North Carolina class teaches kids as young as 6 to use guns
“There was no other class like this,” said Michael Pegram, firearm trainer. “So, I decided to come up with it.”
Aiden, 9, is a graduate of one of Pegram’s gun safety classes near Mint Hill, North Carolina.
The children spend four hours both in classroom time and shooting.
They start with a Nerf gun and work up to a .22 or a 9 mm.
“It’s the parent’s choice of what their kids should be around,” Pegram said. “I’m just offering a class to let them learn to be safe if they’re going to be around them.”
Some students start as young as 6-years-old.
“A lot of times they’re not shooting 9 mm, but once in a blue moon if they know what they’re doing and I know they can do it, we have done that,” Pegram said.
Pegram has had some social media feedback and he said there’s extremes on either side.
“People are extremely against it or they’re extremely for it,” he said.
Aiden said he’s learned about safety.
“If you see a gun, tell your parents and never, never point a gun at people,” he said.
Which for Pegram, is what it’s all about, taking the unknown away from kids.
“They don’t have the knowledge to be safe when they do come across guns,” Pegram said.
Pegram says he didn’t think there would be any opposition to what he was doing.
He says he was surprised by the negative comments on social media.
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Instagram Model Smashes Nose Off 200-Year-Old Statue In Hope of Getting More Followers
An Instagram model has been slated for breaking the nose off a 200-year-old statue in a desperate bid for likes.
Julia Slonska has lost a lucrative advertising deal after smashing the statue in a misguided attempt to gain more Instagram followers. ADVERTISINGinRead invented by Teads
The moment she defaced the angel sculpture with a hammer in Warsaw’s Swiss Valley Park was captured on camera and has been shared widely online.
In footage lasting six seconds, the influencer looks at the camera and laughs before hitting the statue’s face in a number of rapid blows.
Quickly, the nose of the statue tumbles to the ground which induces laughter from Slonska’s friend.
According to News.com.au , a video of the incident was posted on Youtube which amassed over 6,000 views before it was taken down.
She was also tagged in the clip also uploaded to her friend’s Instagram where she received a massive backlash from viewers.
Julia and her pal reportedly concocted the scheme in an attempt to get more likes and clicks on the influencer’s social media accounts.
Twitter users rushed to slam her behaviour with some saying she was “dumb and brainless” where others thought she should face legal action.
Twitter user Mehmet Susaz wrote: “She has to be in jail” where another twitter user wrote “I hope the police will come to her tomorrow {Monday] at 6am”.
Following the uproar online, the model has been released from an advertising partnership with the online Polish bank mBank.
mBank have since said that the company was appalled by her behaviour.
They posted on Instagram: “We definitely do not support such behaviour, and the appropriate services should deal with it.
“As for the responsibility for what the actress does many weeks after the completed photos are taken – we cannot be responsible for the individual choices of such people.
“In this case, it’s a role for carers. We do not plan to involve this girl in the next spots.”
In an apology translated from Polish, Julia said: “What happened yesterday should not have taken place at all and seriously, I regret that I did it.
“I’m so stupid. I will not say what was driving me, why I did it, because it is more of a private affair, but I really wanted to apologize to everyone.”
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Millionaire to be sentenced for having sex with teen on autopiloted plane
A New Jersey millionaire could be heading to the slammer for the next five years after engaging in sexual acts with a minor — including once on his private plane while it was in autopilot mode, according to a federal complaint.
Stephen Bradley Mell, of Somerset County, was allegedly introduced to the 15-year-old girl by her mother — who wanted the teen to take flying lessons, the Bridgewater Courier News reports, citing the complaint.
Mell, a 53-year-old father of three, began chatting with the girl in 2017 — exchanging text messages and SnapChat photos — before eventually arranging to meet up at his $3.8 million mansion in Bedminster, the complaint says.
Mell allegedly “performed oral sex acts” on the girl on June 20 and then again several weeks later after sending her a message that said, “Miss you so much.”
The two of them would often discuss having sex and using birth control, with Mell allegedly purchasing an emergency contraceptive pill on July 6, the complaint says.
“If you are nervous it will hurt more,” Mell allegedly told the girl in a text. “When you are turned on is when it will feel ok.”
The two of them would meet up weeks later — on July 20 — for their private flight out of Somerset Airport, the complaint says. They allegedly flew to Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod “for the purpose of engaging in illicit conduct, specifically, a sexual act.”
