Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 2

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SAE Is Secretly Trying To Wipe Away Its Confederate History

After its University of Oklahoma chapter got kicked off campus for singing a racist song, Sigma Alpha Epsilon would very much like you to believe that there is no racism engrained in the organization itself. That probably explains why SAE would no longer like to happily inform you that nearly all of its original members fought to defend slavery in the Civil War.

Prior to this week, SAE's official website was open and proud about its deep connection to America's confederate states. Here is how the site's "History" page opened prior to this week:

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on March 9, 1856, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Its founders were Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade Hampton Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappell Cook. Their leader was DeVotie, who wrote the ritual, created the grip, and chose the name. Rudulph designed the badge. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only national fraternity founded in the antebellum South.​

That is pulled from the Wayback Machine, which last archived the page on Feb. 3 of this year. If you visit it now, you'll notice that the final sentence—which touts SAE as the only one of America's fraternities formed in the antebellum South—has been lopped off completely.

After that graph, the original history page continued on:

Founded in a time of intense sectional feeling, Sigma Alpha Epsilon confined its growth to the southern states. By the end of 1857, the fraternity numbered seven chapters. Its first national convention met in the summer of 1858 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with four of its eight chapters in attendance. By the time of the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, fifteen chapters had been established.​

If you look at it now, you'll notice that the entire first sentence—which essentially describes the period of American slavery as "intense sectional feeling"—has been deleted.

The third paragraph—about DeVotie, one of its founders, who died after he... fell off a boat—remains, but after that three whole paragraphs detailing SAE's involvement in the Civil War have be completely removed. Here is what they said:

The fraternity had fewer than 400 members when the Civil War began. Of those, 369 went to war for the Confederate States and seven for the Union Army. Seventy-four members of the fraternity lost their lives in the war.

While many Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapters today claim that Noble Leslie DeVotie was the first person to die in the Civil War, DeVotie is not recognized by reputable sources as the first death. DeVotie lost his footing while boarding a Steamer on February 12, 1861, purportedly becoming the first casualty of the war.

After the Civil War, only one chapter survived – at tiny Columbian College (which is now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C..​

You can understand, of course, how SAE might think this paragraph explaining that 369 of its original members fought for the Confederacy would complicate its assertion that the fraternity is not racist. Especially when you consider that SAE's chapter at Oklahoma State currently has a confederate flag hanging on one of its walls.

Unfortunately for SAE, it can't completely erase the history of its connections to the Confederacy.

Websites like Think Progress, for instance, had pulled out some of the pertinent paragraphs before someone got around to deleting them. Word also has yet to trickle out to individual chapters that they're supposed to be keeping all this stuff under the radar now. You can pretty easily find SAE's original accounting of its history on some websites of its individual chapters—Marshall and Evanston are ones I found in Googling for half a second—and its Miami of Ohio chapter even provides detailed historical bios of its founders, several of whom fought and died for the Confederacy or went on to own plantations.

Still, anything can be deleted from the internet. What's harder to remove is, say, someone's gravestone.

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is a burial ground in St. Louis that was established after the Civil War as part of a network of graveyards meant for the remains of the war's veterans. Though Jefferson National eventually began to accommodate upstanding but dead citizens of all stripes, it contains a large number of graves of Civil War soldiers and is overseen by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

If you were to take a stroll among the cemetery's Civil War graves, you might stumble upon the headstone of Samuel Marion Dennis, one of SAE's eight founders, who died of pneumonia after being captured by the Union.

You'll notice that Dennis' gravestone boasts that he helped found SAE, and also carries the SAE badge. You'll also notice that it's pointed, because when Civil War veterans were buried, Union soldiers were given rounded gravestones and Confederate soldiers were given pointed ones. (The VA's website notes that the old rumor is that the point came about "to prevent 'Yankees' from sitting on Confederate headstones.")

