Weird News of the World Thread

[Ant-manic]

Resilient Birds In Chernobyl Are Actually Adapting to Radiation





http://phys.org/news/2014-04-chernobyl-birds-ionising.html

That is unexpected

Secret Origins: Angry Birds

 

[Bim]

Weird Canadian Family Gives Up On Pretending Like It's 1986

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...ily-ends-year-of-living-in-the-past-1.2623766

I can understand their reasoning but they had to know it was going to end up this way

Soooo weird. The guy must love that shirt though, cause he's also wearing it in the family picture to the right lol.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Good eye, that made me laugh

 

[Bim]

For a second i thought the story was fake because i noticed the picture right away, and the guy was wearing the same shirt, and the woman was also wearing blue in the pic. Then i saw the woman was wearing a black top underneath, so i figured they hadnt just taken that pic for the story. But those two sure love their pink and blues lol.

 

[Teelie]

It was the 80's. Of course they loved these colors.

 

[KevanG]

The 80's had a... unique fashion sense.

 

[Anubis]

Every decade had a unique fashion sense. 10 years gone, it all looks ridiculous.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

L.A. Wins "Least Breathable Air" Title

Say what you will about Los Angeles—that it's a hellpit of plastic-enhanced heathens teetering on the brink of seismic annihilation, for example—but give the city this: it has America's worst air.

Besides being and earthquake fault-riddled desert living on borrowed time, Los Angeles can now proudly declare that, as expected, the very air that it breathes is as polluted as the black heart of the amoral entertainment industry power brokers that control the city's civic life. The American Lung Association's annual "State of the Air" report is out today, and here are our nation's five most polluted cities:

#1: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA

#2: Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA

#3: Bakersfield, CA

#4: Fresno-Madera, CA

#5: Sacramento-Roseville, CA

Do you notice a trend? The vile floating particulate matter that chokes the lungs of Angelenos drifts across the entire southern California coast, making the mere act of breathing a chore for unfortunate residents of the damned region. Imagine an innocent child, choking: this is Los Angeles.

Congratulations.

http://www.stateoftheair.org/2014/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html

I'll take my sunny FL beaches and the crazy people thank you very much

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Oklahoma Inmate Dies After Botched Execution

An Oklahoma inmate who recently lost a legal battle to find out exactly which drugs would be used to kill him died of a heart attack tonight after the state botched his execution.

Convicted murderers Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were both scheduled to be executed tonight after losing an appeal to force the state to disclose the source of its new, secret lethal injection drug combination.

Lockett, who was convicted of kidnapping, beating, raping, shooting, and burying alive a 19-year-old woman, was scheduled to go first and received the injection at 6:23 pm. Warner, convicted of raping and killing an 11-month-old baby, was to follow at 8 pm.

But things went terribly wrong.

The New York Times rather passively points out that "It did not appear that any of the drugs themselves failed, but rather the method of administration," and even after a doctor declared him to be unconscious, witnesses say Lockett was awake and yelled "man" and "something's wrong."

Doctors pulled the curtain after he apparently tried to rise up off the table.

Lockett officially died of a heart attack at 7:06 pm. In the meantime, Warner's execution has been stayed for at least 14 days.

According to Mother Jones, Oklahoma quietly procured the experimental cocktail after drug manufacturers stopped producing sodium thiopental, the lethal injection drug of choice, citing moral grounds.

Both men received a brief stay of execution earlier this year when they sued the state, arguing they were entitled to know the source of the lethal injection drugs that Oklahoma had been secretly preparing.

After the governor challenged the State Supreme Court's ruling for a delay and the legislature started to discuss impeaching the justices, the Oklahoma Supreme Court denied the request, writing:

"The plaintiffs have no more right to the information they requested than if they were being executed in the electric chair, they would have no right to know whether OG&E or PSO were providing the electricity; if they were being hanged, they would have no right to know whether it be cotton or nylon rope; or if they were being executed by firing squad, they would have no right to know whether it be by Winchester or Remington ammunition."
Department of Corrections officials apparently proposed two combinations of different drugs for the executions tonight before deciding on a cocktail of three chemicals—midazolam for anxiety, vecuronium bromide to relax the muscles, and potassium chloride to stop the heart. According to the Times, that combination has been used before in Florida, but with a "much higher dose" of midazolam because the other two drugs are known to cause "agonizing suffocation and pain."

