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US NEWS: FLORIDA MAN SHOT BY HIS DOG…..

February 28, 2013

Police say a Florida man was shot and wounded over the weekend by his dog. Via NBC News Gregory Dale Lanier, 35, of Frostproof, Fla., told police Saturday that he and his dog were in their truck in nearby Sebring when the dog kicked a gun that was on the truck’s floor. Lanier wasn’t seriously injured, said Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr, who then went on to say that police didn’t arrest the dog because the investigation was pending. Continue Reading….. [Thanks Lorna] Only […]

OSCAR PISTORIUS RELEASED ON BAIL

February 22, 2013

Via BBC News South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who faces murder charges over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, has been granted bail after a four-day hearing. Magistrate Desmond Nair said the state had not made a case that he would flee, or that he had a violent character. The Paralympic champion denies murder, saying he shot Reeva Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder at his home. The next hearing in the case has been set for 4 June. Bail was set at […]

OSCAR PISTORIUS PLEADS FOR BAIL, SAYS HE THOUGHT GIRLFRIEND WAS AN “INTRUDER”, POLICE CLAIM TO HAVE FOUND BOXES OF STEROIDS

February 20, 2013

Yesterday Oscar Pistorius who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend model Reeva Steenkamp stood in a packed court room and we finally got to hear his side of the story….. Pistorius said in his sworn affidavit: During the early morning hours of 14 February 2013, I woke up, went onto the balcony to bring the fan in and closed the sliding doors, the blinds and the curtains. I heard a noise in the bathroom and realised that someone was in the bathroom. I felt a sense of terror […]

UPDATE: PARALYMPIC STAR OSCAR PISTORIUS FORMALLY CHARGED WITH MURDER

February 14, 2013

Via The Daily Mail South African paralympic star Oscar Pistorius  has been charged with murder and is in custody after reportedly shooting his  girlfriend dead in the middle of the night after mistaking her for a  burglar. Gunfire was heard inside his  Pretoria mansion at  4am this morning and it is believed his  partner may have been killed after a Valentine’s Day surprise went tragically  wrong. The dead woman is  Reeva Steenkamp, 30, a former FHM model who had been dating the 26-year-old […]

MAN CAUGHT HAVING SEX WITH HORSE WAS ‘TRYING TO GET HORSE PREGNANT’

February 5, 2013

Andrew Mendoza (29) admitted to having sex with his neighbours horse and later went on to claim he was trying to impregnate the horse. The Texan told police: “I was at my house waiting for my girlfriend  to call. I told myself that if she didn’t call me I was going to to next  door and mess with the neighbour’s  horse. “I was trying to make the horse have a baby. I was thinking it  would have a  horse-man baby.” Mendoza was later sentenced […]

DESPERATE TIMES: BLACKBERRY APPOINTS ALICIA KEYS AS IT’S NEW GLOBAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR

January 30, 2013

Struggling smart phone giant Blackberry announced earlier today that they have appointed singing superstar Alicia Keys as their new ‘Global Creative Director’. Blackberry hopes that her appointment to the post will help “inspire the future” of the company. *confused face* Via CNET Keys said she previously was a BlackBerry power user, but she left the platform after noticing sexier phones at the gym. For a while she had two phones, but Keys has now moved back to just a BlackBerry. Continue Reading…. *confused face* 1) […]

JAMIE FOXX CALLS SPIKE LEE “IRRESPONSIBLE” FOR DJANGO UNCHAINED CRITICISM

January 19, 2013

Spike Lee sure does know how to get under people’s skins. That man is such a trouble maker. (Hahahaha) Anyway it seems like every man and his dog is attacking Spike these days after he DARED to voice an opinion about the hit Quentin Tarantino slave flick ‘Django Unchained’. Just before the release of the film Spike tweeted: American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western.It Was A Holocaust.My Ancestors Are Slaves.Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.  Spike then went on to tell Vibe.com that he did not plan to see film because […]

TOY MAKERS CEASE PRODUCTION OF ‘DJANGO UNCHAINED’ “ACTION FIGURES” AFTER BACKLASH

January 19, 2013

Well.. well… It looks like toy makers and the Weinsteins have bowed down to pressure from civil rights activists and ceased production of the controversial slave dolls of characters from Quentin Tarantino’s hit spaghetti western/blaxploitation film Django Unchained. Django Unchained tells the tale of a former slave (Django) who travels across  America to find his wife (Broomhilda), and is desperate to free her from slavery at the hands of an evil  plantation owner. The dolls are no longer being sold on Amazon.com, who were selling figures representing the black slaves Django (Jamie Foxx), Broomhilda […]

TV NETWORK CANCELS RAPPER’S ‘ALL MY BABIES’ MAMAS’ “REALITY” SHOW DUE TO PUBLIC PRESSURE / RAPPER URGES NETWORK TO ‘GIVE THE SHOW A CHANCE’

January 17, 2013

Last month it was reported that the US TV network Oxygen Media was set to air a new “reality” show titled ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’ featuring Atlanta rap artist Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker), his 11 children and their 10 different mothers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGFbavTUYRs …. What a disgrace…. Thankfully this low brow nonsense has been shut down after thousands (37,000) signed an online petition calling for Oxygen to cancel the show after the trailer hit the Internet. The Parents Television Council also called the show’s concept “grotesquely  irresponsible and exploitive” and pledged to contact advertisers of the show […]