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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3:26 PM
"A teenage girl who claims she was gang-raped by three 13-year-old boys would have been 'glad of the attention', a woman barrister said."
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3:42 PM That summary made me laugh my ass off (and I can't say that I feel bad about that). Broken News IV Don't do drugs, kids. —anobody |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3:44 PM OMG, anobody is a rapist. —jezebel |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3:48 PM But I only did it to catch three 13-year-old boys. —anobody |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3:51 PM Well... at least it's not as bad as drunk driving, if that's what you mean. —anobody |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5:23 PM statutory is rape isn't as bad as real rape. —plurry |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5:26 PM Real rape isn't as bad as fake rape. —jezebel |
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5:37 PM They killed Fred.
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Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5:43 PM "In order to give a teenage girl the attention she craves, Hack will have to become...a rapist." —Mayonnaise |
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Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 3:47 PM Fourteen-year-old's self portrait used on adult DVD cover Yeah, that's right. My image is being used for a pornographic movie called 'Body Magic'.
Did they have permission? Did they hell.
This happened a few months back (well, since I found out). Somebody noted me saying this company was using one of my pictures.. actually let me get this straight - a SELF PORTRAIT that I took at the age of FOURTEEN.
I don't know if you can see the descriptions too well but it is qouted as 'Hustlers Highest Rated' and a 'pleasure to watch'. The back of the cover was disgusting.
I looked it up on the internet and found out that Hustler.com was stocking it and a range of other dirty video websites that took pleasure in this.. what I ALSO found was that there was a note on the back
saying 'Everyone associated with this DVD is 18 or over'. 18 or over? yeah right.
I contacted hustler and they gave me the name of the company - TVX Films. After doing some good old fashioned research I found that the company makes new covers for the dvds and that the movie was actually pretty old!
As soon as I'd found out relevant information and I send a long and 'friendly' letter to TVX Films - to my suprise I got an abrupt e-mail back from the owner who claimed that 'his company does NOT steal pictures off the internet and he recieved it from a company they've been in business with for 25 years'.
I found it hilarious, since I still remember taking that photograph back in 2004, I even have one of the first prints at my local walmart store with the date on! AND my small watermark on the dress which had been removed on the dvd cover..
After a few e-mails I found it obvious that I wasn't getting anywhere and that the owner was definately a sleaze himself. This is what he said in reply to me, in big bold capital letters to make a statement - "I’M SURE BY THE END OF THE MONTH YOUR FACE WILL BE HISTORY. WE HAVE STOPPED SELLING THE DVD UNTIL COVER IS REPLACED. WE HAVE FURTHER CHECKED OUT YOUR NAME AND ITS NOT LIKE IT’S A HOUSE WHOLE NAME. ACTUALLY, REMOVING YOUR IMAGE WILL HELP IMPROVE THE SELL OF THE DVD….. SO FAR IT BOMBED.". He also claimed I was 'scheming' and had set him up - placing the image on a public domain so companies can steal it and I can sue them... er, what? I actually had this image on only one website for a few years until I joined flickr - just DeviantART and it was clear that wasn't a public domain when underneath each of my picture there is a disclaimer CLEARLY stating the obvious (that's it's copyright)... and ALSO i had a bloody © symbol and my name written across my dress!!! Isn't that enough to warn anyone off anyway?
When I asked for compensation he said "AS FOR COMPSENSATION;YOUR SILLY!". and this was one of the end comments he made - "THEY ARE REMAKING THE COVER AS WE SPEAK SO YOUR TEN SECONDS OF FAME WILL SOON COME TO AN END." My so called ten seconds of fame was from a porno dvd? No thanks. I've contacted about three solictors near to where I live - they all say they cannot do anything because the company is based in Texas, USA. I've tried contacting lawyers over in America but not a lot of them will reply, a few lawyers that have told me I need at least £50,000 to take it on. I've even tried contacting the news but absolutely no reply from them either.