UPDATE 10:25 PM: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallon has ordered a "full review of Oklahoma's execution procedures."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-prepares-execution-2-inmates#overlay-context=users/mstewart

Well I'm kind of torn here since I think if you are going to kill people than it should be quick and painless but at the same time reading what that monster did I can't say I feel sorry for him. But that's the problem with trying cocktails on people without really knowing what your doing

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ex-SEALs Found Dead on Captain Phillips Ship Overdosed on Heroin

Police say that two former Navy SEALs whose lifeless bodies were discovered on the Maersk Alabama earlier this year died after a night of partying, drinking, and taking heroin.

Authorities say Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy were former Navy SEALs who began working as armed guards on the infamous Captain Phillips ship after joining up with the Trident Group, a private maritime security firm.

The men, who had recently passed the company's mandatory drug test, spent their last night partying in Seychelles.

The two... later visited two casinos, playing blackjack and drinking vodka and tequila with sailors from New Zealand. When the second casino shut its doors at 3 a.m., surveillance images show that the pair bumped into two women and departed with them down a dark corridor.
Investigators later found pills, syringes, and a brown powder that tested positive for heroin in the men's cabin.

Despite a long history of pirate attacks on the Maersk Alabama, according to the Times, the men told their friends that boredom was their biggest enemy out at sea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/w...fight-pirates-but-doomed-by-boredom.html?_r=0

Being out at sea is def boring, my days in the Navy taught me that. If you aren't working there isn't much to do. I wonder what would have happened if pirates did board them, 2 ex-Navy SEALS who are high vs pirates would have been a great sequel for the Capt. Phillips movie

 

[Alex_Spider]

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140429/midtown/plea-for-help-from-man-claiming-be-chinese-prisoner-found-saks-bag

Plea for Help From Man Claiming to Be Chinese Prisoner Found in Saks Bag

NEW YORK CITY — Stephanie Wilson was reaching for a receipt inside a paper shopping bag from Saks Fifth Avenue when she found a letter pleading, "HELP HELP HELP."

The message, written in blue ink on white lined paper, appeared to be a desperate cry from a man who said he made the bag while being unfairly held in a Chinese prison factory more than 7,000 miles away.

"We are ill-treated and work like slaves for 13 hours every day producing these bags in bulk in the prison factory," continued the letter, which was tucked into the bottom of the bag. It ended, "Thanks and sorry to bother you."

"I read the letter and I just shook," said Wilson, 28, an Australian who lives in West Harlem. "I could not believe what I was reading."

The note, which Wilson found after buying a pair of Hunter rain boots at Saks in September 2012, was signed Tohnain Emmanuel Njong and was accompanied by a small passport-photo sized color picture of a man in an orange jacket, she said.

The letter, which also included a Yahoo email address on the back, triggered a hunt for the whereabouts of the mystery man.

Wilson showed the missive to the Laogai Research Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group founded to fight human rights abuses in Chinese prisons. The nonprofit foundation began investigating using its contacts on the ground as well as online, a representative confirmed to DNAinfo New York.

But when Njong's Yahoo email address bounced back, the nonprofit was unable to locate him.

Harry Wu, the founder of Laogai Research Foundation, spent 19 years in a Chinese prison factory, known as laogai. He said he took steps to verify the letter and believes that Njong took a huge risk in writing and sending it.

"There would be solitary confinement until you confess and maybe later they increase your sentence — or even death," Wu said.

His organization referred the letter to the Department of Homeland Security, which investigates allegations of American companies using forced labor to make their products.

Stephanie Wilson discovered a letter in 2012 hidden in a Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag that she got when she bought a pair of Hunter rainboots at the department store. The letter claimed to be from a wrongly imprisoned man in China. Stephanie Wilson discovered a letter in 2012 hidden in a Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag that she got when she bought a pair of Hunter rainboots at the department store. The letter claimed to be from a wrongly imprisoned man in China. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Serena Solomon
Homeland Security officials confirmed to DNAinfo that they were made aware of the letter, but could not say if they investigated it or are currently looking at Saks in connection to it. They also could not discuss Wilson's claim that DHS agents interviewed her in June 2013.

But a DHS official said it's not the first report of a cry for help letter from China ending up on American shores.

According to DHS senior policy adviser Kenneth Kennedy, the department was made aware of a woman in Oregon who made international news in 2012 when she discovered a similar letter detailing abuse and grueling labor in a Chinese prison when it fell from a Halloween decoration she'd bought at Kmart.

