Random Links Thread

[Tank]

wow, and to think i was excited when i found out i could get a neapolitan shake. 

 

so how do we order this one, strads? i assume it's on the secret menu.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

"Yeah, and I'll take a vanilla shake, Hesperia style."

[gotbeer]

You know what happens when you don't clean up those glass clippings.

 

Ohio man accused of shooting next-door neighbor in the face, running her over with lawn mower

[gotbeer]

VIDEO: LIFEGUARD BEATEN BY 3 SUSPECTS AT VENICE PIER IN LOS ANGELES

 

Sexual harrassment at it's best.  Or was it tear drop tattoo at it's best?    

[Redondo]

 

 

Who’s got best shakes?

 

 

[gotbeer]

Surfer in TV shark attack makes terrifying on-camera return

 

 

Jaws wants his revenge and is hunting him.

[deepdrive]

Yea, that sounds pretty legit. I have some funny stories about that store.

 

Surprising. Downey isn't the town I would expect the good stories to come out of. I guess it's gone downhill since Karen left.

[gotbeer]

California Wildfires Kill Firefighter, Force Hundreds From Homes

[Redondo]

• Alligator bites 'chunk' out of Florida man

• Veteran TV producer Norman Lear is working on a Hispanic version of 'One Day at a Time'

[Redondo]

BASEBALL TRAGEDY
Bat boy, 9, dies after being hit by practice swing

[Redondo]

• Woman wakes from hysterectomy to find front teeth missing

[gotbeer]

Hitchhiking robot that made it across Canada maimed on U.S. road trip

[gotbeer]

Inglewood sues resident over YouTube videos using council footage to bash mayor

[Tank]

Hitchhiking robot that made it across Canada maimed on U.S. road trip

 

even the robots aren't safe from philly fans.

Edited August 3, 2015 by Tank

[Redondo]

 

CIRCUS NIGHTMARE

Tent collapses with 250 people inside, killing 2

[gotbeer]

That's more of a Circus Tragedy.  

 

A Circus Nightmare would be if 248 people died.  And you were trapped together for hours with the only other survivor.  Who was a clown.

[Redondo]

Construction worker dies after bee swarm attack in Riverside

[Redondo]

2 immigrants in U.S. illegally are named to Huntington Park commissions

 

On 91 Freeway, a $2-billion effort to keep up with increasing traffic

[Redondo]

CITY UNDER SIEGE: Baltimore calls

in feds to help cops handle violence

[gotbeer]

Caught on Camera: Woman Berates IHOP Customer for Speaking Spanish

 

 

Oy vey.

[gotbeer]

Drone drops drugs in Ohio prison yard, sparking fight

[Redondo]

• 110-year-old woman drank three beers and a shot every day for years

[Redondo]

Latinos' rising fortunes are epitomized in Downey, the 'Mexican Beverly Hills'

[Redondo]

Disney buys Anaheim land, sparking expansion speculation

[Redondo]

Healthy 75-Year-Old Ends Her Life So She Won't Grow Old

 

A British woman with no serious health issues ended her life July 21 at a suicide clinic because, she said, she didn't want to grow old. Gill Pharaoh, 75, said her work in a nursing home revealed the "awful" truth of old age and burdens placed on loved ones and caregivers, the Telegraph reports by way of the Sunday Times.

 

"I do not want people to remember me as a sort of old lady hobbling up the road with a trolley," she said before going to the Lifecircle clinic in Basel, Switzerland.

 

Pharaoh says she wasn't depressed or incapacitated by illness, though she described a bad bout of shingles after turning 70 and the annoyance of tinnitus in a lengthy blog post about her choice.

There, she recounted a life slowly sapped of former joys like long walks and gardening sessions. "Not to mention the hundred and one other minor irritations like being unable to stand for long, carry a heavy shopping bag, run for a bus, remember the names of books I have read, or am reading, or their authors." She spent a last evening in Basel with her life partner John that he describes as "tranquil and enjoyable. ... Gill had been thinking about it for years and I had no intention of spoiling it by getting emotional and heavy." Her daughter Caron, also a nurse, admits the decision was hard on her, but Pharaoh wrote in her blog post that while many parents expect their children to care for them in their old age, she would not to put that burden on her own kids.