Two teens were arrested and charged with first-degree assault. Kyle Meredith and Mateusz Dybala, both 16, are charged with pouring drain cleaner on playground equipment located at Victory Villa Elementary School in Baltimore County. This resulted in two year-old Payton Potochney suffering second and third degree burns after sliding down a slide that had been covered in the industrial strength drain cleaner. The youths also face juvenile charges of reckless endangerment and second-degree burglary stemming from the fact they broke into the school to obtain the drain cleaner.

Payton has since undergone five surgeries that involved doctors having to remove skin from several parts of the toddler’s body to place on the back of his thighs and calves, where he sustained the burns.

You can donate to the toddler’s recovery fund via The Payton Potochney Fund at any Bank of AmericaAmerica reviews branch.

Discuss this article in the forums

Jessica Sierra was a finalist on Season 4 of the popular American Idol television show. She also has her version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on the American Idol Season 4 album.

She was also arrested on Sunday by Tampa police after an incident at the Hyde Park Cafe in which she threw a heavy glass at a customer, hitting him on the head causing a cut over his eye. She was also reported to be belligerent and uncooperative with police. She tried kicking out the windows of the patrol car she was placed in.

While in police custody, a small amount of cocaine was also found in her possession. Sierra was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, possession of cocaine and introduction of contraband into a detention facility and was released on $11,500 bond.

Discuss this article in the forums

Violent crime in Rome’s Termini Station is rare, so the violent death of a young commuter, 22-year-old student nurse Vanessa Russo, came as a shock to residents.

After Mrs Russo had refused to give over her bag to two women, one of the women stabbed Vanessa in the eye with the tip of an umbrella, piercing her acerebral artery and ultimately killing her. This was done in full view of commuters and the two women, both dressed in white pants and jackets, were seen on surveillance cameras leaving the Termini Station. They were then tracked down to a residence in nearby Tolentino.

Discuss this article in the forums

A 9-year-old boy’s habit of rising early each morning to play videogames may have saved his life and the other 6 members of his family.

Davien Hayden has made it a habit of getting up very early to play some videogames before he goes to school. While non-gamers are sleeping in like a bunch of lazy fucks, this diligent boy is up first thing every morning saving the princess and leveling up. But this last Tuesday, Davien was forced to put his gaming lessons to the test.

The first thing he noticed was the sound of breaking glass. Then came the acrid smell of smoke. Davien knew something was amiss from his hours of playing SimCity 2000, and cried for everyone to get out of the house. It didn’t take long before the home was a raging inferno.

The family has given Davien all the credit for saving their lives this week, but all Davien is quoted as saying is, “Too much fame, dude.” The kid is a true hero. Every morning from 6:15 to 7:45 and for two hours right after school and before he does his homework.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and I am really hoping that the kid didn’t have an improperly ventilated XBox 360.

Here is the source of the story. Or discuss this in the forums.

[youtube 7BtEXGY-tg4 video]

Why does it seem like all extremists are perfect hypocrites? Loud people seem to always do the exact opposite of what they claim to stand for, and actually do all the things they mock others for doing. A few cases:

[Read more...]

A likable, long-haired antiques dealer named George (Ray Lovelock) takes his motorcycle and heads out of the crowded city to do some business in Windermere. Along the way, he has an accident with Edna (Cristina Galbó), another traveler who has inadvertently backed her car into his motorcycle while at a gas station. While not serious, the accident does leave the motorcycle temporarily disabled. Feeling guilty and obligated, Edna agrees to take George to Windermere herself. She just needs to stop by the village of South Gate to visit her sister, Katie (Jeannine Mestre). Once there they find that Katie is delirious and her husband (José Lifante) has just been murdered moments earlier. To top things off, Katie has become the prime suspect but she adamantly denies having anything to do with her husband’s murder but rather a walking dead man (Fernando Hilbeck) committed the horrible act.

[Read more...]

[youtube H9WPhlf5vhw video]

Science Fiction suffers from a severe case of Cassandra Syndrome. It has the ability to see into the future, but it is cursed in that no one believes it. We scoff at Star TrekStar Trek reviews communicators, and 15 years later everyone has a cell-phone. We laugh at Dick Tracy’sDick Tracy reviews watch, and now we pull out our Nokia and go from watching TV on the Subway, to videotaping a street performer, to video conferencing with a friend, to downloading and listening to the latest tunes. But the cycle is never broken. We continue to doubt the possibilities of the future, and never fail to be unimpressed when that future arrives.

When you see the robot in action, you will have one of two feelings (most likely both): Part of you will be cynical about the progress being made. It will look like a puppet-show, and the emotions and reactions from the designers will feel canned and corny. And then there will be moments when you feel like you are seeing the future in the present. When you realize that this is a scene right out of A.I., the first, clumsy model before the ones that move in with us and clean our house. We are on the cusp of something special, something that could happen in our lifetimes as significant as the integrated chip, but by the time we are aware of it, we will be numb to it. It will seem obvious and unavoidable, like the personal communicators which have become ubiquitous.

Let’s discuss this in the forums. Or go to Hanson Robotics to learn more.