The Oregon letter was anonymous, though The New York Times later tracked down the man who said he wrote it.

A representative for Saks Fifth Avenue confirmed that the store was notified of the letter by the Laogai Research Foundation in December 2013 and said the company took the allegation seriously and launched an investigation, according to Tiffany Bourre, spokeswoman for Hudson's Bay Company, which took a controlling stake in the famous department store last December.

Bourre said Saks does have its paper shopping bags made in China, but the company was unable to determine the specific origin of the bag that contained Njong's letter and photo.

Hudson's Bay Company is currently in the process of ensuring all vendors meet the new company's standards on workers' rights, Bourre added.

"HBC has a rigorous social compliance program that outlines our zero tolerance policy, which includes forced labor," she said.

Two U.S. laws make it illegal for products made using slave, convict or indentured labor to be imported into the United States, according to Kennedy. However investigations are difficult with DHS required to prove how much a company knew about its own supply chain.

"Was there actual knowledge [of slave, convict or indentured labor?] Or was there knowledge that they avoided knowing or seeing?" Kennedy said. "All that plays into the investigation."

A legal clause known as the consumptive demand exemption, which Kennedy referred to as "the Achilles heel of these laws," can also greenlight imports regardless of the type of labor used if domestic consumption cannot be met otherwise.

In recent weeks, using the now-inactive email address and social media accounts, DNAinfo located a man who said he wrote the letter that Wilson found.

In a two-hour phone interview, a man who identified himself as Njong said he wrote the letter during his three-year prison sentence in the eastern city of Qingdao, Shandong Province.

Unprompted, Njong described obscure details in the letter, like its mention of Samuel Eto'o, a professional soccer player on English premiere league team Chelsea, who like Njong is from Cameroon in West Africa.

He added that he wrote a total of five letters while he was behind bars — some in French that he hid in bags labeled with French words, and others in English, he said.

Njong, who is now 34, said he had been teaching English in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen when he was arrested in May 2011 and charged with fraud, a crime he said he never committed.

He said he was held in a detention center for 10 months while awaiting a government-sponsored lawyer, who represented him at his court trial and sentencing. He said he was barred from contact with the outside community.

Njong's arrest and imprisonment were confirmed by his legal aid lawyer in China, whose name DNAinfo is withholding for the lawyer's protection.

The Cameroonian embassies in Beijing and Washington, D.C. did not return emails or calls for comment. The Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. referred calls to the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York, which did not return calls or an email for comment.

Njong said he was imprisoned in the eastern city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, where he was forced to work long days in a factory, starting at 6 a.m. and continuing as late as 10 p.m. He sometimes made paper shopping bags like the one from Saks, while other times he assembled electronics or sewed garments.

Stephanie Wilson said she found a letter written by a Chinese prisoner in her Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag. The bag and letter were given to the Department of Homeland Security, which investigates allegations of American companies using forced labor to make their products. Stephanie Wilson said she found a letter written by a Chinese prisoner in her Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag. The bag and letter were given to the Department of Homeland Security, which investigates allegations of American companies using forced labor to make their products. View Full Caption Stephanie Wilson
Each prisoner was required to meet a daily production quota, Njong said. He said he and the other convicts were given a pen and paper to record their productivity — and that he used that pen and paper to secretly write his letters.

"We were being monitored all the time," Njong said. "I got under my bed cover and I wrote it so nobody could see that I was writing anything."

He said he hoped the letter would help lead someone to him.

"Maybe this bag could go somewhere and they find this letter and they can let my family know or anybody [know] that I am in prison," explained Njong.

Njong said he was discharged from prison in December 2013 — he received a reduced sentence for good behavior — and was put on a plane back to Cameroon, where he reunited with relatives who had no idea what had happened to him and had believed him to be dead, he said.

After struggling to find work in his home country, Njong recently moved to Dubai and secured a job that will allow him to stay there.

He said that though his imprisonment ran its course without intervention, he was happy that his letter made its way into at least one person's hands.

"It was the biggest surprise of my life," said Njong. “I am just happy that someone heard my cry."

Wilson, who has never spoken to Njong, said she thinks about his plea for help all the time. She had always been mindful of the products she purchased and where they were made in a bid to avoid sweatshop labor, but she never thought to worry about generic products like shopping bags.

Wilson has worked for the nonprofit Social Accountability International for the last four years.

