This crazy economy is sparking some interesting news footage. While the photo above is a comedic exaggeration of a woman giving herself injections, there is a real incident that happened recently. A woman in Dublin, California had to have corrective plastic surgery after deciding that she would try to save a few dollars by performing a procedure on her own face. The woman, let’s call her “Mary”, is 54, a mother of three, with a career in the public eye. She said that after a visit to a plastic surgeon, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Mary went online and bought a vial of liquid silicone for $10 then injected it herself into her lips and cheek four weeks ago.
“Insane. I can’t believe I did what I did,” she said. “I thought I was going to be happy with the results, then the next day, my face became very inflamed, very red, swollen.”
Click below for the horrifying results. Warning…it ain’t pretty! (more…)
Former Falcons QB Michael Vick, who has been under house arrest since his release from federal prison has left his job with a Virginia construction company to work with youngsters at Boys & Girls Clubs. Vick will now be working with children on health and fitness activities at several clubs in the Hampton Roads area. The embattled quarterback was a regular at the Boys & Girls Club in Newport News as a youngster and officials feel that he can have an impact on wayward youths:
Have you received this email recently about the missing 3 year old named Jewel Strong?
Missing 3 year Old Girl
You never know, who knows whom
Another child missing.
Please forward to everyone you know.
Her family needs your help finding her.
The email has been circulating for about 3 years now, beginning in 2006. It’s not a complete hoax, little Jewel Strong (pictured above) was actually missing but not as the result of an abduction or runaway. The Jonesboro tot, who was 3 years old in 2006, was vacationing along with her family in Panama City Beach. The child and her 18 year old aunt were playing in a float in the water and were caught in strong currents. Rescuers were able to rescue the aunt, but the 3 year old was swept under the water and could not be found.
Over the course of several weeks, rescuers conducted an intensive search of the child by boat, divers and helicopter. Sadly they turned up nothing. Little Jewel’s distraught parents held out hope that she was alive and well somewhere but all signs point to the small child drowning and being swept away by the strong currents.
It’s a sad sad story that has developed over the course of these three years. The parents refused to give up hope and went through hell and high water to find their child. I did a lil internet research and compiled what’s been going on with the case all these years. If you got that email again today and are interested in Jewel’s story check it out below:
For the record, I dunno if the kid in the pic above is bad or not since I just found this pic on Google and ran with it… but apparently there’s some bad “A”zz kids up north in Gwinett County where two juveniles have been arrested for hitting a man in the head with a hammer and stealing his ice cream cart!
Police said a 28-year-old man was pushing his ice cream cart down Downs Way in Norcross when two male teens approached him and hit him with a hammer. The juveniles then stole his ice cream cart.
he victim asked witnesses to call 911 and the witnesses directed police to an address on Squire Court. Investigators obtained consent from the juveniles’ guardian to search the residence on Squire Court. During the search, police said they found the ice cream cart. Both juveniles, aged 15 and 16 years old, were arrested and transported to the Regional Youth Detention Center. Both have been charged with one count of armed robbery.
The victim, Ricardo Cabana, of Atlanta, was treated at Gwinnett Medical Center and released.(source)
It’s been 90+ degrees for the past few days but DAYUM!…is it really that serious? Teenagers are out of school and bored to death already? *sigh* I blame the parents for not leaving any ice cream money on the counter before they left for work….
TMZ was in the L.A. courtroom as the judge revealed Chris Brown’s fate in the Rihanna felony assault case. Early into the court proceedings, Chris copped a plea in the case where he won’t do jail time, but he will spend 6 months doing things like road cleanup. He’s also been ordered to stay at least 50 yards away from Rihanna.
Chris has been ordered to spend 180 days doing hard labor in his home state of Virginia and will be placed on 5 years probation for FELONY assault (he pled guilty). He’ll get supervised probation and will have to appear in court every three months.
Chris has also been ordered to enroll in a domestic violence counseling program. The judge also imposed a stipulation in the agreement which states that if Brown and Rihanna are at the same public events, the 50-yard stay away turns into 10 yards. The stay away order lasts 5 years.
The judge said she wanted to make sure that Chris Brown “was treated as any other person who comes through this court.” Therefore, if he violates probation, he could get up to 4 years in prison.
Rihanna appeared in the courthouse but never entered the courtroom.
So Brown is now a convicted felon and loses the the following rights: To own a gun, to sit on a jury, subject to search and seizure without a search warrant and he now has limitations on travel.
Brown left the courtroom and just after he left, Rihanna walked in the courtroom. The judge explained the deal to her and spoke to Rihanna about the protective order. (Source)
When I read this story, I had a strange feeling of deja vu. I know you guys recall the Mom who left her two infants in the car to shoplift, well this weekend yet another Walmart shopper was caught and given the mother of the year award for leaving her twins in a hot car while she shopped at a Clayton County Walmart:
A Barnesville mother was arrested Saturday night after leaving her 4-month-old twins in her locked car while shopping at a Clayton County Wal-Mart.
The infants, who weren’t harmed, were discovered by another shopper who could hear their cries through the cracked windows of Jenesia Williams’ Toyota Scion.
“I was in total shock,” said Darlene Marshall, of Stockbridge, who was parked next to the Scion. She and her husband were leaving the Ellenwood store, a little after 10 p.m., when she discovered the twins.
Marshall said she hesitated before calling 911.
“I just assumed the mother would be right out,” she said. Instead, it would be “at least 20 minutes” before Williams, 26, reappeared, Marshall said.
Police were waiting for Williams, who was arrested and charged with two counts of child cruelty. The children were taken to an area hospital, where they were check out and released to the custody their father. (source)
It’s been upwards of 90 degrees lately and those kids could have died in that heat! I’m calling for all you dumb mothers to give up your kids today. You don’t have to keep em if you don’t have common sense. Seriously. Their lives are in your hands and if you can’t protect them let somebody else do it. That’s my PSA for the day.
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