It was on the flight back that Mell — an active community member who did volunteer work for a number of charities, including the New Jersey Conservation Foundation — allegedly put the aircraft on autopilot.
He and the teen communicated throughout the summer of 2017 and up until that November, when the last correspondence was documented, the complaint says.
“Send me a nice naked pic cute thing,” Mell begged. His wife would eventually divorce him after the relationship was revealed, the Courier News reports.
Mell — who pleaded guilty last year to engaging in interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, as well as child pornography — is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday for sentencing.
In addition to federal prison, the millionaire philanthropist is facing a multi-year sentence in the state pen for endangering the welfare of a child by engaging in sexual relations with a female victim under the age of 16.
Mell will be sentenced for those crimes in July.
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Florida man allegedly threatened to behead cops, eat their eyes
A Florida man allegedly threatened to behead police officers then “eat their eyes and tongues” while he was under arrest.
Ken Freeman, 50, remains held on bond Monday after he repeatedly threatened to decapitate six officers in a Brevard County parking lot, the Melbourne Police Department said.
Police were called to the scene Thursday after Freeman got into a fight with another driver who cut him off on the road.
Freeman and the other man “flipped each other off” before he followed the driver into a Dick’s Sporting Goods parking lot, authorities said.
That’s when Freeman allegedly exited his vehicle carrying a large knife, punched the other driver in the shoulder and held up the weapon to the man’s ear.
“I’ll cut your f–king head off in front of your family!” Freeman said, according to the affidavit.
Police then arrived to the mall parking lot, where Freeman allegedly repeatedly threatened the six officers.
“He stated several times he would cut officers’ heads off and eat their eyes and tongues,” police records said.
Freeman was booked into Brevard County Jail on charges for assault, battery and threatening death or serious bodily harm to a law enforcement officer.
He is scheduled to be arraigned June 13.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/florida-man-allegedly-threatened-to-behead-cops-eat-their-eyes/
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Thief steals chemo medication from patient’s porch
A brazen thief stole chemotherapy medication from an Oklahoma City man’s doorstep just minutes after it was delivered, delaying his treatment for brain cancer.
James Mills, 43, said his planned round of chemotherapy on Monday would not happen after a hooded suspect swiped the potentially life-saving delivery from his porch on Saturday.
“I checked the door and didn’t see the package,” Mills told KFOR. “I double checked and they said it had been delivered. I check the security cameras, and I saw the UPS driver deliver it, then about eight minutes later another individual comes up, grabs it and takes off.”
Video shows that the suspect took steps to avoid identifying himself during the heartless heist, keeping his head down and away from two cameras installed on Mills’ porch.
“I’m set to start a rotation of chemo [Monday] and it takes a day at least to get that mail ordered to us, so that’s kind of my concern at this point,” Mills told the station. “Every thing has to be taken at a certain time, at a certain dose … so hopefully I can get a replacement before I get too far out of range.”
Mills’ wife, Heather, said she was seething over the aggravation the thief has caused her husband.
“It’s not easy to get, I mean, we had trouble getting medicine to begin with,” she told the station. “Just having to call the pharmacy and go through the doctor and get approvals and things like that, so just that in itself is frustrating. So now to have to go through it all over again, just to get a replacement, it made me really angry.”
Mills said the pharmacy was closed over the weekend, leaving him without another option until it reopened early Monday.
“It’s pretty expensive medication as well,” Mills told the station. “We’ll have to find out what the procedure is to get [a] replacement.”
Mills, who did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday, has filed a report with Oklahoma City police regarding the theft and told investigators that the medication without insurance assistance was worth $30,000, according to an incident report.
No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon, police confirmed to The Post.
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Jada Pinkett Smith: ‘I had an unhealthy relationship to porn’
Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about once having a problematic relationship with pornography.
The 47-year-old actress shared on “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch talk show, that she “had a little porn addiction” in the past.
“I wasn’t in a relationship when I had a porn addiction, believe it or not, thank goodness,” she told her co-hosts, daughter, Willow Smith, and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones.
She continued, “I actually feel like I was using ‘addiction’ a little lightly. And maybe I’ll say now that I had an unhealthy relationship to porn at one point in my life where I was trying to practice abstinence.”
Pinkett Smith, who has been married to actor Will Smith for nearly 22 years, said she resorted to outside stimulation because she felt an “emptiness,” adding that porn gave her “false expectations” when it came to interacting with real partners.
In the more-than-20-minute episode, Pinkett Smith and her family discussed how there is a stigma around enjoying porn, but also how addiction to it can be detrimental to a person’s career and personal relationships.
