The Best FBI Agent

Moment FBI agent struggled to climb over gate... just before men behind him open it and walk through

No obstacles: This FBI agent appeared to struggle for a few seconds while trying to climb over this gate outside a New Jersey home that appeared to be locked shut
Fail: Local news crews zoomed in on the moment, capturing his climb and triumphant jump to the other side, split seconds before it opened up behind him

All in: Immediately after the agent pops over and confidently begins marching toward the home the gate springs open and the other agents join him

A blood-pumping raid by the FBI on a New Jersey home turned into the butt of hundreds of online jokes when an agent's dramatic climb over a gate proved far more embarrassing than necessary.

As seen on local news coverage the man struggled to hop over the gate, only for the gate to be easily and instantly flung open by the other agents behind him.

Those entering behind him appeared to have been waiting for him to finish the entire time.

The man gives no turn-around recognition to them, or the gate, but continues marching strong toward the house.

The video appeared in a local NBC news broadcast before it was posted to YouTube by entertained viewers heard snickering in the background.

It's since received more than 600,000 views and more than 1,100 comments.

'This is something I would expect to see in comedy movies. lol,' one YouTube viewer wrote.

'Climbs over fence like a noob. Walks away like a boss,' another wrote.

'Well it's nice to know the FBI can come into our property whenever they feel like it,' another wrote of the agent’s scaling abilities.

By: Unknown On 03.07

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The Reasons Why You Shoul Never Bring Condoms To States

'Detained for carrying condoms, sexy undies' 

A WOMAN claims she was detained by US border officials three times in two weeks and accused of being a sex worker for having condoms and "racy underwear" in her luggage.

University of British Columbia graduate Clay Nikiforuk (a pseudonym) wrote an article for the Huffington Post about the "baffling" series of events that occurred as she travelled through the US with a married man.

"What do you do when you're detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary 'evidence' is held against you, and you're treated like a moral deviant? And what if it's 2013, you're a woman, and the "evidence" is that you possess condoms?" asked Nikiforuk in a book on the sociology of sexual assault.

Nikiforuk said she was first held by border guards in Vermont in March, where her bag was searched "at least five times". She had approximately eight condoms in her suitcase and underwear.

"I could not help but notice how often my lingerie and 'sexy underwear' were mentioned, how often the condoms they found were looked upon scathingly, and how most of the four male officers' questions pertained to both," she said.

"I was like, 'Yeah, some girls like shoes, I like nice underwear', and then realised it was really not funny. They were taking it very seriously… and looking at my condoms and counting them.

"I was baffled as to why this was any of their business and unsure of what their objective was."

She was eventually granted a limited two-week visa, but she'd missed her bus and plane by that time so had to wait until the next morning to continue her journey.

Two weeks later she alleged Montreal Airport officials took her into a back office and interrogated her about the man she was travelling with.

During the questioning she admitted the man was married and she was planning on sharing a hotel bed with him. Nikiforuk was forced to tell the official that the man's wife "doesn't want to know the details, but she knows" about their affair.

"The next thing I knew he was searching my bags, pulling out condoms and waving them in my face," she said.

"He said: 'I could have you charged with being a working girl! The proof is right here'."

She was asked: "How much is he paying you to go on this trip?". When she answered that she wasn't being paid, she was told off for participating in adultery and let go.

Next came Miami, where she claims she was detained, interrogated, fingerprinted, patted down and "yelled at" for eight hours and asked: "Are you looking to be sexually assaulted?" when she told the official she was writing a book on the sociology of sexual assault.

She has filed a complaint over the incident, claiming she was the victim of a sexist double standard.

US immigration lawyer Steve Goldstein told Canada's Metro News that he's never heard of someone being denied entry to the US because they were carrying condoms.

US Customs and Border Patrol told news.com.au they cannot comment due to privacy laws

"Due to privacy laws, US Customs and Border Protection is prohibited from discussing specific cases or individuals," a  US Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson said. "CBP strives to treat all travellers with respect and in a professional manner, preserving the civil rights and civil liberties of all people with whom the officers and agents interact while maintaining the focus of our mission to protect all citizens and visitors in the United States.

"CBP stresses honour and integrity in every aspect of our mission, and the overwhelming majority of CBP employees and officers perform their duties with honor and distinction, working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe."

By: Unknown On 00.27

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The Secrets How To Do Cinnamon Challenge Safely!

Doctors warn teens about taking the 'cinnamon challenge' in new report

CHICAGO –  Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.

