Man dies after adding a teaspoon of caffeine powder to protein shake
The family of a talented young musician who died after adding just one teaspoon of caffeine powder to a protein shake is warning people against using the substance.
Lachlan Foote died the day before his 22nd birthday after blacking out and never regaining consciousness in New South Wales, Australia.
Initially, there were rumors that Lachlan died of a drug overdose, reports news.com.au.
But his family learned of the fatal caffeine powder last week, when they finally received the coroner’s report.
And they have called for the product to be banned in Australia, as they believe it’s “scandalous” the potentially lethal powder can still be bought online by fitness buffs.
The coroner’s report concluded that Lachlan died of caffeine toxicity after the 21-year-old unknowingly ingested a dangerous amount of the powder in a protein shake on New Year’s Day last year.
Just one teaspoon of the caffeine powder of the type he had was the equivalent of up to 50 cups of coffee.
His dad, Nigel, said: “It turns out that Lachlan came home after celebrating NYE with his friends and made a protein shake, innocently adding too much pure caffeine powder – a teaspoon is lethal.”
Caffeine is a stimulant used in some whey protein powers to help boost people’s athletic performance.
Nigel said the family wanted to warn others against using the product, in a bid to save lives.
Caffeine powder is popular in fitness circles, commonly marketed as a diet supplement and used as an addition to protein shakes and health drinks.
It’s unclear where Lachlan got it from. A search of his computer and bank statements by both his family and police came up blank.
“We think Lachlan obtained the caffeine powder from a friend or work associate,” Nigel explained.
“Therefore, it appears the pure caffeine powder was bought by someone else and shared, so it’s very likely that Lachlan never got to read the warning label on the packet and was unaware of its potency.
“And the fact that he kept the caffeine powder in our kitchen pantry, where one of us might have mistaken it for flour or sugar, proves the point — Lachlan would never have kept it there had he known it was a threat to the family.”
Tragically, Lachlan sent a final Facebook group message to his friends on the night he died, complaining that his protein shake tasted bitter.
“I think my protein powder has gone off. Anyway… night lads. Cya in the morning,” hey wrote at 2:07 AM.
Nigel said that they found him “dead and cold on the bathroom floor (on) New Year’s Day, 2018… the day before his 22nd birthday.”
He said it had been “excruciating” waiting for the coroner’s report.
Caffeine powder ban urged
A pathologist told the coroner that there was no illicit substance and that Lachlan had only had a few beers.
The Food and Drug Administration in the United States prohibited the sale of large quantities of pure caffeine powder in 2018, four years on from the death of an Ohio teenager in similar circumstances to Lachlan.
Logan Stiner was a champion wrestler, gifted student and popular local in his town of LaGrange when he died just days before he was to graduate from high school.
He bought the powder online from Amazon and, like many, used it in protein shakes.
“As long as I live I will hunt that stuff down,” his mother Kate told local media after his death.
A search of eBay shows pure caffeine powder is widely available in Australia.
“It’s just insane that something so dangerous is so readily available,” Nigel said.
“Please warn your friends, talk to your children and perhaps check your kitchen cupboards. Pure caffeine powder looks just like any other white powder, but a heaped teaspoon of it will kill you.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/man-dies-after-adding-a-teaspoon-of-caffeine-powder-to-protein-shake/
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Sick boy walks mom down the aisle on wedding day
Maxine Connolly didn’t know if her son would live long enough to ever see her get married, which made it extra special when the 8-year-old walked her down the aisle at her wedding.
Maxine, from Scotland, married the boy’s father, Michael, after being together for 13 years. Aside from their son Jack, they have three daughters between the ages of 9 and 2.
Jack was born with a life-limiting condition, SWNS reports. At only 5 days old, he had his first surgery. Since then, he’s had two other major operations to fix a heart valve defect.
“His condition affects his day to day life,” Maxine told SWNS. “I had to give up my job last year because I kept having to take time off for Jack being unwell. He’s had three open heart surgeries. His first one was when he was five days old and that lasted for 16 hours. The last one he had was at the start of July in 2015. He’s going through diagnosis for autism.”