I feel like Im wasting my time, my image hasn't been removed, they sent me another cover claiming they'd removed it in the end.. I researched in on the net and they'd just shown me the cover that was originally on in the 80s. http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/513641346/ My favorite part is where he says she's not a "HOUSE WHOLE NAME." >_< By the way, the photographer is now 17. SA forums thread
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Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 9:15 PM Kinda puts some of our own petty issues into perspective: THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial Monday for allegedly orchestrating unspeakable atrocities in Sierra Leone's bloody civil war, becoming the first African leader to face justice at an international tribunal. Human rights activists say the landmark event proves that nobody on the continent is above the law. Prosecutors allege that, in return for diamonds illegally mined in Sierra Leone, Taylor armed, funded and controlled rebels who murdered, raped and mutilated civilians before looting and torching their villages in a campaign of terror aimed at destabilizing the government in Freetown. Taylor, 59, who has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted. His trial is expected to last 18 months. The atrocities in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war are well documented; fighters -- often children drugged and turned into merciless killers at brutal rebel training camps -- killed thousands of men, women and children and mutilated more by hacking off hands and limbs with axes and machetes. Women were raped and abducted to become sex slaves. Many victims had the initials of rebel groups carved into their skin with burning-hot bayonets. Children were sent out with burlap bags to hack off and collect limbs and were punished, if the bags were not full when they returned. —pookie |
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Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 9:25 PM imagine drugging children and training them to kill people.
those darn africans! —MajandraFan |
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 7:07 AM US court rejects FCC broadcast decency limit This could be awesome (especially if it goes to the Supreme Court and is upheld). The best part is the quote from Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (I find it) hard to believe that the New York court would tell American families that 'shit' and 'fuck' are fine to say on broadcast television during the hours when children are most likely to be in the audience...If we can't restrict the use (of the two obscenities) during prime time, Hollywood will be able to say anything they want, whenever they want. Cheeky hypocritical jackass. That kind of thinking really annoys me too. Somehow if you remove the restrictions, we'll just have the night of a thousand shits on every show (who would do that?). Yes, I know. It's a joke for fuck's sake. We're only chronologically adults. We need big daddy goberment to come in and tell us how to conduct ourselves in an appropriate and respectful manner (and, of course, if our idea of that happens to be different from theirs, then clearly they're right and we're wrong so we deserve to have huge fines levied against us and for our shows to be taken off the air). [/editorial] —anobody |
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 9:48 AM NORWALK, Calif. -- Early this month, 18-year-old Allison Stokke walked into her high school track coach's office and asked if he knew any reliable media consultants. Stokke had tired of constant phone calls, of relentless Internet attention, of interview requests from Boston to Brazil.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Edited Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 4:31 PM Salem, AB (GNC) - The Ku Klux Klan, more commonly known as the KKK, has become infamous for its crusades against blacks, Jews, and until now - homosexuals. But when a Grand Wizard, the highest ranked member of the KKK, came out of the closet last week and announced his homosexuality, some were baffled while others were supportive.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Edited Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 5:29 PM the christ loving, racist is was also a closet homosexual? shocking! —plurry |
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 5:54 PM Damn! I never thought I'd see the day, but it looks like I'm gonna have to stop supporting the KKK now. —anobody |
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 12:03 AM Allison Stokke Is she Howt? She's cute but I don't know if she should have garnered the ammount of attention
our beloved Amanda Wenk recieved. Wenk had a gigantic rack which is easy on the eyes.
Allison just has a sweet tight firm body, oh wtf I'd hit it. —rAnCIDsICk@!!! |
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 12:37 AM For Hugh Laurie fans:
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 11:08 PM "I am a fragile flower." Although he has been spending most of the past three years in L.A. — "they say eight months, but now it's closer to 10" a year — he still considers London his home. Not surprising, as his wife and three children still live there. "I wilt at the end of the day...go to bed cursing myself and don't sleep."
sad panda...
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:09 AM i should stab you for even suggesting that.
ps i already had all of those pictures saved in my 'hugh' folder
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:12 AM Mandee, I saw Patrick Wolf on Jimmy Kimmel's show and I thought about you. I thought you should know that. —greymatters |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:19 AM Can't help it if the dude looks depressed.
