Toddler Repeatedly Enters Wrong Password, Locks Father’s iPad for 48 Years
Let’s just call this reason No. 580 not to leave your kids alone with technology: They might lock you out of it.
That’s what happened over the weekend to Evan Osnos, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
He put out a tweet — or a cry for help — letting the world know of the little situation his toddler put him in.
“Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?” Osnos tweeted. A photo of the iPad’s screen noted the device was disabled. It also had this mind-blowing message: “Try again in 25,536,442 minutes.”
That’s more than 48 years, for those of you who don’t want to do the math. So Osnos’ iPad will be available to him again sometime in 2067. Great, he’ll have something to keep him occupied in the retirement home.
The iPad lockout is a security feature of Apple devices that kicks in whenever someone repeatedly types the wrong password. The more times an incorrect password is entered, the longer the lock-out time grows.
Thankfully Osnos’ Twitter followers gave all kinds of help in the comments, because there’s nothing but good things in the comments, right?
People offered hundreds of suggestions. Some were practical: “Just connect it to the computer you originally synced it to iTunes on, let it sync and it’ll be fine.”
Others were nonsensical: “Put it in a bag of rice.”
One commenter had a novel idea: “Time travel seems to be your best bet.”
Yeah, probably.
Another person suggested Osnos should “reboot” the 3-year-old, but that seems a tad bit unnecessary.
Ready for a restore
Several others said no worries — just wait out the 48 years. Because you know folks on social media are known for their patience.
So what does Apple suggest? Apple says you would need to perform a restore to use the device again (but you would lose the data on the device if you’ve never backed it up).
Osnos told the New York Daily News on Monday he was still locked out of the device.
“It’s down a few hundred minutes from yesterday, but it looks like we’ve still got 25 million minutes to go,” he told the newspaper. “The consensus seems to be that we’re using an old operating system that won’t let us restart fresh from iTunes.”
CNN reached out to Osnos for comment and is waiting to hear back.
Later on Monday Osnos tweeted that he’d managed to get the iPad into DFU (Device Firmware Update) mode and is in the process of restoring the tablet.
“Thanks to those who shared advice!” he said.
Assuming Osnos gets back into the iPad, maybe he should just give his kid the password.
Oregon Man Gets Jail for Sexually Assaulting Small Dog Who Was Euthanized Due to ‘Extensive’ Injuries
A judge sentenced an Oregon man to 60 days in jail for sexually assaulting a small dog whose injuries were so severe that she had to be euthanized, prosecutors announced Monday.
In sentencing 52-year-old Fidel Lopez, Judge Angel Lopez told the defendant he would have imposed a tougher penalty if the law allowed it.
“If it could have been more, I would have gladly given you more,” the judge said in court, according to a news release from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. The sentence — 60 days in jail and 36 months of probation — was the maximum possible.
Fidel Lopez pleaded guilty to a count each of aggravated animal abuse in the first degree and sexually assaulting an animal.
In entering the plea, Lopez “admitted that he unlawfully and intentionally tortured ‘Estrella,’ a Lhasa Apso mix, and that for the purpose of arousing his sexual desires, he sexually assaulted Estrella,” the release stated.
Lopez was arrested on Feb. 13 following an investigation that began late last year when the dog’s owner took her to an animal hospital amid concerns the pup had been sexually abused, according to officials.
Veterinarians determined Estrella had been sexually assaulted. The dog had to be euthanized because of “extensive internal injuries,” prosecutors said.
Forensic evidence confirmed Lopez abused the canine, the release stated.
According to an affidavit obtained by the Oregonian, Lopez became frustrated after his fiancee — Estrella’s owner — didn’t come home or answer her phone, and he had sex with the dog.
When the woman returned, the dog was crying and hiding under a couch, the newspaper reported. She requested a rape kit because Lopez had expressed a prior interest in bestiality, according to the Oregonian.
As part of the sentence, Lopez will not be allowed to have a dog for 15 years, the DA’s office said.
He also cannot contact Estrella’s owner without permission from the probation department, and he must undergo treatment for people who abuse animals, among other penalties.
