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Scott Simon, 24, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars because of a butt dial he made to 911 about his murder plot, May 5, 2013.

Crimes are normally reported to 911, so that help can be sent to the crime scene as soon as possible.  But the culprit committing the crime usually is ready to go to jail and is remorseful if they feel compelled to make the call…but not this time.

A couple young men, Scott Simon, 24, and Nicholas Walker, 33, got into a fight in a Broward County, Florida Waffle House.  After the two were separated and left the scene, Simon followed Walker home and he was shot to death on I-95, according to the Miami Herald.  Well, the police have an open and shut case on Simon’s murder plot because of a butt dial he made to 911 where his conversation with friends detailing how he was going to follow Walker home and kill him. (more…)

Asean Johnson is a third grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary in Chicago and he is fighting to keep his school open during protests Monday, May 20, 2013.

The public school system of America has been in constant decline for a very long time.  Large cities have had to fight for their teacher’s jobs as well as keep schools open.  But none have been so embattled as the city of Chicago lately.

The protests to keep Chicago schools open began last weekend to keep the 54 schools Chicago’s city government slated to close from being shut down.  A ray of hope in the form of a third grader.  Nine-year-old Asean Johnson of Chicago’s Marcus Garvey Elementary, rose from the crowd to address the ills of the city’s decisions from the point-of-view of an elementary school student who will be directly affected, according to Jet Magazine. (more…)

House Speaker John Boehner’s daughter, Lindsay Boehner, 35, and Dominic Lakhan, 38, wed at Sundy House in Delray Beach on Friday, May 10, 2013.

In April, we reported the shocking engagement of Republican leader/House Speaker John Boehner’s daughter to Jamaican-born, weed smokin’ Dominic Lakhan. Now everyone knows that John Boehner is adamantly against the legalization of marijuana. He’s been on record using the words ’unalterably opposed’ to legalizing it, even for medical purposes.

But Lakhan, who has been arrested for “open ‘Natural Light’ beer and 4 grams of marijuana in the vehicle along with the smell of ‘burning cannabis’” on two separate occasions, is now the newest member of the Boehner clan.  On Friday, May 10, Lindsay Boehner, 35, married her Jamaican-born beau in a quiet, elegant tropical garden setting at Sundy House in Delray Beach.  Boehner strolled his daughter down the aisle and gave her away sporting a grey suit that matched the groom’s, according to the Daily Mail. (more…)

Unidentified man includes “treadmill dancing” in his routine.

Everyone has their own fitness tricks that keep them motivated to do what’s necessary to stay healthy everyday. Some people enhance their fitness routine with different moves or routines weekly.  Some just freestyle on a treadmill.

One guy at the gym is not mad that he has to be there.  He’s an unidentified treadmill dancer that has a routine on the treadmill that better not be tried by anyone that has any type of awkward athletic ability because they will fail in a disastrous way. (more…)

Venezuela regularly faces shortages of basic necessities like toilet paper.

Charmin, Cottonelle, White Cloud, and Scott all have one thing in common, they wipe up the floor with the rest of their competitors when it comes to necessities in the grocery store.

The Venezuelan people would be happy to get any one of these toilet paper makers to stock the shelves of their grocery stores as the country is experiencing their first toilet paper shortage.  The country has had other shortages of things like milk and butter, but for most of the month of May, folks have had to find an alternate way to…wipe.

According to CBS, the socialist government claimed to start importing 50 million rolls to saturate the market to get the people calmed down, but the conspiracy theories are already being flung around and the outrage will not subside easily.  (more…)

Kiera Wilmot, 16, has been awarded a scholarship to attend Alabama University’s Space Program after she was arrested for blowing up a science lab in Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida, April 20, 2013.

The affinity to sciences starts very early for a lot of our scientists and sometimes results in lava on the ceiling, unexplainable goo on the floor, acid eaten counters and yeah, explosions.

Kiera Wilmot, 16, of Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida, near Tampa, was arrested in April when she blew up a water bottle in her high school science lab by mixing household chemicals that surprisingly erupted from the bottle, according to NewsOne. But, one former NASA engineer Homer Hickam thought that her stellar high school career should not be tarnished by her scientific curiosity and he awarded her an unexpected scholarship to attend the United States Advanced Space Academy (ASA). (more…)

Washington, D.C. – May 11, 2013
Charles Ramsey poses for customers at D.C.’s famous Ben’s Chili Bowl where many celebrities, including the president, have eaten as a sort of requirement when visiting the capital city. 
(Photo by Lucian Perkins/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We were so happy to learn that Charles Ramsey is still being celebrated throughout the Cleveland area.  And not only is he still being honored, but food is being served.

Numerous restaurants in the Cleveland area, as well as one in Pennsylvania, have banded together in a sort of  ”Free Food for Ramsey” alliance. The idea blossomed from the Hodges restaurant where Ramsey works as a dishwasher.  Chef-co-owner Chris Hodgson came up with the Ramsey burger which Hodgson describes as “an 8-ounce burger of Certified Angus Beef, with a secret sauce,” according to the Cleveland.com. (more…)

The religious fanatic that decapitated a british soldier in the streets (seen behind him laying lifeless in the street) stands with the man’s blood on his hands wielding a butcher knife and meat cleaver in London’s Woolwich area trying to tell a cameraman why he has committed such a heinous act against an innocent man in broad daylight, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

The terrorists that have come out of the woodwork to punish the Western governments are doing nothing but victimizing the citizens in a horrific tit for tat throughout the world.

In London’s Woolwich area Wednesday, a black British man believed to be an Islamic extremist, with a knife and meat cleaver in his bloody hands, walked up to a news cameraman trying to rationalize why he and an accomplice walked up to a British soldier and decapitated him in the street just blocks away from an elementary school and the British army base where it is believed the man was trying to return, according to the UK’s Mirror. (more…)