LEGEND Dumbass of the Day

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/fight-over-mj-and-lbj-897542

MJ vs. LBJ Argument Ends In Bloody Attack
Cops: Jordan vs. James beef leads to roommate's arrest

APRIL 20--An argument over whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James was the better basketball player turned violent early Saturday

when a Pennsylvania man allegedly broke two glasses over his roommate’s head, according to court records.

Responding to a 3:49 AM report of a “physical altercation in which a male had a bottle broken on his head,” cops arrived at a State College apartment and found a bloodied Kristopher Gross with fresh cuts and scratches on his neck and face, as well as a “deep red or purple abrasion on his chin.”

Gross told police that he and roommate Daniel Mondelice, 22, “had been having a discussion as to whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James was a better basketball player.” A witness, Brady Spatola, told officers that “an argument ensued over the basketball discussion” and Mondelice began to threaten Gross.

Gross and Spatola are Penn State University undergraduate students, while Mondelice works for the school, according to a PSU directory.

Spatola said that Gross told Mondelice that he did not want to fight, but that Mondelice “picked up a glass and broke it on the side of Gross’s head and continued to be hostile.” During an ensuing scuffle, Mondelice allegedly “secured a second glass and again smashed it on the side of Gross’s head.”

Gross told cops that he then repaired to a bathroom to “pick pieces of glass from his neck.” While Gross was cleaning up, Spatola told police, Mondelice was “making threats that he would take Gross’s life.” Gross said that he sought to “smooth things over” with his roommate, but that Mondelice threatened to stab him while he slept.

Pictured above, Mondelice was arrested for aggravated assault and making terroristic threats, both felonies. He was also hit with a misdemeanor assault count. Following his booking, Mondelice was freed on $30,000 unsecured bail.

After his release from custody Saturday, Mondelice was arrested for a second time that day. According to police, a woman who had allowed Mondelice to stay at her home called 911 to report that he was refusing to leave her apartment and had become confrontational. Collared for felony trespass and misdemeanor harassment, Mondelice was booked into the Centre County Correctional Facility, where he is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Mondelice, a Brooklyn, New York native, has been arrested several times over the past 18 months, for crimes including harassment, criminal mischief, and narcotics possession. But court records show only an April 9 conviction for harassment (for which he was sentenced to pay a $461 fine).

Mondelice is due Wednesday in Magisterial District Court for preliminary hearings in his two newest cases.

Court records do not indicate whether Mondelice favors Jordan or James. A check of Mondelice’s Facebook page shows that he has “liked” the Facebook pages for both athletes. But in a mid-Febraury post to his Twitter account, Mondelice told his 620 followers that, “in honor” of Jordan’s February 17 birthday, he was watching “Space Jam,” the 1996 movie starring Jordan opposite Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters.

 

[Memento]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/fight-over-mj-and-lbj-897542

MJ vs. LBJ Argument Ends In Bloody Attack
Cops: Jordan vs. James beef leads to roommate's arrest

APRIL 20--An argument over whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James was the better basketball player turned violent early Saturday

when a Pennsylvania man allegedly broke two glasses over his roommate’s head, according to court records.

Responding to a 3:49 AM report of a “physical altercation in which a male had a bottle broken on his head,” cops arrived at a State College apartment and found a bloodied Kristopher Gross with fresh cuts and scratches on his neck and face, as well as a “deep red or purple abrasion on his chin.”

Gross told police that he and roommate Daniel Mondelice, 22, “had been having a discussion as to whether Michael Jordan or LeBron James was a better basketball player.” A witness, Brady Spatola, told officers that “an argument ensued over the basketball discussion” and Mondelice began to threaten Gross.

Gross and Spatola are Penn State University undergraduate students, while Mondelice works for the school, according to a PSU directory.

Spatola said that Gross told Mondelice that he did not want to fight, but that Mondelice “picked up a glass and broke it on the side of Gross’s head and continued to be hostile.” During an ensuing scuffle, Mondelice allegedly “secured a second glass and again smashed it on the side of Gross’s head.”

