Bus kills at least 14 forced by thieves to lie on road (Irish Times)
(At least 14 bus passengers were killed in Nigeria on Tuesday night when a bus ran over them after they were forced to lie down on a main road during a robbery. Nigerian police say that passengers travelling on an overnight bus from Lagos to the capital, Abuja, were forced to lie down on the road after the vehicle was stopped by a group of armed robbers at about 5am. Police spokesman Ajayi Okasanmi said that while the passengers were stretched out face down on the highway, a second bus came along and drove over them. Rescuers found the 14 bodies but there were also many people injured in the incident, he said. A number of the passengers who boarded the bus in Lagos are still missing.)
Bus driver assaulted in Winnipeg (CBC News)
(A 48-year-old man is charged with assault after a Winnipeg Transit driver was attacked. A passenger was exiting a bus at Main Street and Pioneer Avenue at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when he began striking the driver in the upper body, police said.)
Obama to head out on "listening" bus tour for jobs (Reuters)
(President Barack Obama will take a three-day campaign-style bus tour through the American Midwest this month, as he tries to refocus attention on jobs seen as vital to his chances of winning re-election in 2012. The president will be on the road between Aug. 15 and Aug. 17 "listening" to the American people about jobs and the economy, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.)
Mom accused of punching toddler son on Boston bus (Sacramento Bee)
(A mother accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him was surrounded by a "hostile" crowd of passengers until police arrived, authorities said Wednesday. Erica Ryan pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Roxbury District Court to a charge of assault and battery on a child causing injury. Prosecutors requested bail be set at $25,000; a judge set bail at $500 and ordered Ryan to stay away from the boy.)
Molly can't wait to get back on bus (Stuff NZ)
(After decades of nursing and serving in the air force during a world war, Molly Amon is not about to let a bump on the head stop her from riding the bus. The 94-year-old fell to the ground and hit her head while riding the No2 bus in Miramar, Wellington, last month.She suffered a brain bleed and is still in Kenepuru Hospital recovering.)
In a Death, as in a Life, a Cloak of Mystery (New York Times)
(Thomas Truex harbored a simple ambition, his relatives said: to treat the Earth kindly enough that no one would notice when he left it. “He wanted to leave no footprint,” his nephew William Wendt Jr. said. Mr. Truex nearly got his wish. Many people may know Mr. Truex, not by name, but by the strange circumstances of his death: He was the driver who died in his bus on Thursday at the Port Authority Bus Terminal while the vehicle idled for hours in the heart of one of the busiest transit hubs in one of the busiest cities in the world, without anyone noticing until the midafternoon. He was 59.)
Parents sue Carroll County bus driver, school system (AJC.com)
(The driver responsible for the fatal Carroll County school bus crash still works for the county’s school system, despite a rule saying he should have been fired. The news came Wednesday as the parents of the teen killed in that tragic wreck sued the driver and the Carroll County School System for what they called a “needless” death. “It could’ve been prevented,” Diana Lockett said. “My son didn’t have to die. Nobody deserves to lose their child at school.”)
Real life British superheroes find crime hard to find (Telegraph)
(Two self-styled superheroes – The Dark Spartan and his sidekick The Black Void – have vowed to fight crime and deploy justice to their neighbourhood. But despite months of patrolling their local seaside resorts, the pair – in real life a financial adviser and a shop worker – have failed to find any trouble at all.In fact, police say they are more worried about their safety than the local criminal fraternity.)
Ukraine zookeeper to live in lions' cage for five weeks (Calgary Herald)
(A Ukrainian zookeeper plans to spend five weeks living in an enclosure with two lions to raise funds for the zoo. Alexander Pylyshenko, who entered the lions’ enclosure on Tuesday, said he plans to spend the next 35 days painting pictures of the lions which he will sell to raise money for new buildings. The 40-year-old even intends to help a pregnant lioness give birth during his time with the lions, the zoo said.)