In any event, one thing SAE has chosen not to excise from the internet is when and where it was started. The first sentence of its current website notes that the fraternity was "founded on March 9, 1856, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama," and, well, there's only a certain number of conclusions you can draw from that permanent piece of history.

http://gawker.com/sae-is-secretly-trying-to-wipe-away-its-confederate-his-1691325929

I've never understood the BS confederate/Southern pride garbage. I'm from FL and grew up with a bunch of rednecks who liked to spout it off and I know for a fact every one of them was racist as can be. I hate how they try and pretend southern/confederate pride isn't about being racist cause it's BS

 

[KevanG]

UPDATE: Racist SAE Frat Suing Oklahoma University for Calling Them Racist

Haha f*** these idiots

Chanting racist slogans and attempting to defend their right to do so doesn't make them racist? The KKK should be told that makes them much less of a hate group then.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Someone Wrote Erotic Fiction About Clippy

It was only a matter of time before someone sexualized a paperclip... wait, what?

A steamy, new erotic fan fiction titled "Conquered by Clippy" just popped up on Amazon for the low, low price of $3. This 4,000 short-fiction-soon-to-be-masterpiece comes from Leonard Delaney, who has also penned such classics as "Mother F***ing Wizards," "Taken By Tetris Blocks," and "Sex Boat."

Here's a brief description:

Christie Aackerlund doesn't need help with anything. So when the world's biggest technology company offers to fly her to a remote location and investigate an alien artifact, all by herself, she's all like "I'll do it! But the artifact isn't what it seems, and soon an overly helpful giant living paperclip is getting her all bent out of shape."​

"Yes, Clippy. I WOULD like some help with that."

But before you make a hasty $3 purchase, please note the warning. This is a short story featuring sexual situations with digital assistants—It's for super mature audiences only.

http://www.the42.ie/conquered-by-clippy-short-story-1991575-Mar2015/?r_dir_d=1

 

[Asgard]

Someone Wrote Erotic Fiction About Clippy

http://www.the42.ie/conquered-by-clippy-short-story-1991575-Mar2015/?r_dir_d=1

This is the author. I can totally see this guy writing paperclip erotica.

 

[KevanG]

Is that Fallen? Is he writing stories about himself now?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Motorcyclist Leads Police on Bonkers Chase Through Canadian Mall

It's been nearly a month since a man in Canada successfully evaded police by riding his motorcycle through a shopping mall, but it was only yesterday that footage of the incident leaked online—and oh man is it some wacky, wild stuff.

(Can't link to vid due to language but search YT for: Crazy motorcycle chase through shopping center! )

Pursued by authorities for reckless driving, the urban off-roader chose to double down on his offense by taking a short detour through the Guildford Town Centre Mall in Surrey, British Columbia.

The Calgary Sun reports that, improbably, no one was injured during the chase and, perhaps even more improbably, the goddamn maniac got away.

Or, as one observing officer succinctly put it: "Holy s****!"

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/02/2...ng-motorcycle-through-surrey-bc-shopping-mall

Those Canadians take their ride or die seriously

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Fired Transit Cop Found Guilty of *********ing on Subway

Try as he might, 44-year-old Kevin Fant couldn't get off. The former transit officer was sentenced to two months in jail this week, punishment for *********ing in a Philadelphia subway car while off-duty last year.

Authorities first learned of Fant's abnormal passion for his job in October, when transit police were forwarded a video of their colleague working his beat off-hours. Fant was suspended immediately and later fired.

In court, Fant's defense attorney argued that it may have been the video, not his client, that was grossly manipulated. Municipal Judge Karen Yvette Simmons was not persuaded, convicting Fant of open lewdness and indecent exposure on Thursday.

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the dependably self-reliant ex-cop will begin serving his jail time on weekends and was told to turn himself April 17.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/philly-convicted-*********ing-subway-article-1.2147971

Weekend only jail huh?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Buffy Actor Arrested at Another Convention in Florida

According to reports, police in Tallahassee arrested Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Nicholas Brendon this weekend—his third convention-related arrest this year.

