Rat infestation temporarily closes McDonald’s restaurant near Tacoma
A fast food restaurant near Tacoma is temporarily closed while it deals with a rat infestation, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
The McDonald’s at 11012 Pacific Avenue S. shut itself down Sunday and remains closed.
The restaurant hired a pest control company to address the problem.
Health officials will inspect the McDonald’s before it opens again.
“We take this matter seriously and will continue to work with this restaurant to ensure it’s safe for the public before it reopens,” the Health Department wrote on Facebook.
This isn’t the first time that McDonald’s location has had a rat problem.
An inspection in 2016 found a rat running across the kitchen.
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Did You Know Tiffany Haddish Auditioned for Flavor of Love? Here’s Why It Didn’t Happen
“I was like, ‘oh, no thank you.'”
Before she was a household name raking in millions of dollars and snatching Emmys, Tiffany Haddish was a hustling comedian/actress. That meant having to go on many, many auditions. One such audition was the now iconic reality show Flavor of Love.
While making press rounds for their new movie Night School, she and Kevin Hart tried their hand at WIRED Magazine’s Autocomplete Interview. In this game, they were tasked with answering commonly Googled questions about them, like “Is Tiffany Haddish New York?” Really, people??!
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Bartender Sisters Allegedly Attacked By Cardi B Banned From Strip Club
A lawyer for the women alleges they cannot work for their previous employer because of the complaints they raised against Cardi B.
The siblings, named Rachel Wattley and Sarah Wattley go by Baddie Gi and Jade. The women are aged 21 and 23 respectively. They claim to have been victimized in an attack launched by Cardi B and her entourage which first began when Cardi threw a hookah pipe and drinking glasses at them. Cardi’s crew allegedly followed her actions by throwing chairs and bottles at the bartenders leaving them with significant injuries. The brawl is said to have been sparked by Cardi’s belief that one of the sisters slept with her husband, Offset.
A lawyer for the Wattleys, Joe Tacopina, said that the sisters have not been allowed to return the strip club where they used to work as a result of the incident. He told The Washington Post, “they were told they can’t work there because of the complaint they made against Cardi B.” He went on to reveal, “They have text messages [that] say that from the club.” Tacopina also denied the accusation that either one of the women slept with Offset.
Cardi B did turn herself earlier this week and was charged with one count of third-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment. The Bronx rapper will appear in criminal court on October 29.
Catch a few pictures of Baddie Gi and Jade below.
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Kylie Jenner Shares Video of Stormi in a Walker — a Device Pediatricians Want Banned
Kylie Jenner’s 8-month-old daughter Stormi is on a roll. The makeup mogul shared an Instagram Story video on Tuesday, October 2, in which the infant is seen cruising around in a pink walker. While the plastic device on wheels seems harmless, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that they can cause severe injuries and may even harm development. Just last month, the AAP announced they are pushing for a ban on baby walkers.
More than 230,000 children younger than 15 months were treated for injuries that occurred while using walkers between 1990 and 2014. The study found that 6,539 of them had skull fractures, and 91 percent were to the head and neck.
“Baby walkers give quick mobility — up to 4 feet per second — to young children before they are developmentally ready. Children at this age are curious, but do not recognize danger,” senior study author Dr. Gary Smith told CBS News Opens a New Window. in September. “It only takes a young sibling to leave the door to the basement stairs open briefly for an injury to occur.”
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FDA Barges In on Vape Maker Juul, Seizes ‘Thousands’ of Documents
In its ongoing crusade against rad teens, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it made a surprise inspection of the headquarters of Juul Labs, which is under investigation for potentially marketing e-cigarettes to children. The “unannounced on-site inspection,” executed on Friday, resulted in the seizure of “thousands of pages of documents,” according to the FDA.
The surprise inspection of Juul continues an aggressive new chapter in the FDA’s war on the “epidemic” of underage vaping, as FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently put it. The agency has cracked down on e-cigarette businesses in general and Juul in particular.
“The JUUL inspection, which we completed on Friday, sought further documentation related to JUUL’s sales and marketing practices, among other things, and resulted in the collection of over a thousand pages of documents,” the FDA said in a statement emailed to Gizmodo. “The inspection followed the Agency’s request for information that we issued to JUUL Labs in April for documents that would help us to better understand the reportedly high rates of youth use and the youth appeal of JUUL products, including documents related to marketing and product design.”
In a statement emailed to Gizmodo, Juul CEO Kevin Burns said his company plans to work with the FDA and other parties to prevent underage vaping and characterized the FDA’s surprise inspection on its headquarters as a “meeting.”
“We are committed to preventing underage use, and we want to engage with FDA, lawmakers, public health advocates and others to keep JUUL out of the hands of young people. The meetings last week with FDA gave us the opportunity to provide information about our business from our marketing practices to our industry-leading online age-verification protocols to our youth prevention efforts. It was a constructive and transparent dialogue,” Burns said. “We’ve now released over 50,000 pages of documents to the FDA since April that support our public statements. We look forward to presenting our plan to address youth access in the 60-day time frame as outlined by FDA. We want to be part of the solution in preventing underage use, and we believe it will take industry and regulators working together to restrict youth access.”
