Violence has broken out in a shanty town north of Rio De Janeiro between police and drug gangs. This is the worst outbreak of violence since the city was awarded the 2016 Olympics (Chicago doesn’t seem so bad now does it?)
The chopper was attacked during the fighting and was trying to make an emergency landing […]

Baby’s miraculous escape

nvestigators believe Benoit, killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three different rooms of the house on Green Meadow Lane, in a subdivision off a gravel road about two miles from Whitewater Country Club.
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It took a taser gun to subdue a man accused of biting off part of a man’s nose and attempting to gouge out his eyeball during a bar fight. Plastic surgeons grafted skin to repair Edgar D. Hellar’s nose, according to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department.
Hellar’s cornea also was scratched when his attacker tried to […]

Sam Ives, of Pleasant Grove, died Sunday night after a black bear dragged him from his tent in American Fork Canyon. Wildlife authorities say it’s the first fatal bear attack in recorded Utah history.
“He had a pretty tender heart, even though he had big muscles,” said Joseph Allen, 12, who called himself Sam’s best friend.
[Obviously […]

Police in Columbia, South Carolina, on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths.
The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect the man and woman, in […]

The early hours of Father’s Day did not go well for a Des Moines man.
Police said his stepson beat him with a bat before he took a case of beer and warned him not to talk to the police.
Gordon D. Spach, 47, was taken to Iowa Lutheran Hospital by his daughter. Police said he had […]

Four lesbians convicted of assaulting a man who was stabbed after he made advances toward one of them were sentenced Thursday amid screams and weeping to prison terms ranging from 3 1/2 to 11 years.
More than two dozen court officers ringed the courtroom as Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin pronounced the sentences, which […]

We all know (well those who watch this abysmal crap, ahem) that contestant Emily on C4’s Big Brother doesn’t like fellow contestant Charley very much. However, things turned nasty last night after Emily said “Are you pushing it out, you nigger?” to Charley, while they were dancing in the living room.
Indian-born Nicky Maxwell, who was […]

A New Haven police officer shot his daughter in the knee Tuesday after he mistook her for a burglar as she tried to sneak into her home after a late-night rendezvous with her boyfriend, police said.
New Haven police Officer Eric Scott, 41, who has been on medical leave from his job since he was hit […]

Ok so we went for the sensationalists headline - who cares. According to BBC Health:
“A virus contracted through oral sex is the cause of some throat cancers, say US scientists.
HPV infection was found to be a much stronger risk factor than tobacco or alcohol use, the Johns Hopkins University study of 300 people found.
The New […]

Going to the vets can cost and arm and a leg, but for one poor vet in Taiwan, this metaphor went to a whole new level.
The vet, Chang Po-yu, was attacked by one of a pair of crocodiles at Shoushan zoo. He was anaesthetising the animal and went to remove the syringe, unfortunately crocy wasn’t […]

“At this point, it really is a mystery how the child got out […] The day care does have cameras on site but they were not working Monday.”
A 3-year-old was found unharmed Monday after he wandered away from a day-care center to a nearby 7-Eleven, according to police.
Investigators said Jorge Rivera left the Golden Bear […]

A toddler was treated by doctors after cocaine was found in her system.
The unidentified girl, who is between 18 and 24 months old, was taken to hospital after workers at her church pre-school noticed the girl acting strangely, in Jacksonville, Florida.
The teachers at Promise Land Pre-School at the First Baptist Church of Mandarin noticed that […]

A spokeswoman for Frito Lay said a dead mouse found by a Colorado eighth-grader in a bag of potato chips probably chewed its way in after the snack was delivered to the school.
The late rodent was found last week by a student who bought the bag of chips in the lunch line at Lewis-Palmer Middle […]

NEW DELHI: A Sikkim Police constable guarding the Dena Bank treasury at Daryaganj in central Delhi went berserk early Sunday morning, killing five of his mates after they allegedly tried to sodomise him while on night duty.
The police received a call at 4.52 am from constable Nari Lepcha, one of the guards deployed at the […]

Is there no end to the madness?
Hong Hock See temple in northern Penang, Malaysia, is being ravaged by a horde of red ants.
However, with the temple occupants being Buddhist monks, a peaceful solution to rid their problem is being sought without reverting to violence i.e. without stamping the bastards flat.
One of the temples disciples […]

Two women driving along Interstate 4 in Orange County, Fla, found themselves attacked by a gun wielding driver.
“He was following me very close behind the car,” the woman said. “And after two minutes I just heard the shot.”
A bullet shattered a right passenger-side window.
“We could’ve been dead because if the gun shot didn’t stop it […]

Streatham Ice Rink in south London was the venue for an 11pm prime time shooting witnessed by hundreds of people.
The victim, James Andre Smarrt-Ford, was taken to hospital but died. Six youths an 18-year-old are in police custody.
“His family are devastated. He is a 16-year-old boy who has gone to the ice rink.” said Superintendent […]