A 28-year-old British man is lucky to be alive after he blew himself up after he tried to kill a spider in his bathroom.
Chris Welding's wife noticed the creature and screamed for help. Wielding a flammable aerosol can, he sprayed the spider as it cowered behind the toilet - then lit a cigarette lighter to see if he had killed it.
The pow! The bathroom exploded! The force of the explosion knocked him off his feet and the door off its hinges.
"It was about 10.30pm last night. My wife was getting ready for bed and suddenly she let out a scream. She said there was a spider in the bathroom and asked me to get rid of it - neither she or the kids would go in there," he said. "The spider had crawled into the recess behind the loo and there was no way I could get to it. Stupid as it is, I grabbed a can of deodorant and a lighter and sprayed it behind the loo. The flame shot out and went round the back of the toilet and came back out at me. It was a bit of a shock. I've got two burned fingers and a burned knuckle. I wasn't badly injured but they wanted to check I hadn't inhaled any of the fumes."
Bryan Hanlon, 26, of Glasgow, Scotland was driving when his car was forced off the road by another vehicle last Sunday. Seven men, using chisels and hammers, beat him down and chopped off his penis and sawed off his ear.
"They went at him with knives and hammers after smashing the motor off the road. They chopped him up and did him right in," a source tells the Sun. ""His private parts have been left in a very bad way."
Bryan (pictured, right) underwent emergency surgery to reattach his johnson and is listed in critical condition.
A week prior, Bryan's twin brother James (pictured, left) was assaulted during a similar attack. Six men bore a hole in his head using a power drill and beat him down with hammers and chisels.
Both brothers are believed to be embroilled in a feud over drugs with this rival gang.
Latasha "How You Doin" Connor was banned from a mall in Houston for a decade because she was too loud in the food court. After the local news contacted the mall, they rescinded the 10-year ban, but will "and will review this particular incident to determine what, if any, ban is appropriate.” Latasha wants an apology.
A soon-to-be-open restaurant in Berlin, Germany has began advertising. Although it hasn't yet divulge its address or telephone number, it has revealed its menu -- human flesh.
In a prominent advertising campaign on the internet, in German newspapers and on television, the restaurant, Flime, is appealing for willing donors and diners to become members of what it hints at being a new dining movement. "Members declare themselves willing to donate any part of their body," the advertisement reads, adding that any resulting hospital costs will be taken on by the restaurant. They say they are also looking to employ an "open-minded surgeon". The location of the restaurant – if it exists – is being kept a secret, as is the identity of the owners and investors behind it. As a foretaste of its menu, Flime is suggesting traditional Brazilian dishes such as bolinho, which it describes as "fried tatar balls with a sweet-sour dip", or feijoada, a main course consisting of "various pieces of meat with black beans and rice". It does not specify what type of meat is used. The restaurant cites as its inspiration the indigenous Brazilian Waricaca tribe, which once practised the ritual of "compassionate cannibalism", or eating parts of the corpse of a loved one to emphasise the connection between the living and the dead, which was said to help with mourning.
Everything takes like chicken, especially with battered and deep-fried and dipped in sweet-and-sour sauce, right? No? Well, we're not interested in finding out and we're keeping our asses out of Germany! Until the government swoops down and shutters the cannibal restaurant, that is.
You don't know how many times we watched this in amazement -- mostly so we could perfect these moves for the club next weekend. Hey!!! Rock on, little Asian princess.
Police in Dallas have arrested 19-year-old Danielle Patrice Lewis and charged her with injury to a child after she bit her 4-week-old son about his body then abandoned him at a local hospital.
According to police, Danielle took the boy to the hospital where he was treated for "human bite wounds to both shoulders, upper back, middle back, left buttocks and left thigh." He "sustained contusions and visible bruising to his back and buttocks area and slight abrasions to his genital area."
At around 3am the next day, she said she didn't want the baby and left.
Cops arrested her at her home and she told investigators she bit her son to get him to be quiet.
Milwaukee Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings says he's a man of his word. So, after losing a bet, he posted this video to YouTube last weekend in which he did a performance to Lady Gaga's "LoveGame." He's getting into it a bit too much, no? Ehaow! (PS: He told someone on Twitter, "I'm a man about it! I still got more girlies then [sic] you.")
Elisay Silva, who is from the Brazilian Amazon state of Para, is 6'9" tall. The 14-year-old is believed to be suffering from gigantism, but she's been unable to get treatment because her family can't afford it. She also isn't getting an education, as she she was forced to quit school because she couldn't fit on the bus. But she has dreams of walking the cat walk. "I think my size, my body which is very slim, my tiny waist everyone who sees me tells me I could either be a basketball player or a model. But I’d rather be a model," she told a local TV station. "Now I like to be a tall girl. It calls people’s attention. Everyone looks at me, takes photos, films ..." She's expected to make her modeling debut in September.
Yoga isn't just for "stinky white people" -- it's for black people, too. Shakti-Shakti-Lion-head Park from FunnyorDie demonstrates the R. Kelly, Kimora, Kim Kardashian and Beyoncè poses. Instead of ending the class by chanting "om", like white people do, black yoga students, say "Obama." Too funny.
A man armed with a video camera was trekking through Times Square in NYC when he came upon some sort of impromptu photoshoot. So, he decided to film the action. And by action, we mean he was filming the ballerina's ass. When "the crew" notices, they try to make him leave, but this cameraman isn't backing down; he knows his rights.
