On The Beat- Sunday, July 5, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Happy 250th Anniversary America! Right before TJ left Philly back on July 4, 1776. He stock up on some local beer. My man!... There is a vigilante in Mexico called “Mexican batman”, who goes around and finds motorcycle thieves and duck tapes them to lampposts. I say, hire him on commission in New York… Croatia’s soccer team got royally screwed in their match against Portugal. #20 never touched the ball. Is this the same ref that gave Folarin Balogan on the US team the red card against Bosnia Herzegovia? Something is rotten in El Mundial… Army veteran fatally shot over a parking space at Walmart. Not a parking spot at The Setai Miami Beach, or CORE. Walmart… Phil Mickelson, the most iconic villain in golf history, says his infidelity was because he was restless. Is that what it is called… There are “new” reports that the Colorado River is drying up. Politicians have started a GoFundMe… Elizabethon, TN man is arrested for shooting at contractors on a Johnson City, TN street. He thought they were trying to steal Main Street… Motorcyclist, in El Paso, TX, is jailed after running from police at 140 mph and crashing. Being still alive and in jail and not a hospital is what is amazing… The gossip scene is spreading rumors that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were already married before the MSG event, because they were. They were married in Fort Smith, AR, under aliases Dot and Hutch… At the 67:40 mark of the Australia vs. Egypt match, a legendary flop took place by an Australian player. The player, who wasn’t touched anywhere near his head, collapsed, grabbing the back of his head and then was massaging the back of his head as if hit with a cinder block. And then a UFO flew overhead… Joey Chestnut wins Nathan’s hot dog eating contest for 18th time. And then he exploded… Miki Sudo wins the women’s weiner eating contest putting down 38.7529858713 weiners. And then she exploded, too… Jet skiers breach Sail 4th 250 security zone and are introduced to the 127mm shells from a Mark 45. Or so I didn’t hear… Gillian’s Wonderland Pier in Ocean City, NJ, is under threat by a developer who wants to rip it down to build a luxury resort shaped like a Johnson… In Florida, 140 new laws have taken effect. My favorite, no drinking and flying a spaceship with a blood alcohol level above 0.83. What?… We present it. You decide…