It took her a while, but Miss Fenty finally released the video for "Man Down", our favorite track from her latest album. This is our favorite video from her, too.
In other music news: Lady Gaga sold 1,108,000 copies of her new album "Born This Way" and set a digital sales record last week. "Born This Way" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, becoming just the 17th album to sell a million copies in its first week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and the top-selling digital debut. Last week, Amazon offered the album for download at 99 cents which no doubt helped the album sell 662,000 in digital sales, pushing the album to nearly three times initial estimates by Universal Music Group. (Amazon sold more than 440,000 of those copies alone.)
These are just ridiculous, but a Chinese anti-itch, anti-inflammation skin cream company had created "exercises" one can practice to scratch an itch "while maintaining one's appearances and avoiding awkwardness or embarrassment." In the video above: The voiceover is saying: "1-2-3-4 Pretend to have doubts; 2-2-3-4 Lean forward; 3-2-3-4 Press down on chest/bust; 4-2-3-4 Rub side to side to scratch itch"
"1-2-3-4 Raise leg; 2-2-3-4 Make a seductive look; 3-2-3-4 Lift up skirt; 4-2-3-4 Use the opportunity to scratch itch"
"1-2-3-4 Raise arm; 2-2-3-4 Lean on the wall; 3-2-3-4 Pretend to be lost in thought; 4-2-3-4 Use the opportunity to scratch itch"
"1-2-3-4 Tilt head to one side; 2-2-3-4 Lift up hair; 3-2-3-4 Use a charming look as cover; 4-2-3-4 Use the opportunity to scratch itch"
Naomi Campbell is considering taking "every available option" against Cadbury after claiming a "racist" advertisement compares her to a chocolate bar. The ad (below) was published in several newspapers in Europe and read: "Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town." The 41-year-old supermodel was not amused, saying "I am shocked. It’s upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me but for all black women and black people. I do not find any humor in this. It is insulting and hurtful." Her mother, Valerie Morris, added: "I’m deeply upset by this racist advert. Do these people think they can insult black people and we just take it? This is the 21st century, not the 1950s. Shame on Cadbury." Black rights group Operation Black Vote has called for Cadbury to apologise and has written to civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to ask them to mobilise the country’s black population in a boycott of Kraft goods. "Being likened to chocolate was as bad as being called a golliwog for black people," said an Operation Black Vote spokesperson. "Racism in the playground starts with black children being called 'chocolate bar'. At best, this is insensitive – and at worst it demonstrates Cadbury’s utter disregard for causing offence. Its lack of apology just adds insult to injury. It’s particularly galling because we’ve just had a week that saw the establishment fall over themselves to be close to the Obamas and yet black people are being derided in such an insulting and negative way." Really?! For it's part, Kraft Foods has pulled the ad and said in a statement, "It was certainly never our intention to cause any offence and the campaign itself is a light-hearted take on the social pretensions of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss."
A Bangladeshi woman (pictured) cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence.
Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, was allegedly attacked as she slept in her shanty in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 125 miles south of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Mrs Begum told police that her neighbor Mozammel Haq Mazi, forced his way into her home and began attacking her. During the alleged assault, Mrs Begum said she was able to cut off Mr Mazi’s penis. "As he tried to rape her, the lady cut his penis off with a knife. She then wrapped up the penis in a piece of polythene and brought it to the Jhalakathi police station as evidence of the crime," said Abul Khaer, the local police chief. "It is quite an unusual incident. As far as I am aware, this is the first time that a woman has brought a severed penis to the police station as evidence." Mr Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital. A surgeon said it had not been possible to reattach the organ. "We shall arrest him once his condition gets better," Khaer added. Mrs Begum told police that Mr Mazi, a married father of five, had been harassing her for six months. Mr Mazi’s said that he had been having an affair with Mrs Begum, but that he refused to leave his wife and that she had sought revenge by cutting off his penis. "We were having an affair and recently she suggested that both of us can go and settle down in Dhaka," Mr Mazi told the BBC from hospital. "I refused and told her that I cannot leave my wife and children, so she took revenge on me." The severed penis has been kept at the police station. source
Meanwhile, in Germany...a woman set fire to a man in a mosque out of revenge after the man raped her.