The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. But the spice is caustic, and trying to gulp it down can cause choking, throat irritation, breathing trouble and even collapsed lungs, the report said.

Published online Monday in Pediatrics, the report said at least 30 teens nationwide needed medical attention after taking the challenge last year.

'Orange burst of dragon breath'

The number of poison control center calls about teens doing the prank "has increased dramatically," from 51 in 2011 to 222 last year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

"People with asthma or other respiratory conditions are at greater risk of having this result in shortness of breath and trouble breathing," according to an alert posted on the association's website.

Thousands of YouTube videos depict kids attempting the challenge, resulting in an "orange burst of dragon breath" spewing out of their mouths and sometimes hysterical laughter from friends watching the stunt, said report co-author Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz, a pediatrics professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Cinnamon is made from tree bark and contains cellulose fibers that don't easily break down. Animal research suggests that when cinnamon gets into the lungs, it can cause scarring, Lipshultz said.

'It's not cool, and it's dangerous'

Dr. Stephen Pont, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and an Austin, Texas pediatrician, said the report is "a call to arms to parents and doctors to be aware of things like the cinnamon challenge" and to pay attention to what their kids are viewing online.

Related: Michigan teen hospitalized after attempting 'cinnamon challenge'

An Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge heartily supports the new advice and started her own website -- http://nocinnamonchallenge.com -- telling teens to "just say no" to the fad.

Dejah Reed, 16, said she took the challenge four times -- the final time was in February last year with a friend who didn't want to try it alone.

"I was laughing very hard, and I coughed it out, and I inhaled it into my lungs," she said. "I couldn't breathe."

Her father, Fred Reed, said he arrived home soon after to find Dejah "a pale bluish color. It was very terrifying. I threw her over my shoulder" and drove to a nearby emergency room.

Dejah was hospitalized for four days and went home with an inhaler and said she still has to use it when she gets short of breath from running or talking too fast. Her dad said she'd never had asthma or breathing problems before.

Dejah said she'd read about the challenge on Facebook and other social networking sites and "thought it would be cool" to try.

Now she knows "it's not cool and it's dangerous."

By: Unknown On 00.22

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Naked Mermaid Found at The Beach !

San Francisco Cop Suspended for His Photo Hobby

When off duty, Officer Gared Hansen enjoys shooting (photographing, that is) nude models as mermaids and other magical beings. But when his department found out about the extracurriculars, they suspended him — Internal Affairs even looked into him after that. Naturally, Hansen sees it as a fun hobby. But the SFPD says that it reflects poorly and in bad taste upon the department…

I’m inclined to think, “So what? He can do what he wants in his free time as long as he’s not representing the actions as department-sanctioned.” What do you guys think? At this point, after being suspended on two separate occasions, Hansen has supposedly been getting the ‘bad’ jobs, like transporting prisoners.

By: Unknown On 23.22

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New Girl Bomb Suspect

Zooey Deschanel falsely named as bomb suspect

Actress Zooey Deschanel has been inadvertently implicated in the Boston Marathon bombings after a news station incorrectly identified the New Girl star as a suspect

Fox News affiliate, Fox 4, displayed a photo of 19-year-old terror suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev yesterday along with a caption that read "Marathon bombing. He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel", E! Online reports.

The TV star was quickly made aware of the error and tweeted a response.

"Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!," Deschanel wrote, linking to a photo of the TV station’s error.

Twitter user Peter Ogburn who informed Deschanel of the incriminating caption then jokingly tweeted the 33-year-old saying “So, you’re saying it wasn’t you?”

Tsarnaev has since been arrested and is currently in hospital under police guard.

By: Unknown On 23.16

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Highschool Teacher Porn Web

Panel affirms firing of Calif. teacher over porn

STOCKTON, Calif. — State officials have affirmed a Northern California school district's decision to fire a 37-year-old high school teacher accused of using a school-issued laptop to help set up pornographic websites.

A three-member panel from the state Office of Administrative Hearings said it found that numerous files on the Lincoln Unified School District laptop once used by Heidi Kaeslin were pornographic, lewd, vulgar or repugnant. It also said her conduct was immoral.

The school board on Wednesday adopted the panel's March 29 ruling, The Record of Stockton reported Thursday.

Kaeslin was a special education teacher and former girls' soccer coach at Lincoln High School in Stockton when she was fired last year. The district accused Kaeslin of keeping thousands of pornographic and erotic images on her school-issued laptop, then lying about her activities when administrators questioned her.

