New Police Academy
I love the Police Academy movies. This needed to happen already, shit. 2011 is gona be my year just because that’s when Police Academy 8 will be coming out n shit.
NOID
6 Oscure Facts about The Noid
1. How the Noid Led to a Hostage Situation
In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid interpreted the Domino’s ads as a personal assault on his character. Believing he was engaged in an ongoing battle with Domino’s head Tom Monaghan, Noid took matters into his own hands, holding up a Domino’s outlet in Georgia. Details from Time Magazine:
All Noid got was the pizza he ordered. After a five-hour siege, the two employees slipped away and Noid gave himself up.
According to Wikipedia, “Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.”
2. Affordable Fun: the Avoid the Noid Game
In 1989, BlueSky Software developed an Avoid the Noid video game for Commodore 64 and DOS PCs. Billed on the box as “Affordable Fun!” the game sounds…well…affordable at least:
3. How Yo! Noid Brought Pizza-Smashing to Nintendo
Capitalizing on The Noid’s success, Capcom altered an existing Japanese game for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru. The 1991 remake, entitled Yo! Noid, was surprisingly detailed and difficult — probably because it was originally intended to be an entirely different game and the pizza content was tacked on.
According to Wikipedia, the game featured the Noid “traipsing through fourteen different side-scrolling levels throughout various locations of New York City to battle his evil duplicate, Mr. Green, for the public good, and for the massive pizza reward.”
Yo! Noid has a surprising fan following on the web. Check out, for example, the Yo Noid! Shrine and an online version of the game.
4. The Noid’s Non-Advertising Appearances in TV & Film
Aside from his advertising gig, the Noid has appeared in episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy. He’s also briefly visible in Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. (Fortunately Jackson manages to Avoid him.)
5. The Noid & The California Raisins: Separated at Birth?
The Noid was brought to life with claymation, the creation of Will Vinton, the same man who brought us 80s icons like The California Raisins (official spokesraisins for the California Raisin Advisory Board) and The Adventures of Mark Twain.
These days Vinton is still producing commercials, including the computer-animated M&M character ads.
6. The Noid Used Voice Talent from Masters of the Universe
Pons Maar lent his voice to the Noid, summoning bursts of crazed laughter and bubbly warbling which made the character genuinely weird. Aside from his Noid gig, Maar is perhaps best known as the lead Wheeler in the movie Return to Oz. He also voiced various (somewhat obscure) cartoon roles over the years — the one I remember best is the hissing Saurod from Masters of the Universe. Maar also did puppet work on major productions like Team America: World Police, Monkeybone, and TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
He Had To Go Real Bad
Man Accused of Urinating on Women in Jersey City
MYFOXNY.COM – Police in Jersey City have arrested an ex-con they say has been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, a source said Wednesday.
Nitinkumar Patel, 27, has urinated on at least seven women in the last three months, a law enforcement source said.
He was caught Wednesday morning while urinating on a 16-year-old girl at the bus stop, a law enforcement source said.
Two victims have identified Patel, the source said.
He spent almost six years in prison for aggravated assault convictions, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Patel was released in January 2009.
