posted 07-05-2019 03:53 PM                    

quote: Harold Hallikainen

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Have you had "influencers" want free movie admission?

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No,but we've had a lot of people under the influence try to get in..

posted 07-09-2019 06:06 PM                       

quote: Raleigh News & Observer

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On 1st night in home, dad fires 39 shots at naked ‘devil’ — and misses, Va. family says

The first night in a dream home turned into a nightmare for a Virginia family.

A naked woman broke into the home on the first night the family was staying there and said she was the devil before gunshots were fired and a brawl broke out between the intruder and the residents, WRIC reported.

Chesterfield County Police said the violent confrontation happened July 4, when a male homeowner discovered the woman had entered his home, according to WWBT.

The woman, who has not been publicly identified, and was only described as nude with blue hair in a ponytail, laughed when she was asked to leave, telling the man “I’m the devil,” per WRIC.

The man used a handgun to fire numerous “warning shots” to scare off the woman, but was unsuccessful, WTVR reported.

Undeterred, the woman approached the man and they got into a fight that ended up involving two other family members as they tried to force the woman out, according to the TV station.

In all, 39 shots were fired and furniture was thrown at the woman, as well as punches, in the brawl that also involved the man’s wife and his 12-year-old son, who incapacitated the woman when he hit her in the neck with a wrench, according to WRIC.

“She had the strength of four grown men,” the father said of the intruder, the TV station reported.

No one was shot, but police said the woman and man were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, per WWBT.

“First night in our beautiful home when an intruder decides to enter ... and tries to take our life one at a time,” Melissa Lewis said in an online fundraiser. “My husband tried to defend us and she was determined to kill us.”

When she is released from the hospital, the woman is expected to be charged with multiple crimes, WTVR reported.

Pictures of the home Lewis shared on the fundraiser show walls and windows riddled with bullet holes and blood-stained carpets.

“We have lost our home we have lost furniture,” Lewis said on the fundraiser. “We have lost it all. In a hotel not knowing how long will be able to do this.”

Lewis said she is scared to return to the home, saying “I won’t even go into any room by myself, I’m terrified,” WRIC reported.

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posted 07-10-2019 02:49 PM                       

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A Vancouver man is expressing anger and discomfort after watching an advertisement featuring Canadian licensed producer (LP) Canopy Growth at a local theatre.

Coquitlam resident Chris Whelan went to a Cineplex VIP theatre — where alcohol is served and patrons must be 19 or older — and was appalled to see an advertisement depicting an individual rolling a joint with some kind of tube.

Now, he wants the ads removed.

“I was somewhat shocked to see that, sitting in a movie theatre,” Whelan told CBC News. “We were brought up thinking that this is something you don’t do openly and to have it displayed in front of you like that in a movie theatre seemed inappropriate. It surprised me that they would be allowed to do it at all,” he added.

Whelan has since complained to the theatre.
Although the Canadian government ensured strict advertising and promotion rules were in place when federal legalization came into effect — to protect youth from the purported dangers of the Devil’s lettuce — both the LP and the theatre say the advertisement complies with federal advertising laws, particularly since patrons must be over the age of majority to enter the VIP theatre.

The company says the ads do not run in its standard, all-ages theatres.

But Whelan remains unmoved. “We’ve been brought up to be more accepting of alcohol. But I’m not a smoker and I’m not a marijuana user. I wouldn’t want to see a tobacco-rolling ad either. I wouldn’t want to see that,” he argued.

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posted 09-09-2019 09:48 PM                       

quote: New York Post

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Times Square Elmo busted for groping 14-year-old tourist: police

A perv dressed as Elmo grabbed a 14-year-old girl’s buttocks after she approached him for a photo in Times Square, police said Sunday.

Inocente Andrade-Pacheco, 54, was cuffed around 6:45 p.m. Saturday for allegedly groping the teenage tourist on Broadway near West 46th Street as she posed for the picture with him and her parents.

The costumed creeper was charged with forcible touching and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

He was released on his own recognizance at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Sunday night.

Prosecutors had asked for $7,500 in bail. They said multiple witnesses saw the miscreant Muppet grope the girl. Andrade-Pacheco denied grabbing her through his legal aid attorney.

The lawyer argued that his client — who lives in Passaic, NJ., with his wife and child — has strong ties to his community and no prior convictions.

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posted 10-26-2019 01:56 PM                       

quote: Riverside Press-Enterprise, October 6, 2019, Business Section, pages 1 & 6

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posted 11-16-2019 02:38 PM                       

quote: Miami Herald

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A Miami man had a screwdriver in his rectum. Doctors had to find a way to get it out.

A Miami man went to Kendall Regional Medical Center with complaints of abdominal pains. Doctors found the cause — and it wasn’t what they were expecting.

As first reported in The New York Post, the unnamed 46-year-old psychiatric patient came to the hospital in septic shock, a widespread infection causing organ failure and dangerously low blood pressure.

The man’s past medical history “was significant” for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and noncompliance with medications, according to a case report published last month in Annals of Medicine & Surgery from his Kendall doctors.

When doctors took a CT scan to find out what was plaguing him, they found this: an eight-inch screwdriver in his rectum.

The man was rushed to the operating room as doctors tried to remove the screwdriver. Their first attempt was without surgery, but that didn’t work.

As doctors examined the man’s intestines, they discovered the sharp-end of the screwdriver pierced the junction of his colon and rectum, and entered his buttock. Part of his buttock had to be removed. After cutting into his abdominal cavity, doctors were able to remove the screwdriver. The man now has to wear a colostomy bag, which will be removed.

“At 2 weeks follow-up the patient was doing well,” the doctors said.

While the man did not say how the screwdriver ended up in his rectum, doctors said “it may be an embarrassing situation.”

They wrote: “The most common reason, by far, for anal [foreign body] insertion is sexual pleasure, however other documented explanations include drug concealment, assault, ‘accidental’, psychiatric reasons, and to alleviate diarrhea or constipation.“

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quote: New York Daily News

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Last Hindenburg Survivor Dies, Aged 90

Werner Gustav Doehner, the final remaining survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, has died. He was 90.

Doehner, who was 8 years old at the time, was one of 62 passengers and crew who escaped the May 6, 1937, fire.

Doehner was tossed from the airship along with his brother by their mother after he sustained severe burns to his face, arms and legs. Doehner’s father, sister and 34 others died in the fire.

The family had been on their way back to their home in Mexico City.

In 2017, Doehner described the harrowing scene aboard the burning Zeppelin to the Associated Press.

“We were close to a window, and my mother took my brother and threw him out. She grabbed me and fell back and then threw me out,” he said. “She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy, and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin was nearly on the ground.”

Doehner was hospitalized for three months before receiving skin grafts in New York City.

Doehner moved to the United States in 1984 and worked as an an electrical engineer in New England. He died on Nov. 8 at a hospital in Laconia, N.H., where he lived with Elin, his wife of 52 years.

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