Police and firefighters were called to the University of Texas’ Jester Hall to free 26 cheerleaders who had crammed themselves into an elevator.
A group of 14- to 17-year-olds attending Texas Cheer Camp in Austin decided to see how many girls they could squeeze into the elevator around 6 p.m. Tuesday, campus police said.
The elevator successfully descended from the fourth floor to the first, but the doors refused to open.
The panicked girls managed to wiggle a few cell phones free to call for help. But it took about 25 minutes before a repairman was able to fix the door, police said.
“It’s dangerous actually,” said Rhonda Weldon, director of communications for the UT Police Department. “They’re lucky that that’s all that happened.”
One teen fainted and was treated and released from a nearby hospital. Two others were treated at the scene.
“Take the sign seriously,” Ms. Weldon said. “There are signs everywhere: No more than 15 people or 3,000 pounds.”
After reading this story one can’t help but do the math…26 girls…3000 pounds. That means that the girls would have to be an average of over 115 lbs each to tip the scales on this elevator. We’re talking about cheerleaders here right? What are they feeding them in Texas?
Note To The Bigger Blogs: If you’re going to bite from lil ol me at least give credit where credit is due.
Unlike Eddie Murphy...China doubleChecks before buying
Via The Guardian
For more than a year, officials in Beijing have been designing a special laboratory to determine the sex of any athletes taking part in this year’s Olympic games. “Suspected athletes will be evaluated from their external appearances by experts and undergo blood tests to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination,” says Professor Tian Qinjie. The tests will not be conducted on every female athlete, but will be required if serious doubts have been raised about an individual competitor - invariably one competing in the women’s events. “The aim is to protect fairness at the games while also protecting the rights of people with abnormal sexual development,” he says.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced sex testing in 1968 at the Olympic games in Mexico City, after the masculine appearance of some competitors, many pumped up by anabolic steroids, had started to raise questions about the gender of athletes in female events. Unsurprisingly, gender-determination tests were seen as degrading, with female competitors having to submit to humiliating and invasive physical examinations by a series of doctors. Later, the IOC decided to use a supposedly more sophisticated genetic test, based on chromosomes. Women usually have two X chromosomes; men an X and a Y chromosome. So, according to the rules of the test, only those athletes with two X chromosomes could be classed as women. However, many geneticists criticised the tests, saying that sex is not as simple as X and Y chromosomes and is not always simple to ascertain.
It is thought that around one in 1,000 babies are born with an “intersex” condition, the general term for people with chromosomal abnormalities. It may be physically obvious from birth - babies may have ambiguous reproductive organs, for instance - or it may remain unknown to people all their lives. At the Atlanta games in 1996, eight female athletes failed sex tests but were all cleared on appeal; seven were found to have an “intersex” condition. As a result, by the time of the Sydney games in 2000, the IOC had abolished universal sex testing but, as will happen in Beijing, some women still had to prove they really were women.
Transsexuals, who have had a sex change from male to female, can compete in women’s events in the Olympics, as long they wait two years after the operation.
Holy shit! I always thought that this was some sort of Hollywood created thing. I guess not.
O.K. so yesterday we posted a story that got us a couple of e-mails—how they got my email address I’ll never know but 3 e-mails came in. A highlight of one of the e-mails…
E-Mail
fucking moron.
Relax guy.
So here we are to redeem ourselves. Unlike yesterday’s story about innocent tobacco, alcohol and porn consumption this one is just sick…8 years is not enough.
CNN
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
The video shows one teen lighting a marijuana cigarette in the 2-year-old’s mouth, then laughing as the toddler coughs. One teen then tells him to pass it to his brother, who also smokes it and coughs. Parts of the video showed someone calling the children “potheads” and asking if they “have the munchies.”
Drug tests showed the youngsters had marijuana and cocaine in their bodies. When the video was made, the children’s mother was sleeping in another room, police have said. She was not arrested.
The children, their mother, grandmother and McCoy lived together at the time. The children have since been placed in foster care.
Fort Worth police found the video while searching a house in connection with a burglary investigation in which McCoy also was charged. He pleaded guilty to two burglary charges and received eight-year sentences that he will served at the same time, the newspaper reported.