Brendon was supposed to be headlining the ALT*Con pop culture festival but reportedly became so intoxicated at his hotel that he eventually fell asleep on the floor in front of a stranger's room. E! has the sad timeline from the Hotel Duval:

The manager at the front desk told an officer who arrived that he had contacted them at the actor's request and that Brendon had taken pills and alcohol and was walking around the hotel with blood on him and his clothes torn and wet from a toilet he says the actor had caused to overflow. During their conversation, Brendon arrived, wearing a T-shirt and pajama pants that had a crotch tear, the report stated.

...

"I observed him with toothpaste all over his face and shirt, his pants were torn, he had defecated on himself and his pajama pants were wet below the knees," the officer wrote in the report.

He said he also saw in the room a prescription pill bottle containing one pill, sitting on a dresser. A prescription for 10 pills was filled earlier that day, the officer stated.

He said Brendon had also during his stay occupied another, similar room, located on a higher floor, which was given to him after he was denied an upgrade. The officer visited it to try to locate the actor's phone and observed there a soaking wet carpet and bathroom floor, a smashed porcelain piece of décor, a damaged dresser, a landline telephone pulled out of its socket and a flipped bed.​

Brendon was arrested for destruction of property and released on Saturday. He was also arrested on similar charges last month at a different Florida convention center, where he apparently declined to pay for his room service charges.

Despite his growing arrest record, he tells the Tallahasee Democrat the conventions are actually good for him.

"These events kind of give me help and I love meeting my fans," he said. "So, it's kind of like the refuge outside of my head."

http://www.eonline.com/news/635772/...-2nd-hotel-room-read-the-shocking-allegations

Sounds like he really needs some help

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Mars One Is Broke, Disorganized, and Sketchy as Hell

Remember Mars One? The mega-hyped, one way ticket to go start a colony on Mars assuming it could get a ship and funding and capable colonists and training facilities and the major technological advances necessary to make it all happen? Surprise! According to one finalist, the whole thing is pretty much a scam.

In an article published on Medium's Matter earlier today, Dr. Joseph Roche, a professor at Trinity College's School of Education in Dublin and Ph.D in physics and astrophysics, spilled on some of Mars One's many potential pitfalls. Chief among them: some wildly sketchy means of funding. As Roche explained to Matter:

You get points for getting through each round of the selection process (but just an arbitrary number of points, not anything to do with ranking), and then the only way to get more points is to buy merchandise from Mars One or to donate money to them....

In February, finalists received a list of "tips and tricks" for dealing with press requests, which included this: "If you are offered payment for an interview then feel free to accept it. We do kindly ask for you to donate 75% of your profit to Mars One."​

At least they asked kindly.

What's more, for a mission presumably seeking six ideal human specimens to survive in an impossibly harsh environment, the selection process seems awful lax. According to Roche, what was initially going to be a several-day-long, in-person interview and testing process eventually got whittled down to a measly, 10-minute Skype call. And from the sound of it, they weren't even a particularly illuminating 10 minutes:

Roche said he then had a short Skype conversation with Mars One's chief medical officer, Norbert Kraft, during which he was quizzed with questions from literature about Mars and the mission that Mars One had provided to all the applicants. No rigorous psychological or psychometric testing was part of the appraisal. Candidates were given a month to rote-learn the material before the interview.​

It certainly doesn't help that the TV production company, Endemol, which would supposedly have brought in $6 billion, is now totally out of the picture. Good luck with those media points, guys.

You can head over to Matter to read more about Mars One's vast and varied flaws. And if it still sounds like a good idea after that, we have a great timeshare opportunity we'd love to discuss with you.

https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3

Well that sucks, sounded cool as hell

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Yes, Dangerously Low Vaccination Rates Are Fueling The Measles Outbreak

A new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics is the first to positively link low vaccination rates to the Disneyland measles outbreak that emerged in California late last year. The new research also shows how frighteningly fast measles can spread in a population that's insufficiently immunized against the highly contagious virus.

Calculations made by a research team at Boston Children's hospital strongly suggests that substandard vaccination compliance is a likely driving force behind the ongoing Disney measles outbreak. The new report, which was based on epidemiological data, indicates that vaccine coverage among those in the exposed populations is far lower than what's required to prevent the virus from spreading.

