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8 Products From SkyMall You Can Use To Kill Someone
I picked up the new SkyMall catalog on a flight over the weekend and maybe I'm getting old, but I was surprised at how dangerous some of the crap seemed to be. Then I thought, "Could you use junk from SkyMall to kill someone?" The answer is: Maybe! Listen: You should never harm your fellow wo/man. But! If you fantasize about offing someone in a creative way, SkyMall can help. After the jump: 8 ways to die; choose one. More »
Oh, Christ.
A man in Florida has been arrested for allegedly hitting his teenage daughter because she refused to pray. Apparently the 18-year-old returned fire by punching the father in the face. Meanwhile, his 16-year-old daughter, while attempting to hold her father back from fighting with her sister, was "accidentally" bitten on the finger by the father when her hands were on his face. For the love of God. Come on, people. [UPI]
crimes against womanity
Cheerleaders May Face Life In Jail For Beating Fellow Teen
The ultra violent cheerleaders from Florida who attacked a fellow pep squad member with the intention of posting a video on YouTube have bigger fish to fry than missing trips to the beach. According to CNN, the six girls involved in the beatings and the two boys who acted as lookouts will be tried as adults. All eight suspects are facing charges of kidnapping and battery, while three of the eight are facing charges of tampering with a witness. Frank Green, executive director of Keys to Safer Schools, tells CNN, "In one respect, girls have always been more vicious than boys. Their violence is of a personal nature... girls want to cause pain and make the other girl feel bad." More »
girl-on-girl crime
The Meanest Girls At School Are Often The Most Popular
A recent story out of Florida concerns six teenage girls — cheerleaders — who lured a former friend to a home where they beat her for 30 minutes while videotaping the entire act. They wanted to post the footage on YouTube and MySpace; according to the local news outlet in Orlando, a girl's voice can be heard on the tape saying: "There's only 17 seconds left; make it good." The victim in the attack suffered a concussion, loss of hearing in one ear, damage to her left eye and numerous bruises. And the footage being aired on news outlets is what happened after she was knocked unconscious. But guess what? The girls who participated in the attack probably have more friends than ever. Because new research shows that "Mean Girls" are the most popular girls in school. More »
clips
Bad Girls Don't Cry, Except For When They Aren't Allowed To Murder
On last night's episode of Bad Girls Club, the roommates decided to let Jennavecia remain in the house, even though she missed her anger management appointment. (Jennavecia, if you remember, is the woman who drunkenly thought the couch was a toilet, wiped her roommates food on her privates and then instigated the three-way sink peeing incident.) Thing is, after the others let her stay on, she screwed them over by not showing up to do the grunt work at the job they all share and Hanna, normally the quietest girl in the house, was driven to tears by the realization that she wasn't able to choke Jennavecia. (No, seriously.) Clip above.
Great news for gender parity etc. etc.: a female school shooter shot herself and two other female students this morning when she opened fire in a second floor classroom at Baton Rouge, Louisiana's Louisiana Technical College. That's not as many victims as Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton took when he went on a shooting spree during a Kirkwood, Mo. city council session last night, but it's a start...soon, no one will hear "shooting rampage" and automatically assume "quintessentially male rage." Details — can Katrina be blamed? A two-timing boyfriend? — are as yet unavailable. Developing. [AP]
