A human finger found in boy Arby’s Sandwich!

May 18th, 2012 | By love not hate

A Michigan teen ordered a junior roast beef sandwich at a local Arby’s restaurant, only to make a gruesome discovery halfway through the meal.

Ryan Hart, 14, of Blackman Township, said he had nearly polished off his sandwich last Friday when he sunk his teeth into something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

As the boy discovered to his horror, the chewy bit was the back of a finger, including the fleshly pad and extending beyond the first. The gristly find was about one-inch long and a quarter-inch thick.

Revolting: Ryan Hart, 14, said he bit into a piece of human finger while eating an Arby’s sandwich

‘I was about to puke …it was just nasty,’ he told the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

An Arby’s employee apparently cut off a part of her digit on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately notifying anyone, said Steve Hall, the environmental health director for the Jackson County Health Department.

The injured worker’s colleagues continued filling orders at the busy eatery before they became aware of what happened, Hall added.

Gristly find: The chunk of finger in Hart’s lunch was about one-inch long and a quarter-inch thick

John Gray, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Arby’s, released a statement on Wednesday apologizing for what he described as an isolated and ‘unfortunate incident.’

He has determined that workers at the Arby’s on North West Avenue in Jackson shut down food production as soon as they found out what happened and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant.

Bad Mood Food: An employee severed a portion of her finger on a meat slicer, and it somehow ended up in Ryan Hart’s roast beef sandwich

The employee who lost her finger was treated at a hospital. Gray said the franchise was allowed to remain open.

Ryan’s mother, Jamie Vail, was outraged. She and a friend had taken Ryan and his 11-year-old brother to the Arby’s drive-through for lunch, and she thought her son was joking when he exclaimed he had found a piece of a finger in his sandwich.

‘Somebody loses a finger, and you keep sending food out the window? I can’t believe that,’ said Vail.

Open for business: The Jackson Arby’s was allowed to remain open after employees cleaned and sanitized the restaurant

All four had ordered roast beef, and after the gruesome discovery was made, they threw out the leftover food.

Vail said she called 911 and met police at a local hospital, where her son’s blood was drawn and he was prescribed medication, although he refused to take it, fearing side effects.

The boy said he is feeling fine, but a bit concerned.

According to Veil, her son has been having difficulty sleeping, and she described him as ‘traumatized.’ by the experience. 

Vail said she has been in touch with a lawyer, but has not decided whether or not to sue the fast food chain.

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Beware of bombs in cats and dogs!

May 10th, 2012 | By love not hate

Al-Qaeda planting bombs in CATS and DOGS: Master Bombmaker’s plans for next generation devices

• Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri reportedly looking into new ways to make his bombs undetectable, including surgically implanting them
• Believed to be behind both underwear bomb plots and the 2010 plot involving bombs stashed in printer cartridges

From the same twisted mind that brought the underwear bomb into public consciousness comes a possible plot to rig other items – including pets – with explosives.

On the heels of revelations that al-Qaeda was preparing to strike on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death come new reports about more bold plans from the notorious terror group.

ABC News reported that Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaeda’s chief bombmaker who is believed to be behind both underwear bomb plots, was working on new explosives that they hoped would pass an airport security screening.

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Al-Qaeda’s bomb expert: Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is believed to have been behind both underwear bomb plots and the parcel bomb plot of 2010

U.S. authorities told the network that al-Asiri’s latest projects involve bombs surgically placed inside terrorists and devices similarly implanted in pets that could be carried on planes.

Al-Asiri was also hoping to rig computer supplies like external hard drives and cameras with bomb components.

Seth Jones, former senior adviser to the U.S. Special Operations Command and author of Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa’ida since 9/11, told ABC: ‘[Al-Asiri] is very innovative in trying to find some way to get a bomb onto an airplane that will evade detection from airport screeners.’

Puppy problem: Al-Asiri was reportedly working on implanting explosive devices on household pets like cats and dogs

Portable bombs? Al-Asiri was also working on bomb designs for cameras and external hard drives that he hoped could get onto an airliner undetected

The new underwear bomb plot was discovered this week after a double agent working for both U.S. and Saudi intelligence was placed inside Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) where he convinced his handlers to give him the ‘undetectable’ bomb.