The district said it was subject to embarrassment due to the now-defunct websites and other online references to Kaeslin's involvement with them, which officials say lasted from late 2010 until at least April 2011.

Kaeslin has said her involvement in the websites with former Stockton police officer Richard Fields, who was assigned to the high school as a resource officer, lasted only a few days.

Kaeslin told the newspaper last month that she is the victim of a vendetta by her estranged husband, who was angered by her extramarital affair with Fields.

Kaeslin said she and her husband are embroiled in divorce proceedings and share custody of their two young children. She said she used working on the websites as a pretext for spending time with Fields.

"From Day One, Rich wanted my help, and we joked about how we're business partners because that was the way that we could have our affair," Kaeslin said.

Kaeslin said she admits using the district laptop to access files containing pornographic material. But she add added she purposely did not save the files to the computer's hard drive and never realized they would nonetheless remain on the device.

Kaeslin said if she had been assisting Fields in the "hot-air balloon business," she "wouldn't be in the same spot." Fields has said the allegations against Kaeslin were overblown.

"I did make a bad decision," Kaeslin said. "When I said that I stopped, I felt like I corrected that part of my bad decision-making process."

Kaeslin said her mistakes included the affair. She added: "Yeah, I made some bad choices. Do I feel like I should be fired over it? No."

The district said Kaeslin has until April 26 to ask the state panel to reconsider its ruling, and until May 27 to appeal the decision in court.

By: Unknown On 23.13

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Nude Is Natural - Banned!

Fed-up San Fran eyes public nudity ban 

NUDE IS NATURAL: A woman holds a sign saying "Nude is Natural," during a rally against banning nudity in parts of the city in San Francisco, California.

San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing.

City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday (NZ time) on an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in most public places, a blanket ban that represents an escalation of a two-year tiff between a devoted group of men who strut their stuff through the city's famously gay Castro District and the supervisor who represents the area.

Supervisor Scott Wiener's proposal would make it illegal for a person over the age of five to "expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza" or while using public transit.

A first offence would carry a maximum penalty of a US$100 (NZ$123) fine, but prosecutors would have authority to charge a third violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a US$500 (NZ$615) fine and a year in jail. Exemptions would be made for participants at permitted street fairs and parades, such as the city's annual gay pride event and the Folsom Street Fair, which celebrates sadomasochism and other sexual subcultures.

Wiener said he resisted introducing the ordinance, but felt compelled to act after constituents complained about the naked men who gather in a small Castro plaza most days and sometimes walk the streets au natural. He persuaded his colleagues last year to pass a law requiring a cloth to be placed between public seating and bare rears, yet the complaints have continued.

"I don't think having some guys taking their clothes off and hanging out seven days a week at Castro and Market Street is really what San Francisco is about. I think it's a caricature of what San Francisco is about," Wiener said.

The proposed ban predictably has produced outrage, as well as a lawsuit. Last week, about two dozen people disrobed in front of City Hall and marched around the block to the amusement of gawking tourists and high school students on a field trip.

Stripped down to his sunglasses and hiking boots, McCray Winpsett, 37, said he understands the disgust of residents who would prefer not to see the body modifications and sex enhancement devices sported by some of the Castro nudists. But he thinks Wiener's prohibition goes too far in undermining a tradition "that keeps San Francisco weird."

"A few lewd exhibitionists are really ruining it for the rest of us," he said. "It's my time to come out now to present myself in a light and show what true nudity is all about so people can separate the difference between what a nudist is and an exhibitionist is."

Because clothes are required to enter City Hall itself, demonstrators who try to disrobe at the Board of Supervisors meeting will be escorted out by sheriff's deputies. That is what happened last Monday when Gypsy Taub removed her dress at a committee hearing where the ban had its first public hearing. Taub, a mother of two, said she got her start as a nudist while hosting a local cable program devoted to the theory that the government was behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

 "I thought if I take my clothes off, I bet they are going to listen," she said.

San Francisco lawyer Christina DiEdoardo filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of Taub and three men that seeks to block Weiner's ordinance, if it passes and is signed by Mayor Edwin Lee. The complaint alleges that the ban infringes on the free speech rights of nudists and discriminates against those who cannot afford to obtain a city permit.

