This is a parent’s worst nightmare. Just what the hell happened? A young New Jersey girl’s trip to an amusement park ended in horror as the 11-year-old plummeted to her death Friday while riding a Ferris wheel. Abiah Jones was on the ride by herself when she dropped 100 feet to her death, officials said. An eyewitness said Jones peeked over the railing and fainted, resulting in her fatal fall. The girl was airlifted to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. The Giant Wheel ride at Mariner’s Landing in Wildwood was built in 1985 and is 156-feet high. It’s one of the largest Ferris wheels on the East Coast. The ride passed inspection in March and officials have not indicated that any mechanical failure was to blame for Jones’ death. “We don’t know if it was a freak accident, or maybe she was looking around, we don’t know,” Wildwood Police Capt. Robert Regalbuto told NBC News. The park remains open, but the ride has been shut down. Between 4,000 and 5,000 students were at Mariner’s Landing Thursday and Friday as part of the annual Education Extravaganza event. When you send your child on a class trip, you expect for them to come back with a smile on their face and a mouthful of stories. Sadness. R.I.P. Source
Jesus … the wheel. A District of Columbia police officer has been charged in the death of a woman whose body was found along with that of her 1-year-old daughter in Prince George’s County. Police say Richmond Phillips was arrested Friday and charged with one count of first-degree murder. He is being held without bond. Police on Thursday night found the bodies of 20-year-old Wynetta Wright and Jaylin Wright in the area of Oxon Run Stream Valley Park. Police say Wright had obvious trauma to her body and her daughter may have died as a result of heat exposure. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier called the crime horrific and said domestic violence can affect the most innocent victims. Wynetta Wright’s mother knew immediately that something terrible had happened when her daughter never came home Monday night. Wright left her home in Baltimore and brought along her 1-year-old daughter Jaylin, who was at the center of a child support dispute with the baby’s father Richmond Phillips. “He called her Monday night at 10:00 p.m. or 10:30 p.m. and asked her to meet him at the park. He has not called her in a year. Why she went to meet him I don’t know,” said Wyvette Wright, the missing woman’s mother. The bodies were found late Thursday night, minutes from Phillips home. Temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday reached into the upper 90s. “I get a call two bodies in the woods. This is the last place she was seen with her baby’s daddy,” Wyvette Wright said. The source says Wright and Phillips recently had a paternity tests scheduled for Tuesday, the day after she and the child went missing. Court records show they were due in court on Tuesday for a child support hearing. Damn, was this the only way out he saw? To murder a child and the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair? People are seriously losing value for life. Sadness. Source
If this isn’t the most disgusting thing you’ll ever hear… Don Gorske has been eating Big Macs for damn near 40 years and he hasn’t stopped. Shouldn’t his intestines be crying themselves to sleep now? Gorske will devour his 25,000th Big Mac at the McDonald’s at 699 S. Military Ave. in Fond du Lac — exactly 39 years since he drove his father’s Dodge Polara to the original McDonald’s on Military Avenue and fell in love with the sandwich. “A person like me, I just don’t change too much,” Gorske said. “It’s pretty much two Big Macs a day. When I can travel to sporting events, I like to take my Big Mac along.” In 1990 — the year Gorske ate his 10,000th Big Mac — a tornado damaged the roof of his home and made a mess of his collection. Gorske had to do the unthinkable. “I thought, ‘I might as well get rid of them.’ I burned like 7,000 cartons over at my brother-in-law’s farm,” Gorske said. He said his receipts and a special witness — his wife, Mary — validate his obsession. Gorske now purchases six Big Macs on Monday and eight on Thursday. He has a spare in his freezer in case of an emergency. So not only is he one of the nastiest mofos around, he’s crazy as hell, too. And he’s married?! #Depressing. Source
You might not have guessed this… But according to Jennifer Hudson, people in the entertainment industry are much nicer to skinny people. She said, “In this slim world I do now realize I was being discriminated against. I’m offered more parts. There is much more excitement about me now.” While it seems as though casting directors and the public in general have embraced her slimmer physique, Hudson says she’s still getting accustomed to being a smaller size. “Last week I saw some footage of myself as I was five years ago and I was surprised. It was like I recognized myself but I didn’t. It seemed another world away.” “I never thought I was overweight. I thought my old look was pretty normal. That was how all the girls looked growing up in Chicago. I didn’t have any problem with it. It makes me smile to think back to myself when I did ‘Dreamgirls’ with Beyonce. I did see all these women in Hollywood, all very slim and I thought, ‘Wow, these ladies are very into themselves.’ I loved that I stood out in a room. You knew when you saw this woman it was Jennifer Hudson.” Hmmm… Doesn’t sound like she believes all that “feeling good” stuff from her Weight Watchers commercials, does it? Source
Shaq and Hoopz — As weird as this news was when it first dropped, it comes across “normal” when you peep these pictures. These two recently shot a segment for a local Boston TV show. on their wild and crazy workout. Even though she’s 5 ft nothing compared to his 6 ft something… in some very strange and odd way they actually look cute together in these pics! Based off what you see, is it really love or something strange for a small piece of change?!?