"This has been the biggest eye-opener for me," Wilson said. "I have never once thought about the people making my shopping bag or other consumable products like the packaging of the food I buy, or the pen I write with or the plastic fork I eat my lunch with."

 

[Teelie]

Oklahoma Inmate Dies After Botched Execution

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-prepares-execution-2-inmates#overlay-context=users/mstewart

Well I'm kind of torn here since I think if you are going to kill people than it should be quick and painless but at the same time reading what that monster did I can't say I feel sorry for him. But that's the problem with trying cocktails on people without really knowing what your doing

This is one of those no win situations. The denying of sodium thiopental ironically for moral reasons led to an agonizing death for someone denied it.

Ex-SEALs Found Dead on Captain Phillips Ship Overdosed on Heroin

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/w...fight-pirates-but-doomed-by-boredom.html?_r=0

Being out at sea is def boring, my days in the Navy taught me that. If you aren't working there isn't much to do. I wonder what would have happened if pirates did board them, 2 ex-Navy SEALS who are high vs pirates would have been a great sequel for the Capt. Phillips movie

I read about this when it initially broke and there were and still are I guess questions over how both died of the same thing at the same time so coincedentally.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...n-claiming-be-chinese-prisoner-found-saks-bag

Plea for Help From Man Claiming to Be Chinese Prisoner Found in Saks Bag

They mention the Oregon story which is good because it sounds like an almost exact retelling with a few details altered. It's possible this is truly a seperate case or just another attempt to bring attention to the Chinese labor camps.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Couple Who Jumped to Death From NYC Bridge Suspected of Murder

A couple that leapt to their deaths from the George Washington Bridge on Monday allegedly murdered a man in Suffern, N.Y. just before their joint suicide.

The couple, Nickie Hunt-Cirelli, 40, and Gary Crockett, 41, reportedly fled from Hunt-Cirelli's uncle's home in Suffern that morning, after neighbors reportedly heard a fight inside.

"I heard a loud boom and that was it," a neighbor told the New York Post. "Those two went running. They never said a thing."

Hunt-Cirelli's uncle was found dead—police believe he was strangled—that afternoon in his home. Cash and the man's AR-15 had been stolen from the house, allegedly by Hunt-Cirelli and Crockett.

According to a police source who spoke with the New York Daily News, the couple left a note at the uncle's house, admitting to the murder and theft.

"The note led us to believe that they were going to make a suicide attempt," the source said.

Police believe the uncle, whom the pair lived with, may have found out that the couple had stolen money from another relative, according to ABC 7.

After fleeing Suffern, the couple drove to Manhattan, walked midway across the George Washington Bridge and jumped, reportedly as they held hands. Police found the couple, still alive, in the Hudson River. They later died at Roosevelt Hospital.

They were identified with the help of the Suffern Police Department, who contacted the NYPD after finding the suicide note.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/couple-gwb-jump-suspected-upstate-homicide-article-1.1773392

How do these people find each other in a city that is so big? I mean finding another person that is just as bat**** insane as you are when half of the people in the world can't find someone to have a steady relationship with

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

T.I. and The Game Almost Came to Blows With the LAPD Last Night

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Last night outside Supperclub in Los Angeles, the rappers T.I. and The Game had a fairly intense standoff with the LAPD after a few of their friends were badly beaten by club security. The only thing that prevented a brawl might have been the prying eyes of TMZ.

According to TMZ, mutual acquaintances of T.I. and The Game were bloodied in a fight with Supperclub security after being denied entry to the club. At some point, the LAPD appeared and lined up against the rappers and their crew. The cops were outnumbered and being provoked, and it's quite possible that a fight would have broken out had it not been for the bystanders holding up cameras and shouting "TMZ! TMZ!"

The cops might—might!—have decided to be levelheaded and rational, or they were spooked out of escalating a situation at the simple mention of the website that took down the owner of an NBA team. Sometimes TMZ does good.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/30/game-ti-fight-police-video-standoff-nightclub/

T.I. is a smart fella and usually pretty level headed so I doubt he would have let his boys get out of hand even if the cameras weren't there

 

[Teelie]

That wouldn't stop the LAPD from getting out of hand though.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I doubt they would recognize the Game since I haven't heard much from him lately but most people recognize T.I. he has had some big hits and a hit tv show and I'm sure he wouldn't hesitate to inform them of who he was. So given that info I think they would have second thoughts about getting frisky knowing he could hire lawyers that make their annual salary in a day

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

In the 1970s, A Weaponized Version Of Smallpox Got Out Into The Wild

In 1971, a woman in Kazakhstan near the Aral sea died of smallpox. How did she get it? It was harvested, weaponized, let out in a controlled test, and got out of control. Here's how the USSR saved the world from the smallpox outbreak it caused.

