3-Year-Old Dies After War Monument Topples

Story out of Sydney, Australia:

A three-year-old Sydney girl crushed by a stone monument died in front of her siblings and parents, devastated friends have revealed.

Indy Lee Henderson, from the western Sydney suburb of Airds, died on Saturday evening when a group of children were playing on a war memorial out the front of the Black Head Bowling at Hallidays Point, between Forster and Taree on the NSW Mid North Coast.

Police said Indy Lee was standing behind the stone slab as another girl was playing on top of it. The extra weight may have caused it to keel over and crush her.

Indy Lee's mother was among many people who rushed out of the bowling club and tried to lift the slab when children, including her siblings, started screaming.

The girl was taken to Manning Rural Referral Hospital but died from her injuries. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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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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Chess Master Falls To His Death Doing Parkour

Story out of Moscow, Russia:

A prominent young chess grandmaster has died after falling from a balcony while undertaking the extreme sport of parkour, said police.

Yuri Eliseev, 20, died late on Saturday after falling from the 12th storey of his apartment building in Moscow, according to Russian news reports.

The reports quoted police saying Eliseev died while trying to reach the balcony of a neighbouring apartment.

Eliseev was the world under-16 chess champion in 2012 and was given grandmaster status at just 17. 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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“Punk Was Never, Never Meant To Be Nostalgic” - Son of Sex Pistols Manager Burns $8 million Worth Of Memorabilia

                 

Story out of London, England:

Don’t get nostalgic about punk music – and if you do, don’t go collecting memorabilia from the glory days of the Sex Pistols.

That seemed to be the message Saturday when the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood set fire to an extensive collection of punk memorabilia on a boat in central London.

Joe Corre claimed his collection of clothes, posters and other music-related items was worth 5 million pounds ($8.4 million).

He watched it go up in flames along with effigies of prominent British politicians loaded with fireworks.

Corre told the crowd watching his self-styled protest on the River Thames that “punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic.” 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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Man In Wreck Decapitated After Car Got Stuck In Cruise Control

Story out of Thames Valley, England:

A driver made a terrified eight minute 999 call to say his car was stuck in cruise control doing more than 100mph before he slammed into a lorry and was instantly decapitated, an inquest has heard.

The moment he collided with the 18-tonne stationary lorry, which was parked in a lay-by, was heard by the police call handler, the inquest in Beaconsfield, Bucks., today heard.

Moments earlier he had told the operator that the cruise control on the modern car, which had a push-button to start and stop the engine rather than an ignition key, had stuck open.

Each time Mr Gandhi pushed it the engine screamed at high revs, topping speeds of 116mph before the final impact, which left the car embedded under the lorry all the way to the back wheels.

Emergency services who arrived at the scene soon after the crash found Mr Gandhi’s headless body in the wreckage.

The Skoda was found with its roof peeled off up to its rear wheels. 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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Thieves Run Over Cop With Motorcycles After Robbing Jewelry Story Of $1 Million

Story out of London, England:

The thugs were trying to flee luxury jewellery shop Chronext in Mayfair, central London, after the daring raid on August 3 when they knocked down a Met detective.

Dramatic footage shows them pulling up onto the pavement outside the upmarket watch store on scooters before breaking through the front door and smashing at the jewellery counters.

They shouted  “don’t f****** move” at staff as they targeted millions of pounds worth of Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Patak Phillippe watches.

Plain-clothed officers had been lying in wait for the gang and can be seen in the footage chasing them out of the store armed with batons and Tasers.

The gang attempted to flee on their mopeds but DC Richard Watson, a 43-year-old Met Flying Squad detective, was left seriously injured with head wounds, broken ribs, a broken fibula and a bleed on the brain after being hit by a scooter ridden by Kavanagh.

All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob at Blackfriars Crown Court while Kavanagh admitted causing injury by dangerous driving and Hopkins admitted unlawful wounding with reckless intent. Cont.

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Woman Left Permanently Disfigured After Childhood Friend Slashes Her Face With Wine Glass For Smiling

Story out of Sheffield, England:

A 25-year-old was left scarred for life when she was glassed by a woman because she smiled at her.

Rosie Skitt was attacked by 20-year-old Charlotte Green who accused the victim of looking at her in a 'sarcastic way.'

