Now I’ve seen some things on the trains here in New York, but this one here? WOW!
And what’s priceless is the look on the faces of the other commuters. Like, whatever, I did my stretching at the last stop!
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A disgusting and sickening display of human morality in the gutters. These teens took – what has so far been an admirable movement – and degraded it to a despicable act.
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised millions of dollars for ALS research. The challenge involves a nominee dumping a bucket of ice water on their head, donating a certain amount to ALS and then nominating others to take the challenge.
In Ohio, a teen was nominated for the ice bucket challenge but instead got a rude awakening. After accepting the challenge and making his own nominations, the unsuspecting teen got a bucket of urine and feces dumped on his head. The teen was unaware of the sick joke his so-called “friends” were playing on him and the entire event was video taped and posted in Instagram.
Ohio’s Bay Ridge police are investigating. Charges could be filed.
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They’re still leaving babies in hot cars? Still?
This is the dramatic moment firemen rescued a toddler from a sweltering car after his mom left him to run an errand.
Cellphone footage shows firefighters popping the baking vehicle’s lock and lifting out the crying little boy as sweat drips from his forehead. They then strip off his clothes before rushing him into an ambulance for treatment.
The incident occurred Monday afternoon outside the Fallas Shopping Center in San Jose, California, as temperatures soared to 92 degrees.
Fire crews were called after passersby spotted the infant alone. It’s believed he had been inside the vehicle for between 5 and 10 minutes.
His mom, who has not been named, was questioned by cops on her return to the car. She claimed she and a second child had “just run into a store for a minute.” The boy was rushed to a local hospital for immediate treatment.
But San Jose Police Department said she could now face child neglect charges, reports KTVU-TV.
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Remove the ISIS flag from this picture and leave the baby surrounded by guns and grenades, and what you end up with is still a sickening image that the gun nuts here in America would gladly endorse.
The chilling image is the latest photo believed to have been posted by militants fighting in Syria and Iraq as part of their online propaganda campaign.
It shows the child – who appears to be less than six months old – lying on its back on the black flag now associated with the group terrorising the Middle East.
Where other babies its age might have soft toys scattered around them, the child has been cynically positioned next to a Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol and hand grenades.
You’ve always heard that cops and ticket agents have daily or monthly quotas they must meet. That they must generate a certain amount of cash from the people they’re supposedly “serving.” And you may have found this hard to believe. How can police intentionally go after ordinary citizens, sometimes setting up traffic-traps to force people into breaking the law in order to issue them a ticket?
Meet Waldo Florida.
The north Florida town of Waldo has long had a reputation as a speed trap, and it’s no wonder. A small segment of highway that runs through Waldo requires drivers to speed up and slow down six times: 65 mph becomes 55 mph; 55 becomes 45; then goes back to 55; then back down to 45; to 55 again and eventually, 35 mph.
AAA named the tiny town between Jacksonville and Gainesville one of only two “traffic traps” nationwide and even placed an attention-getting billboard outside the limits of the town to warn drivers to slow down before entering.
Now Waldo faces a scandal following allegations that the town victimizes motorists to turn a profit. Two police chiefs have been suspended, the police department has rebelled and the state is investigating possible wrongdoing.
The situation simmered for years until this month, when Police Chief Mike Szabo was suspended Aug. 12, apparently in response to an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into suspected improprieties in the way officers write tickets.
The issue then burst into the open two weeks later at a Waldo City Council meeting, when a group of police officers said they had been ordered by Szabo to write at least 12 tickets per 12-hour shift or face repercussions.
The officers also leveled allegations at the Aug. 26 meeting against Cpl. Kenneth Smith, who had been picked to fill in for Szabo. The officers complained that Smith had, among other things, mishandled evidence. The city council then suspended Smith.
Not surprisingly, things are tense at the tiny stucco storefront office that serves as Waldo City Hall. On Friday morning, Mayor Louie Davis and City Manager Kim Worley met in a small cluttered office to discuss the controversy, slamming a door shut with a “no comment” when a reporter walked in seeking information.
According to the sheriff, all the necessary precautions were followed. “Nothing done wrong,” the sheriff said, yet, a 7-year-old California boy was shot in his chest and nobody knows how it happened!
The boy, whose identity was not published, was shooting at a range set up on his parents’ property. He was shooting a single-shot .22-caliber bolt-action youth rifle on Saturday, while supervised by his father. The sheriff said that there was no one shooting in the boy’s direction, but still, the boy grabbed his chest and complained of pain. When his dad looked down and saw the bullet hole in his shirt, the boy was rushed to a local fire station and later air lifted to the hospital.