"The ongoing measles outbreak... shines a glaring spotlight on our nation's growing antivaccination movement and the prevalence of vaccination-hestitant parents," write the authors in the new research letter.

Compromising Herd Immunity

The research team, led by by Maimuna Majumder, MPH, and John Brownstein, PhD, of Boston Children's Informatics Program, estimate that the measles vaccination rate among the case clusters in California, Arizona, and Illinois is somewhere between 50 to 86%. That's far below the 96 to 99% vaccination rate required to create a so-called "herd immunity" effect. The researchers gathered the data by examining case numbers reported by the California Department of Public Health and current and historical data acquired by the HealthMap disease surveillance system.

Measles is incredibly contagious; a lone infected person in a population fully susceptible to measles has the potential to spread it to between 11 and 18 additional people, i.e. the virus's basic reproduction rate (R0). In a population where there's at least some immunity conferred by vaccinations, the virus spreads much more slowly, i.e. the virus's effective reproduction rate (RE). According to the calculations performed by Majumder and Brownstein, the virus's RE in the Disneyland outbreak was between 3.2 and 5.8. This range is what allowed the researchers to calculate the vaccination rate estimate for the exposed population.

It's important to note that this estimate is not a reflection of immunization rates across the United States, California, or even among the population of Disneyland visitors at the onset of the outbreak. Rather, this figure represents the vaccination rate among the exposed populations in each cluster of cases linked to the outbreak thus far.

As Majumder put it in a statement, "It's as though you took everyone exposed to measles in the areas with case clusters, put them in a room and measured the level of vaccine coverage in that aggregate population."

A New Model

Interestingly, the HealthMap team used the same data to compile an interactive model showing how different rates of vaccine coverage can affect the spread of measles over time.

According to the model, one case of measles in a population fully vaccinated against the virus will give rise to two additional cases over a span of 70 days. Some 30 cases will appear over 70 days when there's 90% immunity. Contrast that with a population in which only 60% of people are immunized; in such a scenario, more than 2,800 cases will appear over the same period.

"Our data tell us a very straightforward story — that the way to stop this and future measles outbreaks is through vaccination," added Brownstein. "The fundamental reason why we're seeing the number of cases we are is inadequate vaccine coverage among the exposed. We hope these data encourage families to ensure they and their loved ones are vaccinated and help local public health officials in their efforts to control this outbreak."

http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.0384

I still think if your a parent and you don't vaccinate you should face criminal charges and the children should be vaccinated for you. These irresponsible idiots are not only endangering their children but countless other lives as well

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Woman Arrested for Smoking on Plane, Yelling About Venezuela for 2 Hours

Can't link to vid due to language, search YT for: Woman Smokes On A Plane

On a flight from Nicaragua to Miami Sunday, a woman decided to test American Airlines' "no smoking" rule by lighting up on the plane. Even though everyone had seen her (and some of her fellow passengers were taking video), she tried to pin it on the guy sitting next to her. As in-flight annoyances go, smoking in an enclosed cabin is pretty bad—but that's just scratching the surface of what happened in this airborne waking nightmare.

The passenger, later identified as 52-year-old Penn State Abingdon sociology professor Karen Bettez Halnan, stood up and began yelling that the United States had declared war on Venezuela, for reasons having something to do with Exxon-Mobil.

Since she'd already been told the police would be meeting the aircraft to take her off the plane, she decided she'd just finish "saying her piece." She reportedly continued for two hours.

An eyewitness said she added, "Barack Obama kills people on Tuesdays," according to the Daily Mail.

The Reddit poster who first shared the video said he was one of the people sitting next to Halnon on the plane, and describes his experience thusly:

I definitely got nervous when she starting using the b-word (you know, the one word you aren't supposed to use on planes). I have flown a ton in the past but this is the first time I was ever nervous on a plane.

I knew she was crazy from the start. At some point in the first half of the flight, I was watching a movie on my phone when she tapped my shoulder and started saying "adicción, adicción". I quickly realized that she was telling me I was addicted to my cell phone. I kinda ignored her and put my earbuds back in.​

The Miami New Times confirms Halnon was arrested when the plane landed at Miami International. She has since posed for a rather eccentric mug shot and posted bond, which was set at $500.

