Young And Ambitious On Cape Cod? Take A Hike

Wellfleet Sea Salt Company
WELLFLEET — After months of trying to find a small property on which to produce the salt they bottle and sell, Hope Schwartz-Leeper and Zachary Fagiano, the 22-year old founders of the Wellfleet Sea Salt Company, have found the ideal spot — a small parcel of land owned by Lyle Butts of Bay Sails Marine at 35 Designer’s Row. But once again, the young couple who hope to be able to run their company in Wellfleet have met with another obstacle.

The above is just an excerpt, I highly suggest you read the entire article because it encompasses everything that is wrong with Cape Cod.

The story of Wellfleet Salt Company completely reinforces the stereotype that Cape Cod is not a place for young people with ambition and great ideas. If you live in Wellfleet you should seriously consider going to your towns December 5th meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals and booing the shit out of anyone who votes against Hope and Zachary.

The rest of us should go to their website and buy some of their salt, show them they are wanted.

No we do not know these two and have never spoken to them, we just tend to like young, ambitious Cape residents with cool local business ideas that result in jobs, use no electricity, no water, and cause zero pollution. Too bad most of the people in charge don’t agree.

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The Spay Waggin’ Is Coming To Hyannis

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Patch – The Animal Rescue League of Boston’s (ARL) Spay Waggin’ will make a stop at Cape Maid Farms on Route 28 in Hyannis on Tuesday, December 10.  The mobile spay/neuter unit performs affordable surgeries and other preventive healthcare for dog and cat owners in financial need on the Cape and South Shore.

Most people reading this have probably come by a few humans in Hyannis they wouldn’t mind getting a visit from the Spay Waggin’.

Kind of a great idea when you think about it. A mobile vasectomy wagon could pull right up to all the places it is really needed the most. Oh you just spent 3 hours in Wal-Mart because you couldn’t pass by the mini Subway without getting a Footlong? Come on out to the parking lot, you just won a Flat Screen for being the 20,000th shopper. It’s right in there, yup right in the back of that big truck over there…

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Psst… Hey Cape Cod, Your Anti Radioactivity Pills Are Expired

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Here’s an interesting little story. I don’t recall getting the memo about potassium iodine pills being distributed in the first place, let alone the fact that they expired 3 months ago, but we do live pretty close to a Nuclear Power Plant.

PROVINCETOWN — Potassium iodide tablets will be dispensed to Provincetown residents from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Veterans Memorial Community Center, 2 Mayflower St.

The Mass. Dept. of Public Health recently replenished existing supplies of potassium iodide (KI) tablets to communities in Cape Cod and the Islands. KI is an iodide salt that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a “thyroid blocking agent” to protect the thyroid should an emergency at a nuclear power plant occur that involves a release of radioactive iodine. The tablets can be used in addition to other public health protective measures, such as sheltering or evacuation. KI that was provided to communities in Cape Cod and the Islands in 2007 expired in September of 2013.

Are these tablets important you ask? Well let’s look at the alternatives that are available to prevent having your skin melt off if Pilgrim Power Plant melts down. (Disclaimer: I’m not 100% sure that actually happens)

First is sheltering. Let me ask you something? How many of you know of a building that is a fully sealed environment in which all air flow passes through Hepa filters? Yeah thought so. That one is out.

Now for number two. I am pretty sure whoever came up with this has never once tried to drive off Cape on a Sunday in the summer.

Evacuation.

Are you fucking kidding me? If this is our other option then I want a potassium iodine filled key chain, actually scratch that I want two tablets sewed under my skin for safe keeping.

How on earth can someone write down the words Cape Cod and evacuation in the same sentence and not immediately punch themselves in the face? I’m really close to going on a Cape Cod Times level rant about Wicked Local. I guarantee whichever “staff writer” that wrote that article has never been to Cape Cod. How am I so sure you ask?

This…

KI that was provided to communities in Cape Cod and the Islands

IN? IN? Get the fuck outta here with that! I got news for you Wicked Local, you are not “local” if you say IN Cape Cod. You are never IN Cape Cod. Ever. You are ON Cape Cod. First you get all cute with that “Wicked” crap, then you tell us to just casually drive off Cape alongside every other resident all at once, and finally you top it off with an “in Cape Cod’?

Fuck off Wicked Local, you are officially on notice. Get your shit together.

P.S. Anyone saying to themselves that the threat of Nuclear meltdown is the least of our worries may want to read this.

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The Cape Codshank Redemption

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BREWSTER — Authorities are looking for a prisoner who walked away from a work detail on Cape Cod.

David Nickerson, of Brewster, was nine months into a two-year sentence for drunken driving and other charges… The 60-year-old Nickerson walked away from a work detail at the Brewster fire station on Wednesday, and remained at large on Friday.

