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Archive for the 'Scooby-Doo' Tag

Those meddling kids of Mystery Inc. ‘Doo’ it again

September 14th, 2009, 11:49 am by Jayson Peters
He doesn't eat much -- really. Image: Cartoon Network

He doesn't eat much -- really.

The world may still be trying to figure out what state Springfield, home of The Simpsons, is in — but another cartoon mystery has been solved.

Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins, a live-action prequel to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons and the live-action films that came out in the first half of the decade, debuted Sunday night on Cartoon Network, and it firmly places the locale of Coolsville, home to the meddling kids and their dog, in Ohio. Read the rest of this entry »

Rocky Mountain high?

August 26th, 2009, 9:47 am by Jayson Peters

Ah, Colorado. Crisp mountain air, meth-contaminated comics books and armed robbery — meddling kid and Klingon style!

Investigators this week announced they have broken up a massive methamphetamine ring that brought weekly drug shipments to the Denver area through Phoenix, then laundered the profits with half a million dollars’ worth of collectible comics books — including some Superman and Batman first editions. The fiends! (Bagged as they were or not, I wonder if those valuable books are now worthless after exposure to the harsh chemicals used to make meth?)

shaggybatleth1Also this week, the FBI dubbed a bank robber in more than a dozen hits in Arizona and Colorado “The Shaggy Bandit” for his resemblance (?) to the hirsute character from “Scooby-Doo.”

Reading that story led me to this blog post about weird weapons used by Colorado Springs criminals, which mentioned a story from earlier this year about a convenience store robbery in which a Klingon Bat’leth sword was used.

Is Colorado becoming a nexus of the bizarre?

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