Things To Do Today In November On The Cape (The Real Cape Style)

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So many Cape Cod publications do these daily “Things to do today on Cape Cod” posts that generally include activities that would be quite enjoyable to complete squids and people over 60, so we decided to compose a more realistic guide for the rest of us.

First here are some lovely little suggestions from some other publications:

· Square dancing, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dennis Senior Center, 1045 Route 134. Followed by round dancing and plus-level square dancing. No experience necessary. $3. 508-237-3057.

· “Fraud and Scams – Beware,” 3 p.m. Tuesday, Craine Room, Snow Library, 67 Main St., Orleans. Sponsored by Orleans Citizens Forum, presented by Detective Lt. Kevin Higgins of Orleans Police Department. FREE!

· Wednesday Walks with Connie Boyce, 3-4 miles, leaves 9 a.m. from Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 869 Main St. (Route 6A), Brewster. Walk at Pilgrim Springs, Truro. $6. Heavy rain cancels. 508-394-2683.

· Science story time, 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, Brooks Free Library, 739 Main St., Harwich. Preschoolers and young children explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) concepts.[email protected]. 508-430-7562. FREE!

· Talk by former secret agent Norman Katz on the JFK assassination, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, EPOCH Assisted Living at Brewster Place, 855 Harwich Road. In recognition of 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death. 508-896-3252.

While I’m sure all of the above activities would be great fun if you did them Gonzo style with a bottle of whiskey, a head full of acid and a good supply of bath salts, unfortunately acid is hard to come by on a November Wednesday on Cape Cod and our local bath salt dealer is out of business.

So here is a more realistic list of things to do on a November Wednesday on Cape Cod.

1. Start drinking as soon as you wake up. Track down one of your laid off landscaper or restaurant friends to go to the local watering hole with you. Play keno until you are so broke that you have to leave an 8% tip to the bartender. Stumble out of the bar at 3 p.m. and say “holy shit it’s still light out”. Then go home, eat a bowl of cereal and pass out by 5.

2. Couch, sweatpants, hoodie and porn.

3. Work until 4 p.m. and then go straight to the bar for  a quick bite to eat with a co worker. End up chatting with a few kind of cute members of the opposite sex. convince yourself that you are going to get lucky and spend way too much time (and money) there. After four hours of kicking game and playing darts (a binding contract for sex in your drunken mind) they abruptly leave. You and your friend spend another hour in shock talking about how much they wanted you, and frantically scrolling through your contacts and Facebook friends list to keep hope alive.

4. Smoke 8 bowls, go play frisbee golf, do 6 bong rips, go to McDonalds, watch Discovery channel and wake up fully dressed sitting up on your couch at 3 a.m. covered in Gummi Bears.

5. Jail

6. Go out to hear a fairly decent band, have a great time, and meet someone that you are actually compatible with. Bring them back to your place end up passing out half naked on top of them and pissing the bed because you drank 8 gallons of whiskey. Wake up wet and alone at 2:30 a.m. and say fuck it, immediately crack a beer and start scrolling the friend list to see who’s awake.

7. Go to a nice restaurant, eat some delicious food and drink some fancy drinks. Feel all metro, stare at the bill in disbelief, spend half your paycheck and then go to the chinese restaurant for scorpion bowls and apps because you are still starving. As happens in all Chinese restaurants you see the coke dealer you went to high school with and end up cleaning your house and telling your friends how much you love them until 7 a.m.

8. Go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath & Beyond. I don’t know, only if you have time.

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Guy Robs Yarmouth Store, Comes Back Two Days Later Like Nothing Happened

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BARNSTABLE — A South Yarmouth man who allegedly robbed a convenience store on Old Town House Road on Nov. 4 returned two days later as a paying customer, according to court documents.

Matthew Robert Tierney, 22, of 46 Nautical Lane, was a regular customer at Town House News, according to witness statements.

When a man wearing blue jeans, a hooded blue sweatshirt, a black mask and gloves entered the store at about 11 p.m. and pointed a gun at the cashier she recognized his eyes and voice, according to court documents.

The man took $120 in cash and a pack of cigarettes, according to police.

Police found a silver and gray BB gun wrapped in a Cape Cod Regional Technical High School sweatshirt in a Dumpster near the store, according to the documents.

