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What Traffic? It's Dance Party Friday!

GiggleSugar — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0800

This isn't the first time we've seen this news crew pull these shenanigans on the air. The dancing traffic dude has been replaced by a new reporter and she's keeping up his act. He's still around to join her, so we now have two sideshow dancers giving us their best rhyme and Roger Rabbit, as opposed to the updates. If the news doesn't depress you, these moves might do the trick.

Another Traffic Reporter. Another Dance Party.

GiggleSugar — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:00:00 -0700

Is this really necessary? All we want is a stinking traffic update and lover boy in the blue blazer serves up some wiggle with a little reporting on the side. Not. Amusing. Although raptastic Jenny may think otherwise- wink, wink. (Do I sense a Love Connection ?)

Jenny Will Pimp Yo' Ride

GiggleSugar — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:02:00 -0800

We've seen our share of bad white boy rappers on GiggleSugar, but along comes a North Carolina traffic reporter named Jenny who makes Blazin' Hazen look pretty darn rap-tastic. Word of advice: Don't quit your day job, Jenny. Lady Sovereign, you are not.

30 Percent Increase in Women Getting DUIs

TresSugar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Although men still outnumber women in drunk driving arrests by four to one, a report by the FBI for the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission shows that in the decade ending 2007, there has been a 30 percent increase in women getting arrested for driving while intoxicated.

Are women under more pressure for being the sole breadwinner in a he-cession? Are television shows encouraging them to drink more? Does motherhood drive them to drink? Maybe we'll see more PSAs about women and drinking, especially after the horrific accident recently in which a woman who was found later to have been drunk, drove her minivan the wrong way down a freeway, crashing into an SUV and killing eight people.

Laura Dean-Moody, president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and a widow because a drunk driver killed her husband in 1991, thinks there should be stricter enforcement of drunk driving laws. More than 2 million drivers who have multiple DUI convictions will be on the road this upcoming Labor Day weekend. Moody doesn't think they should be able to keep their licenses: "These are people who have proven not once, not twice but three times that they are not worthy of the public's trust when it comes to operating a vehicle."

Should people with multiple DUI convictions lose their driver's licenses? Why do you think there's an increase in women and DUIs?

5 Wacky and Weird Stories From This Week

CitizenSugar — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:00:56 -0800

Statues Could Get You Pregnant - More than 2,000 women have reported becoming pregnant after touching fertility statues at Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Woman Fails Driving Test 771 Times - A South Korean woman has spent $3,000 on fees for the test.
Man Goes to Jail For Taking 50 cents - India sentenced a 75-year-old Indian man to jail for accepting a $0.50 bribe 24 years ago.
Israeli Ambassador Latest Target of Shoe Throwing - A Swedish protester threw a shoe at Israel's ambassador this week at Stockholm University. Earlier this week a protester in England aimed a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Man Gets 50 Traffic Citations in One Day - After police tried to stop Elvis Alonzo Barret for a traffic violation, he fled from police, running through red lights and crashing into another car and a fence. Police also found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in the car.

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Desperately Seeking Comfort: Dating Soars as Economy Falls

CitizenSugar — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:30:39 -0800

Turns out nobody wants to weather a recession alone. The New York Times reports interest in off- and online dating is way, way up.

While traffic typically peaks in the new year (will not be spinster!), the rise dating sites and matchmakers are seeing can only be compared to one other year - 2001, the last recession.

Of course, numbers only go back to 1994, and online dating has become more acceptable. But even if love is not in the air, other economic factors are. Experts (um, that would be owners of dating sites and services, sociologists, and their ilk) agree these sort-of-obvious factors, which all boil down to living with less, are at play:

The under- and unemployed have more time to be online
Online dating is a relatively inexpensive way to meet people
Organized dating events are cheaper than going on a multitude of first dates
With less money to go out, people spend more time on the Internet

But there is something more substantial going on in our collective consciousness: People don't want to be alone. They also aren't as interested in money, which could be a boon for those in the market for substance over salaries.

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Ruh Roh!

GiggleSugar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:15:00 -0800

This might not be the message you want to send to your audience when they're just waiting for the traffic report from you. . .(I wonder if they ever found the prankster who thought this would be funny.)

Ewww!

GiggleSugar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:00:00 -0800

Many moons ago, I posted a poll on the best slang words for vagina. By many moons ago, I'm talking almost two years ago. It still shows up in traffic reports, which means that ~~people~~ dudes must be checking it out still. Why am I telling you all this? Because this hilarious Yahoo Questions post includes one of the slang terms I refused to put on the list. I'll let someone else gross you out with the nastiest term for lady-bits yet! Between the naiveté of the question (she actually thinks this is an interior design term!) and the attempt by the answerer to be polite, I am, as they say, LOLing.

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The RESPECT! Campaign and Domestic Violence Awareness Month

DearSugar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:45:00 -0700

The following information about female abuse might shock you. In fact, I hope it does so that you'll join the fight to prevent domestic abuse: The United Nations Development Fund for Women estimates that at least one out of every three women globally will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, with rates reaching 70 percent in some countries. Additionally, a World Health Organization report found that in women ages 15-44 years, violence accounts for more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic injuries and war put together.

Oct. 1 kicks off Domestic Violence Prevention Month and Sugar Inc. is joining forces with the Family Violence Prevention Fund to help educate you and raise awareness about domestic abuse, sexual assault, and child abuse here at home as well as internationally.

To learn more about the International Violence Prevention Act, the centerpiece of this campaign, be sure to check in with my friends over at CitizenSugar. I'll also be bringing you information throughout the month of October on this ever important campaign, but in the meantime, take action yourself by making sure your member of Congress has already signed on to co-sponsor the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). You can also participate in the RESPECT! Campaign by purchasing and wearing RESPECT! on your wrist (half the proceeds benefit the RESPECT! Campaign) or by sending your support via text.

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Study Finds Alcohol Related Deaths Huge For Native Americans

CitizenSugar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:30:25 -0700

A new federal report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention claim that nearly 12 percent of deaths in the American Indian and Alaskan Native population are alcohol related. This statistic when compared to the national average of 3.3 percent for the US as a whole has been a “call to action."

The study examined all alcohol-related deaths between 2001 and 2005 and found the two leading causes of alcohol-related deaths among the Indian populations were traffic accidents and liver disease. This study however, may still be low as other alcohol-related deaths like tuberculosis, pneumonia, and colon cancer, all of which are usually associated with alcohol abuse, were not included.

The largest number of tribal deaths related to alcohol consumption, nearly a third of the total numbers, occurred in the Northern Plains. The lowest numbers were in Alaska. Although the study did not research regional causes that might cause such a disparity, one researcher offered: “It may be a function of social perceptions of alcohol in that particular region.” Meaning, one assumes, that peer pressure does not always end with adolescence.

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