German girl cooks up kidnap story after cutting off hair (Yahoo News)
(A 10-year-old German girl who gave herself a radical haircut and then feared her parents' reaction claimed she was kidnapped by a man armed with a pair of scissors, authorities said Wednesday. Police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe in the northern city of Hanover said the girl ran to a neighbour Tuesday with the story that someone had broken into her house, threatened her with scissors and held her captive for a short time.)
Moon Jr.: Once Upon a Time, the Earth Had Two (Time)
(Earth must have felt pretty inadequate a week or two ago when astronomers announced that distant Pluto has yet another moon. Pluto! Recently demoted to a dwarf planet! And yet it boosted its satellite total to four, while we remain forever stuck at one. True, Earth is ahead of Mercury and Venus, which have no moons at all. But Mars, which is significantly smaller than Earth, has two; and don't even mention Jupiter, with more than 60; or Saturn, with 53. Even asteroids have multiple moons — including Sylvia, a 384-mile (617 km) space rock that boasts the twin satellites Romulus and Remus.)
Colonel Sanders and Ashton Kutcher Sought in Newport Beach Thefts (KTLA)
(The search is on for two thieves in the Newport Beach area described as Colonel Sanders and Ashton Kutcher look-a-likes. Residents of Villa Balboa report that some 15 bicycles have been stolen from subterranean parking lots around the complex in recent months. The crimes are said to have occurred during the early morning hours.)
They Love This Monkey: Couple offers big bucks for return of doll (Brooklyn Paper)
(Two grief-stricken Manhattanites have frantically papered Park Slope with fliers offering hundreds of dollars for the safe return of their closest companion — a beloved monkey doll named Bongo. Bonni Marcus and Jack Zinzi said their best friend went missing on Sunday night during a routine outing to their favorite Fifth Avenue restaurant, El Viejo Yayo. The disappearance occurred around 7 pm, as Marcus and Zinzi were walking from their car near Flatbush Avenue to the eatery.)
Supreme Court denies appeal of Cheetos-chomping drunk driver (KTVQ)
(Cheetos may be great for a quick snack, but if you're trying to cover up your boozy breath when you get pulled over...not so much. At least that's what the Montana Supreme Court is telling a Lincoln County man, who tried to cover up his alcohol-laced breath when he was stopped for drunk driving and speeding in November 2009. Prosecutors had successfully convicted Charles Stambaugh of the November 2009 traffic stop, where a Lincoln County traffic deputy saw him speeding and followed him to a local truck stop.)
Skydiver survives 3,500ft terror plunge after BOTH parachutes fail (The Mirror)
(HURTLING 3,500ft towards the ground as she tugged frantically at her two tangled parachutes, Zoe Sievwight thought it was the end. But miraculously the 29-year-old escaped her horror skydive with just a broken ankle. Although plummeting from a height around 20 times that of Nelson’s Column, Zoe landed in soft, boggy ground over a mile away from the drop zone.)
Two young campers attacked by black bear in New Jersey (Reuters)
(Two young campers were attacked by a yearling black bear that entered their tent in New Jersey on Wednesday in the nation's latest bear mauling this summer, state officials said. The predawn attack occurred in Stokes State Forest in the lake-filled northwestern part of the state at a campsite being used by the Trail Blazers Camp of Montague, New Jersey, said Larry Ragonese, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.)
N.J. politician quits over nude pictures (UPI.com)
(An influential South New Jersey politician resigned his elected office after a political activist published nude photos of him on a Web site.Louis Magazzu, who also has resigned as chairman of the county Democratic Committee, submitted his resignation as a Cumberland County freeholder Tuesday, The News of Cumberland County reported. The board of freeholders serves as a county council.)
(A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material. The 31-year-old Mr. Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.)
