Rich Jacobson, beloved Community Builder and consummate crabber, was rushed to the hospital late last night after a daring raid on an Upper Manhattan condo left him seriously injured. Police have refused to comment, citing the ongoing investigation, but our sources claim he was violently attacked with a set of bongo drums. In an unlikely turn of events, eye witnesses claimed to have seen Matthew McConaughey streaking from the scene.

Federal investigators are still questioning inmates and staff at the facility where Rich was being held. It is thought that he simply walked out after (politely) asking the guard to open the door.

The motive for Rich's late night sortie are unknown, but many industry pundits believe he was seeking the missing Blogs link. A small but vocal minority have also suggested dementia.

This is an ongoing story… stayed tuned for live, late-breaking updates.

Update (10/11/2008 @ 3:01pm PST): Hospital officials have released Rich's condition as stable. Uncorroborated reports are suggesting that Rich's midnight incursion was successful, and that the Blogs link is due to be delivered to ActiveRain headquarters in mere minutes. A substantial crowd has gathered outside his room, waving flags and banging cowbells in celebration.

(Baffled? Read the prologue to this crazy tale at http://activerain.com/blogsview/734107/Ch-ch-ch-ch)

 
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73 Comments on AR News Wire: Rich Lauded as Local Hero!

OCT
11
2008
188,007 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

That's hysterical, thanks for the laugh today.

3:21pm • #2
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October 10, 2008: America's Most Wanted's, John Walsh pleeded for any information leading to the capture of Rich Jacobson who escaped the authorities in NYC and He ordered the quick return of the Blogs button to the Active Rain Website. 

3:25pm • #4
102,545 Points 4 Featured Posts

FREE RICH! FREE Rich! Free Rich! He's innocent! He was just trying to help us Rainers everywhere. In these unstable times, to have someone change the look of the Rain is just too much for us to handle.

3:31pm • #5
427,209 Points 81 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

Thanks for brightening our day.  'Glad to know that SOMEone is searching for the BLOGS link!

P.S.  You can still get to "BLOGS" by clicking on the link next to "HOME" on the upper left of your screen, but please don't tell anyone or they may take that away, too.

3:31pm • #6
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Hi Jorgen,  Glad to see that you are out of witness protection.  Whose drums was Rich banging on? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SGTT4sV2VE&feature=related

3:34pm • #7
141,213 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Well, I hope that he has protection. I just noticed BIG changes on Localism- completely different format. Maybe I should check it more often, but when did the Q&A replace the top neighbor? Please go to the hospital right now and ask him for me before I march down to the hospital myself, OK?

3:42pm • #8
392,514 Points 58 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Wow, this story is really starting to get intense, hopefully someone will soon solve the missing blogs case...i think it was done by Bob Stewart in the library with the candlestick.

3:46pm • #10
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I'm glad a lot of people found this amusing......... and I suppose I did *after* I read it, but it was a panic mode and couldn't focus for reading so fast worried about Rich before I discovered it was a joke.

Love ya, RICH !!! Glad you're ok!

3:51pm • #11
392,514 Points 58 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Jorgen, I found a major break in the case!

3:59pm • #12
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Jorgen...

I heard he bribed the guard with dungeness crabs!

4:01pm • #13
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WOW!  Bongo's are a bit 60ish for an AR techie, aren't they?  OK, to ease the pain how about comping everyone who responds to this post a thousand points.  Yes, we can be bought off, apparantly pretty cheaply. By the way...here's the real story.

4:12pm • #14
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Well, you certainly caught  my eye with that headline . . .I was so upset until I was half-way reading it.  Oh please . . .the thoughts that were running thru my head - raid?  What is he, a cop or something?  In NY???  Wha????

I guess it is funny after all. 

4:22pm • #15
409,527 Points 74 Featured Posts Outside Blog

That title is in bad taste. I don't think it was so funny but figure it wasn't true.

4:35pm • #16
183,534 Points 9 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

This is just one more indicator that the Feature Star is all about who you know......  This is Crap!

4:49pm • #17

Are you all nuts in Seattle?

4:57pm • #18
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Maybe he needs bail money - I'll kick in the buck or two I have left in the stock market....

4:57pm • #19
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So, McConaughey-wannabe, interesting diversion, but WHERE"S THE BUTTON!!!

