These mickiefickies ought to be ashamed of themselves… An armed robbery is something that takes a pretty big pair of cajones to even attempt, much less pull off. It goes without saying that one would not want to be identified when committing such an act, and thus a mask or some sort of disguise is usually customary. These brilliant criminal minds went above and beyond the call of douchebag duty and donned some of the dumbest disguises that even made some Police chuckle. Flip through the pages and peep the hilarious insanity.
What began in New York City as a result of protesters taking inspiration from the Arab Spring movement and Cairo’s Tahrir Square protests, Occupy Wall Street has spread from a protest started in NYC’s Zuccotti Park on Wall Street on September 17th, 2011 to over 100 cities across the nation and global. Protesters have been camping out and gathering for weeks and in some case months, in demonstrations against banks, financial institutions and corporate greed all across the world in demand of economic and social justice All in all, Occupy Wall Street has grown into the largest protest in America since the 60′s and 70′s. Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, here are 10 of the larger cities in America that started and are leading the Occupy movement. (Continue…)
So people are getting arrested for throwing cupcakes these days: A woman who allegedly pelted her husband with cupcakes was charged with domestic battery Saturday after he called the cops on her. Dawn Montesdeoca, 60, is accused of throwing the party-sized treats at her husband Arturo, 56, and hitting him during an argument at his home on the 4700 block of South Western. When police arrived, Arturo Montesdeoca’s head and shirt were smeared in cupcake icing, and he told officers he was “in fear” and wanted his wife arrested, according to a police report. She used “a very aggressive tone,” with the cops and admitted the cupcake assault, the report said. Judge Adam D. Bourgeois set her bail at $10,000 during a brief court hearing Sunday morning. SMH. In the heat of a domestic dispute, a Chicago woman pelted her husband with cupcakes before police arrived to arrest her Saturday night, authorities said. The sweet evidence of her crime was visible on her husband’s head and shirt when officers responded to the home in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to a police report. On Sunday morning, Cook County Circuit Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. ordered electronic monitoring for the woman and a $10,000 bond. She is charged with a misdemeanor count of domestic battery. The fight started with a verbal quarrel about 7:45 p.m. at the home in the 4700 block of South Western Avenue, according to a police report, but escalated until the woman started hitting her husband over the head. After that, she reached for the box of desserts and directed a fusillade of snack cakes at his head and body, her husband told police. Several of the confections apparently hit their mark, as the man’s head and shirt were smudged with icing when officers arrived, according to a police report. He told officers he feared for his safety, and she was verbally aggressive with officers, the report states. Police said she admitted hurling the treats at her husband. Records indicate that the alleged victim himself has been arrested three times since 2003 on domestic battery or battery charges. Charges in all three cases were later dropped. As he left home Sunday, the alleged victim of the cupcake assault declined to comment. Source 1 , Source 2
Y’all ain’t isht!! Ernest Fugate said he and his wife had tickets for different sections of the stadium’s end-zone area called the Dawg Pound during the game, and each thought the other one had the boy. “Neither one of us knew the child was lost,” he told The Associated Press on Friday. Fugate and his wife, Anna, both of Circleville, have pleaded not guilty to child endangering. According to a police report, two people said a woman sent the boy off with them while they were walking in to the game between the Browns and Miami Dolphins on Sept 25. The two people then turned the boy over to security, the report said. The boy told detectives the couple had argued while partying before the game and that Ernest Fugate, 54, departed to enter the stadium, leaving him with the foster mother. Fans told officers that the seats where the boy was supposed to be sitting had been empty throughout the game. The couple wasn’t off the hook though, after the game the Police wanted them to do some ‘splaining. Officers stopped the couple in their car after the game, the report said. Police said the couple first told them the child had walked away before the game and then said they thought he was with the other parent. “When asked why they were leaving without the child, they shrugged,” the report said. They then laughed when an officer asked why they didn’t report the child missing, the report said. Fugate said on Friday that they did not try to leave without the boy. He said he didn’t know anything was wrong until he returned to his car before his wife after the game and found police officers waiting there. Says the doting father of his “child”: “We love that kid,” Fugate said while crying. “He was my little guy. It was just an honest mistake. My wife and I didn’t mean any harm to that child.” Sorry sir but, “we don’t believe you…”, you know the rest. The story goes on to say that these folks have adopted 15 children over the past 7 years. We just can’t help but feel that these people are taking these children strictly to get the government money issued to foster parents as a subsidy. What say you BOSSIP nation? Source