Helen Shields, who lives in London, says her ex-boyfriend chased her through a house squirting fuel over her and tried to light her on fire last February. You see, Helen and her ex, Kenneth Stewart (whom she likes to call "Tony" -- Big Tony) were business partners before they broke up last November. The night of the attempted homicide, "Tony" showed up at Helen's home, which was where they ran this business, and asked her to buy him out of the business arrangement for £2,500. Helen, 43, refused and that's when he tried to burn her alive. Oh, wait, did we forget? The couple ran "The Black Man's Fan Club", which was a twice-monthly sex party for 150 members who were "either black guys or ladies into black guys." Tony, 44, is currently on trial for making terroristic threats and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm. When his attorney asked Helen if anything "changed hands" at the orgies she replied: "I might get out some condoms." Zing!
Police in Littleton, Colo. released this surveillance video of a Walmart employee who got punched on the side of the head after he attempted to stop a shoplifter pushing a cart of stolen merchandise. The employee suffered "serious bodily injury." Two men have been arrested, two others (including the driver of the getaway vehicle) are still on the loose.
A Las Vegas man who claims he was injured while performing baptisms in the name of the dead Raleigh, NC, in 2007 filed a civil suit yesterday against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses, future loss of earning capacity and loss of household services.
In a civil suit filed in 3rd District Court on Wednesday, Daniel Dastrup claims he suffered a severe herniated disk in his lumbar spine after performing about 200 baptisms on Aug. 25, 2007. The then 25-year-old claims some of the young men and women he completely immersed in water in the name of the dead weighed as much as 250 pounds. When he asked to be relieved, an officiator at the LDS temple in Raleigh, N.C., where the baptisms were performed, told Dastrup to continue, the civil suit states. Another man who asked the officiator twice to take over for Dastrup was also told no. The day after finishing the numerous baptisms, Dastrup said he suffered so much pain he could not sit up. He later learned of the herniated disk and had to undergo two spinal surgeries, according to the suit. Dastrup claims the church breached its duty by “not warning the plaintiffs that the repetitive motion required for performing baptisms for the dead could cause serious damage to a person’s back and by not allowing Mr. Dastrup to stop and be relieved when he and his replacement requested on multiple occasions that they be switched out.” Dastrup, who also listed his wife as a plaintiff in the case, claims the injury has affected his relationship with her, and the pain has forced him to quit law school and change his lifestyle.
When we first read this story, we were like, what? Who the hell baptizes dead people, until we Googled it and learned that Daniel was "baptizing a living person on behalf of an individual who is dead." The Church believes that if you haven't been baptized, then you won't enter the kingdom of God.
Robbin Foster is deeply disturbed person. She was arrested on Tuesday after she stabbed her 16-year-old son, who is deaf, mute and autistic, 32 times about his body then tried to blame the stab-ation on a 15-year-old boy, who cops arrested and questioned. Police in Mansfield, Conn. eventually figured out that Robbin, who's also deaf, was lying. She eventually confessed and told police she never intended to hurt her son, she just wanted the pressure of caring for him off her shoulders. The boy is in serious, but stable condition at a local hospital. Robbin was charged with assault on a disabled person and making a false statement.
Beanie Sigel has not squashed his beef Jay-Z, his former Roc-A-Fella boss. After releasing a diss record late last year, the Philly rapper released a new diss track called "Haters" attacking Jay-Z and Kanye, who he calls gay.
Beanie rhymes: “Middle finger up to Jayeeeer / I don’t give a fuck about Ye’eeer / Wanna know, I think Ye Queeeeer / He dress Gayeeeeer / I sweeeear / I heard he takes it in his reeeeear / You should know by now I don’t caaaaare.”
Surgeons have agreed to offer free treatment to a 41-year-old Chinese man, known locally as Hippo Man, because of his large nose. According to reports, Fei Jianjun suffers from a nasal carcinoma that began as a small bump on the end of his nose last September, but it now covers so much of his face and left him unable to leave his home out of fear the sight of him and the tumor will make people physically ill. “I try my best not to go out, as my family is too poor to compensate others if I scare them and make them sick,” he says. Doctors say if he doesn't get treatment now, he could die in six months.
Carmen Jones said she booked a room at the Wyndham Garden hotel in downtown Atlanta, the How You Doin capital of America, on Aug. 1 and the room looked clean, but when she awoke the next morning she found her 4-year-old grandson with a used condom in his mouth and - get this - it was filled with semen! Carmen immediately alerted hotel staff who, she said, confiscated the condom, waived the costs of the room and gave them passes to Six Flags. (How considerate.) Carmen soon noticed that her grandson had sores in his mouth and now he's undergoing a battery of tests to make sure he hasn't contracted any STDs or STIs. Hey, Wyndham get your check book ready. In fact, get one of those giant checks they use on TV to accommodate all the zeros.
Update, Jan. 21, 2011: As we suspected, Carmen has filed a lawsuit against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and the hotel's manager seeking an undisclosed amount of cash after her grandson contracted herpes.
When 10-month-old Chinese boy named Xiao Lei was born he weighed 7 pounds, now he has ballooned into a 44-pounder, double the size of most babies his age. The mother says Xiao is just greedy and she only feeds him breast milk. In a effort to ward off heart problems and hypertension, doctors has advised that he be placed on a diet.
