Utah police department says someone stole all of the toilet paper from its public restrooms
(Meredith) – A Utah police department said someone stole all of the toilet paper in its public restrooms, and the bizarre theft may be tied to coronavirus fears.
The Kaysville Police Department wrote about the incident in a Facebook post on Friday morning, urging the public to stop stealing its toilet paper.
“For those of you preparing for the coronavirus, what is the need for hoarding toilet paper?” the post reads. “The Kaysville Community must be in a state of crisis that someone has resorted to obtaining all the toilet paper from the KPD’s public restrooms.”
It’s unclear how many rolls were taken, but it was enough to trigger a PSA from the police department.
“We love our community, and we are here to serve you, but cops need toilet paper too!” the department pleaded.
So far, Utah has not documented any cases of someone in the state contracting the coronavirus, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Connecticut beverage company releases ‘Coronavirus Cocktail’ soda
NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) — A local beverage company out of New Britain released a new green colored soda that is causing a stir on social media.
On Saturday morning, Avery’s Soda announced that their newest lime-orange flavor, Coronavirus Cocktail, is only available for a limited amount of time.
“Some folks think our latest flavor is in poor taste, but everyone who tries it says it pastes pretty good,” the beverage company said.
Although most of the feedback is positive, one person chimed in and said, “people are dying. this joke is in poor taste”.
At the bottom of the post, Avery’s Soda asked that people wash their hands.
The company was founded in the summer of 1904 by Sherman F. Avery, according to their website.
Located at 520 Corbin Avenue, they bottle and small-batch craft soda in 35 flavors.
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9-year-old reportedly kills himself 2 years after mother’s suicide
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. (KMOV.com) — An investigation is underway after a 9-year-old boy reportedly killed himself in the Metro East.
The St. Clair County Coroner’s Office confirmed the boy died from an apparent hanging in a Brooklyn, Illinois apartment.
As word spread through the Thomas Terry apartment complex about the boy’s death, dozens of neighbors came out of their homes to console each other.
Many were hugging and crying.
They tried to console the boy’s father as he walked around the complex, seemingly in shock, dealing with the loss.
“I’m still trying to take in what’s happening, get the particulars, because I don’t know everything,” said E.J. Johnson, the boy’s great uncle.
Police on the scene said they are looking at the suicide as a possible result of bullying, but it was early in the investigation. The Belleville News Democrat spoke to a family member who said the boy accidentally suffocated while doing a social media challenge.
Research from the CDC showed in 2007, suicides among children age 10 to 14 were declining.
Then, over the next decade, the numbers nearly tripled. Now, suicide is one of the leading causes of death for children in that age range, thanks in part to social media increasing bullying’s prevalence.
It’s easier, it’s meaner and there are fewer consequences for the bullying because it can be done in private,” said Jessie Vance, a child counselor with Provident Crisis Services.
The family told News 4 the boy’s mother committed suicide two years ago.
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Group Stomps 15-Year-Old Girl On Brooklyn Sidewalk
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police are searching for a group of suspects accused in a violent gang assault and robbery of a 15-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
Investigators believe this was a retaliation attack for another incident that took place earlier. Police have not said what the earlier incident was about.
The brutal assault was caught on camera shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday on Utica Avenue near Sterling Place in Crown Heights.
Suspects in the crowd take turns stomping on her, kicking her, taking her sneakers, phone and debit card.
Watch: Brutal Gang Attack Caught On Video
“For so many kids to jump on one individual, it’s just ridiculous,” said Carlita Gorden, who works at a nearby salon and came to the scene when she heard screaming.
“Her book bag, she was grabbing on her book bag. No shoes, just sitting on the floor with no shoes,” Gorden added. “Then you see the little one holding her sneakers, running away. Come one, it’s sad. We have to do better as a community. We have to do better as people in general. That this little girl could’ve lost her life, it’s really sad.”
OUTRAGE:this is sickening video of a 15 year old girl viciously attacked by a group of school children. One young man takes the sneakers right off the unconscious victim’s feet. The teenager is in the hospital recovering. We CAN NOT allow this behavior in our community.
The chaos took place right in front of an electronics store owned by Anita Peavy, who says she quickly brought down the gate and went outside, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported.
“I didn’t need no trouble. I [was] scared the kids [would] come in here and just go crazy the way they was going crazy out there,” Peavy said. “I have never witnessed nothing like that yet in my life… To see such a small kid just dropping on one kid, it was crazy.”
Peavy – a registered nurse – then went to see if she could help the victim.
“She was bleeding like crazy,” Peavy said. “We just tried to keep her calm and sitting there until the ambulance come.”
The victim is being treated at the hospital for bruising and swelling to her face and body.
Longtime community activist Tony Herbert says the victim is his cousin.
“She’s traumatized right now. She’s in a bit of pain,” he said. “[Her] mom is just devastated right now to think that she sent her daughter to go to school to turn around and hear that she was a victim of an assault in the very city that she spent her life in.”
Police say five suspects turned themselves in Friday. All five are minors.
They’re still looking for the remaining suspects.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams condemned the attack.
Recently, the NYPD assigned more than 300 officers to serve as youth coordinators to crack down on crimes where offenders are younger than 18 years old.
Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. You can also submit a tip via the Crime Stoppers website, by tweeting @NYPDTips or by texting 274637.
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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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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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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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