Like Father, like son… The son of slain U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in an airstrike along with six other al-Qaida militants, including the media chief of the terror group’s Yemeni branch, tribal elders said Saturday. The elders in the southeastern province of Shabwa where the strike took place identified the son as 21-year-old Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki. There was no official confirmation of his death from Yemeni authorities. The elders, who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, said that five of al-Awlaki’s clan were among the seven people killed in the missile attack. The older al-Awlaki, a Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator who became a powerful al-Qaida recruiting tool, was killed Sept. 30, also in a U.S. drone attack. Earlier, Yemeni officials said Ibrahim al-Bana, the media chief for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was among those killed. A Yemeni official described al-Bana as one of the most dangerous militants on their wanted list. Damn, looks like the whole family had targets on their back. Hopefully this keeps the U.S. safer and not stir the pot and put us in even MORE danger. Source
Wow… While Steve Jobs’ biological father is getting side-eyes for trying to get in touch with his son in his final days, his birth mother is holed up in a nursing home completely unaware that the son she was forced to give up passed away. Joanne Simpson, who reluctantly gave her son up for adoption after falling pregnant when she was a student, is seriously unwell in a nursing home in Los Angeles and has no idea her son has died, MailOnline can reveal. Sources close to the family said the Apple founder’s biological mother, Joanne Simpson, 79, is tragically battling advanced dementia. She has very limited mental capacity and is said barely to know who she is, let alone what has become of the son she gave away. Jobs was adopted in 1955 after being born to Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian man, and Joanne Schieble, who was a graduate student at the time. The couple were not married and keeping him would have been deemed shameful by their communities. Brought up by Paul and Clara Jobs, Steve is thought to have reconciled with his mother but never to have made contact with his biological father. In his renowned 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Jobs described how his mother signed the adoption papers reluctantly, wanting to give him away to a well-educated couple. Paul Jobs was a high-school drop-out who became a machinist and his wife Clara never graduated from college. Joanne Simpson eventually married Jandali and the couple had another child, Mona Simpson, who went on to become a famous novelist, before getting divorced. She later remarried. ‘My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student,’ Jobs said in his speech. ‘She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates.’ When he grew up, Jobs found his mother and the two kept in touch. He also forged a relationship with his biological sister. Despite the reconciliation, Simpson’s dementia is so serious she has no idea about her son’s death. Her condition has so far deteriorated she is said briefly to have been admitted to a mental hospital after neighbours reported seeing her wandering the streets half naked. A source said: ‘Steve was one of the richest men in the world, but his wealth couldn’t save him and it couldn’t save his mother. ‘We used to find her wondering the streets wearing only a house coat with nothing underneath and sometimes we would find her wearing barely anything climbing trees in her bare feet. ‘In the end someone dropped her at a mental hospital as they were so concerned for her wellbeing and then when her daughter found out they eventually moved her to a nursing home. ‘She was a lovely woman so it was very hard to see her demise. Now she is locked in her own body and barely knows who she is let alone Steve anymore.’ Dayum. Source
Wait a minute…is that stubble on her chin?!?!?!?! A Cobb County woman is accused of marrying her second husband before she divorced her first. But it wasn’t until she allegedly tried to steal a $49,000 truck that she was caught. Diane Tucker, 48, married Edwin Windelberg in Gwinnett County Jan. 16, 2004, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the AJC. Then on April 19, 2007, Tucker married Cesar Alexandro Saldivar in Cobb County. But Tucker didn’t divorce Windelberg until April 7th, 2008, nearly a year after becoming another man’s bride, according to the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office. When Tucker completed an application for a marriage license in Cobb County probate court, she allegedly stated she had been married one time and that she had divorced in 2001, the arrest warrant states. Saldivar realized in 2009 that Tucker was allegedly married to two men at the same time. Authorities discovered the crime Oct. 6, the day after Tucker was arrested for allegedly trying to steal a pickup truck. In a separate arrest warrant, Tucker is accused of writing a $49,484 check to Hardy Chevrolet in Paulding County for a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado K150. Then, she allegedly stopped payment on the check and claimed she never received the title, the warrant states. Tucker allegedly received the title and pawned it for $5,000 in Cobb County. Tucker, of Powder Springs, faces charges of bigamy, making false statements and theft by deception, according to Cobb County jail records. She remained in jail Monday afternoon. Wow and this lady had two dudes wifing her up!! Source
Ummm… Yesterday was Uncle BDR’s 715th Birthday and Kimora and his girls celebrated him on Twitter. But his response to Kimora’s birthday wishes has us a little confused. It all started with this tweet from Kimora: … which included a link to this cute little clip of Ming Lee and Aoki Lee singing their daddy Happy Birthday. Rev Run retweeted it, then the Simmons love fest started. So here’s question number one: how is Russell just now welcoming them to the family when Djimon’s been Kimora’s husband since summer of 08 and Kenzo is two and a half?? And then we saw Russell’s next tweet and were good and thoroughly confused. Wait. What, sir???