The agent, who was in Yemen, was liaising with the CIA before handing the device over to intelligence services.

Plans: Al-Asiri hoped to rig computer supplies and cameras with bomb components, as well as pets and the terrorists themselves

Experts at the FBI’s bomb laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, are now analysing the device to see if it could have gotten through airport security.

It did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have at least passed through an airport metal detector.

But it is not yet clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.

If such a device could be smuggled through, it could in theory be detonated before passengers or crew knew it was on board.

It appeared to be an upgraded version of the underwear bomb that failed to down a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

In that plot, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew from Lagos to Amsterdam, then boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit, which was carrying 279 passengers and 11 crew.

Hours into the flight, he tried to detonate the explosives by injecting chemicals into them.

He suffered severe burns when the bomb failed to explode, and was overpowered by passengers and crew.

Disturbingly, the bomb was not picked up in airport security checks in Lagos and Amsterdam.

Now serving a life prison sentence in the United States, Abdulmutallab is certain to be questioned again about his bomb, its maker and those who supplied it.

Al-Asiri is also believed to have been behind the bombs hidden in printer cartridges aboard two cargo flights bound for the U.S. in 2010.

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Top states with the most reports of AIDS

May 9th, 2012 | By love not hate

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Mother shoots daughter, then herself over online relationship

May 9th, 2012 | By love not hate

Authorities in the U.S. suspect a mother killed her 13-year-old daughter then shot herself after becoming paranoid about her teenager’s online relationship with a boy.

Police said Amy Freeman Burton’s husband found her and their daughter Ainsly after they had been shot in their home in Pleasanton, California on Monday evening.

Mrs Freeman Burton, 37, died of a gunshot wound before officers could reach the scene.

Emergency: Police rushed to the house in Stacey Court, Pleasanton after the woman and her teenage daughter were shot

Her daughter Ainsly was found alive and rushed to the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, but died later that night.

Investigators have discovered messages and photos that Ainsly was swapping with a 16-year-old boy in Kentucky.

Ms Burton’s husband said his wife had grown ‘paranoid’ about their teenager’s online communications.

Autopsies are scheduled for later today which should help determine whether the case was a murder-suicide or a double slaying.

Detectives found two handguns in the house, including one near the dead mother and daughter.

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7th Grader hangs herself, to stop being bullied

May 9th, 2012 | By love not hate

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Parents ‘beat son, then poured salt, vinegar and alcohol in his wounds

May 8th, 2012 | By love not hate

Charged: Kerry Dean Parks, 50, is accused of whipping his adopted son with a leather belt and pouring salt, vinegar and alcohol on the wounds

A couple from Seabrook, Texas are accused of beating their 11-year-old son with a leather belt and applying salt, vinegar and alcohol to his wounds.

According to the criminal complaint against the pair, the boy had to be hospitalised after officers found him curled on a sofa in the foetal position, with ‘bandages applied to his waist, buttocks and rear thigh area with bodily fluids seeping through them.’

Kerry Dean Parks, 50, and Merilyn Parks, 35, have been charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child.

The Houston Chronicle reportedthat Mr Parks was arrested yesterday at an apartment in Houston, while his wife remains at large.

Police attention was drawn to the case when staff at Seabrook Intermediate School asked them to investigate the child’s welfare on January 4.

He was promptly taken to Texas Children’s Hospital, and later transferred to Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Galveston.

The boy told investigators his adoptive father Kerry Parks had beat him with a leather belt ‘approximately once or twice a day’ between October 1 and December 24 2011.

The abuse took place at the home they shared with his mother, Merilyn Parks, and his baby sister.

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Azelia Banks puts a foot in Lil Kim’s ASS!

