Golfer Beats Man Unconscious, Causing Brain Damage After Etiquette Dispute

Story out of Carrollton, Texas:

A 42-year-old man has been accused of striking another man in the head and back with a golf club at Indian Creek Golf Course in Carrollton.

Michael Plumlee of Denton was one of four men putting on the 16th hole about 4 p.m. when another group of men hit a golf ball onto their green, Jolene DeVito, a Carrollton police spokeswoman, said in an email.

Plumlee, 27, threw the ball off the green, and the second group of men approached.

Witnesses told police that a man in the second group, 42-year-old Kevin Keo Sivilay of Richardson, hit Plumlee in the back of the head with a golf club, DeVito said.

The force knocked Plumlee to the ground, where he may have been briefly unconscious.

Sivilay then is alleged to have hit Plumlee once or twice in the back with the club while he was still on the ground.

Plumlee sustained a brain injury and broke several ribs.

Sivilay was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Cont.

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85-Year-Old Plays Dead As Thieves Steal Thousands Of Dollars Meant For Ill Wife

Story out of New York City, New York:

A Brooklyn man played dead after masked men barged into his home and robbed him.

Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, 85-year-old Pablo Roldan was napping inside his Huron Street home in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, when he awoke to a knock on the door.

“They push in, and choke me out,” he told Bauman.

Three men dressed in black with hoods covering their faces pushing him into the apartment, demanding money, he said.

“‘Where is the money?’ ‘What money? I got no money. I got some money, but it’s in the bank,'” he reenacted.

But he did have money — $36,000 hidden in a closet that he feared they would find.

One man held him down on the couch while the other two ransacked the apartment, he said.

To save himself, Roldan played dead as the men tore through his home looking for cash.

Eventually, the masked thieves found his cash in a back bedroom, where his sick wife was asleep. The money was for her medical bills.

How much they made off with is still unclear. Investigators said some of the cash was left behind, but thousands were missing. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Prison Guard On Administrative Leave After Pepper Spraying Inmate's Genitals

Story out of Scranton, Pennsylvania:

Investigators filed simple assault and harassment charges against a Lackawanna County prison guard accused of spraying an inmate’s genitals with pepper spray.

Sgt. Scott Blume, 46, of Dunmore, was arraigned Wednesday in connection with an altercation with Damian Kellogg on Sept. 24. The incident did not come to light until Oct. 18, after Mr. Kellogg wrote to Judge Vito Geroulo to complain, according to members of the inmate’s family. Sgt. Blume is on paid administrative leave from the prison.

According to an arrest affidavit, the sergeant escorted Mr. Kellogg, who appeared to be intoxicated, to the restricted housing unit after he issued him a misconduct for having “hooch,” an alcoholic liquid made from fruit, inside the cell he shared with another inmate.

Sgt. Blume then left the cage. Mr. Kellogg refused to put on the new uniform and continued to argue with Sgt. Blume. That led Sgt. Blume to twice spray Mr. Kellogg through the “wicket,” a slot in the cell door used to pass food and other items to inmates, to get him to comply. Mr. Kellogg was then handcuffed and escorted to the restricted unit without further incident.

The affidavit does not identify the part of Mr. Kellogg’s body that was sprayed. In his letter to Judge Geroulo, a copy of which was obtained by The Times-Tribune, Mr. Kellogg said he was sprayed in the groin area while naked, causing him extreme pain.

Sgt. Blume, who has been employed at the prison since 2002, faces a disciplinary hearing that will determine whether he will remain on paid leave or be fired, said Donald Frederickson, general counsel for the county. 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 Crashes Into Concrete Barrier After Streaming Live On Facebook Going 114 mph

                  

Story out of Providence, Rhode Island:

Police say a Rhode Island man who streamed himself on Facebook Live driving 114 mph and weaving in and out of traffic was critically injured when he crashed into a garbage truck and a concrete barrier.

State police say 20-year-old Onasi Olio-Rojas, of Pawtucket, lost control Wednesday on U.S. Route 6 in Providence.

The video posted on Olio-Rojas' Facebook page shows him driving 114 mph and weaving through traffic.

Police say Olio-Rojas hit the truck as it got on the highway, then crossed three lanes and hit the barrier.

Rescue crews extricated him from the car. He was in critical condition Thursday.