The 36-year-old poured petrol over the 38-year-old man in a mosque in the city of Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg, before setting him alight. The woman was taken into custody on Sunday, on charges of attempted murder, according to the state prosecutors office and the police. The victim was admitted into hospital after the attack suffering from severe burns, however his life is not in danger. According to the police, the victim and the suspect have known each other for some time. The woman claimed she had been sexually abused and molested by the man. He, on the other hand, says that there was a consensual relationship. On Saturday afternoon, according to the police, the woman’s husband and the later victim got into a fight in a room in the mosque. People attending the mosque tried to separate the two men, but were unsuccessful. The woman then poured petrol from a canister she had brought with her and set him on fire. The man was able to run outside and, with the help of a witness, managed to take off the burning clothes. source
A Memphis woman did not want her 2003 Ford Expedition repossessed Thursday. So when a man showed up at her home and tried to load the vehicle onto his wrecker, 52-year old Laura Matthews went off the handle and attacked him with a shovel, hitting him on the right side of his head and in the right knee then attempted to drive off with the SUV. An ambulance was called, and the victim was treated and released on the scene and Laura was arrested and charged with assault and vandalism. She remains jailed on $10,000 bond.
Antonio Edwards, a former employee of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Terrell Owens, has been charged with felony theft by deception after he used the NFLer's Bank of America account to pay the more than $2,000-per-month rent at a luxury apartment complex in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia according to Channel 2. Police say Antonio lived at the Post Alexander Apartment Complex for more than a year. On May 13, a judge issued 13 warrants for his arrest. Terrell (pictured) must not have received the memo from comedian Steve Harvey or singer Usher: some of the grrrlz in Atlanta pull stunts for a living. Sidebar: We couldn't find a photo of Antonio anywhere. When we do, we'll post it.
A man is suing a grocery store and a flower importer for a finger prick caused by a rose thorn. Charles Imwalle of Lake Mary, Florida has slapped the Winn-Dixie grocery store chain and Passion Growers LLC with a $15,000 lawsuit for pain, disfigurement, medical bills and lost wages after pricking his finger on a thorn from a bouquet of roses he purchased for his wife. True story.
Last Tuesday, police in Mishawaka, Indiana received several calls from citizens about a naked man in Beutter Park in full view of passersby and children. When cops arrived, they found Michael Donte Booth "laying on a blanket completely nude on his back with his entire genitals showing." According to the police report, obtained by the folks over at the Smoking Gun, Michael's clothes were several feet away, he reeked of marijuana smoke, he was smiling uncontrollably at officers, there was an open container of beer nearby and he was reading a book titled "Gay Power". And, oh, yes, he was covered in olive oil. Per the police report: "Michael was sweating all over his body and appeared to be using the olive oil to lather onto his skin. Other bodily fluids were on his person [emphasis ours] and clothes appeared wet including grass clippings and dirt all over. Some of his clothes smelled [heavily of] freshly smoked marijuana but no contraband was recovered on the scene. It was immediately apparent that something was wrong with Michael as he appeared intoxicated and possibly using a narcotic as [he] kept smiling wide eyed at officers. He was acting very unusual as Michael stated: "I'm from New York. Can't I do this here. I'm Republican and the cigarettes pay your taxes." After that outburst, Michael, a singer (watch him perform, below), was arrested and charged with public indecency public intoxication and false informing -- for initially lying to officers and telling them his name is "Michael Sampson".
The hair weave thieving trend is getting out of control. In Nashville, a woman robbed a beauty store using a stun gun. In Chicago, men busted into a store and stole $90,000 worth of hair and recently in Virginia, a woman beatdown a store owner for a wig. Now, it's happening in Atlanta. At about 3am this morning, five masked men drove a car into the front glass door of the Beauty Emporium on Riverdale Road in Clayton County, stole about $10,000 worth of Remy hair weave, then drove off. Gone in two minutes.
When Carol Korotkow bit the bullet and paid $3,300 synthetic Astroturf grass to ensure her lawn looks green and lush all year long in Clearwater, Florida, little did she know it was against city ordinances. Now the town's code enforcement board is actually wasting taxpayer's money to debate whether or not Carol should be forced to remove her lawn. "It is a freedom as far as I’m concerned,” she said. “It's against the Declaration of Independence, my pursuit of happiness. Making my yard look nice makes me feel happy.” We cosign.
Mildred "Patty" Baena, the skettel who's partially responsible for the demise of Maria Shriver's 25-year-marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger when she seduced him and gave birth to a now 13-year-boy named Joseph Baena/Schwarzenegger (pictured above, with Patty), was somewhat of a stan -- in addition to being the maid. Patty's best friend Maria Medel told the National Enquirer the maid idolized Arnold and built a shrine in her apartment devoted to him. Patty also told Maria Medel who is now re-telling those stories to the Enquirer.
Patty spilled the beans about their 13-year affair one night while they were having drinks with friends, according to Mildred.