After completing final exams a group of college students head to Daytona Beach to celebrate Spring Break, with visions of sex and alcohol dancing in their heads. While crossing through Georgia, they are met with a crude detour that does not lead them to the land of beach, boobs and beer, but rather to the small town of Pleasant Valley. This little town seems to be frozen in time as there are no televisions, phones, running water or any other technological advances seen over the last 100 years. Even the inhabitants seem to be straight from a casting call of “DeliveranceDeliverance reviews” with more inbred, racist hicks than you can shake a stick at. When they are informed that they are now the guests of honor at the annual Guts and Glory Jubilee celebration, complete with free room and board, food, extremely curvaceous females and more importantly, beer…how could they pass it up? What could possibly go wrong? [Read more...]

[youtube Bhlq_GhYGsM video]

This is something I’m looking forward to. While most of us think of graphics when we hear “Next-Gen”, Nintendo has proven that it is how we interface with games that makes them feel Next-Gen. Both the WiiWii reviews, with its motion-sensing remote and the DS, with its touch-screen and microphone, are absolutely killing Microsoft and Sony with their blistering graphical powerhouses. But that doesn’t mean that Nintendo has the market cornered.

Right now, Sony’s hottest franchise is the new SingStar games in which you interface via microphone. And Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 is so hot for Microsoft that you have a hard time finding it in stores. Which is why I’m excited to see the upcoming Eye-Toy for the PS3 getting revolutionary games like Eye of Judgement. This nails something that Morbid and I talk about on the phone quite often. We bemoan the loss of interpersonal competition that card, pen and paper, and board-gaming used to provide us. If this game hits a similar chord in enough people, I can see a future sort of gaming that would make today’s traditional gaming pale in comparison.

Hit the jump for the rest of the post, or Discuss it in the Forums

[Read more...]

There has been some real drama in the swivel household of late. My LifeMy Life reviews-Partner has been interviewing at various universities around the country which will determine where we live for the next several years. Ohio University has been at the top of that list, and was only narrowly discarded yesterday. Well, thank the godless universe for that! Athens, Ohio is going to be a ghost town within a decade, as they have decided that the RIAA’s wishes are more important than their enrollment numbers.

Here’s the skinny: Ohio University has been one of the most highly targeted campuses in the United States by the RIAA. Athens is a very small town, and there isn’t much to do there besides walking up and down Court Street, drunk on wine coolers, and listening to your iPod. (And probably the more bandwidth-taxing hobby of downloading porn and trying to tug one out before your roommate gets back from his CHEM lab) The RIAA has been working with the University to try and stem the tide with various “outreach” programs and dorky posters. As if.

What probably finally cinched the deal was the president being told by the IT department that they could save a few million a year in tech services to morons that can’t install spyware and virus programs, and everyone else that can’t figure out how to get NAT working with their dynamic IP addresses. Whatever the reasons, OU caved, the RIAA scores a major victory, and these kids will just stop listening to music. What the RIAA doesn’t get is that the pirates are NOT going to start buying a million tracks a year just because they can’t steal them. They are going to copy music from each other the old-fashioned way and continue to use their parent’s money to buy DVD’s, videogames, drugs, alcohol, and other things that actually give you some value for your buck.

Sigh. Ohio University may stop one type of transferring, but I assure you it will be replaced with another sort. KidsKids reviews are going to be transferring out of that university so fast that packet collisions are going to be a real threat on Court Street.

Discuss in the Forums

One of the owners of Mini-Akers Exotic Animals, Cathie Ake, was killed when one of the camels in her care crushed her to death after kicking her and then sitting on top of her. Cathie Ake and the camel named PoloPolo reviews were being filmed by a local TV station when during a break in filming, the camel became agitated and attacked Cathie. Polo then sat on her after she had fell under the animal. Cathie’s husband believes the camel was agitated by mating season.

The couple had just purchased the animal at an auction 3 weeks ago and were keeping the 1,800-pound animal in a 50 foot by 80 foot pen. Cathie’s husband is now finding a new home for Polo the Killer Camel.

Discuss this story in the forums

William Edward Ronca, 26, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape of a 9 year old girl. The girl, whom William admitted to having sex with once or twice a week for two years, ended up pregnant.

A school guidance counselor notified authorities after noticing the girl had become withdrawn and would not participate in school activities. She was then taken to a medical facility where it was then learned she was 7 months pregnant. She gave birth to the baby by Cesarean section and then given up for adoption.

Am I becoming so jaded after all these years of posting these stories, that it wasn’t the visions of this man having sex with a 9 year old, or the visions of a 9 year old girl giving birth that shocked me, but rather the fact that a guidance counselor actually noticed something was wrong with a kid?

Discuss in forums

Five-year-old Monet Flugham was found hanging from a closet door by a jump rope. Police were called to the residence after the Monet’s grandmother found her unconscious. The medical examiner has ruled the death as an accident and earlier reports of foul play and sexual abuse have since been ruled out.

Discuss in forums 

In 1993, 7 people were shot to death in a robbery of the Brown’s Chicken and Pasta restaraunt in Palatine, Illinois. The victims included the owners, Richard E. Ehlenfeldt, 50, and his wife, Lynn W., 49, five employees: Guadalupe Maldonado, 46, MichaelMichael reviews C. Castro, 16, and Rico L. Solis, 17; and Palatine residents Thomas Mennes, 32, and Marcus Nellsen, 31. They had all been shot multiple times with some victims having bullet wounds to their hands and were found in both the walk-in freezer and cooler 5 hours after the stores normal closing time.

In March of 2002, Anne Lockett implicated her former boyfriend, James Degorski, and his associate, Juan Luna, in the crime. [Read more...]