KLS -- that's Kimora Lee Simmons to you -- was "unceremoniously dumped" from Baby Phat, according to the folks over at the New York Post. Here's the back story: Kimora founded Baby Phat with her ex-husband Russell in 1999. In 2004, Phat Farm, the parent company, was sold to Kellwood Company for $140 million and KLS was promoted by Kellwood to president and creative director of Phat Fashions. That all changed recently when Kellwood fired Kimora and her entire staff for spending too much money on those campaigns she'd shoot in exotic locales and the additional costs incurred to retouch her body to death! While she thought of this as fabulosity, Kellwood didn't agree.
"Kimora was going over-budget," an insider says. "She'd pay herself a fee to be in the ads, plus she paid her children fees to appear in ads. It costs thousands of dollars to airbrush her because she's a size 10. Plus, they spent a ton of money on body doubles. They would shoot another model in the clothes, and take Kimora's head and put in on her body."
Shocking? No. The retoucher must've spent hours to make her look like a different person in the ad above.
Kimora's story is that she left on her own accord so she could "further expand [her] other businesses," but the Post claims she's considering filing a lawsuit against Kellwood for wrongful termination.
Wyclef Jean, whose plans to run for president of Haiti were dashed last week when he was found to be ineligible, vowed to appeal. He's given interviews upon interviews claiming that he has a right to be on the November ballot and accused Haiti's electoral council of being corrupt -- which in itself is hilarious and oxymoronic given the fact that corruptness is in the official job description of almost every politician in Haiti. It's legend.
This morning, however, Samuel Pierre of the council's legal department told Reuters that, under article 191 of Haiti's electoral law, rulings by the election authority's disputes tribunal are definitive and cannot be appealed.
"Therefore there is absolutely no possibility for Wyclef Jean to be added to the list of candidates approved to run in the next presidential elections," he said. "So it's over."
Elin Nordegren, the ex-wife of Tiger Woods gave her first and final interview to People magazine in which she spoke about the humiliation she felt after learning that her then husband was jumping off with anything and everything on two legs.
"I've been through hell," Elin says. "It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden -- was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived, it was hard, but it didn't kill me."
"I'm so embarrassed that I never suspected -- not a one. For the last three and a half years, when all this was going on, I was home a lot more with pregnancies, then the children and my school," she said. "The word betrayal isn't strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart....I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children."
She's believed to have walked away with at least $100 million in cash and prizes, but she says it wasn't worth splitting up her family.
"Money can't buy me happiness," she said. "Or put my family back together." Or, buy her silence like that skettel Rachel Uchitel.
Praised for maintaining her privacy through the ordeal, Elin, who disclosed she suffered weight and hair loss from stress before the divorce, said she wanted to protect her children.
"For my kids, I felt that (maintaining privacy) was the only normalcy I could give them, since they have a very famous dad," she said.
Elin met with reporters from People for 19 hours spread over four days at the rented Windermere, Fla., home where she now lives with their two children. The magazine says no money exchanged hands, all Elin wanted to do was tell her side of the story.
"I felt like setting some things straight," she said.
Elin also admitted that she and Tiger tried for "months and months" to reconcile, but "without trust and love" it wasn't possible.
"Forgiveness takes time," she said. "I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself."
As for her immediate future? Elin plans to obtain a Masters degree in pscyhcology and doesn't plan to date anytime soon.
"It's going to be just me and the kids for a little while, but I believe in love, because I've seen it. I've been there," she said.
Update: Tiger Woods reponds. Addressing reporters at tournament in New Jersey (how y'all doin!), the golfer says, "I wish [Elin] the best in everything. You know, it's a sad time in our lives. And we're looking forward to [rebuilding] our lives and how we can help our kids the best way we possibly can. And that's the most important thing." He wouldn't answer questions on where he still loved her.
Source: People magazine, Sept. 6 print edition | source 2
Earlier this year, promoter Kenyohn Clark filed a $1 million lawsuit against Ne-Yo and promoter Mike Esterman. He claimed that Ne-Yo failed to appear at a 2008 New Year's Eve concert and Mike refused to refund a $95,000 deposit. A Baltimore judge sided with Kenyohn and awarded him $156,000. During the four-day trial, Ne-Yo, who initially tried to get the case thrown out, took the stand and admitted that the deposit should have been returned.
Last week we told you about a man who claimed to have magically grown a vagina. Not to be outdone, a man (pictured) from Ghana has a similar story, but he claims he gave birth to a baby girl on August 10, which he delivered vaginally. You know, the vagina the gods gave him as punishment for sleeping with a woman.
