Polish Bus Driver 'Admits' UK Student Murder (Sky News)
(A British student murdered in Poland was beaten to death by a bus driver after a row over a missed stop, police in the country have said. The body of 21-year-old Catherine Zaks was discovered lying next to a railway embankment in the Polish city of Krakow.)
14 die in another Zimbabwe bus crash (Huffington Post)
(At least 14 people were killed after a minibus crashed in Zimbabwe, the second deadly accident involving an overcrowded bus in the southern African country in recent days, state radio reported Wednesday. Police spokesman Oliver Mandipaka said the minibus carried nine more passengers than its licensed capacity. State radio said the bus burst a rear tire on Tuesday and overturned twice about 120 miles (195 kilometers) east of the capital, Harare.)
Passenger recounts shooting terror on SEPTA bus (Philadelphia Inquirer)
(For Lefenus Pickett, what began as a routine ride home on SEPTA's Route 47 bus became a near-death experience June 18 when a woman who took offense at his parenting advice called friends who strafed the loaded bus with semiautomatic weapons fire in North Philadelphia. A Philadelphia courtroom was riveted today as Pickett narrated a video made by seven cameras on the bus that showed two men, brandishing a handgun and an rifle, taking aim at Pickett who then jumps over his seat and runs with other passenger to the front as bullets fly through the bus windows.)
Cameras aim to catch bus bullies (centredaily.com)
(Penns Valley Area school district administrators want to install multiple high-tech cameras — up to three or four in some cases— on all buses and vans that transport students. The goal? To curb bullying. “I think it’s a great tool,” school board member Henry Yeagley said at a work session Wednesday night. The total cost would be $68,000. The cameras would be expected to last seven years.)
Bus crushes 14 travellers to death (The Sun UK)
(A BUS driver ran over and killed 14 travellers who had been ordered by robbers to lie in the middle of a busy road. The group's own bus was seized as it made its way to Nigerian capital Abuja.
The passengers were told to get off and made to lie down on the main route between the capital and the port city of Lagos. Another bus then ran over the group early on Tuesday morning and drove off. Police are still looking for the driver.)
Police say speed was factor in bus crash (Boston Globe)
(A tour bus carrying Polish tourists was going too fast during a downpour when it crashed and flipped over on an upstate New York highway, injuring all 30 people aboard, authorities said. State Police Captain Eric Janis said yesterday that 19 people were treated at three Binghamton-area hospitals after the Wednesday night accident. By yesterday afternoon, all had been released, and the tour company said all the passengers were brought back to New Jersey.)
Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village (Toronto Star)
(Authorities say a mysterious orange-coloured substance has washed up on the shores of a remote village in northwest Alaska. Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina. City Administrator Janet Mitchell told the Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents’ rain buckets. Coast Guard Petty Officer David Mosely tells KTUU that it’s not a petroleum substance and it’s not man-made.)
(BUS DRIVER COMMENT: Ack! The Blob LIVES!!!!)Lovelorn German teen drives 1200 kilometres to make up (France 24)
(A heartbroken 15-year-old German boy stole his parents' car to drive 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from Austria to northern Germany in a bid to make up with his girlfriend, German police said Thursday. The boy, who was on holiday in Austria with his family, had an argument with his girlfriend in Flensburg near the Danish border while chatting on a social network.)
"Hello Kitty" Devotee Nabbed In FBI Sex Probe (The Smoking Gun)
(A 22-year-old Indiana man who describes himself as a “Hello Kitty” devotee who loves “cute things” is jailed on a federal criminal complaint charging him with traveling to California to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, according to court records. In an interview last month with FBI agents, Erik Epperson, a pizza restaurant employee, admitted the late-January tryst with the San Diego girl, whom he met on Facebook via a mutual friend. Additionally, a U.S. District Court complaint alleges, Epperson copped to having sex with about a dozen other female juveniles and said that he “recorded himself having sexual intercourse” with three girls and took a photo of another girl’s nude vagina “because it looked nice.”)
