After Threatening Drunk Drivers With Nickleback, Const. Issues Apology To Band

They are now working on a new campaign punishment. May I suggest Dwight Yoakam? 

Story out of Kensington, Prince Edward Island:

A Kensington, P.E.I., police officer has apologized for "bullying" Nickelback and removed a Facebook post he says drew a reaction far beyond his expectations.

Last week, Const. Robb Hartlen posted on the police Facebook site that he would force arrested drivers to listen to Nickelback's 2001 album Silver Side Up as a punishment for drinking and driving. It was just his way of using humour to spread an important message, he said.

On Friday, Hartlen removed the post and in a new Facebook post wrote a public apology to Nickelback.

Hartlen said the message of "Don't drink and drive" began to take a backseat to the "bashing of the band."

"I didn't want to turn this into an anti-Nickelback," he told CBC Friday night. "The more I thought about it and the more I saw the comments and the more I saw people sort of jumping on the 'We love and we love to hate Nickelback' bandwagon, I was like, 'I think we're losing the message here' and I'm sort of feeling a little bad about what was going on."

In his new Facebook post, Hartlen said that as a police officer, he was sorry for sending the wrong message to children. Cont.

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Miss Butt - Mother Angry After Being Told Repeatedly Her Daughter Won't Stop Laughing At Teacher's Name

Story out of London, England:

A giggly girl’s fits of laughter at her teacher’s name — Miss Butt — forced her mom to be called in for an emergency meeting at the school.

Priscilla Terumalai of London had already been informed by her daughter Annalise, 7, that she couldn’t stop laughing when she heard the teacher’s name. But the mother-of-two brushed it off, the Daily Mail reports.

At a meeting with Miss Butt, the teacher seemed to dismiss the gaiety her name inspired.

However, several days later, Terumalai was called to a meeting with school brass to answer for the child’s laughter.

“When I received a call from the school, I was appalled at how pathetic and petty it was,” Terumalai told the Mail. “I wasn’t making fun of her name at all. I wasn’t happy about being reported.”

Now, Terumalai wants Annalise to be moved to another class because of the bad feelings. The school isn’t budging, though.

“I felt intimidated in the meeting and they made me feel like I was in the wrong. The school over-reacted and it made me feel really angry,” she said. “It is not good enough. I felt I was treated unfairly because I am putting my trust in the teacher and I am not comfortable with my daughter being in her class now.” Cont.

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Axl Rose Lets Fans In Mexico Take Out Their Frustrations On Trump Pinata At Concert

                  

Story out of Mexico City, Mexico:

Guns N’ Roses‘ concert in Mexico City last night included a special guest … sort of. The band brought out a Donald Trump pinata onstage for fans to whack.

The show was the last in the group’s Latin America leg of its Not in This Lifetime Tour, so the band was in a somewhat playful mood. It didn’t hurt that the pinata gave many frustrated Mexican fans the opportunity to smack around one of the most reviled men in that region.

“Let’s bring in some people,” Axl Rose says in a video filmed by fans. “And give them a f—ing stick. I just want you to express yourself, however you feel.” After a fan starts to hit the pinata, Rose says, “He’s got it. Go ahead.”

Since he won the election last month, Trump hasn’t said much about the wall. But Mexico has insisted several times that it won’t pay for the wall if he plans to fulfill his campaign promise.

Trump also referred to Mexicans and Mexican-Americans as rapists and criminals. So there was plenty of aggression for the country’s Guns N’ Roses fans to work out onstage last night.

Rose is also no fan of the incoming president. Two weeks ago, he tweeted, “Do you ever stop whining? An apology? Seriously?! You won, this is the job, Get on with it or get out of the kitchen” in response to Trump’s demand of an apology from the cast of Broadway’s Hamilton, who called out Trump’s vice president-elect, Mike Pence, as he was leaving a performance. Cont.

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'There Are No Rules For Driving Around With Cocaine' - Man Arrested For Snorting Coke In Front Of Cop

Story out of Sturtevant, Wisconsin:

On a Black Friday a local man high on cocaine shot out of a Farm and Fleet parking lot causing an accident and then went onto inhale cocaine in front of an officer.

A Franksville man tried to inhale a line of white powder after an accident and while an officer had a taser pointed at him.

Police were called because of a hit and run type of accident.

