For years I've been saying that everyone should just be single. Living your own life is hard enough, and trying to combine it and its uncertainties with someone and their uncertainties sounds ridiculous. Also, you never know how crazy the other person is until they start stabbing the child you had with them in the nuts for no reason.
23-year-old Krystal Thomas of Syracuse, NY did just that after having an argument with her boyfriend, Ron Craven.
According to investigators, on last Wednesday they began arguing early in the day. Craven decided to leave, thinking that his absence would make things better. When he returned, Thomas was holding a butcher knife. They began arguing again and it spilled outdoors. That's when Thomas jumped into her car and ran Craven over. Thomas attempted to hit him a second time, but she crashed into the house instead.
Um, I need to say this - anyone who stands there and watches the person they're arguing with get into a vehicle and points it in their direction deserves to get ran over. Just saying.
After crashing into the house, Thomas left the scene. When Craven went into the house to check on their 2-year-old son, he noticed that the boy was bleeding uncontrollably from his crotch. Craven rushed the boy to the emergency room where he learned that he had been stabbed in the testicles. He had a 2-inch stab wound that he was treated for.
When officers caught up with Thomas the next day, she told them that she stabbed her son to "stop him from multiplying". Can you imagine that? She was so pissed off at Craven, that she tried to stop the baby from carrying on his dad's name. That's outrageous.
Thomas was arrested and charged with felony assault,
attempted assault and reckless endangerment. I guess stabbing your son in the nuts to prevent him from having children of his own isn't child abuse in New York. She remains in jail in lieu of
$500,000 bond.
As a child, I knew a girl in my classroom who was very pretty. She dressed nice all the time and her hair was always in neat pigtails. There was one thing though: she had a lazy eye. Not just a little lazy either. That thing acted like it didn't even want to be bothered with what the other eye had going on. I sometimes imagined myself taking my index finger and thumb, jamming them in her eye socket and setting that bad-boy straight.
I remember asking her if she could see out of it. She said "a little bit", but she wished that she see out of it more. I don't know where she is now, but if I did, I'd probably tell her about this new study from researchers at McGill University.
They found that the video game Tetris helped 18 subjects who have adult amblyopia (lazy eye). The researchers had half of the subjects wear a patch on the stronger eye while playing the game. The other half played with special goggles designed to see the falling blocks out of one eye, and the blocks on the ground out the other.
After the subjects played the game for two weeks, the researchers noticed that the goggle users had better vision in the weaker eye including better depth perception. The other half who wore the patch showed marginal improvement. When that half used the goggles, their vision and depth perception improved as well.
Now I wonder if they'll come up with something to help fix lazy "ass", since video games seem to only make it worse.
I would expect something like this to happen in some tasteless movie...or in Florida, but Rickesha Burns of Phoenix, Ariz. has done the unthinkable. She was arrested a few weeks ago for shoving a vibrating sex toy up the anus of her two-year-old.
The vibrator was completely lodged inside the child, and surgery was required to remove it.
According to police, officers were sent to the 21-year-old's home after receiving a report of 'unknown trouble'.
When officers arrived, Burns' son was "crying
hysterically" and bleeding uncontrollably from his anus. He was
rushed to Phoenix Children's Hospital for examination.
After the examination, doctors told investigators that a vibrator or similar object was lodged deep inside the child's rectum. They also noticed injuries around the boys anus that resembled someone using a clothes hanger to possibly remove the object.
During the interview with detectives, Burns said that she was at a
park with her son earlier in the day. She said an unknown 12-year-old boy
walked up to her son and made him cry, but she didn't know exactly what happened because she was looking at her phone. All she knew was that he started crying, and that was it. Burns, possibly referring to 2011, when the same child was taken from her, went on say that she worked hard to get her son back and that she wouldn't do anything to hurt him.
Officers found no evidence of Burns being at a park that day or that a 12-year-old could have rolled up on Burns, take the two-year-old, remove his pants and diaper, shove a vibrator all the way up his anus until it disappeared, put the diaper back on, put the pants back on, and leave in ten seconds.
Burns was only charged with sexual conduct with a minor and child abuse.
Wow.
