From NYTimes.com:
This astonishingly unnerving photograph shows a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City as a swath of Central America was drenched by tropical storm Agatha.
The storm only briefly hit tropical storm strength on Saturday as it came ashore from the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, but the death toll had risen to 115 at last count.
From MyFoxDFW.com:
ARLINGTON, Texas – Controversy is brewing after fans at Six Flags in Arlington were pepper sprayed during an all-ages concert.
The incident happened on Saturday night during a performance by “All Time Low” as part of a traveling multiband performance “The Bamboozle Roadshow.” According to amusement park representative Sharon Parker, one of the bands incited the young crowd, prompting them to become rowdy. Parker did not provide specifics about the concertgoers’ actions, but in an official statement did admit that force was used to control the crowd.
“In an effort to diffuse the situation, pepper spray was used and approximately 15 guests were affected,” the statement read. “Those individuals were treated by First Aid and released.” Parker said that Arlington police, not park security, brandished the weapon. A police spokesperson said no uniformed officers were at the park but that one off-duty officer was working security at the event. No arrests were reported.
The incident outraged the band and has sparked a social media backlash. Video posted on YouTube shows band member Alex Gaskarth addressing the crowd immediately after the incident. “Any fucking Six Flags that sprays mace in the face of a fucking kid — that is fucking bullshit,” he said to a cheering crowd.
But the harsh words for Six Flags did not end there. The band utilized its Twitter account to further criticize the park.
“I don’t care how rowdy a crowd of kids are, there is absolutely no excuse for the police at SIX FLAGS to spray mace in our fans faces,” one post read. “That kind of protocol is insane for an all ages show at a theme park. A girl who looked to be about 15 walked up to me and said she was removed from the crowd after being maced. Are you fu–ing kidding me?”
The band also alerted fans that it would not be attending the roadshow’s scheduled Sunday performance at Six Flags’ San Antonio location. According to the park, the band dropped out, but ATL said the park refused to let them play.
“Big thanks to the park for not only condoning the macing of kids at an all ages show, but also for fabricating stories in order to ban us,” the band tweeted. “For clarification, we have been asked not to perform at the 6Flags San Antonio show tonight. I’m sincerely sorry to anyone hoping to see us.”
From Telegraph.co.uk:
A US cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil.
Jarrod Wyatt also cut out his friend’s tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film. They found the 26 year old standing naked over his friend’s body with body parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room.
Wyatt told police he had drunk a cup of tea spiked with hallucinogenic mushrooms and became convinced his close friend Taylor Powell was possessed. According to an autopsy Powell,21, bled to death after his heart was ripped out.
The coroner said Powell had been alive when the organ was ripped out after his chest had been sliced open with a knife.
Wyatt told the police he thrown the heart into a fire along with other organs that he had removed from the body.
He told investigators he cooked the body parts because he was fearful Powell was still alive and he “needed to stop the Devil.”
Police had been called to the grisly scene after a third friend had witnessed a sudden mood change in Wyatt after they had all ingested wild mushroom tea. Justin Davis told police he returned to the flat in Klamath, California, to find Wyatt naked and covered from head to toe in blood.
Hilarious spoof of a commercial for one of those shitty “anybody can get into” colleges.
From Al Jazeera:
Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board. Dozens of others were injured when troops raided the convoy of six ships, dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, early on Monday. Israel said activists on board attacked its commandos as they boarded the ships, while the flotilla’s organisers said the Israeli forces opened fire first, as soon as they stormed the convoy.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, gave his “full backing” to the military forces after the raid. “The prime minister… reiterated his full backing for the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] and inquired about the well-being of the wounded,” his office told the AFP news agency. He also said Israel regretted the loss of life in the raid. Israeli media reported that many of the dead were Turkish nationals.
Organisers of the Freedom Flotilla say it was carrying 700 activists and 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid with the aim of breaking the Israeli siege of Gaza.
From 9gag.com:
If you haven’t been following the fake BP Public Relations twitter account, you need to now because its really fucking funny. Click Here to view their page.
Some great recent ones:
“We are very upset that Operation: Top Kill has failed. We are running out of cool names for these things.”
“Just woke up from a terrible nightmare. I was driving a Prius and I kissed my wife on the lips. #bpcares”
“This horrible spill wouldn’t be happening in the gulf of AMERICA! Arizona knows what I’m talking ’bout!! #fistpound #bpcares”
From BBC.co.uk:
The latest attempt to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has failed, the oil giant BP has said.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the firm was now shifting to a new strategy to stop the spill. In the failed procedure – known as “top kill” – the firm had been blasting waste material and heavy mud into a ruptured well. US President Barack Obama said the continued flow of oil was “as enraging as it is heartbreaking”. The worst oil spill in US history began when a drilling rig exploded and sank last month, killing 11 people.
Doug Suttles of BP says the new operation ”should be able to capture most of the oil”
The thick crude has already permeated more than 70 miles (110km) of Louisiana’s coastline, threatening fragile wetlands and putting the vital fishing industry at risk.
Mr Suttles said BP had determined that the “top kill” method – which had been going on since Wednesday – had failed after studying the results for three days. “We have not been able to stop the flow,” he told reporters on Saturday.
“This scares everybody, the fact that we can’t make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven’t suceeded so far,” he said.
The company says it pumped 30,000 barrels of mud into the well, in three attempts, at rates of up to 80 barrels a minute, but it had not worked. It is the latest procedure to have failed since attempts to plug the leak began, with BP having spent more than $940 million so far.
From the Associated Press:
A volcano eruption in Guatemala has killed a reporter and left three children missing. A spokesman for the national disaster agency says television the reporter was hit by a shower of rocks spewing from the Pacaya volcano.
In light of Ozzy’s new album “Scream” out 6/22, Ozzy decided to have some fun and make people scream by scaring unsuspecting tourists at the wax museum, Madame Tussauds New York in Times Square.
