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Some News stories are out there that require my attention. First this month Fun in games turn into fun and death, well comicly funny anyway.
Chubby Bunnies Revenge
A 32-year-old woman in Canada was participating in a Chubby Bunny contest, a game in which participants attempt to stuff as many marshmallows into their mouths as possible and still say "chubby bunny." It is often played by children at camps and sleepovers and, more often than not, all efforts subside into laughter after about the fourth or fifth mallow. Adults take these things more seriously, however, and instead of ending up laughing, the above-mentioned woman ended up in critical condition at a London, Ontario hospital after choking on a marshmallow. The contest was already over and she was walking backstage when she collapsed. She had no vital signs when the paramedics got to her and is currently in critical condition.
The future of Chubby Bunny contests at this fair are seriously in doubt, as it may be in other venues since this is not an isolated incident, and it is possible that other food-events will be more closely monitored in the future ,a reminder to all competitive eaters that chewing your food could potentially be far more important than winning.
Update: Unfortunately, the woman did not recover from the incident.
It would seem as though food is the worst enemy of man now.........that and sting rays. Also it would seem as though text messaging can save your life too!
South Carolina Kidnapping Suspect Charged
A Day Earlier, Teen Rescued After Sending Text Message
By JEFFREY COLLINS, AP
LUGOFF, S.C. (Sept. 18 ) - A man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and keeping her in an underground bunker was charged Sunday with raping the teen, Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill said.
Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill said Vinson Filyaw had eluded police with an elaborate system of hideouts and bunkers since November 2005 when he was charged with criminal sexual conduct on a 12-year-old girl.
He surrendered Sunday morning to police as he walked along Interstate 20 near Columbia, about five miles from where investigators found the teenager.
Police say Filyaw, 36, abducted the girl as she walked home from a school bus stop on Sept. 6.
Investigators arrested Filyaw in neighboring Richland County about 24 hours after rescuing the girl, who sent a text message to her mother on Filyaw's phone while he was a sleep Wednesday, McCaskill said. The sheriff said Filyaw woke up and the girl still had the phone, but she told him she was simply playing with the phone.
Investigators used cell towers to determine a general location of the phone and deputies began searching for Filyaw on Friday night. McCaskill said the girl cried out as searchers approached the bunker.
"This little lady getting that message out was really the break in the case," the sheriff said. "She helped herself as much as we helped her."
Police say they still have not interviewed the girl, whose name was previously released when she was a missing person. The Associated Press is not using her name because police have identified her as a victim of sexual assault.
The girl was found Saturday about a mile from her home, hidden in a booby-trapped, 15-foot-deep hole carved out of the side of a hill and covered with plywood. The bunker had a hand-dug privy with toilet paper, a camp stove and shelves made with cut branches and canvas.
McCaskill said it looked like Filyaw was trying to dig another bunker under that one as a possible backup hiding place, but had to abandon it when it filled with water.
Filyaw had dug two bunkers in his own yard and two in the woods and had used them to hide out since he was charged in the assault case in November.
His girlfriend Cynthia Hall has been charged as an accessory and with neglect in the earlier case, McCaskill said. Investigators say she allowed the earlier assault to take place in her home and provided Filyaw with supplies to live in the bunker.
Police were tipped off to Filyaw's location Sunday after getting a call from a woman who said he tried to carjack her about 2 a.m. outside a pizza restaurant, authorities said.
Filyaw was on foot _ about five miles from his house _ carrying a pellet gun, a Taser and a long hunting knife when police captured him. He gave up easily, McCaskill said, adding that he doesn't think the suspect had any help escaping.
"If he had help, he would have gotten much farther away," McCaskill said.
Filyaw was being held Sunday at the Kershaw County jail. The sheriff said he was not aware of Filyaw having an attorney.
Investigators said Filyaw posed as a police officer when he met the 14-year-old girl and the teen was walked around in the woods by her captor until she became disoriented. He used handmade grenades and a flare gun to threaten her while she was in the bunker, McCaskill said.