Police said Nickerson, who is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 150 pounds, was last wearing blue jeans, dark boots and a gray sweatshirt or blue jacket that identified him as an inmate.

But he’s old and tiny! Call off the search!

90% of the people reading this have seen Shawshank Redemption at least 90 times. It’s physically impossible to click past it if you see it on television. Just immediate paralysis of clicker finger.

Likewise any one of us would probably give a toe to be able to be in that room and stop Brooks from hanging himself. Tell him to just hold on a little longer and Red and Andy will take him to paradise.

Well we couldn’t save Brooks, but now is our chance. I say we band together and all promise that we won’t turn David Nickerson in if we see him. This is our chance at redemption, Cape Codshank Redemption. Let’s do for David what we all wish we could have done for Brooks!

The only catch is that David has to be at least as cute as this…

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At least that cute, or no deal, throw his old ass back in the slammer.

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Laid Off Ferry Worker Can’t Get Anyone In Mass To Take Back The $11,397 In Extra Unemployment He Received

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Fox Undercover (MyFoxBoston.com) — For one Cape Cod ferry worker, the end of the tourist season started as always: laid off on Columbus Day, followed soon by his applying for unemployment. Because his weekly benefit is usually around $100 a week, he didn’t rush to see how much he was getting.

When he finally checked the state-issued debit card a few weeks later, he got a shock: instead of a few hundred dollars, the state Department of Unemployment Assistance had sent him $11,397.

So he wants to give it back. He’s trying to give it back. He just can’t get anyone from the state to do anything.

“I’ve called probably eight or 10 different numbers. I once got a hold of a woman and I told them my story and she said to me, ‘Oh my God.’ Then she said, ‘Well that’s way above my pay grade to deal with it just went nowhere,” he said. “It’s wicked frustrating.”

First off, I hope this dude was part time. $100 a week? That doesn’t seem like enough to live on during a Cape Cod winter. That’s like two cases of beer and an 1/8th of good weed. What the hell do you do the other six days of the week?

Really though, how fucked is our government. It’s not even so much the mistake. Sure it’s a ridiculous mistake that a privately owned business would NEVER make, but the real eye opener is that he can’t get anyone to take the money back? Shouldn’t there be one simple way to teach every employee of the unemployment office to deal with a situation like this? I’ll do Massachusetts a favor and write out the protocol for the handbook right now.

23 A sec. b-4: What to do if someone calls in and says they received $11,397 in extra benefits:

Stop whatever the fuck you are doing and immediately instruct this person to either come directly to our office with that money or put it in the mail immediately c/o Ron*. Ron is in charge of all voluntarily returned funds.

*I am positive there is a guy named Ron that works in the unemployment office that doesn’t do shit all day. Sorry Ron, whoever you are, I put you in charge of returns. You have to do something once a year now.

Problem solved. You’re welcome Deval.

P.S. T-minus 28 minutes until Deval gives Ron a raise.

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App-Hole In Edgartown Breaks Every Dumb Cape Criminal Record In One Night

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OK This is a long one, we shortened it up and bolded the really good parts  but it is so good you may want to read the entire thing at the MVTimes.

Edgartown Police combined technology and old fashioned police work to track down a man they said is responsible for a late night burglary spree that began Tuesday night and extended into Wednesday morning, in the vicinity of 21st Street and Anthier’s Way.

Matthew D. Engstrume, 23, of Rhode Island, currently living at 23 Anthier’s Way in Edgartown was arraigned Friday in Edgartown District Court on one count of breaking and entering during the nighttime to commit a felony, and one count of larceny from a dwelling. Bail was set at $1,000.

In a telephone conversation Friday, Detective Sergeant Chris Dolby said Leah Selby was home from college for the holiday and asleep when her cell phone rang late at night. The call was from her father, which surprised her, Detective Dolby said, since Kevin Selby was also in the house.

She went downstairs to her parent’s room and woke her father up. As they investigated the curious cell phone call they discovered that someone had entered the house and stolen her mother’s purse containing her credit cards and keys, a laptop computer with years of family photos and the father’s cell phone.

The family called police who arrived about 1:30 am. As police investigated, the daughter’s phone rang. “Her phone started receiving incoming text messages from the father’s stolen phone,” Detective Dolby said, “to include pornographic pictures. So she lent her phone to us to keep the conversation going and further the search.”

The officers used the phone network to narrow down the location of the stolen phone and confirm that it was originating in the Ocean Heights area, but the provider was unable to pinpoint the signal.

On Wednesday morning, as people awakened and began to go outside, police began receiving reports of car break-ins that had occurred over the night. Based on the information from the phone company and reports of car break-ins, police began knocking on doors in the neighborhood.

