"Well, That's One Way To Avoid Jury Duty" Dept

I didn't make up the headline, by the way -- that was the headline in the print edition of the Chronicle this morning. Alas, the humor was edited out by the time the story made it online, replaced by the pedestrian headline, "Police: Prospective juror in Houston pot trial caught smoking it."

I also deeply regret the fact that the last line of the story was edited. The online version:

"Mayo remained in the Harris County Jail on a $500 bail Tuesday night and could not be reached for comment."

The print version this morning read:

"Mayo remained in the Harris County Jail on a $500 bail Tuesday night and could not be reached for comment on her alleged morning toke."

Somebody get that online editor a humor transplant now, before it's too late.

Also, Aggie Karl directed me to this story of a young man whose methods of financing are creative, but whose grasp of the finer details of high finance is regrettably incomplete. Now, Karl told me about the $360,000,000,000 personal check the young man forged...but Karl left out the bit about how the would-be record company mogul carried a gun and marijuana to the bank with him, a tidbit that to my mind enhances the entertainment value of the story.