DOES “BAD NEWZ” EQUAL “NEWPORT NEWS”?
The complaint filed earlier this week by federal authorities hoping to assume possession of the dogs seized from Mike Vick’s Surry County, Virginia property in April alleges that the dog-fighting operation there was known as the “Bad Newz Kennels.” Our own Taco Bill, who apparently spends his spare time boning up on all of the latest slang posted on the oft-hilarious Urban Dictionary, has found on the site an entry for “Newport News,” the town in Virginia where Vick grew up. The first sentence reads as follows: “Newport News, affectionately known as Bad Newz is one of Virginia’s largest cities in perhaps the largest metropolitan area in Virginia.” Though this link doesn’t necessarily mean that Vick was involved in the dog-fighting operation, the fact that it bears the street name of his hometown does nothing to distance him from the enterprise housed on the property he owns. UPDATE: A reader points out that Vick’s official web site lists his birthplace as “Newport News, VA a.k.a. BadNe