5:00pm • #20
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Got it back!  Good work, McConaughey-wannabe.  Don't think we'll forget this little incident.  We're watching you.

5:03pm • #21
157,403 Points 11 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Yeah I see the blog button!!!! Glad Rich is not in the hospital though you gave me a scare!!!

5:05pm • #22
114,118 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Holy crap, you really do exist.  I still don't think that's your real name though.

5:06pm • #23
102,545 Points 4 Featured Posts

Now we know why Jorg is the tech guy and not the public relationship guy. Thanks for the blogs button back!

5:11pm • #24
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:: Psssst - Amanda, Jorgen is his name since his last incident needing witness protection.::

5:18pm • #26
114,118 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Elaine, do you mean the spell check incident?  I heard it was scandalous. 

5:38pm • #27
216,071 Points 4 Featured Posts Outside Blog

**** Happy and thankful the BLOG button has been located.

I finally found a way to get to my suscriptions after many hours of frustration first... yesterday.  Thanks for the short cut guys.

5:47pm • #28
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::No, Amanda, He became an instant hero when he fixed spellcheck to lull us into complacency when he first got here.  The incident I'm referring to is pre-AR.  My sources at the Colbert Report tell me it was very, very messy and involved bears.::

5:56pm • #29
142,476 Points 8 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

Jorgen -

Just checking.  Spell check is still redlining you as a deviate.

Jorden - No, that won't work either.

Jordan - No redline.  OK, change your name.  Jordan is close enough to Jorgen, anyway.

You can be Jordan, the con artist previously known as Jorgen.

6:00pm • #30
409,002 Points 72 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Jorgen...

I shall scroll on as I LMAO. Clever. Very Clever :)

TLW...ROAR!

6:50pm • #32
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

@ Dan C, it's not crap! It is a running inside joke continuing from last night. I guess if you don't bother to read the link and comments from the previous post you couldn't begin to enjoy the irony of this one.

 

7:28pm • #34
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Hi Jason!

Hi Jane!

Hi Stephanie!

Hmm... Where is Amanda Hall?

Jeremy, did you giver her another virtual bottle of Goose? :-)

 

7:32pm • #35
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Hi Neal!

Hi Elaine!

BTW, E, where's your twin?

7:34pm • #36
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Oooo... Virginia, very clever! (LOL)

Has anyone seen the Triple Julies?

Hi Richard! :-)

7:36pm • #37
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Hi C -- Lisa is still in the woods.  Don't worry about Dan.  He knows crap when he sees it LOL!

7:40pm • #38
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Elaine, you and Amanda have me tapping my fingers impatiently on the table... what's the skinny on the pre-scandal and wassup wid da bears, girlfriend? Inquiring minds want to know (LOL).

7:40pm • #39
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Oooo... TLW is hanging out with us tonight. Awesome! Where's BB?

7:42pm • #40
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Elaine, I shall defer to your superior wisdom (LOL). You know how your Chaotic Mama feels about her bay-bays! ;-)

 

7:44pm • #41
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Elaine, I do hope Lisa will be sending us some camp eye candy! I haven't done that in a while... I wonder if the little minions could handle that...Hmm...

I wonder if I could handle the little minions... They ran wild at Paddy's house. Little dudes were rolling in the grass (LOL).

7:48pm • #42
120,383 Points 2 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor

ahhh - that's just what we need here....more cowbell!    snl clip - more cowbell

I'm glad the button is back :)

8:23pm • #43
210,033 Points 12 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Oh noez. This is a travesty (insert daffy duck speech). Hopefully he'll find that missing button soon. Where oh where could it be.

With said button found the world is safe once again.

8:23pm • #44
324,477 Points 14 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Wow Kara, where on earth did you find him? (LOL) More cowbell, eh? Too funny!

8:32pm • #45
405,282 Points 179 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

scratching my head and wondering if Dan Cummings is serious?

9:49pm • #48
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Jorgen-  Playing in the rain has sure gotten exciting since you joined.  What is the next catastrophe upgrade you have planned for us?

P.S. Don't know why you absconded with it - it can't be worth that much on the open market, without the complete AR apparatus- but I'm glad you came clean and returned the Blogs button.