Effort to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio fails to get signatures (Dayton Daily News)
(An effort to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio was stopped in its tracks Wednesday when supporters failed to get enough valid signatures on petitions, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office. The proposal needed 1,000 signatures, but just 534 of the 2,134 turned in by supporters were deemed to be valid, according to a release to the media from DeWine’s office.)
NASA will send three LEGO minifigures to Jupiter (News Lite)
(NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will feature an unusual crew when it launches tomorrow… three little 1.5-inch tall LEGO figurines. In a bid to inspire more children to explore science, minifigs of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno will set off on the mission. The trio will arrive at Jupiter at some point in 2016 and the mission will investigate the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere. It's not clear exactly what role the toys will play in the mission… but who cares, it's LEGO in space.)
Chef creates Star Wars replica treats for diners at his sushi restaurant (Metro UK)
(The likes of Yoda, R2D2 and Han Solo are held together with bamboo skewers and toothpicks and feature light sabers and other weapons. They are the brainchild of Japanese sushi chef Okitsugu Kado who spends more than ten hours carving the vegetables before painstakingly piecing them together.)
Jail Deputy, Accused Of Creating 'Orgy'-Like Atmosphere At Fla. Women's Prison (Huffington Post)
(A Florida corrections officer didn't just lust for power, he used his power for lust, according to former co-workers and inmates under his watch. A Pompano detention center took on an "orgy"-like atmosphere with female inmates dancing topless and performing sex acts on one another as deputy Mason Chibnick looked on, The Orlando Sentinel reported.)
Police puzzled by $100k stuffed in Channel Nine toilet bin (Herald Sun)
(CHANNEL 9 News has been forced to admit that it faked footage of a man dumping $100,000 in a toilet cubicle. Last night’s edition of Nine News reported that cash totalling $100,000 had been found stuffed in a toilet bin. Nine’s story showed what appeared to be security photos of the man entering the disabled toilet at Docklands and dumping his money stash. However, Nine has now confessed that it dramatised the footage, although a spokesman insisted today that there was no intention to pretend the footage was real. “We categorically refute the assertion that Channel Nine attempted to fake footage," he said. "There was never any intention to deceive or mislead our viewers. This was nothing more than a production oversight. The word “reconstruction” should have been displayed.”)
Adam West celebrates 45 years of 'Batman' (USA Today)
(CHANNEL 9 News has been forced to admit that it faked footage of a man dumping $1Adam West is an entertainment icon. There's no question about that. So it comes as little surprise that the actor who portrayed the "classic" 1960s Batman on TV looks so at home in the annual epicenter of all things pop culture, Comic-Con.)
NASA confirms shuttle debris found in Texas (Toronto Sun)
(NASA confirmed Thursday that a large piece of debris from space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed in 2003, has been found in a drought-stricken Texas lake. The component of the ill-fated spaceship is one of its 18 gas tanks, the U.S. space agency said. Columbia disintegrated as it attempted to fly through the atmosphere for a landing in Florida on Feb. 1, 2003. Undetected damage in its heat shield caused it to break apart over East Texas and Louisiana, killing its seven-member crew.)
Modern Warfare 3 gives the Wii some love, courtesy of Treyarch (MMOMFG)
(As most of us already knew, there was no way Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t getting put on the Wii. But with the crack team of developers behind Modern Warfare 3, who will be behind the Wii iteration? Not newcomer Sledgehammer, not Raven Software, and not even (the empty husk of) Infinity Ward. According to website One of Swords, the game will be developed by Call of Duty veterans Treyarch.)
Find My iPhone (CNET)
(The feature that will let Mac owners remotely keep an eye on the location of their computer has gone live on the developer testing version of Apple's iCloud.com. As noted by both 9to5mac and Macrumors this evening, developers with pre-release versions of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 are getting access to an iCloud feature that lets them both track, and remotely secure their computer. That feature's now accessible through iCloud.com, the Web front end for Apple's upcoming cloud service, which went live to developers earlier this week.)