The elimination of smallpox can legitimately be considered one of the great achievements of the 20th century. The disease had ravaged the world for centuries, one of its variations killing about a third of the people it infected and blinding a further five percent. An international coordinated effort to eradicate the disease in the wild started in 1950, and was successful by 1980. In a generation, smallpox was gone in the wild.

It lingers today, kept in labs, despite protests from people who believe it should be eliminated. One of the greatest arguments against elimination of the virus is the fact that potent varieties of it can still be let out into the wild by accident or design. We know that there are — or at least until very recently there were — such varieties in labs, because they were let out into the wild, by accident and design.

Due to a massive vaccine drive in Moscow in the late 1950s, smallpox had been eliminated around the city until one citizen came back from India with a particularly unpleasant form of the disease. The man had been vaccinated, but the potency of the vaccination declined, and the strain was virulent. Forty-six people fell ill, people scrambled to get updated vaccinations, and the outbreak died away. Quietly, samples were taken and moved to a lab in what is now Kazakhstan. The samples were cultivated, and in 1971, they were let out into the air above an island in the Aral sea.

No boats could approach the island, but one boat, nine miles out, visited regularly to collect and test algae for unrelated fishing research. The woman in charge of the collection was infected, but only got sick after she had returned to the town of Aralsk. She infected more people, and two children died, along with the woman herself. They all succumbed to hemorrhagic smallpox, a version of the disease that starts by causing the blood vessels under the skin to leak blood, and ends with the person bleeding from every orifice. The virus was now off the island and in civilization. This could have gone very badly for the whole world.

As usual, vaccines came to the rescue. The three people who had died had never been vaccinated; the government quarantined the town and gave out 50,000 vaccines in 14 days. Other people got sick, but they didn't die. This incident is one of the cases that vaccination workers point to when it comes to showing the effectiveness of vaccines. Within days, what could have been a devastating outbreak was contained.

The incident is also what people point to when they argue that lab supplies of smallpox need to be eliminated. The Soviets were not the only ones to let smallpox out into the wild. The last person to die from smallpox contracted the virus after it escaped from a British lab.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2415-soviet-smallpox-outbreak-confirmed.html#.U2CmW_ldVFY

Point your anti-vax idiot friends to this post next time they say they don't work

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Every MIT Undergrad Will Get $100 In Free Bitcoin Next Fall

In the time-honored tradition of giving people things they otherwise do not want for free, the MIT Bitcoin Project will be handing every undergrad $100 in Bitcoin next semester. The campus, the project's creators hope, will become a giant social and economic experiment for Bitcoin.

MIT Sophomore Jeremy Rubin and first-year MBA student Dan Elitzer raised over half a million dollars from alumni and members of the Bitcoin community for the project. The sum will be divided among the school's nearly 5,000 undergraduates, with the remainder going toward the cost of maintaining the program.

By putting Bitcoin in every digital wallet, the project aims to create "an ecosystem for digital currencies" at MIT. Students might be inspired to work on projects such as secure wallets or microtipping services. "I think that MIT should be absolutely the center of the bitcoin universe," Rubin told MIT's newspaper The Tech. "As a school that's a leader in technology and science fields … it's kind of a shame that we're not already at this point."

College campuses, with their self-contained economies, do seem like ideal places to experiment with a Bitcoin economy—especially a tech-savvy campus like MIT. But, as high-profile Bitcoin mishaps have shown, it's all a lot more complicated than dealing with the normal old bank. There's prices wildly fluctuating, exchanges disappearing, digital wallets getting stolen—let's just say we're curious to check in a year from now.

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2...ill-get-100-in-bitcoins-next-semester/361434/

Those things fluctuate so much if they hold on to it and cash out at the right time they could make some serious cash, or of course the whole thing could crash and burn like Mt. Gox. I guess another bonus is they can purchase high quality drugs or guns from the DarkNet

 

[Teelie]

Luckily even if it does crash and burn it won't cost the students anything directly.

