This guy does. An Alabama man is in police custody and another hospitalized in serious condition after police say his eyes were gouged out with a spoon. Family members arrived home to find a bloodied 79-year-old Bonnie Pogue, and called 911. While paramedics were working on Pogue, and with police officers present, Timayo Knight, 30, made a startling statement. He said he had “plucked his uncle’s eyes out.” Knight was immediately arrested and charged with first-degree assault. A search of the home revealed a bloody spoon on the kitchen table and Pogue’s eyeballs in the trash, according to a statement issued by police. Pogue is in the intensive care unit at USA Medical Center in Mobile, AL, where he is listed in serious condition. What the hell??? Source
If you scared, say you scared. A man cleared out a mall in Massachusetts after the black umbrella he was carrying was mistaken for a rifle, MyFoxBoston.com reported. The man hasn’t been publicly identified, but he was described to police as a short white male, wearing a gray shirt carrying a “rifle.” The Burlington Mall, located north of Boston, was evacuated and closed while SWAT teams swarmed the building. However, a man who fit the description turned out to be an employee at a nearby hospital, who had stopped at the mall before work, MyFoxBoston.com reported. Mall workers said they feared a mass shooting when police told them to leave. “Cops just came in and told us to evacuate the mall. There’s a guy with a gun,” said Jose Abdul, 26, manager of a Verizon store in the mall. “I couldn’t believe it. I just legged it out of there.” Ok, now well admit this is a pretty suspect way to carry an umbrella. However, did it never occur to anyone that there was no gun handle or clip?? Looks more like a samurai sword if you ask us, but we digress… Source
Jared Jeffries though?? Really?!?! Everyone at TD Garden knew the ball was going to go to Carmelo Anthony, with the Knicks down one and just seconds on the clock. Jared Jeffries knew it, too. But the ball and the game ended up in his hands, and in the biggest spot of his Knick career, he didn’t get it done. And he knew it, too. “Looking at the tape, I should have shot it,” Jeffries said, recalling the final seconds when he tried to pass, and had the ball taken away by Kevin Garnett. “I felt like KG was coming down,” Jeffries said. “I tried to dump the ball off to Bill (Walker), and KG had his hand down. So when I tried to pass the ball to Bill cutting to the rim, he got a hand on it.” Then again, the ball should never have been in Jeffries’ hands in the first place. As Jeffries explained, the play had been designed to go to Anthony, but the Celtics took that away. For what it’s worth, Melo ended the game with 42 points, 17 rebounds, and 6 assists, doing everything he possibly could to keep the Knicks even remotely close to staying in the game. But, you can’t give JARED JEFFRIES the ball in crunch time to win the game. We’re just sayin’… Knicks fans: Is this one of the most diappointing Knicks losses ever??? If not, what is? Source
Ruh Roh! The FAA better get their isht together for reals… An Air Force passenger jet carrying Michelle Obama to Andrews Air Force Base early Monday evening had to abort its landing and circle the field because it was following too closely on the tail of a giant military cargo plane arriving ahead of it, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday. The plane carrying the First Lady, a Boeing 737, was three miles behind the C-17 but was supposed to be five miles behind, because of the possibility of encountering turbulence from the cargo plane’s wake. The planes were too close because of an error by a civilian air traffic controller at a low-altitude control center in Virginia, according to a government official involved in following up the incident. But the official described the event as “routine.” The controller in Virginia, handing the approaching plane off to the control of controllers in the tower at Andrews, at first misstated the distance separating the two planes, saying that they were four miles apart when in fact the gap had closed to three miles, the official said. To try to spread the planes apart, controllers ordered the plane carrying Mrs. Obama to maneuver in broad turns like the letter S, as one skier would do to avoid coming up on another too quickly from behind. But that was not enough, and the controllers in the tower at Andrews ultimately ordered the Boeing to “go around” because they were concerned that the cargo jet would not have time to touch down, decelerate and exit the runway on a taxiway before the passenger plane crossed the runway threshold. That problem occurs dozens of times a day with airliners at civilian airports around the country, according to aviation experts. The incident occurred just after 5 P.M. on Monday, the F.A.A. said in a statement, adding that “the aircraft were never in any danger.” The agency did not say in its statement that the problem was controller error. The incident was first reported on the