The bunker was protected by a booby-trap. It had food, shelves and even a stove for cooking, McCaskill said.
Filyaw also has been charged with kidnapping, possession of an incendiary device and impersonating an officer, McCaskill said.
The sheriff said police found off-brand cigarette butts and pornography left behind in all Filyaw's hiding places.
Deputies had been searching for months for the unemployed construction worker. Officers tried to arrest him at his home earlier this week, but he escaped using a hole in the floor of his bedroom that allowed him to hide under his mobile home, the sheriff said.
Since then, Filyaw has likely spent most of his time in the bunkers, the sheriff said.
McCaskill said Sunday evening that Filyaw had a prior conviction for burglary and has been charged several times with public drunkenness and driving under the influence.
Sharon Turner, who lived across the street from Filyaw's trailer, said she hadn't seem him in months.
"I told my husband, 'He went underground,' " Turner said.
Like many of her neighbors, Turner said she had been living in fear ever since the girl, who lived about a mile away, disappeared. The fear became terror Friday when the sheriff released Filyaw's name and picture.
"You just don't know who is living across your front yard," Turner said.
On Sunday, the driveway in front of the teenager's home was decorated with "Welcome Home" balloons.
The father of one of the girl's best friends came by Sunday morning to check on things. He had been with the family Saturday when the girl was found and said they were all doing well considering the circumstances.
"They just want some time alone with their daughter," Leo Lampart said.
Filyaw's yard was overgrown with weeds Sunday morning, and no one answered the door.
A sign handwritten was still attached to an open gate leading into the back yard. It read: "Anyone who tries to get past this gate will be shot. No questions asked. This includes cops."
The word "cops" was underlined three times.
This is the second South Carolina case this year involving an abducted teenage girl taken to an underground hideout.
Kenneth Hinson of Hartsville is charged with kidnapping two 17-year-old girls March 14 and taking them to a closet-sized dungeon behind his home. Authorities said the girls freed themselves and walked to safety. Hinson was captured after a four-day manhunt.
And they say that all kids are young and Naive, well not these next two girls!
Battle for Two Girls' Hearts
Father of White Supremacist Singers Fought for Custody
(Aug. 22) -- Fourteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have two albums, music videos, a DVD and devoted fans.
But unlike most other pop sensations, their fans are not your typical teeny boppers — they're white nationalists.
After ABC first aired a story on Lynx and Lamb in October 2005, the music duo got worldwide attention, becoming fodder for television talk show hosts like Bill Maher and Joe Scarborough. The publicity evoked a lot of outrage and chatter on Internet message boards.
But no one claims to be more outraged than the girls' estranged father, Kris Lingelser.
"Do they know how many people out there will look at [them] and just go — I mean I get angry, just angry," Lingelser says. "And they don't deserve that anger. They don't deserve that hate. That's not them."
Blond Hair, Blue Eyes
Lamb and Lynx may remind you of another famous pair of teen stars, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx have cultivated a much darker persona. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.
Known as Prussian Blue — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were 9.
"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white. … We don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
Lamb and Lynx have been nurtured on racist beliefs by their mother, April, since the day they were born.
"They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would."
A Hue and Cry, and a Fight for Custody
Ted Shaw, a civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's legal defense fund, says he believes the girls did not come up with their ideas on their own.
"It really breaks my heart to see those two young girls spewing out that kind of garbage," Shaw says. "Obviously, they're being taught. Their minds are being poisoned by somebody. I know nothing about their parents, but I'd start looking there."
Lingelser, who says he is not a racist, also points the finger at the girls' mother. ABC News played him the girls' responses to interview questions, including the girls' statement that Adolf Hitler was "a great man" who "had a lot of good ideas."
"It's just horrible," Lingelser says. "How do I feel? I want it to stop. I want them to not say 'Heil Hitler.'"
Lingelser says he never taught his daughters these ideas and claims he didn't even know how radical their beliefs were until he turned on ABC News' "Primetime" and saw former Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke with his daughters.
And that's why Lingelser went back to court to try to regain custody, which he lost when he and April first divorced because, he admits, he had a problem with drugs.