According to the criminal complaint, the suspect had shot out of the Farm and Fleet parking lot causing another vehicle to swerve in his lane.

The driver followed the suspect’s vehicle to the Mobile parking lot and stopped at the pumps behind it.

The suspect left the parking lot. While police were speaking to the driver the suspect pulled back into the parking lot.

Police noticed the suspect’s eyes were dilated and he was tense and sweating.

One officer stayed with the suspect and the other spoke to the driver, but then the officer with suspect called for assistance. The officer was pointing a taser at the suspect telling him to drop something.

It was then noticeable to the other officer that the suspect had a white powder on his lap and tried to use a white plastic pen to inhale.

The suspect asked why he was being arrested because there are no rules for driving around with cocaine. Cont.

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Man Fearing Foul Play Brings Police Jellyfish He Thinks Is Breast Implant

Hopefully the police were able to keep the concerned citizen abreast of the situation.

Story out of Maroochydore, Australia:

The force in Maroochydore on Australia's Sunshine Coast posted a few photos online of an officer holding a jellyfish, which a man had recently brought into the station.

The concerned resident wanted to report a possible homicide, and handed police the invertebrate as evidence.

Did he think the jellyfish had killed someone? No, he said he thought it was a breast implant from someone who may have been killed or drowned.

After some (possibly literal) probing, police confirmed the object was just a jellyfish, like they suspected. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Jakarta Police Make Murder Suspect Wear Upside Down Darth Vader Mask

Story out of Jakarta, Indonesia:

A 17-year-old, identified by his initial B, was recently arrested in Cipayung, East Jakarta for allegedly taking part in the violent activities of a teenage motorcycle gang that resulted in the death of another 17-year-old, RH.

Jakarta Metro Police Spokesman Argo Yuwono said that B was a new recruit to the gang, and he was made to assault other teenagers in the area as an initiation rite.

The police arrested B on November 22 on suspicion that he was one of several gang members who brutally attacked RH, who eventually died because of his injuries.

Despite the horrific nature of this story, netizens were quick to point out an inappropriate Star Wars Easter egg when B was photographed during a police press conference on Sunday.

It’s common for crime suspects to wear masks when the police parade them in front of the media in Indonesia, but B’s mask was highly irregular, as he appears to be wearing an upside down Darth Vader mask.

We’re not sure why the police made him wear a Darth Vader mask, other than possibly trying to convey that B had been successfully lured to the dark side. Cont.

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Watch Bull Attack SUV During Bull Run In Spain

                  

I'm on the bull's side, fuck that SUV.

Story out of Guadalajara, Spain:

This is the moment a rampaging bull nearly tipped over a four-wheel drive with its horns as scared passengers inside took cover.

The hulking beast can be seen running up a street and towards the car which was parked on the side of the road at a Spanish bull festival in the province of Guadalajara.

The fearsome bull then began its attack on the vehicle by planting one of its horns on the right side of the car.

The relentless bovine stabbed the car so deeply that liquid from the engine can be seen flushing out from above the wheel.

After around 20 seconds of goring the car and terrifying the people inside, who clambered to the back of the vehicle during the onslaught, the bull tired.

But instead of taking a few moments to catch its breath it started running towards scores of revelers in the road who were taunting the bull to chase them.

Running of the bulls festivals are common in Spain and Portugal and involve daredevils trying to evade cattle after they have been let loose on the street. Cont.

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'Nutzy' - Cafe In Trouble For Selling Nazi Themed Smoothie

Can we all just stop and appreciate the name of the store?

Story out of London, England:

A cafe in East London has apologised after a member of the public spotted that it appeared to be  stocking a Nazi-themed smoothie - complete with swastika on the label.

After remonstrating with staff, the customer contacted the Campaign Against Antisemitism, telling them: “I entered the coffee shop Nin Com Soup in Old Street Tube Station to get a drink. In their fridge they had various smoothies, each with a big number on them to differentiate the flavours. One drink didn’t have a number but a large swastika, and the label said it was called ‘Nutzy’. I went to the staff at the counter to discuss this and they called their manager.

“He explained that it was an inverted swastika which was a Hindu symbol of health and prosperity, which is indeed right but the swastika was not inverted, and the Hindu sign includes dots within the symbol. When I asked about the name of the drink, he said it was a play on ‘having the nuts’, meaning ‘having the courage’ and was a pun as the drink contains nuts.