17-year-old Samia Jones appeared in court
after stabbing her baby daddy's baby mama in broad
daylight. Are you with me so far?
The unnamed 21-year-old stabee was lured into meeting her baby daddy, 17-year-old Daquan Sparks near a train station in Savin Hill, Massachusetts. He told her that he was going to give her some shoes for their 8-month-old baby.
So when the unnamed 21-year-old baby mama approached the meeting spot with the eight-month-old
baby in a stroller, Sparks and his other baby mama, Jones jumped out on her. Sparks held her down
while Jones stabbed her six times in the face, leg, back and torso with a 12-inch
butcher knife. The baby was not hurt.
The 21-year-old managed to get to a nearby ice
cream shop for help. She was then rushed to Boston Medical Center where she
underwent emergency surgery.
Jones appeared in Dorchester District Court last week and was held on $50,000 cash bond after pleading not guilty. She
is charged with armed assault with intent to murder and assault and
battery with a dangerous weapon. If she is released, she will wear a GPS bracelet and prohibited to go near her victim.
Sparks will also face charges if the police ever catch up with him.
No one knows the motive for the attack, but I can scrounge up a few in my head. Actually, I want to know why a 21-year-old woman having a child with a 17-year-old boy anyway? And why is that not being questioned? Isn't that a crime? Just asking.
If you live in the hair capital of the world for as long as I did, you'll see all kinds of hairdos. Big hairdos, little hairdos, hairdos with candy in it, hairdos with pieces of chicken in it, even hairdos with a radio in it.
Despite all of the hairstyles that I've seen, the mohawk is by far my favorite. Hell, I rock the 'hawk every chance I get, and when I do, it always gets its fair share of comments.
The same went for 5-year-old Ethan Clos of Springfield, Ohio. After begging his mom repeatedly for the haircut, she finally let him get it. When he showed up to Reid Primary and Middle School with his new 'do, his kindergarten classmates thought it was pretty awesome. They looked and touched and commented on it so much, that the school administrators deemed the cut "too disruptive" and made him go home until the mohawk was cut off.
According to the report, the superintendent, Gregg Morris said that Ethan's hairstyle was "disruptive to the learning environment", therefore his suspension was justified.
Hey Gregg, you know what's disruptive to the learning environment in a kindergarten setting? Naps, watching cartoons, playing with animals, playing with toys, and eating junk food.
That boy's hair got a few minutes of attention and they act like he did something horrible. It's no wonder why school officials (teachers, principals,superintendents, lunch ladies) are on my short list of people who grind my gears along with animal rights activists and people who are insecure. Their logic is backwards, and the more they speak, the dumber they sound.
A grand jury has indicted 30-year-old Joseph McFall for beating his 8-week-old baby so bad that it has permanent brain damage and is possibly blind. In addition to the brain damage and the possible blindness, the baby was left with broken arms and ribs.
The incident happened between August and October 2012 when the mother - McFall's wife - was in the hospital for pneumonia. She said that her mother was helping him care for the baby while she was away. The mother - who didn't want to be identified - said that McFall was with the baby in a room when he ran suddenly out of the house. Minutes later the grandmother found the baby to be unresponsive, so she called 911.
McFall
has been in the Cobb County Jail in Georgia since October when he was first arrested on child cruelty charges. The grand jury indicted him last week.
Although McFall beat a newborn into brain damage and possible blindness, he was only charged with two counts of child cruelty and two counts of aggravated battery. Wow.
Meet Tim McDaniel. He's a Biology teacher at Dietrich high school in Dietrich, Idaho. In the nearly 17 years as a biology teacher, McDaniel has taught the sex-ed portion of what's supposed to be health class. And he says that he teaches it the same way every year - right from the course syllabus.
Most of the parents were upset because he didn't send any notification home with the students. Other complaints include McDaniel showing a video of a genital herpes infection, teaching forms of birth control and making jokes during the lessons.
I don't know about your sex-ed class, but we were shown videos of diseases. Lots of videos of diseases. How are you supposed to know what herpes looks like if you can't see it? And I remember how our teacher made jokes about how we don't want our parts looking like cauliflower. It was an awkward time, learning about sex in school, from a woman so old, she looked like Mick - Rocky's trainer. So the jokes eased the tension. At least with us.
