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Candy Vigneri gave birth to her baby girl Monday, June 29, 2009 around 9:30 am. This was not your everyday normal birth though. Candy’s baby was born in a porta potty/portable toilet in a park. Read this story see a picture below.

Candy Vigneri was in Long Wharf Park in Cambridge , Maryland Monday morning when she decided to go into the portable toilet near a construction site. Now me personally I am not a fan of porta potties and hate to use a public restroom. As for Candy, this porta potty will forever be known as the birth place of her baby girl.

Now most every mother is excited when their baby is born and anticipates the moment they can take their bundles of joy home with them. This was not the case for Vigneri. After giving birth to her baby inside the portable toilet, she dropped the baby girl in the waste tank and walked out.

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The conviction which was handed down by a jury against a Missouri woman Lori Drew in the MySpace Hoax has been tentatively reversed by Federal Judge George H. Wu. Lori Drew was convicted of computer crimes related to the Megan Meier suicide case. Judge Wu ruled that Drew’s conviction should be reversed, but that decision is tentative pending his issuance of a formal written ruling.

Drew created a fake MySpace profile of a teenage boy named “Josh Evans” and struck up an online relationship with Megan Meier. Meier, who was being treated for depression, committed suicide after being “dumped” online and told that the world would be “better off without her”. Drew was convicted in November of three misdemeanors of illegally accessing a protected computer. The jury rejected felony charges against Drew. A video outlining the story behind the Megan Meier suicide case is found below.

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A strange and very sad story out of Florida today where a pet python strangles girl in her sleep. A Burmese Python killed a 2 year old Florida girl today after it escaped from its aquarium and attacked the toddler in her bedroom. The snake kills baby attack occurred in the bedroom of Shaunnia Hare. Hare was killed by the snake, owned by her mother’s boyfriend who lived with the family. The boyfriend and snakes owner, Charles Jason Darnell, couldn’t find the snake in the aquarium and found that the pet python strangled the girl.

The owner of the snake began stabbing the snake to get it off the little girl, but the child was dead by the time paramedics arrived at the home. The owner of the snake did not have a permit for the snake. Currently no charges have been filed but investigators are looking into the possibility of charges.

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Shaun Campbell of Morristown, New Jersey, has plead guilty to his 15th drunk driving arrest.

On April 23, 2009, Shaun Campbell drove his vehicle head on into a Ford pickup. Thankfully, the driver of the truck, Harold Bivens Jr. and his daughter Hannah, age 4 were not killed.

Shaun P. Campbell pleaded guilty in state Superior Court, Morristown, to one count of assault by auto and to the motor vehicle offenses of drunken driving and driving while on the revoked list. Fifteen (15) drunk driving arrests and seventy eight (78) license suspensions over the past 22 years is almost unbelievable. I say almost unbelievable due to fact that those numbers only indicate the amount of times he has been caught breaking the law.

Campbell’s blood-alcohol level was .288 percent, more than three times the .08 percent level acceptable under current law at the time of his *last* offense.

When asked by Judge Salem Vincent Ahto how much he drank. Shaun P. Campbell replied:

“Beer. Quite a bit. Enough to not know what was going on,”

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Karen Mulder was arrested in Paris on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The former Dutch supermodel threatened her plastic surgeon repeatedly over the telephone. She is currently being held in a cell at the a cell at the General Eisenhower Street police station in the eight arrondissement, the epi-centre of Paris haute couture. Read about it below. Also see photos and videos of Mulder.

Karen Mulder

Former Victoria’s Secret model, Karen Mulder, apparently got verbally threatening towards her plastic surgeon when the female surgeon refused to reverse a procedure Mulder wanted undone. The type of surgery Mulder wanted to have reversed has not been named. Mulder, 39-years-old (or maybe 41-years-old), is said to have made repeated telephone calls to her plastic surgeon. The reports are that she was screaming, yelling and extremely threatening. Her unnamed surgeon was reported to have been very frightened.

A detective said: ‘She was screaming and shouting about the operation and became extremely threatening.

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An advisory panel to the FDA issued a Tylenol recommendation today. The advisory panel voted 20-17 to remove prescription drugs such as Vicoden and Percocet which were ruled danagerous because they combine narcotics with acetaminophen which can cause severe liver damage if an overdose occurs.

This ruling is not binding upon the FDA, but they generally follow these types of recommendations. So what does this mean? Well, it means that most likely you will see the over the counter Tylenol have its dosage reduced and most likely the drugs Vicoden and Percocet will be taken off the market.

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Seven Detroit teenagers were shot today while standing at a bus-stop. Three of the students were critically injured after being shot down the street from Cody 9th Grade Academy. Two masked men opened fire on the teenagers as they stood waiting for a bus. Five Cody 9th Grade Academy Students were shot and three of the victims were in critical condition after being shot.