"Patty said Arnold had been complaining that his marriage was sexless and Maria was never around, flying all over the world for her TV news job," Medel divulged. "She said that one night after Arnold had been complaining about feeling lonely and unloved, he started drinking. After a few drinks, Arnold asked Patty to have a drink with him. One drink led to another, and then another. According to Patty, she told Arnold that she was unhappy in her marriage as well and had separated from her husband, who'd gone back to his native Columbia. Patty said they started kissing and that led to their first sexual encounter. They had unprotected sex."
And while Patty insisted to Arnold that she and her husband Rogelio Baena had separated, she's actually dumped him and he'd returned to Columbia to be with his family, Medel said.
"At the time, Rogelio wanted to return to America, but he didn't have the money for a plane ticket," Medel said.
Despite that, about a month later Rogelio mysteriously reappeared in Patty's home, said Medel.
And soon after that, in May 1997, Patty announced that she was pregnant.
"We all began teasing her that it was Arnold's baby. Patty never denied it. She just laughed it off," Medel said.
Divorce records show Mildred P Baena and Rogelio Baena separated on Oct. 23, 1997, just three weeks after Arnold's son, Joseph Baena, was born Oct. 2. In early 1998, Patty held a christening in Hollywood, Calif. Arnold. Maria and their children were there.
"After Maria and her kids congratulated Patty, they went into another room, but Arnold stayed behind and fawned all over the baby," Medel recalled. "He hugged Joseph and scrutinized every detail of his face. I thought it was out of the ordinary at the time, but now I know why." Source: National Enquirer, June 6, print edition
Meanwhile, Rogelio says he's gutted by the revelations the son he thought was his, isn't and is threatening to take his ex-wife and Arnold to court because on he's listed as Joseph's father on his birth certificate and, according to an attorney, it's illegal to falsify government documents. Rogelio also wants to "sit down with Arnold and ask him -- man-to-man -- how he could do this." Good luck with that, Rogelio. Finally, Maria, who recently hired a famed divorce attorney, is reportedly going after their entire $500 million family fortune -- $400 million of which belongs to Arnold from his films, real estate and investments and the other $100 is Maria's. Sidebar: Patty's 27-year-old daughter Jackie Rozo is talking to the media. She told Telemundo: "It's [the scandal] just a big thing because she's Hispanic, and he's a celebrity." Girl, look down! PS: The Enquirer is also reporting that Arnold used California Highway Patrol officers and vehicles to ferry jumpoffs in and out of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Sacramento where he usually stayed. According to a source, Arnold forbade anyone from making eye contact with him and two hotel employees lost their jobs because they broke that rule. Furthermore, one lawmaker is launching a probe to determine whether Arnold misused campaign money to cover up his philandering.
According to “Man Behind the Man”, a new book written by R&B star R Kelly's former personal assistant and road manager Demetrius Smith, the singer married a then 15-year-old Aaliyah in a secret wedding. No one -- not even her parents -- were aware of the wedding, according the book. The marriage was annulled, but according to Demetrius, R Kelly called him in a panic because he thought Aaliyah might have been pregnant with his child. The book also delves into R Kelly's inappropriate relationships with other underage girls -- not including Aaliyah or the two girls (one of whom was 9 years old) he videotaped himself having sex with. For those crimes, he was arrested and charged with soliciting a minor for child pornography, videotaping the acts, and producing child pornography -- in 2008, a jury found him not guilty of all 14 counts to the astonishment of everyone who saw the tape. In 2009, he was allegedly up to his old tricks again in London.
Leslie Emory will admit that he's a monster. Back in the 1980s he worked for the New Tribes Mission, one of the largest Christian missionary organizations in the world, as a Bible studies teacher and dorm dad in the Philippines. According to WAVY, as parents went out and preached the gospel, Leslie stayed at camp to watch over the children and used that time to molest the girls. He admitted to the organization he abused 23 girls, but since it happened in the Philippines he was not arrested or charged with any crime and he doesn't have to register as a sex offender in Chesapeake, Virgina, where he now lives. "I should have been shot and killed, or hung, electrocuted or something," he tells the news station. "I should have been gutted. It was horrible. I know it was horrible." You, don't say.
Steven McCormack, a 48-year-old truck driver from New Zealand, probably encounters a lot of pressure on the job -- but nothing like what happened to him on Saturday.
