Trio arrested after demanding cops shovel their car out of snow
Three people in Massachusetts were busted after they allegedly demanded that police shovel their trapped car out of snow — culminating with one of the suspects striking a cop.
The vehicle got stuck Tuesday when the driver lost control and plowed into a mound of snow amid the winter storm that walloped the Northeast, the MetroWest Daily News reported.
The car’s occupants — a woman and two men — tried to free the car to no avail as traffic became blocked in Framingham.
Police said the suspects grew angry when an officer told them they had to call a tow truck, according to the news outlet.
When police tried to speak to the driver, 19-year-old Bianca Torres, “the officer was immediately met with angry people demanding [the officer] to get a shovel and help them dig and push the vehicle out of the snowbank,” authorities told the site.
The officer called the tow truck, but once it arrived, passenger Nathaniel Chickering, 18, allegedly refused to let the car be towed and proceeded to block traffic.
Police then arrested Chickering, causing the other passenger, Michael Rodriguez, 21, to allegedly strike an officer in the stomach in an attempt to get cops to release his friend.
Cops also arrested Rodriguez, and when Torres intervened, they busted her too, according to the MetroWest Daily News.
During a search, police found a knife on Chickering.
The suspects were all charged with disorderly conduct, while Rodriguez was also charged with assault and battery on a police officer and Chickering was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon.
via: https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/trio-arrested-after-demanding-cops-shovel-their-car-out-of-snow/
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9-year-old CEO aims to inspire Black girls to embrace their hair
9-year-old Zoe Oli and her mom Evana are on a mission to empower young girls with their company Beautiful Curly Me.
It all started when Zoe came home at 6 years old and asked her mom why her hair wasn’t straight and “pretty” like her classmates. The mother-daughter duo began researching but couldn’t find any dolls that had braids and curls like Zoe’s. Zoe asked Mom if they could make dolls that she and other girls like her could relate to, and Beautiful Curly Me was born. The company now has dolls, books, face masks, clothing, sleep caps, and hair accessories. Zoe has also written books and created activity sheets to go with the dolls.
She’s balancing being the CEO of the company while still going to school. She hopes to inspire a new generation to feel comfortable no matter the skin they’re in.
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‘QAnon Shaman’ Jake Angeli is ‘wasting away’ in jail, attorney says
St. Louis attorney Al Watkins has filed an emergency motion seeking to release his client, ‘QAnon Shaman’, who was seen in viral photos storming the Capitol on January 6.
In the motion, Watkins claims that Jake Angeli, whose legal name is Jacob Anthony Chansley, has not eaten food for over seven days. Watkins said his client only eats organic food and that during a detention hearing in Phoenix last month, the Magistrate Judge ordered organic food to be provided to Chansley. When Chansley was moved to Washington, D.C., Watkins said the new facility refused to provide organic food.
According to Watkins, Chansley has not eaten since he arrived in Washington, D.C. As a result, Watkins claims that Chansley has lost at least 20 pounds in the past week. On Tuesday morning, Watkins said the request for organic food was denied because Chansley failed “to identify a ‘faith/belief’ upon entering DOC’s custody and DOC’s Religious Services staff’s inability ‘to find any religious merit pertaining to organic food or diet for Shamanism Practitioner.’”
In the emergency motion, Watkins also requests a pre-trial release of Chansley because other defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection have been released pending trials. The motion also states releasing Chansley “would not jeopardize the position of the Government or constitute a threat of any nature to the public, our nation, or the security of anyone.”
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Food delivery driver steals family’s puppy after dropping off pizza
(Meredith) – A food delivery driver was charged with grand theft after allegedly stealing a family’s puppy on his delivery route.
The act was caught on camera at the condo in Jacksonville, Florida.
On Saturday, Kimberly Block ordered a pizza through Grubhub. Police said after dropping off the pizza, delivery driver Arlinson Chilito, 22, stole the family’s 10-month-old teacup poodle named Lexi.
When Chilito arrived with the food at the family’s condo, Lexi went out the door. Police said Chilito then grabbed the dog, and surveillance video from the condo’s elevator shows Chilito hiding the puppy in a delivery bag.
Within minutes, police and people across the community were looking for Lexi. She was found hours later at Chilito’s home.
Chilito was booked into jail Sunday night and charged with grand theft.