Porn studio loses appeal in Google copyright case (CNET)
(TA U.S. appeals court didn't accept the assertion that an adult-entertainment company was nearly driven out of business by Google search results that display thumbnail photos of the site's porn photos. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Perfect 10, a porn studio with a long history of filing copyright suits against Internet companies, rejected a request for a preliminary injunction against Google. The court said that Perfect 10 didn't present enough evidence to prove that it would suffer irreparable harm from the photos.Perfect 10 claims Google's software and Web crawler have caused $50 million in losses and the company. But the company failed to present a single former customer who said he or she had stopped paying Perfect 10's subscription fees because of the availability of Google's thumbnail photos.)
'Crush festish' couple held in Philippines (AFP)
(Philippine police have arrested a couple accused of making dozens of videos showing teenage girls torturing and killing animals that were then posted and viewed on "crush fetish" Internet sites worldwide. Vicente Ridon and his wife Dorma Ridon are to stand trial in the northern city of San Fernando after they were tracked down at a rented house in a remote village, Senior Inspector Martin Ngadao, the local police chief, said Thursday. "We got them two days ago, but they have already posted bail," Ngadao told AFP by telephone from Burgos town.)
Tot’s slaying detailed in mom’s diary (Toronto Sun)
(Disturbing diary entries detailing a mother's confession to killing her 10-month-old son were heard in court after she pleaded guilty in his death. On Wednesday, Stacey Joy Bourdeaux pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2004 death of Sean Fewer. She also pleaded guilty to attempted murder and failing to provide the necessaries for the devastating attack on another son, then five years old. In that case, court heard this week diary entries describing his mother's prolonged and failed bid to take his life and "send him back" to his late father. She will be sentenced in November.)
Fake bomb on Australian teen an extortion plot, police say (CNN)
(A masked man who broke into an Australian home, forcibly strapped a fake bomb onto a teen's neck and fled was attempting a "serious" extortion, Australian police said Thursday. Madeleine Pulver, 18, told police that a man wearing a disguise entered her home Wednesday afternoon in the wealthy suburb of Mosman and attached the suspicious device to her. Officials later determined the suspected bomb did not contain explosives, describing it as a "very, very elaborate hoax.")
Minority Spider-Man opens many issues for Marvel (My SanAntonio)
(At Marvel Comics, with great power comes great responsibility. Thus, Marvel has to fashion a complicated story line to accommodate a superhero who is half-black, half-Latino. Will Miles Morales eat Latino or black cuisine? What part of town will he live in? How will he speak? If Morales pursues an evil-doer into, say, Arizona, will his papers be in order?)
Swede admits home-made atom experiment was 'crazy' (BBC)
(A Swedish man who tried to set up a nuclear reactor in his kitchen at home has admitted his plan was "crazy". Richard Handl said he had just been "curious" and wanted to see if he would be able to split an atom. Police were called to his flat in Angelholm in southern Sweden after he got in touch with Sweden's radiation authority to check if what he was doing was legal. Mr Handl said he would stick to reading books about physics from now on.)
Amy Winehouse's last night of booze (The Mirror)
(Amy Winehouse went on a vodka-fuelled bender days before her death – boozing at a gig before hitting a late-night party. The Back to Black singer was first spotted necking shots at the Roundhouse theatre after dramatically falling off the wagon following three weeks of abstinence. It was widely believed she called it a night after her impromptu performance with goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, 15, at the venue in Camden, North London, on the Wednesday before her death.)
Tom Hardy Miming On 'The Dark Knight Rises' Set (Latino Review)
(There's no doubt that actor, Tom Hardy is a happy man about having landed the role of the monster villain, Bane in 'The Dark Knight Rises.' One problem that has arisen however is that he's having a little difficulty hearing anything while wearing his getup on set.)
If you are in or near or, fuck it, anywhere and can make it to Ottawa tonight
check out Courage My Love over at the Ritual club.
They are sure to rock the hizzzouuuussse.
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