Gross told cops that he then repaired to a bathroom to “pick pieces of glass from his neck.” While Gross was cleaning up, Spatola told police, Mondelice was “making threats that he would take Gross’s life.” Gross said that he sought to “smooth things over” with his roommate, but that Mondelice threatened to stab him while he slept.

Pictured above, Mondelice was arrested for aggravated assault and making terroristic threats, both felonies. He was also hit with a misdemeanor assault count. Following his booking, Mondelice was freed on $30,000 unsecured bail.

After his release from custody Saturday, Mondelice was arrested for a second time that day. According to police, a woman who had allowed Mondelice to stay at her home called 911 to report that he was refusing to leave her apartment and had become confrontational. Collared for felony trespass and misdemeanor harassment, Mondelice was booked into the Centre County Correctional Facility, where he is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Mondelice, a Brooklyn, New York native, has been arrested several times over the past 18 months, for crimes including harassment, criminal mischief, and narcotics possession. But court records show only an April 9 conviction for harassment (for which he was sentenced to pay a $461 fine).

Mondelice is due Wednesday in Magisterial District Court for preliminary hearings in his two newest cases.

Court records do not indicate whether Mondelice favors Jordan or James. A check of Mondelice’s Facebook page shows that he has “liked” the Facebook pages for both athletes. But in a mid-Febraury post to his Twitter account, Mondelice told his 620 followers that, “in honor” of Jordan’s February 17 birthday, he was watching “Space Jam,” the 1996 movie starring Jordan opposite Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters.

LBJ doesn't belong in the same sentence as Hakeem the Dream, let alone MJ. But hey, there's a legit argument as to whether MJ was a better player than Magic or Bird.

 

[LazyWinker]

LBJ doesn't belong in the same sentence as Hakeem the Dream, let alone MJ. But hey, there's a legit argument as to whether MJ was a better player than Magic or Bird.

It's King James to you!!!! Only kidding.

 

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http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015...g-cart-after-stealing-groceries-from-walmart/

Woman Flees On Shopping Cart After Stealing Groceries From Walmart
April 20, 2015 5:46 PM

(Photo Credit: KDKA)
Ross Guidotti

EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) – She looked like an ordinary shopper, but her exit from a local Walmart was anything but – using her cart as her getaway.

The scene of the alleged crime: The Walmart in East Huntingdon Township.

The suspect was a woman who is seen pushing around a shopping cart on surveillance video and at first, everything looked normal.

“For all intents and purposes, this was a woman on a normal shopping spree,” said State Police Tpr. Steve Limani. “She had her list, she’s going through the store.”

The woman is seen going from section-to-section grabbing groceries. She even checked her list to make sure she had everything.

“You see her in the video, you can see her crossing things off her list as she’s putting things in the buggy,” Limani said.

But a closer look and you see this Walmart shopper was doing something a little strange.

“She’s putting things in Tupperware containers inside of her cart,” said Limani. “Which, for a trained observer, would probably be abnormal.”

And then with a shopping cart full of containers full of groceries, she bypasses the checkout line and checks out of the store.

“She exits the store, she does not exit from where the cash registers are, she exits the store from where the main area of the store would be,” said Limani.

And the shopper fled the scene using her grocery cart as a getaway car.

“She uses it as a skate board to skate across the parking lot with a cart full of groceries,” said Limani.

The video shows the suspect free-wheeling it to parts unknown.

If you wonder why she put the items in some large plastic containers, troopers have a theory. “It’s significantly easier to load her car now that she’s taken them,” said Limani.

 

[LACHAMP46]

probably, umm, hungry...

 

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probably, umm, hungry...

There are government and private agencies, along with food stamps, for those who fall through the net. But I don't begrudge anyone going to extremes when they're hungry, such as eating right in the store, but the careful planning and the escape make me less sympathetic in this case.

“She uses it as a skate board to skate across the parking lot with a cart full of groceries,”

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/colorado/colorado-computer-killer-786520

"Fed Up" Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood

A Colorado man who has been “fighting with his computer for the last several months” unloaded a volley of shots into his Dell tormentor, resulting in the death of the computer and his arrest for discharging a firearm, cops report.