While it may seem strange that going out in the buff is not already illegal in San Francisco, most California cities do not have local nudity laws, Wiener said. Instead, they are adequately covered by state indecent exposure laws and societal mores. But indecent exposure technically only applies to lewd behavior, so city officials have had to craft a local solution, he said, adding that the cities of Berkeley and San Jose already have done so.

"I suspect there are a lot of places that maybe don't currently have a local law (and) that if people started getting naked every day would quickly see a local law," Wiener said.

By: Unknown On 23.17

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How To Become Professional Beer Taster

Beer taster who's ALLERGIC to ale: Landlord now has to sip not sup to avoid feeling sick

When his family complained about his daily ­coughing he took an intolerance test, which revealed he was allergic to the yeast in beer

it’s the sort of news that would have most drinkers feeling flatter than a dodgy pint…

Pub landlord Alastair Scott has found out the lingering illness he had was caused by an allergy to beer.

And as if it couldn’t get any worse, he makes a living as an ale taster.

The 49-year-old had been suffering from a constant cough and runny nose, but just put it down to man flu.

It was only when his fed-up family complained about his daily ­spluttering that he decided to get a home ­intolerance test, which revealed he was allergic to the yeast in beer.

Alastair said: “When I found out, I was gutted. I just didn’t believe it.

“I’d been phlegmy, coughing and feeling generally unwell and getting progressively worse.

"The coughing got so bad it was keeping my family up at night.

"My partner suggested I should check if I was allergic to anything.”

Dad-of-three Alastair was the first in the UK to qualify as a beer ­sommelier when it became a ­recognised qualification two years ago.

His work includes reviewing beer and matching specific ales to different foods.

He added: “Beer is a big part of my life and I just can’t avoid it.”

Alastair, who runs the Square and Compass, in North Rigton, North Yorks, and another pub in Bristol, now has a new approach to his job.

He said: “I now sip not sup.

"It seems madness to be a pub landlord and not be able to stomach beer – although most of the yeast in lager is filtered out, so I’m not intolerant of that.”

By: Unknown On 01.35

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What The Fuck Tourism Promotion Ads

'WTF' Sticker Campagin Promoting Tourism To Fruita, Colo. Dropped Due To Opposition From Residents, Council Members

In an attempt to encourage tourism to the Colorado city of Fruita, a new sticker campaign was launched using the acronym WTF, which in this case means, "Welcome To Fruita." The WTF stickers were distributed to about 500 businesses, and despite their popularity with some residents, the new campaign will not be used due to opposition from the City Council, The Associated Press reports.

According to The Daily Sentinel, the sticker campaign was the brainchild of Steve and Denise Hight who quietly circulated the stickers which read "WTF" in bold lettering and "Welcome To Fruita" in smaller lettering below, to local businesses. Within days, all of the distributed stickers had been eagerly picked up by customers and stuck to car bumpers. The Hights even placed an order for 1,500 more stickers, but due to some "overwhelmingly dismayed residents" a majority of council members have voted to not use the "WTF" campaign in any city-funded tourism advertising.

The campaign had the support of some Fruita residents as well as City Manager Clint Kinney who wanted to post the ads, but the more traditional city council did not think the stickers represented the city appropriately, CBS4 reports.

The WTF slogan was being considered by the city for a large-scale tourism ad campaign that would have run on bumper stickers, billboards and in magazines along with a "Hell Yeah" alternative ad in order to attract younger tourists to the area, according to Fruita.org.

The Hights plan on giving away the last of the 1,500 bumper stickers and don't plan on printing any further stickers.

By: Unknown On 00.45

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The Top Secret How To Do Sexual Battery

Audrie Pott Sexual Battery Suspects Arrested: 3 Teens Charged In Attack Documented With Cellphone Photos

 
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, "worst day ever," and hanged herself.

For the next eight months, her family struggled to figure out what happened to their soccer loving, artistic, horse crazy daughter, whose gentle smile, long dark hair and shining eyes did not bely a struggling soul.

And then on Thursday, seven months after the tragedy, a Northern California sheriff's office arrested three 16-year-old boys on charges of sexual battery.

"The family has been trying to understand why their loving daughter would have taken her life at such a young age and to make sure that those responsible would be held accountable," said family attorney Robert Allard.

"After an extensive investigation that we have conducted on behalf of the family, there is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15 years old, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious."

Allard said students used cell phones to share photos of the attack, and that the images went viral.

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Lt. Jose Cardoza said it arrested two of the teens at Saratoga High School and the third, a former Saratoga High student, at Christopher High School in Gilroy on Thursday. The names of the suspects were not released because they are minors.