While there are hundreds of e-cigarettes on the market, Juul remains the most popular, especially among teenagers, according to Nielsen, which found that Juul represented nearly 55 percent of the e-cigarette retail market as of March.
In late August, the New York Times reported that management within PAX Labs, which created Juul before it spun off into its own company, knew the company’s e-cigarettes were widely popular with teenagers and still failed to tweak its marketing strategy, according to a former senior manager at PAX. Last month, the FDA announced that it had issued 1,300 “warning letters” and fines to brick-and-mortar e-cigarette retailers that the agency said it had busted selling Juul vapes to minors during an “undercover blitz” carried out this summer.
Although e-cigarettes are believed to be somewhat safer than tobacco cigarettes, and users can vape without nicotine, evidence shows they are still not safe, particularly for teens’ still-developing brains.
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Four Californian men charged with inciting violence at 2017 Charlottesville rally
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four Californian men described by prosecutors as members of a militant white supremacist group were arrested on Tuesday on charges of instigating violence during a white nationalist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.
The criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville charged each of the four – Benjamin Drake Daley, 25, Michael Paul Miselis, 29, Thomas Walter Gillen, 34, and Cole Evan White, 24 – with violating the federal riots statute and conspiracy to riot.
Each defendant faces 10 years in prison if convicted of both counts, authorities said. No pleas were entered.
Authorities said all four men flew from the west coast in August 2017 to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally protesting against the removal of a statue honoring Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War.
They are accused of physically assaulting counter-protesters they encountered during the Aug. 12 rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, and during a torch-lit march the night before through the University of Virginia campus, where hundreds of Unite the Right demonstrators chanted “white lives matter” and “Jews will not replace us.”
The Aug. 12 event ended with a man plowing his car into a crowd, killing one counter-demonstrator, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and injuring dozens of others. The driver, James Alex Fields Jr., was charged with the killing in June. He has pleaded not guilty.
U.S. President Donald Trump drew condemnation from Democratic and Republican political leaders for saying that “many sides” were to blame for the violence.
All four of the men newly accused of inciting violence were identified in an FBI affidavit as members and associates of the California-based Rise Above Movement, described as a “militant white supremacist organization.”
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Prosecutors said their participation in beatings of counter-protesters was corroborated by photographs and video footage from the events, some excerpted in a collection of still images printed in the affidavit.
The defendants were also accused of having “engaged in acts of violence” at previous political rallies in Huntington Beach and Berkeley, California.
Daley, Miselis and Gillen, all from Southern California, were presented with the charges during separate court appearances on Tuesday before a federal magistrate in Los Angeles. Each was ordered to remain held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending further proceedings.
White, a San Francisco-area resident, was scheduled for his initial court hearing in Oakland on Wednesday.
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Traci Braxton opens up about being molested as a child on the Bijou Star Show
Recently, Tamar Braxton revealed that she was abused by someone in her family, when she was younger. Today, Traci is telling her story.
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Charlamagne Tha God Announces Mental Health Conversation With Kanye West
New York, NY – In light of Kanye West’s most recent antics — which include a pro-Trump rant following his appearance on Saturday Night Live and a poorly conveyed message about abolishing the 13th amendment — Charlamagne Tha God has announced another sit-down conversation with YE.
The conversation is scheduled for October 17 at The Town Hall in New York City.
Charlamagne made the announcement on Instagram.
“Join me for a @timestalks with @kanyewest about Anxiety, Therapy, PTSD and all the other Mental Health stuff we don’t discuss enough,” he captioned the photo. “Also discussing my new book #ShookOne “Anxiety Playing Tricks On Me” moderated by @joncaramanica of the @nytimes. Buy tickets before they’re gone link in my bio!!!”
Over the past week, YE has caused a flurry of controversy. On Monday (October 1), he pushed the Yandhi album release date to November 23, which also outraged his fans. He had originally promised the album would arrive on September 29, the same night of his SNL performance.
Kanye told TMZ he was heading to Africa with his “alien YE” alter ego to finish the album.
Tickets for Charlamagne’s conversation with Kanye are available here.
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Worst maid ever drank my booze, wrecked my home and passed out on the floor
The only thing these maids cleaned out was the liquor cabinet!
A Brooklyn woman expected a spick-and-span home when she hired a cleaning company to tidy up her Williamsburg pad.
Instead, the maids trashed her apartment, ate her ice cream, guzzled her booze — and one of them even passed out drunk on the kitchen floor.
“I hired two ladies from Joanna’s Cleaning Service in Brooklyn and they didn’t clean a thing, just drank all my liquor and f–ked up my home,” fumed Genevieve Snow, 29, in a now-viral Facebook rant posted Monday.
“My roommate came home to one of them blacked out face-down in our kitchen and the other long gone. My spice rack was smashed, my marble coffee table upended which smashed a stone bowl, keys were gone, booze was gone and chocolate ice cream left on the sofa.”