According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, officers responding last night to a 911 call about shots fired discovered that a “fed up” Lucas Hinch took his computer into a back alley and “fired 8 shots into the computer with a handgun, effectively disabling it.”

Hinch, 38, was cited for discharging a firearm within city limits, according to a police blotter entry that includes the summary description “Man Kills His Computer.”

When asked about the shooting, Hinch told TSG, “I just had it,” adding that he had tired of the balky computer’s “blue screen of death.” Hinch said that he whacked the computer with a 9mm Hi-Point pistol recently purchased from a Craigslist seller. The gun was seized by police, who left the computer behind.

The late Dell XPS 410 model, seen in the above police evidence photo, is survived by a monitor and a keyboard.

Hinch, pictured above, clipped his computer behind the Colorado Springs residence he shares with his girlfriend (and from which the couple operates a homeopathic herb store). Hinch is scheduled for a May 11 court hearing.

 

[RAMSinLA]

View: https://youtu.be/aQlMem0bMDE

 

[RAMSinLA]

View: https://youtu.be/3fHXAvAWfoA

 

[LazyWinker]

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/colorado/colorado-computer-killer-786520

"Fed Up" Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood

A Colorado man who has been “fighting with his computer for the last several months” unloaded a volley of shots into his Dell tormentor, resulting in the death of the computer and his arrest for discharging a firearm, cops report.

There is no mention of his weapon being illegal or not registered. I guess firing a weapon in Colorado Springs is more than frowned upon but illegal. I live in the middle of the nowhere so it seems odd to me that firing a gun, not at anybody, is a criminal offense somewhere.

 

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There is no mention of his weapon being illegal or not registered. I guess firing a weapon in Colorado Springs is more than frowned upon but illegal. I live in the middle of the nowhere so it seems odd to me that firing a gun, not at anybody, is a criminal offense somewhere.

Remember that this is the same state where the Dark Knight theater shootings left 12 dead and 59 wounded, and where the Columbine school massacre took place.

https://www.springsgov.com/Page.aspx?NavID=809

9.7.104: DISCHARGE OF WEAPON:

A. It is unlawful for any person to wrongfully fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, air gun, BB gun, gas operated gun, spring gun, or firearm within the City.

 

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http://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-man-bitten-by-venomous-snake/32503078

Florida man bitten while kissing venomous snake
Friends say man caught water moccasin while swimming
Author: Cathleigh Winningham, Producer, cwinningham@wkmg.com

WIMAUMA, Fla. -
A Hillsborough County man is recovering after being bitten in the face by a water moccasin.

Investigators say 18-year-old Austin Hatfield captured the 4-foot-long cottonmouth while swimming last week.

Friends say the teen was trying to kiss the snake when it struck, biting him on the lip.

Hatfield was taken to the hospital in critical condition but is expected to make a full recovery.

Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are extremely dangerous.

Officials say Hatfield did not have a permit to keep the snake.

 

[Memento]

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-man-bitten-by-venomous-snake/32503078

Florida man bitten while kissing venomous snake
Friends say man caught water moccasin while swimming
Author: Cathleigh Winningham, Producer, cwinningham@wkmg.com

WIMAUMA, Fla. -
A Hillsborough County man is recovering after being bitten in the face by a water moccasin.

Investigators say 18-year-old Austin Hatfield captured the 4-foot-long cottonmouth while swimming last week.

Friends say the teen was trying to kiss the snake when it struck, biting him on the lip.

Hatfield was taken to the hospital in critical condition but is expected to make a full recovery.

Cottonmouth snakes, sometimes called water moccasins, are extremely dangerous.

Officials say Hatfield did not have a permit to keep the snake.

Good for the cottonmouth! I only wish that it had become a Darwin Award. Unfortunately, looks like this Dumbass of the Day is going to spread his genes around and ruin more of society.

 

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Good for the cottonmouth! I only wish that it had become a Darwin Award. Unfortunately, looks like this Dumbass of the Day is going to spread his genes around and ruin more of society.

I'm betting there was alcohol involved.

 

[LazyWinker]

Remember that this is the same state where the Dark Knight theater shootings left 12 dead and 59 wounded, and where the Columbine school massacre took place.

https://www.springsgov.com/Page.aspx?NavID=809

9.7.104: DISCHARGE OF WEAPON:

A. It is unlawful for any person to wrongfully fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, air gun, BB gun, gas operated gun, spring gun, or firearm within the City.