On Saturday he was standing on the plate between the cab of his truck and semi-trailer at Waiotahi Contractors. His foot slipped and, as he fell, he broke the hose off a brass nipple connected to the compressed air reservoir powering the truck's brakes. He fell hard on to the nipple, which pierced the flesh of his left buttock. As the air, compressed to 100 pounds per square inch, began rushing into his body and he started screaming. "I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot," McCormack said. "I was blowing up like a football... it felt like I had the bends - like in diving. I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon." Doctors later told him that the air separated fat from muscle, and they were surprised it did not break his skin. McCormack's workmates heard his screams and found him with the elbow-shaped nipple hooked into his rear, company co-owner Robbie Petersen said. He said he could hear the air hissing out and quickly released the pressurised container's safety valve to stop the air flow. The nipple remained embedded as three men - Jason Wenham, Ross Hustler and Petersen - lifted McCormack's upper torso on to the truck's plate. Wenham put him on his side in the recovery position, a move McCormack thought probably saved his life. It helped him breathe, although his head and neck were swollen and one lung was filling with fluid. His workmates broke into a water cooler to find ice, which they packed around his neck to ease the swelling. source
After an hour, he was transported to a local hospital where doctors worked inserted a tube into his lungs to drain the fluid and cleared the wound in his butt using what felt to him like a drill. "That was the most painful part," Steven said. Adding, the only way for the air to escape was the usual way gas passed from the body. What's that smell?!
Earlier this year, the Internet went crazy when news broke that NFL star Chad Ochocinco, who's engaged to be married, is expecting a baby with a woman named "Paige." Sounds scandalous. If it were true. According to the woman -- Hana Augins who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland -- the rumor all began on Miss Jones' (aka Jonesy) radio show and now she's filed a lawsuit alleging defamation, invasion of privacy, infringement of the right of publicity, and reckless infliction of emotional distress, according to documents obtained by the folks over at Courthouse News.
Augins' ordeal began when a woman known as "Paige" called the "Jonesy in the Morning" show and "said during the on-air call to Jonesy that she is three months pregnant by Ochocinco, who is widely known to be engaged to be married to a different woman," according to the federal complaint. Paige then sent a purported picture of herself to Jonesy (Tarsha Jones), according to the complaint. "However, the photograph Paige sent to Jonesy was, in fact, a photograph of plaintiff," the complaint states. "Without verifying the authenticity of the photograph ... Jonesy caused the misidentified photograph of plaintiff to be posted on the Power99 website under the heading: 'Chad Ochocinco's Baby Mama Revealed!!!!!'," according to the complaint. That's when the story went viral, Augins says. In what the complaint characterizes as an "electronic onslaught," the photo and story were "picked up and posted on no fewer than fifty (50) websites ... many of whom have posted additional photographs of plaintiff under similar headlines and descriptions," in which Augins is repeatedly referred to as Ochocinco's "baby mama." At least 15 of the websites are controlled by defendant Radio One, Augins says. When she tried to have the photos removed, Augins says, the response was anything but accommodating. Defendant Robert Littal, CEO of the website BlackSportsOnline, "consistently and incredulously" refuses to remove the photos from his site "until plaintiff proves to him that she is not [caller] 'Paige,'" according to the complaint. Viewers of the photograph left comments "amounting to ridicule and contempt directed at plaintiff's image," and Augins was "bombarded with telephone calls, emails, and text messages from all over the country by family members, friends and associates, who were shocked, outraged and extremely embarrassed by the postings," the complaint states. Adding insult to injury, when Augins contacted Jonesy and told him that she was "extremely humiliated" by the postings, Jonesy went on the attack, Augins says. Jonesy acknowledged that her photo had been posted despite a producer's suspicion that it might have been doctored, and "expressed unwarranted and uninvited jocularity about the controversy and even said to plaintiff that she (plaintiff) was beautiful and asked plaintiff whether she was sure she didn't 'want to meet Ochocinco,'" according to the complaint. (Parentheses in original.) When Jonesy received a cease-and-desist letter from Augins' attorney, requesting that the host apologize to Augins, once per hour during his show, the host acted "as if plaintiff were the perpetrator as opposed to the victim in this sexually charged episode," Augins claims. The host sent an email to Augins warning her that if her attorney "contacts me on ANY level ever again I will not hesitate to file criminal charges against him for harassment," according to the complaint. That same day, Jonesy followed up with another angry missive: "Tell ur lawyer he's a fuckin fool if he thinks I'm apologizing to you once an hour on air or at all! Yall are greedy bastards trying to get a payday but it aint gonna happen. Foh," the host fumed, according to the complaint. (All spellings as in complaint.) "'Foh' commonly means 'Fuck outta here,'" according to the complaint. source
Hana says she doesn't know how or when her photos were "stolen" and got in the hands of Miss Jones. She's suing Clear Channel, Radio One and BlackSportsOnline for an unspecified amount of cash and wants the Web sites to remove her images. Surprisingly, although she claims Miss Jones verbally attacked her and made fun of her on air (which apparently caused her emotional anguish and sought treatment from a psychiatrist), Hana is not suing the radio jock.