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/woman-smokes-rants-international-flight/

Crazy fool

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Woman Accused of Beating Trained Falcon to Death Trying to Save Duck

An Idaho woman faces up to six months in jail after allegedly beating a hunter's falcon to death with a beaded scarf, apparently a failed attempt to rescue a duck it was attacking, the Associated Press reports.

The duck, which also died, is currently being held as evidence. From the Coeur d'Alene Press:

The incident occurred on Jan. 7 when [60-year-old Patti] MacDonald allegedly parked her red Jeep Wrangler near the spot where Scott Dinger's falcon, Hornet, was in the process of killing a duck the duo had successfully hunted. As Dinger, 50, approached the scene, he saw his falcon, clearly injured, flying away.

Dinger found Hornet dead about an hour later and said the bird had suffered a fractured skull and broken leg.​

Game warden Craig Walker says he received an anonymous phone call reporting the incident in January. The caller, later identified as MacDonald, "stated that she had been very upset about the duck being injured, but felt bad about injuring someone's pet, because she 'beat the crap out of it really hard.'"

MacDonald now face charges of misdemeanor beating or harassing an animal, but some residents believe the delay in prosecution to be suspicious.

"We all know what happened to Hornet, the falcon," wrote a Hayden, Idaho man in a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press last month. "Where are the PETA folks, or animal rights folks? Or do they just fuss up when it suits them? They are silent or do not care! Where are the Feds? Silent or absent, that's where they are."

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/woman-charged-killing-hunters-falcon-save-duck-29678789

Stupid hippie, it's the circle of life

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

playstation owner gets their account hacked for $600, sony offers only $150 in refunds and that's only for store credit, and threatens the victim of deletion of his account if he escalates the case with his bank

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Damn that's shady, screw you Sony

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

11-Year-Old Gets 1-Year Suspension for Leaf That Kinda Looked Like Pot

Last fall, a sixth-grader in Virginia was suspended for 364 days and charged with possession of an illicit drug, punishment for violating his school's drug policy. His crime? Having a leaf in his backpack that looked like, but conclusively wasn't, marijuana.

According to the boy's parents, the trouble began last September when officials at Bedford Middle School searched their 11-year-old son's bag based on a tip from other students. Inside, they found a lighter and the offending foliage, a single crumpled leaf.

Their son was soon suspended for "possession of marijuana," a charge he also faced in juvenile court. However, when the boy's court date finally came in November, his parents learned the leaf had tested negative for marijuana three separate times.

"The field test came back not inconclusive, but negative," the parents' lawyer told The Roanoke Times. "Yet [the school's police officer] went to a magistrate and swore he possessed marijuana at school."

The court charge was then dropped, but the boy's suspension remained, the school's operations chief reportedly saying, "The court system and the school system were two different entities."

According to the school board's attorney, the school's anti-drug policy treats possession of real drugs and "imitation" drugs—such as a cannabis-like Japanese maple leaf—the same, telling The Roanoke Times, "It's the same punishment and exactly the same result."

In the meantime, the boy's parents have filed a lawsuit for malicious prosecution and violation of due process, seeking unspecified damages. "We intend to see what a jury would say about that," the parents' attorney said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...or-one-year-over-a-leaf-that-wasnt-marijuana/

That's insane

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

"it's not against the law to put an animal down"
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/...ts-not-against-the-law-to-put-an-animal-down/

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

UPDATE: Professor Arrested for Smoking on Plane Did It For "The Revolution"

The sociology professor arrested over the weekend after she lit a cigarette on a flight from Nicaragua to Miami and loudly ranted for hours about the United States declaring war on Venezuela, told her crazy side of the crazy story to Philadelphia magazine today. It is everything you hoped it could be.