Speaking exclusively to DAILY GUIDE before the naming ceremony, Kwabena Benie, who is now called Abena Benie, explained that he was the fifth of 12 children of his mother and father Kofi Nyame, both natives of Sefwi Wiawso. He alleged that when he was 13 years old, the river god at Aboduam called ‘Apomasu’, possessed him so he became a fetish priest and had to serve the god. According to Kwabena Benie, whose voice had turned feminine, the river god warned him not to have sex with any woman since it (the god) had married him. However when he was 20 years, according to him, he disobeyed the river god, got married to a woman whom he declined to name and had sexual intercourse with her. He said during the period of the sexual relationship, he had frequent pains in his penis and visited the hospital on several occasions for treatment but to no avail. Kwabena (Abena) Benie narrated that he was sleeping one night when he suddenly felt a sharp pain around his waist and realized with shock that his penis had disappeared and in its place he had a vagina. “When I felt the pain, I tried to touch my penis with my hands but I realized that it had turned into a vagina”, he whispered as DAILY GUIDE and the crowd of people milled around him. He said he soon went into a sexual relationship with another man, Kwesi Nkoah, who was a student at the Sefwi area. However, sadly when the pregnancy was announced to Nkoah, he rejected it and refused to accept responsibility. The fetish priest told DAILY GUIDE that he went through the usual nine months of carrying a pregnancy and gave birth to the baby at home. The baby was delivered by Maame Ama Nyata who corroborated Benie’s story when contacted. When DAILY GUIDE asked how baby Abena was fed, he acknowledged that he was flat-chested and did not develop breasts with the vagina and other attributes of a woman. However, according to him, his mother and sisters fed the baby with lactogen milk from a feeding bottle. He stressed that even though some people were skeptical about his story, every bit of it was true because he would not tell the whole world that he had given birth to a child when he had not done so.
We're skeptical. Aside from the fact that it's impossible for a man to develop a vagina without the help of a skilled surgeon and a scalpel, this just doesn't make sense.
A man in Moncks Corner, SC placed this ad on Craigslist seeking the public's help in locating a van that was stolen from his home, but the contents -- handcuffs, kiddie porn, etc. -- should be cause for the cops to swoop down and arrest this pervert. BTW: We don't believe the van belongs to Charlamagne.
When 32-year-old Colondra Hamilton was arrested on charges of driving with an open container of alcohol and a crack pipe in Elmwood Place, Ohio earlier this month, cops weren't prepared for what they found sitting on her lap. Colondra's pants were unbuttoned and on her lap was a dildo. She told police she was pleasuring herself with the sex toy at the same her passenger was playing a porn on a laptop while they were driving, smoking crack and drinking. Hey!
Now that season two of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, the staged and scripted "reality" show is over and the chatter about her sex tape has weaned, prostitution whore/crack head Danielle Staub is focusing on her "singing" -- a term we use very loosely -- career. She appeared on WPIX News this morning to "perform" the dance remix of her "song" and all we can say is ... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! We need to search harder in our next box of Cracker Jack to see if we, too, won a record deal.
The US Department of Justice -- more specifically the DEA -- issued documents seeking to hire linguists fluent in 114 languages to help monitor, translate and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of black folks involved in narcotics investigation. Among the linguists wanted, were nine who spoke "Black English" or Ebonics to help decipher bugged calls. True story.
According to the folks over at the Smoking Gun, who obtained the leaked documents, the DEA's Atlanta field division is the only office seeking linguists well-versed in Ebonics, which is listed as a “common language” spoken solely in the United States.
While the documents didn't list how much these Ebonics experts were going to be paid, the DEA does spend $70 million each year on linguistic service programs.
Critics say Ebonics is not a dialect and is nothing more than poor grammar or lazy English.
"I didn't have any fight in me. I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out," she says in the special which airs tomorrow night. "At that moment, I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with – all of it, all of that shit. I just sat in the closet and looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I wanted to go to sleep and just be at peace. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills." According to her manager Brian Dickens, Fantasia was emotionally drained.
"Her emotions were extremely low," he said. "She'd been crying all day. Fantasia was just numb. Fantasia texted me, saying 'I love you.' I wrote back, 'I love you more.' Then it hit me. I wrote, 'You better not do anything or think about doing anything stupid.' And I left it at that. About 10 minutes later, Fantasia texted me back, and she said, 'Already did.' I went into Fantasia's room and saw her on the floor, and my heart just dropped."
He made the now infamous 911 call and Fantasia was rushed to a hospital.
"I was tired of people doing me wrong, constantly, over and over again, dealing with my family – my father, dealing with men and their shit – I was tired," Fantasia says. "My head was hurting me. I was over it."
And as for Antwaun, she says, “When I met him, he was separated … wasn’t living in his home. He didn’t want to be back with his wife – that is what I was told. I remember waking up in the hospital [and thinking], ‘It didn’t work, I’m still here in this hellhole. Still here with all this drama going on.’ ”
She's also in therapy.
We see where this is going: Fantasia is the victim. It's all self-serving.
The terms of the divorce weren't revealed, but according to court documents the pair "signed a Marital Settlement Agreement well more than 20 days prior to" filing for divorce. In addition, Elin asked to change her name back to Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren. For the six years of marriage and public humiliation which precipitated its demise, Elin could walk away with as much as $750 million in cash and prizes and she must never -- EVER! -- speak about the details of the settlement or about what exactly happened last November. The couple will share custody of their two children, Sam Alexis, 3, and Charlie Axel, 1. Included in the court papers with the divorce filing were certificates that showed that Tiger and Elin completed four-hour Florida parenting classes. The former husband and wife, issued this joint statement: "We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future. While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us. Once we came to the decision that our marriage was at an end, the primary focus of our amicable discussions has been to ensure their future well-being. The weeks and months ahead will not be easy for them as we adjust to a new family situation, which is why our privacy must be a principal concern."
