It’s Not Too Late For One Last (Really, Really Good) April Fool’s Day Prank
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How does a homeless man get $37,000 from an ATM? You’ll need three things – a bank card, a bank account with at least $100 in it and a whole lot of patience to request $700 cash advances 33 times.
Lt. Todd Bernard of the South Portland Police Department said Friday morning that officers were first called to the bank branch at 1 a.m. Thursday.
“We got a call that he was sleeping in the [ATM] vestibule, and we had to move him along,” Bernard said. “Then at around 5:30 a.m., we got another call that he was back there and taking an unusually long time at the ATM by a woman who was trying to use it. She thought it seemed suspicious.”
When they arrived a second time, police officers found the same man inside filling a shopping bag with cash from the ATM. Police say he had more than $37,000 in cash in the bag when they arrived.
Bernard said the man, who will not be identified unless charges are filed against him, had an ATM card and about $100 in his account. But he was using the “cash advance” feature on the machine and repeatedly requesting $700.
The ATM obliged an estimated 53 times before police intervened. Bernard said the cash advance option on an ATM is for people who have a pre-approved line of credit with a bank, which the homeless man did not have.
Officers returned the money to the bank.
“It is illegal. He is taking money that doesn’t belong to him, and the bank at this point has elected not to prosecute, although the case is still under investigation,” Bernard said. “That ATM has been taken out of service and is being checked out to determine why it malfunctioned.”
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The first time he was spotted with the medallion, they said he hated white people. The medallion it seems, represents the ‘Five-Percent Nation’ – a fraction of The Nation of Islam that believes that black men are superior beings, Gods, creators of the universe.
Well a year later, Jay was seen at a Nets game, sporting the same medallion and again, the controversy is in full effect.
This is how the New York Post began their reporting on Jay’s wardrobe.
Black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men are the devil, the Christian god is nothing more than a ghost and only a small percentage of people understand the world.
These are just some of the beliefs behind the bling — the gaudy Five Percent Nation medallions worn by Jay Z and Carmelo Anthony.
And here I am, thinking he was a ranking member of the Illuminati.
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And here’s another story to prove that we love the guns and apparently hate the children.
An 11-year-old girl was killed by a 2 year-old in Philadelphia Saturday after the children were left unsupervised with a gun in the room.
The children were playing in a bedroom when the toddler pointed the cocked handgun at his sister Jamara Stevens and fired, hitting her in the arm around 10 a.m. Saturday, police told NBC10 Philadelphia.
The bullet traveled through the girl chest and struck her heart, police said. She was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead, the station reported. The little boy was found with a burn and traces of gun powder on his arm.
Tiffany Goldwire was in the home with her four children, ages 14, 11, 7 and 2, the station reported.
Police believe her boyfriend came over and brought the gun, which was left with the children in the room when she went to the bathroom, according to NBC10.
No charges were filed Saturday. Police did not immediately return a message Sunday for an update.
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If you’re not a daddy, then hopefully you know one or know of one.
Enjoy!
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You can thank Samsung for this one. Because of the mini controversy that erupted when the selfie above was taken, the White House is now considering a ban on all selfies with the president.
Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz took the selfie with Obama Tuesday during the team’s visit to the White House. The pic appeared spontaneous at the moment, but it was revealed a day later that the act, taken with Ortiz’s Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone, was actually a public relations stunt orchestrated by the Korean telecom conglomerate.
“Maybe this will be the end of all selfies,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer said about the incident Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “(Obama) obviously didn’t know anything about Samsung’s connection to this.”
“Someone who uses the President’s likeness to promote a product… that’s a problem with the White House,” Pfeiffer added. “We’ve had conversations with Samsung about this and have expressed our concerns.”
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Now, I cannot promise that following Fugelsang’s example would stop the Republican from talking about Obamacare for ever, but at least it will shut them up for a little while.
John Fugelsang joined Republican fast talker Heidi Harris on the Ed Schultz Show to discussed the fantastic numbers who signed up for healthcare through Obamacare. After hearing “Mrs Harris” spit out the usual talking points as proof that the 7.1 million signups were fake, it was Fugelsang’s turn and needless to say, the facts from Fugelsang outweighed the talking points from Miss Harris.
