Well with gas prices being ridiculously high, I can pretty much kiss my vacation good-bye. That’s okay though, because I have the WORLD WIDE WEB at my service! Take that, airline luggage fees! Suck on it, price gougers! I DON’T EVEN NEED A CAR, FOOL! Cuz I can peep the world from Google Street View and now, EveryScape.com, where I can check out cities like Bejing, Beverly Hills, Washington DC, Krakow (Poland), Aspen, SF, Philadelphia, and more. And by more, I mean MOAR - you can actually go inside some of the buildings in these places and scope shit out! Earlier today I was in the Forbidden City and Snowmass Village, Colorado and I saw a lot of nice scenery and architecture. See what I did there? I took a vacation at my desk. For free. Reason number 98234758475 why I love the information super highway. Moar on EveryScape’s future and plans.

A man with one leg was caught after heisting cars from rental companies in the Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia man, 44-year-old Benjamin Copeland, is without a right leg and still managed to steal five rental cars in under a month. He stole the cars from the Budget and Avis rental car lots which was shocking to police.

Police say the crime would be difficult for anyone to commit and cannot fathom how a man missing a leg was able to steal cars repeatedly without getting caught. Police say stealing cars right off the lot is not an easy task because it is under surveillance and have security all around.

Copeland uses crutches for his disability and missing his right leg must have made driving difficult when operating the gas pedal. Copeland was able to find a way around this. Copeland would ride the rental company’s shuttle bus that took him to the lot. He figured out that if he hit a button inside the shuttle, the exit gate at the end of the lot would go up. He then got into a rental SUV, where the keys were inside, and drove out the exit.

Whenever an SUV would run out of gas, Copeland would leave the vehicle where it was because he could not afford the gas. This made it easy for the police to find the vehicles reported stolen. One of the stolen cars was parked in front of Copeland’s home. When he went to get into the vehicle, Police arrested him outside his home on June 5th. He confessed and told police where they could find the other stolen cars.

Copeland is well-known by Philadelphia police due to his 17 prior arrests for crimes such as robbery, assault and narcotics.

After pursuing a car in a drug related attempted shooting from the North side of the city, 12 Philadelphia police officers eventually dragged three men out of the vehicle and beat the hell out of them. Unfortunately for the police, it was all caught on tape. Here comes the frenzy…

If you live anywhere on the eastern seaboard, you should find your way to Philadelphia on February 8th to go to this show, featuring hometown acts mewithoutYou and Papertrigger, a benefit for my friend, and legendary Tour Manager / FOH Guy / Photographer Josh Bender’s father, Paul, who is currently battling cancer. For anyone else, everywhere else, you can go here to read about Paul Bender’s situation and what you can do to help.