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Monday, May 10, 2010
THIS GUY IS A REAL YO YO..NO LIE..SCAMMING TV STATIONS
Alleged yo-yo champ dupes TV shows
Kenny Strasser, who either lives in Antigo or Neenah or maybe somewhere else, says he a yo-yo champion, loves talking to schoolchildren and wants to save the Earth.
He's been divorced twice, doesn't have any kids, and has personal issues with members of his family. He also says he's had drug and alcohol problems.
Or so he says.
It's not entirely clear who Strasser is. What is clear is that a person who called himself Kenny Strasser, Kenny Strassburg, or K-Strass managed to persuade at least five television stations - four of which are in Wisconsin - to put him on live television in recent weeks.
Two other stations - both in La Crosse - came close to putting him on, but were warned ahead of time that Strasser was not who he says he is.
His latest appearance occurred Thursday morning on KQTV's "Hometown This Morning," in St. Joseph, Mo.
"He got us," said Bridget Blevins, the station's news director. "I hate that we got duped."
And how good was he with the yo-yo, a skill Strasser has said made him a champion? "He did some really lame things. He hit himself in the face and the groin with his yo-yo," Blevins said.
Lisa Malak, who anchors the "Sunday Morning" show on WFRV in Green Bay, thought it would be fun to book somebody who said he was a yo-yo champion. When Strasser showed up April 11, he said he forgot the string for his yo-yo. With no tricks, Malak and Strasser spent their live TV segment talking.
"It was the most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me on the air," Malak said.
The stunts Strasser pulled appears to be similar to the performance artistry practiced by the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman created characters like Tony Clifton, a down-and-out lounge singer who abused audiences.
The way Strasser managed to get on TV followed a familiar pattern and laid bare the pitfalls of live television, where stations are always looking for somebody to fill air time in the morning.
Elaborate hoaxIn each case, producers at the television stations received an e-mail from Joe Guehrke, saying he represented Strasser and ZimZam Yo-Yo, "the world's first 'green' " nonprofit toymaker.
Guehrke told the stations that Strasser, whom he called a "master yo-yo artist," would be in their area to bring his environmental message and "zany sense of humor" to kids.
Guehrke wrote in one e-mail to a TV station that Strasser was a dynamic talk-show guest who comes "equipped with a roster of amazing yo-yo tricks, juggling and fun tips about how kids and adults alike can take small steps to make the world a greener place."
The e-mail solicitation stated that Strasser was a runner-up for Rookie of the Year in 1995, grand champion at the Pensacola Regional and was nominated for the Walt Greenberg Award in 2000.
There is no Walt Greenberg Award in yo-yo, and there is no evidence Pensacola ever hosted a yo-yo tournament or that Strasser won a rookie of the year award.
But the solicitation was good enough for the bookers on the TV stations.
In one particularly bizarre segment on WSAW's "Sunrise 7" show in Wausau on April 20, Strasser told interviewer Amy Pflugshaupt that he is just a 35-year-old kid at heart. "I don't have a girlfriend, don't want one. My parents, they live in Denver, they just got divorced. My dad is now in Oshkosh. . . . I have a brother in Portland who I don't get along with very well because of his wife."
And then, incredibly, his cell phone rings on the air. Pflugshaupt halts the interview, throws it back to the anchors, but later comes back to Strasser.
In the solicitation, there is a reference to ZimZam yo-yos, and a related Web site. But in registering the domain name, Zimzaminc.com, Guehrke gave a fictitious Milwaukee address and provided a phone number that is now disconnected.
At WISC in Madison, Strasser was booked and ready to go on "News 3 This Morning." But things took a strange turn when Strasser said on the air, "Do you want to hear a scary story?"
Colin Benedict, the station's news director, said the anchors were confused. They thought a yo-yo champion was supposed to be on.
Instead, Strasser started talking about his personal story of alcohol and drugs.
And the yo-yo tricks? Benedict said Strasser tried one but the yo-yo fell apart and onto the studio floor.
That was enough for WISC. The anchors took over and Strasser was off the air.
Strasser also got on WMTV in Madison.
Strasser apparently left Wisconsin and headed west, where he appeared at the St. Joseph, Mo., station.
Strasser has not been spotted since. Mikel Lauber, a reporter with Wausau's WSAW, tried to find him and located a phone number for Guehrke. The number was traced to Joe Pickett, who is a comedy filmmaker and operates a business with partner Nick Prueher. Both men have Wisconsin ties.
Their business, "The Found Footage Festival," tours the country showing obscure, unusual and bizarre home videos, promotional clips, outtakes and training films to comedic effect.
Neither Pickett nor Prueher returned repeated phone calls, but in e-mails to the Journal Sentinel, Prueher said his festival "had nothing to do with this yo-yo guy."
"Wish we could take credit for it, but we've never met this Kenny fellow," Prueher said.
But the Found Footage Festival was in Missouri last week, not far from St. Joseph.
Joke: Did ya hear about the blond?
did u hear the blond didn't know how to check her oil..the guy tells her it says oil right on the cap..she says I don't have anything like that but I have one that says 710
When I Was a Kid..It Was Really Tough Getting to School
1200 feet above the roaring Rio Negro in Colombia nine-year-old Daisy Mora prepares to throw herself over the abyss.