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Woman Freaks Out Passengers By Jumping Out Of Taxiing Plane

                  

Story out of Houston, Texas:

A woman on a United Airlines flight traveling from New Orleans to Houston Monday afternoon jumped out of the plane’s emergency exit after it had touched down at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The incident occurred while the plane was taxiing toward its gate, airline spokeswoman Maddie King told CNN.

The unidentified woman — who was treated for non-life threatening injuries — was not charged by police, but is reportedly undergoing psych evaluations. Cont.

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Amazon Employee Jumps Off 12-Story Building After Being Put In "Improvement Plan"

With Scientology back in the news, Amazon sounds like a cult. But instead of Thetans, it's Bezos.

Story out of Seattle, Washington:

An Amazon.com Inc. employee was injured when he leaped off a building at the company’s Seattle headquarters in what police characterized as a suicide attempt.

The man, who wasn’t identified by authorities, sent an e-mail visible to hundreds of co-workers, including Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, before the incident occurred, according to a person familiar with the matter. The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-story Apollo building at about 8:45 a.m. local time Monday and was taken to a Seattle hospital, police said.

The man had recently put in a request to transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan, a step that can lead to termination if performance isn’t improved, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing company personnel matters. More than 20,000 people work in multiple buildings at Amazon’s headquarters.

In the email, the man expressed criticism of how the company handled his transfer request, and he hinted that he might harm himself, according to the person.

The online retailer has taken steps to soften its image as a difficult employer since a New York Times story last year portrayed the company as a bruising workplace where employees were encouraged to take advantage of one another to get ahead. Amazon disputed the characterization of the company. Cont.

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Woman Stabs Boyfriend After Requesting Him To Drink Her Blood

Wouldn't it be great if the argument was something mundane while she stands there bleeding, like coupons or letting the dog in.

Story out of Springfield, Missouri:

Prosecutors have filed charges of domestic assault and armed criminal action against a woman who told police she stabbed her boyfriend after he used a box cutter to cut her arm and drink her blood.

According to a probable cause statement from police, the attack happened Wednesday, November 23 at a house in Springfield. When police got there, they found the boyfriend covered in a large amount of blood and when Vanatter came to the door, she was also covered in blood.

The boyfriend had an open wound on his left shoulder, but he told police the injuries were self-inflicted. According to the court documents, Vanatter told police she asked the boyfriend to cut her arm and suck her blood.  But the two began arguing, Vanatter said, and the boyfriend hit her several times.  Vanatter says she grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the shoulder. 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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"I Voted For Trump" - Woman Goes On Racist Rant For Being Offered $1 Reusable Bag

                  

Story out of Chicago Illinois:

The offer of a $1 reusable bag erupted into a meltdown by a woman who proclaimed she had voted for Donald Trump and was being discriminated against by African-American employees at a Chicago arts and crafts store.

Jessie Grady said she had just gone through the checkout line at Michaels and was standing at the exit showing her 2-year-old child a Christmas ornament. According to Grady, the customer, who is white, went into a “30-minute racist rant complete with yelling and cursing and repeated references to the fact that both employees were African-American."

The customer says in the video that the store associate was trying to “force me” into buying a reusable bag for her larger items.

“Yes, I voted for Trump, so there. You want to kick me out because of that? And look who won,” the customer said.

Grady said the yelling had been going on for several minutes before she started recording the confrontation on video because she wanted to document it for store employees to “keep them from getting in trouble for no reason” because “the customer is always right.” Cont.

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Jewelry Store Owner Shoots Employee, Then Kills Self

Story out of Coral Springs Florida:

The owner of a jewelry and watch repair shop shot and wounded one of his employees, then killed himself Saturday morning during an incident that temporarily closed Coral Square Mall.

Gus Kiriazis, 59, who owns Fast-Fix, came into the store and shot Sabas Antonio Ferrer, 52, a store employee, police said. Kiriazis then turned the gun on himself, said Detective Ernesto Bruna, Coral Springs police spokesman.

Ferrer was taken to North Broward Health in Deerfield Beach, Bruna said. He was listed in stable condition Saturday night.

Employees and customers were evacuated and the mall was placed on lockdown after the shooting shortly before 10 a.m. Police guarded each entrance with automatic weapons drawn as hordes of customers and employees waited in the parking lot.

At around 11:30 a.m., police said the western quadrant of the mall would remain closed as the investigation continued. Most of the mall, however, was reopened to holiday shoppers. Macy's, on the mall's western edge, was open, but its entrance into the mall corridors was blocked. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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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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4 People, Including 2-Month-Old Found Dead In Alaska Hotel Room

Story out of Fairbanks, Alaska:

Four people, including a two-month-old baby, have been found dead in a hotel room as police investigate what they believe is a murder-suicide.

