Ex-employee spills 'sex, sleaze and secrets' of Facebook
Wow-Talking Urinal Deployed to Curb Drunk Driving
What-Mayor's sausage costume mistaken for giant penis as she welcomes Olympic torch
Why-Naked woman blocks ambulance from reaching husband's seriously injured lover
Why-Teacher strips girl in class
Father confesses to beating 20-year-old daughter to death in her sleep
Robert Kelly, a licensed psychologist and therapist, has pleaded guilty to attacking his 20-year-old daughter, Megan, while she slept. Although he admits to the murder he refuses to give a reason for the attack. On 9th May 2011, Kelly (53) went into his daughter’s bedroom in their home, in Oxford, Michigan, and beat her around the head with a baseball bat. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and now faces up to 30 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole after 20 years. A police dispatcher, Tony Van Houten, testified “I asked him if he knew who did it. And he stated, ‘Yes, I did’,” reports Detroit Free Press. Julie Roberts, Kelly’s ex-wife who was living with them at the time, found her daughter bleeding and unconscious.Having beaten Megan around the head he walked to the Oxford Village police station at 8am and confessed.Megan fell into a coma and was removed from life support on 27th July 2011.Kelly’s defense lawyer Sanford Schulman said he did not know why his client had committed the murder. He added “It’s obviously a mental health issue.”
Wow-Talking Urinal Deployed to Curb Drunk Driving
Hey bro, next time you get piss drunk listen to your urinal. Michigan officials are deploying 400 talking urinal cakes to 200 restaurants and watering holes across the Great Lake State as part of a stepped up anti-drunk driving campaign for the Fourth of July, the Detroit News reported.The Crownsville, Md.-based company at the center of the campaign, Healthquest Technologies Inc., has named their motion-activated deodorizing cakes Wizmark “Interactive Urinal Communicators.”“There are many places you can put your ad, but most of them don't guarantee three seconds of attention, let alone a
consumer's undivided attention,” the firm says on its website.Wizmarks can “talk, sing or flash a string of lights” to greet their visitors, the company boasts.According to the Detroit News, the urinal cakes being sent across Michigan will broadcast this message: "Listen up. That's right, I'm talking to you. Had a few drinks? Maybe a few too many? Then do yourself and everyone else a favor: Call a sober friend or a cab. Oh, and don't forget to wash your hands."The Detroit Free Press notes that the cakes have also been used in other states to battle drunk driving
consumer's undivided attention,” the firm says on its website.Wizmarks can “talk, sing or flash a string of lights” to greet their visitors, the company boasts.According to the Detroit News, the urinal cakes being sent across Michigan will broadcast this message: "Listen up. That's right, I'm talking to you. Had a few drinks? Maybe a few too many? Then do yourself and everyone else a favor: Call a sober friend or a cab. Oh, and don't forget to wash your hands."The Detroit Free Press notes that the cakes have also been used in other states to battle drunk driving
Ex-employee spills 'sex, sleaze and secrets' of Facebook
London, June 28 (ANI): Facebook, which is supposed to be one of the most dynamic companies in the world, was deeply sexist and stuck in a 1950s mentality that was a cross between a frat house and 'Mad Men' until recently, a new book by a former senior staff member has claimed.Katherine Losse, who worked for Facebook between 2005 and 2010, claims that female workers at the social network were propositioned for threesomes or given crude insults like 'I want to put my teeth in your ass' in 'The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network'.Lower ranking employees, who were invariably female, were treated like "second class help" and banned from a conference unless they worked as coat checkers whilst there.Meanwhile in between toga parties and late night 'hackathons', male engineers raced skateboards around desks as if they were in the X Games.Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg has been compared to Napoleon and branded a 'little emperor' who created a company where his staff could 'idol worship' him. On his 22nd birthday female workers were even asked to wear a T-shirt with his face on it in his honour. Losse was employee number 51 and worked her way up from customer relations to a senior marketing role before becoming the speechwriter for Zuckerberg.
At its core, she claims that Facebook is all about creating a 'popular techno frat that didn't exist at Stanford or Harvard' where men can engage in endless competition with each other. "The older men in the office could be unbridled in their wide ranging desires for sex and attention as the youngest ones," the Daily mail quoted her as writing."One of the few married engineers on the team was known by his female colleagues (after he had made several unwelcome propositions to them) to invite lower ranking women at the company to have threesomes with him...
"...When a female employee reported being told by a male co-worker in the lunch line that her backside looked tasty - "I want to put my teeth in your ass" was what the co-worker said - Mark asked (it was hard to tell whether it was with faux or genuine naivete): 'What does that even mean?" she wrote.
During an away trip to Las Vegas a group of Facebook engineers filmed themselves inviting girls up to their table in a club then shouting "Leave, you're not pretty enough!" when they didn't like them. The 2007 'F8' conference in San Francisco was open only technical employees but Facebook relented on everyone else - so long as they carried out coat checking duties whilst there. This meant lower paid employees who were invariably female were treated like 'second class help', Losse writes.
The year before Facebook had offered its staff a $1,000 a month subsidy to live within a mile of the office in the belief that it would make them happier. But until there was an outcry this was only offered to engineers on 80,000 dollars a year salaries. Customer service workers, which included the few women who worked for the company, were told they could not have it even though they were on just 30,000 dollars a year."The company's entire human resources architecture was constructed on the reactionary model of an office from the 1950s in which men with so-called masculine qualities (being technical, breaking things, moving fast) was idealised as brilliant and visionary whilst everyone else (particularly the nontechnical employees on the customer support team who were mostly female and sometime, unlike the white and Asian engineering team, black) were assumed to be duller, incapable of quick and intelligent thought. It was like Mad Men but real and happening the current moment, as if in repudiation of fifty years of social progress...," Losse wrote.
"...Facebook it seemed wanted to have it all: to be the new and scrappy kid on the block and have the feel of an old boys' club that had been around forever," she added. It wasn't until the arrival of chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in 2009 that things actually changed.
Why-Teacher strips girl in class
Kolkata, June 28 (IANS) A girl student was allegedly stripped in a class by a lady teacher in West Bengal after she ignored the teacher's diktat regarding dress code, police officials said Thursday.A Class 7 student of the Beri Gopalpur Adarsha Uccha Vidyalaya in Gaighata area of North 24-Parganas district faced the humiliation after she ignored orders about wearing specific uniforms on Thursdays.As I didn't wear a particular dress I am supposed to wear on Thursday according to school rules, the teacher stripped me off my skirt in front of the whole class," said the student.The girl's family later lodged a police complaint.The school managing committee said the teacher has been taken to task and she has given an undertaking not to repeat her action."She has given an undertaking that she won't repeat the act," said school managing committee secretary Basudeb Ghosh.
Why-Naked woman blocks ambulance from reaching husband's seriously injured lover
Armed police move in on a naked woman after she stripped off and lay in front of an ambulance following an alleged attack on her husband’s suspected lover.Zhang Shih, 38, tried to prevent emergency services from reaching her love rival and young daughter to take them to hospital. The mum-of-two - from Linyi, Shandong province, eastern China - allegedly rammed neighbour Wang Lu and her four-year-old daughter with her car after a furious row with her husband over the suspected fling.
She then stood guard over the two seriously injured victims to stop anyone offering them first aid, say police. The spurned woman continued to block the emergency services, even as police officers pointed guns at her naked body.