Now I do remember having to get a permission slip signed before we could participate, so I see the gripe there. The content is graphic and it contains the truth. The fact of the matter is, if parents stopped lying to their kids about sex, this course would be helpful to their version of the birds and the bees.
As of yet, McDaniel has not been suspended or fired during the investigation.
So ... do the parents have a legitimate beef, or are they and their kids a bunch of weaklings? What was your sex-ed class like? How about that health teacher who didn't want to teach it? Shouldn't they have been fired before getting hired?
When Nena Grace asked me if I had heard about what Lashon Hollman did, I almost laughed. Not because I thought it was funny, but because it just sounded funny. It's no laughing matter though, and the jury who only deliberated 15 minutes before finding him guilty didn't think so either.
Authorities say that the 21-year old from Saginaw, Mich. dropped a "fatback TV" on his neighbor Cassandra Nelson's head then stabbed the 27-year old in the back and neck area 54 times before leaving her for dead back in February 2012.
Details are scarce, and although Hollman maintains that he didn't kill Nelson, his DNA was found on a bloody bread knife that was found underneath her mattress and a beer can near the body. Hollman admitted that he was in Nelson's home with Nelson and another man. He left for a few minutes and when he returned, the other man was assaulting Nelson. Hollman also told investigators that he sat with Nelson for 10-15 minutes while she begged him to not let her die.
but he never called for help
Quamay Henne, listed as Hollman's best friend, was visiting from out of town and told detectives that Hollman confessed that he "stabbed the *expletive* out of her". However, on the MLive website, a friend of Hollman's who isn't named, made some comments that may have been useful to the police:
and why were you not at his trial defending him?
This "friend"goes on to say:
so you have a letter from the one person who said that Hollman confessed to killing Nelson saying how sorry he is for lying and you're not doing anything more than defending your friend's "honor" on websites?
In the words of my 18-month old son, "Really?"
Hollman was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, torture, larceny, and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, but whoever dropped the TV on that woman's head and stabbed her 54 times had to have been pretty damn mad. After the TV on the head, that should've been it. How tiring must it be to stab some over 50 times?
The TV alone did her in, according to the medical examiner, and the 54 stabs were overkill...literally.
Why do you think our tagline is "social commentary off meds"? Have you wondered that? It's because our views on certain issues are so out there, we must be off our meds. There's a method to our madness though, and dammit you witnessed it yesterday when I said that if the KKK set Sharmeka Moffitt on fire, I'd be surprised.
In case you live under a rock, Sharmeka Moffitt is the Louisiana woman who said that three hooded men doused her with a flammable liquid and set her on fire Sunday night in a park as she walked on a paved trail. The 20-year-old also said that they wrote a racial slur on her car along with the initials, "KKK". The story goes on to say that she was able to put herself out with a water spigot that was conveniently nearby before calling her sister and 911.
While everyone was outraged at the Klan for doing this horrible act, Nena Grace and I put our "Black cards" on the line and called bullshit, poppycock and shenanigans. We saw right through her story.
I asked some very straightforward questions about the situation. Questions that apparently no one else thought about since it was pretty etched in stone that the KKK did what she say they did:
1. Why were you at a park after dark anywhere in Louisiana alone? You live in Louisiana. You know better.
2. Three men set you on fire. You say you couldn't tell their race yet they wore white hoods. Why did you need to specify that you didn't know their race is they wore white hoods? What did they say to you? Did they do this in silence?
3. They wrote on your car. How did they know it belonged to you? You were on the trail.
I got a commenter who helped me out with 2 more questions:
4. You were able to call 911. Why wasn't your phone damaged from the fire or the water you say you used to put yourself out.
5. How did the Klan conveniently not set your face on fire? You were burned from the neck down.
After investigating the scene, police say they found a lighter and lighter fluid with Moffitt's fingerprints on them. That was proof enough for them to determine that she was not attacked by KKK members, and that the injuries were indeed self-inflicted. They also determined that Moffitt used toothpaste to smear the message and the KKK initials on her car.
She's in critical condition with over 60% of her body burned, and when she gets better, she'll probably be facing charges for lying on the Klan.