Background surroundings in the room were visible in one of the pornographic photos of his private parts the thief sent to the victim.

“We could see the pine floors, the color of the interior, the hardware on the interior door, and a piece of cloth put down at the base of the door to prevent a draft, so we kind of knew what the interior would look like where the guy was located,” Detective Dolby said.

During their canvassing of the neighborhood, police went to a house Stop & Shop rents and is used to house employees. “I knocked on the door,” Detective Dolby said. “A young male came to the door and as I was speaking to him at the threshold I could see that the interior was definitely looking like a match to what we saw in the picture.”

The police explained that they had a description of the interior where the cell phone call had originated and asked if they could step inside. “He walked us right in the house and I asked if I could see an interior door,” Mr. Dolby said. “He led us to an interior door and it was a dead ringer to what we were looking at in the picture. One thing led to another and he admitted he had been in the house.”

Detective Dolby said there was no connection between Mr. Engstrume and the young woman, Mr. Selby or any of the victims. “He went through the victim’s phone and he sent pornographic pictures and messages to every female in Kevin’s phone,” Detective Dolby said.

Asked about Mr. Egstrume’s state of mind, Detective Doby said, “He appeared to be under the influence of something, we’re not quite sure.”…

“I’ve thought for many years that they are great at community policing and great at real policing,” Mr. Kildegaard said.  “We are well served by this department. This arrest provided just another reason to be impressed by the quality of their work.”

So let’s get this all straight. This dude broke into a house and stole a bunch of crap that included a cell phone. He then proceeded to send dick pics to every female contact in the phone. The first of which resulted in a girl receiving a sext message from her father’s phone.

Stolen phone and different penis or no, that has got to leave a lasting memory. I mean she saw a dick on a screen in a text from her father’s number. You can’t un see something like that.

Next the police are in possession of the phone, tracking the guy and he keeps sending dick pics at a rate that would make Anthony Wiener blush. All of this time, he is in other homes he broke into and showing distinct backgrounds in his sexts that prove where he was every step of the way.

Bro, I have never in my life heard of any human being in any situation that could have benefited more from taking five seconds to download Snapchat. Snapchatting is rule number one in the dick pic game. Throw in the fact that you are sexting an entire island of women, while breaking into houses and being tracked by police and you pretty much have the single best reason in the history of everything to have Snapchat. Like, Snapchat may want to buy the rights to your story to make a commercial.

Straight rookie shit from Mathew Engstrume here. When he was a teenager he probably made crank calls without dialing *67 first.

This dude is so dumb he’s probably just sitting in jail with no idea he can make a phone call, or bail himself out. Someone let this douche know that we have these newfangled things called Lawyers now too. Might want to get one of those Matty Boy, I have a feeling they are going to figure out a few other things to charge you with.

I’m pretty sure they can charge you as a war criminal as a matter of fact. I think you might have violated the Geneva Convention with those dick pics of mass destruction.

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What Will They Name The Sea Turtle Rescued In Brewster?

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QUINCY, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) — A rescued sea turtle will celebrate Thanksgiving by being offered its first meal of herring and being transferred from its intake pool to a large tank.

She will be named next week. Aquarium rescue staff and volunteers pick a theme for names, this year’s theme is breakfast cereals and their mascots.

Nothing and I mean nothing is as exciting as naming a rescued Sea Turtle. The main problem here is that the naming theme is breakfast cereal mascots and this particular turtle is a female. Unfortunately there are no female cereal mascots. I don’t want to cause a stir but it’s true. Please remember that neither The Real Cape, nor I, have anything to do with the cereal industry or the way these volunteers pick their themes for names. So please, any militant feminists out there, send your angry emails to one of the aforementioned organizations. Or if you really need something to do, Insane Tony LOVES sandwiches.

With that behind us I think I have the perfect name. Toucan Sam. First off Sam is an asexual name that is fine for a female. Secondly think of the chant. After she is brought up to weight and health and they set her off to swim for warmer water and survival, we can all sit on the beach urging her with the call of  “if all those other turtles can”…  “you too can…  Sam”… BOOM! Sweetness and sensitivity just oozing out of me this morning.

I know, I know it’s fucking cute as hell. Don’t ever say that I’m not a big softy. They don’t call me Hippie for nothing. I’ll be sure to write another blog all about the grand ceremony where I am presented with a plaque and they have me give Sam the first push towards her new life.

P.S. I will genuinely need to be put on suicide watch if they don’t name her Toucan Sam.

P.P.S. If anyone from Kellogg’s reads this, feel free to send me some free Froot Loops, I will write an extremely subjective blog about how good they are.

And you can’t have a sappy sea turtle blog without this:

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