Blue Bell responds to viral video of woman licking ice cream, returning it to freezer
Ice cream company Blue Bell Creameries is working with law enforcement to track down a woman seen in a now-viral video.
The video appears to show a woman opening a 64-ounce ice cream container at a grocery store, licking it and putting it back on the shelf.
Blue Bell issued a statement on its website thanking consumers for alerting them, adding:
We take this issue very seriously and are currently working with law enforcement, retail partners and social media platforms. This type of incident will not be tolerated.
Some online criticized the company for not better sealing their ice cream containers. The company responded saying the ice cream freezes to the lid creating a natural seal and any attempt to open the containers should be noticeable.
Here is the full statement from Blue Bell:
We want to thank our consumers for alerting us to the incident this past weekend of a video posted to social media showing a Blue Bell item being tampered with. We take this issue very seriously and are currently working with law enforcement, retail partners and social media platforms. This type of incident will not be tolerated.
Food safety is a top priority, and we work hard to provide a safe product and maintain the highest level of confidence from our consumers.
During production, our half gallons are flipped upside down and sent to a hardening room where the ice cream freezes to the lid creating a natural seal. The lids are frozen tightly to the carton. Any attempt at opening the product should be noticeable.
We will continue to monitor this situation.
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2-year-old girl eaten alive by crocodiles after falling into pit
A 2-year-old girl was eaten alive after falling into a pit of crocodiles on her family farm, say police in Cambodia.
Rom Roath Neary’s mother is said to have lost sight of her while she was busy caring for her newborn baby.
The youngster reportedly wandered away from the house near Siem Reap yesterday morning and was not seen alive again.
The girl’s father Min Min, 35, returned home at 10 a.m. and began looking for the missing toddler.
Horrifically, he found his daughter’s skull stripped of flesh on the ground of a concrete enclosure where the crocs swim in a pool.
Local media showed harrowing pictures of mom of three Nay Is, 32, breaking down in tears as she clutched the toddler’s remains to her chest.
Police Chief Capt. Chem Chamnan said: “Her father found only her skull in the crocodile enclosure, where she was killed by crocodiles.”
Officers said that the youngster had been at home with her mother, who had recently given birth and was caring for the newborn.
She left the house and went to play on the land around the crocodile farm, which is behind the property.
Police said the family had recently built a fence around the 10-foot-high concrete pool, but children were still small enough to fit through the gaps.
Lt. Och Sophen, chief of Siem Reap commune police, said the mother “lost sight of” 2-year-old Rom.
He added: “When the father came back home, he couldn’t find his daughter in the house. He found a skull in the crocodile enclosure.
“He confirmed that the daughter fell into the crocodile enclosure and that the crocodiles killed her, leaving only her skull.”
Officers urged other families to take extra care to prevent children from getting into crocodile farms.
The animals are kept to produce leather and meat.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/2-year-old-girl-eaten-alive-by-crocodiles-after-falling-into-pit/
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McDonald’s manager says woman attacked him with stun gun over drive-thru wait
HAYWOOD COUNTY, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is accused of using a stun gun on a McDonald’s manager and trying to drag him out of the restaurant’s drive-thru window Sunday.
Brownsville police have arrested Marquenta Glidwell in the caught-on-video altercation; she faces a charge of aggravated assault.
The 19-year-old employee, Jacob Jordan, told WREG the attack left him with both physical and emotional scars.
“She grabs me by my hair, pulls me out of the window,” Jacob Jordan said. “That’s when she has the taser, trying to go for my throat, punching me in my face, punching me in my eyes. Just beating me.”
Jordan, an overnight manager, said two customers were upset about how long it took to fill their order. Jordan said they wouldn’t stop blowing their car horn.
“I said, ‘Hey, I’m the manager, and you’re disrespecting me and the customers behind you by laying on the horn. We can refuse to serve you because you’re being disruptive,'” Jordan said.
Jordan said that’s when Marquenta Glidwell got out of the car and approached the drive-thru window.
He said Glidwell hit him with her credit card and used a stun gun, leaving a nasty looking mark on his neck.