Let's hear it for Elin! She's the newest and wealthiest member of the First Wives Club.
A nail salon in in DeKalb County, Ga. is tacking on an additional $5 onto the bills of fat customers. Salon manager Kim Tran says the surcharge is due to costly repairs of broken chairs by overweight customers. She says the chairs have a weight capacity of 200 pounds and cost $2,500 to fix so the $5 is to cover the repairs. Michelle Fonville feels that she's being discriminated against, but Kim thinks she's in the right and after refunding Michelle's money, told her not to come back to the salon.
A 55-year-old German truck driver literally dropped dead after a prostitute he hired turned out to be transsexual.
The man, identified only as H. Reiner, was on his way to buy his wife a birthday gift, but made a pit stop at a brothel that hires prostitution whores who are biological female and "lapis", the German word for transsexual. Each door is clearly marked, but somehow the man landed in the bed of Priya, a 24-year-old pre-op transsexual.
According Priya (pictured), the man paid her 100 Euros and after 20 minutes of random conversation, he decided it was time to get down to the action.
As she began to undress, Priya says, the man started to sweat profusely and by the time she was completely naked, he became dizzy, his eyes rolled back and collapsed on the bed. Panicked, she called an ambulance.
He was pronounced dead and the official cause of death was listed as a heart attack brought on by an excessive use of Viagra.
If you watch any TV, chances are you've come across the New York Times"Weekender" spot featuring hoity-toity "readers" telling you why they love their Times on the weekend, sharing their favorite sections of the paper and encouraging you to subscribe. Now comes the New York Post's (unofficial) response which -- let's just say -- is everything the Times' commercial isn't -- and we love it, because really, “where else are you gonna find out that Kim Kardashian is a whore?”
According to a member of the provisional electoral council, which will formally publish the list of approved candidates tomorrow, Wyclef is not in compliance with legal requirements because presidential candidates must have spent the five years prior to the election living in Haiti. Wyclef lives in New Jersey and is a naturalized US citizen.
He argued that he should be exempt from the residency requirement because of his position as a roving ambassador. His powers of persuasions didn't work.
Earlier this week Wycelf announced he was forced to go into hiding following death threats death on the island.
Update: Haiti's politicians are as corrupt as they come, so it's no surprise that there are talks that Wyclef -- or someone in his camp -- is attempting to bribe the eight sitting members of the country's electoral council into allowing the hip-hop star to run. Wyclef denies this is happening. According to the Miami Herald, despite 20 pages of legal documents submitted as proof that Wyclef is not eligible to run, only the president of the council, Gaillot Dorsinvil, is in support of Wycelf's candidacy. Wyclef insists that he will be declared eligible to run. Riiiiigggghhhhhhhttttttt.
Update 2: Wyclef's money is no good in Haiti. The AP is also reporting that the electoral council has rejected Wyclef's application.
Katherine Jackson filed for divorce from Joe twice, but they patched things up. Now, after 61 years of marriage, Katherine is planning to slap Joe with divorce papers, according to Showbiz411's Roger Friedman.
Rumors are swirling that Katherine Jackson and Joseph Jackson are getting a divorce. A friend close to Mrs. Jackson insists this is true. Confirmed. The friend says a couple of things have contributed to this decision. One is Joe Jackson’s comment last spring that Katherine caused Michael’s death. “She’s never gotten over it,” says the friend. Then there’s Joe Jackson’s penchant for getting into financial trouble resulting in possible litigation. The word is that Katherine has been advised that she could be vulnerable if Joe is successfully sued.
Roger also makes the point that money fuels everything the Jacksons do, so does publicity. Michael would have celebrated his 52nd birthday on Aug. 29.
The bitches from the Real Housewives of Atlanta are coming back. Well, not everyone. As we previously reported, Lisa Wu Hartwell was fired . Although she will appear on the program, her role will be so minute that all mentions of her have been scrubbed from the Bravo Web site and she doesn't appear in the official cast photo, which is above. For the third season, the show will add two new women: model, Cynthia Bailey and entertainment lawyer, Phaedra Parks.
Here's what you need to know about them:
Cynthia Bailey: She’s a model who was born in Alabama, has appeared on the cover of Essence magazine, and has a 10-year-old daughter, Noelle.You might remember her from a brief guest role on The Cosby Show (she played a character named Sheniquah Watkins) or her spot as Roxanne opposite Sandra Bernhard in the musical comedy Without You I’m Nothing. This season on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the independent woman will grapple with a marriage ultimatum from her boyfriend of three years, Peter Thomas, and deepen her bond with NeNe. Phaedra Parks: This friend of Dwight and Kandi’s is an entertainment lawyer—specifically, the managing partner of an Atlanta-based boutique firm that works with entertainers and athletes. She’s a self-proclaimed “Southern Belle,” and does charity, which is a hallmark of the Housewives franchise. Her big storyline this season? She’s married to a younger man, Apollo, who went to prison for a “white collar crime,” and the ladies love to gossip about that. And surprise: Phaedra’s pregnant! Much of her time will be consumed with planning a baby shower. Also worth noting: Phaedra is from the same hometown as spitfire NeNe.
Season 3 of the "reality" show premieres Oct. 4. Here's a preview:
BTW: Pictured above, from left to right: Phaedra, NeNe, Shereé, Cynthia, What's-Her-Face, and Kandi.
