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R.I.P: “Free Willy” Actor August Schellenberg Dead At 77 Following Long Battle With Cancer

Prayers go out to his family. “Free Willy” Actor August Schellenberg Dead At 77 According to TMZ August Schellenberg — who played Jesse’s Native American mentor in “Free Willy” — has died Thursday in Texas after a long battle with cancer … TMZ has learned. Schellenberg’s family tells TMZ … August died peacefully surrounded by loved ones. 77-year-old Schellenberg had a long and storied career in Hollywood — often playing Native American characters. In fact, he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role as Chief Sitting Bull in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” August appeared in all 3 “Free Willy” movies. He also appeared alongside Christian Bale and Colin Farrell in the 2005 flick, “The New World.” At least he passed away peacefully and surrounded by loved ones. Getty

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Jesus Take The Wheel: Newlywed Teachers Expecting Their First Child Die In Car Crash After Attending Friend’s Wedding

This tugs at the heartstrings . Newlywed Teachers Die In Car Crash According to Mail Online Two young teachers married for just three months have died after a driver taking them to the airport after a wedding lost control of the vehicle, sending them crashing into a tree. In a further tragic twist, the newlywed wife, Jamie Soukup Reid, 25, was pregnant with the couple’s first child. Ultrasounds were recovered from her purse. She died instantly when the driver of their hired town car, 45-year-old Rodney Koon, lost control of the vehicle in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday. Her husband, 26-year-old Will Reid, was still conscious when paramedics arrived and he urged them to help his pregnant wife first. He also died from his injuries. Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jamie’s father Ron Soukup, a retired engineer for Microsoft Corp., shared his heartbreak at losing the young couple, who were both teachers in Philadelphia. ‘We lost our two kids and our first grandchild,’ he said. ‘She had the ultrasound pictures in her purse. He added: ‘We loved Will like he was our son. He was a wonderful guy.’ They visited Asheville at the weekend to attend a wedding of one of Mr Reid’s college friends. They were in the back of a town car heading east on Interstate 26 on Sunday morning when Koon lost control at 11.11am. The vehicle hurtled down an embankment and struck a tree, police said. Jamie was pronounced dead at the scene while her husband died of his injuries at Mission Hospital. Rodney Koon remains hospitalized after the crash and could face charges. An investigation is continuing and police have not said what caused Koon to crash. But in search warrant applications filed on Tuesday, police investigators said Koon’s ‘actions directly contributed to the collision,’ the Asheville Citizen-Times reported. The warrants allowed officers to search the vehicle and a digital recording device in the car’s electrical system was seized. It could reveal speed and other operational details before the crash. ‘She was fantastic with the written word,’ her father said. Will Reid’s father, James Reid, an orthopedic surgeon in Phillipsburg, said that the young couple were a perfect match for each other. ‘He was very talkative and had a dry wit,’ Reid said. ‘He was very funny. She was just beautiful and nice and happy. She was very caring. They were very much caring for each other.’ A memorial service will be held for the couple on August 17 at noon in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. They had their whole lives ahead of them. Sad. Facebook

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Random Ridiculousness: Taco Bell Tests New Chicken And Waffle Taco

You can’t be serious . Taco Bell Introduces Chicken And Waffle Taco According to Gawker With the recent expansion of its breakfast taco test to dozens of restaurants nationwide, and with the chicken and waffle craze reaching peak hype thanks to Popeyes Chicken Waffle Tenders and Frito Lay’s re-introduced Chicken & Waffles-flavored potato chips, it was only a matter of time before Taco Bell put its hands together and came up with the Chicken & Waffle Taco. Spotted at a few stores throughout Orange County, the new all-day item costs 99 cents, and comes with your choice of gravy or syrup smeared over a fried chicken patty that’s been tucked into a folded waffle. A companion item — the Very Berry Waffle Taco — is also being taste-tested at the same locations. Eater suggests the two items juxtaposed represent the first step in Taco Bell’s promise to roll out more “balanced choices” over the next few years. A chicken and waffle taco is a balanced choice? SMH.

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Hide Ya Kids: 26-Year-Old Woman Popped By One-Time For Chopping Down 14-Year-Old Boy After Posting Message On Facebook, “I Miss Holding You At Night”

Damn shame Woman Arrested For Having Sex With Boy According to Mail Online A 26-year-old woman accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy was arrested on Friday after posting a message on Facebook saying how much she missed her young lover. Kerrianne Johnson, of Thomasville, Georgia, wrote: ‘I miss holding you at night’. The parents of the teen saw the message and tipped off police. Johnson was charged with child molestation and released on bond. Johnson was a close friend of the family and is alleged to have had sex with the teen at a local hotel. The boy, who has not been named, was picked up from school by police and admitted having sex with Johnson several times. Johnson also later allegedly confessed to sleeping with the teen at a hotel in Thomasaville. Police said the Facebook postings by Johnson led to the investigation. ‘One of them said, ‘I miss holding you at night,’ and it just didn’t sound right; and the person who saw it was concerned and we followed up and found that type of activity was going on,’ said Lt. Tim Watkins, chief investigator with the Thomas County Sheriff’s Office. Watkins said the teen’s family and Johnson were friends. ‘She knew the family,’ Lt. Watkins said. ‘I believe the family felt comfortable her being around the young man, but it happened at a local hotel where she rented a room.’ Johnson was arrested Friday and taken to Thomas County Jail. She was released on bond and is under court order to not have any contact with the 14-year-old. She didn’t do it once, but multiple times. She should get her azz whooped multiple times.