The co-defendant Vanswan Polty, 19, remains in jail awaiting trial. He faces two charges of injury to a child, three charges of burglary and one charge of failing to identify himself to a peace officer.
So we’re par for the course. Our good deed is done for at least a years time. Back to the regularly scheduled program.
O.K. Let me start off by nominating Randolph Johnson for father of the year.
According To Boston’s Channel 5
A parent has been arrested for allegedly showing teenagers pornography, then offering one of them alcohol and cigarettes at a Boy Scout camp in Hopkinton.
Police arrested Randolph Johnson on Tuesday for a July 14 incident at the Yawgoog Boy Scout Reservation.
A spokesman for the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts said Johnson was camping with his son’s troop. He allegedly showed two teenage staffers pornographic films on a laptop computer. The teens reported that Johnson offered one of them alcohol and cigarettes.
Johnson was ordered to leave the camp. He was charged this month with misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and procuring alcohol and providing cigarettes to a minor.
Court records do not list an attorney for Johnson. He could not be reached for comment.
The question begs to be asked….why was this guy arrested? I thought that this was the age that you learned about the birds and the bees, discovered your sexuality, if you like cigarettes or not, and whether or not your uncles alcoholic gene would be passed down to you—with that being said—what better way then adult supervised first hand experience?
They definitely have it backwards in Rhode Island. Whatever judge gets assigned in this case can make things right. Randolph Johnson (which sounds like a pornstars name btw) should get a wink, nudge, and a pat on the back–at worst a slap on the wrist to appease the “outraged parents”…all hypocrites I bet.
Los Angeles vs Detroit - Like the 80's, but this time with boobs
Full Video Below Article
Is it any surprise that the “Detroit Shock” is coached by Rick Mahorn and Bill Laimbeer? Yes, thats the NBA’s own legend Rick Mahorn the “baddest bad boy”… a WNBA league coach (worse a guy) shoving Lisa Leslie. What’s up with that? I thought she was the WNBA’s equivalent to Michael Jordan. Maybe Mahorn was having flashback’s to the Jordan vs Piston days. He was ejected by the way…
NOTE: to Mahorn it looks like Canidce Parker is the new Jordan of the league. She’s not only the 2nd WNBA player to ever dunk–Lisa Leslie was the first…but she cried today—she’s also the first to ever throw a legit punch.
Fox News
Candice Parker was one of three players ejected along with Detroit assistant coach Rick Mahorn after an ugly scuffle with 4.6 seconds left in Los Angeles’ 84-81 victory.
“To be honest, I don’t recall exactly what happened,” said Parker, who led Los Angeles with 21 points. “I’ll have to watch the tape.”
The skirmish started moments after Parker and Detroit’s Cheryl Ford had to be separated after Ford fouled Parker.
On the next possession, Parker got tangled up with Detroit’s Plenette Pierson and fell to the ground. As she was getting up, Pierson intentionally ran into her, setting off the melee.
Parker threw a punch at Pierson before being tackled by Detroit’s Deanna Nolan. Players and coaches from both teams joined in, and Mahorn knocked Lisa Leslie to the court at one point.
With league milestones being hit daily people might actually have to start watching now. First the 2nd dunk (more like a rim touching layup), and now brawls. I have to say that the WNBA has come a long way.
The next milestone to break: An entertaining game.
Okie Doke Move, attempt to divorce wife via standin
Santa Clause’s Summer home? Or the Indian Supreme Court?
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out, lawyers said Friday.
Sanjib Saha presented a woman as his wife in a lower court in the eastern city of Kolkata this month. Both said they sought a mutual divorce, something the court granted immediately.
Saha’s real wife was then asked to leave the marital home. She has since appealed the ruling at a higher court, charged her husband with cheating and the original divorce was suspended.
“The case exposed the legal loopholes in our system,” Kaushik Chanda, lawyer of Saha’s real wife, said.
This guy definitely gets an A for effort and an A+ for balls. Don’t they chop off hands for this type of stuff in India? At least a stoning right? But no…apparently in India impersonating someone in a legal preceding isn’t that big of a deal…
“The case exposed the legal loopholes in our system,” Kaushik Chanda, lawyer of Saha’s real wife, said.
If only it was that easy in the U.S. You’d have alot more guys dancing on the Maury Povich show.
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