McDonald’s worker smashes coffee pot of hot water on customer’s head in Bronx
CROTONA PARK EAST, Bronx (WABC) — A worker at a McDonalds in the Bronx is under arrest after allegedly smashing a coffee pot filled with hot water over the head of a customer.
The incident was reported late Thursday night at the restaurant on Boston Road.
The victim reportedly first spit on the worker and tried to climb in through the drive-thru window of the restaurant.
Authorities say the employee, 24-year-old Emonie Reed, responded by hitting him over the head with a coffee pot filled hot water.
The coffee pot shattered, cutting the man on the neck. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and was said to be stable.
Reed was taken into custody. She was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
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Bill Clinton says Monica Lewinsky affair was way to ‘manage my anxieties’ in new documentary
Bill Clinton has described his affair with Monica Lewinsky as one of the ways he managed his “anxieties”.
The former president discusses his infidelity as such in Hillary, a new documentary series coming to Hulu this Friday.
At one point, he’s asked: “Why do you think you took that risk with your marriage and your child and your country?”
“Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever,” he says in part in his response.
“Things I did to manage my anxieties for years. I’m a different, totally different person than I was, a lot of that stuff 20 years ago.”
Clinton also says he regrets the toll that the headline-making affair has taken on Lewinsky’s life, stating: “I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it – unfairly, I think.
“Over the years I’ve watched her trying to get a normal life back again. But you’ve got to decide how to define normal.”
Hillary, out on 6 March and described by Hulu as ”remarkably intimate portrait of a public woman”, will consist of four episodes.
The program documents her life and political ascent from First Lady of Arkansas to Senator, Senator, Secretary of State, and ultimately, presidential candidate
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Elfen ‘s New to you but not to me Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
You know all during this week I’ve been listening to a lot of the Queen. And a lot of reactions to Queen. And realized but I haven’t introduce our tisippers to Queen. I remember hearing Queen playing on our record player in the 70s and 80s. You 90sc kids may remember hearing bits and pieces of them being played on popular movies like Wayne’s World. The lead singer’s name is Freddie Mercury he is a legend in this music biz! More of him later this weekend!! This video is with subtitles. The original Music video did not have subtitles.
A California woman cared for her ‘perfect’ succulent plant for two years. Then she found out it was fake.
Caelie Wilkes was proud she had successfully cared for her succulent for about two years — after all, she had accidentally killed a similar plant in the past.
This time, after getting the plant as a gift, she looked up how to properly care for it. She regularly watered the succulent; when others tried to help, she became protective, fearing they would overwater it.
It seemed to pay off; the plant always looked amazing. Rejuvenated by the success of her first plant, Wilkes — a mother of two from Willits, California, northwest of Sacramento — started accumulating more.
In late February, she decided it was time to repot it, and that’s when she made the discovery that has led to international attention: The plant, her original plant, was plastic.
There were no roots below the surface — only Styrofoam.
The discovery was “heartbreaking, but so funny,” she told USA TODAY on Thursday. Mostly, she laughed at herself.
She wrote up a Facebook post to share her experience.
“It was … just an overall perfect plant. I had it up in my kitchen window,” her post read.
“I put so much love into this plant! I washed it’s leaves. Tried my hardest to keep it looking it’s best, and it’s completely plastic! How did I not know this.”
That story resonated with thousands of people, and soon she began getting requests for interviews from around the world. Her plastic plant was featured on national TV multiple times, she said.
“A lot of people make small mistakes like this all the time,” she mused.
The attention has been mostly positive. She’s glad her mistake has brought other people joy. It’s not like all of her plants were fake — just the first one, she said.
She hopes to turn the story into a children’s book for her kids, who are both currently under 3 years of age.
As for the fake plant, Wilkes decided to go ahead and repot it anyway.
She’s “not going to give up on it now.”
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Texas man sent to prison for licking ice cream in Walmart before putting it back on the shelf
A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the criminal record.
A judge in the US has jailed a man who filmed himself licking ice cream from the tub in a Texas Walmart before putting it back in the freezer.
D’Adrien Anderson, 24, posted a clip of himself on Facebook as part of a trend of ice cream licking that swept social media last year.
The CCTV from the supermarket in Port Arthur, about 90 miles (145km) east of Houston, showed he later took the ice cream tub out of the freezer and bought it.
But the judge sentenced Anderson to 30 days in prison for the stunt and handed him a six-month suspended sentence.
Anderson was also ordered to pay $1,565 (£1,200) to the ice cream company, who paid for the entire freezer of ice cream to be replaced after the video was viewed by 157,000 people online.
US media reported that Anderson and his father returned to the supermarket to show police a receipt for the ice cream to prove none of the products were left tainted.
But police pressed charges of criminal mischief. Anderson pleaded guilty and on Thursday was fined a further $1,000 on top of his prison sentence.
“Anderson’s actions caused public concerns about the safety and quality of consumer products offered for public consumption, impacted Blue Bell consumer confidence and caused the company financial loss,” Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office said. “This type of activity will not be tolerated.”
Anderson was not the first person to lick ice cream and return it to the freezer for his online followers. A month before, a video of a girl licking another Blue Bell tub in a separate Texas Walmart was viewed 13 million times on social media, triggering a mini craze.
