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In 2011, Okoumou made headlines after she was hit with an astounding 60 violations for illegally posting ads for her services as a personal trainer.

The Department of Sanitation slapped her with $4,500 in fines that year after she spent five hours one Sunday posting the fliers on Manhattan utility poles.

In 2017, she was arrested and charged with obstructing governmental administration, unlawful assembly and trespassing during a demonstration at the Department of Labor building on Varick Street. She had allegedly covered her mouth with tape and refused to respond to police demands.

On Wednesday, Okoumou told investigators that she was part of a group protest organized by Rise and Resist NYC. The activists unfurled a banner on Liberty Island less than an hour before her climb, which read: “ABOLISH ICE.”

TheBigAristotle posted:

Hakeem Olajuwon's post moves and footwork were badass

https://giant.gfycat.com/SecondhandDescriptiveBeagle.webm

Say Nothing posted:

https://i.imgur.com/2IwK5FB.mp4

tribbledirigible posted:

"Amazing looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."

RabbitWizard posted:

Those wheels are still turning on the outside, right? Then it comes with a free back scratcher at least.

Say Nothing posted:

https://i.imgur.com/2IwK5FB.mp4

Randaconda posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Za7ZDHD.mp4

Lemon posted:

Why go to all the effort of making that thing and having it so that you have to hunch over like a weenie instead of leaning back like a badass.

chitoryu12 posted:

Croatoan posted:

I always thought Sinatra was a shithead because how he treated his wives and was a mob-adjacent rear end in a top hat. Turns out he was a dynamic person with both good and bad.

Croatoan posted:

I always thought Sinatra was a shithead because how he treated his wives and was a mob-adjacent rear end in a top hat. Turns out he was a dynamic person with both good and bad.

chitoryu12 posted:

It's rumored that Sinatra tried to use his mob connections to get Woody Allen murdered in 1993 after Mia Farrow told him about Allen having an affair with their adopted daughter.

Croatoan posted:

I always thought Sinatra was a shithead because how he treated his wives and was a mob-adjacent rear end in a top hat. Turns out he was a dynamic person with both good and bad.

Novum posted:

World champion fighter patronizes full grown man throwing a temper tantrum at a casino.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk1wRZKFTQG/

Croatoan posted:

He also went from supporting a socialist, Henry Wallace when he was young to being a staunch Regan supporter as he got older.

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Frank Sinatra does things personally. At Christmas time, he will personally pick dozens of presents for his close friends and family, remembering the type of jewelry they like, their favorite colors, the sizes of their shirts and dresses. When a musician friend's house was destroyed and his wife was killed in a Los Angeles mud slide a little more than a year ago, Sinatra personally came to his aid, finding the musician a new home, paying whatever hospital bills were left unpaid by the insurance, then personally supervising the furnishing of the new home down to the replacing of the silverware, the linen, the purchase of new clothing.

The same Sinatra who did this can, within the same hour, explode in a towering rage of intolerance should a small thing be incorrectly done for him by one of his paisanos. For example, when one of his men brought him a frankfurter with catsup on it, which Sinatra apparently abhors, he angrily threw the bottle at the man, splattering catsup all over him. Most of the men who work around Sinatra are big. But this never seems to intimidate Sinatra nor curb his impetuous behavior with them when he is mad. They will never take a swing back at him. He is Il Padrone.

At other times, aiming to please, his men will overreact to his desires: when he casually observed that his big orange desert jeep in Palm Springs seemed in need of a new painting, the word was swiftly passed down through the channels, becoming ever more urgent as it went, until finally it was a command that the jeep be painted now, immediately, yesterday. To accomplish this would require the hiring of a special crew of painters to work all night, at overtime rates; which, in turn, meant that the order had to be bucked back up the line for further approval. When it finally got back to Sinatra's desk, he did not know what it was all about; after he had figured it out he confessed, with a tired look on his face, that he did not care when the hell they painted the jeep.

Yet it would have been unwise for anyone to anticipate his reaction, for he is a wholly unpredictable man of many moods and great dimension, a man who responds instantaneously to instinct—suddenly, dramatically, wildly he responds, and nobody can predict what will follow. A young lady named Jane Hoag, a reporter at Life's Los Angeles bureau who had attended the same school as Sinatra's daughter, Nancy, had once been invited to a party at Mrs. Sinatra's California home at which Frank Sinatra, who maintains very cordial relations with his former wife, acted as host. Early in the party Miss Hoag, while leaning against a table, accidentally with her elbow knocked over one of a pair of alabaster birds to the floor, smashing it to pieces. Suddenly, Miss Hoag recalled, Sinatra's daughter cried, "Oh, that was one of my mother's favorite..."—but before she could complete the sentence, Sinatra glared at her, cutting her off, and while forty other guests in the room all stared in silence, Sinatra walked over, quickly with his finger flicked the other alabaster bird off the table, smashing it to pieces, and then put an arm gently around Jane Hoag and said, in a way that put her completely at ease, "That's okay, kid."

GWBBQ posted:

According to his son, he almost certainly suffered from untreated bipolar disorder, which complicated things.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

My favorite Sinatra anecdote is Shecky Green's joke(?) about him: “Frank Sinatra saved my life. Five guys were beating me up, and I heard Frank Sinatra say, ‘That’s enough.’”

chitoryu12 posted:

This old article on Sinatra really shows his bipolar side.


Also you should read that article because it has Sinatra getting into a fight with young Harlan Ellison over his boots.

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Now Brad Dexter, very anxious, very big opposite the small figure of Ellison, said, "Com'on, kid, I don't want you in this room."

"Hey," Sinatra interrupted Dexter, "can't you see I'm talking to this guy?"

Dexter was confused. Then his whole attitude changed, and his voice went soft and he said to Ellison, almost with a plea, "Why do you persist in tormenting me?"

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It's almost as if famous people are people and people are weird, complicated, imperfect things.

Who knew?