“At first we thought it was just scratch marks from her fingers until you look at the video, and you can clearly see her trying to jam the taser into my throat,” Jordan said.
He said the whole time, she was threatening to kill him.
“Saying that because I voted for Trump I deserved this,” Jordan said. “I wasn’t even old enough to vote when he ran.”
Jacob, who said he’s gay, was shocked to hear the woman call him several insulting things.
“Honestly, I believe she was just trying to hurt me emotionally and physically,” he said. “It was really hurtful.”
Glidwell was arrested by Brownsville Police a short time after the alleged assault.
Jacob’s mother would like to see more serious charges.
“She needs to be charged with a hate crime because she hated my son for the color of his skin and his sexuality,” mother Jessica Garland said. “That’s hate, and that’s a hate crime to me.”
Jacob said he’ll return to work at McDonald’s because he needs the job so he can go to college. But he knows working the drive-thru will never be quite the same again.
Glidwell is in jail on a $10,000 bond. Her next court appearance is July 30.
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A black hospital patient went on a walk with an IV drip. Police arrested him on suspicion of stealing medial equipment – says he was racially profiled
A black man says he was racially profiled by white police officers while he was being treated at an Illinois hospital and went for a walk hooked up to an IV drip.
Police arrested Shaquille Dukes, 24, on suspicion of stealing the medical equipment, after a security guard called them.
The Freeport Police Department confirmed Sunday in a statement that Dukes filed a complaint “alleging unfair and biased conduct by responding officers.” The department said it has retained an outside, third-party investigator to “gather the facts, interview all parties involved, and determine whether officers conducted themselves in adherence to department policies and guidelines.”
Dukes wrote on Facebook that he was on vacation in Freeport, about 100 miles west of Chicago, when he came down with double pneumonia and went to the hospital. He told CNN he was admitted to FHN Memorial Hospital for two days.
On the morning of the second day, June 9, he said he was feeling better and asked doctors if he could go for a walk. He went outside with his boyfriend and his brother, still wearing his hospital gown and pushing a steroid and antibiotic IV drip.
As they went outside, Dukes said a security guard called them over to his car and asked if they were trying to “leave the hospital and sell the IV equipment on eBay.”
“I was livid, I was irate,” Dukes said. “The first thing he said to me wasn’t, ‘What’s your name? Can I help you?’ but ‘Are you stealing this?’” Dukes said his boyfriend began recording the encounter, as Dukes was trying to explain to the security guard that they were on a walk.
That’s when the security guard called for police backup, Dukes told CNN. He said the guard told police, “I have three black males attempting to steal medical equipment from the hospital.”
Police arrested all three men, charging them with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Two of the men were also charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest, according to a Freeportpolice press release issued June 17.
Dukes told CNN that before his arrest, police officers took his emergency inhaler and his IV was removed, though not by a doctor. Police said in a June 18 statement that the IV was removed by FHN medical personnel.
Taken back to hospital — in handcuffs
While officers were taking him to the police department, Dukes said he suffered an asthma attack. He alleges the officers withheld his asthma inhaler from him until they arrived.
Dukes said he was kept in the back of the police car until paramedics arrived. He told CNN he was then transported back to the hospital, this time in handcuffs.
The police department has appointed an independent investigator to look at the case, Freeport police spokesman Dave Bayliss told CNN.
Bayliss identified the investigator as Mitch Davis, who has served as police chief for 18 years in Hazel Crest, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Davis, who is black, is also a member of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police.
Dukes said he believes the incident should prompt additional sensitivity training for both police and FHN staff.
The hospital declined to comment, citing patient confidentiality, and said it was cooperating with the police investigation.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims Border Police agents are forcing migrants to drink out of toilets and live under other extreme conditions — while the officers sit back and laugh.
I see why CBP officers were being so physically & sexually threatening towards me,” the congresswoman tweeted Monday after leaving a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas.
“Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets,” she said. “This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress.”
The New York lawmaker was visiting a number of migrant detention centers scattered along the southern border on Monday with other congressional Democrats following reports of terrible conditions and repeated sexual assaults.
