The Stutthof concentration camp
The Stutthof camp was established in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, and enlarged in 1943 with a new camp surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fences.
The camp underwent several iterations, initially being used as the main collection point for Jews and non-Jewish Poles removed from the nearby city of Danzig on the Baltic Sea coast.
From about 1940 onward, it was used as a so-called 'work education camp' where forced laborers, primarily Polish and Soviet citizens who had run afoul of their Nazi oppressors, were sent to serve sentences and often died. Others incarcerated there included criminals, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses.
From mid-1944, it was filled with tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos being cleared by the Nazis in the Baltics as well as from Auschwitz, which was overflowing, and thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw uprising.
A naked
prisoner is led to an execution site in the
Stutthof concentration camp, where others
either have been
shot already or forced to lie face down
prior to being shot
As many as 100,000 people would eventually be deported there, some of them moved from other camps abandoned by the Nazis in the later stages of the war.
In addition to gas chambers and lethal injections, many prisoners died of disease in the camp's horrific conditions under the supervision of the SS.
Two ovens of the crematorium at the Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof gas chamber
Around 60,000 people are thought to have died in the camp, while another 25,000 perished while evacuating in the chaotic final weeks of the Third Reich.
Finally liberated by Soviet forces in May 1945, the camp is now once again within Poland's borders, with the town going by the Polish name of Sztutowo.
Historian Janina Grabowska-Chalka, long-time director of the Stutthof Museum, described everyday life in the camp as brutal.
'In the Stutthof concentration camp, all prisoners, men, women and children, were obliged to work. Hard work that exceeded human strength determined the rhythm of life and death in the camp.
'Stutthof belonged to the camps where very hard living conditions prevailed,' she said.
Himmler visits the camp on November 23, 1941
Holocaust survivor Abraham Koryski gave evidence in 2019 in which he detailed the horrors he endured at the Stutthoff concentration camp in World War II.
'We were beaten constantly, the whole time, even while working,' Koryski told the Hamburg District Court, according to DW.
He added that SS guards would put on sadistic 'torture shows' including one in which a son was forced to beat his father to death in front of other inmates.
Koryski said: 'You didn't know if the officers were acting on orders or if they did it on their breaks.'
Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg told the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2017: 'Jewish lives just did not count. We had to assemble in a square. They had erected an enormous gallows with eight nooses hanging down, then one by one we had to watch these innocent men being hanged.'
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In today's serving of 'believe it or not', a father of three from Sydney, Australia sets husband goals by surgically shortening his penis, apparently to make his wife happy. The man, who has been identified as Dan, spilled the beans on his bizarre bedroom secret during a radio segment with KIISFM breakfast show hosts Kyle and Jackie O. While speaking about the 'length' he went to for keeping the spark alive in the bedroom, Dan shared that his wife of 21 years often complained that his penis size was "too long". "They just trimmed it down," Dan revealed about the procedure.
He elaborated, "I had my penis chopped down a little bit shorter. She (his wife) complained it was too long, too big - I had an inch and a half [3.81cm] taken off. You can't even tell. You can tell if you really look at it." The surgery for the 'shortening' was quite critical, but he decided to get it done anyway to please his wife of two decades. Now, after the successful procedure, the couple has reportedly resumed their sex life.
Like our readers, hosts Kylie and Jackie O also grew curious to know what exactly was Dan's original size, that is, before the surgery. "It was 10 inches (25.4 cm)," the middle-aged father responded, adding that he still gets lucky.
However, the operation did come with its shortcomings, no pun intended. Earlier, the couple used to engage in sex almost regularly, but now it has been reduced to just once a week. Elaborating on the same, Dan shared, "Eight months ago, we were doing it three to four times a week - I'd come home from work and we'd rip each other's clothes off." He then added, "Normally Wednesday night, mid-week. I'd take control and take her to the bedroom. She used to instigate it but not so much now."
The hosts congratulated the man for successfully keeping the spark alive even after two decades of marriage. For Dan and his wife, size did matter, but in a much different manner than probably the rest of the world.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 10" dick too big? Maybe in Australia, but not in America.
A 17-year-old Texas girl has died after she was allegedly stabbed by her twin brother while their parents were sleeping early Wednesday, authorities said.
The girl, whose identity has not been released, was discovered suffering from stabbing wounds in her bedroom around 4:45 a.m. at her home north of Katy, news station KTRK reported.
