Game Over

(hat tip reader K.C)How to be a douchebag dad:

A Philadelphia man who spent long hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.

Prosecutors believe Tyrone Spellman pummeled Alayiah Turman, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother napped in another room in September 2006.

Jurors rejected arguments that Spellman confessed to protect the mother and convicted him of third-degree murder and child endangerment. He was acquitted of first-degree murder. He could be sentenced to about 23 to 47 years in prison.

Spellman fled the house after the beating, and the mother, Mia Turman, had no reason to go in the bedroom where the baby was found, prosecutors said.

“He (Spellman) spent six to seven hours a day in there playing Xbox,” Assistant District Attorney James Berardinelli said.

Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, confessed to police the next day, but defense lawyer Bobby Hoof noted that his statement came after 24 hours in custody.

“He’s not happy with the verdict. He does not agree with the verdict, but he respects the jury verdict,” Hoof said of Spellman.

An autopsy showed that Alayiah had suffered a broken arm about two weeks before she died - an injury that city social workers did not see on two visits to the house in late August, when they found the baby well.

The city took custody of the couple’s second daughter, born after Alayiah’s death.

Father of the year material right there…

Soruce: Comcast Game Invasion - Xbox-Obsessed Father Convicted of Child’s Death

Douchebags in Love

(hat tip to reader K.C…) Here’s a new spin on the elusive ”shocker” maneuver that we’ve all (unfortunately) heard about:

A woman died during a night of “bizarre sex” in which her husband used an electrical cord to stimulate her, but ended up giving her a fatal shock, police said.
Kirsten Taylor, 29, was found unconscious Wednesday night at the couple’s Pennsylvania home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Toby Taylor first said his wife was shocked by a hair dryer, according to a police affidavit. But when burns were found on her body, Taylor told police that he had clipped an electrical cord to his wife and plugged it into a power strip, which he then turned on and off.

He told authorities the couple had used the technique before.

Taylor, 37, was jailed Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bail on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges. He did not have a lawyer at his arraignment and no lawyer had been entered in his court file as of Friday.

York County Coroner Barry Bloss called it a case of “bizarre sex.”

“I have never seen anything like this,” Bloss said. “Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone.”

The township police chief, David Sterner, said the jolt of electricity is believed to have triggered a heart attack in the woman.

An initial autopsy did not determine the cause of death, Bloss said. A final determination awaits further testing of the electrical equipment and a toxicology test, he said.

At any rate, this article just proves that Darwin probably sucked in bed. It also goes to show you that the frequent use of carnal electricty, even if resulting in a fatality, will only get you an understatement like “bizarre sex.” If you want more than that, you’re gonna have to get yourself a pony.

Source: Fox News - Pennsylvania Man Killed Wife by Shocking Her During Sex

Coach Reproach

(hat tip to reader K.C.) Soccer moms beware, douchebags are everywhere:

LOUISA, Va. (AP) — The head coach of Howard University’s men’s soccer team was arrested after police said he used the Internet to solicit a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sexual purposes.

Joseph Okoh, 40, was arrested Friday and charged with one felony count of using a communications system to solicit a person under 15 years old with lascivious intent. He is being held without bond at the Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange pending a bond hearing Friday.

The Louisa County Sheriff’s Office said Okoh traveled from his home in Arlington for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The person was actually an undercover deputy.

A spokeswoman for Howard said Okoh has been suspended from all university activities and duties pending completion of the investigation.

“Because this is a personnel matter, we are unable to provide any further information at this time,” Jennifer James-Pryor said in a statement. “However, Howard University has zero tolerance for the violation of any University policy and our code of conduct.”

Okoh is in his first season as head men’s soccer coach, according to the university’s Web site.

Source: Comcast.net Sports - Howard University head soccer coach arrested

Dog Is Man’s Best Feast

(hat tip to reader K.C.):  Hey Michael Vick, have you ever considered dining doggie style?

HONOLULU — A grand jury indicted two former golf club employees on theft and animal cruelty charges after police said they butchered and ate a patron’s pet dog.

Witnesses told Moanalua Golf Club officials they saw the workers load the German shepherd-Labrador mix, named Caddy, into a car and drive away at the end of their shift on Dec. 16.

The dog’s owner, Frank Manuma, said the club had given him permission to bring 8-month-old Caddy while he played a round of golf. The dog vanished after being left tied up near a maintenance shed, Manuma said.

The club fired the workers and investigators later told Manuma the two men butchered and ate his pet.

An Oahu grand jury indicted Saturnino Palting, 58, and Nelson Domingo, 43, both of Kalihi, on Tuesday. The felony charges are punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Palting and Domingo had not hired or been assigned attorneys by Thursday.

“We’re delighted that it’s moving forward,” Manuma said when told of the grand jury indictments.

Manuma said he and his wife, Debbie Weil-Manuma, considered the dog like a child they never had.

He said they now have a 3-month old mixed German shepherd-Golden retriever named Caddy 2.

As they say… it’s a man-eat-dog world. Eh, ok. I’m done…

Source: Washington Post - Animal Cruelty Charge in Dog-Eating Case

Tripping Taliban

There are some things that you just can’t learn in terrorist camp. For example, don’t trip and fall down the stairs if you have a coat full of bombs… the results can be quite disastrous:

A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.

It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah.

Yesterday’s blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief said.

The would-be attacker tripped as he was leaving a building apparently to target an opening ceremony for a mosque that was expected to be attended by Afghan and international military officials, said Sakhi Mir.

“Coming down the stairs, he fell down and exploded. Two civilian women and a man were wounded,” Mir said.