But Rosie said she recognised her attacker from her sister's football team when they were younger, and that she smiled across the bar 'to say hello.'

A court heard that Green then confronted sales administrator Rosie, asking 'do you have a problem with me?' before striking her with the wine glass.

Rosie, who needs further operations on her face, faced her attacker in court and told the hearing how she still suffers flashbacks and has to wear special camouflage make-up to conceal her scars.

Green, of Sheffield, initially pleaded not guilty to GBH with intent, which can carry a life sentence and was due to stand trial, but the prosecution accepted a lesser charge of GBH, which she admitted.

Dermot Hughes, representing the attacker, said she was remorseful and had found it difficult to come to terms with what she had done. 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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"If He Wasn't My Father, I Would Spray Him With Mace" - Ivanka Trump Speaking Of Disgusting Father

                  

A quote from Ivanka Trump surfaced Thanksgiving morning, showing her reaction to her father commenting on her appearance on a 2006 talk show.

Donald Trump, now the president-elect, has made numerous comments over the years regarding his eldest daughter's looks.

On Thanksgiving morning, journalist Sarah Kendzior tweeted out a remark from Ivanka Trump in an August 2006 "Quotables" section of The Chicago Tribune that revealed her reaction.

Never saw much reporting on Ivanka's response to Trump saying he wanted to date her: "If he wasn't my father, I would spray him with Mace." pic.twitter.com/RVlP4DdIc1

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 24, 2016

The 2006 quote came after an interview in which Trump said if Ivanka weren't his daughter "perhaps I'd be dating her." Cont.

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Man Found Guilty After Punching 5-Month-Old In Face

Story out of Manchester, England:

Baby Elsie Rose was hit in the face at a Tesco store on Altrincham Road in Baguley, Manchester, on 5 September.

David Hardy, 64, of Longfield Road in Baguley, denied assault and told Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court he thought the baby was a doll and it was a "dreadful mistake".

He was fined £900 and ordered to pay £500 costs and £100 compensation.

Elsie Rose was in a car seat placed in a shopping trolley next to her older sister when she was attacked.

Her mother Amy Ducker told the court she was left "absolutely distraught" by the incident, which happened after she had bumped into a neighbour who worked at the supermarket.

The neighbour had called her colleague, Hardy's wife, over to look at the "beautiful baby", she said.

She told the hearing Hardy had then approached and, without saying a word to her, punched the baby in the head.

The five-day-old child was taken to hospital and monitored overnight but was later discharged.

Finding him guilty, District Judge Sam Goozee dismissed Hardy's claim that he thought the child was a doll as "implausible." Cont.

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Mentally Disturbed Woman Leaves 14 Cats Trapped In House Until They Eat Each Other

                  

Story out of Adelaide, Australia:

Disturbing footage shows animal rescue officers discovering the horrific, decomposing remains of cats strewn all over the house in Adelaide, Australia.

Amid the decaying bones and fur, only one small tabby had managed to cling on to life.

The woman, who reportedly has mental health issues, was convicted of animal cruelty and banned from keeping animals in Port Adelaide Magistrates Court.

Chief inspector Andrea Lewis said that when they arrived the surviving cat, later named Trooper by rescuers, was meowing urgently for them to open the door.

‘When RSPCA inspectors arrived at the property the one surviving cat, completely emaciated, was crying out for us to hurry up and open the door,’ she said.

Trooper was adopted into a new home earlier this year, and has since made a miraculous recovery. Cont. (Video)

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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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"Thunderstorm Asthma" - Two Dead As Wild Weather In Australia Causes Health Problems

Story out of Victoria, Australia:

Two people have died and thousands more have been impacted by so-called "thunderstorm asthma" caused by wild winds coinciding with a high pollen count in Melbourne.

Hospitals in the Victorian capital reported a spike in patients with breathing troubles showing up at emergency departments overnight, with Ambulance Victoria even forced to issue a special alert on Twitter.

Ambulance Victoria confirmed to the Huffington Post Australia on Tuesday that two people passed away in the asthma thunderstorm event. The two people who died had breathing issues, authorities told reporters.

The surge of wild weather also tore roofs off homes after a day in which metro temperatures reached 38 degrees. The State Emergency Service reportedly logged more than 350 calls for assistance. Cont.

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