All I can think about is her poor mother who got on television pleading for justice against her aggressors. She's the real loser in this whole ordeal. The embarrassment she must feel. Now she has to see about getting mental help for her daughter, the one who set herself afire and blamed the KKK.
I've been thinking about the story of Sharmeka Moffitt, the Louisiana woman who was set afire in a park. As the story goes, Moffitt was at a park on Sunday night in Winnsboro when she was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire by three men who wore white hoods. They wrote a racial slur and the letters "KKK" on the hood of her car, symbolizing the group that was behind the act of violence.
She was burned over 60% over her body and that was only because she was able to put herself out with a water spigot that was nearby.
I know that it's easy to blame the Klan for crimes against Black people. It's no secret that they don't like us, and saying that the Klan is behind a hate crime garners a lot of sympathy.
I remember the Black man in Florida who went as far as setting up a cross in his yard and torching it just to save his marriage with his White wife. He blamed the Klan, it was believable. But he messed up, and it came to light. That brings me to my questions.
Knowing that the KKK presence is prevalent in Louisiana, why would you go to a park at night alone to walk on a paved trail? I know that here in Alabama, you don't go to parks or any secluded areas at night alone. You just don't do it.
You say that three men did this to you. What did they say before setting you afire? Did they silently do this? Did they say something like, "hey n*****, whatcha doing out here by yourself"? or "hey n*****, where's your pimp?" You know what I mean? What did they say?
They wrote "KKK" and "racial slurs' on the hood of your car, which wasn't near where you were if you were on a paved trail. How did they know that it was your car?
You say that that you couldn't tell their race because of the hoods and the darkness. Maybe if they said something, you could get a better idea of what kind of people did this.
I'm not saying that this didn't happen. Obviously the woman is burned and in critical condition. I'm not saying that she set herself on fire either. I'm saying that it doesn't seem like that Klan was behind this. I hate to say that it was someone she knew, but things doesn't add up to me. Like it was staged to make it seem like the Klan did it or something.
My heart goes out to Moffitt and her family, and I hope they catch those who did it. I'm waiting on more details, but if it indeed was the Klan who was behind this, I would be surprised.
Okay patients, listen up. Today I want to teach you the difference between a skunk and a 9-year-old girl. The skunk (rearus stinkamus) is a mammal that is known for excreting a liquid with a strong odor from its rear, hence the Latin name provided above. They are categorized into four groups: hog-nosed, hooded, striped, and spotted.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, skunks range in color from the typical black with a white stripe to brown to cream-colored. Skunks vary in size depending on the type, from 16 to 37 inches long and from 1 to 16 pounds.
The average American 9-year-old girl (spoilous bratimus) is also a mammal. They do not however walk on four legs and excrete a spray from the rear. At least most of them don't. The average 9-year-old ranges in height from 4 feet to 5 feet tall, although it has been documented that some are taller. The average 9-year-old weighs from 60 to as much as 90 pounds in some instances.
There's no way to mistake the two, which bring us to our story.
A 9-year-old in New Sewickley, Pennsylvania went to a Halloween party Saturday night wearing a black costume with white tassels and a black hat. A man who is described as a male relative thought she was a skunk in the distance, and shot her several times, striking her in the shoulder, arm, neck and back. The girl was allegedly playing on a small hill nearby when she was shot. It isn't clear whether the girl was returning from the party, whether or not other kids were around, or where the party was. It is determined that the male relative had not drinking at the time of the incident.
The girl was taken to the hospital where doctors operated on her. At the time of this article, she was in critical condition. There was no arrest, but the case has been handed to the district attorney for further consideration.
My thing is this: how do you mistake a girl for skunk? If you can see black and white at night at a distance, how can you not tell the difference between the two? He may not have been drinking, but in rural Pennsylvania, I wouldn't be surprised if meth or pills were involved.
I remember when we wrote about the teen in Florida who faked his own kidnapping to get $50,000 from his father. I also remember the woman we wrote about who faked her own kidnapping because she felt that her boyfriend gave their child more attention than her.