“This case was prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under Oregon law,” Deputy DA Nicole
Jergovic said in the release. “The torture and abuse that Estrella suffered is unimaginable. Under Oregon’s current sentencing guidelines, Fidel Lopez is receiving the maximum sentence based on the amount of time he has already served in custody and his lack of criminal history.”
Man Charged in Killing of His Son’s Mother During Custody Exchange Outside Hawthorne Police Station
A man accused of fatally shooting the mother of his 1-year-old son outside a Hawthorne police station has been charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Jacob Ryan Munn, 30, also faces a count of possession of a firearm by a felon, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The charges include special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and that the defendant used a shotgun in the homicide
The fatal shooting took place around 6 p.m. Sunday in front of the police station, located at 12501 Hawthorne Boulevard, according to the Hawthorne Police Department.
Munn had left the 17-month-old boy in the station for his ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Brenda Renteria, to pick up, prosecutors said.
Renteria was shot in front of the station as she approached the door, according to authorities. The victim was with her mother at the time.
After the shooting, the suspect got into his car and drove away from the scene, Lt. Jim Royer said. He was apprehended about three hours later.
The child was not hurt, police said. He was taken into protective custody.
Munn faces the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison if convicted as charged, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
A decision has not yet been made whether to seek capital punishment.
Munn’s arraignment was continued until April 24. He is being held without bail, prosecutors said.
Waffle House good Samaritan shot to death paying for meals, handing out $20 bills
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Craig Brewer was killed at a restaurant in Florida after a dispute escalated.
A good Samaritan was fatally shot over the weekend while handing out $20 bills and paying for meals at a Florida restaurant, according to police.
Police arrested Ezekiel Hicks, 25, on murder charges early Sunday in the death of 41-year-old Craig Brewer, who was shot and killed at a Waffle House, in Gainesville, Florida, just a few miles west of the University of Florida.
Officials with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said the restaurant’s surveillance camera captured an altercation between the two on video. Witnesses said the victim was arguing with a female acquaintance of the suspect, who was reportedly upset because Brewer’s generosity didn’t include her.
Hicks intervened and got into a physical altercation with the victim, police said. At one point, Hicks left the Waffle House and retrieved a 9mm Glock pistol, which was later recovered at the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.
The altercation “lasted only a few seconds” and ended with Hicks firing multiple shots towards the victim’s head, killing him on the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
Lt. Brett Rhodenizer, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said officers received a call about the restaurant reaching its maximum capacity and were en route when the shooting occurred.
“They feel like they were so close and just far enough away to where they couldn’t change the outcome,” Rhodenizer told ABC News on Monday. “This incident went from a verbal altercation to a homicide in minutes, if not seconds.”
“The speed at which it happened and how quickly it went so bad — for both the victim and the suspect — is really kind of the thing that resonates the most with a lot of the folks that have been a part of the investigation,” he added.
Hicks was arrested in the parking lot, where he admitted to shooting Brewer, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators are now looking to see if the victim may have had a prior issue with the suspect or his acquaintance that led to the argument.
“The why of this case will persists for days and weeks as we conduct follow-up interviews, but the how is incredibly straightforward,” Rhodenizer said. “Out of all the investigations that I’ve seen, very seldom do you have an incident from start to finish on video that ends in a murder.
“It was literally in the single digits worth of minutes from the time we received the initial call from the Waffle House, saying, ‘Hey, there’s too many people here, we’d like a hand clearing the restaurant,’ to deputies are on the scene, told about a shooting, and we have a suspect in custody and a firearm recovered.”
Hicks was being held without bail on charges of premeditated murder in the first degree and carrying an unlicensed firearm. His attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment from ABC News.
Doctor dragged off United Airlines flight after watching viral video of himself: ‘I just cried’
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The Kentucky doctor seen in a viral video being forcibly removed off an United Airlines flight has spoken publicly for the first time since the 2017 incident, telling ABC News that while the ordeal caused distress for him and his family, he doesn’t regret standing his ground because it caused the airline to take a closer look at its policies.
Video Of A Passenger dragged off overbooked United flight goes viral!
On April 9, 2017, David Dao was traveling from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky, on United Airlines Flight 3411 and already was in his seat with his seat belt fastened when an airline employee informed him that he would need to deplane because the flight was overbooked, he told ABC News.