Where I live, it's not a huge deal to just open carry. It's at times hard to wrap my mind around the fact that you can't just go places guns ablazin' in all parts of the country.

Officials say Hatfield did not have a permit to keep the snake.

Obviously not the least of his problems.

 

[LesBaker]

There is no mention of his weapon being illegal or not registered. I guess firing a weapon in Colorado Springs is more than frowned upon but illegal. I live in the middle of the nowhere so it seems odd to me that firing a gun, not at anybody, is a criminal offense somewhere.

Ever been to the "big city"? There are lots of people, and shooting a gun can injure or kill one or more of them.

That's why it's not legal.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Remember that this is the same state where the Dark Knight theater shootings left 12 dead and 59 wounded, and where the Columbine school massacre took place.

https://www.springsgov.com/Page.aspx?NavID=809

9.7.104: DISCHARGE OF WEAPON:

A. It is unlawful for any person to wrongfully fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, air gun, BB gun, gas operated gun, spring gun, or firearm within the City.

A cannon? Ok. Sure.
But a BB gun?

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erman-stuns-audience-silence-sexist-joke.html

Treat a lady like a wh**e, and a wh**e like a lady': David Letterman stuns his audience into silence with sexist joke

• David Letterman made the joke while warming up his Late Show audience
• College staffer asked what advice the 'scandal-scarred' comic could give
• The host told them 'Treat a lady like a wh–e, and a wh–e like a lady'
• Joke was met with stunned silence with some branding it 'disrespectful'

By HANNAH PARRY FOR MAILONLINE

David Letterman stunned his Late Show audience into silence with a joke which has been branded as 'disrespectful to women'.

The veteran host was attempting to warm up the studio audience ahead of his show on Monday when he made the off-colour gag.

Letterman had just opened up questions to the floor, and fielded the first query of the night from a college employee, reported the New York Post.

They asked what advice the scandal-hit comic would give to this year's graduates.

Letterman, who was in 2009 forced to admit to string of affairs, said: 'Treat a lady like a wh–e, and a wh–e like a lady.'

But the joke received a frosty reception from the shocked crowd.

After being met with stunned silence, the host attempted to recover by offering further advice to graduates to 'eat salad' and 'always be nice'.

However, several audience members at the Ed Sullivan Theater were furious over the sexist joke.

Retired Jerry Stockton, from Virginia, called it 'disrespectful to women' while another, who would not be named, said it had been an 'odd choice' for the first joke of the evening.

The gag is thought to have been a reference to a saying by 1930s screenwriter Wilson Mizner.

Joe Logan, 41, from Pennsylvania, told the New York Post: 'Younger people watch his show. We already live in a culture that objectifies women, it's not right to make a joke like that.'

A Letterman spokesman said he could not 'confirm the accuracy' of Monday's failed joke and would not comment further.

But a source close to the show insisted 'It got a big laugh.'

Letterman carried on with the show which had guests including John Travolta and Amy Schumer, star of her eponymous Comedy Central show, 'Inside Amy Schumer.'

The Grease actor, 61, had tried to bring his son Ben on to meet his 'old friend' Letterman but the nervous youngster had fled the stage into his mother's arms.

The host later offered some advice to Schumer and instructed her to 'do something now that you'll regret.'

So the comedienne immediately lifted her dress and flashed... her surfing scar to a relieved-looking Letterman.

In October 2009, the veteran host of the Late Show had been forced to admit to a string of affairs live on air by a blackmailing producer.

The host made the shocking revelation on his show that he had cheated on his wife, Regina Lasko, whom he had only married that March.

He made the confession after becoming the victim of an extortion plot concocted by a then-CBS producer, Robert Halderman, who demanded $2 million in exchange for his silence over the affairs.

Letterman is now planning to retire from the show after more than 20 years of hosting on May 20.

 

[LazyWinker]

Ever been to the "big city"? There are lots of people, and shooting a gun can injure or kill one or more of them.

That's why it's not legal.