Jack will likely need a heart transplant and often needs a wheelchair to get around. Fortunately, for his mom’s wedding day, he was able to walk on his own.
“When I was halfway down the aisle, Michael had tears running down his face,” Maxine said. “He hardly gets emotional so you never see that side of him. I always say to him, ‘It’s OK for men to cry.’”
From what it sounds like, it was a very emotional day for the family. “The wedding coordinator brought Jack up to my room after I got dressed,” Maxine continued.
“When he came into the room the first thing he said was ‘Mommy you look so beautiful.’ When he said that I had this lump in my throat, I tried my best to not cry, so I held it back. But my eyes were full. It was so hard, he was so cute wearing his kilt. He looked so mature.”
“He was helping me walk by picking up my dress,” she said.
“Everyone kept telling him that it was fine but he kept trying to help, it was so cute. We kept telling him that he was such a good boy. It made him feel amazing because he loves to get praises.”
After the ceremony, Maxine had one more moment with her son that apparently brought everyone to tears.
“I also had a dance with Jack and literally everyone started crying,” she said. “Michael said to me that I made all the men cry too. I really felt like crying, it was a moment that I honestly thought I’d never have. I’m so proud of him.”
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Man busted using password-breaking software to hack women’s accounts
A man gained unauthorized access to more than 100 women’s digital accounts, all of which were password-protected, according to a statement this week from Assistant US Attorney Melissa M. Marangola.
Between March 2015 and December 2016, Justin Potts, 37, of Rochester, NY, used computer knowhow and password-breaking software to harvest the usernames and passwords of women’s online accounts.
Potts used Elcomsoft Phone Breaker software to gain access to the accounts, according to a report in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, citing a plea agreement.
Elcomsoft Phone Breaker “enables forensic access to information stored in a wide range of Apple devices running all versions of iOS,” according to Elcomsoft’s website.
It can perform “over-the-air acquisition of iOS devices, break into encrypted backups, obtain and analyze backups, synchronized data and passwords from Apple iCloud,” Elcomsoft says.
Elcomsoft also offers forensic tools for governments, military, law enforcement and IT security.
“Yes, sometimes our software is being used by bad people for bad purposes, like breaking into someone else’s account. This is, of course, a violation of our software agreement, but there is little we can do to prevent that,” a Elcomsoft spokesperson told Fox News.
“Our software is mostly intended for Law Enforcement Agencies,” the spokesperson added.
In this case, Potts accessed Facebook, iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, according to the statement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.
He gained access to these accounts without permission of the owners and used this access to obtain their personal information and personal photographs, Marangola said.
Potts then saved the personal information of the various women on his own electronic devices.
Rochester police alerted the FBI’s Cyber Task Force about Potts in March 2017, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
On Potts’ storage devices, agents found about 450 computer files that indicated unauthorized access into the women’s password-protected accounts, according to the Chronicle.
Potts was sentenced to three years’ probation by US District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
He also had a previous conviction, according to the Chronicle.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/12/man-busted-using-password-breaking-software-to-hack-womens-accounts/
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Lashana Lynch will play 007 in new James Bond movie
James Bond fans wanting 007 to be either black or female are in for a double treat — with the movie spy about to be played by a black woman, according to a report on Sunday.
British actress Lashana Lynch, 31, will be introduced as the new 007 in what is being described as a ‘popcorn-dropping moment’ in the franchise’s 25th movie that is currently being filmed, according to the Mail on Sunday.
But it is not a complete do-over — with her just taking James Bond’s secret agent number after he retires from MI6, the report states.
Bond himself will still be played by Daniel Craig — and will still adhere to his old-fashioned macho characteristics, an insider told the UK paper.
‘Bond, of course, is sexually attracted to the new female 007 and tries his usual seduction tricks, but is baffled when they don’t work on a brilliant, young black woman who basically rolls her eyes at him and has no interest in jumping into his bed,” a source told the Mail.
The insider called it a “pivotal scene” when Bond is called back from retirement and introduced to Lynch as the new 007.
“It’s a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he’s been replaced as 007 by this stunning woman,” the source told the Mail.