Karen Bettez Halnon, who teaches at Penn State-Abington and has published on such diverse topics as "Women's Agency In Hysteria and Its Treatment," "The Power of 420" (for The American Drug Scene: An Anthology), and "challenging the assumption that horrorcore rap group Insane Clown Posse fans are a gang,"says her smoking and loud public speech were acts of civil disobedience. She'd gladly do them again. Just ask anyone who knows her.

She said what she did was "necessary," because the CIA "took out" her idol, former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, by giving him cancer. Now, she believes the U.S. has declared war against Venezuela—not true, although the Obama administration did in December sanction Venezuelan officials accused of suppressing protests by their political opponents—and that current president Nicholas Maduro is carrying on a revolution against the U.S.

Here's her remarkable explanation, in her own words:

The problem is U.S. military global domination. And they want the oil. And they want the water. And so I found that this act was a necessary Thoreau-like act of civil disobedience. I had to speak out now. The situation is dire and urgent, and any sacrifice I make for my own self, if it saves lives — there have been far too many lives lost due to U.S. global military domination.​

Okay, there's nothing inherently wrong with engaging in civil disobedience to express your strong beliefs about the military-industrial complex, but why on an airplane? And why smoking?

Halnon didn't really address the first issue, but she had a gloriously bizarre explanation for the second:

Why did I have a lighter if there is such great national security? It was right in the top of my book bag.

Listen, the point is, I am a sociologist, and I live in an intellectual world. A sociologist always thinks in terms of symbols. And every revolutionary I know smokes. It was identifying with the revolutionary cause. And then, beyond that, it is a symbol that the United States is a smoking gun. The action was necessary. They are going to kill many more people.​

Ah, yes, cigarettes. Those classic symbols of the revolutionary cause and not of, say, building an industry by exploiting slave labor and producing a toxic, addictive product that's now disproportionately pawned off on the developing world and described by the WHO as an "epidemic." If there's a better way protest your political hero's alleged assassination via respiratory complications from cancer, I can't think of one.

Finally, Philadelphia's Victor Fiorillo politely asked Halnon the question that immediately occurred to everyone after watching the videos of her airborne antics: Were you drunk, or what?

No, she says:

I have had many sufferings in my life, but no. I had a little bottle of wine on the plane that I mixed with apple and cranberry juice over three drinks. A spritzer, if you will. But I wasn't drunk. I don't need alcohol to protest. This is my life.​

Halnon is now out of lockup after paying a reported $500 bond. She told Philadelphia the FBI and TSA "tortured" her by putting her in a cold room for hours and refusing to let her go to the bathroom. She claimed she wet her pants and pooped on the floor, "and they made me pick it up and laughed at me."

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/...nn-state-abington-smoking-on-plane-venezuela/

This lady teaches people?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bad Neighbor Holds Neighborhood Hostage With His Penis for a Whole Decade

After roughly a decade of living in nightmarish captivity and being forced to view a man's exposed penis on a weekly basis, residents of one Charlotte, N.C. neighborhood are organizing to rise up against their nude oppressor.

The police have been no help, because a man standing on his own porch naked is not a crime, and whatever dark witchcraft compels his victims to stare angrily at his p-wang instead of looking away and moving on with their lives has yet to be proscribed by local lawmakers.

When the public menace strode once more to the stoop of his sinister, aluminum-sided lair Friday (see photo above) police responded the same way they've responded for the past 10 years.

"Since it is not a criminal incident, it was documented in the 'call for service' but there is no report," a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokeswoman told WBTV.

Now the unnamed man's prisoners are taking more drastic steps to end his reign of naked terror, endeavoring to change the local laws that allow him to live as an Always-Nude on his private property.

They've appealed to the Homeowner's Association, hoping they might be more responsive than Charlotte's live-and-let-live cops.

But, while they're waiting for their appeal to be heard, they find themselves unable to look away from the penis and balls in their midst. In fact, things seem to be getting worse: WBTV reports that this week, they "capture[d] pictures and video of the man standing at his door."

Now even when the villain retreats to the privacy of his home, the digital image of his donger

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/news-alliance/wbtv-news/article14574080.html

So if a child were to see that it wouldn't be considered a sex crime?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Rude Boss Emails Photo of Employee Passed Out Drunk to Entire Company

According to reports, a rude Qatar Airlines executive forwarded the entire company an image of one of his employees passed-out drunk this weekend.