The man came into the store again Nov. 6 and the owner called police with a license plate number from the car he was in which they tracked down to Tierney, who lives nearby, according to the documents.

During questioning at Yarmouth police headquarters on Friday, Tierney admitted to robbing the store and said he was a heroin addict who needed help, according to the documents.

Another story of Cape crime at it’s finest. I get it bro, you need your heroin and robbing a store seems like a legit way to make a little quick cash. I’m not here to judge, I’m here to give you some advice. If there is a store that you visit so frequently that the clerk can recognize you only by seeing your eyeballs and hearing your voice, maybe that’s not the store to knock over with a bb gun?

How about you take a little road trip a mile down the street and hold up a place that has less than a 300% chance of recognizing you? But I’m not here to berate you, maybe you had your reasons for breaking the #1 rule in life of not shitting where you eat. Maybe you have an excuse for robbing the store you visit daily, but dude, there is just no excuse for coming back two days later for a pack of smokes and whistling Dixie like nothing ever happened.

You are like the guy who gets kicked out of a bar and then takes off his sweatshirt and hat and tries to nonchalantly walk in the back door like nothing happen. Ah yeah we know who you are bro, take a hike.

P.S. While I’m sure it is a great career you may want to think about changing it up because you suck at being a heroin addicted robber.

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Aquinnah Get Federal Approval For Vineyard Casino

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Full Story – The Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah today declared it has won federal approval to open a casino on its tribal land on Martha’s Vineyard, introducing a surprising new wrinkle to the state’s unsettled gambling industry.

The tribe pledges to now move ahead with a plan to convert an unfinished tribal community center on the island into a temporary casino, until a permanent facility can be built.

Last week we talked about what the Mashpee Wampanoag Casino will do to our townie wallets. I joked about how we will all be broke every Monday because there is nothing to do on Cape in the off season. Well that was child’s play compared to this Casino that looks like it’s going to happen on The Vineyard (yes that is really a photo of the building).

Let me preface this by saying again that I am all for tribal casinos, the Wampanoag’s deserve every cent they make from these, but holy crap is a casino on the Vineyard an absolute game changer. Year round residents won’t be broke on Monday, they will be for real broke, like Detroit broke.

Imagine being trapped on an island in February with a god damn casino? We think there is nothing to do on the peninsula in the winter, but the islands are an entirely different animal. This will decimate the locals. After this casino opens there will be three distinct classes of people on Martha’s Vineyard:

1. Summer People
2. People Who Don’t Drink
3. Homeless People

That’s it, that’s the list. The day this thing opens the locals who drink alcohol might as well quit their jobs, hand their kids over to DSS, and then drive right over to the casino to drop off the deeds to their houses and the titles to their cars. Why delay the inevitable just get it all done as fast as possible, hit the roulette table and put what’s left on black.

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Add Sneaker Jacking To The List Of Things You Need To Worry About In Hyannis

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HYANNIS – A 20-year-old Hyannis man was arrested Monday night after allegedly stealing a pair of Nike LeBron sneakers in a Craigslist deal gone bad.

Conner Tynan allegedly contacted a teen who put the sneakers up for sale on the Internet shopping site and asked him to meet on Denver Street, Barnstable Police Sgt. Michael Riley said.

After the teen’s father drove him to the site, the teen got out and showed the sneakers to Tynan, who allegedly shoved him, grabbed the sneakers and ran, Riley said.

A police K-9 unit tracked Tynan to a house on Hamden Circle, where Tynan was arrested on a charge of unarmed robbery, Riley said.

The sneakers – along with Tynan’s outer garments – were recovered near Connemara Circle, Riley said.

Earlier today we added having your face eaten to the list of things you need to worry about in Hyannis. Now we find out the glory days of selling used sneakers on Craigslist has come to an end as well. Is nothing sacred anymore? In all fairness this dude was kind of asking to get jacked though.

Here are some words of wisdom for the teen and his father that agreed to meet a random person from Craigslist on a random street. You are lucky you were only the victim of an unarmed robbery. Meeting a rando from CL on the street ends up with you in pieces in a dumpster behind a Dunkin’ Donuts 87% of the time. Fact.