Now Snow says she’s out of pocket more than $400 for the damage — and, adding insult to injury, when she asked for reimbursment, the company tried to explain it all away with a sob story that the sloshed sweeper’s husband had just left her and her teen daughter was knocked up.
Snow says she’s used Brooklyn-based Joanna Cleaning Service for the occasional spruce-up dating back to 2013, and emailed her most recent contact at the business, a woman identifying herself as Joanna Oltuszewska, for the Aug. 27 job.
She let the two maids in that day before heading off to work — leaving $180 plus a $60 tip — but one of her housemates woke up a few hours later to find the cleaners sitting on their couch eating.
“You know when you are not supposed to be doing something, people jerk up really quickly? They did that,” said roommate Kristen Nepomuceno, 28, who then went off to her job at Soul Cycle.
But when Nepomuceno returned home from work around 5:30 p.m., it was a very different scene. The house was a mess, one maid was nowhere to be seen, and the other was passed out on the floor next to a smashed spice rack.
“I walk in and see bare feet — she is literally lying right here,” Nepomuceno said, pointing at her kitchen floor.
She left the apartment in horror and called the cops — and when they all returned, the maid was awake, sitting on the couch and digging into a pint of ice cream.
“She is licking ice cream and hammered, beyond hammered. She drank one whole bottle of Broker’s Gin and [most of] a bottle of Kettle,” said Nepomuceno.
The NYPD confirmed cops went to the apartment and sent a drunk woman from there to Woodhull Hospital. Snow says they didn’t take a report, however, telling her the cleaners hadn’t committed any crimes and advising her to “take it to civil court.”
Snow fired off an angry email to Oltuszewska asking to be reimbursed for the service, spice rack and getting her locks changed. But the woman kept trying to wiggle out of paying — claiming the passed-out maid was having “family problems.”
“Her husband left her after 19 years marriage, and that day when she was cleaning your apartment she had the phone call that her teenage daughter is pregnant,” Oltuszewska wrote in an email shared with The Post.
“She couldn’t stop her emotions and that’s why she used the alcohol, thats never happened before.”
When Oltuszewska stopped responding altogether, Snow posted about her experience Monday with a bad review on Joanna Cleaning Service’s Yelp page.
That’s when a woman identifying herself as Joanna Sokolowska got in touch — claiming her company, Joanna Cleaning Service, hadn’t cleaned her home since 2017, and insisting she must have been taken for a ride by Oltuszewska, a former employee who was fired in 2013 and set up a rival company called Joanna’s Cleaning.
“I have nothing to hide,” Sokolowska told The Post.
“[Oltuszewska] was working with us — an independent worker. She left and opened her company … I am 100 percent sure it was her.”
Snow says it’s possible a former employee stole her information and took her for a ride, but notes that Oltuszewska first got in contact with her in 2016 when she emailed Joanna Cleaning’s listed email address about getting some cleaning done.
She can’t find an address for either Joanna and just wants to know where she can send the bill — or a lawsuit. “The end goal is finding an address to sue the business,” Snow says.
“If there really are two Joanna’s Cleaning Services, I want to know who owns both of them and where they are registered.” The number listed for Joanna’s Cleaning was disconnected when The Post called Monday, and Oltuszewska did not respond to requests for comment via email.
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‘What’s the deal’: Father’s post about lack of baby changing tables goes viral
Donte Palmer isn’t the only dad who’s had to squat on a dirty restroom floor to change his baby’s diaper.
He’s just the newest face of a movement that’s been going on for quite a while: to install baby-changing stations in men’s bathrooms.
The 31-year-old high school teacher was at a steakhouse in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife and three sons, when 1-year-old Liam started to cry. Palmer knew the boy needed a diaper change.
So he did what had to be done: He picked up his baby, recruited his eldest – 12-year-old Isaiah – and headed for the men’s room.
Palmer assumed the position, which he calls “my perfect man squat.” He had his back against the wall, knees out and used his thighs as a platform for Liam to lay across. Isaiah acted as an extra set of hands: both to give the wipes and new diaper and, on this day, to snap a few shots of his dad and his brother.
Palmer later posted the photos on his Instagram and captioned it: “What’s the deal with not having changing tables in men’s bathroom as if we don’t exist!…Let’s fix this problem!” He used the hashtag #squatforchange.
Since then, the photo has gotten thousands of likes and other dads have also started to post photos of their diaper-changing struggles using the hashtag.
“In society, we have this thing where men are supposed to be macho providers and protectors, while women are the nurturing and caring ones. I’m trying to shred that,” Palmer said.
Men have been struggling to change diapers in public for years, and it’s been a part of the public conversation. In 2016, President Obama signed a Bathrooms Accessible in Every Situation Act, or the BABIES Act, which requires diaper-changing tables in all restrooms in public federal buildings, like courthouses and post offices.
According to the law, if a bathroom doesn’t have a changing table, hallway signs must direct parents to the nearest facilities.
But federal buildings aside, many public men’s rooms still don’t have diaper-changing facilities.
Palmer’s advice? “Keep squatting. Be creative. Stay innovative when it comes to our children.”
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