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:22 AM that's nice, grey. is it because he's british? or is it because i'm so musically talented? —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 12:25 AM All of the above. Plus, he was wearing suspenders and I know that makes you hella horny. —greymatters |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 1:51 AM Them wacky Dutch peoples! Just add water - students invent alcohol powder AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors. The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2). Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content. "We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters. Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project. "Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop. The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands. In Germany, alcopops -- sweet drinks containing alcohol and in powder form -- caused quite a stir when launched on to the market. Alcohol powder, classified as a flavoring, was sold in the United States three years ago. The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said. —pookie |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:35 AM Paris Hilton out of jail LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Paris Hilton was let out from jail Thursday morning, just days after she began serving her 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said at a press conference. Hilton, who has been fitted with an electronic monitoring device, will serve the rest of her sentence from home, said Steve Whitmore of the sheriff's department. She will now be under the supervision of the L.A. County Probation Department, Whitmore added. She will be confined to her home for 40 days, the remainder of her 45-day sentence. Whitmore said the decision to have Hilton serve out her sentence at home was for medical reasons. Hilton had been serving at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California. She gets credit for five days served, having entered the facility late Sunday night and left Thursday morning, Whitmore said. Hilton checked into the facility to begin serving a sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. The sentence, originally 45 days, was reduced to 23 for various reasons, including good behavior. Whitmore said with the reassignment to home confinement, the sentence is back to its full 45 days. —pookie |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:41 AM What spurious medical reasons are these? Drug withdrawal? Semen withdrawal? —uncledave |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 6:57 AM Brighton, CO (GBC) - In what has become one of the most disturbing political “messages” in modern history, a Colorado Christian couple attempted to enroll an aborted fetus in child day care.
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 8:12 AM LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Paris Hilton was let out from jail Thursday morning, just days after she began serving her 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said at a press conference. Hilton, who has been fitted with an electronic monitoring device, will serve the rest of her sentence from home, said Steve Whitmore of the sheriff's department. She will now be under the supervision of the L.A. County Probation Department, Whitmore added. I don't know why but somehow this really bugs me. —anobody |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 8:46 AM we should all get let out of jail early. free the prisoners! jailbreak! —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 9:43 AM She’s out! Paris to finish sentence at home
Hilton released from jail because of unspecified medical problem
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New Video Outrage over Paris Hilton's 'new' sentence
June 7: Paris Hilton was released from jail and sent to home detention, just a few days after beginning her sentence. NBC's Michael Okwu talks with NBC's Lisa Daniels about the growing outrage over the celebutante's reassignment. MSNBC
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Updated: 43 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton was released from a Los Angeles County jail early Thursday because of an unspecified medical problem and will fulfill the remainder of her sentence for probation violation in home confinement, a sheriff’s spokesman said. The 26-year-old hotel heiress was sent home shortly after 2 a.m. wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Hilton was sentenced to 45 days for violating her probation in a reckless driving case, but had been expected to serve 23 days in jail because of state rules allowing shorter sentences for good behavior.
Story continues below ↓advertisement She ended up spending three full days at the all-women’s facility in Lynwood, but because she checked in late Sunday and left early Thursday, authorities credited her with five days of time served. She’ll be confined to her Hollywood Hills home for 40 days. “I can’t specifically talk about the medical situation other than to say that yes, it played a part in this,” Whitmore said. Hilton’s lawyer, Richard A. Hutton didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday. Nor did Hilton’s publicist, Elliot Mintz.
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Video Paris Hilton out of jail
June 7: Paris Hilton has been reassigned from jail to 40 days house arrest. Susan Filan, Courtney Hazlett and Michael Musto talk about the new developments. MSNBC
Whitmore refused to answer questions from reporters when asked if the medical condition was physical or psychological. He said it was not a staph infection. The jail provided Hilton with a pamphlet on the skin infection when she checked in. The conditions of Hilton’s home confinement were not immediately disclosed. Whitmore referred all questions to the L.A. County Probation Department. Messages left for the person handling media calls weren’t immediately returned. Hilton had surrendered to authorities with little fanfare late Sunday after a surprise appearance at the MTV Movie Awards, where she worked the red carpet in a strapless designer gown. “I am trying to be strong right now,” she told reporters at the time. “I’m ready to face my sentence. Even though this is a really hard time, I have my family, my friends and my fans to support me, and that’s really helpful.”