Fellow passengers took cellphone videos of a bloodied Dao being dragged off the plane.
Even months after the incident, Dao found the video hard to watch.
“I just cried,” he said.
Dao said he stood his ground and refused to get off the plane because he felt he was being discriminated against and was trying to get back to Kentucky to oversee the opening of a clinic he founded for U.S. veterans. He and his wife started the clinic as a way to thank American servicemen and women, because he was plucked out of ocean waters by the U.S. Navy as he fled communism in his home country of Vietnam about 44 years ago, he said.
He said while in his seat, belt still fastened, he was on the phone with a friend, asking for advice on whether he should get up, when the next thing he knew, he was being pulled from his seat. He doesn’t remember anything after he bumped his head on the low ceiling.
“After that, to be honest, I don’t know what happened,” he said, adding that he heard a “big noise” and later woke up in the hospital with a trauma team surrounding him.
The first few months were “horrible,” he said. He suffered a concussion, lacerations to his mouth and nose, and several of his teeth were knocked out, he said. He was put on suicide watch by hospital staff and later spent months learning to walk again, he said.
Dao relied on his faith during his recovery, he said, adding that he made a promise to God that if he got better, he would devote his time to charity work. Since then, he has helped residents in Texas displaced by Hurricane Harvey and traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia to help install solar power in villages with no electricity, he said. Even in the Far East, people knew his story, he said.
One elderly man approached him and asked, “You the one on airplane?” Dao said.
“That touched me,” the doctor said, holding back tears.
Dao still struggles with issues sleeping and with his concentration and balance, he said. While he’d run more than 20 marathons before the incident, now he can only do about 3 miles — with at least one of them by walking, he added.
While United’s initial statement labeled Dao as “belligerent,” the airline later apologized, vowing to conduct a “thorough review” of the “truly horrific event.”
Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, said he felt “shame” when he saw the video.
“This will never happen again,” Munoz told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” in an interview three days after the incident. “We are not going to put a law enforcement official onto a plane to take them off … to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger. We can’t do that.”
When asked whether United should have done anything differently, Dao said the airline employees could have explained their reasoning for booting him from the flight “nicely” and “reasonably.”
“That makes a difference,” he said.
Still, the retired doctor said his ordeal actually was “positive” because the airline was willing to take a hard look at its policies and change them.
“Everything happens with a reason,” he said.
Weeks after the incident, the airline offered Dao a settlement that his attorney at the time, Thomas A. Demetrio, described as “amicable,” which Dao accepted. The settlement included a provision that the amount offered remain confidential.
Dao said he decided to speak publicly for the first time to thank his supporters all over the world.
United Airlines issued a statement to ABC News, saying the changes they’ve implemented since the incident “better serve out customers and further empower our employees.”
“Flight 3411 was a defining moment for United Airlines and it is our responsibility to make sure we as a company and all of our 90,000 employees continue to learn from that experience. The changes we have implemented since that incident better serve our customers and further empower our employees,” according to the statement from United Airlines. “This year, we are focused more than ever on our commitment to our customers, looking at every aspect of our business to ensure that we keep their best interests at the center of everything that we do. As our CEO Oscar Munoz has said, we at United never want anyone in the United family to forget the experience of Flight 3411. It makes us a better airline, a more caring company and a stronger team.”
Woman says SUV burst into flames 22 minutes after driving off used car lot
GRAFTON, Wis. – A Wisconsin woman says the car she saved two years to buy burst into flames 22 minutes after she bought it, and the used car dealership that sold it to her is refusing to give her money back.
Images from the incident serve as a haunting reminder of Nicole Brandt’s near-death experience on Wednesday, April 3.
“I haven’t been able to drive since then,” Brandt told WITI Monday.
She was on I-43 northbound in Grafton, on her way to pick up her kids in the used 2006 Chrysler Pacifica she purchased 22 minutes earlier at Big Bill’s Auto near Appleton and Center in Milwaukee.
“Something from underneath the engine. It was just melting. The engine was just melting out from underneath,” said Brandt.
The SUV began smoking, and Brandt pulled over. An approaching driver snapped photos. Brandt got out seconds before flames appeared near the windshield.