"I told him how offensive that was for certain people. He asked why I would find that so offensive, to which I responded that I lost my family to the Nazi regime and that despite the Hindu use of the symbol, this along with the name of the drink was extremely offensive. He said that London is a free city.

Nincomsoup issued an apology on its website, stating that a 'rogue employee' had been responsible. Cont.

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Woman Arrested For Shoplifting, Throwing Dog Into Traffic, And Defecating In Back Of Patrol Car

Story out of Hollywood, Florida:

According to an arrest report, employees at a 7-Eleven convenience store called 911 Sunday after they saw Arlene Mena, 28, of Hallandale Beach, stealing three Yuengling beers.

An officer spotted Mena crossing South Ocean Drive and ordered her to stop and sit on the ground.

Police said Mena, who was carrying a small dog, tried to run away but fell down about 10 yards away and threw the dog into oncoming traffic.

The officer put Mena into hand restraints and put her into the back of his patrol car.

Police said the officer then chased Mena's dog, almost getting struck by multiple vehicles in the process.

The dog was eventually picked up unharmed.

Police said the officer drove Mena back to the store so he could complete his report, and Mena continued to kick the back seat window and bang on the plexiglass partition with her hands.

Police said the officer warned Mena that she would be pepper-sprayed if she did not stop kicking the window, but when she continued, he sprayed her through the lowered rear window.

As retaliation, Mena urinated, defecated and spat in the back of the patrol car, the report said.

Mena was taken to the Broward County Jail, where she is being held on charges of animal cruelty, petty theft, causing damage to property and resisting an officer without violence. Cont.

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CVS Employees Lock Themselves In Safe Room After Black Man Asks For Cheese

This is such a fucked up story, I have to tell a white person joke:

Why can't white people jump?  Inbreeding weakens the knees.

Story out of Richmond, Virginia:

What began as a spontaneous trip to the store ended up being one of the most bizarre experiences of Ricky Berry’s life.

Berry and his roommate said they walked into the CVS in Carytown and asked an employee if they sold sliced cheese. The worker kindly replied that they did not.

A few minutes later, the employee — all of the store employees, in fact — were nowhere to be found. Berry and his roommate, Philip Blackwell, said they were in the store with another customer for more than 30 minutes alone before an officer with the Richmond Police Department showed up.

As for the third customer who was as confused as the two roommates, Berry said, “he was in the store before we were actually. He had a bad tooth, all he wanted was some Orajel. That’s all he needed.”

“We were walking around trying to find an employee, and the cop himself ended up opening up the emergency door, which set the alarm off,” Berry explained. “A couple of minutes later, he got the call from the alarm company asking what was going on.”

So the officer joined in on the search for the missing employees. Berry recorded a video on his Snapchat account of what happened next.

“He was laughing with us because, like, this is how weird, apocalyptic movies start,” Berry said.

Eventually, the employees were found in the back of the store hiding in a locked room. After making a few calls, the officer told the customers they had to leave.

In one of the videos he recorded, Berry said, “We’re being kicked out because they were scared of us and hiding.”

Berry said the officer was kind and was just doing what he was told to do.

Multiple attempts to contact the store manager were denied, although a CVS spokesperson apologized and said the employee who called the police will be interviewed and possibly retrained. Cont.

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Geocache Causes Panic At Police Department

Story out of Regina, Saskatchewan: 

The Regina Police Service evacuated its lobby after a geocache container was dropped off on Tuesday.

A concerned citizen walked into the police headquarters with a suspicious package found in a local park.

As a precaution, the lobby was evacuated, the front doors were locked and a bomb disposal unit was brought in to inspect the package.

It was determined the package was not a threat.

Geocaching is a treasure hunt of sorts that involves using a global positioning system to find hidden containers. Cont.

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Running Of The Bull - Bull Escapes Trade Show, Disrupts Traffic In Regina, Saskatchewan

Story out of Regina, Saskatchewan:

Regina had its own running of the bull on Tuesday morning — right on a busy street during rush hour.

Pat McGillicky shot video of the wandering bull at the corner of Dewdney Avenue and Lewvan Drive.

That's close to Evraz Place where the Agribition agricultural trade show is currently underway.

Just after 8 a.m., before the sun came up, the bull was seen trotting in front of cars at the corner.