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Hilton was housed in the “special needs” unit of the 13-year-old jail, separate from most of its 2,200 inmates. The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. She didn’t have a cellmate. Hutton said Monday after his client’s first night in jail that she was doing well under the circumstances. “She’s using this time to reflect on her life, to see what she can do to make the world better and hopefully, in my opinion, to change the attitudes that exist about her among many people,” Hutton said after visiting Hilton. When Hilton was sentenced May 4, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled she would not be allowed any work release, furloughs or use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail. Related content —000 |
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 2:53 AM Riding bikes in the nake.
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 8:25 AM
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 10:02 AM That doesn't sound like fun, but I think I'd worry more about penetration. —anobody |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 at 4:01 AM Maybe Adam was right about Hawaii: Burger King, McDonald's Launch Spam War McDonald's Has Offered Spam In Hawaii For Years HONOLULU -- Burger King has launched a Spam war with McDonald's. Burger King last month began offering Spam for breakfast in Hawaii, going head-to-head with rival McDonald's, which has been featuring Spam in the islands for years. In Hawaii, Spam is a beloved comfort food, with cans of the gelatinous pork bricks found in virtually every cupboard. Burger King is offering the Spam Platter: two slices of Spam nestled between white rice and scrambled eggs. The fast-food giant also offers the Croissanwich or Biscuit Sandwich with Spam. Burger King's managing director in Hawaii says sales have been "very good and very promising." —pookie |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 at 7:31 AM It's frightening how popular Spam is there. If you go to a 7/11, along with the hot dogs and polish sausages, you can get something called Spam musubi which is basically a nigiri sushi looking thing with rice topped with Spam and wrapped in seaweed - and this is enormously popular. —anobody |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 at 4:08 PM ^ I think "frightening" is the perfect adjective. —pookie |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 at 4:52 PM
Edited Monday, June 11, 2007 at 4:54 PM what is the motivation for trying spam in the first place?
i've never had spam, never want to have spam. you'd think everyone would want to be able to say that and feel that way. —plurry |
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Monday, June 11, 2007 at 7:00 PM what is the motivation for trying spam in the first place? I tasted it for the first time when I was in Hawaii because it was so popular and I wanted to know what the big deal was (in case you're wondering, it tastes almost as good as you'd imagine). I think the Hawaiians started eating it during WWII and they were eventually so mentally weakened from excessive Spam consumption that they thought they liked it and fed it to their children, continuing the cycle (eventually causing Adam to get Loveline pulled from Hawaii). —anobody |
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 10:05 PM Spam is popular in Hawaii because meat is/was hard to get to the islands. I've tried fried Spam, it was alright but I had a lot of sauce on it. —greymatters |
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 10:14 PM for some reason, i had you pegged vegetarian. —plurry |
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 11:46 PM Iran Backs Death For Pornographers - Iranian Lawmakers Call Porn 'Corruptor Of The World' TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies. In a 148-5 vote, lawmakers approved a measure saying "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world." The term, "corruptor of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty. The "main elements" referred to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video. Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVDs and CDs. Other material, such as pornographic magazines and books are already banned under Iranian law. To become law, the bill requires approval from the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog in this conservative Islamic country. It is widely believed that the bill came as a reaction to a scandal last year, when a private videotape, apparently belonging to Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi and allegedly showing her having intercourse with a man, became available across Iran. The video was leaked to the Internet and released as a black market DVD, becoming a full-blown Iranian scandal. Ebrahimi later came under an official investigation, which is still ongoing. Ebrahimi denied that she was the woman in the film in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian earlier this year and dismissed it as a fake, made by a vengeful former fiancé bent on destroying her career. —pookie |