Sidebar: DeShawn Snow, who was fired from the show after one season, is divorcing her husband, Ed after it was revealed that not only was his jumping off with another woman, he had fathered a child with the jumpoff. Now, their marital home in Alpharetta, Ga. has been placed on the market for $4,998,000. In case you were interested in putting down an offer, the home is 10,317 square feet and has 6 bedrooms with 12 bathrooms (6 full and 6 half baths). The couple also owns a 3-bedroom and 2-bath condo in Alpharetta, and 3-bedroom, 2-bath house in Canton, Ohio, according to Real Estalker.
Firefighters in London were forced to cut a man from a window yesterday morning. The man, who was trying to break into the home at around 2am, got stuck because his ass is too big. He was discovered several hours when a resident at the house he was attempting to burglarize, came downstairs for breakfast and spotted him stuck in the window. Awk-ward!
“It was hilarious," a neighbor said. "All of the neighbors came outside to take a look at his legs and backside sticking out of the window. He must have felt a right idiot. Most people wanted him to be left there. There is one neighbor who is a surgeon, and he told the emergency services he'd be able to get the burglar out without damaging the window. But they politely declined, saying they would rather get him out in one piece.”
The 36-year-old man, who is slim but has large ass (you can see the his face after the jump), was eventually removed from the window at 8:30am and arrested on suspicion of burglary.
A mockumentary, produced by Heal the Bay, which is lobbying to put an end to plastic bags, follows the life of a plastic bag from a grocery store parking lot to the Pacific ocean.
In a statement through his lawyer, Antwaun says he told Fantasia that he and his wife were separated. But Paula tells a different story.
"Antwaun would be remiss not to address the criticism and judgment he has received," the statement read. "He knew Fantasia Barrino but the failure of his marriage can in no way be blamed on anyone except the two people that were a part of the union – Paula and Antwaun....[Paula and Antwaun] expected their marriage to stand the test of time. Unfortunately, like many marriages, it did not turn out as planned. In late summer 2009, after years of discussion, the parties separated with the intention of no longer being married." Riiiigggghhhhttttt.
All of this -- minus the inevitability that she'll be sued for being a homewrecker -- couldn't be better news for Fantasia, who has an album coming out this month. One of her first singles from the new album has recharted on the Billboard Hot 100 (it's # 90) and she has a full publicity schedule. On Aug. 24, she'll appear on Good Morning America where she is expected to openly discuss her suicide attempt and relationship with Antwaun.
What was that again, Linnetra? Oh, yes, close your legs to married men!
Jali Mateyu from Malawi is either delusional, a medical mystery or a whole lot of fun in the bedroom. The 25-year-old who has three wives and six kids claims his penis disappeared and he developed a vagina in its place and he can now have a period.
WTF! No, seriously. What. The. Fuck?!
“Two years ago I developed strange human flesh on my anus and my wife confirmed to me that they were female genitals but they disappeared.” Mateyu explained. But in June this year they reappeared just between the anus and the genitals. My member shrunk and later disappeared. There were only female genitals." Mateyu immediately sought the assistance of a traditional healer who cut the alleged female genitals with a knife and sprinkled herbs on them. “They were cut and herbs were applied. Now male genitals have resurfaced but they are too weak; I can’t perform in bed,” Mateyu told the Malawi National newspaper. Mateyu blames his suffering on black magic, and has accused both his mother-in-law and his second wife’s ex-husband for bewitching him and turning him into a woman. Mateyu’s first wife ran away after he stole his second wife from another man, he believes that this is the motive for his first wife’s mother and his second wife’s ex-partner for using black magic against him.
Jali says the "vagina" appeared not long after his second wife left her impotent husband to be with him. His female genitalia, he says, itches frequently and "sometimes bleed after they are scratched." His wife told him he is most likely menstruating. The "itching" has made him unable to work. Meanwhile, a physician says it's impossible for a man to develop a vagina -- without surgery, that is. So, Jali, you might want to get that open sore looked at by a physician. STAT!
Mr Softee and a Softy Cream man came to blows over a parking spot in NYC. These queens providing the play-by-play are hilarious, but clutched their pearls and made a hasty exit just when things were getting good -- even though they were half a block away.
Michael Kevin Lallana, 31, of Santa Ana, Calif. faces up to three years in jail with mandatory sex offender registration after it he -- how do we say this gently? -- ejaculated into his female co-worker's water bottle on two separate occasions. And yes, unaware of Michael's deposits, she drank from the bottle.
Investigators say Lallana entered the victim's office and deposited his semen into a water bottle that was on his co-worker's desk. The defendant is accused of leaving the semen-filled water bottle on the victim's desk which she drank when she returned to her office. The unidentified victim, who ws unaware of the bottle's contents, drank the contaminated water. She threw it away after feeling sick, investigators say. Three months later, the victim and six other employees, including the defendant, were transferred to the Northwestern Mutual Mortgage Company's Orange branch. That's where a second incident occurred, according to officials. On April 9, 2010, Lallana is accused of assaulting the same victim by depositing his ejaculation into another water bottle that the victim left on her desk. The victim took a sip from the bottle, felt sick. She decided to send the specimen to a private lab to be tested. The lab contacted her and told her the water bottle contained semen, police said.