Cardoza said the suspects were booked into juvenile hall and face two felonies and one misdemeanor each, all related to sexual battery that allegedly occurred at a Saratoga house party.

The lieutenant said the arrests were the result of information gathered by his agency's Saratoga High School resource officers. He said the investigation is ongoing, and Los Gatos police also continue looking into the girl's September suicide.

The Associated Press does not, as a rule, identify victims of sexual assault. But in this case, Pott's family wanted her name and case known, Allard said. The family also provided a photo to the AP.

The girl's family members did not comment and have requested privacy until a planned news conference Tuesday. Her father and step-mother Lawrence and Lisa Pott, along with her mother Sheila Pott, have started the Audrie Pott Foundation (audriepottfoundation.com) to provide music and art scholarships and offer youth counseling and support.

The foundation website alludes to the teen's struggles, but until now neither law enforcement, school officials nor family have discussed the sexual battery.

"She was compassionate about life, her friends, her family, and would never do anything to harm anyone," the site says. "She was in the process of developing the ability to cope with the cruelty of this world but had not quite figured it all out.

"Ultimately, she had not yet acquired the antibiotics to deal with the challenges present for teens in today's society."

On the day Pott died, Saratoga High School principal Paul Robinson announced her death, stunning classmates. Two days later other students and staff wore her favorite color, teal, in her honor.

Robinson wasn't immediately available for comment Thursday.

The Pott family is not alone.

In Canada on Thursday, authorities said they are looking further into the case of a teenage girl who hanged herself Sunday after an alleged rape and months of bullying. A photo said to be of the 2011 assault on 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was shared online.

No charges initially were filed against four teenage boys being investigated. But after an outcry, Nova Scotia's justice minister appointed four government departments to look into Parsons' case.

By: Unknown On 03.24

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Robbers Caught By Footprint

Wyoming Robbery Suspects Caught By Police Following Snow Footprint

RIVERTON, Wyo. -- Three men have been accused of stealing items that include a samurai sword – but according to central Wyoming police the suspects weren't exactly ninjas.

Authorities in Riverton say they tracked the men down by simply following a series of footprints in the snow leading away from a home where the robbery was reported.

Police Capt. Eric Murphy tells The Riverton Ranger that the tracks led investigators from the victim's house straight to another house where authorities found three men in their 20s "digging through" stolen property that included several other types of swords.

Police say they also found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the home late Monday night. They say the suspects were arrested and face various robbery and drug charges.

By: Unknown On 02.56

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A 2 Year Old Chinese Girl Buy Luxury Apartment in New York City

A $6.2 Million Apartment for a 2-Year-Old? Such is NYC's Luxury Housing Market

Talk about investing in the future. A Chinese woman recently purchased a $6.5 million condo in the One57 building in Midtown Manhattan, which is to be New York’s tallest residential tower when it's completed next year. She wasn’t buying the place for herself, she explained to her broker, but for her young daughter. Her very young daughter. From the Daily News:

    “We’re running around the city looking at things, and I finally said, ‘Why exactly are you buying?’” broker Kevin Brown, of Sotheby’s International, told CCTV News. “She said it had to do with her daughter, who was planning on going to Columbia or NYU, maybe Harvard, so she needed to be in the center of the city, and that is why she was picking this one particular apartment,” Brown said. “I said, ‘How old is your daughter?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s 2.’ And I was just shocked.”

Shocked he may have been -- although the One57 pad was kind of low-end compared to the $88 million, 6,700-square foot Central Park West apartment that Russian fertilizer mogul Dmitri Rybolovlev bought for his (18-year-old) daughter’s alleged use in 2012. In truth, the Chinese millionaire’s forward-thinking purchase was hardly unusual. The high-end real estate market in North American cities such as New York, Miami, and Vancouver has been dominated by foreign investors for years now, with buyers forking over huge sums of money to buy deluxe apartments that they or their lucky offspring might intend to occupy for a few weeks here or there, or in the far future, if ever.

The trend has left some upscale urban neighborhoods feeling hollowed-out.

