This act is obviously illegal in New York, especially when there are passengers on board. But that didn’t stop this veteran bus driver, who has driven a bus since 1993, from getting out his phone and fiddling with it, while driving the bus.
Maybe he was bored!
The video was provided by a passenger named Maria. She said she began recording the driver at the Lincoln tunnel and the driver/phone relationship continued through much of the way to Staten Island.
The driver has since been suspended for 20 days without pay. According to authorities, if it happens again, he will be fired. Let’s hope a second infraction would not too late.
Go Patriots, Go! Enough with the threats already, be your own nation. And take the rest of the Republican party with you. America is tied of having you tied around its neck like an anvil, impeding progress and dragging the country down in the pits.
The Wisconsin Republican Party will be voting this weekend on whether it endorses the right to secede from the rest of the country and nullify any federal law, a clear departure from the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Bice at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that delegates at the state Republican convention will consider a measure on Saturday “that directs lawmakers to push through legislation nullifying Obamacare, Common Core educational standards and ‘drone usage in the state of Wisconsin.'”
It also asserts the right, “under extreme circumstances,” to secede from the United States of America
Fearless: An 8-year-old Virginia boy identified as Martin Cobb was beaten to death trying to defend his older sister from a rapist
A community in Richmond, Virginia, is reeling after an eight-year-old boy was beaten to death while trying to protect his 12-year-old sister from a rapist.
The boy, identified as Martin Cobb, was pronounced dead at the scene in the 200 block of Brandon Road Thursday night.
His sibling, whose name is not being released because of her age and the nature of the crime, was taken to a hospital.
Police have since apprehended the suspect, who turned out to be a black teenager. Initially, the victim described her assailant to as a white man with scraggly facial hair, the local station WWBT reported.
Investigators later determined that the suspect had threatened to kill the 12-year-old girl if she provided police with accurate information about him.
The teenager is currently being evaluated at Tuckers Psychiatric Clinic in Richmond as police are preparing to charge him with murder and assault.
At around 6.30pm Thursday, the brother and sister were playing by the train tracks near their home when a stranger approached the 12-year-old girl, sexually assaulted her and slashed her face, the kids’ aunt and stepfather told WRIC.
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Community shocked: The siblings were playing by the train tracks along Brandon Road in Richmond Thursday when a stranger came out of nowhere and attacked the 12-year-old girl
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Too young: Martin’s family say the little boy tried to intervene in an effort to protect his big sister, at which point her assailant threw a rock at his head, killing him on the spot
When her 8-year-old brother tried to intervene, the teenage attacker allegedly turned on him, throwing a rock at his head. The child died instantly.
‘To have the courage to defend his sister as if he was a grown man,’ neighbor Sudan Aunu told Richmond Times Dispatch. ‘His sister is alive today because of him.’
Police responded to the scene a short time later after someone saw the 12-year-old girl running naked and covered in blood out of the nearby woods.
The child was taken to a hospital to be treated for bruises and laceration. Her family said she was very distraught by what happened. .
As officers gathered evidence at the scene in the gathering darkness, shaken neighbors gathered in a circle for an impromptu prayer.
False information: The rape victim initially told police her attacker was a grown white man with a scraggly beard, but it was later revealed that he was a black teen
Although I am usually hard on the Republicans and I do consider many of them – especially the ones in government – to be racist or to promote racist policies, I think it’s a step too far to pass out KKK hoods at a Republicans State convention.
According to reports however, Brett Hulsey, a Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate, plans to do just that at this weekend’s state Republican convention.
Mr Hulsey refers to the KKK hoods as “Republican party hats.”
When asked if he is concerned that handing out the KKK hoods could be viewed as an offensive gesture, Hulsey answered, “what I find offensive is Governor Walker and the Republicans racist record. They’re the ones considering the resolution to leave the United States.”
Both Democratic and Republican leaders in the state of Wisconsin are denouncing Brett Hulsey’s decision, with a Democratic statement saying that they “take serious issue with the policies pursued by Republicans that disproportionately affect communities of color.” The statement by Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate continued, “but this type of behavior has no place in the public dialogue.”
Hulsey however is not phased. He went on Twitter and posted a photo showing the KKK hats he intends to distribute.
Check out the WI GOP party hates I’ll hand out to highlight @GovWalker, WIGOP’s racist policies like racial profiling pic.twitter.com/jJbgCAFuMx
This amazing video has gone viral! It shows a Baltimore street filled with parked cars collapsing on Wednesday due to heavy rains. The last 15 seconds of the video is truly scary.
This one happened in China. In what appears to be an argument or a fight between a few adults, the two year old is seen standing, watching the entire incident unfold. A few minutes later, the man comes running outside, grabs the infant and tosses the child as he makes his escape.
After tossing the child and running off, another individual chases after the man, but according to reports, the man is still at large.
The baby lived, but sustained serious injuries and is now under observation at a hospital.
The Pit bull that mauled a four year old boy back in January, biting and holding on to the boy’s face for several minutes has been sentenced to life behind bars, a Phoenix judge has ruled.
Mickey, a brown-spotted white pit bull who belonged to the boy’s babysitter at the time of the attack, will instead live out his days neutered and defanged in a no-kill animal shelter.
According to the Dodo, the attack occurred when the boy ventured into the sitter’s backyard where Mickey was chained. The dog locked onto the boy’s face for several minutes; the boy required extensive surgeries, but is recovering.