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R.I.P: Girlfriend Of NBA Baller Dies After He Finds Her At Home Attempting Suicide

Sad news Girlfriend Of NBA Player Ryan Anderson Dies Following Suicide Attempt A former Maxim model and past contestant on ABC’s “The Bachelor” has reportedly died following a suicide attempt. Gia Allemand, who was dating NBA Hornets Pelicans player Ryan Anderson, passed away as a result of severe brain damage and failed organ functions after being placed on life support following her suicide attempt. via ABC News Former “Bachelor” contestant Gia Allemand has died in an apparent suicide. “While in her residency in New Orleans on Monday night, Ms. Allemand was found by her boyfriend, NBA basketball player Ryan Anderson, following an apparent suicide attempt,” her family said in a statement. Anderson called 911 and Allemand, 29, was taken to University Hospital in New Orleans and put on life support, according to the statement. “Due to a critical loss of brain and organ function, life support was withdrawn today,” the statement continued. “Ms. Allemand passed away peacefully with her mother, boyfriend, and other life-long friends by her side. As a practicing Christian, Gia did receive the sacrament of last rites.” Allemand, a Maxim model, was best known for appearing on ABC reality shows “The Bachelor” and “Bachelor Pad” in 2010. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Gia’s family and friends during this time of grieving. Instagram

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Texas Woman Convicted Of Killing Up To 46 Infants To Be Released From Prison After Only Serving 1/3 Of 99 Year Sentence!

What type of bullisht is THIS?!? Texas Woman To Be Released After Convicted Of Killing Up To 46 Infants Via ABCNews A nurse convicted in 1984 of killing an infant and suspected of murdering dozens more will be released from prison without completing her 99 year sentence because of an expired Texas law that grants a “mandatory release” to inmates with good behavior. On May 14, 1984 Genene Anne Jones, now 63, was sentenced for the murder of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan in 1982 in a small-town pediatric clinic where Jones was a nurse. “I was holding Chelsea, she was facing me, and Jones gave her the first shot in her left thigh. Immediately Chelsea had trouble breathing. Chelsea was trying to say my name, but she couldn’t. I was extremely upset,” Petti McClellan, the victim’s mother, told ABC News. Jones began injecting the child with a lethal dose of the muscle relaxant succinylcholine while the baby was still in her mother’s arms, according to McClellan and court records. Jones was also convicted of injuring a child in another attack in which the child survived. She was sentenced to 60 years on that conviction, but it was ordered to be served concurrently with the 99 year sentence. Ron Sutton, the criminal prosecutor who won the murder conviction, estimates that Jones is responsible for the deaths of between 11 and 46 infants in Bexar County from 1978 and 1982. “I was present when all the investigators were adding up the numbers and, 11 to 46… I can confirm that that’s what it was,” Sutton told ABC News. WTF?! McClellan was meeting with Texas State senators in the early 1990s when she discovered that Jones would be scheduled for early release. “A congressman came up to me and as I told them Chelsea’s story he stopped me and asked when Genene Jones was sentenced,” McClellan recalled. He then told McClellan he would be back in a minute and left. “When he came back he looked upset and he told me, ‘We have a problem’,” McClellan said. “That’s when he told me Genene Jones would not serve her full sentence. I couldn’t believe it.” “I was stunned, sad, and so, so, angry. Probably the angriest I have been since Chelsea died. This makes no rhyme or reason. Not just for me and my family, but anybody who suffered. There were so many other victims,” McClellan said. “This is going to happen. There is nothing we can do. Nothing I can do,” Petti McClellan, continued. “This has nothing to do with the parole board, the courts. Genene Jones is going to walk free.” Jones will be released because of a Texas law called Mandatory Supervision. Enacted in 1977, the law allowed all convicted criminals to be automatically released on parole after they complete a certain amount of calendar time and good conduct time, which includes participating in work and self-improvement programs, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice parole and mandatory release guide. This lady might just want to lay low, just because she’s 63 now doesn’t mean people don’t wanna murk that a$$! Image via ABC Continue reading

Florida Crazies: Woman Stabs McDonald’s Customer For Cutting In Front Of Her While In Line