Suicide attacks are regular feature of an insurgency led by the extremist Taliban movement that was in government between 1996 and 2001. The most deadly was in November 2007 and killed nearly 80 people, most of them school students.

Could it be that the TSA has been wrong all these years? Maybe we really don’t need metal detectors, x-ray machines, background checks, or widespread bans on liquids… we just need more stairs.

Source: News.com.au - Suicide bomber falls down stairs …

Pardon Me, But Is Your Prophet A Cookie?

Here is an excerpt from this full World Net Daily article:

A national television network has decided to censor an episode of a new political show featuring self-described Christian “infidels” eating a cookie emblazoned with an image of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

Faith TV made the decision in the wake of WND news coverage about “Flamethrower,” a cutting-edge program whose latest episode originally scheduled for this week deals with “All Things Islam.”

“We’re not going to air it,” said Jim West, president of the Florida-based, Christian network. “We feel this program just goes beyond the bounds of good taste.”

“We appreciate the producer’s attempt at parody and drawing attention to controversial subjects, and we embrace his right under the First Amendment to express his views,” he added. “But it does violate one of our programming philosophy tenets which is not to disparage any world religions.”

Here is a picture of the Muhammad cookie:

And it’s such a shame that they won’t air that episode… it looks like the Cookie Monster is out of a job again:

Tired Willie

Former President Bill Clinton can’t stay awake for anything:

January 21, 2008 — Bill Clinton showed yesterday why he made it into the book “The Art of Napping.”

During an appearance at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, the former president was caught nodding off.

Clinton was there during a service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while his wife was nearby at Abyssinian Baptist Church, where she was endorsed by its minister, Rev. Calvin Butts.

Clinton has had napping episodes before. Among others, he nodded off at a Mets game and at Ronald Reagan’s funeral.

When he was president, he told Dan Rather, “If I can take a nap, even 15 or 20 minutes in the middle of the day, it is really invigorating to me. On the days when I’m a little short of sleep, I try to work it out so that I can sneak off and just lie down for 15 minutes, a half an hour, and it really makes all the difference in the world.”

 Source: NY Post - BILL HAS A ‘DREAM’

Trio Of Douchebags

Here’s a horror story from Tennessee… let’s see how far the mainstream media takes this one: 

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - A 94-year-old man was found fatally beaten early Monday in a thicket of bushes, his left hand cut off, and three people were arrested in what might have been a botched robbery, authorities said.

Willie Lee Morgan, who was reported missing Saturday, “died a horrible death,” Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnigan said.

Two butcher knives and a left hand were found in one of the suspects’ cars.

“This poor man was supposed to die peacefully on a front porch swing, not like this,” Jarnigan said.

Darrell Nance, 22, was charged with murder and Jessica Lane, 23, was charged with accessory to murder. Brice Whaley, whose age was not immediately available, was charged as an accessory after the fact and abuse of a corpse.

Jarnigan said the suspects may have been trying to steal cash from Morgan’s home or hold him for ransom as payback for money owed by some of Morgan’s family members.

Nance and Lane are a couple with a criminal history of drug abuse, he said.

Whaley is accused of helping to dispose of the body afterward. He led authorities to the body in an industrial park about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville near this east Tennessee town.

The three suspects were in the Hamblen County jail awaiting bond hearings. A jail official said Monday afternoon she did not know whether they had attorneys.

Now for mugshots that just scream “we’re guilty:”

Source: AP - Tenn. Man, 94, Killed, Has Hand Cut Off

Hardball Throws A Wiffleball

Uh, All I have to say is:

Chris and Hillary, Sittin’ in a tree…

K-I-S-S-I-N-G…

He made a comment…

She began to cry…

He backpedaled…

What a douchebag, that guy!

Sharpton Strikes Again?

Here’s a nugget from the ABC News Blotter:

Talk radio is taking a break from its nonstop nattering over the political campaigns to talk about a controversy involving one of its own.

Sean Hannity and others are criticizing a leading radio industry publication’s decision to withdraw an award for controversial longtime conservative talk-show host Bob Grant because of apparent concern over what critics call a history of racially insensitive remarks.

According to the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Grant had referred to African-Americans as “savages.” The group also objected to how he referred to Haitian refugees as “sub-human infiltrators,” and that he once decried the prevalence of minorities in New York City by saying, “To me, that’s a bad thing. I’m a white person.” Grant also stirred outrage among many for calling then-New York Mayor David Dinkins a “washroom attendant.” Dinkins is African-American.

Grant has said his use of the word “savage” had “nothing to do with race,” and denied he had made any comment in which he “put down an entire race of people.”

Radio and Records (R&R) magazine had planned to bestow the 2008 News/Talk/Sports Lifetime Industry Achievement Award to Grant. In a statement on its Web site Wednesday, Radio and Records wrote that it had made the decision “upon further review and consideration of Bob Grant’s complete body of work.”

Now, is this a coincidence?

Critics of the magazine’s decision have zeroed in on what they perceive to be evidence of a double standard: Among other TRS keynoters scheduled to speak is Rev. Al Sharpton, whose career as a public figure is studded with controversial comments about race in America.

On his radio show Wednesday, Hannity criticized the R&R decision, and played several audio clips of Sharpton making remarks that Hannity characterized as divisive and possibly racist. Hannity asked why Sharpton would be featured at the R&R event, given their stated concerns, and suggested that radio personalities were likely to boycott the seminar.

Grant himself appeared on Hannity’s show, and accused R&R of practicing a “double standard.” Grant blamed a single individual, whom he would not name, who Grant says is out to destroy him. 

Source: ABC News - Talk Radio Aflame Over Perceived Snub of Legendary Host

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