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Here’s hoping that this Monday after Mother’s Day finds your mother happy from her day yesterday and you with a large cup of coffee in your hand to face the week ahead. For me, I’m coming off a weekend away with Mom and looking forward to a girl’s trip this weekend, so I’m living the words of the great 1991 Loverboy song:
Everybody’s working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody’s goin’ off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
While I’m not exactly goin’ off the deep end, that’s actually a pretty accurate description of what happened for a few people this weekend.
Aric Almirola
Frankly, I don’t understand the appeal of NASCAR. I’ve tried, but I just find watching cars endlessly driving around in circles incredibly boring. But I do understand that puts me in the minority since an average race is watched by 2–4 million households. Which means that a ton of people were watching on Saturday when Almirola was in a fiery crash.
The driver was participating in the Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway when the right-front brake rotor on Joey Logano’s car apparently exploded after a restart on Lap 199, sending his car hurtling into Danica Patrick’s. Almirola was going too fast to avoid the crashed cars and almost went airborne.
Almirola was taken off the track on a stretcher, was airlifted to University of Kansas Medical Center, and diagnosed with a compression fracture to the T5 vertebra. However, things were looking up on Sunday, when he was released from the hospital and returned to Charlotte, N.C.
Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery. [via The Bleacher Report]
Chris Iannetta
Baseball is a sport that I do understand, and there was also a pretty scary moment in that sport this weekend that well.
Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Iannetta was at the plate during the seventh inning on Friday night, facing Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Johnny Barbato. Barbato threw a 93 mph fastball, which nailed Iannetta right in the face.
Iannetta suffered a fracture in his nose, a split lip, several damaged teeth and has been placed on the seven-day concussion disabled list, even though a CT scan came back negative. For his part, Barbato told MLB.com, “Just got away. Obviously wasn’t on purpose or anything. I think I felt worse than anyone in the stadium at the time.” He also noted that the two have exchanged text messages since the incident. [via TMZ]
This Girl
I’m the oldest of my siblings, so I never had a protective big brother. After reading this story, I think I’m pretty thankful for that birth order.
The unnamed sister of Twitter-user @DannyMoralesss likely did not have a super awesome prom, since she was forced to with her aforementioned brother, who tweeted about it on Friday night:
‘Cause that’s not creepy or anything. Of course, Twitter had some thoughts on the brother/sister prom date:
On the upside, that girl’s dress is scorching. On the downside, heaven help any dude that noticed her in it. [via Someecards]
Travis Scott
For some people, Travis Scott may be better known as the guy who is currently Kylie Jenner. But the musician is currently on tour, and his show on Saturday night actually landed him in jail.
Scott was arrested after performing at the Walmart Ampitheatre in Rogers, Arkansas on Saturday night for inciting a riot, disorderly conduct, and endangering the welfare of a minor. Keith Foster, Public Information Officer for the Rogers Police Department, released a statement regarding Scott (whose real name is Jacques Webster), saying:
During the concert, Webster encouraged people to rush the stage and bypass security protocols to ensure concert goer safety. During the rush to the stage several people were injured, including an employee from the security company hired to help monitor and control the crowd, and a member of the police department. The injured subjects were treated at the AMP by members of the Rogers Fire Department and Mercy Medical.
This isn’t the first time Scott’s onstage antics have landed him in trouble; he was charged with disorderly conduct charges following his 2015 performance at Lollapalooza, and recently came under fire after he urged a fan to jump from a third story balcony during a concert in New York.
Some people may want to ask Scott why he keeps encouraging his fans to do dumb things, but I actually only have one question for him: why would you change your name from Jacques Webster to Travis Scott? Jacques is way cooler. [via People]
This Bear
If I were going to break into a store, it would likely be a jewelry store. More $$ for your effort, you know? But bears don’t exactly think the same way as people, and for reasons known only to him, this small black bear tried to break into hardware store in Grand Coulee, Washington. The subsequent video does show a similarity between me and the bear, because I’m pretty sure it would go just about as well if I ever attempted to lead a life of breaking-and-entering.
Okay, I need to be honest…I’ve totally done that on more than one occasion, and I wasn’t even trying to steal anything. [via Mashable] .
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Some loser took his little sister to prom? Just be an asshole to her date, like a normal older brother.
Yeah just cal him a boner or something don’t humiliate all parties involved
I have an older brother and there’d be no way in hell I’d allow him to take me to prom. At the same time, he wouldn’t even think to take me to begin with. What a weird family dynamic….
Hi “Working for the Weekend” came out in 81, not 91 I’M ANNOYING BYE
I feel like guy who takes his sister to prom would be a total scumbag who is afraid guys will treat his sister like he treats other girls. He also looks like the type of dude to put fitted baseball caps in the back of his car for decoration.
That baseball clip legitimately made me nauseous. *shudders*
is it just me, or is jacques webster a way cooler name than travis scott?
I’d say Travis Scott came out on top here with all the free publicity he’s getting. (I assume he’s getting free publicity; PGP, Wikipedia, and Netflix are really the only websites I use.)
I don’t think not being in the 2-4mm viewers of NASCAR puts you in the minority of 300 million people just in the US alone
Dude really used his sister’s coolest high school experience so he could get pics and flex on social..
I know at least 14 people (including myself) who had far worse weekends than these 5.
Are you going to post something about your weekend on every column today?
You’re hyping this pretty hard. Hopefully you don’t under deliver. Would hate to see a bunch of “cool story bro” comments.
Unless something really amazing happened or one person on the trip is a really good writer, then that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
I can write an article detailing some of the crazier stuff that happened and throw some pics up about it and I guess it would be a fun story to read, but like others have said it would most likely just gather those “cool story bro” comments because as much fun as it was, it’s hard to fully translate what actually happened into relatable content. We’ve kinda ran it into the ground in these comment sections though and I apologize for that. It was very entertaining to us
I’m hyping this, agreed there. I’ll try to write a column, but I have doubts it’ll be posted for a variety of different reasons. People have careers and I wouldn’t want shit to come back to them.
We’ve all been to college. So unless you killed a Dolphin, I’m probably not going to be impressed.
I’m glad they had fun but the column is going to elicit either the “Cool story bro” as mentioned above or a “Guess you had to be there” response. I don’t know that anyone wants a recap of strangers getting drunk at the beach.
I agree with this comment completely. Def either “cool story bro” or “you had to be there,” and it’s not translatable to the wider PGP audience. No one wants to read about “That time I had an orgy with 14 strangers in Florida because the Internet”
Rico, are you coming to Houston happy hour on Wednesday?
I can’t due to a scheduling conflict. Also my wife doesn’t know I’m know I’m on here and I like it that way.
Boooo. But I get it.
Are there any PGP users in the Bristol VA/TN area ?
A dolphin is a pretty random animal to use as an example.
We have anonymous usernames on here for a reason.
And by that I mean you should stop being a wuss and give us full details while using their usernames to protect their real life identities.