November of 1987, Saturday Night’s Main Event came to Seattle and of course I had to go. We had seats on the aisle where the bad guys come out, so when Andre came out of the dressing room, I reached out and grabbed his jacket like an idiot, and he swung his arm to get me to let go. My only connection with my favorite wrestler ever.
I’m all about instant justice . . . but this is almost TOO brutal.
Earlier this month, a 40-year-old man went into an isolation ward at the Kagadi Hospital in Kibaale District, Uganda, and stole a cell phone from a man who was DYING OF EBOLA.
The police started tracking him when he began using the phone. But before they could catch him, the man went to the hospital himself . . . because he’d CAUGHT EBOLA from the phone.
Ebola has somewhere between a 10% and 30% survival rate. But since Uganda is struggling right now with a major outbreak, not everyone can get the full necessary treatment.
The man whose phone was stolen has died. The phone was valued at about $24.
(Gawker / Daily Monitor)
The website CelebrityNetWorth.com has put together a list of The 30 Richest Drummers in the World . . . and not surprisingly, BEATLES drummer RINGO STARR came out on top, with an estimated fortune of $300 MILLION.
The site got their data from, quote, “publicly available information including salaries, real estate holdings, divorces, record sales, royalties and endorsements.”
They also made deductions for taxes, manager’s fees, agents’ fees, and “lifestyle.” Not everyone on the list is a drummer EXCLUSIVELY, but it’s probably safe to assume their net worth includes their non-drumming income.
Here’s the list . . . along with the drummers’ most prominent gigs.
1.) Ringo Starr, $300 million (The Beatles)
2.) Phil Collins, $250 million (Genesis)
3.) Dave Grohl, $225 million (Nirvana and Foo Fighters)
4.) Don Henley, $200 million (The Eagles)
5.) Lars Ulrich, $175 million (Metallica)
6.) Charlie Watts, $160 million (The Rolling Stones)
7.) Larry Mullen Jr., $150 million (U2)
8.) Roger Taylor, $105 million (Queen)
9.) Joey Kramer, $100 million (Aerosmith)
10.) Chad Smith, $90 million (The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot)
11.) Travis Barker, $85 million (Blink-182 and The Aquabats)
12.) Stewart Copeland, $80 million (The Police)
13.) Alex Van Halen, $75 million (Van Halen)
14.) Nick Mason, $75 million (Pink Floyd)
15.) Tommy Lee, $70 million (Motley Crue)
16.) Bill Ward, $65 million (Black Sabbath)
17.) Jon Fishman, $60 million (Phish)
18.) Carter Beauford, $55 million (Dave Matthews Band)
19.) Rick Allen, $50 million (Def Leppard)
20.) Tre Cool, $45 million (Green Day)
21.) Danny Carey, $40 million (Tool)
22.) Tico Torres, $40 million (The SUPERSTAR drummer from Bon Jovi)
23.) Max Weinberg, $35 million (Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, and his work with Conan O’Brien)
24.) Mickey Hart, $30 million (The Grateful Dead)
25.) Bill Kreutzmann, $25 million (The Grateful Dead)
26.) Neil Peart, $22 million (Rush)
27.) Taylor Hawkins, $20 million (Foo Fighters)
28.) Questlove, $16 million (The Roots, and his work with Jimmy Fallon)
29.) Steven Adler, $15 million (Guns N’ Roses)
30.) Mick Fleetwood, $8.5 million (Fleetwood Mac)
I know that being in GUNS N’ ROSES’ classic lineup must be a cash cow . . . but I’d be stunned if Steven Adler still has $15 million to his name, after all his past problems and substance abuse. But supposedly, “lifestyle” is included.
So as you spend your life slaving away for THE MAN, remember: Some guy played drums on two Guns N’ Roses albums, and has $15 million, despite being a total mess for most of the past two decades. Life sucks, doesn’t it?
A TV reporter in Australia was in the middle of a story outside a shopping mall yesterday, when a mall security guard interrupted him . . . to make him move about 15 feet so he wasn’t standing on mall property.
The reporter told the studio to cut away while he dealt with it, but they stayed on him the whole time. It was during a morning show called “Breakfast”, and the two co-hosts loved it.
It happens at :26, and one of the co-hosts cracks jokes about the security guard at 1:50 and 2:17.
It’s time to meet two of the GREATEST OLD BROADS in America.
First is the oldest person in the WORLD. On Sunday, Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia turned 116. Besse was born in 1896 and is only the eighth person EVER to hit 116 years old.
Besse was married in 1924 . . . her husband died in 1963. She says her secret to longevity is, quote, “I mind my own business. And I don’t eat junk food.” In other words . . . you’re not going to make it to 116.
The other old woman of the day is 101-year-old Florence Detlor of Menlo Park, California, who’s been certified as the oldest woman ON FACEBOOK. She joined Facebook three years ago.
Yesterday morning, she even got to go to the Facebook headquarters and meet MARK ZUCKERBERG and the Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
(People / Mashable)
Last week, a crew in Johnstown, Pennsylvania was painting fresh yellow lines on a road. And they clearly weren’t watching what they were doing. Because somehow they painted the lines right over a DEAD RACCOON.
A spokesman says they did eventually see the roadkill but, quote, “[with] the geometry of the road and the size of equipment, they couldn’t turn around to go back and fix the mistake.”
(Johnstown Tribune-Democrat)