May 7th, 2012 | By love not hate

Azealia Banks may have as many songs as beefs at this point. Following her recent spat with T.I. and Iggy Azalea, the super-sassy Harlem artist went on the attack against Lil Kim over a failed collaboration. Banks claims that Kim was unresponsive to an offer to appear on a record she was working on. Trying to jump-start the process, Banks ghostwrote a verse for Kim and subsequently suffered the wrath of her assistant.

“Okay so true… Lil Kim got mad that I wrote a verse for her on a record I wanted her on,” Banks wrote. “Everybody knows Lil Kim doesn’t write her own raps and I saw this as a faster more efficient way of getting the track done. She then had her assistant write me some long ass offensive email about how Lil Kim writes her own raps and doesn’t need anyone’s help.”

After the short tirade, Kim’s publicist released a statement dubbing the entire episode manufactured drama. “My client and Azealia have NEVER spoke to one another or met AT ALL. Kim was actually very flattered by Azealia’s public admiration for her, which is why it’s so hard to understand how someone who claims to be a true Lil Kim fan could flip the script so easily on someone who was supposedly their idol.”

Banks, apparently sick of the back-and-forth, called it quits soon after. “Another week, another Twitter feud,” she wrote. “I’m deleting it now.”

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Thousands of pills filled with human baby flesh found at airport

May 7th, 2012 | By love not hate

Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today.

The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal ‘cure-all’.

The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.

The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.

Dead baby pills: This is ground baby powder which tests discovered is 99.7 per cent human last year. South Korean officials have stopped 17,000 dead baby pills being imported since last August

Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.

The discoveries since last August has shocked even hardened customs agents who have pledged to strengthen inspections.

Chinese officials are understood to have been aware of the trade and have tried to stop the capsules being exported but thousands of packets of them have been smuggled through to South Korea.

There is a huge demand for alternative Chinese remedies – which include ground up rhino horns.

The Chinese have historically consumed human placentas to improve blood supply and circulation.

Health authorities in Asia are concerned that if the powdered foetus trade is allowed to continue the capsules will find their way onto the internet and be sold to gullible or sick desperate people in other parts of the world.

The South Korean Customs Service said today that it had heightened its searches of suspicious packages being brought into the country by travellers from China in an attempt to stamp out the sickening trade.

According to customs agents, 35 smuggling attempts have been made since August last year involving more than 17,000 capsules disguised as ‘stamina boosters’.

Hospitals and abortion clinics in China reportedly pass the remains onto drugs companies when a baby is stillborn or aborted, the South Korean SBS documentary team reported last year.

The San Francisco Timesreported that tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7 per cent human remains.

The tests were successfully able to establish the genders of the babies used.

There is a huge demand for the pills which are thought to enhance stamina. Microwave-dried placenta is also sought after for its alleged ‘medicinal’ benefits.

However, in reality the human flesh capsules contain super-bacteria and other harmful ingredients.

Smuggling: More than 17,000 capsules disguised as ‘stamina boosters’ have been intercepted as they were smuggled into South Korea last year (file photo of Seoul airport)

A number of smugglers who have been detained by the South Korean authorities have claimed they did not know what the ingredients were or the manufacturing process behind them.

‘Ethnic Koreans from north-east China who now live in South Korea are those who were mostly intending to use the capsules or share them with other Korean-Chinese’ said a customs official.

‘They are normally brought into South Korea in luggage or posted by international mail.’

Chinese newspapers have identified the north eastern provinces as the source of the human flesh capsules, in particular the Jilin region which is close to North Korea.

There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China’s notorious ‘dying rooms’ where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas.

In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year – mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.

The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised – but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.

Despite their disgust at discovering packets of the so-called rejuvenation pills being brought in from China, South Korean officials have refused to confirm where the babies came from or who made the capsules.

Sources said this was because they were not prepared to create diplomatic friction with Beijing, preferring to leave it to Chinese officials to do something about the horrific trade in powdered babies

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Girl beat with lock over facbook argument about a boy!