The security camera screenshot was allegedly sent out by vice president Rossen Dimitrov, who also typed up a smarmy note about the woman, who was apparently based at the company's headquarters in Qatar, where drinking is legal for non-Muslims, but frowned on by many.

The airline reportedly confirmed the email was real and defended the exec's reply-all tactic as making effective use of a teachable moment.

"The email was sent to impress on our cabin crew that, to make their working environment as good as it can be, while still respecting the norms and values of the Qatari society in which we work, everyone has a part to play.

"In Doha, the consumption of alcohol is not permitted for nationals and, although drinking is permitted for foreigners, being seen to be drunk would be considered highly disrespectful - it would have negative implications for both the individual and those associated with them."

The spokesperson added: "In this particular case, the individual concerned was found in a state of incapacity by the entrance of a Qatar Airways staff building.

"The vast majority of our cabin crew would themselves be disappointed at the idea that one of their colleagues should get into this situation, since they share our pride in the reputation of our team, and they would also, as we are, be very concerned about the safety implications for someone in this position."​

A spokesperson claims the matter is under investigation.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/17/airline-boss-drunk-shames-worker-he-found-sleeping-in-doorway-5108390/

What a jerk move

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Starbucks to Somehow Worsen America's Race Problem Using Coffee Cups

Okay, well, now Starbucks is planning on starting a national dialogue on race that will consist of talking to your Starbucks barista, about race. What are you doing, Starbucks? What? Are? You doing?

No? No. Yes, this is a real thing reported by many of our nation's top news outlets, and here are the facts that you need to know in order to avoid experiencing what could be one of the most painfully awkward interactions of your life with a random Starbucks barista:

1. This thing is called "Race Together." What the hell does that mean? Nothing, speaking objectively.

2. This thing is a partnership between Starbucks and USA Today, the dream team of American multiculturalism.

3. This thing, as far as we can tell, will consist of you walking into a Starbucks and ordering a coffee, and the barista surprising you by scrawling the words "RACE TOGETHER" on your coffee cup, and then, as if you had just hit some sort of awful jackpot, this Starbucks barista will somehow "engage" you in "conversation" about race in America, while you are there, at the Starbucks.

4. Jesus.

5. Why is this bizarre corporate charade, which sounds even more demeaning than McDonald's asking you to dance for your Egg McMuffin, happening at all? It is happening because weird zillionaire Starbucks CEO and woefully misguided do-gooder/ self-aggrandizer Howard Schultz has determined that the best way for him, a powerful business titan and billionaire, to affect America's race problem is by instructing his enthusiastic minions to confront startled latte buyers with provocative queries about race. Schultz views this plan as "an opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create a more empathetic and inclusive society – one conversation at a time."

6. I assume what he meant to say was "this plan exemplifies what happens when a CEO's ego meets the most useless manifestation of 'corporate social responsibility' resulting in an inexplicable fiasco that will garner much PR for the Starbucks corporation without advancing America's incredibly complex racial problems one iota."

7. Howard Schultz should just give money to political causes to advance equality in America and not make up any more plans.

8. Denigrating a weird Starbucks Corporation plan to "talk about race" does not mean that you don't care about race issues in America any more than denigrating "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" means that you do not care about Latino issues in America.

9. Avoid Starbucks for the next few weeks probably. Go volunteer or something.

http://fortune.com/2015/03/16/starbucks-baristas-race-talk/

How in the hell can they think this is a good idea?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

San Francisco Catholic Church Floods Steps to Keep Homeless Away

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San Francisco's St. Mary's Cathedral is trying to baptize the city's homeless away: the Archdiocese of San Francisco has installed a watering system that floods the steps of the church, KCBS reports.

"They actually have signs in there that say, 'No Trespassing,'" one homeless man, named Robert, told the station. "We're going to be wet there all night, so hypothermia, cold, all that other stuff could set in. Keeping the church clean, but it could make people sick."