Web site of the Washington Post. Airliners sometimes execute “go-arounds” because a pilot in the cockpit judges that the plane in front will not clear the runway soon enough; in this case, it was controllers in the tower at Andrews who ordered the plane carrying Mrs. Obama to go around. Although Andrews is a military field, all the controllers involved in this incident were F.A.A. employees. “Go arounds” follow pre-established procedures that are detailed on the approach plates carried in cockpits for each runway that they may use. The procedures give the direction to turn and the altitude to which the plane should climb, and the frequency it should use to ask for instructions. Following a big aircraft like a C-17 too closely is considered particularly risky at low altitude, when an upset would be more likely to lead to a crash. In this case, the altitude of the 737 was not immediately clear, but it was more than three miles from the runway threshold, because it was more than three miles behind the cargo jet and the cargo plane had not yet reached the runway, according to the government official. While the aerial choreography in this case was not unusual, it comes after several weeks of high-profile problems in the air traffic system, which began in the Washington area. On March 23, the sole controller on duty in the tower at Reagan National Airport, in Virginia across the Potomac River from Andrews, fell asleep at his post, and two arriving planes were unable to contact him. Both landed anyway. The controller on duty at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport also failed to respond to calls from an incoming aircraft last week. And on Thursday, the official in charge of air traffic control, Henry P. Krakowski, the chief operating officer of the agency’s Air Traffic Organization, resigned. At the time, the administrator of the F.A.A., J. Randolph Babbitt, said in a statement, “Over the last few weeks we have seen examples of unprofessional conduct on the part of a few individuals that have rightly caused the traveling public to question our ability to ensure their safety. This conduct must stop immediately.” Alright now y’all get it together. We can’t have the First Lady in danger! Source
Apparently the city of Philadelphia thinks that the perfect age to start giving kids condoms is… age 11!! (PHILADELPHIA) — With the largest rate of teens having sex in the country and the fifth-highest HIV/AIDS rate in that age group, Philadelphia has launched a campaign to reverse those trends with a website that offers mail-order condoms to children as young as 11. A similar effort in Provincetown, Mass., last year stirred up vigorous protest from parents when the school board made condoms available to children of all ages, as long as they went to a school counselor and asked. After the uproar, officials limited access to fifth-graders and up — or those 11 and older. But so far in Philadelphia, the parental reaction has been minimal, according to city health department spokesman Jeff Moran. Though not much data exists on sexual behavior among kids as young as 11, the 2009 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows that 15 percent of children under 13 have had their first sexual encounter. “I haven’t heard much in way of public outcry — not yet — but I anticipate it,” said Gary Bell, executive director of Bebashi-Transition to Hope, a local nonprofit that works with teens on prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The main impetus for this program was the reports of disturbing sexual behavior of young children. “We hear from teachers and school counselors and sometimes the principals that kids are cutting school in the afternoon and leaving early to go have orgies — and that’s in middle school,” said Bell. “They get groups together with kids of different genders — sometimes same-sex and sometimes mixed. The parents are not home and so they go there and have sex and trade partners.” He also reported that city teens use different colored lip stick to signal “how far they will go with oral sex with a guy,” according to Bell. “We are hearing about them acting out in school in the bathrooms and the stairways. This is not entirely new, but we don’t think of it in middle school.” The age old question has always been “Do condoms encourage children to have sex”?? What say you?? Source