“The car is a shell. A burnt-out shell,” said Brandt.
No one at Big Bill’s Auto would talk to a WITI reporter who stopped by on Saturday and Monday.
“All I wanted was my money back,” said Brandt.
After some haggling on Thursday, Brandt said she thought she was able to get the dealership to refund the $2,900 she paid for the SUV – but now she doesn’t think the funds were ever transferred.
“There’s no money in the account,” Brandt said. “The bank said that they should have at least seen the transaction — even if it hasn’t hit my account yet. They should at least see it. He didn’t do the refund.”
Officials with the Grafton Fire Department and Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office said they will never be able to determine what really happened to the SUV.
Meanwhile, Brandt said she’s looking into ways to try to get her money back. She did not have insurance.
Bay Area Uber Driver Caught on Video Returning to Rob Home of Passenger He Dropped Off at Airport
A man who drives for Uber in the Bay Area is behind bars after allegedly returning to the home of a passenger he dropped off at the airport in an attempt to burglarize it, officials said Monday.
Jackie Gordon Wilson, 38, of Rancho Cordova, was unsuccessful in robbing the passenger’s home but wound up targeting another residence nearby, San Mateo police said in a news release.
Officers were called about the burglary at the second house, on the 1700 block of Nash Drive, around 5:35 p.m. Thursday. They found the home completely ransacked with several items missing, investigators said.
The break-in was partially captured by a Ring doorbell security camera, and the homeowner uploaded the video to the company’s Neighbors app, police said. The app allows users to share home surveillance video from the company’s devices with others in their community.
The Uber passenger who’d been dropped off at the airport is also on the app — and quickly recognized the man as their driver, who’d been recorded by their Ring device returning to their home on the 600 block of Rand Street, according to detectives.
The residences are about half a mile apart in the Shoreview neighborhood.
The video from Rand Street showed Wilson outside the passenger’s house about an hour after the person was dropped off, but he abandoned attempts to break in after an alarm went off, officials said.
Authorities investigated the claims overnight and identified Wilson as a suspect the following day.
Wilson was arrested at his home in Rancho Cordova, outside Sacramento, around 9 p.m. Friday. He was wearing the same clothes as the suspect on the Shoreview homes’ surveillance cameras, officials said.
Upon serving a search warrant at Wilson’s residence, investigators allegedly uncovered property stolen from the home on Nash Drive.
He was being held on suspicion of burglary and attempted burglary, and detectives are now looking into whether he can be tied to similar crimes in the area.
In an emailed statement, Uber said it removed Wilson’s access to the ride-hailing app as soon as it was made aware of the accusations against him, and the company is cooperating with police.
Lyft did not immediately return request for comment on whether Wilson was also a registered driver on its platform.
Stanford expels student involved in admissions bribery scandal ($500,000 donation to sailing program)
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Stanford University expelled a student who put false material in their college application and was linked to a $500,000 donation from the charity at the heart of the college admissions scam.”
We determined that some of the material in the student’s application is false, and, in accordance with our policies, have rescinded admission,” Stanford said in an update on its website. “Any credits earned have also been vacated. The student is no longer on Stanford’s campus.”
The student is not named in the statement or in court documents.
Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to commit racketeering for arranging bribes of $110,000 and $160,000 to the sailing program in exchange for falsely designating two applicants as sailing recruits. Neither of the students had competitive sailing experience, the criminal complaint states.
The money was funneled from wealthy parents to a charity run by Rick Singer, who then directed the payments to Vandemoer, according to the complaint.
However, neither of those students completed the application process, so neither were admitted nor enrolled at the school, Stanford said.
A third student, though, was associated with a contribution to Stanford’s sailing program from the charity central to the scam, known as Key Worldwide Foundation, Stanford said.
“The contribution was made several months after the student was admitted to Stanford. The student had no recommendation from the former sailing coach, or any other coach, and has not at any time had an affiliation with the Stanford sailing program or any other Stanford athletic team,” Stanford said.
Stanford said KWF contributed a total of $770,000 to the sailing program in the form of three separate gifts. Given that the two students who did not enroll were associated with gifts of $110,000 and $160,000 to the sailing program, the third student was therefore associated with a gift of $500,000.