When authorities arrived, they found her brother giving CPR to the girl, who was pronounced dead at the scene, the outlet reported.
It’s not clear what led to the stabbing.
Harris County Sgt. Greg Pinkins said the brother “made no statements when deputies arrived,” though they believe he was the one who called 911, news station KHOU reported.
Officers took the brother into custody and have recovered the knife that they believe was used, the outlets reported.
Authorities have not released the identity of the twin brother.
The family has refused to allow deputies inside to search the rest of the property for evidence, so authorities are working on obtaining a search warrant, KTRK reported.
ADDENDUM: The Daily Mail reports "the Texas boy, 17, told police he was SLEEPING when he stabbed his twin
sister to death in her bed and only realized he wasn't dreaming when he
pulled the knife out of her neck. (Ed. And pigs can fly.)
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid flew to Bahrain on Thursday on the highest-level Israeli visit to the Gulf state since the countries established formal relations last year.
Lapid, who landed at Bahrain's international airport in an Israir plane with an olive branch painted on its nose, met Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
He also held talks with his Bahraini counterpart and was to inaugurate Israel's embassy in Manama.
"His Majesty's leadership and inspiration have led to true cooperation and our meeting outlined the path forward for our relationship," Lapid said on Twitter after meeting the king.
Bahrain and Gulf neighbor United Arab Emirates normalized relations with Israel last year in a US-brokered deal known as the Abraham Accords that built on shared business interests and worries about Iran. Sudan and Morocco followed suit.
"We see Bahrain as an important partner, on the bilateral level but also as a bridge to cooperate with other countries in the region," an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.
The accords had been denounced by the Palestinians as abandoning a unified position under which Arab states would make peace only if Israel gave up occupied land.
In Gaza, the terrorist group Hamas criticized Bahrain for hosting Lapid. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said this represented "an encouragement" of what he described as Israeli "crimes against our Palestinian people and their sacred sites".
The accords have also been criticized by Bahraini opposition figures, speaking largely from abroad, as well as locals who stand against normalization.
The island state, which quashed an uprising led mostly by Shi'ite Muslim members of its population in 2011, saw some sporadic acts of protest after the pact was signed.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said five memorandums of understanding will be signed, including cooperation agreements between hospitals and water and power companies.
Bahrain's Gulf Air is due to make its first direct commercial flight to Tel Aviv later in the day.
The 42-year-old made the official announcement via a lengthy video in both English and his native Tagalog:
"It is difficult for me to accept that my time as a boxer is over," Pacquiao said. "Today, I am announcing my retirement. I had never thought that this day would come. As I hang up my boxing gloves, I would like to thank the whole world, especially the Filipino people, for supporting Manny Pacquiao.
"Goodbye, boxing. Thank you for changing my life. My family was desperate, you gave us hope. You give me the chance to fight out way out of poverty. Because of you, I was able to inspire people all over the world."
Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole had reported earlier Tuesday that Pacquiao's retirement was imminent.
Pacquiao with his entire family, including his wife, Jinkee, and their five children
Pacquiao, 42, steps away from the sport as the only boxer to win championships in eight different weight divisions. He'll retire with a record of 62-8-2 with 39 knockouts.
Pacquiao won 12 total titles after turning professional in 1995 at 106 pounds. He secured the WBC flyweight (112 pounds) belt in 1998 for his first world championship by defeating Chatchai Sasakul. In 2010, he defeated Antonio Margarito to secure the WBC super welterweight (154 pounds) championship. Over the course of his 26-year career, he won championships at six weight classes in between.
In 2019, Pacquiao defeated previously undefeated Keith Thurman via split decision to secure the welterweight (147 pounds) championship for a fourth and final time at 40 years old. Thurman was 30 years old at the time of the fight. With the victory he became the oldest welterweight champion in boxing history. Still holding the belt in 2020, he became the oldest fighter to hold championships in four different decades.
A native of the Philippines, Pacquiao was elected senator in his home country in 2016, a position he retains today. He's running for president in 2022 and accepted his party's (PDP-Laban) nomination for the post on Sept. 19.
Vice President Kamala Harris visits a political
science class to commemorate National Voter Registration Day at George
Mason UniversityVice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday lavished praise on a college student who accused Israel of committing “ethnic genocide,” telling her that “your truth should not be suppressed.”