"I had a drug issue, and you know, I was not always the most responsible parent," Lingelser says.
ABC News uncovered a troubling letter in which Lingelser threatened to kill April and the twins if she told police of his drug abuse.
Lingelser says he's no longer a threat to his girls. He lives and works in San Diego, and says he's now clean and sober and believes he would be a better parent.
But a judge in California ruled in April's favor. She retains sole custody of Lynx and Lamb.
Not only does the insanity continue there, but for once I'm in favor of NIMBY's (Not In My BackYard people)
Town Tells White Separatist Singers 'No Hate Here'
(Sept. 15) - In the picturesque northwest corner of Montana only 30 miles from Glacier National Park, signs have begun to appear on windows in the city of Kalispell that proclaim "No Hate Here."
What's the fuss all about?
At first, it seems difficult to believe that the focus of the campaign is two 14-year-old twin girls.
Then it becomes clear.
The two teens are those spokeskids for white separatists, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who vaulted to international attention after they appeared on ABC's "Primetime" last year.
The girls, their mother, April, and stepfather Mark Harrington recently moved to Montana from Bakersfield, Calif., after April told "Primetime" that Bakersfield was "not white enough." Now Kalispell has put the family on notice, "Not in my backyard."
Last week a group of neighbors printed information sheets about the family and distributed them door to door.
"This letter is not written as a means to harass the family or to begin a witch hunt," the flier said. "We wish the family no harm. Our goal is to peacefully communicate that this kind of hate and ignorance will not be accepted here in our neighborhood where we live and raise our families."
Lamb and Lynx created the band Prussian Blue to communicate their white separatist views musically. The song "Sacrifice" praises Nazi leader Rudolph Hess, Adolph Hitler's deputy. The two have modeled T-shirts featuring Hitler smiley faces. They mostly appear at rallies for white nationalist causes and maintain a Web site with links to other white separatist organizations.
"The music that Prussian Blue performs is intended for white people," says the Web site. "They hope to help fellow whites come to understand that love for one's race is a beautiful gift that we should celebrate."
Rebecca Kushner-Metteer, one of the people who handed out the fliers, says the teens and their parents moved into her south Kalispell neighborhood a couple of weeks ago. At first, no one paid much attention until another neighbor showed a rerun of the "Primetime" broadcast. They then recognized their new neighbors.
Now Kushner-Metteer and other families say they have received threats.
We're very concerned about our safety," says Kushner-Metteer.
Postings by members of Stormfront.org and Libertyforum.com, which are community sites linked to the Prussian Blue site, have included addresses and phone numbers of those involved in passing out the fliers. A photograph of a mother and her daughter that was published by the Daily Inter Lake as they distributed the fliers can also be found on the sites.
Kalispell Police Chief Frank Garner says all the threats have come from outside the region but are being investigated. He also says none contained death threats.
In the "Primetime" interview, Lynx who was 13 at the time, says she and her sister were "proud of being white."
"We want our people to stay white," she says. "We don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."
The Gaedes apparently want to be left alone. They have refused to answer their door or telephone.
However, the Kalispell Police Department has heard from the family. The police say they received a complaint that the family was being "harassed" by the neighbors posting the fliers.
In an irony not lost on many in the community, the officers had to explain that the neighbors' free speech rights made the fliers perfectly legal.
Just as legal as the free speech rights afforded Lynx and Lamb Gaede.
Although a date has yet to be set, the 1,400-member Montana Human Rights Network is planning a rally in Kalispell. Seems all area residents are now exercising their free speech rights in northwest Montana.
Ya gotta honestly wonder a few things. Did the mother brain wash her daughters into beleiving all that white supremecy mumbo jumbo? Do the Girls really beileve in what they've been told? or maybe a more sinister thought. Perhaps they are really the Olsen Twin's evil twins from a parallel dimension, in which case I have to wonder, where the hell are the cliche evil twin moustaches?
 Azalin · Mon Sep 18, 2006 @ 04:47pm · 5 Comments |
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