A Deltona, Florida dentist is facing assault charges after he got into a physical altercation with an 85-year-old woman. According to Virginia Graham, she was getting her dentures fitted at Dr Michael Hammonds's office on Tuesday, but she demanded a refund because she was unhappy with the way her dentures fit. When he refused to give them back, she the doctor on his thumb and that's when he disciplined her -- leaving her bloodied and bruised.
According to the person who uploaded this to Youtube, he was sitting on a plane on the tarmac at Christchurch International Airport in New Zealand yesterday when airport workers began throwing suitcases into a garbage truck -- presumably after they've rummaged through the bags and took all of the valuables for themselves, of course
Kimberly Holmes was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee yesterday after she stabbed her boyfriend -- for the second time in a one week. According to police, the 26-year-old was fighting with her boyfriend on May 18, trying to push him out an apartment door when she stabbed him in the arm with a kitchen knife. He was treated at a hospital and received several stitches in his arm. Then on Tuesday, the couple was fighting again when Kimberly went to the kitchen, got a knife and stabbed the man in the abdomen. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. But the worse part is: During the second altercation, Kimberly threw the man's puppy off the second floor balcony, possibly breaking the dog's right leg. She was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and aggravated cruelty to animals and remains jailed on $150,000 bond.
Lil Boosie (real name: Torrence Hatch) is a donkey. The rapper, who's currently in jail awaiting trial for murder, is facing conspiracy to introduce contraband into a penal institution charges after he and two men (Titus Franklin and Arthur Stewart) tried to smuggle codeine syrup into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana. According to investigators, they received information the trio was conspiring to smuggle the Schedule V Dangerous Controlled Substance (CDS) into the jail. Investigators said Titus and Arthur made arrangements through an undercover agent to have the codeine delivered to Lil Boosie. Titus and Arthur were arrested and charged with conspiracy to introduce contraband into a penal institution and Lil Boosie was charged with inciting a felony.
This afternoon, the final episode Oprah Winfrey's talk show aired. There were no guests, the audience received no gifts -- instead the talk show queen spoke directly to her audience, telling them "something in me connected with each of you in a way that allowed me to see myself in you and you in me. I listened and grew, and I know you grew along with me." She told viewers that sometimes she was a teacher, but more often her viewers instructed her. She called the finale episode her "last class from this stage." At one point she thanked viewers for sharing her "yellow brick road of blessings" - something she said back in November 2009, when she announced that she would end her show. "I won't say goodbye. I'll just say, until we meet again," she said. She hugged and kissed her long-time boyfriend Stedman Graham and shook hands with audience members before walking through the halls of Harpo Studios in Chicago, hugging and crying with her staff. She shouted, "We did it!" The last shot of the finale showed Oprah walking away with her cocker spaniel, Sadie. On to her next show.
Catherine Saur, an art teacher at EB Kennelly Elementary School in Hartford, Connecticut, has been placed on administrative parents found out she was forcing their children to clean the toilet after they used it. One parent said her son's hands showed redness and signs of irritation from cleaning the toilet with bleach. The Connecticut Department of Children and Families and the Hartford Public Schools Board of Labor Relations are investigating.
Recently in Atlanta, Jimmy Rogers held the door open for another man at a gas station convenience store. Jimmy asked the man to say "thank you", but for reasons unknown, the man kept it moving. Instead of jumping into his vehicle and drive home like what the rest of us would do, Jimmy (with his gun on his hip) wanted to play Quien es mas macho! and waited outside for the man to return to ask again for a "thank you", but the man shot his ass. Bwahahahahaha! Now Jimmy is turning to the news media looking for sympathizers -- or something. We aren't one. Hee-haw!
Yesterday, Wesner Romulus Jean waltzed into a Jacksonville, Florida, Wachovia Bank branch and attempted to withdraw money from his account. When the teller told him he had no money in his account, the 58-year-old went batshit crazy and caused an epic scene before leaving the bank. A few moments later, witnesses heard an explosion: Wesner had doused one of the bank's ATMs with gasoline then lit it on fire. The entire episode was caught on tape, above. Today, Wenser remains on the run and is wanted for arson of an occupied structure.