In New York, luxury ghost apartments have been steadily proliferating, with certain parts of Manhattan especially devoid of life According to a 2011 New York Times article, in the chunk of the Upper East Side where the Chinese woman bought her little girl a future dream home, “about 30 percent of the more than 5,000 apartments are routinely vacant more than 10 months a year.” Census figures from 2010 show that since 2000, there was a 70 percent increase in absentee-owned apartments in Manhattan, which jumped from 19,000 to 34,000, with the wealthiest neighborhoods seeing even more pronounced gains. The trend, which reversed briefly after 2007 because of the recession, has been building again -- to the point where real estate blog Curbed made fun of the Times for even taking note of it in yet another piece earlier this year.

Some wealthy residents of these lonely luxury abodes, reports the Times, report feeling isolated. And while it may be hard to feel much sympathy for well-heeled people who find themselves rattling around the hallways with only an attentive building staff to chat with, the effect on the surrounding neighborhood is real.

In some parts of Vancouver, where attracting residential development in the city’s urban core has been a point of pride of city planners, the effect is tangible. As many as 25 percent of the condos in the city’s Coal Harbour neighborhood are owned by “non-residents,” with mixed results for the city, according to a CBC News report:

    "They pay lots of money in taxes and use very few city services,” said Tsur Somerville, an associate professor at the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate.

    But there is a downside to having so many vacant units.

    “From a city revenue standpoint these units are wonderful. On the other hand, most of us don't want to live in a ghost town,” Somerville added.

    The high vacancy rate means less business for neighbourhood shops and and restaurants in Coal Harbour....

    Nonetheless, Yan said some Vancouver neighbourhoods may appear to be very dense, but actually are not.

So it seems that the high-end residential developments that have come to dominate much of Manhattan and other gentrifying downtowns have the potential to generate not only tax revenue, but also solitude -- not only for the people who have the money and desire to buy that elusive and not always desirable commodity, but for their neighbors as well. Absentee buyers may be investing in their own future, but it's questionable what the return will be for the cities that are taking their cash.

By: Unknown On 01.18

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How To Watch Porn On A Plane

Pilot 'diverts United Airlines flights and kicks family off' after parents complained about their small sons seeing violent PG-13 inflight movie

 
A United Airlines pilot diverted a cross-country flight and kicked a family off his plane after they complained about their young sons watching a violent PG-13-rated in-flight movie, the family claims.

According to an anonymous account the family sent to The Atlantic, the family was met at the plane and questioned by an FBI agent, two Customs and Border Security agents and two police officers.

They say the captain over-reacted when they asked for the movie on their February 2 flight from Denver to Baltimore be switched off.

The parents were horrified, they said, by the graphic violence and sexual images that were being played on the in-flight movie 'Alex Cross.'

'On our plane, an A320, the movie was projected on drop-down screens above the seats, such that we could not shield our young children from this inappropriate content,' the outraged family wrote.

'Alarmed by the opening scenes, we asked two flight attendants if they could turn off the monitor; both claimed it was not possible.'

The other nearby passengers agreed that the movie was inappropriate and said they did not mind their monitor being turned off. The flight attendants said they could not.

Finally, out of options, the parents asked if the captain had the authority to turn the television off and asked for the captain's name. They received no response.

'Throughout these interactions the atmosphere was collegial. no voices were raised and no threats, implicit or explicit, of any kind were made. The flight continued without incident, while my wife and I engaged our children to divert their attention from the horrific scenes on the movie screens,' according to the account published by the Atlantic.

Moments later, the captain announced that the flight was being diverted to Chicago because of 'security concerns.'

'After landing a Chicago police officer boarded the plane and, to our disbelief, approached us and asked that we collect our belongings, and follow her to disembark,' the family wrote.

'The captain, apparently, felt that our complaint constituted grave danger to the aircraft, crew and the other passengers, and that this danger justified inconveniencing his crew... and a full plane of your customers, causing dozens of them to miss their connections.'

They said it took 'five minutes' for the FBI agent and other law enforcement officials to determine the family wasn't a threat.

They said even the FBI agent was 'incredulous' about the captain's behavior.

They say they have still not received an apology from United.

By: Unknown On 01.11

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Men In Kilts - The Breakthrough Business in America

Men wear kilts to clean windows, gutters

HOLLISTON, Mass. - A Massachusetts business called Men in Kilts offers customers window washing, pressure washing and gutter cleaning by men dressed in traditional Scottish garb.

Shane Ross of the Holliston, Mass., business, a franchise spun off from the original Men in Kilts service in Vancouver, British Columbia, said the response had been positive, WHDH-TV, Boston, reported Wednesday.

"I got a good thumbs up from everybody. They liked it, they liked the idea of the kilt," Ross said.

Ross said he isn't bothered by working in a kilt.