“The interesting thing here about this is that this is a Republican designed healthcare plan by the Heritage Foundation,” Fugelsang said. “Implemented by a Republican Massachusetts governor, upheld by a Republican Supreme Court. And these guys need it to fail before it can start helping save Republican lives. If the GOP had been behind healthcare reform, if they cared enough, if they valued saving lives over here over blowing up people over there, we might not see this happen. We might see a real public option, real reform, instead of this moderate messy improvement that Obamacare is. I often wish that the GOP had been this concerned about fact checking back in the WMD days. Millions of Americans are now insured.
“Tune into Hannity to see why this is bad.”
Watch the Video below
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This was a very simple task for Saturday Night Live – a parody of Fox’s Fox and Friends. Why was it a simple task you asked? Because Fox and Friends itself is a parody and anyone wishing to make a joke out of the Fox show already had most of the material written. They just had to come up with the actors.
In this skit, the Fox and Friends characters were really actors from Saturday Night Live, unlike the real actors playing the role on Fox. Get it? Watch as the actors talk about Obamacare, President Obama and their interview Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I bet you can’t tell the difference between the real Fox and Friends actors and the pretend actors of SNL.
Watch more Saturday Night Live videos on Frequency
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Packets of Nestle Golden Nuggets whole grain breakfast cereal, produced by Nestle SA, sit displayed for sale inside a supermarket in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014.
If you ever got the creeps as a kid walking down the cereal aisle, you’re not imagining things. Snap, Crackle and Pop were all staring at you.
A new study from Cornell University finds that the cartoon characters on cereals marketed to kids are routinely designed so their eyes are shifted 9.6 degrees down. That’s the perfect angle to make eye contact with a child standing in the aisle.
It works, too. When the same researchers showed participants two different versions of a box of Trix, the box that had the rabbit spokes-character looking downwards versus straight out increased brand trust 16 percent and feelings of connection to the brand by 28 percent. That could increase sales.
Apparently, Trix really are for kids after all, but not in the way you might have thought.
Why restaurants care so much about your breakfast
The researchers provided two key takeaways from their findings. One, parents should think about not taking their children down the cereal aisle. Two, manufacturers of healthier cereals could consider adding a character looking downwards to the box to make their cereal more appealing to younger consumers.
h/t – CNBC
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Yes, there are a lot of sick people out there.
A Florida woman, already in custody for violating probation, is facing an additional forty years in prison after police turned up animal torture fetish videos she appeared in where she decapitated live chickens and killed rabbits while engaging in sex acts.
According to the Miami Herald, Sara Zamora, 28, was arrested on eight felony counts of animal cruelty for her feature role in a video called “SOS Barn” that showed her and other porn actresses “torturing and killing a wide variety of animals, including chickens, rabbits and more for the sexual gratification of its viewers.”
The snuff or ‘crush’ video was filmed at the South Miami-Dade home of Adam Redford, who is listed as a co-defendant.
Redford is already on probation for a similar animal cruelty case but has yet to be charged in this most recent case.
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This could be the best news so far in the month long search for the missing Malaysia Airline. A Chinese vessel is reporting that it is picking up a sound deep in the Indian Ocean, consistent with the ping of a black box.
“I have been advised that a series of sounds have been detected by a Chinese ship in the search area,” Angus Houston, the chief coordinator of Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre, said in a prepared statement.
“The characteristics reported are consistent with the aircraft black box,” he said, adding that a number of white objects were sited about 56 miles (90 kilometers) away.
“However, there is no confirmation at this stage that the signals and the objects are related to the missing aircraft,” the retired air chief marshal said.
Neither the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) nor the Australian Transport Safety Bureau can verify any connection to the missing aircraft, the statement said.
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Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 2 large egg whites
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 1/4 cups 1% low-fat milk
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 8 (1-inch) slices round ciabatta
- Cooking spray
- 1 cup sliced almonds
Preparation
1. Heat a griddle or skillet over medium-low heat.
2. Whisk together first 6 ingredients (through almond extract) in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk in both types of milk. Pour mixture into a shallow baking dish. Working in batches, if necessary, place bread in dish and let soak 3 minutes on each side.
3. Coat a griddle or skillet with cooking spray. For each slice of the bread, place 2 tablespoons almonds in a single (but fairly densely packed) layer on the hot griddle, forming an area the size and shape of a bread slice. Press 1 side of the bread into the almonds, and cook 4 minutes or until golden brown. (You will probably need to repeat this process in 2 batches.) Flip the bread over, and cook 3–4 minutes or until speckled golden brown. Serve immediately.
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