Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Holy Boulder!!

Last night at 10:30 a boulder the size of a firetruck tore through the small town of Athens, Ohio. The boulder broke loose from the top of a hill and rolled straight towards the town. As it rolled it took down power lines, crushed cars, damaged an underground water line and ruined one home. The women that owned the home said that she thought it was thunder at first. As she looked out her window she could see sparks flying and thought it was lightning. Luckily when the boulder hit the house the family was towards the back side of the house other wise someone could have been crushed under it. The rest of the town was evacuated because they aren't sure how stable the rest of the boulders are. To remove the boulder their going to have to break it apart and carry it away piece by piece because of how massive the boulder is.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/loose-boulder-cuts-path-of-destruction-through-ohio-city-28685001.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fus-15749625%252Floose-boulder-cuts-path-of-destruction-through-ohio-city-28685001.html
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Harsh Grandparents!

A 13 year old boy was made to sit with his hands behind his back and on his knees as a punishment for not doing his homework. The boy was living with his grandparents when they saw he wasn't keeping up with his homework. They decided that as punishment he had to kneel on the bathroom floor looking straight ahead with his hands tied behind his back while holding a stick. It started at 7 am. and went until 4 pm. This wasn't a one time trial either. The boy was made to do this for ten straight days without any food besides a protein shake in the morning. After the ten days of kneeling they gave him three days of rest and then noticed he wasn't doing his homework again. They then forced him to do this process again. This time they were sentencing him to 20 days of kneeling from 7 am. to midnight. On the second day of punishment the boy escaped and was picked up by a person driving by that had noticed he was having trouble walking and took him in until the police arrived. His grandparents defence was that the boy had a mental illness and was clearly told this was a punishment but was able to stand up whenever he felt to. But, the boy had severe bruising on his knees and lashes on his back from his grandmother hitting him because he was caught moving. This story is under investigation and will be trials to come.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/crime/2012/03/13/drew-fl-teen-forced-kneel-nine-hours.hln
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Faulty Tour Bus

Jerrod Niemann, a country singer, was on his tour bus after a benefit concert at the Tivoli Theatre when he was told to evacuate the bus as fast as possible. Jerrod had his family members with him after his concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As they were all boarding the bus, his driver told them to evacuate because the back end of the bus had caught fire. Everyone safely evacuated the bus and moved to the other side of the street as they watched the fire on the bus start to accelerate. There wasn't enough time to extinguish the massive fire and in return the bus exploded. Officials are looking for the root cause of the fire but believe that it was the heater that had caught fire to begin with.
http://news.yahoo.com/country-singer-jerrod-niemanns-bus-burns-tenn-171012409.html
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