Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Japanese man dies inflight after eating 246 cocaine packets
Mexican prosecutors say a Japanese man who died aboard an airliner shortly after takeoff from Mexico City had ingested 246 packets of cocaine and went into cardiac arrest from a drug overdose.
Sunday's statement was issued by the attorney general's office for the northern state of Sonora, where an autopsy was performed following an emergency stop by the Aeromexico flight in Hermosillo.
The prosecutor's office says other passengers reported seeing the man convulsing in the early hours of Friday as the jetliner headed for Narita, Japan.
Authorities identified the man only as Udo "N'' and said he had traveled to Mexico's capital from Bogota, Colombia.
Tornadoes leave trail of destruction across Ohio,
A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another.
There were no immediate reports of any deaths or serious injuries. The storms damaged homes, blew out windows, toppled trees and left debris so thick that at one point, highway crews had to use snowplows to clear an interstate.
At least half a dozen communities from eastern Indiana through central Ohio suffered damage, according to the National Weather Service.
In Indiana, at least 75 homes were damaged in Pendleton and the nearby community of Huntsville, said Madison County Emergency Management spokesman Todd Harmeson. No serious injuries were reported in the area or other parts of the state.
Madison County authorities said roads in Pendleton, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, are blocked with trees, downed power lines and utility poles. Pendleton High School is open as a shelter.
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The National Weather Service said a survey team will investigate damage in Madison County and possibly in Henry County. Another team may survey damage in Tippecanoe County.
Some of the heaviest hits were recorded in towns just outside Dayton, Ohio, where officials were still assessing damage.
In Vandalia, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) directly north of Dayton, Francis Dutmers and his wife were headed for the basement and safety Monday night when the storm hit with "a very loud roar."
"I just got down on all fours and covered my head with my hands," said Dutmers, who said the winds blew out windows around his house, filled rooms with storm debris, and took down most of his trees. But he and his wife were not injured and the house is still livable, he said.
The National Weather Service tweeted Monday night that a "large and dangerous tornado" hit near Trotwood, Ohio, eight miles (12 kilometers) northwest of Dayton. Several apartment buildings were damaged or destroyed, including the Westbrooke Village Apartment complex, where an aerial photo shows the roof blown off entirely.
Just before midnight, not 40 minutes after that tornado cut through, the weather service tweeted that another one was traversing its path, churning up debris densely enough to be seen on radar.
The aftermath left some lanes of Interstate 75 blocked north of Dayton. Trucks with plows were scraping tree branches and rubble to the side to get the major north-south route reopened, according to Matt Bruning, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Trying to clear the debris in the middle of the night is a difficult task, complicated by darkness and downed power lines, Bruning said.
"We'll do a more thorough cleaning after we get lanes opened," he told The Associated Press by text early Tuesday, noting that tow trucks would have to haul off damaged vehicles along the roadway, too.
In Brookville, west of Dayton, the storm tore roofs off schools, destroyed a barn and heavily damaged houses.
Crews were also clearing debris in two other counties northwest of Dayton.
In Dayton, the storm caused a few minor injuries but no reported fatalities. Dayton Fire Chief Jeffrey Payne called that "pretty miraculous" during a Tuesday morning briefing. Payne attributed the good news to people heeding early warnings about the storm.
Residents say sirens started going off around 10:30 p.m. Monday ahead of the storm.
Mayor Nan Whaley urged residents to check on neighbors, especially those who are housebound. Multiple schools in the area were closed or had delayed starts Tuesday.
City Manager Shelley Dickstein said a boil advisory has been issued for residents after the storms cut power to Dayton's pump stations, and that generators are being rushed in.
The response will require a "multi-day restoration effort," utility Dayton Power & Light said in an early morning tweet. The company said 64,000 of its customers alone were without power.
In Montgomery County, which includes Dayton, Sheriff Rob Streck said many roads were impassable. The Montgomery County sheriff's office initially said the Northridge High School gymnasium would serve as an emergency shelter in Dayton but later said it wasn't useable.
The latest apparent tornadoes came two nights after a twister struck a motel and mobile home park in El Reno, Oklahoma, killing two people and injuring 29. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that that he spoke from Japan with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and told him that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the "federal government are fully behind him and the great people of Oklahoma."
ZOOKEEPER ARRESTED AFTER TRYING TO MOLEST 500-POUND MALE GORILLA
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| Man Tried To Rape Gorilla |
San Diego, CA | A San Diego Zoo employee has been formally accused of repeated sexual assault on a 15-year-old male gorilla.