There's something telling about a person's mental state when they fake their own abduction - for whatever reason. That brings us to Sheila Bailey Eubanks of Texas. Eubanks told police that a man jumped into her car while she was at a Credit Union ATM in San Antonio. The man allegedly made her drive around the city at knifepoint, so he could make what she described as drug deals.
After he made his multiple drug deals across San Antonio, he tied her up and left her in a field.
When detectives searched her purse, guess what they found? They found a lottery ticket that was purchased during the time she was supposedly being held hostage. They went to the store of purchase, checked the surveillance tape, and yep, there was Eubanks buying a ticket - alone.
The detectives also checked the tape at the ATM where the man allegedly jumped in her car. There was no man. They only saw her driving away alone.
When they showed her the lottery ticket, she admitted that she wasn't abducted. She said that she didn't feel like going to work, and she wanted a little attention. She was charged with aggravated perjury, and was held on $10,000 bond.
Yeah, if I were a cop, I would've been aggravated too.
When you see a deer crossing sign on the road, you're supposed to drive cautiously. The sign means that this area is known for deer activity. Tell that to Donna from Fargo, North Dakota, and she might look at you like you're crazy.
Donna has been in three accidents in two states involving deer in spots near deer crossing signs. Fed up to the max, Donna began making phone calls and writing letters to newspapers, television stations, even the Departments of Transportation for the state of North Dakota and Minnesota in an attempt to get these signs removed.
Feeling as if she had exhausted all of her ideas, she decided to call Y94 Playhouse Radio. While on the air, Donna revealed her frustrations with the deer crossing signs being in such high-traffic areas. She felt that the deer only cross at those signs because the signs tell them to. Donna, who believes that the government controls the direction of the deer population, says it would be safer for the deer if the signs were posted near schools - with the kids.
Even after telling her twice that the signs aren't for the deer to read, that they're for the drivers, she still went on as if she thought that deer cross at those signs because the signs tell them to. The radio crew conceded by telling her that they would spread awareness to the government about moving the deer crossing signs.
Once upon a time, there were two rival tribes. The names of the tribes and their location are irrelevant, just pay attention.
At night, drums and yelling and laughter could be heard in the distance from one of the tribes. One night, one of the younger members from the other tribe decided that he wanted to get a closer look. He got close enough to see from a tree and marveled. Every night, he went up in the tree and pretended he was one of them, as he danced and celebrated in his mind.
One night while in the tree, he decided to get a closer look. He inched down a branch, not realizing that it couldn't hold his weight. He fell to ground, grabbing the attention of the other tribe. They cut his body to pieces and then they ate him. The end. The moral of the story is: Don't pretend to be on the other side because you might get caught up...and get eaten.
I thought about that old fable that I just made up when I read about Timothy Kurek, the self-proclaimed Christian from Tennessee who says that he went undercover as a gay man for one year. He recalled a time a lesbian friend came out to her family. She cried in his arms as she told him how horribly they treated her. Instead of consoling her, he wanted to convert her. That's when he realized that he needed understanding about the LGBT community. He would go undercover for one year as a gay man.
Soon, he was telling his family, friends and church congregation that he was gay. According to Kurek, only an Aunt and two friends knew about the experiment. One of those friends, who is gay, played Kurek's boyfriend. In order to get the full experience, he got a job at a gay cafe, joined an all-gay softball league, and even hung out at gay bars.
During the experiment, he said that around 95% of his friends stopped talking to him. He also said that he looked in his mother's diary when she wasn't around, and saw an entry saying how she would rather be told that she was dying of cancer than to have a gay son.
He said that his experiment helped him understand not only how hard it is to live "in the closet", but other things like how open and flirtatious gay people are. He wrote a book called "The cross in the Closet", detailing life as a gay man.
I don't know what to say about this. Some people are built for doing experiments like this. Maybe he genuinely wanted to see what it was like to be gay. Maybe this was a test run for his friends and family for when he decides to "come out" for real. I'll never know. I just can't see the whole hanging out at the clubs and public displays of affection with the fake boyfriend. The first sign of my mother's heart being broken because of some game I was playing would've made me quit. Or at least tell her that it was an experiment.
I can't see myself going undercover as a crackhead just because society looks down upon them. I can't see myself hanging out in abandon dwellings and alleys doing crack at all times of the night for a year and not develop a taste for crack. I'm just saying.