Police were on the scene controlling traffic while officials tried to catch the animal. Cont.

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Agribition must be in town #yqr pic.twitter.com/wraE3qkN5r

— Pat McGillicky (@PatMcGillicky) November 22, 2016

Senator Freaks Out Over Birthday Cake Featuring Boobs, Purple Unicorn

But why smash the cake. Cake still cake. Sad face.

Story out of Louisiana:

When Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson saw her colleague's birthday cake, she decided to take care of the offending dessert herself.

The senator walked into an area used as a break room at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge before a budget hearing Friday morning and saw a birthday cake for state Rep. Mark Abraham. On the box was a sign reading, "Happy Birthday Mark Abraham. He likes his cake and eats it too!!!!"

She told Mashable in a phone call Friday evening that she immediately noticed the bikini-shaped cake with candles coming out of the breasts and a purple unicorn tattoo above the panty line.

Carter said she approached Abraham about the dessert and traced back the cake as a gift from state Rep. Jack McFarland and his wife. She then told the birthday boy, "It's rather offensive," and continued to chew him out. "I said some language I’m not proud of using," the senator admitted. She said she apologized later for using harsh language.

The state senator said he told her to cover up the cake if she was uncomfortable with it, so Peterson went one step further and smashed the sign into the cake and then threw it away. She said that was when she went on a "Twitter storm" and posted about the misogynistic cake. Cont.

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Pakistani Flight Diverted After Passengers Clog Toilet

Story out of Manchester, England:

The Boeing 777 – which tends to have eight or nine toilets – was en route from Toronto to Pakistan when it was forced to abort the flight.

The Pakistan International Airlines flight landed at Manchester Airport following problems over the North Sea.

The airline said: ‘Today’s Toronto-Lahore flight has been diverted to Manchester as its toilet got choked, due to something solid thrown by passengers.

The airline sayed: ‘Inconvenience to passengers is regretted.’

The plane was diverted for a total of five hours while the pipes were unclogged. Cont.

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London Man Climbs Roof, Throws Bricks At Police In 7 hour Stand Off

                  

Story out of London, England:

A busy shopping street in south London has been placed on lockdown after a man climbed onto the roof of a house and began “hurling bricks” at police.

Police raced to the scene after they were called to reports of a man assaulted at an address in Twickenham in the early hours of this morning.

Officers discovered a man, aged in his 30s, with a head injury. He was taken to hospital.

A Met Police spokesman told the Standard that while officers were dealing with the incident, another man climbed onto the roof of the house and “began throwing objects and damaging the building."

He was refusing to come down more than seven hours after police were called to the address.

Video footage filmed from the window of a nearby home shows a man in the distance throwing objects from the roof as the sun rises behind him. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Trumpanzees Hilariously Boycott Starbucks By Buying $16 Coffee

Trump supporters are making a stand against Starbucks by spending money on coffee in the chain's shops and demanding baristas write "Trump" on their cups.

The movement — which comes to you by the hashtag #TrumpCup — accelerated Friday following an incident in a Miami branch of the coffee chain.

A white supporter of the President-elect was filmed earlier this week shouting at employees, complaining of racial discrimination and telling everyone in the store he voted Trump. The incident kicked off thanks to a delay in the making of his vanilla latte.

Trump supporters have had issues with Starbucks for some time. Some of the causes of anger have been the company's CEO Howard Schultz endorsing Clinton and the roll out of its less festive designs, which even triggered a call for a boycott from Trump himself.

On Thursday, a fan going by the name Baked Alaska on Twitter seized the moment to kick start Operation #TrumpCup, with two simple rules. First, go to Starbucks and tell them your name is Trump. Second, film the incident if they refuse to write "Trump" on the cup.

The idea of sticking it to Starbucks by giving them cash received mixed reviews. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Note - At the moment Trumple Stiltskins are also boycotting the Broadway show Hamilton for confronting Mike Pence. Tee to the Hee.

"It Was Comical" - Pregnant Woman Kicked Off Plane For Being Too Heavy

Story out of Toronto, Ontario:

A pregnant woman and her fiancé couldn’t board a flight from Toronto to Quebec City last month after Porter Airlines staff said the flight was overweight and the couple weren’t welcome.

Annette Bice and Geoff Hotrum were leaving for a final romantic weekend away before the birth of their first child, expected in December.