Police in Texas issued an appeal to track down the suspect. The cold case was cracked when they traced the video to a 17-year-old. But she was too young to face formal charges.
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Throwback video: ‘Affinity Magazine’ retracts their comment concerning the Olsen twins
About two years ago Affinity magazine commented on the Olsen twins’s aged appearance. Many were quick to agree and comment that “White people aged like bananas”. After some backlash Affinity found it appropriate to retract their insensitive comment. Lovelyti combed over the twins’ careers, alluding to conspiracies that child stars never had a chance in Hollyweird.
Trump Claims Thousands Could Still Go To Work With Coronavirus And Get Better
President Donald Trump suggested during an interview on Fox News Wednesday that many people with mild coronavirus symptoms could still go to work and get better. This goes against advice from medical professionals around the world who say that infected individuals should remain in isolation.
“A lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor, they don’t even call a doctor. You never hear about those people,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “So you can’t put them down in the category of the overall population in terms of this corona flu and or virus. So you just can’t do that. So, if you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work. Some of them go to work, but they get better.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance states that people with COVID-19 who do not need hospitalization should restrict all activities outside the home excluding seeking medical care.
“Do not go to work, school or public areas. Avoid using public transportation, ride-sharing or taxis,” the CDC advises.
A growing number of businesses, including Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft, have asked employees to work from home in a bid to limit the spread of the disease. The World Health Organization, as well as dozens of governments and health organizations around the world, have also asked infected people to isolate themselves.
While most people who contract the illness have mild symptoms, 1 in 5 people with a COVID-19 infection will need hospital care, the WHO states on its website. Older people and those with preexisting medical conditions are more susceptible to contracting the SARS-CoV-2 infection (the virus that causes COVID-19), and may suffer a severe or fatal case. It is therefore important for those infected to take extra precautions not to transmit the disease to others.
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Man gets up to 775 years in prison for filming sex abuse of infant
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man convicted of filming an infant being sexually abused will likely spend life in prison.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Tera Salango sentenced Richard Smith II, 41, on Wednesday to serve between 205 and 775 years behind bars.
Smith was convicted last month of 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, four counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust.
After handing down the sentence, Salango told Smith the videos he made that jurors had to watch “brought grown men to tears,” the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.
“I think that you are one of the most evil persons who I’ve ever encountered,” Salango said.
Smith declined to speak before being sentenced.
Smith and his ex-girlfriend, Roseanna Thompson, were arrested in May 2018 and accused of recording Thompson’s granddaughter being abused three years prior, state police said at the time. The arrests came after troopers were tipped off that Smith had child pornography at his home, news outlets reported.
Thompson is scheduled to stand trial in April.
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Former MO officer indicted after camera captures him kicking surrendering suspect
BRECKENRIDGE HILLS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A former Woodson Terrace police officer who was caught on camera kicking a suspect in the head was indicted Thursday for his actions.
Dash cam video showed Officer David Maas kicking a suspect after he surrendered. The incident happened near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Ogden in north St. Louis County in April of 2019.
The indictment asserts the suspect “was compliant and not posing a physical threat to anyone.”
News 4 learned the officer resigned days before an internal affairs review of the incident but was then hired by Breckenridge Hills police.Data is the lifeblood of AI, but complexity slows progress.Does your platform make your data ready for AI?Ad By IBMSee More
Breckenridge Hills Police Chief John Griffin would not confirm if he saw the video prior to hiring Maas, but said his hiring was approved by the city council. Griffin added at the time that Maas’ record was clean, giving him no reason not to hire him.
In Friday’s indictment announcement, Special Agent in Charge Richard Quinn said they took Maas’ actions as a betray of his responsibility to the public.
“Law enforcement officers take an oath to serve and protect the public,” he said in the release. “When an officer betrays that oath, and instead uses his or her position to violate a person’s constitutional rights, that officer must be held accountable. Our community, and our profession, deserve no less.”
Maas faces a charge of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both if he is convicted.
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Couple cancels European vacation due to coronavirus, runs into snags trying to get money back
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A St. Charles couple canceled their upcoming trip to Italy due to the coronavirus outbreak and say they hit a snag in getting their money back.
Alan and Linda Rosen have spent the past year and a half planning a big trip through Italy that included a cruise.
“He (Alan) was stationed there (in the military) and always wanted to see it because he loved it,” said Linda.
The Rosens were set to sail on a Carnival cruise from Barcelona in May but when the coronavirus outbreak came to Europe, they decided to cancel their trip, expecting refunds.
They said getting a refund from Carnival and their hotel was not a problem, but they had trouble with Delta Airlines. The couple says the airline allowed them to cancel but gave them one year from when they bought their tickets, July 20, 2019, to use a credit.It’s time to automate decisions, processes, and experiences.It’s time to put AI to work.Ad By IBMSee More
They also said they were told their traveler’s insurance, which was bought through Allianz, did not cover a cancellation due to an epidemic.
Delta’s policy concerning the coronavirus outbreak says they will wave change fees for all flights booked between March 1 – March 31 and international flights previously booked, but scheduled to fly in March.
Delta says the Rosens will be getting a refund and they sent News 4 the following statement:
We encourage customers to be as detailed and transparent as possible when sharing information regarding their travel plans. Our agents are trained to use situational flexibility to help reach a positive resolution.
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