Harris had addressed a class of students at George Mason University in northern Virginia to mark National Voter Registration Day. Following her brief talk, Harris called on students for questions.
One of the students the veep recognized identified herself as “part-Yemeni, part-Iranian” and claimed that “a lot of taxpayer money is allocated for funding the military, whether it’s in backing Saudi Arabia or in Palestine.”
“You brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America” the woman told Harris. “But I see that over the summer, there have been, like, protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine, but then just a few days ago there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide and a displacement of people — the same that happened in America — and I’m sure you’re aware of this.”
Kamala Harris at the political science classroom at George Mason University
As Harris gave the student her full attention, the coed continued: “I bring this up also because of the issue of how Americans are struggling because of lack of healthcare, public healthcare, lack of affordable housing and all this money ends up going to inflaming Israel and backing Saudi Arabia and whatnot. And I think that the people have spoken very often in what they do need and I feel like there’s a lack of listening and I just feel like I need to bring this up because it affects my life and people I really care about’s lives.”
“I’m glad you did,” the vice president reacted. “I’m glad you did. And again, this is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed. And it must be heard, right?”
“A democracy is at its strongest when everyone participates,” Harris added. “It is [at] its weakest when anyone is left out. And that’s not only about being physically present, but that your voice is present … Our goal should be unity, but not uniformity.”
The exchange took place days after left-wing House Democrats forced the removal of language providing $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system from a continuing resolution to fund the government through early December.
Amid an outcry from members of both parties and concern from the Israeli government, Democratic leaders raced through a standalone bill that provided the funding to the House floor. The measure was passed by a vote of 420-9, with two Democrats — Reps. Hank Johnson of Georgia and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — voting “present.”
The vote was preceded by intense debate, with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) accusing fellow Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan of anti-Semitism by opposing the legislation.
“I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish, democratic state of Israel an apartheid state,” Deutch said. “I reject it … If you believe in human rights, if you believe in saving lives—Israeli lives and Palestinian lives—I say to my colleague who just besmirched our ally, then you will support this legislation.”
Harris’ office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the exchange.
Wyoming Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis tore into Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen on Tuesday for her support of a Biden proposal to require banks to hand over transaction data over $600 on individual bank accounts.
'Banks do not work for the IRS,' Lummis said. 'This is invasive of privacy. Wyoming's people literally will find alternatives to traditional banks just to thwart IRS access to their personal information, not because they're trying to hide anything, but because they are not willing to share everything.'
The senator asked Yellen if
she was 'aware how unnecessary this regulatory burden is?' 'Do you
distrust the American people so much that you need to know when they
bought a couch?' Lummis asked. 'Or a cow?'
An officer grabbed Brady Mistic by the shirt and threw him on the ground, smashing
his head on the concrete without “warning or attempt to communicate,”
the suit alleged
A deaf man who communicates with sign language was roughed up by two Colorado officers because he could not understand their commands, a lawsuit filed in federal court alleges.
Brady Mistic said he was slammed to the ground and beaten and electroshocked during an arrest in Idaho Springs, then wrongly jailed for four months despite trying to communicate to officers that he could not hear them.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, said Mistic was accused of running a stop sign in 2019. He pulled into a laundromat and walked toward the business, unaware that Officers Nicholas Hanning and Ellie Summers were following him.
“As Mr. Mistic exited his car and walked past a dumpster in between his vehicle and the police vehicle, toward the laundry door, he was blinded by police vehicle lights and/or a spotlight shone by the officers,” the suit said. “He had no idea what was happening, what the police were doing, or if the officers’ presence had anything to do with him.”
Mistic, who cannot read lips, used his hands to try to communicate with the officers, to no avail, according to the lawsuit. Harring then grabbed the plaintiff by the shirt and threw him on the ground, smashing his head on the concrete without “warning or attempt to communicate,” the suit alleged.
“Defendant Hanning pinned Mr. Mistic to the ground on his back while Mr. Mistic held his hands out with his palms facing defendant Hanning in an attempt to show that he meant no harm and was doing nothing to threaten the officer,” the document read. “On the ground, defendant Summers joined in, grabbing Mr. Mistic. … Defendant Summers pulled out her Taser and drive stunned Mr. Mistic.”
Mistic is suing the officers and the city of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners, where he was imprisoned.
The department has defended the officers, claiming Mistic approached a “clearly marked patrol car” with emergency lights on.