Damn, so that’s what’s going on now? Beating senior citizens to death?? SMH A 61-year-old Bronx man was stomped to death in front of his home early yesterday when he got mixed up in a fight between a crazed man and a woman, police said. Quentin Guerrero, 61, was attacked at 1:30 a.m. in front of 480 E. 138th St. in Mott Haven by ex-con Kendall Major, 35, and his girlfriend, Tosheba Alford, 20, authorities said. “It was brutal. It was terrible,” said a 47-year-old livery cabdriver who tried to break up the fight. “There were a lot of people watching from their windows and no one was doing anything.” Oscar Porata, 58, who lives on the block, said: “I heard a loud thump, like someone hitting the floor, and that’s when I looked out and saw someone unconscious on the ground.” The couple was in a cab when they started arguing and hopped out near where Guerrero was standing, sources said. When Guerrero, a former Verizon technician, tried to speak with Alford, things turned sour, the sources added. Alford attacked Guerrero and Major kicked him repeatedly, said the cabby. Guerrero was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. Major and Alford, who live together in Far Rockaway, Queens, were charged with murder. We’re glad that the police charged both of these two with the murder. We’ve heard a lot of ignorant behavior in our day, but this sh*t right here… Source
Damn, so that’s what’s going on now? Beating senior citizens to death?? SMH A 61-year-old Bronx man was stomped to death in front of his home early yesterday when he got mixed up in a fight between a crazed man and a woman, police said. Quentin Guerrero, 61, was attacked at 1:30 a.m. in front of 480 E. 138th St. in Mott Haven by ex-con Kendall Major, 35, and his girlfriend, Tosheba Alford, 20, authorities said. “It was brutal. It was terrible,” said a 47-year-old livery cabdriver who tried to break up the fight. “There were a lot of people watching from their windows and no one was doing anything.” Oscar Porata, 58, who lives on the block, said: “I heard a loud thump, like someone hitting the floor, and that’s when I looked out and saw someone unconscious on the ground.” The couple was in a cab when they started arguing and hopped out near where Guerrero was standing, sources said. When Guerrero, a former Verizon technician, tried to speak with Alford, things turned sour, the sources added. Alford attacked Guerrero and Major kicked him repeatedly, said the cabby. Guerrero was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. Major and Alford, who live together in Far Rockaway, Queens, were charged with murder. We’re glad that the police charged both of these two with the murder. We’ve heard a lot of ignorant behavior in our day, but this sh*t right here… Source
Florida Republican Representative, Allen West, took to Fox News yesterday and completely disrespected President Obama in an interview with the conservative news channel’s Greta Van Susteren yesterday. We all know that Fox is no fan of the first Black Family in any capacity and Brotha West went on record to express just how he feels. Not only did he fail to acknowledge him as President, he made a point to stress his middle name, “Hussein,” whenever he referred to him. As if that’s not disrespectful enough, he called him a ‘low level socialist agitator’ who ‘never even ran a lemonade stand.’ While it’s no surprise that the Fox correspondent completely agreed with West’s enflamed statements, this beesh starts bringing up old sh*t ‘out of curiosity!’ She questioned whether West believed that Obama was unaware of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright’s, ‘appalling’ references to white people. And just like the coon he is for the day, he insinuated that President Obama wasn’t being honest about how he really feels. SMH Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) stood by eyebrow-raising remarks he recently made about President Barack Obama during an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Thursday night. Speaking recently on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” West asserted that the president demonstrated “third world dictator-like arrogance” in delivering a speech on the federal budget and government spending. “I do stand by those words,” said the conservative congressman, who was elected into office last