Heather Werth has filed a lawsuit against Good Samaritan hospital in Cincinnati, OH, claiming abuse of a corpse after the hospital mailed her 154 photos of her dead premature baby in more than 20 poses. Of the photos, Heather says: "He was dressed and he was undressed. He was wrapped in a blanket, he was posed, he was lying on his belly, and he was lying on his back. To me they played with him and this was something that didn't take five minutes to do. They played with him for a long time." Sick.
A 23-year-old man from Kfar Saba, Israel is facing assault charges after he viciously assaulted his girlfriend of a few weeks for making fun of his penis in front of his friends.
The young woman arrived at Kfar Saba's Meir Hospital Saturday night bruised and in pain. She was also having trouble walking and standing up. Based on the bruises on her body, doctors at the medical facility concluded that the woman was assaulted and reported the case to police. After being questioned by police officers, the woman told them she met her boyfriend several weeks ago. She said that he was infuriated after she made fun of his penis size, arrived at her home and assaulted her. According to the woman's account, the man punched her, pulled her hair, brought her down to the ground and kicked her. As result, she suffered serious bruises and eventually headed to hospital after the pain became unbearable. Following the woman's complaint, police launched an investigation and arrested the suspect on Sunday. The man denied the charges against him and was expected to face a court hearing soon. source
Leah June Rabon of Pensacola, Florida was arrested late Monday night for cruelty towards a child and child neglect, after leaving her 9-month-old son unattended at her apartment for over two hours so could go on a date at a bowling alley. At about 9:40pm last night, police received an anonymous tip that a child may be home alone in the apartment. When they showed up at the home, they got a hold of Leah on her cell phone and she confirmed that her baby was in the apartment alone. At that point, police busted into the home and found the boy asleep. When Leah returned home, she told cops that she had left her son to go on a date. She said she had been away for two hours. She was arrested and the Florida Department of Children and Family services placed the boy into the custody of his grandparents.
An Australian woman named Renee Cherry is suing Virgin Airlines on behalf of her one-year-old son Zayd Fokeera because, while on board the aircraft, she ate tainted food and suffered listeria causing the unborn baby to also suffer intestinal damage.
According to the claim filed in the Australian Supreme Court, a pregnant Ms Cherry flew internally from Townsville to Brisbane, then from Brisbane to Melbourne, on May 23, 2009. During the flight it is claimed Ms Cherry bought a chicken roll on board and she suffered listeria poisoning as a result. "The roll was tainted and not fit for human consumption, as it contained listeria bacteria," according to the statement of claim. The listeria bacteria poisoned the blood of the plaintiff's mother and the plaintiff and caused him to suffer injury." Zayd was born two months after the flight and according to the documents, his injuries included a bacterial infection called listeriosis, listeria bacteria poisoning, gastro-intestinal injury, developmental delay, and anxiety. As a result he is claiming for medical expenses and loss of prospective income and earning capacity as an adult, as well as damages. source
The United States Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision ordering California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release more than 34,000 prisoners over two years to ease overcrowding and improve prisoners' quality of life. The justices said said suicidal prisoners were being held in "telephone booth-sized cages without toilets" and others, sick with cancer or in severe pain, died before being seen by a doctor. (The state's prisons were built to hold 80,000 inmates; there are now has 143,335 prisoners.)
Sean A. Harrington was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky last Friday after he was seen "concealing shoes down the front of his pants" and leaving a local clothing store without paying. With more "orders" to fill, Sean then went next door to a Marshalls and stole clothing valued at $99.95. Cops eventually arrested him and upon a search of his cell phone, they found "numerous text messages of others ordering merchandise from [Harrington], who would then go out and steal specific items." He was charged with receipt of stolen property and theft by unlawful taking and the 36-year-old was banned from Rack Room Shoes (where he had stolen $539.89 worth of goods since April 17), Marshalls and the shopping center.
He was not raptured, either. Shock! Old man Harold Camping, the false prophet who predicted the world would come to an end last Saturday, is none to happy when a reporter from the International Business Times swooped down on his home in Alameda, California and sticks a microphone and a camera in his face. While he declined an interview, he does say: "This is a big deal and I've got to live with it. I've got to think it out." he said. Now, we kinda feel sorry for old fart.
...Meanwhile, in Times Square, Robert Fitzpatrick (who spent all of his life's savings on advertising to spread the message about this Rapture) takes questions from an angry mob of non-believers. Dumbfounded, he tells hecklers he doesn't understand why "nothing's happening." Bwahahahahaha!