Londoner Lynch, who played the fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in “Captain Marvel”, is hoped to modernize the franchise criticized by many as being too dated and sexist.
“This is a Bond for the modern era who will appeal to a younger generation while sticking true to what we all expect in a Bond film,” the source said.
“There are spectacular chase sequences and fights, and Bond is still Bond but he’s having to learn to deal with the world of #MeToo.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/14/lashana-lynch-cast-as-007-in-new-james-bond-movie-report/
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3-year-old girl drowned in river while parents were high on meth, police say
BARREN SPRINGS, VA. (AP) — Virginia authorities say the parents of a missing girl found drowned in the New River were high on meth at the time she fell into the water.
The Wythe County Sheriff’s Office says they’ve charged 45-year-old Kimberly Dawn Moore and her boyfriend, 45-year-old Adrian Neil Puckett, with felony child neglect with reckless disregard for life and felony child endangerment.
Sheriff Keith Dunagan said the couple were under the influence of methamphetamine and “didn’t pay attention and now they lost their child.”
Crews found 3-year-old Josie Burleson dead in the river Wednesday. She was reported missing Tuesday after the couple says she wandered off while playing on the river trail.
Dunagan said more than 100 searchers looked for the child in the area in a five-hour search.
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GA landlords sued by white tenant who says she was evicted after having black friend over – “I don’t put up with n*****s in my [house], and I don’t want them on my property,” according to the lawsuit
A white woman in North Georgia has filed a housing discrimination suit against landlords who she says evicted her because she had African American guests over for a play date with her daughters, aged 2 and 9.
Victoria Sutton lived in a home in Adairsville, owned by Patricia and Allen McCoy, from August 2017 until December, when she says she moved out over concerns for her and her daughter’s safety.
She lived there with her family, including her 2-year-old’s father, her 9-year-old daughter and a 19-year-old niece.
According to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by lawyers from the ACLU of Georgia and the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, in September, Sutton began inviting a black co-worker with a 5-year-old son to visit so their children could play.
After one of the playdates, the lawsuit says, Allen McCoy knocked on her door and used racial slurs to refer to African Americans.
He called her a “n***** lover,” the suit says, and threatened to call Child Protective Services over her having a “n***** on their property.”
According to the lawsuit, he told her she had two weeks to move out, adding that he’d previously evicted a woman who’d tried to let an African American person move in with her.
The landlords deny the allegations
Sutton later called her landlords, recording the phone conversation with Patricia McCoy, who told her, “I don’t put up with n*****s in my [house], and I don’t want them on my property,” according to the lawsuit.
Allen McCoy denied the allegations to CNN affiliate WSB and said he wasn’t prejudiced. “Some of the best friends I got is colored,” he said.
Patricia McCoy also denied that she’d asked Sutton to move out over the race of her guests; rather, she cited damage to bathrooms, walls and doors in their rental property. However, the suit says that photographs of the property showed no such damage.
“Some of my best friends are black,” she told WSB.
Sutton now lives in Calhoun, a town about 10 miles north of Adairsville, according to the lawsuit.
Where you live and how you live
The suit alleges that the McCoys broke state and federal laws related to civil rights and fair housing. It is requesting compensation for damages related to emotional distress and the “diversion of resources” in having to move.
Sean J. Young, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia, filed the lawsuit on Sutton’s behalf. He told CNN that he hadn’t encountered another housing discrimination case in which he felt the evidence was so clear.
“Discriminatory motives are rarely spoken aloud and even more rarely caught on tape,” he said. “People who discriminate are almost always able to come up with a neutral-sounding pretext for their discrimination.”
He said it was important to work on the case because if the allegations were proved true, “it would be a stark reminder of the injustice that continues to thrive in Georgia today.”
Young added that “housing discrimination is one of the most pernicious forms of discrimination today,” that it contributes to inequality and that it can serve to limit the long-term dreams and aspirations of its victims.
“Where you live determines how you live,” he said.
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Texas woman lived with mother’s dead body for 3 years
A Texas woman was arrested on Thursday after it was discovered that she and her daughter had been living with her mother’s dead body for three years.