Maybe she reeeeally wanted that Monopoly prize money… Florida Woman Stabs McDonald’s Customer For Cutting In Line Florida is the land of the free and the home of the crazies …and this woman is living proof. via THG Last Wednesday at a location in Riverview, Florida, 45-year old Rebecca Simmons pulled a knife on a fellow patron after he complained that she tried to cut him in line. Simmons stabbed the hood of the victim’s car… and then stabbed the victim himself in the right buttocks! She was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief with property damage. Who knew you could get shanked over a Big Mac and a large fry. Bet this guy didn’t. Continue reading

Jesus Take The Wheel: Man Shoots Himself To Death In Wife’s Hospital Room After She Gives Birth

Of all the places and days for this man to take his own life… Man Commits Suicide In Wife’s Hospital Room After She Gives Birth The birth of a new baby was overshadowed by a horrific tragedy for one Houston couple after the father of the child shot himself to death inside the hospital room where his wife had just given birth three hours earlier. via Chicago Tribune A Houston man shot himself to death in his wife’s hospital room on Sunday, 3 1/2 hours after she had given birth to their baby, police said. “Family members said he has been distraught recently,” Houston police spokesman John Cannon said on Monday. The man, whose identity has not been released, shot himself in a private room at Willowbrook Methodist Hospital in Northwest Houston on Sunday afternoon, Cannon said. He died shortly after being transported to another hospital, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. His wife, who gave birth earlier on Sunday, was not injured, and Cannon said the baby was not in the room at the time. What a terrible day this turned out to be for this family, despite a new life being brought into the world. Continue reading

Jesus Take The Wheel: 13-Year-Old And 1-Year-Old Girls Killed After Ex-Microsoft Executive Crashes Plane Into Their House

This is so sad . Children Killed After Plane Crashes Into Their Home According to The NY Daily News The devastated mother of two girls killed when a small plane crashed into their Connecticut home bared her pain Saturday in a heartbreaking online message. “I can’t begin to imagine my life without you,” Joan Mitchell posted on the Facebook page of her 13-year-old daughter, Sade Brantley. “You and Madisyn were my world. My heart has been broken to the point of no repair…My life will never be the same without you and Madisyn.” Sadie and her 1-year-old sister Madisyn Mitchell were inside their East Haven home when a private plane piloted by an ex-Microsoft executive dropped from the sky and barreled into the house Friday morning. The pilot, Bill Henningsgaard, and his 17-year-son Max were also killed in the crash. The accident was Henningsgaard’s second in four years. Joan Mitchell, after escaping the wreckage and flames, stood outside the home screaming for help, witnesses said. Then she raced back inside the Cape-Cod style house in a vain hunt for the missing girls. On Saturday night, Mitchell made a quiet appearance at a vigil for her slain daughters. The shattered mother, wearing a blue v-neck t-shirt, choked back sobs as she embraced received waves of anguished well-wishers. “She’s doing as well as can be expected,” East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo said earlier. A friend of Sade’s described the rising 8th grader as a “shy and timid” girl who loved music. “It was devastating to hear it was her,” said Starriana Zmuda, a fellow student at Joseph Melillo Middle School in East Haven. This is a tragedy all around…..prayers go out to the families.

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Jesus Take The Wheel: 5-Year-Old And 7-Year-Old Brothers Strangled To Death By Python That Escaped From Pet Store In Their Sleep

This is so sad and could have been prevented. Brothers Killed By Snake According to Mail Online Two small brothers, age 5 and 7, have been strangled to death in their sleep in Canada, by a massive python that escaped from a pet store below the apartment where the children were staying. The pet store owner Jean-Claude Savoie says the creeping horror slithered into the apartment in Campbellton, New Brunswick, through the ventilation ducts this morning and crawled into the ceiling. It somehow punched a hole in the ceiling and dropped onto the small boys from above. It then coiled around them and crushed them as they slept together on the floor. Mr Savoie, the owner of Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, described to Global News how he found the two boys dead in his apartment about 6.30am on Monday. The boys are brothers, the children of Mr Savoie’s best friend. He said they often sleep over at his apartment. ‘I thought they were sleeping until I (saw) the hole in the ceiling. I turned the lights on and I (saw) this horrific scene,’ he said. ‘(The snake) went through a ventilation system. I don’t understand how it did it. It went through the ceiling… and the snake fell through the living room from the ceiling,’ he said. The snake is not usually handled by anyone in the store and Mr Savoie said he does not know how it escaped its cage in the pet shop. He said he has owned the giant snake for more than a decade. ‘My body is in shock. I don’t know what to think,’ he told Global News. The two boys are the children of a friend of Mr Savoie who were having a sleepover at his apartment above the pet store. The horrifying deaths of the two children shock residents of the small city of 7,400 in northern New Brunswick. ‘It’s very nerve-wracking. If one got out, how many else got out,’ neighbor Diane Fournier said. Ms Fournier said that the young boys were fixtures in the neighborhood and often seen playing outside. Police said an autopsy will confirm the exact cause of death, though officials believe the boys were crushed to death by the snake. Mr Savoie said he captured the snake and turned it over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who are examining the snake. Those poor babies…to be strangled to death in your sleep. Somebody needs to get sued and charged with negligence.

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