“The officers gave verbal commands for Mr. Mistic to get back in his vehicle. It was later determined Mr. Mistic was deaf, but this fact was not known to the officers during the initial encounter,” officials wrote on the Idaho Springs police website.
“Officers then directed Mr. Mistic to sit down. At one point officers attempted to gain control of Mr. Mistic by placing him into handcuffs due to his unexplained actions,” the statement continued. “Mr. Mistic resisted the officers, and a physical altercation took place.”
Mistic was then looked at by doctors, charged with assaulting officers and resisting arrest, and taken to jail.
The suit claims that Hanning broke his leg or ankle while attacking the deaf man, and filed charges “in an illusory attempt to cover up their misconduct.”
Court officials eventually dropped the charges after Mistic was behind bars for four months without an interpreter, according to the suit.
“The incident was reviewed by former Chief Christian Malanka and the officers’ actions were deemed to be appropriate,” the department said, adding his injuries were caused by “resistive actions.”
Mistic is seeking monetary damages for “physical and emotional harm, pain and suffering, permanent scarring, and economic damages.”
Melania Trump mocked Jill Biden for standing close to Joe Biden
Former First Lady Melania Trump reportedly mocked first lady Dr Jill Biden, saying she stands so close to her husband, President Joe Biden, because she has to "hold him up". As per reports, Melania is said to have told ex-aide Stephanie Grisham, "I don’t stand next to him [Trump] because I don’t need to hold him up like she does."
This interaction was detailed by Grisham in her new book ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now’. She was one of the most senior and longest-serving advisers to former President Donald Trump. She worked as the former president’s third press secretary and as the former first lady’s chief of staff and communications director before she resigned on January 6 during the Capitol riot.
As per the Washington Post, this 352-page book alleges a “litany of misdeeds by the 45th president: from ogling a young female staffer to orchestrating lies for the public to attempting to ban the news media from the White House compound. It also gives a rare firsthand look at Melania Trump, who craved her privacy.”
In the book, Grisham reportedly paints a picture of Melania Trump who is as stubborn as her husband while being his temperamental opposite. She claimed that Melania would change into a robe and slippers almost immediately upon boarding Air Force One, was self-conscious about her accent and her English grammar — Grisham claimed the former first lady rarely wrote anything on her own.
She also said that the Secret Service gave her a nickname, “Rapunzel,” because she rarely left the White House residence. She added that Secret Service agents would request to be placed on her detail so they could spend more time with their families.
Jill Biden and Melania Trump.
She also claimed that post allegations of Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, Melania started to publicly contradict or ignore her husband in attempts to embarrass him. “I laughed to myself because I’d seen the woman navigate dirt roads in her heels,” Grisham wrote.
However, she went along with Trump’s plan to snub Jill Biden rather than invite her over to the traditional first ladies' tea welcoming her to the White House, according to Grisham. The author added that the former first lady also pointed out how she’d been criticized for not standing next to Trump the way Jill stood next to her husband on election night. Which is when she made the aforementioned taunt at Jill Biden. Grisham wrote, “That made me laugh.”
“The intent behind this book is obvious,” Melania Trump’s office said in a statement after a passage leaked comparing the former first lady to Marie Antoinette. “It is an attempt to redeem herself after a poor performance as press secretary, failed personal relationships, and unprofessional behavior in the White House. Through mistruth and betrayal, she seeks to gain relevance and money at the expense of Mrs. Trump.”
“This book is another pitiful attempt to cash in on the President’s strength and sell lies about the Trump family,” said Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Liz Harrington. She reportedly called Grisham “a disgruntled former employee” and said publishers “should be ashamed of themselves for preying on desperate people who see the short term gain in writing a book full of falsehoods.”
Trump decrying Grisham makes sense. She alleges in the book that Trump became obsessed with a young, unnamed female press aide and constantly asked where she was during press events. Trump allegedly once requested that she be brought to his cabin on Air Force One so he could "look at her [behind]."
Trump also allegedly behaved inappropriately with Grisham. She said he once called her from Air Force One to assure her that his penis was “not small or toadstool-shaped”, as Daniels had alleged in an interview. Grisham also wrote that Trump once asked her then-boyfriend, a fellow Trump aide, if she was good in bed.
