The thief shot and fled. He looked inside his case and found his cellular telephone twisted out of shape with a 38-caliber bullet wedged between the keypad and the battery. The Anglo-French aircraft finally took off from a London runway for its charter flight to Filton, near Bristol in western England, carrying enthusiasts who rave over its pointed fuselage and immense wings. Other people were less thrilled because of the roar the plane made as champagne-sipping passengers soared overhead. A Mexican restaurant offered a lifetime of free lunches to anyone willing to get a tattoo of its logo, Jimmy the Corn Man, a sombrero-wearing mariachi boy riding a blazing corncob.
Some people do it for the love of the art.
Ribcages, calves, legs, arms and even buttocks have been prime sites for the logo. I think people have gotten much stupider tattoos for much stupider reasons. Tax time at McGuire's Irish Pub and Brewery has the restaurant's accountant climbing the walls. Accountant Jim Akin stood on a small ladder Monday as he began the annual inventory of dollar bills that customers have signed and stapled to the walls and ceiling over the past 22 years. We count it every year and we pay taxes on the growth in it.