Akimbo Obwe’bwe, a 29-year-old zoo intern originally from Gabon, was found guilty of feeding sedatives to Big George, one of the zoo’s top attractions, and partaking in sexual activity with the sedated animal.
According to unreleased video footage, Obwe’bwe proceeded to insert the animal’s penis inside his mouth for several minutes but apparently overestimated the strength of the medication, leading the animal to wake up and lash back at the zookeeper, alerting other employees.
“Although Mr. Obwe’bwe claims the sexual relationship was consensual, video footage clearly shows he attempted to sedate the animal,” Adam Simmons, a San Diego Zoo spokesman told reporters.
“His conduct was clearly inappropriate, reckless and dangerous for the animal as well,” he explained.
“Any sexual activity between animals and employees is strictly prohibited by San Diego Zoo policy,” he added.
Unreleased video footage allegedly shows Big George, one of San Diego Zoo’s top attractions, being sexually assaulted by Akimbo Obwe’bwe, a 29-year-old zoo intern originally from Gabon.
An act of despair
San Diego Zoo administrator, Janette Fitzgerald, says Mr. Obwe’bwe may have acted out of despair after learning his wife had left him.
“Some employees had voiced concerns that Mr. Obwe’bwe had recently become uneasily friendly with the animals since his divorce, but I could not expect it was this bad,” she told reporters.
“I am not aware of Gabonese cultural practices but it might also be a cultural thing,” she added.
According to current Californian law, bestiality is classed as a misdemeanor, an offense that is punishable by a maximum six-month county jail sentence and a maximum $1,000 fine.
Ontario government introduces legislation terminating deal with Beer Store
Ontario government presents enactment ending manage Beer Store
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is destroying an arrangement with the huge bottling works claimed Beer Store retail chain to abstain from having the region pay many millions in punishments as he tries to satisfy a battle guarantee to permit brew and wine deals in corner stores.
What's more, proprietors of the lager retailer caution the fight could now be gone to court.
Mr. Passage's Finance Minister, Vic Fedeli, presented a bill in the Ontario Legislature on Monday that would end the 2015 arrangement marked by the past Liberal government with the semi imposing business model Beer Store, which is fundamentally possessed by the outside fermenting mammoths behind Labatt, Molson and Sleeman and works 445 outlets over the territory. Dealings between the legislature and Beer Store are relied upon to proceed, yet Mr. Fedeli is raising the battle by enabling the Progressive Conservatives to singularly change a retail arrange first propelled in 1927.
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The bill comes following quite a while of talks and in the midst of an advertising fight between the administration and the Beer Store over Mr. Portage's vow to permit brew and wine in corner stores, more basic need outlets and huge box retailers. The 2015 "ace system understanding" between the brewers and Queen's Park was consulted to permit the legislature of Kathleen Wynne to extend lager deals in only 450 supermarkets, however was intended to remain set up for a long time. Since being chosen, Mr. Passage's administration likewise presented enactment that permits alcohol amid back end parties at games, and presented "buck-a-lager" to purchasers by bringing down the base cost on a jug of suds.
The bill on brew deals came with no open cautioning around the same time that Mr. Passage declared a transitory move down in his battle with Toronto Mayor John Tory and different city hall leaders about slices to general wellbeing, ambulances and childcares, and after a progression of surveys demonstrating listing support for Ontario's PC government, first chosen about a year prior. The bill likewise went ahead that day the administration uncovered a bill to upgrade psychological wellness and dependence administrations, just as lay the basis for joining a B.C. legal claim went for considering pharmaceutical organizations in charge of the narcotic overdose emergency.
Monday's proposed enactment on brew deals, scarcely four pages in length, would crash the 2015 arrangement and drop the Beer Store's for quite some time held select ideal to sell lager in 12-and 24-packs in many spots. Mr. Fedeli said the administration intends to pass the bill before the council ascends for the mid year in about fourteen days. In any case, he likewise proposed that the administration stays open to future converses with the Beer Store on permitting corner-store deals.
Addressing correspondents, Mr. Fedeli expelled the thought that destroying an agreement would put a chill on working with the territory, calling it an awful arrangement, and saying no other spot on the planet permits private brewers this sort of retail restraining infrastructure: "This is a Kathleen Wynne sweetheart arrangement. It is hostile to focused, and in all honesty whenever left alone would keep on being against aggressive for the following six years."