 

[Anubis]

Oklahoma Inmate Dies After Botched Execution

Spoiler

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-prepares-execution-2-inmates#overlay-context=users/mstewart

Well I'm kind of torn here since I think if you are going to kill people than it should be quick and painless but at the same time reading what that monster did I can't say I feel sorry for him. But that's the problem with trying cocktails on people without really knowing what your doing

Yeah, I can't say I'm too broke up about it.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Uber Customer Says Her Driver Was Arrested Mid-Ride

There are certain things one expects from hailing a ride through Uber. The wonder of watching a little car icon move towards you on your smartphone screen, some idle chit chat, paying without pulling out a credit card. Watching a plain clothes officer rip open the door to arrest your driver is not one of them.

So naturally New Orleans resident Hannah Jegart was caught by surprise when she found herself left in the rain on the streets of New York this afternoon.

An Uber representative responded swiftly and Jegart has already outlined fair restitution from the $3.5 billion company.

And that my friends is the problem with letting any random stranger give you rides from an app on your phone

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Pit Bull Sentenced to Life in Prison

The dog who mauled a 4-year-old boy's face in February will not be destroyed, but will rather serve an unusual sentence for his crime, a Phoenix judge has ruled.

Mickey, a brown-spotted white pit bull who belonged to the boy's babysitter at the time of the attack, will instead live out his days neutered and defanged in a no-kill animal shelter.

According to the Dodo, the attack occurred when the boy ventured into the sitter's backyard where Mickey was chained. The dog locked onto the boy's face for several minutes; the boy required extensive surgeries, but is recovering.

Both the boy's family and Mickey's owners were willing to have the dog euthanized, but doctors convinced the judge that "there are a lot of adults responsible" for Mickey's behavior: Being chained, outside, unneutered, in Phoenix was a recipe for aggression, she concluded, handing down a life sentence instead of destruction.

The assistant Maricopa County manager agreed, telling the Arizona Republic:

If we all, as pet owners, take the time to think about our lifestyle and the type of breed we're attempting to acquire, then euthanasia will not be a problem for (dogs with) aggression. It's simply uneducated or uninformed selections of dogs that cause these animals to find themselves in a situation where they ... hurt someone.
In an ironic twist, Mickey will serve out his term in a shelter run by controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who will presumably treat the dog better than he treats his human inmates.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/03/25/phoenix-mickey-pit-bull-fate/6879191/

I am not going to lie, when I first read the headline I thought they were talking about the Miami rapper lol. But seriously pit bulls get such a bad rap, it's crappy owners that cause them to lash out. They really are some of the kindest, most loyal dogs you will ever find but when you keep any dog in an unhealthy environment that dog has the potential to become violent no matter the breed. I've seen several chihuahuas that were way more violent than any of the so called violent breeds and people think it's cute because they're small and can't really harm you

 

[KevanG]

I've known a large number of pitbulls that were just the most loving and biggest babies you could ever have a dog be. I've also seen dogs like Golden Retrievers that were vicious brutes that would kill something as look at it. It almost always depends on how it's raised.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man Found Dead Inside an Industrial Fortune Cookie Dough Mixer

I have, on at least one prior occasion, said that I hoped to one day die in a giant vat of cookie dough. A terrible story out of Houston, in which a 26-year-old man was found dead inside a giant industrial-sized fortune cookie mixer on Sunday, makes me feel like I should take it back.

Should you think that we are simply talking about a larger version of your standard countertop kitchen mixer, here, via the Houston Press, is what an industrial dough machine actually looks like:

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The police are investigating, and foul play is not suspected. Hopefully someone has also called the Occupational Safety & Health Administration.

We ask that you be circumspect about any bad puns about the man's fortune you might be tempted to leave in the comments.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/HPD-...h-mixer-at-Midtown-business----257017081.html

That is gnarly and that machine is a beast, RIP bro

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I've known a large number of pitbulls that were just the most loving and biggest babies you could ever have a dog be. I've also seen dogs like Golden Retrievers that were vicious brutes that would kill something as look at it. It almost always depends on how it's raised.

You are 100% correct my friend, treat your pup well and that pup will treat everyone well. I grew up with dogs all my neighbors were scared of. My mom got them for that reason because it was just me and her living there with what, at the time, were basically projects next door. The breed was great pyrenees and they are basically pure white St. Bernards and they provided me with love and caring I will remember for the rest of my life