“Now I’ve seen the inside of these facilities,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress.”
She added, “I brought it up to their superiors. They said ‘officers are under stress & act out sometimes.’ No accountability.”
Ocasio-Cortez claimed that she “forced” herself into a cell with a group of female migrants and began speaking to them.
“One of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as ‘psychological warfare’ – waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc,” she said. “Tell me what about that is due to a ‘lack of funding?’”
The freshman legislator was planning to visit detention facilities in Clint — where the Trump administration “was denying children toothpaste and soap,” she said.
“This has been horrifying so far,” Ocasio–Cortez concluded. “It is hard to understate the enormity of the problem. We’re talking systemic cruelty w/ a dehumanizing culture that treats them like animals.”
A CBP official denied the toilet accusations on Monday, insisting that the locations Ocasio-Cortez visited have standard-issue jail-type appliances with sinks that dispense safe drinking water attached to toilets in a single unit.
“‘No one is drinking toilet water,” the official said. “They’re drinking potable water from the sink attached to the toilet.” It’s what you would find in every municipal jail in the United States.”
Ocasio-Cortez has accused CBP agents of making threats to her life on social media — saying a “secret Facebook group” of 9,500 officers discussed making a GoFundMe to harm her and the other Dems during their visits Monday.
“This isn’t about ’a few bad eggs,’” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted early Monday afternoon. “This is a violent culture.”
Rep. Judy Chu, of California, was among the congressional leaders who visited the centers with Ocasio-Cortez and also recounted what she saw on Twitter.
“‘If you want water, just drink from a toilet.’ That’s what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today’s #DemsAtTheBorder trip,” Chu tweeted, along with a video in which she described the conditions.
“What we saw was appalling and disgusting,” the congresswoman said. “There seriously has to be some changes.”
Monday’s border visit was met with outrage from local Trump supporters, who were caught on video heckling the Democratic lawmakers in both English and Spanish as they attempted to hold a press conference.
“Go take care of your country!” shouted one man, who repeatedly yelled “Trump 2020” with several others.
“You guys are retarded!” he added. “Cry me a river!”
Ocasio-Cortez, who spoke at the presser, got told to “go back to New York City” at one point.
“Nobody wants you here!” a heckler screamed.
“Did you bring your onion?!” another asked, blasting Ocasio-Cortez for shedding “fake tears.”
Videos from the presser were posted online by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Attempts to reach the group were not immediately successful.
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Uber driver pulls out sex toy on cops who feared it was a gun
A Connecticut Uber driver was tackled to the ground by police who believed he was reaching for a gun — only for him to whip out a sex toy, authorities said.
Eliot Buenano-Andrade, 48, was allegedly caught masturbating in his white BMW sedan, which was pulled over with foggy windows in Monroe on Tuesday, according to the Connecticut Post.
He had an open case of beer on the passenger side, and when asked to recite the alphabet, started at “D” and ended at “K,” according to the report.
When he was ordered to get out of the car, Buenano-Andrade started reaching into his pants — and officers, fearing he was going to pull out a gun, wrestled him to the ground, the report said.
Buenano-Andrade instead yelled that it was a sex toy and pulled one out of his underwear.
The driver, from neighboring West Haven, was charged with interfering with police and driving under the influence. He was released after posting $1,000 bond, according to the report.
He told police he worked for Uber. The rideshare company did not immediately return the Connecticut Post’s requests for comment.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/uber-driver-pulls-out-sex-toy-on-cops-who-feared-it-was-a-gun/
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Man admits to killing girlfriend’s daughter after claiming she fell down stairs
A New Jersey man admitted to killing his girlfriend’s toddler daughter two years ago while committing robberies and doing heroin to “forget a lot of stuff,” a report said.
Travis Graham, 23, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter on Friday for causing the death of 3-year-old Charlette Dawkins in 2017, according to NJ.com.
Graham initially claimed that Charlette fell down the stairs.