Huge cyber spying effort revealed, China suspected (Yahoo Canada)
(The United States, United Nations, defense contractors and the International Olympic Committee were targets of a massive global cyber spying campaign, a computer security firm said Wednesday, with China seen as the likely culprit. California-based McAfee said it had identified 72 victims in 14 countries of a sophisticated hacking effort dubbed "Operation Shady RAT," which it traced back to at least 2006.)
How to unlock a car with a text message (CNN)
(Don Bailey says he can unlock thousands of cars across the United States simply by sending a few texts from his Android phone. And that's not even the scary part.Bailey, a senior security consultant with iSEC Partners, said in an interview with CNN at the Black Hat security conference here at Caesars Palace that the same hack he has used to demonstrate unlocking and even starting a car via text message also could be used to attack industrial systems, the power grid and the water system.)
New BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY Screens Show Dark Knight and Bane Team-Up (Daily Blam)
(Five new screenshots from Batman: Arkham City have surfaced on the web showing some superheroic action, including a newly announced team-up between the Caped Crusader and villain Bane.)
(In many ways, it looks like daily life in Fukushima is slipping back into its familiar routines. In Koriyama, a town south of Fukushima City, a group of taiko drummers set up in front of the train station to perform in an annual summer festival. Girls cruise by on bicycles in their plaid skirts and white socks in the unusually mild August, and customers stop to browse at boxes of fresh peaches — a seasonal specialty of the prefecture, and, thanks to government testing, guaranteed to be mostly iodine- and cesium free. The rhythm of the seasons in this rural swath of Japan may be regaining some sense of normalcy, but a reminder that things are still anything but is never far away. As if to prove that point, on Tuesday Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that workers at their Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant had discovered a second highly radioactive location at the plant in two days.)
RIP High Tower: Football great and 'Police Academy' star Bubba Smith dies (Toronto Sun)
(Former college and pro football star Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith, who went on to an acting career after his retirement from sports, was found dead at his home, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said Wednesday. He was 66.)
Death of Homeless Man After Beating by Police Stirs Outrage (New York Times)
(In one video, the sound of a Taser going off is followed by a man screaming in pain. In another, footage from a security camera on a public bus, riders describe police officers beating a man to death in graphic terms. “They beat him up, and then all the cops came and they hogtied him, and he was like, ‘Please God, please Dad!,’ ” one said. The death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man with mental illness, after an encounter with members of the Fullerton Police Department in California has set off a furor in this Orange County community, amid allegations that six police officers used excessive force to try to quiet Mr. Thomas.)
(Brian Michael Bendis, the writer behind Parker’s death and Miles arrival told the newspaper that it was long overdue, even in the more ‘diverse’ Marvel universe. “Even though there’s some amazing African-American and minority characters bouncing around in all the superhero universes, it’s still crazy lopsided,” Bendis admitted. However, not everyone agrees with Bendis’ assessment, a quick glance through the comments of the USA Today article reveals that even if Marvel wants to be more contemporary that doesn’t give them the right to rewrite comic book history. Of course, it should be of no surprise that some white comic fans feel that iconic comic characters should be left unchallenged by today’s more political correct society – especially when it comes to a biracial teenager becoming the newest incarnation of one of their most beloved superheroes.)
Why do we care if Perry White is black? (Popwatch)
(Perry White and Spider-Man are both black now. Well, kind of. Laurence Fishburne will play the editor of the Daily Planet in the 2013 Superman reboot, and a mixed-race teenager named Miles Morales is taking over webslinging duties in Marvel’s “Ultimate” universe. Now, you could argue that these changes aren’t “real.” (If you pick up a typical Spider-Man comic book, Spidey’s alter ego is still the indisputably caucasian Peter Parker. If you pick up a Superman comic book, Perry White is still very much his last name.) You could also point out both Perry White and Spider-Man are fictional creations who have never existed, so technically they could be played by unicorns with German accents, and the characters wouldn’t care, because they are not real people.)
No comments:
Post a Comment