James Phelps claimed Cassidy Rainwater left his home in the middle
of the night in August and met someone in a vehicle at the end of his
driveway
Timothy
Norton confessed that Cassidy Rainwater was being held at James Phelps’
property, and that he had a role in keeping her there
James Phelps, 58, and Timothy Norton, 56, were charged with first-degree kidnapping after the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office got a tip from the FBI on Cassidy Rainwater, a 33-year-old woman who had been missing since late July, sheriff’s officials said.
Court documents obtained by KTVI show that a tipster said a photo showed Rainwater, who has ties to Dallas, Laclede and Greene counties, being held captive while partially nude.
The last known person to have seen Rainwater was Phelps, according to court documents. Sheriff’s officials said earlier this month that additional charges were expected against Phelps while saying there was “no immediate danger” to the public.
A detective met Phelps at his Lebanon home on Sept. 1, telling the investigator that Rainwater had been staying with him until she gets her life together and moved to Colorado, court documents show.
Phelps claimed Rainwater left his home in the middle of the night about a month earlier and met someone in a vehicle at the end of his driveway. But the detective noticed a loft on the property had been “stripped” and Rainwater’s belongings were not there, court documents show.
After getting a search warrant for Phelps’ cellphone, investigators found seven photos of Rainwater partially nude while being held in a cage on his property in Lebanon, KTVI reported.
Detectives then identified Norton, also of Lebanon, as being connected to the case and he confessed that Rainwater was being held at Phelps’ property. He admitted to helping restrain the woman on July 24 at Phelps’ home, court records show.
Both Phelps and Norton are being held without bond. Phelps’ public defender did not return a request for comment Tuesday, KTVI reported. He’s next due in court on Oct. 5.
Norton, who appeared in court Tuesday without an attorney, is also due back in court next week. Both men have been charged with kidnapping, facilitating a felony, inflicting injury and terrorizing, court records show.
Sheriff’s officials have not released an update on Rainwater’s whereabouts, but have said there’s no ongoing danger to the public.
“Due to the extreme nature of the crime and the continuation of the investigation, additional details cannot be released at this time,” the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office said on Sept. 18.
Patrick McDowell was captured on Sept. 28, 2021Florida police arrested an ex-Marine in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy – but the sheriff lamented cops never had “an opportunity” to shoot the fugitive.
Patrick McDowell, 35, on the run since the fatal shooting of Nassau Deputy Joshua Moyers last week was nabbed Tuesday at a Callahan sports field concession stand, Sheriff Bill Leeper said.
“I’ll just say I wish he would have gave us an opportunity to shoot him but he didn’t, he crawled out like a coward,” Leeper said during a news conference. “He’s in custody and he’s gonna pay for what he did for Deputy Moyers.”
McDowell is accused of shooting Moyers twice during a traffic stop on Friday, then going on the lam – setting off a five-day manhunt where he evaded capture by reportedly shooting a police dog.
Authorities in pursuit of McDowell had fired shots at the fugitive, hitting him in the leg and grazing his head, the sheriff said.
Police finally caught up with McDowell Tuesday, with tips he was trying to get help to treat his wounds without going to a hospital where he feared he’d be detected.
They surrounded a ballpark concession stand and bathroom, where McDowell said he wanted to give himself up.
“He came out of the bathrooms,” Leeper said. “Had him get down on the ground and crawl. He crawled like a baby, like the coward he is.”
A police dog attacked him on the arms after the sheriff said McDowell didn’t “fully cooperate” with SWAT team commands.
Authorities cuffed McDowell using Moyers’ handcuffs, Leeper added. There are people cops believe helped McDowell avoid police the last few days, and the sheriff said more arrests can be coming in relation to the massive manhunt.
McDowell’s father, Richard, was “glad no one else got hurt,” he told News 4 Jax. The father had previously told First- Coast News that his son had returned from Iraq and suffered from mental health issues and substance abuse.
Moyers pulled over what turned out to be a stolen car early Friday morning. A driver, who police said was McDowell, opened fire then ran off across train tracks. Moyers, who died two days later, was 29 and had been planning a wedding.
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man shows a substance known as “bombe”, a mix of catalytic converters’
crushed honeycomb and pills, before snorting itIn an abandoned shack in a suburb of Kinshasa a young man slits open a bag of brown powder, blending it with a couple of crushed pills using the back of a spoon, before snorting the mixture, known as “bombe”, with his friends.