Attaching herself to an old and rusted pulley system she drops over the edge before plummeting at 40 miles an hour along a steel cable down to the opposite bank.
For the handful of families living in the area, some forty miles to the southeast of Bogota, the 12 steel cables that connect one side of the river to the other are their only access to the outside world.
It was German explorer Alexander von Humboldt who first observed, in 1804, Colombian natives using the unusual rope system.
With the beginning of industrialisation the hemp ropes traditionally used were replaced by steel cables.
These were used to transport raw wood produced by logging initiatives in the surrounding rainforest.
Such operations continued for decades before climaxing in the sixties when new laws were introduced banning such destructive logging.
No longer able to make money from the trees around them, many in the area turned their attention to farming and cattle-breeding on the now cleared land.
The steel cable system, having served for two centuries to transport wood, now became the basis for the further opening up of these once inaccessible regions.
And for the settlers the cables were, and still are, the only transport system at their disposal.
What they can't produce themselves the women and men buy in the village of Guajabetal, which is six miles away.
With the support of the cables, maniok, corn and cattle are transported to the market, with vital supplies also flowing in the opposite direction.
And for children like Daisy the cable system is the only way for them to get to school on the opposite bank of the river.
Each day the youngster attaches herself to a rusty pulley that is more reminiscent of a meat hook.
Meanwhile, her brother Jamid, who at five-years-old is considered too young to use the system by himself, curls up in a jute sack.
With effort, Daisy attaches this sack to the hook before creating an improvised seat for herself from a piece of hemp rope.
She then pushes off and the pair plunge along the steel cable down into the deepness of the dark-green valley of the Rio Negro.
Travelling at around 40 miles an hour the half-mile-long trip takes just 60 seconds.
As the opposite bank approaches and the rebounding protection, made from an old van tire, becomes bigger and bigger, Daisy must utilise a 'brake' made out of a tree branch fork.
She presses this branch rhythmically against the steel cable to slow their hectic approach, until sparks fly and the smell of burning wood fills the air.
An impatient Jamid is eager to be allowed to use the pulley system for himself but is still a year too young.
When he does complete his first journey it will be seen as something of an initiation rite and the whole family will take part.
It will be his father Guillermo Mora who will demonstrate how to complete the journey safely.
Daisy and Jamid live with their father Guillermo and mother Nidia in a crude wooden hut, which has just two rooms.
Guillermo and his wife share their only bed with their four youngest children; meanwhile, Daisy and Jamid sleep on a mattress on the floor.
Rain has caused their wooden hut to warp, producing gaps as big as a hand that allow the wind to blow through.
Looking on the bright side, Nidia says the gaps enable her to keep an eye on the children while they are outside.
They also mean that the smoke produced by the hut's open fireplace doesn't linger.
For Daisy's family and the others that live nearby, often the only escape from their difficult and dangerous life are festivals.
These mountains festivals are a cause for celebration and see all the local families gather together to cook a meal and enjoy themselves.
Naked Came the Stranger..
A recent visit from a real-life Goldilocks left a Naperville Illinois couple wondering, who's been soaking in our hot tub?
The alleged culprit: Brian J. Haney, a 30-year-old Lisle resident who, for reasons unknown, parked his car in the couple's driveway and knocked at their window before stripping naked and submerging himself in their outdoor hot tub, according to Naperville police.
Police quickly fished Haney out of the water, Sgt. Gregg Bell said Friday. A drunken and genuinely perplexed Haney then "asked officers what the problem was," Bell said.
Haney was arrested about 12:35 a.m. Wednesday, after police were summoned to a home on the 1400 block of Larsen Lane, That is in the Mulberry Hill area of the city's northeast side.
Bell said Haney "parked literally in their driveway" before getting out of his vehicle and rapping at one of their windows. The couple, who do not know Haney, called police.
Haney at that point apparently removed all of his clothing and "jumped into their hot tub," which was filled with water, Bell said. "He submerged himself, and our officers had to find him underwater," Bell said.
The officers hauled Haney out of the tub and found his clothes nearby on a deck, Bell said. They took him to the police station and called a tow truck to remove his vehicle from the driveway, he said.
Bell said police charged Haney with misdemeanor criminal trespass to a building and disorderly conduct, although records on file in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton indicated the trespassing charge has been amended to one of attempted criminal damage to property without an owner's consent.
Court records also showed Haney was convicted in 1999 of a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana in Wheaton. He was placed on court supervision and ordered to perform community service in that case, according to records.
Haney is free on bail. His arraignment date is pending.
JOKE: A Soviet journalist walked into the hospital
A Soviet journalist walked into the hospital and told the desk nurse, "I want to see the eye-ear doctor."
"There is no such doctor" she tells him. "Perhaps you would like to see someone else?"
"No, I need to see an eye-ear doctor," he says.
"But there is no such doctor," she replies. "We have doctors for the eyes and doctors for the ear, nose and throat, but no eye-ear doctor."
No help. He repeats, "I want to see the eye-ear doctor."
They go around like this for a few minutes and then the nurse says: "Comrade, there is no eye-ear doctor, but if there were one, why would you want to see him?"
"Because," he replies, "I keep hearing one thing and seeing another."
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