The sheriff and the boy’s family are baffled. The case in being investigated.
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In yet another chilling video, the terrorist group ISIS is seen murdering another American journalist, Stephen Sotloff, in the name of Islam.
In the video, which lasts for just under three minutes, ISIS murders Sotloff and threatens the life of David Haines, a British citizen.
Sotloff, 31, was kidnapped in 2013 while reporting on the bloody civil war in Syria. He had been a freelancer for outlets such as Time magazine and Foreign Policy.
Recently, the New York Times ran a profile of Sotloff. Friends of his told the paper that he was a “selfless,” “loyal” and “caring” person.
Last week, his mother, Shirley, recorded a video intended for ISIS. She pleaded with the group to be “merciful” towards her son.
The video comes weeks after ISIS released a video in which it beheaded another American journalist, James Foley. In that video, the militants threatened to murder Sotloff next if the US bombing of ISIS targets continued.
ISIS is believed to be holding several more journalists in captivity.
At “Shoot Straight,” the bullet went straight through one man’s finger and another man’s leg. You cannot make this stuff up.
Two friends were injured Sunday afternoon at Shoot Straight, a Casselberry gun range, when one tried to unjam a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun and wound up shooting himself in the finger and his friend in the thigh, police reported.
Neither man suffered a life-threatening injury, said police Sgt. Mark Stein, but both were taken to the hospital.
Stein did not release the names of the victims, two men who worked together.
“One of them, I guess, thought he could teach the other he could shoot,” Stein said.
The man acting as instructor tried to unjam the 9mm Smith & Wesson, which was owned by someone else at the range, Stein said, when he inadvertently pulled the trigger.
“He shot himself in his own finger,” Stein said. The bullet then went through his friend’s thigh and embedded itself in a wall.
You’d think Fox News had nothing to do with the loss of credibility they’re complaining about. Just if you haven’t been paying attention lately, Fox News has led the way in making sure the media is not credible. So they assembled a panel and began discussing why the media is not credible, why the media “don’t have a sense of shame,” one panelist said.
Pure insanity indeed! You cannot make this stuff up!
Howard Kurtz and his guests on this Sunday’s Media Buzz took a walk down bizarro-lane and made believe they themselves and the network they work for are not exactly what’s wrong with our corporate media these days.
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Gawker describes it perfectly. “If you had to imagine the platonic form of a failed ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, it would probably involve a guy in camo cargo pants and an American flag vest, waving an even bigger confederate flag, who sets his own hair on fire.”
Bring in the militia with their Uzi! We have another Cliven Bundy story and I’m sure the militias are lining up to go and help the Bundys fight the gob’ment – the crazy lunatic gob’ment!
The son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy pulled his five children out of Clark County, Nev. schools on Thursday after getting into a disagreement with administrators over the ability to carry pocketknives at school.
The five students are the grandchildren of Cliven Bundy, a rancher who has previously engaged in armed clashes with the U.S. government over the use of federal land. The incident that sparked the removal involved Bundy’s 15-year-old granddaughter whose school refused to allow her to bring a pocketknife to school, according to television station KSNV.
Her father, Ryan Bundy, disagreed with the school’s labeling of the knife as a weapon and, per KSNV, said he has inculcated in his children the need to always carry a knife. His children affirmed his stance, saying that they utilize knives for chores but don’t wield them as weapons.
“They’re trying to make my child a criminal – and any other child a criminal – for simply having something, and that is not right,” Bundy said
NBC News is reporting that a rare and deadly brain-destroying amoeba was found in a parish water supply in Louisiana, officials said early Thursday, although there were no reported illnesses. The Naegleria fowleri bug was found in the water system serving 12,577 people in the towns of Reserve, Garyville and Mt. Airy, St. John the Baptist Parish representative Paige Falgoust said in a statement.
The water, which is now being treated with chlorine, is safe to drink but the infection can pose a risk if it enters the nasal passage. “Families can take simple steps to protect themselves from exposure to this amoeba, the most important being to avoid allowing water to go up your nose while bathing or swimming in a pool,” said Louisiana State Health Officer Jimmy Guidry.
The bug thrives in warm, untreated fresh water as well as hot springs and hot water heaters, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It has also been found in untreated swimming pools. Infections with Naegleria fowleri are rare, but they are almost always deadly. Some 132 people are known to have been infected in the more than 50 years from 1962 to 2014, but only three survived, the CDC reports.