"Nope, I'm Scottish so I don't mind it at all, paying tribute to my heritage," he said.

Judy Briggs, the franchise owner, said the men do a lot of climbing in their kilts but they remind customers of their "no peeking" rule.

"We did a photo shoot last week in Boston. My son was up on the second floor and the women were walking down the street and instead of going around the ladder, they'd go under the ladder. And he just politely said, 'no peeking,'" Briggs said.

By: Unknown On 02.21

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How To Get Free Cake And A Free Meal Also For A Years

William Davenport Allegedly Stole 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro's Cakes

PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh man has been accused of cutting a line waiting to get free cakes from the Cake Boss and stealing four of them.

Hundreds of people were waiting Tuesday morning in downtown Pittsburgh to get the free cakes from the star of the Hoboken, N.J.-based TV show "Cake Boss," Buddy Valastro.

Police spokeswoman Diane Richard says William Davenport took four cakes worth about $27 each from a storage area. Police say when they stopped Williams he apologized for stealing the cakes and admitted he was intoxicated.

Police say the cake theft caused a great commotion among people who had been waiting in line for hours. Officers had to break up fights caused by other people who tried to jump the line.

No attorney for Williams is listed in court papers.

By: Unknown On 02.18

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Testicles Truck

Fire chief suspended over 'Bumpernuts'

FREEPORT, N.Y. - Officials in a New York state village said the fire chief was handed a 30-day suspension for refusing to remove plastic testicles from a fire truck.

Freeport Mayor Andrew Hardwick said volunteer Chief Daniel Fee, 47, was ordered to remove the $24.95 pair of novelty "Bumpernuts" from the truck after complaints in September but the mayor noticed during an inspection last week that the item had been relocated to a still-visible position inside the cab, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

"The gesture was offensive, insensitive and unprofessional," Hardwick said.

The mayor said Freeport residents "expect better" from volunteer public servants.

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How To Pass A Drug Test While On Probation

St Louis man Sydney Levin accused of using fake penis 'Whizzinator' for drug test

A US man allegedly used a fake penis to try to pass a drug test while on probation.

A St. Louis-area man is facing criminal charges alleging that he used a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test.

Authorities say 34-year-old Sydney Levin was submitting a urine sample last week as part of his probation when an officer allegedly spotted him using a prosthetic, known as a Whizzinator. The device has been advertised as way to pass drug tests by using someone else's urine.

KMOV-TV reported that Mr Levin, of Lake St. Louis, was charged last week with possessing a forging instrument. He was arrested and released after posting $US25,000 ($24,000) bond, and pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Mr Levin was on probation for possession of a controlled substance and felony stealing in 2009. Authorities say Mr Levin's probation required that he submit a urine sample as part of drug test.

Mr Levin did not have a listed phone number. Court records show that he does not yet have an attorney.

In 2010, Gerald Willis of Los Angeles was sentenced to six months in federal prison for running a company that sold the Whizzinator to cheat on drug tests.

Willis' company disbanded, but the Whizzinator is still sold on the Web as a sex toy through a company called Alternative Lifestyle Systems of Long Beach, California. A message seeking comment from the company was not returned.

In a video on the Huffington Post website earlier this month, High Times associate publisher Richard Cusick used the Whizzinator as an example of tricks people use to beat drug tests.

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Beware of Dirty Contact Lens - A Girl Nearly Goes Blind

Student narrowly avoids blindness following gruesome eye infection — parasite grew on dirty contact lens and ATE THROUGH HER EYE

Ashley Hyde, 18, contracted an acanthamoeba infection in her left eye after failing to change her lenses regularly. Doctors had to drill into the Florida high school student's eye and take scrapings from the eyeball.

Ashley Hyde's eyes was red and throbbing but doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong.

A Florida high school senior is lucky to have her vision after a parasite grew on her contact lens and ate through her eye.

Ashley Hyde, 18, contracted an acanthamoeba infection in her left eye after failing to change her lenses regularly.

Doctors were initially mystified as to the cause of the Pembroke Pines resident's inflammation and blurred vision.

 And so they had to drill into her eye and take scrapings from the eyeball.

They soon discovered the microscopic parasite - found in water and soil - had latched onto and spread across the lens.

"They did multiple cultures where they scrape your eye. One time, they had to drill into my eye. It was really nasty," Hyde told Local10.
 She's now booked in for months of treatment, which medics hope will clear up the condition once and for all.