Stanford is the second school to expel a student as part of the fallout of the college admissions scam. Yale University kicked out a student two weeks ago whose family paid $1.2 million to get her admitted as a fake soccer player.
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Pakistani woman says husband beat her, shaved her head for dance refusal
A Pakistani woman is accusing her husband of beating her and shaving her head because she refused to dance for him and his friends at their home in an upscale neighborhood of Lahore.
The woman, Asma Aziz, appeared with a shaven head and a bruised face in a shocking, emotional video posted to Facebook on March 26, two days after she said the attack took place.
“He took my clothes off in front of his servants. The servants held me as he shaved my hair off and burned it. My clothes were bloody. I was bound by a pipe and hung from the fan. He threatened to hang me naked,” she said, according to the BBC.
The incident caused a furor on social media about women’s safety in Pakistan, because Aziz said in the video she went to police to file a complaint but they procrastinated, the outlet reported. Police denied that allegation to local media, stating they tried to investigate but couldn’t get into the home.
They arrested her husband of four years, Mian Faisal, and a servant, Rashid Ali, the day after the video was posted and came to the attention of Deputy Minister for Interior Sheheryar Afridi, who ordered officers to register a complaint.
Faisal denied torturing his wife and said she had started cutting her hair under the influence of drugs, and that he, having also taken drugs, only helped her finish the job.
Cannibal teen tortured brother to death in possible ‘ritual’
A teenage girl in Brazil confessed to torturing her 5-year-old brother to death before eating his severed penis, police said.
Police are investigating the possibility that 18-year-old Karina Roque’s alleged crime against her brother, Maycon Roque, may have been part of a black magic ritual because his body was found on the floor surrounded by several candles.
On Thursday, Maycon Roque’s mother, who is not being named, discovered 18-year-old Karina standing beside her brother’s mutilated remains at their home in Sao Roque, southeast Brazil.
Detectives said the victim’s corpse had grotesque injuries. His head was partially decapitated, there were knife wounds to the wrist, both eyeballs had been pierced, the feet had been burned and the sister claimed she had “cut off her brother’s genital organs and eaten it.”
According to police, the mother went shopping and left her son in the care of her daughter while she was out. When she returned a couple hours later, she discovered the front door locked.
Karina reportedly refused to let her mother in. The desperate woman was only able to gain access after the door was kicked down by her brother-in-law, who lives nearby.
The horrific scene was so macabre that the mother fainted. Karina allegedly tried to escape as her uncle and other relatives attempted to restrain her.
“They tried to prevent her from running but she apparently became very aggressive and started throwing objects,” Detective Anderson Góes told FocusOn News.
“He uncle was hit and injured by a stone and she bit the family dog, which attacked her while she was being restrained by relatives.”
Karina admitted that she lured her brother into her bedroom by pretending they were going to play a game and then suffocated him with a pillow, police said.
Preliminary examinations indicate the child was dead before his body was brutally maimed and his body parts cannibalized.
Forensic investigators reportedly found a burned cellphone, a memory card, a penknife and a small amount of marijuana in the house.
“We believe the cellphone belongs to the suspect and was deliberately damaged by her to possibly destroy any evidence of online contacts,” Góes said.
“We are investigating if the child was killed during some kind of devil worshipping ritual. We want to know if the accused had links on social networks to a group of Satanists or black magic practitioners and if she was encouraged or incited by someone to commit the crime. She will also undergo tests to see if she is under the influence of drugs.”
Both the phone and memory card are being analyzed by officials for additional evidence.
Police said the teen’s family told them Karina never gave them any problems before. They described her as being quiet and reserved and said she’d “always taken care of her brother.”
Karina is charged with her brother’s murder and with the attempted murder of her uncle. She is being held in isolation in a cell at Votorantim Women’s Prison in Sao Paulo and placed on suicide watch.
The victim’s burial took place Friday morning. The family did not wish to be identified or comment on the tragic case.
Police found a penknife, burned cellphone, memory card and some marijuana, which allegedly belonged to the suspect.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/04/08/cannibal-teen-tortured-brother-to-death-in-possible-ritual-cops/