Wow, for a second there we thought “they” were going to let this slide. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a controversial ‘birther’ bill on Monday night that would have required presidential candidates to submit a long-form birth certificate in order to be on the ballot. Approved in the state legislature last Thursday, the bill called for candidates to produce two or more qualifying documents in the absence of a long-form birth certificate, which include a “hospital birth record, early baptismal certificate, circumcision certificate, early census record or postpartum medical record signed by whoever delivered the child,” the Arizona Republic reported. The legislation was a clear attack on President Barack Obama, who has been the target of rumors he was not born in the United States since he began his first presidential campaign. Brewer, notorious for being a hard-line conservative, shot down the bill on Monday as going “too far” even for the red state. Brewer says: “I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for President of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their ‘early baptismal or circumcision certificates’…this is a bridge too far,” she said in a statement. “This measure creates significant new problems while failing to do anything constructive for Arizona.” President Obama took a second to brush the salt off his shoulders that these haters been throwing. “There’s been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short term for Republicans but creates I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in the general election, where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii,” Obama said. Did this Negro just say “go at me”??? We LOVE it! We’re glad that Gov. Brewer is a decent Republican person and had enough sense to shoot down this stupid a** bill. Source
Despite the FAA firing the head person making sure Traffic Controllers are doing what they’re supposed to do , these cats still seem to think taking a nap on the job is cool. On Saturday, a seventh Air Traffic Controller was suspended for falling asleep during the midnight shift at the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center. That made it clear to the geniuses at the FAA that they might have a widespread issue. So they’ve finally come up with a solution. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Sunday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Air Traffic Controllers Union have reached an agreement to make changes in the aftermath of recent incidents involving sleeping air traffic controllers. The changes will be effective immediately. Controllers will now have a minimum of nine hours off between shifts. Currently they were getting as few as eight. Controllers will no longer be able to swap shifts unless they have a minimum of nine hours off between the last shift they worked and the one they want to begin. They will no longer be able to switch to an unscheduled midnight shift following a day off. FAA managers will schedule their own shifts in a way to ensure greater coverage in the early morning and late night hours. It’s about time. Source
A band of fast-moving storms brought reports of more than one hundred possible tornadoes across the South on Saturday, toppling trees, snapping power lines and bringing the two-day death toll to 17. Emergency crews in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama worked to assess the damage as the storm system moved north into the Carolinas and southern Virginia, according to the National Weather Service. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency Friday after reports of tornado touchdowns in at least six counties. Three people were also killed in Autauga County after fallen trees crashed into mobile homes in the area, police said. Some of the death toll reads as follows: Three deaths in Washington County were reported, said Yasamie August, spokeswoman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. Two other deaths were previously reported in Oklahoma and seven in Arkansas. In Greene County, Mississippi, one death and six injuries were reported, officials said. And if that wasn’t bad enough… Rescue crews found a 34-year-old woman in bed with her 7-year-old, whom she had apparently come to comfort during the overnight storm, said Little Rock Fire Department Capt. Randy Davenport. The two were killed when a giant oak tree fell on the home, Davenport said. An 18-month-old child in another bedroom survived. Source
This is a damned shame. Before driving her car into the Hudson River, drowning herself and three young kids, mother of four Lashanda Armstrong made sure to update her Facebook friends on the trifling mission she’d decided to embark on. A little less than 30 minutes before purposefully driving her minivan off a pier with her four children inside, Lashanda Armstrong updated her Facebook status from her Blackberry: “I’m sorry everyone forgive me please for what I’m gonna do… This is it!!!” What would you do if you saw a message like that in your news feed? Do you think this was her last minute attempt to get some help? This case is so heartbreaking, we can’t stop thinking about those poor babies. Source
This guy is the worst. Donald “I Love Black People” Trump, who is “thinking about” running for President of The United States in 2012, brags on and on about his relationship with people of color: Today on the Fred Dicker radio show, Trump boasted of his relationship with the black community in a particularly, well, blunt way. “I have a great relationship with the blacks,” Trump said. “I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” SMH…Oh really, Donald?? Does everyone agree toupee face on this one?? Source