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Queens basketball coach arrested for punching boy
GREENVALE, New York— A basketball coach from Queens has been arrested after he punched a child in the face in Greenvale, Nassau County Police said Monday.
Police responded to a call for an assault that took place at Sid Jacobsen Jewish Center on Saturday around 4:30 p.m.
Detectives arrived to the home of a young boy, who complained of substantial pain and bruising which he sustained while playing basketball at the center, police said.
Police were told that the injuries sustained by the child were inflicted by Cheikh Kadim Ndiaye, a 28-year-old intramural basketball coach, who allegedly punched the boy in both of his arms, with a closed fist, during a basketball practice, a Nassau County Police spokesperson said.
Ndiaye was placed under arrest and faces a single charge of third degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
He is set to be arraigned in Hempstead.
A spokesperson for the Sid Jacobsen Jewish Center released a statement saying
The individual in question has been prohibited from entering the premises and has been suspended without pay pending the investigation. We are cooperating fully with law enforcement and have launched a comprehensive internal investigation.
The security and well-being of all of our members especially our youth is of paramount importance. We will not tolerate any environment that is not safe and healthy for all in our community, including our youngest, every participant and member, and our staff.
The Nassau County Police Department has requested anyone who believes they may be a victim of the defendant to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.
All callers will remain anonymous.
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Ohio students accused of putting semen, urine in food for teachers
POWELL, Ohio — Multiple middle school students are under investigation after they allegedly put bodily fluids into food served to their teachers, according to WBNS.
The incident, which happened Thursday at Hyatts Middle School, could constitute felony assault, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office said.
Students allegedly put either urine or semen on crepes being served to teachers at the school. Video of the incident was shared with administrators the same day, WBNS reported.
The school district released a statement saying the incident was under investigation and anybody found to have violated school policies will be “held accountable for their actions.”
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After 7 artist Melvin Edmonds, brother of Babyface, dead at 65
R&B singer Melvin Edmonds, a member of the group After 7 and brother of superstar Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, has died at 65.
He died Saturday, After 7 co-founder Keith Mitchell confirmed on the group’s Facebook page Monday. The cause of death has not been revealed.
After 7 rose to fame in the 1990s with hits like “Can’t Stop,” “Ready or Not” and “Heat of the Moment.” The group was founded in 1987 by Melvin Edmonds, his brother Kevon Edmonds and Mitchell.
“Melvin was, without any doubt, the ‘Soul’ of After 7,” the Facebook post read in part. “His ability to ‘signaturize’ a vocal melody in Rhythm and Blues music produced a vocal sound that can never be erased or duplicated. … Melvin’s love for audiences and fans everywhere who supported our music is what drove him on stage and in life. He is and will be missed by my family, fans, and friends.”
Melvin Edmonds grew up in Indianapolis and was one of six brothers. One of them, known as “Babyface,” is one of R&B’s most successful artists and producers, with 11 Grammy Awards.
The group signed with Virgin Records in 1988 and its self-titled album was certified platinum. In 2015, Melvin Edmond’s son Jason Edmonds joined the group.
Melvin Edmonds battled health issues in recent years, including a stroke in 2011. He was able to rejoin the group in 2016 in time for its comeback album, “Timeless.” It had hits such as “Runnin’ Out,” “I Want You,” and “Let Me Know.”
He is survived by his four children, Melvin, Chris, Jason and Courtney.
CNN has reached out to Babyface’s representatives and After 7 for comment.
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10-year-old girls at slumber party fight off naked man who allegedly broke in and assaulted them
CLOVIS, Calif. – Two 10-year-old girls at a slumber party fought off a naked man who allegedly broke into the home and sexually assaulted them.
Timothy Jay Picard, 26, of Fresno, Calif., was arrested and faces charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor under 14, first-degree burglary, and violating his probation, according to Clovis police.
Police said Picard entered the home at about 12:30 a.m. last Sunday through an open window while the victims were sleeping.
The girls woke up to Picard inappropriately touching them and fought him off, according to police.
Picard escaped through a window and was arrested after the victims alerted the adults in the home who called 911.
Police responded and were assisted from the air by a California Highway Patrol airplane.
Picard has multiple prior arrests which include stalking and burglary. He had been on probation for stalking.
“The Clovis Police Department would like to commend the two juveniles for their bravery and quick action in fighting off the attacker and for the assistance of the CHP’s airplane in helping with this arrest,” Clovis police said in a press release.
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