“This is really good quality, you know the attraction to the drug is higher than the attraction of being with a woman. We are going to consume everything, we won’t leave anything in the bag. We will add a bit of powder in the cigarette, and the rest we’ll mix with C4 (Diazepam) and Nutriline,” Says the unidentified man.
Within minutes the trio are swaying slowly, scratching themselves in a semi-comatose zombie state that experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo say can cause users to stand motionless for hours, or sleep for days.
“We prefer to take bombe rather than other drugs because it makes us feel good, it slows us down for a long time, in doing so we don’t go steal things and create problems. Before we didn’t know that bombe existed, we used to drink very strong whiskey made by indians, we were agitated and we started to hurt people, but with bombe, it calms you down, you get tired, you stay somewhere standing up or sitting down for a very long time. When you’re done, you go home without bothering anyone,” says Cedrick, leader of the Nzigoula 26 Gang.
Drivers, police, and drug experts aren’t so sanguine.
Authorities are rattled. In August police rounded up and paraded nearly 100 alleged dealers and users of bombe, which means “powerful” in the local Lingala language following a call to action by President Felix Tshisekedi.
Police showed barrels full of exhaust filters pieces which the owners claimed were to be sent to Germany and not for local consumption.
Mechanics blame spiking demand for the drug on a rash of thefts of catalytic converters, the ceramic honeycomb, coated with metals such as platinum, which reduce the emission of toxic gases in vehicle exhaust pipes.
Mechanic Tresore Kadogo says between five and ten clients come to him every day with the same problem.
A man shows a substance known as “bombe”, a mix of catalytic converters’ crushed honeycomb and pills, before snorting it
“You see this is the catalyser, that’s where you find the material for bombe. Often when clients come to the shop, we check underneath the car and the catalyser is gone already, it’s been cut off and the car will have a strange sound. Here in Kinshasa, we don’t sell catalysers for vehicles, so we have to order it in Europe, it’s expensive. This one is lucky, he still has his catalyser,” he said lying under a car showing where the exhaust pipe catalysers are generally found.
Users mix the crushed honeycomb with vitamin pills and typically add sleeping pills or smoke it with tobacco, but nothing is known about how it works, or its long-term effects, said Dandy Yela Y’Olemba, country director of the World Federation against Drugs.
The metals in catalytic converters can cause cancer, Yela warned.
“This is a substance made to be used in an engine, in cars, we have food, we have things to take for our body, we do not have to take substances made for cars. Because if we are announcing that, ok alright, it’s normal and we start taking substances made for cars, the question is are we engines or are we human person?”
EDITOR'S NOTE: You think today's catalytic converter thefts are bad. You ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait till our youths find out about bombe.
Shaquille O’Neal is done.
The four-time NBA champion and one of the greatest basketball players of all time renounced his celebrity status in an interview with the New York Post. The 7-foot-1 former Los Angeles Lakers superstar, who is also one of the most recognizable athletes, is done with the glitz and glamour.
"These celebrities are going freaking crazy and I don’t want to be one. I denounce my celebrity-ness today. I’m done with it," he told the New York Post on Friday.
"I don’t want to be in that category. Celebrities are crazy, they really are. Don’t call me that anymore. These people are out of their freaking mind with how they treat people, what they do, what they say. That’s never been me. I never want to be looked at like that."
O’Neal added he didn’t want to be stereotyped as someone who is "out of their mind" and would rather be known for his kindness away from the basketball court and television cameras.
One of the 49-year-old’s latest ventures is with Papa John’s. With every purchase of his Shaq-a-Roni pizza, Papa John’s will donate $1 from every purchase to support COVID-19 relief, the fight against racial injustice, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the United Negro College Fund and community involvement.
He also partnered with Kellogg’s Mission Tiger to help purchase sports equipment in various cities across the U.S.
O’Neal will still be behind the desk for his NBA shows on TNT. The NBA season is right around the corner.
Trump's dick according to Stormy Daniels
Skeletons are not in the closet anymore, for sure. Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham is making sure to spill all the beans on what went on in the White House during her time as a press secretary in her 'tell-all' book. Grisham's anecdotes have received a huge social media response. Now, in a new detail from her upcoming book, 'I'll take your questions now', Grisham revealed former POTUS Donald Trump's reaction when adult film star Stormy Daniels commented on his penis.
Stormy Daniels, dishing the dirt on her alleged affair with the ex-president in her 2018 book, said, "I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart." According to Stephanie Grisham, the description didn't go well with Trump, as he felt the need to call her from Air Force One to 'assure' her that his penis was neither small nor shaped like a 'toadstool' as alleged by Stormy Daniels.