Optometric physician Dr Adam Clarin said it was a lesson for people to change their lenses every day.

"Every day, we see people come in with contact lens related to infections, complications, ulcers. These are all things that are potentially blinding," Clarin added.

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A Sea Lion Visits Luxury Hotel

Sea lion pup visits piano bar
A sea lion pup startled guests after waddling from a California beach into a nearby luxury hotel, where it pitched up at the patio bar. 

The sea lion pup on a plush lounge chair in the hotel's open pavilion

Shane Pappas, manager of the Pantai Inn in La Jolla, said he was alerted when staff found the malnourished animal. "I got an email saying that we had a sea lion pup lounging on our patio," he said.

He checked surveillance cameras, "and sure enough she waddled her way up to the patio," Mr Pappas said, speaking after experts from San Diego's nearby SeaWorld park came to rescue the 27.5lbs female creature.

The pup had apparently made its way from a nearby beach, "across the street, up the cobblestone driveway and onto a plush lounge chair in the hotel's open pavilion," he said.

"The poor little girl was lost and malnourished," he added. Video showed the creature lounging near guests, before being put into a large net and hauled off into a SeaWorld truck.

"We are not sure exactly what route it took to get to the hotel," SeaWorld spokeswoman Terry Kelly told AFP, confirming that the dehydrated creature is "is now on the mend" at SeaWorld's Animal Care Complex.

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Real Live Zombie

Billy Owen, Cancer Survivor, Loses Eye, Embraces New Career As Zombie Actor, Sideshow Star

Billy Owen says he started seeing things in a new light back in February, 2009.

Losing your entire right eyeball will do that to you.

Back then, Owen was a successful motorcycle mechanic with a loving wife and a six-month old son. But nagging sinus issues changed his life.

"I had headaches and I couldn't breathe because my right nostril was totally plugged," he told The Huffington Post. "Doctors gave me decongestants thinking it was sinusitis, but my wife finally pushed me to see a specialist."

On Feb. 13, 2009, the doctor gave him the news: He had sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC), a rare form of cancer affecting the nasal cavity that had only a 10 percent survival rate.

"Most of the survivors have tumors removed at the early stage," Owen said, but, in his case, the cancer has spread so extensively that doctors had to remove half his face, including his right eyes, the muscles and nerves.

"I have very little sense of smell left," he admitted. "If it's a real strong smell, I can pick it up."

Now there's a giant hole where Owen's right eye used to be. When he removes a dental plate, he can stick his finger in that eye and have it come out his mouth.

Having major surgery would change anyone, but Owen likes to think it changed him for the better.

"I was living a wild and crazy life beforehand, a lot of drinking," he said. "But after my surgery, I was having a hard time in the hospital, going through a rampage and I felt something rubbing my hand, like the presence of God. I felt a sense of peace like everything was going to be OK."

Owen looked at his son and decided to do everything he could to be around for him and his wife.

"I can't imagine what she went through," he said. "And my son ... he's the only one who never looked at me differently."

It's not easy for him as well, but says the worst part is the phantom itch that he gets where his eye used to be.

"It's tough when you get an itch in the corner of your eye and there's nothing to scratch," he said.

Owen still rides dirt bikes, but his days of being a professional mechanic are over.

"There's too much risk," he said. "I can't put myself on the line for everyone else. I can do it for me, but if another person dies because I didn't see a loose bolt, I don't know what I'd do."

Now, he's trying to make money off his missing eyeball by performing as a zombie in music videos and at haunted houses like The Goretorium in Las Vegas.

He also has been telling his story at the Venice Beach Freakshow in Los Angeles, and was featured on a recent episode of the AMC reality series, "Freakshow."

Todd Ray, who runs the Freakshow, said he considers Owen to be the strongest man alive.

"When he was confronted by death, he beat it," Ray told HuffPost. "Most people would be depressed, but he looks like he's happy."

Some might think the fact that Owen is performing at a Freakshow is exploitive, but Ray believes that the shock factor of the eyeball is only one part of the picture.

"When you see his missing eyeball, it's shocking. You can see fully into his skull," Ray said. "But his story is so touching that every audience is touched and amazed."

Owen hopes to have more opportunities to tell his story and is grateful for all the attention he has received, especially since his appearance on "Freakshow."

"One guy wants to make me a custom eye patch!" he said excitedly. "But really what I want is to go back to becoming the main breadwinner for my family."

By: Unknown On 17.25

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