P.S. “The sneakers – along with Tynan’s outer garments – were recovered near Connemara Circle” – Wait… what? Are they saying this dude got nekkid after the robbery?

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Hyannis Convenience Store Selling Bath Salts

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Cape Cod Today – HYANNIS – An investigation into the sale of bath salts, which included controlled buys, has resulted in distribution charges for a Weymouth shop keeper. According to a Barnstable police release, Det. Brian Guiney began an investigation into the sale of bath salts at the Corner Food Mart at 640 Main Street in Hyannis several months ago.

During the investigation, controlled purchases of the illegal drug were made at the store. Bath salts, a synthetic drug with troubling affects including panic attacks and hallucinations, was added to the Massachusetts Class C schedule of substances in January 2013.

On Sunday detectives executed the search warrant at the store during business hours. During the raid, Det. Guiney reportedly seized six glass vials containing bath salts, police said…

Muhammad A. Abid, 34, of Weymouth, was placed under arrest and transported to the Barnstable Police Station where he was booked and charged with possession of a Class C substance (bath salts) with intent to distribute.

It is a good indication of just how screwed up Cape Cod is when a guy commutes from Weymouth to Hyannis to sell his bath salts. Think about that. A bath salt dealer can’t establish a clientele in a suburb of the biggest metropolitan area in the state, so he drives 60 miles to Cape Cod to peddle his synthetic drugs that cause people TO EAT OTHER PEOPLES FACES.

I don’t know, maybe it’s time to lift that fascist curfew in Hyannis? Give people a healthier way to spend their time other than bath salt induced panic attacks?

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How Did People Know It Was Snowing Before Social Media?

Breaking news! It snows in New England in the winter! I really thought this would be the first year since the beginning of time that summer just kept going indefinitely. Alas we were foiled again, and it is a good thing we have Twitter and Facebook so that 8,327 people can let us know that it is in fact snowing. How else could we possibly know? I wish there were transparent panes of glass embedded in my walls so I could see outside, but you can’t have everything.

We decided to get into the breaking news game on Twitter as well, here is our first exclusive report…

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Marijuana Themed Amusement Park On Cape Cod? Yes Please!

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Click here for the full story – BOURNE – On the heels of last month’s rejection of a yearlong moratorium, Bourne has its first suitor for a medical marijuana dispensary.

The Kingsbury Group, a nonprofit based on the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard, has approached the town about turning the Cartwheels 2 family fun center into one of the first licensed dispensaries in the state.

The 340 MacArthur Blvd. facility, which claims to have the largest go-kart track on Cape Cod, is owned by Brewster resident J. Bruce MacGregor, a member of the Kingsbury Group.

Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy Shit! Fuck yes! Oh Please, pretty please! Let this happen! Please put a dispensary at Carwheels 2!

Her first thought went to MacArthur Boulevard, a main artery already occupied with industry. The only potential obstacle she foresaw was Cartwheels 2, where she was concerned that crowds of children would be drawn too close to medical marijuana if a dispensary moved in down the street.

“I guess it couldn’t be a go-kart property anymore, because you can’t have a dispensary next to kids,” Moore said.

“If they no longer have that use there, I can’t think of anything that would be around it off the top of my head that would prevent a dispensary from being there,” Moore said.

Noooooooooooooooo……. Damn it. I guess we had to know that was coming.

Why can’t we live in a country that would allow this to happen? Imagine for a moment a marijuana dispensary attached to an arcade and surrounded by mini golf, batting cages, bumper boats and go-karts. It’s just too perfect. It would literally be the most fun place in the Universe. It would immediately put Cape Cod back on the map as a global destination. Screw Disney and forget Six Flags we have an amusement park where the kids can play AND THE ADULTS CAN GET HIGH AND PLAY WITH THEM!

Everyone would be on the same level, smoke some sour diesel and suddenly you and your 8 year old are going hit for hit in the batting cages on low speed. Vaporize a little AK-47 and mini golf is actually competitive with your 4 year old. Do a bong rip of some bubble hash and get lapped sixteen times by your 12 year old on the go-kart track because you are doing 3 miles per hour!

But no, we have to live in a stupid no fun country that won’t even let us put our weed stores inside children’s parks. So lame.

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