Stormy Daniels Grisham, in her book also talked about Trump’s trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2019, which sparked theories that the former president had a secret illness. She hinted that Trump actually went for a colonoscopy, but didn’t disclose the real reason for the trip because he didn’t want to be 'the butt of a joke' on late-night TV. "As with COVID, he was too wrapped up in his own ego and his own delusions about his invincibility," writes Grisham in her book.
Netizens took a dig at former president Donald Trump over the new information divulged by Stephanie Grisham and posted tweets like, "Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham: President Trump once called me from Air Force One to tell me his “penis was not small or toadstool-shaped”. Stormy Daniels says it is, and Trump’s a serial liar, so draw your own conclusion." One tweet read, "Too bad Trump is no longer on twitter… It’d be a shame to remind him of how Stormy Daniels described his “little buddy”!" Another person tweeted, "LOL. Donald Tr*mp called Stephanie Grisham, from Air Force One, to defend the size of his dick after Stormy Daniels said it was tiny and shaped like a mushroom. This is a thing that happened. This is what happens when you elect narcissistic children to high office." One person wrote, "Trump is so insecure that he called WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham from Air Force One to brag on his penis after Stormy Daniels reported that it was small and shaped like a toadstool."
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: An Ulta Beauty store in Northern Illinois was robbed in broad daylight over the weekend. The robbery captured on camera by bystanders has now become a viral video. The footage shows at least three culprits wearing masks as they empty shelves of expensive Christian Dior and Armani makeup into black trash bags.
The man filming the heist on his phone was visibly shocked at the scene unfolding before his eyes. "Look at this! Wow. Insane," the man says. "This is in the middle of Ulta, right now!" As the video continues, the man can be heard repeating the word “insane” several times as other customers could be seen not interfering with the robbery in any way.
An Ulta Beauty spokesman told Fox News they were aware of the incident and had reported it to police. The store where the robbery took place is located in Norridge, Illinois, about 15 miles northwest of Chicago.
"At Ulta Beauty, the safety of our associates and guests is our highest priority," Eileen Ziesemer, vice president of public relations for Ulta, said. "We are aware of the criminal activity at our Norridge store over the weekend and are fully cooperating with local police as they conduct the investigation." She added that no one was injured during the robbery.
Earlier in September, Chicago police issued two warnings to businesses about groups of shoplifters who were swarming stores to steal perfumes. One of the warnings said the thieves were escaping with garbage bags filled with stolen merchandise. The other warning spoke about a store on the 400 block of North Michigan that had been targeted three times between August 27 and August 31. All the stores were Ulta Beauty locations.
Following this, it was reported that the garbage bag-wielding thieves robbed Ulta at 2754 North Clybourn Avenue and another outlet at 1107 South Delano Court in the South Loop. The Ulta thefts are suspected of being part of a large-scale operation that sells stolen name-brand merchandise online at deep discounts.
The Daily Mail reported that three organized gangs of thieves have been targeting the city's stores. According to a local news report from September 22, a shoplifting team has repeatedly raided high-end retailers to steal expensive purses along the Magnificent Mile, Oak Street, and Rush Street in September. Police are also looking for a two-man team that is stealing bags full of cigarettes from Walgreens locations, CWB Chicago reported.
The report said that around 4 pm on September 20, an employee at Bottega Veneta admitted a man into the boutique at 800 North Michigan. About eleven other men poured in behind the first. The crew collected about 35 handbags, which retail for thousands of dollars each, from the shelves and ran out the door. A police report said the crew escaped in at least two cars, including a gray Honda CRV.
In another incident, a group of six men walked into Salvatore Ferragamo, 645 North Michigan, but they left without taking anything. A store employee reportedly recognized some of the men as part of a crew that took $43,000 worth of purses and critically injured the shop’s 73-year-old security guard in August. The report added that about an hour later, the same men stormed into Burberry, 633 North Michigan, pushed the store’s security guard, and stole nine handbags. They fled in cars that were waiting outside, according to witnesses.
Three men reportedly conducted a similar raid for purses at Intermix at 40 East Delaware. On September 13, at Moncler, 33 East Oak, six people wearing masks entered the store and robbed high-end products. At least one of those offenders had a gun.