Kudous for Kurek, and I hope he didn't compromise his values just because he wanted to see how green the grass is on the other side. I can't imagine how everyone felt when he told them that it was just an experiment.
Do you think it was smart for Kurek to do what he did? Do you think he was affected more than he lets on? Would you go undercover just to understand a different lifestyle?
If this were a Lifetime movie, it probably would be a good one. Unfortunately, this isn't a Hollywood production, and Arteisha Betts of Missouri is not an actress.
She and her boyfriend Travis are suing Midwest Maternal & Fetal Medicine Services, LLC, Signature Medical Group, and Doctors Gilbert Webb and Susan Moore for severing their baby's head, and trying to cover it up.
According to the lawsuit, at an appointment in February of 2011, Dr. Moore told the couple that their baby had an enlarged abdomen. As a result, Betts would have to deliver via Cesarean instead of vaginally. But the very next month - 28 weeks into the pregnancy, Betts went into labor. Court papers state that Dr. Webb didn't approve of delivering the baby by C-section, that he would only deliver by way of "attempted trial delivery".
When the couple requested to go to another hospital for the Cesarean, Dr. Webb didn't approve of that either. Feeling as if they had no other choice, they agreed to the vaginal delivery method officially "under duress and protest".
During the birth, the baby's head came out just fine, but the enlarged abdomen got stuck in the birth canal. That's when Dr. Webb pulled a little harder, detaching it from his tiny body.
Blood shot out from where the head used to be, right in front of the couple. Dr. Webb quickly shoved the head and bloody remains back into Betts' body and called for an emergency C-section. Before the anesthesia could set in, he was already cutting on her stomach. You can imagine the pain that caused.
Through the procedure, Dr. Webb removed the child and his head, wrapped him up in a way that it didn't look like his head hadn't been pulled off, and handed the child to Betts. They noticed that their child's head was not attached to his body and the rest is history.
The lawsuit calls for compensation for wrongful death, pain and suffering, funeral costs for baby Kedan, pregnancy costs and personal injury.
How would you feel if a doctor tried to play you like that? Would you sue? Should Dr. Webb lose his license to practice medicine?
The 22-year-old pleaded guilty to injury to a child in July, and her attorney asked for a 45-year prison sentence. The judge however felt that Escalona wasn't remorseful in what she did, so she doubled the sentence and then some.
On the stand, she recalled being abused by boyfriends, being molested as a child, and her addictions to weed and cocaine. She also recalled how angry she got when her daughter peed herself, citing how sacred the no-no is to her. I guess this was supposed to justify beating her daughter until she fell into a coma for two days.
The prosecution did their best to break down Escalona's character, flashing the word "liar" on the screen behind her while she testified (a nice touch). They played an audio of her as a teenager threatening to kill her mother. They also said that she is a former gang member who started smoking weed when she was 11 years old.
Escalona has five children including the one she just had while she was locked up. They were taken from her and given to her mother who now has custody. She will have to serve 30 years before she is eligible for parole, but she and her attorney plan to appeal.
What do you think? Was justice served? Do you think there should be some law that requires abusive parents to have their reproductive abilities taken away?
When riding the bus, there are certain things that come with the territory. There's the homeless person who smells like urine, for starters. There's the way-too-big woman who chooses to sit next to you even though there's an empty seat with her name on it. You have the person on the cell phone who is talking too loud for no reason. And of course, there's the occasional fight in which the driver uppercuts an unruly passenger.
59-year-old Artis Hughes, driver of a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus (which is strangely known as RTA) did just that when he gave 25-year-old Shi'dea Lane a brutal uppercut on September 18.
Lane, who according to her Facebook page, "has the mind of a lion and represents tha bull Taurus", brought that mentality on Hughes' bus when she tried to board without paying. Hughes drove to the next stop and advised her to pay. Lane said, "are you putting me off the bus? Is this how you treat people in Cleveland?" She eventually paid, but not without telling him that he was a bitch and that his mother was one also.