In a statement to WJXT, Grubhub confirms Chilito is not one of its drivers, saying in part, “[Chilito] was using another contracted driver’s account without Grubhub’s permission or knowledge, which is a fraudulent misuse of our platform. We banned the driver permanently from our platform and support efforts to prosecute both individuals to the full extent of the law.”
When Lexi went missing, the family offered a $5,000 reward. They say they plan to donate the money to the Jacksonville Beach Police as a way to say thank you for bringing Lexi home.
Lexi is safely back with her family, happy to be home.
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Chilling video shows Indian man attack woman with ax after being rejected
Horrifying video captured an Indian man attacking a woman with an ax after she complained to police about his unwanted advances.
The surveillance video shows the assailant arriving on a scooter in front of the woman’s house in the Meerpet region of Hyderabad on Monday, right after another woman hands her a child, Daiji World reported.
The attacker, identified as Rahul Goud, 26, is seen running after the victim as she flees inside the home with the child. Another camera captures the ensuing mayhem inside as he hacks at her before fleeing.
He was caught the following day.
The woman was hospitalized with injuries to the palm, forearm and shoulder. She is expected to survive.
Goud, described as a family friend, had been harassing the woman for some time and tried to force her into a relationship even after knowing that she is married, according to the report.
She had recently lodged a complaint with police and he was arrested — but after being released on bail, the enraged man launched the attack with the ax, police said.
Assistant Police Commissioner Purshottam Reddy said Goud has been charged with attempted murder.
via: https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/chilling-video-shows-indian-man-attacking-woman-with-axe/
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Kanye West moves 500 pairs of sneakers out of Kardashian marital home
Kanye West has moved some things out of the Calabasas, Calif., home he shares with Kim Kardashian — including 500 pairs of sneakers, a source claims to Page Six.
In January, Page Six exclusively revealed that divorce “is imminent” for the couple, and that they’re in settlement talks, according to a source.
Kardashian has been on a girls trip to Turks and Caicos with her family, allegedly giving West space to remove some items. “They both felt it would be less dramatic without both of them in the house,” claimed the source.
The insider alleged that West didn’t take all of his belongings — but some items, including the impressive sneaker collection. The rapper was seen touching down in Los Angeles at Van Nuys Airport via private jet last week.
While on vacation on Sunday, Kardashian posted a series of Instagram photos posing in a brown string bikini and Yeezy’s polarizing Foam Runners — aka “Yeezy Crocs,” captioned “Just Chillin.’”
Our source wondered if “this was a dig at Kanye moving his shoes.” Social media users have speculated on other possible meanings of Kim posing in the shoes.
Kardashian posted an Instagram story on Monday of a new showroom in her home for her SKIMS line. Eagle-eyed fans noted the resemblance between the space and West’s closet — which he showed off on an episode of “My Next Guest with David Letterman” in 2019 — leading them to wonder if she has already converted the closet into her own space.
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Women bust TikTok pervs after exposing viral silhouette challenge scam
Originally created as a way to empower the female body, the TikTok silhouette challenge is being discouraged by women, who warn that the trend is being used by men to gawk at naked women. Their PSAs have since gone viral on social media.
The original trend entails placing a red filter over a clip of oneself gyrating naked or semi-nude so it appears as if their shadow is dancing seductively, like an animation in a Bond film’s opening credits. However, social-media opportunists have discovered how to remove the filter, thereby revealing the poster’s bare-naked or partially clad bodies, BuzzFeed reported. They’ve also posted tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere showing fellow voyeurs how to follow suit.
“This is readily happening across social media with little community violation response by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok,” wrote one incensed Facebook Samaritan of the brazen privacy violation. They added, “When reminded that this is gross, creepy, and non-consenting, men respond that women are always finding ways to make themselves victims and they shouldn’t have been naked on the internet.”
“This is a huge consent violation and @YouTube should remove them ASAP,” tweeted Ej Dickson, a culture writer at Rolling Stone.
In another PSA with almost 100K likes, a TikTok user warns challenge participants to be “cognizant of what you’re wearing before you do all the editing for the final product.” The self-proclaimed photographer also posted a follow-up video in which she refuses to demonstrate the silhouette challenge, and instead posts comments from outraged commenters.