May 3rd, 2012 | By love not hate

Tracy Polk, along with her daughter Jenise Williams, 16, who is a sophomore at Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology High School was  beaten with locks that were stuffed into socks over a Twitter and Facebook comment.  Wednesday, May 2, 2012. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Times

Tracy Polk, along with her daughter Jenise Williams, 16, who is a sophomore at Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology High School was  beaten with locks that were stuffed into socks over a Twitter and Facebook comment.  Wednesday, May 2, 2012. | Scott Stewart~Sun-Times

Updated: May 3, 2012 6:21AM

Teenage girls have always gotten into squabbles over teenage boys.

But today, the explosive mixture of hormones and immaturity is being supplanted by nasty exchanges on Facebook and Twitter.

All it takes is a provocative “status” or an in-your-face “tweet” and it’s on.

This dynamic seems to be behind an ongoing conflict involving groups of sophomores and junior females at the Chicago Academy of Advance Technology (CAT) on the near West Side.

Last Thursday, Jenise L. Williams, 16, a sophomore, was attacked in the school’s hallway by two or three juniors wielding locks in their hands. Apparently the attack was a response to a back-and-forth dispute on Facebook.

“They were on there calling my daughter a ho,” said Tracy Polk, the victim’s mother.

“The girls beat her in the head with locks.”

Matt Hancock, the school’s executive director, would not discuss details of the incident, but confirmed that all of the students involved, including Williams, have been disciplined according to the Chicago Public Schools Code of Conduct.

“We issued suspensions and one referral for expulsion. We take issues of violence and bullying extremely seriously,” he said.

It was the second time Jenise has been suspended for fighting this semester. In the first incident, she claims the other girl hit her first. This time, Jenise said she was ambushed in the hallway.

“It was my first day back and I’m fixing to go to my classroom, and one of the girls walked up to my best friend and hit her. I turned around and one of the other girls hit me with a lock, and while we are fighting, someone hit me with a lock on the other side of my head,” she said.

“So after we had got done fighting, and I went to the hospital to get checked out, I went on Twitter to find out what was going on. CAT was trending,” she said.

“They were saying that the sophomores just beat up the juniors and that ‘y’all getting it tomorrow.”

Prior to the lock incident, Jenise had put a comment about a male classmate on her Facebook page.

“The girls who jumped on me commented on my status saying I was a ho. There were about 40 tweets about me saying I got beat up by a freshman,” she said.

All of this may seem like utter nonsense, but when you are a teenager, sticks and stones really do break your bones. Social media often acts like the crowd egging on young combatants.

But stopping this kind of cyber bullying is difficult because parents and teachers usually aren’t aware of  what’s going on until after the fact.

“The first step is to identify it and bring the students together,” Hancock said.

“If you can resolve it with the students, that is the best option. When the cyber bullying is a specific threat, police action can be taken. But rarely is there a clear cut case of one student bullying another. It is back and forth, low level squabbling, and a group of students speaking in code words; that becomes an issue of conflict resolution, not an issue of cyber bullying.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t see any warning signs and didn’t have a heads-up that tensions were high. It was a surprise to us,” Hancock said.

Meanwhile, Jenise isn’t as concerned about fighting as she is about being out of school.

“I only fight if I have to, but they want to pick on me like I am supposed to be lame or something,” she said.

“I was bringing all my grades up. I was encouraged and thinking I could bring up the rest of my grades so my mama could be impressed. But after one fight, it was another. I know I have straight Fs now, being at home. It’s not fun.”

Youths has its perils, and being shortsighted is one of them. While some teens can see the big picture, too many are mired in the inconsequential things that seem important today.

Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter have put a new stumbling block in the path of these vulnerable teens.

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Amare Stoudemire breaks fire extinguisher glass

May 1st, 2012 | By love not hate

They call me Mr. Glass T…

After the New York Knicks lost to the Miami Heat, 104-94, to go down 0-2 in their first round playoff series, a locker room incident involving forward Amare Stoudemire exploded on Twitter. Beat writers later confirmed that Stoudemire suffered a laceration on his left hand, due to punching the glass enclosure of a fire extinguisher — The Knicks are in big trouble — Lets see if they could put out the Heat’s fire in game 3. -TO

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