Police found the bodies of 54-year-old Linda Hutton, 22-year-old Emily McDonald, 22-year-old McKay Hutton and eight-week-old Teagan Hutton at a Hampton Inn in Fairbanks, Alaska on Friday.

It remains unclear who the shooter was, but police confirmed they were family, and McKay Hutton and McDonald were married just last year, according to their Facebook profiles.

A member of the hotel staff at a Hampton Inn in Fairbanks, Alaska, called the police at 1.25pm Friday, and they arrived to find a man crying in the second-floor hallway.

The man, who is not considered a suspect, directed authorities to a nearby room, where the four bodies were found with gunshot wounds.

Police say details involving the shooter and any motive is still under investigation. Cont.

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Psychiatrist Breaks HIPPA Law To Warn Reporter Patient Is Going To Kill Her

 

Story out of Denver, Colorado:

Heidi Hemmat at KDVR Fox 31 in Denver has largely covered business fraud as an investigative journalist for her station, and Hemmat’s years of work have even yielded six Emmy Awards. In February 2015, Hemmat quite literally went dumpster diving at a local business, telling the enraged business owner, “We’re looking at all the receipts you threw away,” when confronted.

“I’ll call the sheriff right now,” the man says.

Hemmat promptly responds, “You probably should. They asked you not to throw these receipts away.”

Apparently, the business owner in that story would go on to make a threat against Hemmat’s life so credible that the man’s therapist broke HIPPA laws to inform Hemmat directly. And now, Hemmat has left Fox 31 abruptly and is now telling her story, claiming the station did not do enough to protect her life.

She details the sense of panic that overcame her when the therapist informed her of the business owner’s threats:

"The psychiatrist thought the threat was so credible, she broke HPPA laws (the laws that protect medical records of psychos, such as the theater shooter–James Holmes) to warn me. She informed me he was on a “72 hour mental hold” but because it was 4th of July weekend, (2015) he would likely be released before then. She then asked me if I had somewhere else I could go because he knew where I lived and of course, where I worked. I remember the chill than ran from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Of course I had nowhere to go! I have 2 children, then 1 and 3, I couldn’t just leave on a whim –where would I go?"

Hemmat alleges that her employers at Fox 31 “downplayed” the threats. Despite her years of outstanding work, she acknowledges that things have changed severely, further justifying her move. “Society has changed. People have changed. My physical and mental health were unraveling. As soon as that ratings period ended I took an unpaid leave of absence, and in August I asked to be let out of my contract. My boss sent out a note to the staff that failed to acknowledge my 15 years of service at KDVR, the 6 Emmy awards I had won for the station or the fact that I had literally put my life on the line. It just said ‘Heidi is no longer an employee of FOX 31.'” Cont.

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Cop Critically Injured After Being Hit On The Head With Skateboard

Story out of South San Francisco, California:

A South San Francisco police officer is in critical condition Friday morning after being struck in the head with a skateboard, police said.

A citizen waved down the officer about a disturbance at a business. When the officer approached the suspect, he took off on his skateboard.

After a short foot chase, the suspect stopped and hit the officer in the head with the skateboard.

The officer was knocked unconscious and transported to a local hospital in critical condition.

The suspect continued running but was taken into custody a short time later by other officers. Cont.

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Mother Tries To 'Help' Son With Cancer By Injecting Feces Into IV

Story out of Indianapolis, Indiana:

An Indiana mother is accused of injecting feces into her son’s IV bag while he was undergoing cancer treatments at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.

Tiffany Alberts, 41, of Wolcott, Indiana, is charged with six counts of aggravated battery and one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury.

Alberts’ 15-year-old son was being treated for cancer, and he had several unexplainable infections that were delaying treatment. Staff placed video surveillance in his room, and the video showed Alberts injecting an unknown substance into his IV bag with a syringe several times, court documents say.

Staff told police that Alberts’ son received his first round of chemotherapy for leukemia in September and went home. But several days later he returned to the hospital because he had a fever and diarrhea and was vomiting. The staff said his symptoms haven’t improved. He’s required several surgeries to changes his central venous line due to concern for infection, and he spent 18 days in the ICU.

Investigators questioned Alberts, and at first, she said she injected water into her son’s IV bag to “flush the line” because the “medicine that was given to him burned.” However, she later allegedly confessed that she injected fecal matter into the bag on multiple occasions. She says she did it to get her son moved to another unit at Riley that had better treatment, according to court documents.