10:17pm • #49
3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

HI JORGEN!

I was quite alarmed reading the beginning of this post, but as I neared the end to see that I had to read the other post, I felt relieved!!  Cool story though, lots of drama.

10:24pm • #50
367,736 Points 16 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hilarious - (whipping tears of joy) The BLOG button is back YEAH!!!! Now what happened to the drums??? and the roller blades? And just wondering... Where is Bob Stewart? ~Rita

10:26pm • #51
153,152 Points 4 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

In somewhat related news, RealtyTrac is reporting an unusual drop in housing sales over the past 2 days. 

10:53pm • #52
103,648 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog Hit Router

Not funny at first...have to live without the Blog button.... very funny after reading all the blogs concerning the missing Blog button. At least, Rich finally got it back. YEAH!

11:19pm • #53
386,219 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Ummm oh my... sounds like a wild made up story here..... But.. Where is the Blog button ??

11:33pm • #54
OCT
12
2008

At least Dan (The Running Man) controlled himsef and only used the word "Crap!"   :-))

12:02am • #55
362,045 Points 3 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Yeah Rich.  Thank you.  Jorgen, glad you found your way out of protective custody, as long as you leave my blog button alone : )

12:08am • #56
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Rich and Jorgen,

Let this be a lesson to you both...don't mess with Mother Nature in the Rain or the Blog Button...

Thank you, all is right with the world again!

4:25am • #57
370,774 Points 62 Featured Posts Outside Blog

That is hysterical.  Thanks for the laughs.  Now everyone will be able to find the blog page and start shoveling through all the dookie, again.

5:44am • #59
843,057 Points 213 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

I thought the movement of the BLOGS button was a test to see how many ActiveRain members had the ability to read more than what they were used to seeing. 

Took me a while to find the "Login" thingee too.

 

5:53am • #60
210,033 Points 12 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Rich, i think he was serious lol. 

I guess some people still don't know who jorgen is yet.

6:06am • #61
258,444 Points 44 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Fess up...you guys hired someone new:  A psychologist.  Somewhere he/she is going over the data complaints and thinking of writing a book entitled "Mass hysteria & the Missing Blog Button".

6:37am • #62
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I was wondering what happened to the execs. Guess they will re-appear safe and succesful with the blog button.

6:43am • #63
595,292 Points 63 Featured Posts Outside Blog

It never ceases to amaze me how on Active Rain how the trivial can be magnified into the significant like with the movement of the Blog button around. I have read so many posts on this snafu. Sometimes I think technical snafus like this are deliberately generated to increase the production of blogs about the topic. It is all good again now that the blog button is back in the top header. The world is safe again : ) I think I am personally going to search for a life!! Now the Login with the microfont, maybe that's the bonus round.

8:00am • #64
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@C Tann-Star...  You have to understand that at the time of my comment this was a different post. After running the Hartford marthon where I had plenty of time to reflect on the fate of fallen runners whenever an emergency vehicle passed me I returned home to find the top featured post with the title illustrated in the graphic below.

I did see the comment stream with both notes of confusion and support for the joke including the one above mine noting the poor taste of the title.  Since that time the post has been renamed and the body texted edited.  This is a perfectly fine insider joke piece but as I originally said adding a Feature Star is a bit of BULL...

@Rich... Yes I was serious and see that you didn't feature the next segment, yet.

@Brad... I'm always in control of my fingers and won't respond to the "clickie" comments  :-)

 

9:26am • #66
257,110 Points 14 Featured Posts Outside Blog

This is exactly how rumors get started!  Glad the blog button is back.  KM

9:35am • #67
114,118 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Hi Dan.  Sorry that Jorgen took our blog button and then wrote this post that had you worried about Rich. 

9:47am • #68
183,534 Points 9 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Hi Amanda...  Nothing for you to be sorry about. It was short lived concern after moving beyond the title. I knew the blog button disappeared but apparently missed all the drama it caused.

10:14am • #69
260,531 Points 24 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

Thank God! I was really starting to worry over the missing blog button.

10:29am • #70
427,849 Points 17 Featured Posts Outside Blog

LOL. Very cute. I think I'm going with the dementia belief...unless of course, someone can confirm the attendance of Matthew McConaughey. <:P

12:32pm • #71
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22
2008

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