Posts Tagged ‘News’
McGruff Survives a Beat-Down
Looking on Fark this afternoon and I could not stop laughing when I read one of their headlines for a Washington News article today.
“DC bus driver gets off his bus, gives McGruff the Crime Dog a beatdown in front of a bunch of kids, then gets back on his bus and drives away”
Freakin’-A-Hilarious!
“First the Chick-fil-A cow received a beat-down in Fredericksburg, Va. Now, someone takes a shot at everyone’s favorite crime-fighting pooch.
Word of advice for new-look Screech: Hire A-Rod’s cousin ASAP.
McGruff the Crime Dog was the latest victim of the mascot mayhem.
Police said their four-legged hero absorbed a blow to the head over the weekend from a Metro bus driver in front of a group of children but didn’t lose his cool, according to the Washington Examiner.
McGruff, who was actually District officer Tyrone Hardy in costume, was handing out flyers to kids in northwest Washington Saturday when bus driver Shawn Brim, 38, stopped, got out and adjusted his mirrors and then cold-cocked McGruff in the head with a closed fist, according to a police report.
A woozy McGruff staggered. Kids screamed. The alleged attacker hopped back on his bus and drove off.
Other police officers who were there with McGruff and watched the alleged assault quickly tracked down the bus and the driver.
Brim, 38, later told a supervisor that he was trying “to be funny,” Metro spokeswoman Candace Smith told The Examiner on Monday.
“But nobody here finds it funny, believe me,” Smith said. “That kind of behavior is not tolerated.”
Brim was charged with simple assault.
The Examiner said Hardy had a swollen cheek but was more concerned that the alleged attack disturbed the kids who saw it.
No word on whether the Racing Presidents’ security team has been placed on heightened alert.”
Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile
A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.
Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.
During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.
Jose Mestre: The man with no face
View entire post for photos and video.
Jose Mestre is a man who suffers from a very serious facial tumor. The tumor started when he was a teenager and has since grown to a size of 15 inches long and weighing in at 12 pounds!
For years, Jose refused proper medical treatment because of specific beliefs prohibiting him from having a blood transfusion. Jose is a Jehovah’s Witness.
Jose’s condition, haemangioma, stems from abnormalities in the capillaries and veins in his face. In effect, what should be a river carrying blood back to his heart has turned into a lake, which has now expanded to obliterate the rest of his features.
The Discovery Channel UK will be featuring a video segment on Jose Metres and his rare condition tonight at 9PM (and with repeats on the 9th, 10th, and 18th of December).