The boy’s health improved once Alberts was removed from the hospital room, doctors said, but they worry they might have missed the time frame to keep his leukemia in remission. Cont.

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White Man Kills Black Teen For Bumping Into Him

In Canada the story would have gone differently:

White man and black teen bumped into each other, an argument broke out about who was more apologetic and they became life long friends. The End.

Story out of Charleston, West Virginia:

A remorseless white man accused of shooting an unarmed black teenager to death in Charleston, West Virginia, after they bumped into each other Monday evening confessed and called his victim a “piece of trash,” police said.

William Pulliam, 62, was jailed on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting of 15-year-old James Means, whose aunt said was a loving teen who “could put a smile on anybody’s face.” Police said Pulliam “expressed no remorse.”

“The way I look at it, that’s another piece of trash off the street,” Pulliam told investigators, according to a criminal complaint filed by Charleston Detective C.C. Lioi.

James bumped into Pulliam outside a dollar store and the two “exchanged words,” according to the complaint. Pulliam then walked into the store, and James went to sit on a friend’s nearby porch.

Clayton Ferguson, who was on the porch with James, told police that Pulliam later came out of the store and walked past them. Pulliam and James began arguing again, Ferguson told detectives, and when James walked across the street to confront him, Pulliam drew a gun and shot the teen twice. Cont.

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Woman Fed Up With House Guests Starts Shooting At Feet, Hitting Two In Leg

Story out of Bay County, Florida:

A Florida woman who thought her houseguests overstayed their welcome was arrested after she shot one of them, authorities said.

Alana Annette Savell, 32, was arrested Monday on a charge of aggravated battery with a firearm, Bay County Sheriff's Office officials said.

A woman told authorities that she had gone to Savell's home with a friend. Savell said they started drinking and were getting too loud, and said she didn't want them in her home.

Savell armed herself with a handgun and started shooting at their feet from the doorway of the home, officials said. The woman was hit in the legs and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Savell's boyfriend was also hit in the leg with a bullet during the shooting, authorities said. Cont.

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Vietnam Vet Sets Himself On Fire Over Trump Argument

                  

Story out of Akron, Ohio

A Vietnam veteran in Akron, Ohio, set himself on fire Saturday after becoming frustrated with locals in a coffee shop for not protesting President-elect Donald Trump vehemently enough, ABC 5 News Cleveland reports. The unnamed 69-year-old walked into Angel Falls Coffee around 9:15 a.m. and began engaging with customers about the recent protests. While about 300 marched against Trump recently in the nearby city of Cleveland, and thousands nationwide, the vet thought the demonstrations should be larger. “He seemed to be pro-rally, against Trump and he talked to my customers about how people needed to protest more against Trump,” Angel Falls Coffee shop owner Jim King told ABC News 5 Cleveland.

Dressed in a U.S. Marine Corps uniform and becoming upset, the man then left the coffee shop and handed a passerby his phone requesting they begin recording. Things turned gruesome – the vet then grabbed a can of gasoline from his car, doused himself in it, and set himself on fire. While the passerby didn’t take the video, witnesses were able to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. “He was curled in a fetal position, perfectly still except for some hand movement and he was completely covered in ash,” said King.

The vet was taken to a nearby hospital where he is currently being treated in the burn unit. He is expected to survive. Cont.

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'Time For A Tree And A Rope' - Texas Judge In Trouble For Racist Remarks

Story out of Burnet County, Texas:

The top elected official in Burnet County commented on Facebook that it is "time for a tree and a rope" in a post regarding the arrest of the man suspected of killing San Antonio police Det. Benjamin Marconi this weekend, according to a screenshot of the Facebook post.

The post is no longer on County Judge James Oakley's Facebook page, but a screenshot shows that the comment was posted from his personal Facebook account. Oakley did not immediately respond to requests for comment via Facebook and email Tuesday evening.

The blog PEC Truthwatch, run by Larry Landaker, who previously served on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative's board, blogged about Oakley's "tree and a rope" comment. Based on the time stamps in the image, the blog seems to use the same screenshot that Walker took.

"What Mr. Oakley suggested was racist," the blog post read. "A sitting County Judge in Texas has suggested that a black man accused of a crime ... should be lynched. ... There is no place on the PEC board of directors for an open racist. This is not political correctness. It is racism in its rawest form." Cont.

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