Fortunately, it seems that the anti-peeper brigade’s pleas haven’t fallen on deaf ears. A subreddit on peeking behind the digital red curtain, called r/SilhouetteUnfiltered, has been suspended, while Twitter scrapped several accounts that were editing the TikTok posts and shaming the participants.
via: https://nypost.com/2021/02/02/tiktok-users-warned-about-silhouette-challenges-potential-dangers/
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Three people are dead after an argument over snow shoveling leads to murder-suicide
(CNN)Three people, including the shooter, are dead after a dispute over snow shoveling in Plains, Pennsylvania, outside Wilkes-Barre on Monday, Plains Township Police Chief Dale Binker told CNN on Tuesday.
At around 9 a.m. Monday, the shooter, Jeffrey Spaide, got into an argument with James and Lisa Goy, who lived across the street, while shoveling snow from his driveway, a release from the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office said.
The Goys were shoveling snow from their parking spots across the street onto Spaide’s property, the release said. Spaide asked them to stop and the argument escalated quickly.
As they argued, the release says Spaide went into his house, retrieved a handgun, and came back outside firing multiple shots “at close range” at the Goys. He then went back into his house, pulled out an AR-style rifle, and fired at the injured Goys, “executing them,” Binker said.
Binker told CNN this was not the first disagreement between Spaide and the Goys over snow this year.
Two months ago, another snowstorm also led to an altercation between them, he said, though police were not notified of that dispute and said Spaide was not known to police for any other matter.
Police arrived soon after the Goys were shot, and as they approached, heard a single gunshot coming from Spaide’s house, which they believe was the self-inflicted shot that killed him, Binker said. Both James and Lisa Goy were pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
The Goys left behind a 15-year-old son with autism, whose grandparents will assume custody, Binker said, adding that they worked through the night on the case and consider the investigation closed.
via: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/us/snow-shoveling-dispute-murder/index.html
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Black History Month Day 2: Strange Fruit
Happy Black History Month everyone! I know I’m a day late but I still wanted to start off with something a little familiar, take a listen!
Mom spent 20 hours detangling daughter’s hair after freak toy incident
Twins Noah and Abigail Hoelzle, 6, were playing in their Churchville, Pennsylvania, home recently when Noah dumped a container of Velcro-like Bunchems toys onto Abigail’s head, creating a gnarly nightmare that took nearly a full day to untangle.
The kids had just finished their day of virtual schooling and headed downstairs to play when Noah came running back upstairs to tell their mother, Lisa, that Abigail had something stuck in her hair.
“I think I had an out-of-body experience,” Lisa wrote in a now-viral Facebook post of the moment she saw Abigail’s Bunchem-filled hair. The spheres are meant to be stuck to one another — but an increasingly frustrated population of parents are finding that they’re anything but fun when they end up in kids’ hair. Countless reviews of the toys on Amazon warn moms and dads of the impending doom.
“She had about 150 of these things layered and matted in her hair,” Lisa wrote.
After some three hours of detangling, she’d only managed to remove 15 of them. A quick Google search suggested using conditioner and vegetable oil, but Lisa and her husband, Dan, found those only “made it worse and so messy.”
That night, Abigail passed out with her head on Lisa “so they wouldn’t get more tangled.” In the morning, Lisa went on a Bunchems-removal shopping spree, buying mineral oil and a detangling comb, and getting ready for a day of war against the toys stubbornly stuck in her daughter’s hair.
Her mission was successful. After countless tears (Lisa’s), apologies (Noah’s), consolations (from Abigail, who was “surprisingly amazing about it”), 20 total hours of Bunchems-removal and an hour of post-removal bathtub hair conditioning, Abigail’s hair was relatively back to normal.
“We saved her hair and although it is thinner it wasn’t as damaged and ruined as I thought so Thank you God!!!” wrote Lisa, adding that her fingers are swollen from the experience.
Now, the mother is on a campaign to prevent others from repeating her nightmare.
“Spread the word,” she encouraged fellow parents. “Trash you Bunchems if you have them or if you love them [wear] a shower caps when playing.”
A spokesperson for Bunchems’ manufacturer, Spin Master, told Kennedy News & Media wire service that “Bunchems packaging and directions clearly state: ‘Caution: Keep away from hair. May become entangled.’”
Following the product’s 2015 release, the spokesperson added, the company “quickly developed instructional videos for our YouTube channel and websites as a way to proactively educate people on how to play with the product and how to remove Bunchems from hair if they do get tangled.”
While Bunchems are still available for purchase, they were discontinued last year.
via: https://nypost.com/2021/02/01/mom-spent-20-hours-detangling-daughters-hair-of-bunchems/
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