The Beer Store quickly cautioned it would challenge Mr. Fedeli's turn in court. In a letter dated Monday and acquired by The Globe and Mail, the Beer Store's legal counselors caution Attorney-General Caroline Mulroney and an outer legal advisor for the legislature on the document that tearing up the arrangement will "administer 7,000 Ontario-based Beer Store representatives out of work and cause billions of dollars in harms" just as "result in greater expenses and costs for shoppers."
The letter cautions that the brewers may sue Mr. Portage's administration "on the premise that the authoritative procedure hosts been inappropriately utilized by third-gathering interests" or in light of the fact that the bill is "illegal and comprises misfeasance in open office." The Beer Store's legal advisors caution the legislature to protect all records, including writings and messages, for a rundown of authorities that incorporates Mr. Passage and his head of staff Dean French, and incorporating any correspondence with industry gatherings working with the administration pushing for the changes, including the Ontario Convenience Store Association and the Retail Council of Canada.
Industry sources had cautioned that ironclad language in the Beer Store bargain, marked by the past Liberal government in 2015, would constrain the administration to pay several millions in harms in the event that it abused it. Yet, protected law specialists express it is difficult to tie a commonplace government in such an understanding, as it holds its capacity to just pass a law pronouncing any such contract void and killing the need to pay any pay. In any case, it is viewed as an outrageous move that has incited court difficulties to different governments previously.
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Both the Beer Store and its association had as of late propelled promotion crusades focusing on the administration's progression plans.
"Doug Ford guaranteed nobody would lose their positions because of his arrangements," said John Nock, leader of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 12R24, which speaks to the Beer Store's 7,300 representatives. "Presently he's dropping contracts, making confusion and kicking steady employments to the check."
Mr. Fedeli's bill comes only days after the administration's exceptional counsel on changing liquor deals, Ken Hughes, presented a report on the eventual fate of the segment to Mr. Fedeli. The report, discharged Monday evening soon after Mr. Fedeli presented his bill, is brutally incredulous of the Beer Store and the 2015 arrangement, which just broadened courses of action that go back decades and have been honored by legislatures of each stripe.
Be that as it may, the report holds back before prescribing tearing up the Beer Store bargain, rather encouraging the legislature to "do everything conceivable" under the consent to permit brew in more outlets yet in addition to consider "other accessible alternatives" if talks fizzle.
The administration does not have to put the bill into impact when it is passed, implying that discussions could proceed with the Beer Store. In any case, with the governing body ascending for the mid year, the enactment obviously puts the choice of totally ending the arrangement on the table, if another round of converses with the Beer Store comes up short.
The resistance at Queen's Park blamed the legislature for making the Beer Store declaration to divert from its different issues.
"This administration has a fixation on liquor ... I don't think it is in accordance with Ontarians' most significant needs: human services and instruction," between time Liberal pioneer John Fraser told columnists.
Friday, 24 May 2019
German shepherd found hung on fence, shot to death in Detroit -
— The Michigan Humane Society and Crime Stoppers of Michigan on Tuesday announced a $2,500 reward for tips after a German Shepherd was found hanged and shot in a backyard on Detroit's east side.
The Michigan Humane Society Cruelty Investigators responded to a complaint in the 5200 block of Devonshire Road, where the caller said a dog was tied up with an electrical cord in the backyard.
When investigators arrived, they found the dog had been tied to the fence in the yard, a few inches off the ground. The dog was also shot multiple times and left behind a vacant home, the agency said.
A necropsy showed that the dog was alive when it was tied to the fence and subsequently shot. Several gunshot wounds were found on the body and one bullet was recovered, the agency said.
Investigators said the incident took place within the last 10-14 days, the Humane Society said.
Investigators said the incident took place within the last 10-14 days, the Humane Society said.
"This appears to be a deliberate act of cruelty," said Humane Society investigator Sarah Schertel. "... It is especially terrible to know the dog was otherwise well kept and probably understood how it was to be cared for properly.
"To have this violation of trust and have it end in such a horrible manner is heartbreaking and if nothing else, we hope we can find justice for this dog and prevent this from happening to another," she said.
To knowingly kill, torture, mutilate, maim, or disfigure an animal is a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to four years and up to $5,000 in fines, Schertel said.
The Michigan Humane Society is seeking any information on this case in order to prosecute those responsible. Community members can provide information by calling the Michigan Humane Society cruelty hotline at (313) 872-3401. People can also contact Crime Stoppers of Michigan at 1-800-SPEAK-UP (773-2587).
Source: Detroitnews
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