Strange-Texas Man Accused of Beating, Eating Family Dog
What Happen-'Gay pride' Oreo causes cookie controversy
Why-Naked driver refuses to get out of car
Lesson-Seven years for man who killed penis-biting fiancée
Wow-New Zynga game, The Ville, allows virtual sex
Lesson-Seven years for man who killed penis-biting fiancée
A Nova Scotia man was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his fiancee after she bit his penis. James Leopold, 33, was charged with second-degree murder, but was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter last month. On April 14, 2011, RCMP in Liverpool, N.S., received a report of a missing woman after Laura Lee Robertson failed to show up for work. Her body was found April 27 in a wooded area. Leopold told jurors it was an accident when he hit Robertson, 47, in the neck with his two hands in reaction to her biting his penis following an argument, as reported by the Chronicle Herald. Leopold told the court he panicked after Robertson's death and moved her body from their apartment.
Strange-Texas Man Accused of Beating, Eating Family Dog
Police arrested a man from Waco, Texas Monday after they say he beat, strangled and began eating his family dog. Relatives of Michael Terron Daniel, 22, called police June 14 to report that he had assaulted family members, chased a neighbor and started barking and growling before attacking the dog, KWTX.com reported. When authorities arrived, they found him sitting on his porch covered in blood. He was “initially incoherent and unresponsive,” Waco police Sgt. Patrick Swanton told KWTX.com Monday.Daniel was taken to a hospital where he urged officers to fight him or use a stun gun “to help him get off his bad trip,” Swanton said. Witnesses had also reported that he was complaining about being on a bad trip from ingesting K-2, a synthetic cannabis drug. Daniel was arrested Monday at his workplace and charged with felony cruelty to a non-livestock animal, police said. The dog, described as medium-sized and black, died at the scene.
What Happen-'Gay pride' Oreo causes cookie controversy
Until now, the only dispute Oreos ever sparked was whether to dunk them whole or split. But the cookie maker set off a furor when it posted a picture of a biscuit with rainbow-coloured filling, seemingly supporting Gay Pride. The image shows a fake cookie with six layers of cream in rainbow hues and the words "June 25 Pride" and "Proudly support love!" The rainbow-filled cookie has elicited much hate-filled response. Since the image was posted to Oreo's Facebook page Monday, it has received more than a quarter-million "likes" and nearly 38,000 comments. Some people pledged to boycott Oreo. "Goodbye Oreo...Sad you just offended the majority of your consumer base to appease the few... So will you come out next witha pedophile cookie," Karen Rowley-Buffington said But the issue is a black and white one, as there are an equal number expressing their unequivocal support. "Well done for your courage Oreo. In the face of stupidity, bigotry and plain idiocy you have the courage to say what you believe in. And that cookie looks awesome," Sally Shakespeare wrote.
Why-Naked driver refuses to get out of car
OTTAWA — Officers got an eyeful when a 52-year-old La Peche, Que., woman stopped for erratic driving turned out to be naked, police say. And the bizarre saga didn't end there; police say the woman, who allegedly blew more than three times the legal limit, was abusive towards officers and refused to get out of the car. Police had to cut her
seatbelt in order to remove her from the car. The bizarre case began at about 10:30 p.m. on June 20, when someone called police to report an erratic driver. Police said the car was stopped at the side of the road, where the woman was arrested despite her refusal to co-operate with officers. Police said they have no idea why she was behind the wheel sans clothes but she quickly got dressed at the police station, where her alcohol level was tested. The woman, who faces charges of impaired driving, refusal and obstruction, is to appear in court on Sept. 19. She was also fined $267 for verbally abusing police.
Wow-New Zynga game, The Ville, allows virtual sex
In a first for a Zynga casual game, users can now have virtual sex in a new game, The Ville. The game will be available tomorrow. The Ville, which appears to be heavily inspired (to put it kindly) by the popular game The Sims, is the most realistic game yet in the Ville series of games that includes FarmVille, CityVille, and CastleVille. The concept is that you build your dream house in the app, and then invite your friends over to hang
out. Or more. According to Zynga executive producer David Gray, when someone is in your house and you begin to interact with them, you can level up by interacting with them in ways that the game sees as romantic. As you climb the experience tree, you eventually unlock the capability to initiate the "happiness home run," or just "whoopee" as Gray called it in an interview. When you do so, the two characters begin to disrobe on-screen (not completely, though) and the bed in the virtual bedroom gets covered, briefly, with little floating hearts. Then it's over. Congratulations.
While you can have virtual sex in The Ville, you cannot yet get virtually married. And there are no virtual consequences, like children. Some pro-family groups are bound to take issue with that. The game is not age-restricted. Gray says that since the game requires a Facebook login, Zynga can rely on Facebook's own age restrictions. No news on what happens if Facebook opens up (officially) to users under its current cut-off of 13. While all Zynga games are social, this game is more of a dating app than anything Zynga has yet done. Users will want to feather their nests to attract friends over to hang out, and there is an option, when talking with an on-screen character, to click over to see their real-world Facebook profile. A big part of today's Zynga press conference was a discussion of the platform's new matchmaking platform, which will help players connect with new users that they're most likely to enjoy playing their favorite games with. Gray says that The Ville doesn't yet use the matchmaking system, but it may in the future, and
it will be opt-in. Gray estimates that the overall game design -- it's not all about sex -- will lead to a female gender bias. He estimated about 65%. At least at the start. Update at 4:20 p.m. PT: Zynga's SVP of product development, Mark Skaggs, takes issue with the characterization of The Ville as a dating app. "It's a house-and-people game," he told me. "You build the house of your dreams and invite friends over to play with your toys. The romantic relationship channel is just a small part of it." I concede the point that there's plenty more you can do in the app and that The Ville is not a dating app per se. But it is more about modeling ordinary human interactions than anything else Zynga has done. And social-game designers know where their bread is buttered. As Draw Something creator Dan Porter told me before Zynga bought the game, "It's designed for an 11th-grade boy to flirt with an 11th-grade girl." Skaggs is adamant that The Ville is a typical, family-friendly Zynga game. "The inspiration really does come from the dollhouse genre and from YoVille [Zynga's first "ville" game]. We're trying to come at it from a wholesome point of view."
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