November with support from the Tea Party movement. “The truth needs to be said.” “I am sick and tired of this class warfare, this Marxist, demagogic rhetoric that is coming from the President of the United States of America,” West explained. “It is not helpful for this country and it’s not going to move the ball forward as far as rectifying the economic situation in our country. And I’m not going to back away from telling what the truth is.” The freshman lawmaker took issue with the way in which the president has regarded Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who recently introduced a controversial budget proposal for the next fiscal year. “I think that when you look at what a community organizer is turning out to be, it does seem to be like a low-level socialist agitator,” he said. Last weekend, West and Donald Trump were the keynote speakers at a Tea Party rally in Florida. The congressman told Newsmax at the time that he hopes the billionaire is serious about considering running for president in the next election cycle. “This is not a time for any jokes, games or gimmicks, and I hope he is very serious,” said West, who also declined to rule out running on a ticket with Trump in 2012. Allen, Trump, Fox News and the rest of the people who are completely displeased with Obama’s performance, that’s fine – they are entitled to their opinion – but they all deserve an emphatic HO. SIT. DOWN. The people voted and elected the current POTUS and If the GOP continues to showcase their jokes, also known as representatives and nominees, the 2012 election will be another easy sweep towards the left. That is all. Source
Donald Trump, is pulling all stops on this ‘birther’ theory business. So much so, he’s launched an investigation in Hawaii to prove that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen by birth. In a heated exchange with CNN’s ‘American Morning’ Hosts Ali Velshi and Kyran Chetry, Trump assured “all Americans” that he will be “revealing some interesting things” about the POTUS. Possibly-serious Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is giving few details about the investigation he claims to have launched in Hawaii to get to the bottom of where President Obama was born, but the business mogul told CNN Thursday Americans will be “very surprised” by what he has found. “We’re looking into it very, very strongly. At a certain point in time I’ll be revealing some interesting things,” Trump said on CNN’s American Morning. Trump first claimed earlier this month he had sent investigators to Obama’s home state in an effort to find out if the president was indeed born there, as he says he was and several media organization’s independent investigations have confirmed. “I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” Trump told NBC then. But Trump has since offered few details about the on-the-ground investigation and, in the interview with CNN Thursday, wouldn’t specifically say if it had uncovered new details. “You’ll be very surprised,” he said when asked by CNN’s Ali Velshi if his investigators have found anything. During the interview with CNN, Trump also maintained he is worth considerably more than the $2.7 billion Forbes Magazine has estimated, and says he will reveal the real number if he decides to run for president. I can tell you that’s a very low number,” Trump said of the Forbes estimate. “It’s much more than that. And if I decide to run, which I very well may surprise people, but if I decide to run, I will give a net worth statement essentially. As you know, we have to fill out very detailed forms for the federal government. And I think people will be extremely impressed.” SMH at Trump aligning himself with the tea baggers and their outrageous ‘birther’ conspiracies … good luck with that investigation! Source
T Pain is notorious for rocking some of the most outrageous chains in Hip-Hop from remakes of the Kool-Aid man to an array of bottles of alcohol. While some call it art, we call it a little dumb ridiculous and distracting from those classic auto tuned tracks he’s famous for. We have to give Pain his props however, unlike a number of rappers who’ve had their chains snatched (Hi, Yung Berg!), all of Teddy Pain’s chains are intact…but then again who’d want to steal a Ciroc chain anyway? Click Here To See The Photos On HipHopWired.com