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 4:43 AM I'll be gone til Friday. Be good while I'm gone. —pookie |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 2:06 AM Kimmel Has Emergency Appendectomy - 'Live' Tapings Called Off For Rest Of Week LOS ANGELES -- Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," is reported to be in good shape after having an emergency appendectomy Wednesday night in Los Angeles. In an e-mail Thursday, Kimmel's publicist, Lewis Kaye, reported that the surgery was a success. Kaye said that the rest of this week's tapings of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" have been canceled. The 39-year-old comedian has hosted the late-night talk show for four years. —pookie |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 3:57 PM Report: Parks shut down drop-tower rides after teen loses feet (CNN) -- A teen who lost her feet in an accident at a Kentucky amusement park has undergone surgery, a park spokeswoman said Friday, while two park operators closed similar rides around the country. The Superman Tower of Power at Louisville's Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom was shut down after Thursday's accident, and Six Flags spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said Friday the company closed similar rides at parks in St. Louis, Missouri; Gurnee, Illinois; and near Washington, D.C., as a precaution, The Associated Press reported. Another park operator, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., closed drop rides at Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio; Canada's Wonderland in Toronto, Ontario; Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia.; Carowinds, in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Great America in Santa Clara, California, the AP reported. "We're going to keep these things down until we're certain it's safe," Cedar Fair spokesman Craig Ross told the AP. "We'll wait and see." Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McLean said she has been in touch with the injured 13-year-old girl's family and believed the girl is still receiving treatment at the University of Louisville Hospital. Hospital spokeswoman Julie Gordon would not discuss details of the surgery or recovery, citing patient privacy. The girl's name was not released because she is a minor. The girl's feet were completely amputated just below the ankle Thursday afternoon while riding the Superman Tower of Power at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville. Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff and were sent to the hospital with her, McLean said. During the Tower of Power ride, passengers are hoisted aloft, suspended momentarily, then pulled down, according to the park's Web site. Passengers -- secured with bars and seat belts but with arms and legs free -- drop 154 feet at 54 mph, stopping "just 20 terrifying feet above the pavement," the Web site says. A police dispatcher said a cord wrapped around the girl's feet while she was on the ride. "I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke ... and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett, who was at a ride next to the Tower of Power, told CNN affiliate WDRB/WMYO-TV in Louisville. "The cable went under the car -- and I seen it pull up and hit a lot of people -- and I seen them bring their legs up," he said.
This line horrified me more than the actual amputation: "Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff"
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Edited Friday, June 22, 2007 at 4:33 PM So wait, it wasn't even like a sharp edge or anything that severed her feet, it was a cord that did it? Cause that's pretty amazing to think about, in terms of how much more painful it must've been. —Dark Laith |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 4:42 PM you can tell when laith gets sexually aroused. —plurry |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 4:45 PM So wait, it wasn't even like a sharp edge or anything that severed her feet, it was a cord that did it? Cause that's pretty amazing to think about, in terms of how much more painful it must've been. Have you ever seen the beginning of Ghost Ship? —anobody |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 4:57 PM Apparently, the girl was in shock and claims that she did not feel it when it happened. Also, it was so quick that it must have been a clean cut, not like a slow, dull butter knife. —pookie |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 5:14 PM I seen the car go up. Then, like, the cable broke ... and I heard a lot of people screaming," Chris Stinnett lol what. —stefanie |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 5:29 PM Aren't you from Georgia?