Harold Camping needs to see a doctor for his dementia and to treat his mental disorder. On his radio show tonight, the false prophet says he did not make a mistake and end of the world is now going to happen on October 21, 2011 not May 21 as he previously predicted. He also took questions from reporters who LET HIM HAVE IT!
She killed the Billboard Music Awards dead! Mrs Carter's performance -- replete with spoken work and interactive motion graphics -- of "Independent Women (Part 19)" "Run the World (Girls)" on last night's awards show was all sorts of spectacular; the singer schooled pop stars everywhere on the art of putting on a show. The Bey-volution is happening. [PS: She was also lauded with the Millennum Award. The epic performance begins around around the 2:55 mark.] Last week, she taped this performance of "Independent Women (Part 19)" "Run the World (Girls)" for part one of grand finale of the Oprah show, which aired today.
Sidebar: It's Beyoncè Appreciation Day and the stars came out to throw shade. Do yourself a favor and watch this!!!! (Note: NSFW language)
While we prepare for the supposed rapture, we'll be queening out to Beyoncè's newly-leaked single, aptly titled "End of Time." This song is fire and a certified club banger! And yes, it's miles better than "Independent Women (Part 19)" "Run the World (Girls)"
Jill Pendergast and Alfred Parham purchased the contents of a couple of abandoned storage lockers for pennies on the dollar -- but little did they know the lockers contained dozens of iconic clothing that (once?) belonged to Aretha Franklin. With dollar signs in their eyes, the couple plans to auction off the items on Monday on eBay -- that's if Aretha's lawyers don't swoop down on them first. (Sidebar: These articles of clothing could be items Aretha claimed were destroyed when a fire burned down her $800,000 home in Bloomfield Hills in October 2002. In which case, Aretha could be facing insurance fraud. Oh, no!)
UPDATE: Here's the eBay link with the items for sale. Happy bidding!
R&B singer Faith Evans -- who was once married to Notorious BIG -- has slapped Todd Russaw, her estranged husband and manager, with divorce papers citing irreconcilable differences. According to the legal docs, obtained by the folks over at TMZ, the couple separated in December 2005 and have two minor children (Joshua, 13, and Ryder, 4, who was born after the couple officially separated). She's asking for joint legal and sole physical custody and wants the judge to reject any claim of spousal support. In January 2004, Faith and Todd were charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana after they were pulled over for a routine traffic accident. In lieu of going to jail, the couple took a deal and agreed to enter a 13-week drug-treatment program. Then in 2010, Faith was arrested for DUI in Los Angeles.
Down in Summerville, South Carolina, a police officer pulled over Arthur Thompson, who earlier punched a Walmart security guard in the face after he was caught trying to steal a computer. During the stop, Arthur tried to punch the officer then he jumped in the police cruiser then led cops on a 100-mph chase.
Some men love their cars and then some men really LOVE their cars. Meet Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" –- a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla -- in Yelm, Washington. In a British documentary (watch, below) about mechaphilia (sexual attraction to machines), the 57-year-old says he's never been attracted to women or men and although his last relationship with a woman was 12 years ago, he he never consummate it. Instead he has sex with cars. "I just loved cute cars right from the beginning, but over the years it got stronger once I got into my teenage years and was my first having sexual urges," he says. "When I turned 13 and the famous Corvette Stingray came about, that car was pure sex and just an incredible machine. I wanted it. I didn't fully understand it myself except that I know I'm not hurting anyone and I do not intend to....There are moments way out in the middle of nowhere when I see a little car parked and I swear it needs loving. There have been certain cars that attracted me and I would wait until night time, creep up to them and just hug and kiss them. As far as women go, they never really interested me much. And I'm not gay.” Well, OK then. Edward admits that most of the cars he's had sex with belonged to strangers or car showrooms. He also insists he's not crazy. Saying, "Maybe I'm a little bit off the wall but when I see movies like Herbie and Knight Rider, where cars become loveable, huggable characters it's just wonderful. I'm a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what's in my heart and I have no desire to change."
...And now for donkey of the week! Ashley Williams and Browen Sweet were caught stealing part of a fence that surrounds a Lee County, Florida supply warehouse in broad daylight. When the business owner (Ralph Nieves) told them to put the fence back, Browen then asked him for a job. We are not kidding. The two idiots are now jailed on felony grand theft charges.