Someone tested the semen and it matched up with Michael's DNA. This is horrible. We bet the woman won't be using reusable water bottles anymore.
Researchers in Tanzania have all the right intentions -- breeding giant rats to sniff out whether a person has tuberculosis and hopefully treat the person before the disease kills him. However, if most people come upon a rat this size, many of them will fake an injury so they could file a lawsuit immediately go into cardiac arrest and die. But we digress.
While the World Health Organization estimates that 2 billion people around the world are infected with TB, it can be hard to detect under a microscope, particularly in those who are also HIV positive. That’s where the giant rats can help. They might turn out to be just as accurate at finding TB. They're low-tech and could screen for TB in resource-limited countries. They’re also faster than the standard microscope test, says Bart Weetjens, APOPO founder. A human with a microscope can process 40 samples a day. A rat can do 40 in seven minutes, he says. Weetjens, who was inspired by a childhood pet rat, started APOPO in the 1990s to train giant pouched rats, which are native to sub-Saharan Africa, to detect land mines in the region. The rats were so good at sniffing out hidden bombs that in 2003, APOPO started training their nosy little friends to smell TB in a spit sample. Currently working with a team of 30 rats, APOPO is now optimizing their unique program, so in the future, it might be used in other communities.
Bart adds that rats' reputation as disease-carrying vermin is exaggerated and no one at the testing facility has gotten ill during the 12 years they've been working with the animals, whom he refers to as "really lovable creatures."
Police in Lancaster, Pa. have a real whodunit on their hands. Early last Friday morning, someone went into a cemetery and dug up 9-year-old Paula Ream's grave, stealing her casket and remains. Here's the kicker: Paula died 48 years ago this month!
Shaquan Duley, of South Carolina, has confessed to suffocating her two young boys, strapping them into their car seats and driving the vehicle into a river early Monday morning. She initially told police it was an accident, but she wasn't wet and she didn't bang on the doors of any of the neighbors near the river, instead she walked almost a mile to get help. Huge red flags!
The 29-year-old told police she was "fed up" and wanted to be "free" from the trappings of being a mother and she was tired of getting into arguments with her own mother on how she was raising her kids. She suffocated the children at a local motel then drove their lifeless bodies to the river and drove the car into the river.
"She lived at mom's house, probably ate her mom's food... she had very little control. in her thoughts, except her children," Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said said. "I think she truly felt, 'If I don't have these two toddlers, I can be free.'"
Any chance of her being "free" now is pretty unlikely since she's facing two charges of murder in the death of 18-month-old Ja'Van Duley and 2-year-old Devean Duley and, God willing, she'll spend the rest of her life in prison.
James Vine has a serious foot fetish, if you ask us. Last Friday, a woman was sitting at a bus stop near Boston when James approached her, removed her shoe and then licked her foot. True story. An officer on, ahem, foot patrol, arrested the 19-year-old when he tried to flee. He faces charges of assault, disorderly conduct and annoying a person of the opposite sex.
A Los Angeles judge has freed a man convicted of stealing food from a church.
The case of Gregory Taylor, 48, who was mentally ill, drug-addicted and homeless when caught trying to pry open the church’s doors with a wooden board 13 years ago, has often been cited as an example of California’s three strikes law leading to disproportionate sentences for relatively minor crimes. He told arresting officers he was hungry and wanted something to eat. At the time, a priest from the church, where Taylor was a regular and occasionally volunteered, pleaded that a life sentence “would not be just or merciful,” saying Taylor was “a peaceful man” and “a very good person who may have made mistakes.”
Gregory's attorney argued the crime was misdemeanor trespassing because he thought he had the right to take food. Because of two prior robbery convictions in the 1980s, the burglary was Gregory's third strike under California sentencing laws, requiring a sentence of 25 years to life.
We've been reading around town that 46-year-old Vivica "Put that where, back there" Fox was cougaring with a 26-year-old Atlanta (ehaow!) party promoter named Slimm (the government knows him as Omar White). Last week, though, after an argument, Slimm dumped Vivica ... by press release.
He wrote: "Hey this is Slimm, unfortunately me and Vivica are no longer dating. After eight months, it's time to go our separate ways. In life you can love and have chemistry with a person, but flaws can sometimes outweigh the relationship. I wish her the best and I know she feels the same. Thanks."
How dreadful!
But wait! A few hours later, he had a change of heart and took Vivica back. This called for a second press release, of course. Slimm wrote, "I want to clear the air about the rushed statement released yesterday about Vivica and I breaking up. Sometimes a person may act out of anger. Vivica is an important part of my life and I would never try to hurt her. Thanks for supporting us as we figure things out." He claimed he "overreacted."
They must have smoothed things over real well, because Vivica issued her own statement welcoming him back. "Slimm and I r fine!," she said. "All relationships have their ups and their downs. I'm so proud that Slimm was man enough to clear up the air. He is a very good man with a great heart!"
Vivica has promised to never speak ill of any man she's dated, so this statement comes as no surprise and this, sounds too familiar to the way her relationship with 50 Cent ended. Chile, 50 broke up with her over the radio!!!
In 2005, after that public break-up, Vivica told Wendy she was accepting applications from younger men. "I don't discriminate against no boys, baby," she said. "Just because one messed up, it doesn't mean others will."