KCBS observed the system themselves, filming the video embedded above:

But there are no signs warning the homeless about what happens in these doorways, at various times, all through the night. Water pours from a hole in the ceiling, about 30 feet above, drenching the alcove and anyone in it.

The shower ran for about 75 seconds, every 30 to 60 minutes while we were there, starting before sunset, simultaneously in all four doorways. KCBS witnessed it soak homeless people, and their belongings.​

The station also noticed a lack of drainage, creating pools of dirt, syringes, and cigarette butts to soak the homeless and their makeshift shelters.

A church staffer confirmed that the watering system was installed about a year ago "to deter the homeless from sleeping there"—and illegally, KCBS found, after review city records.

"We refer them, mostly to Catholic Charities, for example for housing," Chris Lyford, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, told the station."To Saint Anthony's soup kitchen for food, if they want food on that day. Saint Vincent de Paul if they need clothes."

Lyford claims to have only learned about the watering system from news reports—but he also has no problem defending its installation, saying, "We do the best we can, and supporting the dignity of each person. But there is only so much you can do."

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ncisco-intentionally-drenched-water-sleeping/

I'm totally sure Jesus would be all about this

 

[M-2]

https://youtu.be/q0I94yw-DW0

Don't know if this really qualifies, but earlier this week they had these Furious 7 screenings, Tyrese made an appearance at the San Fran screening. The next morning he had a interview in LA. After the screening he went and "apparently" over slept.
(Personally I think this was a bit of a publicity stunt for his new song but whatever)

Having over slept, he missed his flight back to L.A, so instead he went on Social Media to try and find a fan who would be willing to drive him to LA. A 6 hour trip by the way. He posted vids on Facebook as the trip progressed. Now someone uploaded a compilation video of the entire trip. I thought it was pretty funny. You guys can just click the link to check it out

[YT]https://youtu.be/q0I94yw-DW0[/YT]

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well there are def worse things than chaufering a millionaire around for the day. I'm assuming he paid for gas and supplies and whatnot

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Three Jailed in Myanmar for Posting Image of a Buddha Wearing Headphones

Three men who tried to promote their bar on Facebook by uploading a fun picture of a Buddha wearing headphones get to spend the next two-and-a-half years locked in a Burmese prison, all thanks to their marketing plan.

The image was apparently uploaded to the bar's Facebook page in December as part of an advertisement for a "cheap drinks night."

The relatively innocuous picture outraged hard-line Buddhists, and the bar immediately pulled the ad, apologizing for any "ignorance" on its part. But it wasn't enough for local officials: three employees—the bar's owner, manager, and general manager—were convicted Tuesday on charges of denigrating Buddhism. The New York Times reports:

The image was posted in December on the Facebook page of the VGastro bar and restaurant in Yangon. After an outcry from hard-line Buddhist groups, the police arrested the restaurant's general manager, Philip Blackwood, 32, of New Zealand, along with the bar owner, U Tun Thurein, 40, and the manager, U Htut Ko Ko Lwin, 26. The three have been held in Insein prison in Yangon.

In addition to the two-year prison term for violating the religion act, the three were also sentenced to six months for illegally operating a bar after 10 p.m. Mr. Blackwood said after the verdict that the men had expected they would be convicted.​

According to reports, all three men apologized but the judge still held they had "intentionally plotted to insult religious belief" with the advertisement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/w...o-prison-for-defaming-buddhism.html?referrer=

Damn, I have a shirt with almost the exact same image on it. Note to self, do not wear that shirt in Myanmar

 

[ThePhantasm]

Starbucks to Somehow Worsen America's Race Problem Using Coffee Cups

http://fortune.com/2015/03/16/starbucks-baristas-race-talk/

How in the hell can they think this is a good idea?

My question is how does one casually engage a total stranger in a conversation on this topic?

"Hey, have you heard about race?"

"I'm black, you're white... wanna talk about it?"

"Man my morning sucks. You know what else sucks? Slavery."

"How would you like your coffee?" "Black." "Hey, that makes me think of an important topic in our day..."