Both the boy’s family and Mickey’s owners were willing to have the dog euthanized, but doctors convinced the judge that “there are a lot of adults responsible” for Mickey’s behavior: Being chained, outside, unneutered, in Phoenix was a recipe for aggression, she concluded, handing down a life sentence instead of destruction.
The assistant Maricopa County manager agreed, telling the Arizona Republic:
If we all, as pet owners, take the time to think about our lifestyle and the type of breed we’re attempting to acquire, then euthanasia will not be a problem for (dogs with) aggression. It’s simply uneducated or uninformed selections of dogs that cause these animals to find themselves in a situation where they … hurt someone.
In an ironic twist, Mickey will serve out his term in a shelter run by controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who will presumably treat the dog better than he treats his human inmates.
From 2011 to 2012, the number of New Yorkers who were at or near poverty levels remained constant at 46%. According to a new report [PDF] released by the City’s Center for Economic Opportunity andobtained by the Times, “nearly half of New Yorkers were making less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold, a figure that describes people who are struggling to get by.”
Being gainfully employed does not necessarily keep you from “struggling to get by”: 17% of families with a full time worker remained in poverty, as did 5.2% of families with two full time workers.
Mayor de Blasio’s first deputy mayor Anthony Shorris says that the new administration “got elected almost entirely on this question,” and vowed to fight “this stubborn undercurrent” with paid sick leave, a living wage law, municipal ID cards, and universal pre-K.
The National Employment Law Project study found that there were about a million fewer jobs in middle-wage industries — including parts of the health care system, loan servicing and real estate — than there were when the recession hit.
Economists worry that even a stronger recovery might not bring back jobs in traditionally middle-class occupations eroded by mechanization and offshoring. The American work force might become yet more “polarized,” with positions easier to find at the high and low ends than in the middle.
Well, what else do you expect from Fox? This is their message – that racism is dead and whatever little slither there is left, belongs to that slither along. This message is supported by racists and further underlined by the Supreme Court in last week’s Affirmative Action ruling. These folks really think racism is dead!
Carers ignored the desperate cries for help of bedridden 98-year-old woman despite her calling for assistance 321 times in a single hour.
Shocking secret footage filmed inside Oban House care home in Croydon, south London showed great-grandmother Yvonne Grant begging to be taken to the toilet for up to two-and-a-half hours.
Tragically the hidden camera, which was placed in the room by concerned granddaughter Vanessa Evans, captured the final undignified days of Ms Grant’s life, as she died less than a month later.
Ignored: 98-year-old great-grandmother Yvonne Grant begged to be taken to the toilet for up to two-and-a-half hours. Her carers apparently did not respond, despite being stationed directly outside her room
The secret footage forms part of a BBC Panorama investigation into abuse at care homes, which airs this evening.
Since Ms Grant’s death in January last year, two members of staff have been convicted of common assault over their treatment of the former seamstress, the Daily Mirror reported.
The footage shows the mother-of-four crying out for help hundreds of times in less than an hour, including making 45 requests to be taken to the toilet.
When a member of staff finally arrives two-and-a-half hours later, they instructed Ms Grant to use her incontinence pad – something she had never done before.
Cries for help: Since Ms Grant’s death in January last year, two members of staff have been convicted of common assault over their treatment of the former seamstress
Tragic: The hidden camera, which was placed in the room by concerned granddaughter Vanessa Evans, captured the final undignified days of Ms Grant’s life, as she died less than a month later
Ms Grant was then helped out of bed and told to walk to the toilet by herself. When she couldn’t manage it, the 98-year-old was dropped roughly back onto the bed.
It wasn’t until some time later that she was finally taken to the toilet.
Speaking to the newspaper, Ms Grant’s granddaughter Vanessa Evans,43, said: ‘When I saw the video I was devastated and fuming. But I can’t say I was shocked.’
‘I was expecting to find something but I didn’t think it would be this extreme. Her calls were definitely ignored because the nurse’s station is right outside the room,’ she added.
Ms Grant, who moved into the Oban House care home in 2010 after losing her RAF hero husband John 24-years earlier, died within days of her granddaughter telling her that she had placed a secret camera in the room and recorded her suffering.
Clayton Lockett spent forty minutes writhing in agony before dying of a heart attack
A death row inmate spent forty minutes writhing in agony before dying of a heart attack following a new cocktail of drugs administered in a lethal injection on Tuesday night.
Oklahoma prison officials halted Clayton Lockett’s execution after the left the man writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney.
The 38-year-old, who was found guilty of shooting a woman and watching his friends bury her alive, was declared unconscious ten minutes after the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination was administered.
Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow.
It later emerged his vein had ruptured.
The blinds were eventually lowered to prevent those in the viewing gallery from watching what was happening in the death chamber, and the state’s top prison official eventually called a halt to the proceedings.
Lockett died of a heart attack a short time later, the Department of Corrections said.
Local media present said Mr Lockett sat up and said ‘something’s wrong’ 13 minutes into the procedure.
‘It was a horrible thing to witness. This was totally botched,’ said Lockett’s attorney, David Autry.
HOW THE BOTCHED EXECUTION PLAYED OUT!
6:23 p.m. – The injection process begins. Lockett has heavy, slow blinks, laid still
6:29 p.m. – Consistently closed his eyes
6:30 p.m. – First check of consciousness; still conscious
6:33 p.m. – Announced Lockett was officially unconscious
6:34 p.m. – Lockett started to move his mouth
6:36 p.m. – Lockett began convulsing and mumbling
6:37 p.m. – Lockett sat up and said ‘something’s wrong’
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