Damn. Despite all of the petitions signed, expressions of doubt and words of support spoken, the Georgia Board Of Pardons And Paroles has denied the request to free Troy Davis after hearing both his and his alleged victim’s families pleas. “I am utterly shocked and disappointed at the failure of our justice system at all levels to correct a miscarriage of justice,” Brian Kammer, one of Davis’ attorneys, said Tuesday after the decision was announced. Davis’ case has already taken more unexpected turns than just about any death-penalty case in Georgia history and his innocence claims have attracted international attention. Its resolution was postponed once again when the parole board late Monday announced it would not be making an immediate decision as to whether Davis should live or die. Davis, 42, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail. On Monday, Davis’ lawyers said they believed they’d made their case that there is too much doubt in the case. But members of MacPhail’s family expressed confidence the board would deny clemency. After Davis’ lawyers made their three-hour presentation, attorney Stephen Marsh emerged from the hearing and said, “We believe we have established substantial doubt in this case.” Davis’ nephew, DeJaun Davis-Correia, pleaded for mercy from the board, Davis’ lawyers said. Late Monday, Davis’ sister, Martina Correia, said her family is glad the parole board is taking its time. “I know they have a lot to consider,” she said. “We’re just praying for a good outcome.” As for her brother’s execution date being set on repeated occasions, “It’s been like reliving a nightmare over and over. … But we believe in our brother’s innocence.” The surviving relatives of the slain officer presented a decidedly different front. They resolutely told the news media they believe Davis is a cop killer who deserves to die for what he did. “He’s guilty,” MacPhail’s widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris, said. “We need to go ahead and execute him.” MacPhail-Harris expressed confidence the board would deny clemency. “What a travesty it would be if they don’t uphold the death sentence. … It’s time for justice today. My family needs justice. He was taken from us too soon, too early.” As for the case presented by Davis’ legal team that Davis was wrongly convicted, she said, “It’s been a lie.” MacPhail-Harris was flanked by her 23-year-old daughter, Madison MacPhail, and 22-year-old son, Mark MacPhail Jr., who were a toddler and an infant when their father was killed. “A future was taken from me,” said Madison MacPhail, unable to hold back tears. “The death penalty is the correct form of justice. … Troy Davis murdered my father, no questions asked.” The officer’s mother, Anneliese MacPhail, said the family “has been through hell without Mark. He did his duty. He loved his country.” When asked about the possibility of Davis being granted clemency, she said, “I don’t even want to think about it. Please.” Officer MacPhail, a 27-year-old former Army Ranger, was moonlighting on a security detail when he ran to help a homeless man, who had cried out because he was being pistol whipped. MacPhail was shot three times before he could draw his handgun. The parole board has the sole authority in Georgia to grant or deny clemency. Three years ago, the board denied clemency to Davis but it has three new members since that decision. Davis’ lawyers say there is also new evidence that indicates another man at the scene was the actual trigger man.
Ladies, is it just us, or could the man who left us with four kids, including a newborn, never get so much as the time of day from us again in life? Laura Govan clearly doesn’t ascribe to that way of thinking. ESSENCE.com: You refer to Gilbert as your fiancé. You two are back together? GOVAN: Yes, we are, and we plan to get married soon. When and where, I don’t know yet. I feel like we’re already married though, ten years, four kids later. People say he’s a mess, and I’m a mess. You know what, we’re each other’s messes. Everybody has breakup and make-up moments. It just so happens that ours is out in the public. You learn to grow. At this point in our lives Gilbert and I have been there, done that; the drama, the chaos. We’re older now, and we’re more mature. Now we’re better parents, and we’re taking the steps to make things better. Regardless of our past, we want our kids to see a good future. Ooooh… sounds a little enabler-ish, doesn’t it? ESSENCE.com: Gilbert had a lawsuit trying to stop you from being on the show. Why do you think he didn’t want you on it and why was it important for you to be on it? GOVAN: A lot of people don’t know that Gilbert is really shy. He didn’t want things about our family to be out there. But at the end of the day, things about our family are already out there so I thought let’s take control of the things we can. It was also important for me to do the show because, one, I wanted to do something on my own. I’m always in his shadow. Had it been to get a job at Target, I would have taken it, but since I was offered this opportunity, I took it. Yeah. She’s right: those two definitely belong together. Source