Not even remotely close to the same thing, but... I was a kid, just before 3'rd grade, my parents recently divorced and my dad was living in an apartment before he got a new house. My sister and I are over to visit for the weekend. There's only one guest bedroom so one of us slept on a fold-away couch/bed in the living room. It's still open, and Christy and I are screwing around chasing each other. The floor-plan is such that we can do a circuit from the living room, through the dining room and kitchen, and then back through the living room. We go around 4-5 times, then I trip. I don't even really feel anything, but I look down and notice that my knee hit a steel support that was sticking out from the couch. When we got to the hospital and they cleaned it out, I could see that there was a hole - really just a slice - clean through to the bottom of my patella. It was surreal to see something that looked like a page from an anatomy book in the middle of my leg. More bizarre - the only time it really hurt was when they were injecting the surrounding area with novocain (or whatever the anesthetic was). I got to wear a knee-brace for the first half of 3'rd grade because of that. It was a fun 6 months. Now that I think about it, that was also the first time I took out my own stitches (and it was a month or two before our friend Chris ate a whole bottle of Flintstones vitamins, crapped shiny, iridescent, metallic-green chunks and called the 6 or so of us that were there into the bathroom to admire his handiwork). Ah... good times. TMI? —anobody |
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 6:31 PM Four Asians who murdered another Asian and then ate his body were caught when one of their victim's finger was found in the stomach of one during treatment for acute food poisoning, the daily Al-Sharq newspaper said today.
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 7:00 PM Just when you thought it was safe to go back out in the sun, think again. It seems that even the most pressimistic prediction of the negative impact that global warming could have on our health pales in comparison to the theory now being set forth by a team of scientists at Stanford University.
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Friday, June 22, 2007 at 11:48 PM W to the F? 100-foot deep Andes lake disappears SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why. Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May where the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted. "The lake had simply disappeared," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes, said Wednesday. "No one knows what happened." A group of geologists and other experts will be sent to the area 1,250 miles southeast of Santiago in the next few days to investigate, Romero said. One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures. But experts do not know why the cracks would have appeared because there have been no earthquakes reported in the area recently, Romero said. A river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle. —pookie |
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Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 12:34 PM For some reason, this story came up over on /. a couple days ago. —anobody |
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 12:35 AM you can tell when laith gets sexually aroused. —plurry
Y'mean because your ass hurts?
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 4:02 PM Orphanage? Cult? You decide.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 7:32 PM An online blogger known for writing controversial but fake news stories now finds himself in a very real situation. The article, humorously headlined “KKK Grand Wizard comes out of closet, ‘proud of homosexuality,’” quickly spread through the internet, either sparking debate as to the legitimacy of the story or capturing people’s attention as quality satire.
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Monday, June 25, 2007 at 5:46 PM Kinda sounds like Adam's old neighbor: Wes Craven Sues Neighbor Pauly Shore The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Wes Craven sued his neighbor Pauly Shore, alleging that water from the comedian's home seeped down a slope and damaged the director's property. Craven claimed that a landslide occurred on his property in December after Shore upgraded his home with a pool, spa, landscaping and other improvements, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The director of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and the "Scream" series claimed the seeping water has destabilized the land and lowered the value of his property. His lawsuit alleges negligence and nuisance. —pookie |
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Monday, June 25, 2007 at 7:24 PM Florida family busted for giving booze to infant, videotaping it JUNE 22--A 16-year-old Florida mother and two of her relatives made the girl's ten-month-old baby drink from a cup containing gin and videotaped the incident, said police who arrested the group this week. The teenager, whose name has not been released, was busted on felony child abuse charges along with her uncle and aunt for giving the baby boy alcohol in April, according to Bradenton Police Department reports. Pictured in the below mug shots are John Bell, 45, and Heather Moore, 21, the young mother's relatives. Investigators said the baby took several sips from a cup containing gin and an unknown juice, while the mother videotaped her child and Bell and Moore laughed. In a probable cause affidavit, cops reported that the teenager and her relatives were passing the cup around "in an attempt to get the victim to walk to them." The trio was arrested after the girl's mother discovered the videotape of her grandson drinking booze "to the point of intoxication." The mother is being held in a juvenile detention facility, while Bell and Moore are jailed at the Manatee County lockup