But after being arrested for a robbery in July of 2018, he told police that he backhanded the girl at the top of the stairs with such force that she “was spun around and fell down the steps face first,” the outlet said.
Graham also said he took part in some of the robberies for money to buy heroin.
“I just wanted to forget a lot of stuff,” he told police.
After pleading guilty on Friday, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said it will recommend a sentence of 30 years in prison.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/man-admits-to-killing-girlfriends-daughter-after-claiming-she-fell/
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Mom allegedly killed 12-year-old son she had tried to drown as a baby
A California mom has been arrested for allegedly murdering her 12-year-old son — and critically injuring his brother — a decade after she was convicted of trying to drown him as a baby, according to authorities.
Sherri Renee Telnas, 45, was busted after 911 callers reported that she was acting “strangely” early Saturday as she walked the boys to a field near her home in Porterville, according to Tulare County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies found the boys unresponsive in a ditch, with the 12-year-old later pronounced dead at a hospital. His 7-year-old brother is in critical condition at Valley Children’s Hospital, according to officials.
Telnas was arrested at the scene and held on charges including murder and attempted murder, deputies said.
In 2009, the mom was convicted in Montana of trying to drown the same boy when he was a 10-month-old baby — and sentenced to 20 years in the custody of the state Department of Public Health and Human Services, according to the Missoulian.
Prosecutors said she had been “in the throes of mental illness” when she submerged herself and her baby in a river, eventually taking him to a hospital where she admitted, “I tried to drown my baby,” according to the report.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal endangerment and ordered to undergo mental health treatment, according to the report.
At the time, the prosecutor said that her sentence “ensures that this won’t be repeated.”
Following the drowning attempt, the older child was put in his father Jacob Telnas’ custody, the Missoulian reported. It’s unclear how or why both boys were in her custody in California.
“We are aware of the Montana incident,” said Ashley Ritchie, a spokeswoman for the Tulare County sheriff, according to the Visalia Times-Delta. “We are working with multiple agencies to confirm the details.”
Officials have not said how the boy died pending an autopsy.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/mom-allegedly-killed-12-year-old-son-she-had-tried-to-drown-as-a-baby/
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Michigan man arrested after punching dog unconscious
(WNME) — A man was arrested in west Michigan after witnesses said he punched a dog until it was unconscious.
Thomas Anderson, 48 from Muskegon, told Oceana County Sheriff’s Deputies his dog was “being defiant” when they found him leaving the Hesperia Dam.
Oceana County Sheriff Craig Mast said multiple witnesses called 911 around 1 a.m. on June 16 and reported a man had punched his dog with a closed fist at least 10 times.
Witnesses said Anderson put the limp dog in the bed of his truck and drive away. They were able to give deputies a detailed description on the man’s vehicle and deputies caught up to him quickly.
The dog, described as a 100-pound hound, was found leaning up against the truck bed but was conscious when deputies got to them, Mast said.
Anderson gave a brief statement about his dog being defiant and not wanting to have a defiant dog. Witnesses were able to give deputies detailed accounts, according to Mast.
The dog was taken to the area animal control shelter for safe keeping and is still there, Mast said.
Anderson was arraigned on one misdemeanor charge of cruelty to animals.
Mast said Hesperia Dam is a popular place to fish at all hours of the day, so it isn’t uncommon for people to be at that area late at night or early in the morning.
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Homeless man pushes Nashville woman into traffic when she didn’t have money to give
NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A man asking for money was arrested for assaulting and pushing a woman into traffic in downtown Nashville after she told him she didn’t have any money to give him.
Investigators say the victim was on her lunch break and standing near the intersection last Friday when 65-year-old Timothy John Donahoe approached her and asked her for money.
When the victim told Donahoe she did not carry cash, he became upset and hit her in the face with an open palm he was carrying change in. Donahoe then pushed the woman into the roadway in front of traffic. The driver of a car had to slam on brakes to avoid hitting the woman in the road.
The victim sustained bruises to her face from the assault. She positively identified Donahoe through a photo lineup.
Donahoe faces charges of assault and reckless endangerment, and was booked into jail on $4,500 bond.
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