This led to an ongoing argument between the two, with Hughes driving and Lane standing there in his face. Lane fired insult after insult, telling him about himself and what she would do to him. During the argument, Hughes told her that he was going to get his granddaughter to beat her up, and of course, she said she would beat that bitch's ass. But when Hughes made a comment about how Lane looked, she grabbed him by the neck and spit in his face. After that, he stopped the bus and gave her an uppercut that Mike Tyson would've been proud of.
Here's a video of what happened. This is the short version. Lane did a LOT of cussing and fussing before it came to this point. Still, even if the situation started the way the video shows, she still spits in his face. Check it out:
Did you see that uppercut? Did you hear the impact?
Witnesses on the bus backed Hughes' report to the police, who arrived a little after 4PM. Hughes, who will not be prosecuted, originally told investigators that he would press charges against Lane. He later changed his mind and filled out a refuse to prosecute form. Although he will not face prosecution, the 22-year vet was suspended from his job when the video of the altercation went viral.
She had a chance to explain herself to Fox 8 news, where she played the victim role. The video was even edited to show Hughes seemingly punching Lane for no reason. Then she had the nerve to act like she didn't understand why it happened to her.
What makes me upset is her use of the "female" card.
Sorry, but the "female" card is dead. Feminists have worked diligently to close the gender gap. Nowadays, women are recognized as equals to men. Women can now join all-male clubs and organizations. Women can apply for jobs that normally men would only do. Women get paid like men. Women want to open their own doors. Women want to play the men's sports. I can go on. So when you talk to a man like you're a man, and grab a man's throat and spit in his face like a man, then you don't get to play the female card.
Spitting in someone's face is the ultimate act of disrespect. Lane ran her mouth continuously, telling Hughes everything under the sun. But when he told her that her face looked like it had been sliced up, the girl in her got hurt to the core. She felt like she had to top that, and dammit she did. Unfortunately, it came with a price. A price she deserved to have paid.
Do you think Hughes was wrong in what he did? Was Lane wrong in what she did? Would you have put Lane off the bus well before it got to that melting point? If you were that bus driver, and Lane spat in your face, what would you have done?
We ran through 5 types of mental illnesses with 2 remaining, Depression and eating disorders. Since Depression is a part of all that we have talked about, we're going straight to the eating disorders.
There are 3 main eating disorders that we'll briefly cover: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge eating.
First, the most popular of all the eating disorders is Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa, the technical term, is defined as a significant weight loss from excessive dieting. In basic terms a person with anorexia nervosa starves themselves. It involves extreme weight loss of at least 15% below a person’s body weight. A person with Anorexia Nervosa fears becoming overweight, when in reality they may be just skin and bones...like Amy Winehouse.
Secondly, the next common eating disorder is Bulimia. Identified as Bulimia Nervosa, it is a cycle of binge eating followed by purging to try and rid the body of unwanted calories. Other forms of Bulimia include abusing laxatives, taking enemas, or exercising obsessively. Speaking of abusing laxatives, my Brother and I used to spike each other's Coke, Pepsi, iced tea, or any dark beveage with liquid laxative as a practical joke. It worked every time too. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Anyway, there are two subtypes of Bulimia Nervosa. The first is the purging type, when a person regularly engages in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives or enemas. The second is the non-purging type, when a person fasts or excessively exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, or enemas.
Finally, Binge eating, which has just recently become a classified eating disorder because of its secrecy, affects millions of Americans and is purportedly the most common eating disorder diagnosed today. Binge eating is characterized by consuming significantly large amounts of food, eating more rapidly than normal, eating until uncomfortably full, eating alone out of embarrassment, and feeling depressed and guilty after over-eating. Socially, behaviors such as avoidance can affect school, work, and other social activities.
On another personal note, I binge eat Reese Cups...I scarfs 'em.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (or GAD) is characterized by exaggerated anxiety and the tendency to worry about everyday life with no reason for worry. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear, and dread. Eventually, the anxiety dominates the person's thinking so that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities, and relationships.
Panic attacks are common with people diagnosed with GAD. I had to find that out the hard way. I used to work with someone who had GAD, but I really didn't know what it fully entailed because she always seemed okay. She never had an episode at work, and she always seemed upbeat. One day, she and I went to Big Lots on our lunch break. I forgot what I was looking for, but she wanted a purple hair clip. There was this huge box in the center of the store filled with exactly what she was looking for - hair clips, in all colors.