“It was comical, hard to believe, we thought: are you kidding?” said Hotrum.

Porter flight 513 was delayed more than half an hour as Porter staff started asking confirmed passengers in the lounge if they would volunteer not to fly, said Hotrum. It was explained to passengers that weather conditions on the route made it necessary to lessen the plane’s weight.

But when an insufficient number of passengers agreed to postpone their travel, Porter staff began calling out names, including the couple’s.

“You’re kicking off the pregnant woman,” Hotrum recalled asking the attendant at the time.

Faced with postponing until two days later because of Porter’s limited Quebec flight schedule, the couple reluctantly agreed to take a flight to Montreal, rent a car and drive to Quebec City to salvage their vacation.

Porter offered to pay for the cost of the car rental and meals, and gave the couple flight vouchers worth $1150. Cont. (Video)

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Woman Fakes Violent Robbery To Avoid Telling Husband She Blew Their Life Savings

Story out of Nizhny Tagil, Russia:

A woman has avoided prison for faking a burglary because she was too scared to tell her husband she had spent their life savings.

The 65-year-old, whose name has not been released, was given a six month suspended prison sentence for the stunt in the city of Nizhny Tagil in central Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast region.

Neighbours called police after hearing cries for help coming from the woman's flat and officers arrived to find her wrapped in duct tape and the flat ransacked.

She claimed she had answered the door to what she thought was a postman to find two men, wearing stocking masks and surgical gloves, demanding cash.

The woman said the men tied her up with duct tape, trashed her home and escaped with the family's life savings of £2,230.

But police grew suspicious and the woman later admitted that she had faked the whole thing because she dared not tell her husband that she had spent the money.

The woman could have been jailed for up to five years for making false allegations and for wasting police time but the judge took pity on her. Cont.

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Canadian Doctor In Trouble For Trading Marijuana For Speakers

Story out of Regina, Saskatchewan:

A Regina doctor is accused of unprofessional conduct for allegedly giving someone he was involved with marijuana so he could get his stereo speakers back.

The allegation posted on the website of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan claims Dr. Ian Cowan gave two people who lived in Swift Current pot in 2011.

It says the doctor had been involved with one of them and, when that relationship ended, she kept some Bose speakers.

It's alleged the pot was given to the woman or the other person in return for the speakers.

The doctor's profile on the college's website shows he was suspended for two months in 2001 after pleading guilty to prescribing medications to a person with whom he had a sexual relationship. Cont.

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Calling Kim Jong Un "Kim Fatty The Third" Banned In China

Oh, you won't be calling him fatty for long:

Chinese websites are censoring "Kim Fatty the Third," a nickname widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after officials from his country reportedly conveyed their displeasure in a meeting with their Chinese counterparts.

Searches for the Chinese words "Jin San Pang" on the search engine Baidu and microblogging platform Weibo returned no results this week.

The nickname pokes fun at Kim's girth and his status as the third generation of the Kim family to rule the world's only hereditary communist dynasty. It's especially popular among young, irreverent Chinese who tend to look down on their country's would-be ally.

Relations between China and North Korea have been strained by the North's nuclear weapons program, which China has condemned along with South Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia. But Beijing continues to support the Kim regime with limited trade and diplomatic backing.

"Kim Fatty the Third" is such a widely used term in China that it is sometimes suggested by auto-complete algorithms on web portals such as Baidu, China's leading search engine. While searches for "Jin San Pang" returned no results this week, Baidu left untouched results for other versions of the nickname, such as "Kim Fat Fat Fat." Cont.

But there is hope for chunk butt:

North Korean researchers and medical scientists are boasting they have cured obesity, according to state media.

The North needs an additional 700,000 tons of food that it doesn’t have to feed its people this year, but the leadership is apparently unaffected by the growing the famine. Kim Jong-un has swelled to almost 300 pounds due to his love of wine and cheese.

The pill allows a person to lose weight without making lifestyle adjustments or exercising. “As it decreases the body-weight and the thickness of subcutaneous fat without applying any diet or exercise cure, the pill is believed to be superior to existing remedies of obesity or foreign pills or other means of treatment,” an article published by a state-media outlet read.

The problem with North Korean research is that the claims are rarely supported by published results, and there is no way for foreign experts to test them, NK News noted. Cont.

How would you like to be the scientist who fails Kimmy Boy?

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