up and put on a show. I think the song was “Baby Don’t Go”. “I Got You Babe” was released that summer, I think.
barb 2
I have friends living on an island that Irma just went past. I got emails from them before the electricity on the island was turned off. Even if the island doesn’t get a direct hit — the wind and rain will do a lot of damage. The width of Irma is so wide that damage will be wide spread. This island was hit by Hugo decades ago — and the ruins are still apparent. The volcano erupted after Hugo — now Irma.
One Brit expat has a guest house and a herd of goats — she was bringing the goats into her house to shelter them. Houses in the Carribean are open with tile floors so I guess her house will clean up after the goats — depending on the roof is still on the house. Roofs blow off.
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah??
Another Scott
@CZanne: Thanks.
A good reminder that history can change by the seemingly smallest things (or the biggest things happening to the seemingly smallest people)…
Enjoy the show, and be safe, Captain Mnemo!
Cheers,
Scott.
opiejeanne
@Mike J: Oh. My. God.
They may set a record.
Angels game is tied, against the As. Top of the 9th, two outs. We should be winning right now but it’s 7-7 because our pitchers are terrible.
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
Did you know that it’s going to Costa Mesa next? It might be worth it for you to get the app and enter that lottery every day there’s a chance you could get there.
jl
Send the story about the old drunk guy to Trump. Look at the fun he could be having. Might get him resign and hang out at his Scottish golf club and spend weekends tearing up local hotels.
jl
@Major Major Major Major:
” Well that’s what you get for inviting people from Troon.”
Hey, wait. Some of my Scots ancestors come from around there. I smell a rat.
I suspect no true Troon man, he.
jl
@opiejeanne:
” They set the AL record for most pitchers used during a game, with a total of 12. No one is capable of throwing the damned ball. ”
You going to a game before the season ends? Maybe they;ll let some fans pitch.
Amir Khalid
@jl:
That old drunk guy kind of looks like Trump, but with less-weird hair.
Nicole
@Mnemosyne: @Mai.naem.mobile: I saw it in February, convinced it would be a solid show but wouldn’t live up to the hype. It lived up to the hype. It’ll be every bit as good as Mnemosyne thinks it will be. :)
opiejeanne
@jl: Hahahaha! I remember a Dodgers game in 2004 when Robin Ventura pitched an inning because they had run out of pitchers; they were losing badly to the Angels. He did pretty well, giving up a single and getting three outs on pop-ups The Angels used Chili Davis as a pitcher in 1993
We were thinking about going this weekend when they’re in Seattle but the smoke is killing us right now.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne:
As I noted in the last thread, the kid posted a pic on Facebook of her with downtown Seattle from the Space Needle, I’m not sure I could make out Smith Tower.
Here’s a pic of the same view when the Space Needle was new(1962). My parents went to the Worlds Fair(I got left with grandma in Bremerton).
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice photo. I was 12 that year and wanted to go to Seattle to see the World’s Fair but my parents couldn’t see spending the money. We went to KC every other year to visit grandparents and cousins and that might have been the year we took the train with Mom and Dad stayed home, instead of Dad driving us from LA. Two week vacation, three days driving each way, and no AC. He seemed to enjoy it but he also seemed to enjoy spinach when we were kids and only admitted when we were adults that he hated the stuff and only ate it so we’d eat it.
Patricia Kayden
@Major Major Major Major: Hmmm mmmm. Why would anyone in their right mind listen to Limbaugh about a weather issue (or anything else)?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden:
I think the answer to your question is contained in your question.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: Here’s the kid’s version of that photo from yesterday.
tybee
found this little tidbit about Irma to be interesting:
Note that the MPI (Maximum Potential Intensity) along the track of Irma peaks at about 210 – 215 mph in the Florida Straits.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/extremely-dangerous-cat-5-irma-storms-leeward-islands
Aimai
@Mnemosyne: lucky duck!! Enjoy it!
Starfish
@feebog: President Obama made a joke about his wife Michelle doing a three minute plank and it being really hard so I tried to do a three minute plank. It was really hard. I am a person who takes aerial dance lessons regularly, and a three minute plank was hard. I cannot imagine a five minute plank much less a five minute plank at 71.
Tenar Arha
@Mnemosyne: This is late and you may never see it, but may I just say, an axe attack by an outraged Scotsman is almost always appropriate in a novel.
bluefoot
@Mai.naem.mobile: I’ve got a lot of respect for Cher. I remember when she visited Walter Reed back in the early 2000’s and brought attention to the soldiers injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the reality of the war. This was back when we were getting all this sunshine-and-rainbows crap from the administration and she wasn’t having any of it. I recall she got a lot of flak for it at first (that whole “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” and “undermining morale” thing) but she refused to shut up about it. She’s remarkable.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That looks like what we had yesterday, and it’s so disturbing for Seattle.
Your daughter is very pretty.
Dmbeaster
@patrick II: I am sure he will nnake an exception for climate denial research