I didn't see it then - you know, the set up. Honestly, what are the odds of there being a box of hair clips sitting in the middle of the aisle? She looked in that box, looked at me, then started screaming. I didn't know what was going on. After the screaming, she sat down on the floor Kumbaya style and started rocking back and forth. She had a panic attack, and I hear that was one of the worse kinds to have. Some people get light-headed and need fresh air. This woman screamed like I did something horrible. I was totally embarrassed. Time was winding down. I had to leave her there. I went back to my job and clocked in after she told me to go on.
When she got back to work, she apologized to me for the scene she caused. She told me that she just wanted one purple hair item, but there were hundreds in all colors. That set her off. Just listening to her explain told me that she had a mental issue. I later found out that her marriage was the reason for her GAD. When she got rid of him, things got better. She even stopped taking her Xanax.
Personal situations can cause a number of mental issues.Living right and not settling for mediocre companionship is a huge step toward mental stability. Have you ever seen a panic attack? Have you ever had one?
[editor's note: It's mental health awareness week 2012, and who better to bring attention to the subject than us? For the next week, we'll be sharing articles previously written for this very occasion. It is important that we know exactly what mental illness means so we can attempt to be more understanding with those that are affected. We're going to cover some of the disorders that fall under the mental illness category.] 1. Schizophrenia 2. Bipolar Disorder 3. Anxiety 4. Postpartum Syndrome 5. Personality Disorder 6. Depression 7. Eating Disorder
Today, we'll start with Schizophrenia. To be diagnosed as Schizo means one can hear voices or see things that aren’t there. They may also hold beliefs that others find bizarre or that are not accurate – for example, they are being watched, or the television or radio sends them secret messages. I know someone that fits one of those descriptions for Schizo. We'll call him "Guy". One night, Guy, myself, and someone we'll call "Dude" went to visit these girls that "Guy" knew. We were sitting around watching Wheel of Fortune, the 6 of us, because Guy's not really a controller of situations. This was his production, so I didn't feel obligated to entertain. Eventually, I suggested we grab a CD out of Guy's car so we can kill some of the silence. Guy went to the car and got the disc that was in the deck. When he came back in, his face looked funny. I couldn't put my finger on the expression, but it wasn't right. A couple of minutes later, he quickly hopped up and told us that we needed to go. I apologized to the girls for the weirdness and Dude told them that we'd be back. When we got inside the car, I asked Guy what the problem was. He said that when he got the CD out the player, the Soulja Boy song, "turn my swag on" came on and told him something about a time-continuum. Now, Guy had gotten a new car battery earlier that day, when you disconnect the battery, the stations you have set are erased, and the station goes to what, 89.7 or something like that. The point is, he hadn't reset his radio stations nor put the radio on a station. There was no Soulja Boy song on the radio, just static. We left and drove to Dude's house to regroup. All the way there, and for the next 3 hours, Guy repeated one phrase: "I know you can't see me because I'm going through the time continuum at the speed of light". After about an hour at Dude's house, Dude and I were out of ideas. Guy had been moving in super-slow motion in Dude's yard, hollering about the speed of light in the time-continuum. We pleaded with him to talk to us, tell us what he's trying to say, and eventually to shut the f*ck up. Our last resort came down to two options: Call his Moms, or call the police. We called his Moms, and this...this bitch lovely woman told us to call the police, because she didn't feel like dealing with it. Of course we didn't even want the hassle with the police asking us what we gave him, and his neighbors being nosey, so we rode it out. He eventually just got in his car and left, and for 10 minutes, we stood in silence. He came back and apologized to us about the whole episode. He said he was trying to tell us what was on his mind, but he couldn't. I asked him to spit it out and he still babbled about a signal in the radio that told him something. To this day, he still talks about that signal and the time-continuum. He was in the Iraq war, he lost his brother and Dad to drug and Alcohol overuse, and he isn't far from that at times. I don't know what triggers him, but something tells me that his Moms is tired of dealing with it. Do you know anyone that's diagnosed as Schizo? Have you ever had an experience like mine? What would you have done?
