Maine Needs Representation on MTV’s The Real World

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of seeing the tiresome, run of the mill, good looking people on MTV’s The Real World. Honestly, how many pretty women and meat-heads from Boston can we put on this show and expect something new and different?

I think the producers need to cast someone new, a fresh face who brings a new dynamic to the house where “people stop being polite... and start getting real.”

So I say, BRING IN SOMEONE FROM MAINE! And you know what, I got just the guy. Cony High Schools (Augusta) very own, "Scotty to Hotty."

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Finally, It's Over...

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE -- A taste for French fries cost this pig its freedom.

The Vietnamese pot-bellied pig that has been roaming the Waterville area this past month was captured Saturday on West River Road.

Waterville Police Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey said Monday that someone who had been feeding the pig French fries called police, who responded to the scene around 6 p.m.

Police then briefly stunned the gray pig with a Taser gun, then captured it with a snare pole, Rumsey said.

"We took the opportunity to deploy that Taser for a short time," he said. "The pig was not injured whatsoever. It suffered no ill effects."

Police took the pig to Donald and Judy Shores' Oak Street farm in Oakland until its owner can pick him up, Rumsey said.

Rumsey said it was important to capture the pig because it could pose a public hazard if it dashed across traffic.

"We were very concerned with it running out into the roadway and causing a traffic accident," he said.

Judy Shores said that she is keeping the pig in a cattle pen for now, hoping someone will claim him. The animal seemed no worse for the wear, she said.

"He seems to be OK," Shores said. "You can't put them pigs just anywhere because they get away."

The pig's owner sure knows that. Shores hopes the owner will step forward and claim it.
"I don't really want it," she said. "They're a nuisance. You have to have a pretty good fence for them."

Waterville homeowner Pam Hart tried to capture the pig Thursday.

Hart used cat food to lure the animal, but was unable to get close enough to grab it.

In late May, Colby College officials spotted the swine near the softball field.

Students were able to leash him, but he slipped the leash at a cookout, and had been a free-range pig from then until Saturday.


Wow, good to see those taser guns are being put to good use *insert sarcasm here*

I'm not saying call PETA over the incident, but come on, a taser to catch a pig? Talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight.

But thankfully, this story is over. We laughed, we cried, but really, we just laughed a lot.

This Is Still Going On?

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE -- A little pig that evaded captors on the Colby College campus last month turned up Thursday morning four miles away on a West River Road lawn.

Homeowner Pam Hart lured it with cat food, called it a good pig and tried to get close enough to capture it, but to no avail.

"Come here, I won't hurt you," she crooned, as the charcoal-gray pig slurped noisily, its tail swishing to and fro.
"He doesn't really seem too afraid," she said.

Hart was at work Thursday morning at Maintenance Plus in Winslow where she got three phone calls from friends who had driven past her house and said they saw a pig there.

"They were laughing. They said, 'Did you know you had a black pig on your lawn, eating?' I came home and he was standing right there by the birch tree, just grazing."

Hart called the Police Department, hoping an animal control officer might come and capture the pig.
"I was afraid he might start eating the flowers or the shrubs or he might end up in the pond -- who knows? Of course, I wouldn't want him to go out in the road and get hit."

As she waited and watched and the pig continued to munch, Hart's son Jerry arrived in his pickup truck. He lives on nearby Dusty Lane and his wife, Bridget, had called him to report a pig had just wandered up the path to his mother's house.

"It's been a long time since there were pigs on this property," Jerry Hart mused. "We used to raise pigs out back. You want to talk about somebody trying to catch a pig -- they're like a rabbit. They cut on a dime. If you chase 'em, the next thing you know, they're heading the other way."

When an animal control officer did not arrive more than an hour later, Pam Hart said she had to return to work.

"Keep grazing and I won't have to mow the lawn," she told the pig.

The swine, ears flapping, eventually trotted down the hill and over a little bridge to the neighbor's lawn and then headed to a vacant house next door.

Jerry Hart, owner of Hart construction, drove there in his pickup truck, got out, and fed the pig with dog treats he plucked from inside a plastic bag.

"I keep them with me when I go on job sites," he explained.

The pig approached Hart whenever he tossed a morsel and then retreated to munch. Back and forth it went, for another half-hour, with the pig occasionally scratching its head with a rear hoof.

"I'm almost out," Hart said of the dog treats. "I've got to get back to work."

With that, he drove off, leaving the pig looking. The animal waited a while and then trotted back toward Pam Hart's house where there was more cat food on the lawn. As of Thursday evening, the pig's whereabouts were unknown.

It is unknown who actually owns the gray Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, which left Colby in late May after some students apparently took it to a campus cookout and it slipped its leash.

Colby spokesman Stephen Collins said he would try to find someone at the campus' physical plant who might be able to help capture the pig Thursday, but he could not make any promises.

"Can you grab it?" Collins asked. "What I've heard is that he's tame enough so you can feed him by hand, and as soon as your other hand moves as if to grab him, he's gone."