China Arnold of Dayton, Ohio, who was convicted last week of killing her 28-day-old daughter in a microwave oven was spared the death penalty and sentenced this afternoon to life in prison without parole. Prosecutors say the 31-year-old intentionally put Paris Talley in a microwave and turned it on after a fight with her boyfriend in 2005. Medical experts testified that the baby died quickly after her temperature reached between 107 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. They said she probably was in the microwave for more than two minutes. "She died because she was overheated," said Dr. Marcella Fierro, retired chief medical examiner for Virginia. "She was cooked." China was tried twice before for the crime: Her first trial ended in a mistrial. She was found guilty in the second, but an appeals court reversed the conviction.
Sixty-year-old Coleman Eaton, Jr, a substitute teacher accused of urinating into a trash can inside a classroom in Atlanta in full view of students, says those kids are liars -- he was pouring apple juice in the trash can. If that is the case, how does he explain the urine taken into evidence from the trash can? He remains jailed on $50,000 bond.
To let some old nutjub tell it, the earth will be struck with a massive earthquake at 6pm EST tomorrow and we all will die. Harold Camping, 89, an evangelical Christian minister, who spreads bullshit via a network on 66 radio stations and online broadcasts, says he calculated the date and time of "The Rapture" by adding up numbers in the Bible. This is the same false prophet who predicted the world would end in 1994. Maybe it's dementia, but after that event didn't pan out, Harold, whose organization rakes in more than $18 million a year in donations, was later forced to apologize and chalked up his timing to a mathematical error. This time he's recalibrated the end of the world to a precise day and time and says good Christians will ascend to Heaven while the rest of us will suffer through hell on earth until October 21, when an angry God will pull the plug on the planet once and for all, destroying everyone and everything. Wow, not only do these crazy people walk amongst us, they also vote and breed. Harold (pictured), because of your foresight, we've canceled our vacation plans (money we can now use to get pissy drunk) but we're mad that we won't be able to watch the season finale of Saturday Night Live. But for real, for real: If you're naive enough to believe Harold and the voices in his head, then you should have no problem signing over all of your assets to us today. Please and thank you.
NOTE: To learn the exact hour the rapture begins in your time zone, click here.
If you're believe you're going to be raptured, here's some pre-rapture etiquette.
Sidebar: If you see any naked Christians floating into the sky, take a photo and contact us immediately!!!
We thought the man who stuffed the body of his dead grandmother into a closet so he could have sex on her bed was the worst, but Roulouis Felix, of Lawrence, Massachusetts who cut his grandmother's throat, broke her ribs and stole her money last Thursday is the worst of the worst! According to police, Roulouis (pictured, above) slashed one side of his 66-year-old grandmother’s throat then slashed the other side when she started to get up. Police said he then kicked her and stole $20 from her pocket. The women, who already had a restraining order out against her grandson, underwent surgery at Lawrence General Hospital and is expected to recover. After three days at-large, police arrested Roulouis at gunpoint Sunday evening after he hailed a cab in Boston and couldn't pay the tab when he got to Lawrence. He admitted to slashing his grandmother's throat then added he was released just the day before from mental hospital. He was charged with assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violation of a protective restraining order. Furthermore, the judge granted the grandmother a one-year restraining order against her grandson yesterday and warned that if he violates the restraining order, he could go to jail for 2 1/2 years. Roulouis remains jailed.
Police in Chicago are looking for a panty-wearing burglar who broke into a couple's home and stood over them while they slept.
The man broke into the home at 16400 block of Lee Avenue and didn't steal anything but behaved erratically, the Cook County Sheriff's office said. The female resident woke to the man standing above her wearing only a black hooded sweatshirt and women's underwear, police said. He moved to the foot of the bed, apparently to hide himself from the couple. When the male resident in the room yelled, the man replied with in a deep voice and then calmly walked out of the room. There were children living in the home, but none were harmed. The underwear-wearing man was described as a white male between 20 and 30 years old. He stood about 6 feet tall and had a thin build and light colored, long hair in a pony tail or bun hairstyle. source
If you have any leads, ring the alarm and call police. We know it's not this guy, he's still behind bars. Or is he?
Scottsdale, Arizona police just released this horrifying red light camera footage of an SUV running over a stroller -- with a 4-year-old girl in it! As the light turned green, the woman (Regina Aldan) is still in the crosswalk, so she begins to run with the stroller and that's when a black SUV plows into them. The female driver was issued a citation at the scene, but after reveiwing this video, police have determined that the driver's view was obscured and that it would've been nearly impossible for the SUV to yield to the family, who ran directly into the path of the vehicle. So, the citation dismissed. And, yes, the Regina and her daughter Perla Romero were not seriously injured. They were taken to a hospital and released. Regina has lawyered up and plans to sue the driver.