on $5000 bail. Each defendant faces a maximum of five years in prison if convicted of the abuse. —mandeemoo22 |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 9:38 AM Verdict Reached In $54 Million Pants Lawsuit - Judge Sides With Dry Cleaner WASHINGTON -- A judge ruled Monday in favor of a dry cleaner that was sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants. The owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the city's consumer protection law by failing to live up to Roy L. Pearson's expectations of the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign once displayed in the store window, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled. "A reasonable consumer would not interpret 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer's unreasonable demands" or to agree to demands that the merchant would have reasonable grounds for disputing, the judge wrote. Bartnoff ordered Pearson to pay the court costs of defendants Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung. Pearson, an administrative law judge, originally sought $67 million from the Chungs, claiming they lost a pair of trousers from a blue and maroon suit, then tried to give him a pair a pair of charcoal gray pants that he said were not his. He arrived at the amount by adding up years of alleged law violations and almost $2 million in common law fraud claims. Bartnoff wrote, however, that Pearson failed to prove that the pants the dry cleaner tried to return were not the pants he taken in for alterations. Pearson later dropped demands for damages related to the pants and focused his claims on signs in the shop, which have since been removed. The court costs amount to just over $1,000 for photocopying, filing and similar expenses, according to the Chungs' attorney. A motion to recover the Chungs' tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees will be considered later. Chris Manning, the Chungs' attorney, praised the ruling, which followed a two-day trial earlier this month. "Judge Bartnoff has spoken loudly in suggesting that, while consumers should be protected, abusive lawsuits like this will not be tolerated," Manning said in a statement. "Judge Bartnoff has chosen common sense and reasonableness over irrationality and unbridled venom." Pearson did not immediately respond to a call and an e-mail seeking comment. —pookie |
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:50 AM Speaking of Germany or Florida, who else but a Floridian would walk around an alligator-infested pond? One-eyed gator pulls golfer into pond VENICE, Florida (AP) -- A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said. Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club. The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him. "I saw him reach down to get his ball and he yelled" for help, said Janet Pallo, who was playing the fifth hole and ran over to drive the man to the clubhouse. Burger, from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was taken to a hospital but was not seriously injured, Morse said Tuesday. It took seven Fish and Wildlife officers an hour to trap the one-eyed alligator, which measured 10 feet, 11 inches, Morse said. The pond at the sixth hole has a "Beware of Alligator" sign. "Unfortunately, that's part of Florida," course general manager Rod Parry said. "There's wildlife in these ponds." —pookie |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 3:35 AM Scientology costs Tom Cruise key locations for WWII movie The German Defense Ministry has banned Tom Cruise's upcoming film from shooting at German military sites because the nation's government does not recognize Scientology as a religion. By Evan Agostini, Getty Images BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Germany has prohibited shooting of the Tom Cruise World War II thriller Valkyrie because of the actor's ties to Scientology. Germany has long contended the Church of Scientology is not a religion but an exploitative, profit-based business concern. Daily Variety is reporting this morning that the German Defense Ministry says the United Artists movie cannot be filmed at German military sites. Studio chief executive Paula Wagner argues, "Mr. Cruise's personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie's plot, themes or content." Cruise has had trouble with Germans before. In 1996, German politicians called for a boycott of Mission: Impossible and other Cruise films because of his Scientology affiliation. Cruise met with U.S. Ambassador to Germany Dan Coats in 2002 in an attempt to get German officials to soften their views on the Church of Scientology, which has been officially monitored there since 1997. —pookie |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Appendix-Free Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Work - Don Rickles, Keely Smith will be his first guests
Jimmy Kimmel may have had his appendix removed, but his sense of humor is intact. The talk show host is cheerfully returning to work Tuesday (June 26) after having to undergo an emergency appendectomy last week. "I feel much better now and am delighted to announce that Brad and Angelina may choose to adopt my appendix and give it a loving home," he tells People. On June 20, the 39-year-old Kimmel had to skip out on the taping of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" when he was rushed to the hospital. Until today, all tapings of the show had been halted. The show resumes with comedian Don Rickles and jazz singer Keely Smith as guests.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 3:17 PM Germany has long contended the Church of Scientology is not a religion but an exploitative, profit-based business concern. wow. this almost makes up for all the dead jews. Germany has The world now long contended contends the Church of Scientology is not a religion but is an exploitative, profit-based business concern.
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