"Cousin It" has maintained that he's not crazy, but when a reporter showed up to his home in Manning, SC to interview him after a grand jury indicted the Senate candidate on a felony charge of showing pornography to a college student, things took a turn for the bizarre; He began howling and wailing the words "no" and "go". Cuckoo!
There are rumors circulating that they may get back together, but these photos of the two together should be more ammunition for Antwaun's wife, Paula.
The two met at a park near Fantasia's home and supposedly the reunion was being filmed by VH1 to air on her reality show.
After almost a week, security video of flight attendant Steven Slater's dramatic exit from a JetBlue aircraft has been released. The view is slightly obstructed, but if you look closely, you can see Steven sliding down the chute. It's not nearly as fabulous as we envisioned it would be.
In this clip, taken from a different angle, you see him grabbing his bags and leaving the area.
On Monday, Jay Valentine, a homeless man who has been living on the streets in New York City for a few years now since losing his job at a real estate agency, asked a woman for change because he was hungry. The woman, Merrie Harris, didn't have any change on her, but she did have her American Express Platinum Card. Surprisingly, she handed the card to Jay and told him to go buy what he wanted and SHOCKINGLY he returned the card to her a short time later.
"I asked her for change and told her I wasn't working," he said. "She said she only had a card. She said, 'Can I trust you?' I said, 'I'm honest, yes.' "I went and bought a few things and came back and gave her her credit card back, and everybody was surprised. "I said thanks for trusting me. I guess she had a good sense of judgment. She knew I was trustworthy." Valentine said he bought deodorant, body wash, a pack of Nat Sherman cigarettes and Vitaminwater. It all cost about $25, he said. "She was really lucky it was me she ran into" and not someone who would have stolen the card, Valentine said. "I was really in need. I only had a couple of dollars on me. It sets a good example that people in need -- like I am or worse -- can and should be trusted," he said. "Everybody in the restaurant was surprised. They probably thought I would run off with the card."
Jay said the thought of running off with the card never entered his mind.
We largely agree with this person, but we take issue with #6. We know of cats and dogs who live and fraternize with "drug-using people." Heeeeeyyyyyy!!!!!
A man from Philadelphia has filed a $50,000 lawsuit against a Dollar Tree store after he claims he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder when he was attacked by a rat.
In a suit filed this week in Philadelphia, Bernard King, of Sharon Hill, said he suffered "mental anxiety and anguish and severe shock to his entire nervous system" following a Mar. 23 visit to the Dollar Tree at the Penrose Plaza in Southwest Philadelphia. King, a 50-year-old roofer, needed a ribbon to wrap a birthday present for his daughter, his attorney said. He found an open box on display, spotted the color he wanted, and reached in. He felt a sudden sharp pain in his right index finger. "When he looked in, a rat was biting his finger and would not let go," said his attorney Christian C. Thompson. "He actually had to shake the thing loose." When King peered into the box again he found a nest of rats inside, Thompson said. A store manager and an assistant hurried down the aisle to investigate the commotion. The manager ordered the assistant to move another box adjacent to the nest, Thompson said. Three rats jumped out at the assistant who then ran behind the manager to hide, Thompson said. He added another shopper witnessed the incident. The manager told King to go to the hospital and send the bills to the Dollar Tree, Thompson said. At Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital King was treated with antibiotics and his finger was bandaged.
Bernard says he still hasn't regained full use of his finger and is unable to return to work. A psychiatrist has diagnosed him with "significant" post traumatic stress disorder. So, he's a roofer who gets bitten by a rat and that makes him unable to return to work six months later? Really?!? Seriously?!?
Babies can be terrors, but have you ever heard about "terror babies"? Apparently, they're babies born to immigrants in the US for the sole purpose of becoming US citizens, but are groomed as terrorists in their parents' homelands and 30 years later or so they return to the US to attempt to kill us all. Sounds scary, right? Well, the FBI has never heard about such a thing, but Republican congressman Louie Gohmert of Tyler, Texas has. In fact, he heard about "terror babies" from a former FBI agent and a woman he met on a plane. It's the Republican's new scare tactic. Last night, Anderson Cooper invited the congressman onto his show in the hopes he will provide proof this does exist and let's just say the exchange was epic! We swear we saw steam coming out of Louie's ears and heard Anderson mutter under his breath 'bitch-please-shut-the-fuck-up!'
Donna Reed is...well, we want to say she's a gold digger, but that would be too kind. Police say she beat down her 69-year-old boyfriend, who's retired and receives social security, because he wouldn't get a job as she ordered him to.
The beat down occurred last month in Jennings, Missouri after the man told Donna (who doesn't work and lives in the man's home) that if she's unhappy she should move. Well, how dare he! Donna became enraged. She cursed out the man and beat him with one of his trophies.
He was so badly injured that he had to be hospitalized. For her part, Donna, 44, was charged with assault and elder abuse.
A Wethersfield, Conn. woman was arrested yesterday afternoon after she handed a bank teller an envelope containing cocaine.
True story.
According to police, Kendl Murphy, 43, pulled up to the drive-up teller and handed over a deposit envelope that contained a small bag with white powder. The quick thinking teller asked Kendl to wait for her transaction to be completed and called police.
That crackhead must've been high and handed the teller the wrong envelope because she couldn't be that stupid to think banks accept controlled substances, right? Cash and checks? Sure. Coke? Hell to the no!