Just got the memo that the days of the wild west are over. Noted!

 

[Rmfnlt]

What's Dave got to lose? Go out in a blaze of glory!

 

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This guy qualifies for dumbass status because I believe he is only trolling for money. There will however be some people dumb enough to give him what he wants.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-aim-is-immortality-doctor-says-10198982.html

Head transplant: man will be attached to new body in under an hour and aim is immortality, doctor says

Surgeon Sergio Canavero has vowed to go to China is he is banned from doing it everywhere else, arguing that the transplant has ‘political meaning’ — and some on the internet claim it might all be a marketing stunt

The Italian doctor who has claimed that he could transplant a man’s head onto a donor’s body has said that he could do much of the procedure in less than an hour.

The procedure — which Canavero has admitted is just a first step towards his ultimate aim of creating immortality — will see a man's head removed and placed on a donor's body.

That will see the man's head get cooled down — as it is when doctors operate on some parts of the brain — and switched onto the different body. Doctors will then have a few minutes to attach the blood vessels and the whole thing will take less then an hour, Canavero said.

After that, the full joining process could take up to 24 hours. Canavero said that it would be carried out by a team of doctors to ensure that none of them got tired, and that doctors and surgeons from around the world had enquired about joining that team.

Canavero said that he will explain the procedure in depth at a neurosurgeons' conference on June 12. "I'll prove it is totally possible to all the sceptics there," he told Mail Online.

A drawing depicting the first total cephalosomatic exchange in a monkey (from White et al. 1971)The patient for Canavero's first attempt at the head transplant has already been chosen, and identified as Valeri Spidonov. He is a 30-year-old Russian man who has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, which wastes away his muscles and means that his health is rapidly declining.

As well as casting doubt on the scientific likelihood of the procedure, doctors have said that if successful it could cause huge problems for Canavero. One expert warned that Spidonov could suffer something "a lot worse than death".

The doubt of those in Europe and Russia mean that Canavero could head to China to carry out the procedure, he said. Canavero also admits that it's possible he could be jailed for carrying out the procedure in an unfriendly country.

"I'm ready for that. I've been studying Chinese for a few years.

"You should understand that it's not simply a medical procedure. This surgery has a political meaning."

He likened the procedure to Russia and America's battle to be the first into space and to the moon, saying that the first company to host such a surgery will become a "leader".

The doctor needs $15 million to carry out the surgery, he says. While that's a lot, he compared the money to that paid to footballers.

"Do you love football? I hate it," he told Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Nonetheless, you have slackers who meaninglessly stroll around the pitch and are paid $20-30 million a year.

"I need $15 million. It's the price for happiness and health for a lot of people. But sponsors prefer spending money on healthy boneheads who can't kick a ball."

He said that he had received interest from tycoons and other super-rich people who were looking to use the surgery to prolong their lives. Admitting that the aim of the surgery is to allow people to eventually become immortal, he said that he has no problem with objections from churches and others.

Canavero’s comments come as conspiracy theories circulate on the internet that the entire head transplant story could be a marketing stunt. Internet users have pointed out the similarities between Canavero and a character from the game Metal Gear Solid 5, and have claimed that the entire tale could have been created by the game’s creator Hideo Kojima.

The conspiracy centres around a number of coincidences between Canavero's story and that of Metal Gear Solid. Canavero published an article about the surgery, which he was then calling "Gemini", as an article two days after the launch of Metal Gear Solid 5, which featured characters called Gemini that had cybernetic heads. There are a range of other unlikely coincidences, including special names and timings.

It’s unlikely that Canavero’s story is fake — he has published over 100 papers and carried out genuine medical procedures, as blog Kotaku noted in a post detailing the claims — but has brought extra attention to Canavero’s claims.
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Immortality? A new head on a withered 150 year old body, supported by taxpayers for 100 years, spouting off about the good old days, complaining about everything. That sounds like the life!
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No no, it's the other way around. A 150 year old head on a young body! The problem is with all the face lifts you'll need to keep looking young, that won't be your nose sticking out of your face any more!
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A good science fiction story based on the same subject matter: Outer Limits (1999) "Donor" - Season 5, Episode 2.