According the the Detroit Free Press

Today’s shooting was the second in two weeks at a Detroit Public Schools high school building offering free summer classes to make-up for failed courses. Free summer classes have drawn thousands of high school students, placing teens from different schools and neighborhoods in the same buildings.

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Robert Tite is an Ohio man who was arrested for driving his bulldozer while drunk. Read about the bulldozer drunk driving arrest and see his mug shot below.

Robert Tite

Who says you can’t get arrested for drunk driving in your own yard? Well, I don’t know that we ever said that, but this most recent arrest ranks right up there for amusing arrests. I’m sure the perpetrator isn’t amused, but we admit that we are a bit.

The Huron County Ohio Sheriff’s Department got called out to nab a drunk driver, of a bulldozer. It seems that last Friday Robert Tite, 57-yers-old, decided to do some yard work while intoxicated. He climbed onto his bulldozer and proceeded to tear up his neighbor’s yard, uprooting trees and digging up a portion of the lawn. Whoops.

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A Flordia man was arrested and charged with Domestic Violence Assault for drenching his wife after she was found smoking in the house. The garden hose assault occurred because John Jeffrey Murray was upset that his wife was found smoking in the house. Apparently Mr. Murray decided that he was a volunteer firefighter and decided that it would be a good idea for him to spray his wife for smoking in the house. He just wanted to put out the fire. Right?

Wrong. Murray’s wife picked up the phone to call a friend and Murray thought she was calling the police, so he did what any reasonable wife beater would do, and tried to take the phone and elbowed her in the face in the process. I don’t think he’s going to win any awards for “Husband of the Year” anytime soon. Read the rest of the story and see a video below.

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Tech Crunch is reporting today that the Pirate Bay, famous for their file sharing bit torrent network, is going to be purchased by Global Gaming Factory X for about $7.7 million dollars. What is ultimately ironic about this it that for 5 years or so The Pirate Bay has been seen as the anti-establishment hackers fighting for freedom of speech and a change in our copyright system (which needs changing). They have even taken pride in posting letters from the RIAA and MPAA demanding that they stop what they are doing on their webpage and making fun of them. Recently, the founders of the Pirate Bay were convicted in Sweden of violating copyright laws, fined about $3.5 million dollars and sentenced to a year in jail. The case is still on appeal, but many view this sell-out as the Pirate Bay essentially throwing their hands in the air and giving up, something they swore they would never do. In a statement from the Pirate Bay, the founds say:

“A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either!

TPB is being sold for a great bit underneath it’s value if the money would be the interesting part. It’s not. The interesting thing is that the right people with the right attitude and possibilities keep running the site.
As all of you know, there’s not been much news on the site for the past two-three years. It’s the same site essentially. On the internets, stuff dies if it doesn’t evolve. We don’t want that to happen.

We’ve been working on this project for many years. It’s time to invite more people into the project, in a way that is secure and safe for everybody. We need that, or the site will die. And letting TPB die is the last thing that is allowed to happen!

If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That’s the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And - you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That’s awesome and will take the heat of us.

The old crew is still around in different ways. We will also not stop being active in the politics of the internets - quite the opposite. Now we’re fueling up for going into the next gear. TPB will have economical muscles to let people evolve it. It will team up with great technicians to evolve the protocols. And we, the people interested in more than just technology, will have the time to focus on that. It’s win-win-win.

The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best option for all. Don’t worry - be happy!”

I’m not sure I buy what they are saying here. It is pretty clear that they are settling for about the same amount that they were fined for and giving up the good fight. Why do I call it the good fight you might ask? Aren’t they essentially hackers who are breaking the law anyway, why would I defend them? These are good questions, but sometimes when laws are so unjust there must be civil disobedience in order to get them changed. Not that I compare a bunch of Internet hackers to Martin Luther King Jr., but the fact is that current copyright laws (especially in the United States) are unjust. Of course artists should be compensated for the fruits of their labor, that is not what this fight is about. This fight is about large recording studios using lobbyists to change copyright laws so that they can prevent information from ever reaching the public domain. Just as an example, Disney was able to get copyright laws changed so that Mickey Mouse would not advance to the public domain until the middle of the century, and I have no doubt they will attempt to do it again when the current expiration date approaches. The studios were also able to get the Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed, which changed the law in numerous ways. You see, for these large studios, its not about protecting copyrights as they claim, its about protecting a business model that is clearly past its time. This is why people like the Pirate Bay are invaluable; they keep pushing the boundaries and help us think of better ways of doing things.

RIP Pirate Bay, we hardly knew thee. Oh, and I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.