Delissa Crayton, 47, was arrested after the decomposed “skeletal remains” believed to belong to her mother, Jacqueline Louise Crayton, were discovered on Sunday at her home in Seguin, Texas.
Investigators believe the woman, who was 71 years old at the time of her death, suffered a non-life-threatening fall in her bedroom in 2016. Delissa allegedly failed to help her and the woman died after a few days of lying on the floor.
Police said Crayton and her daughter, who was under the age of 15 at the time, lived in the two-bedroom home for three years with the body.
Delissa Crayton is charged with injury to a child under the age of 15 through recklessly, by omission, causing to a child, serious mental deficiency, impairment or injury. It’s a felony that could result in two to 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000.
Her daughter was placed with family members and will receive help from the the Seguin Police Department, Guadalupe County Child Advocacy Center and Child Protective Services.
Police are still investigating, but said more charged are expected to be filed against Crayton.
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‘I hope Trump deports you’: Customer threatens Puerto Rican woman for speaking Spanish, then continues with “I pay legal money, not drug money.”
A racist rant by a white woman at a grocery store was caught on video. In it, she’s seen telling a Puerto Rican woman that she should “be deported” and go back to her “own country.”
Johanny Santana was shopping in Abington Township, located in Montgomery County, Penn., during the incident, as reported by NBC 10 Philadelphia. According to a video she posted on Facebook, Santana was at check-out at the store, in process of paying and leaving when the woman behind her in line began a tirade.
The video shows that she was unhappy with the fact that Santana was speaking Spanish, which is when the fall-out began.
When the Puerto Rican woman asked if she had a problem, the other woman responded with “Can you stop talking to me?”
The rant continued, and the video shows both women getting more and more heated. “I was born here, you don’t belong here,” the woman told Santana. “Go back to your own country — we’re not your fu***ing piggyback.”
The video shows her telling Santana how she “should be deported” because she “came here illegally.” She added that she hopes that Trump deports her.
Santana did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but she told NBC 10 that she replied to the woman with insults of her own — which she isn’t proud of, in retrospect.“I regret it because I didn’t want to tell her that,” she told the Philadelphia channel. “I felt powerless because I didn’t speak English well enough to be able to properly respond to her.”
As Santana completed her transaction, the other woman held out what appears to be $5 bills and said: “I pay legal money, not drug money.” The identity of the white woman in the video has not been revealed.
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Woman comments on her own wanted photo on the Crime Stoppers Facebook page: ‘That picture ugly’
A Louisiana woman wanted for second-degree murder was apparently unhappy with the photo officials used on social media to help bring her into custody – and she decided to vent.
“That picture ugly,” Precious Landry, who was still at large at the time, commented on her mugshot uploaded to the St. Martin Crime Stoppers Facebook page last month.
“Precious Landry you are always welcome to head over to the Sheriff’s Office and take a new picture if you want,” Crime Stoppers responded. “Or you can just wait to take it when someone turns you in to collect on the $1,000 reward.”
Soon after, the post was updated to say Landry had turned herself into law enforcement. “Thanks for all your tips and information.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/12/woman-posts-about-her-own-wanted-photo-that-picture-ugly/
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New Jersey pastor, Rev. Dr. William Weaver, allegedly set up an elaborate ceremony where he convinced the men involved that he would purge evil spirits from their bodies by performing oral sex on them
The pastor reportedly told his victims that this was a Native American ritual he learned first-hand from indigenous tribes.
The allegations from the three men date back to at least 1999, and each of their stories are very similar.
The men say that the pastor told them to get completely undressed during the ceremony, where he would perform various superficial rituals before performing oral sex on them. The pastor would then spit objects into a bag and tell the victims that he has removed the bad spirits from their bodies.
“He would then ingest my ejaculate and then would spit up multiple pieces of plastic or metal into a Ziploc bag,” one victim told reporters.
“When it was over he showed me what looked to be a tiny metal ball and said that was what he got out of me,” another victim said.
The men also described how the pastor put his tongue in their mouths to see if there were any spirits hiding in there.
Eventually, the men started asking questions about the strange ritual and realized that something wasn’t right.’
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