Uh-huh.


Not sure what's worse: the pig being loose for a month, or the fact the paper gives weekly updates on the progress of catching it (Complete with pictures!)?

I Don’t Know What's Worse… The Ford Escort or the John Deere Tractor

From the Bangor Daily News:

James Gardner had planned to pick up his prom date driving his dad’s John Deere tractor and wow the crowd of more than 200 well-wishers snapping pictures in the parking lot of Penobscot Valley High School.

But because of the heavy rain Saturday, he picked her up in the Ford Escort his father drives to work most days.

Each year, Gardner said, seniors come up with unusual conveyances for prom night. In the past, revelers have arrived on firetrucks and flatbed trailers, he said. Last year, a couple arrived in a motorboat pulled by a truck.

Gardner’s parents, Ellen and William Gardner of Howland, are teachers in SAD 31, which comprises Burlington, Edinburg, Enfield, Howland, Maxfield and Passadumkeag,

Not being able to make an entrance on the tractor, used on the family blueberry farm in Ellsworth, was the only thing that dampened Gardner’s prom and graduation weekend.

Read the entire article here


Now that I think about it, coming in on a tractor would have really topped off my prom night too. I knew I was missing something to accommodate my tin of Skoal and Canadian Tuxedo. Then again, I think I made up for the tractor when I showed up with my sister.

Honestly though, this is a nice story. It’s nice to see teens have fun with prom and not make it some Hollywood-event where everyone is nervous about losing their virginity or where they are going to drink cheap beer after the dance…

Relief Is Only 1.5 Hours Away

From the Associated Press Wire Service:

TOWNSHIP 22 - Relief has arrived for motorists traveling along Route 9 in eastern Maine.

Beginning Friday, drivers will have a pit stop along the hour-and-a-half drive from Calais to Brewer. New year-round public restroom facilities will give drivers a break in Township 22, adjacent to the Airline Snack Bar and Lounge.

There were plenty of snickers and jokes when state Sen. Kevin Raye introduced legislation for the facility.

But he said the lack of public restrooms along the route was no laughing matter and caused a hardship for many Mainers, especially for Washington County residents traveling to Bangor for medical treatments.


I would think the town would want to name their town before they started throwing up pit stops, but maybe that’s just me. Also, did the Airline Snack Bar and Lounge not have public restrooms?

In any case, enjoy Township 22; I look forward to pictures of the ribbon cutting ceremony…

What does it take to be a celebrity in Maine?

Apparently, not much.

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE -- Waterville's own singer, songwriter and producer Jeremy Greene will really hit the big time Monday as he stars in "Living Lohan," a reality show on the E! Network featuring actor Lindsay Lohan's

family.

Well that’s a pretty big break! To come from a small town and work your way towards staring in a nationally televised reality television show. But wait… there’s more…

The show, which will appear on Time Warner Cable's Channel 60 in Waterville, starts at 10:30 p.m. and will feature Greene in three episodes out of eight over a period of several weeks, according to Christel Wheeler of E!'s public relations.

Wait, appearances in 3 episodes? He is considered one of the stars of the show for having his mug in frame for 3 episodes? Is this seriously the best we can come up with for profiling local talent? A guy who will be in 3 episodes of a show that clearly will NOT get renewed.

To Jeremy’s defense, the rest of the article goes on to tout some of his successes. I simply found humor in the fact the Morning Sentinel would dub Jeremy a star for being on a trashy reality television show.

Either The Girls at Colby Are Letting Themselves Go, Or...

From the Morning Sentinel:

WATERVILLE — Colby College campus has had a new visitor at large, recently, and he isn’t paying tuition.

The uninvited guest is a medium-sized, charcoal-gray pig, presumed to be male, that has been on the loose on campus for more than a week.

“It’s currently a free-range pig. I spotted it a couple of days ago, grazing on grass on the girls’ softball field, when I drove past on my bicycle. It’s about the size of an English Springer Spaniel,” said Colby director of communications Steve Collins, Wednesday.The pig is believed to be a Vietnamese Potbelly, he said.

The pig was last under human control when Colby students, who were not identified, had taken the pet pig to a campus cookout, where it slipped its leash, Collins said.

According to Collins, some of Colby’s grounds crew had collaborated with the animal control officer in Waterville, to set up traps on campus, in an attempt catch the free-roaming hog.

Waterville police Sgt. Joseph Shepherd said the pig has been on the loose at Colby for more than a week.
Colby’s assistant grounds supervisor Peter MacDonald confirmed that attempts to catch the elusive pig by Wednesday, had failed.

“We tried to catch it a couple of ways, like physically chasing after him and using a net to throw over him. That didn’t work," MacDonald said. "He is very friendly, but as soon as you think about moving, he shoots right away. We actually had him eating out of our hands.”

I guess all you can say is, "You know you've gone to school in Maine for to long when you bring a live pig to your cookout."