- Oh, this is just funny - on a
nation-acting-like-a-spurned-junior-high-mean-girl kind of way, that is. Turkey
has been scrapping with Austria and Turkey over the past couple of weeks,
bristling at the European nations’ respective aspersions cast on its integrity
in the area of not allowing people to have sex with underage individuals. The
beef began in earnest with a similar news ticker at the Vienna airport last
week claiming Turkey allows sex with children and escalated with a tweet by
Sweden's foreign minister calling on Turkey to respect child rights. There was
no way Turkey was going to take that sort of shade being thrown at it, nor
respond in a respectable, diplomatic manner. Nope, the Turks fired back with an
ad placed at Istanbul's main airport warning against visiting Sweden due to
alleged high incidences of rape. Yes, after summoning diplomats from Austria
and Sweden to ream them out over their respective countries’ statements, Turkey
opened fire with an ad in Turkish and English which read: "Travel Warning!
Did you know that Sweden has the highest rape rate worldwide?" Yes,
because any time you can use rape as a one-upper and in a way that both
trivializes and mocks one of the most heinous crimes of which a person can be a
victim, you seize that opportunity with both freaking hands. The Swedish
embassy responded in a tweet, "In light of recurring misconceptions on
rape statistics in Sweden" and linking to the site of their National
Council for Crime Prevention. Given the direction this skirmish seems to be
headed, it was the sort of civil response that Turkey will clearly gloss right
over before finding another way to spread unfounded, reckless gossip about its
rivals…….
- While it may sound like the drunken casting decisions of a
director who is several bottles of Grey Goose into a really bad weekend, the
truth is that Canadian pop hack Justin Bieber could be starring in a movie
alongside Real Madrid soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and actor/director Clint
Eastwood. Bieber, whose music continues to suck but is currently topping the
pop charts with his Major Lazer collaboration 'Cold Water' and has another top
single in his DJ Snake collaboration 'Let Me Love You,” is reportedly wanted to
appear in the reboot of the “Goal!”
franchise, allegedly portraying a soccer player who has a sudeen and meteoric
rise to fame. In arguably the most unbelievable plot twist ever, Eastwood is
said to be playing Bieber's grandfather, which makes little sense because the
legendary director is old enough to be Biebs’ great-great-grandfather and it’s
hard to imagine a grizzled, arch-conservative badass being genetically linked
to a greasy-haired, pop music poseur like Bieber. Ever the versatile actor,
Ronaldo is reportedly set to play himself and former English soccer sensation
David Beckham may also be involved, having appeared in the original “Goal!”
trilogy. Word on the street is that this project is well into the
pre-production stages and adding Bieber to the mix is one of the final pieces
of the puzzle. Banking on Bieber and Ronaldo to pull their respective fan bases
into theaters to see this movie isn't a terrible idea, even if the movie itself
could be exactly that from an artistic standpoint……..
- If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying and it’s only
cheating if you get caught. Unfortunately for suspected drug dealer Shaun
Miller, he got caught despite his best efforts to win a Criminal Oscar for best
hair and makeup job on a wanted felon. Miller, who was one of over a dozen
people named in a federal drug trafficking indictment in April, was considered
a fugitive last week when Massachusetts law enforcement surrounded his house.
Police were looking for young, shady character wanted on suspicion of drug
trafficking, but the person in the home definitely didn't match the
description. The man officers encountered was an elderly dude who looked more
likely to be using one of those daily plastic pill counters than to be dealing
marijuana, heroin or cocaine. However, a bit of solid detective work revealed
that something fishy was going on. "Upon further investigation, officers
determined that the 'elderly man' was in fact Miller," Yarmouth police
said in a press release. "At that point, officers pulled off Miller's
realistic disguise and placed him under arrest." Police seized two loaded
weapons and almost $30,000 in cash during the raid and Miller was detained on a
charge of possession of heroin with intent to distribute. The best part of all
of this, given his extreme attempts to hide his identity and escape arrest, is
that Miller's attorney, James Cipoletta, says his client denies involvement and
will plead not guilty. Well played, counselor…….
- A person suspected of attempted murder is typically
advised not to travel and especially not to leave their country. For pro
basketball player, getting to grab his passport and exit the United States is
confirmation that he’s no longer in the crosshairs for a crime he did not
commit. Griffin, who was falsely accused of attempted murder in April, has
agreed to a contract with Israeli club Galil Gilboa and will now resume his
basketball career over seas. His agent, Tod Seidel, confirmed the deal for his
client, who in May spent a week in a Florida jail after being charged with
attempted first-degree murder with a firearm. Because of the situation, Griffin
lost opportunities to play in the NBA summer league and an offer from a team in
the Philippines, as multiple teams withdrew their standing offers to Griffin
after finding out about the attempted murder charge. "Even when we
provided a letter from the prosecution that explained he [Griffin] had
absolutely nothing to do with this horrible crime, teams still backed
away," Seidel said. It was only after the Florida state attorney's office
investigated the case and determined that it was not suitable for prosecution
that Griffin was able to start moving past this incident. One of the facts that
led the state attorney's office to conclude that Griffin was falsely identified
was the height of the victim's attackers. He stands 6-foot-9 and the victim in
the case described the man who shot him -- one of the two men who attacked him
-- as being "around 6-foot to 6-2." Griffin was also able to provide
an alibi, as his alarm system was turned on the night of the crime and a motion
detector picked him up as movement in a hallway. Now, the forward who has
played for the LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons in
training camp over the past four seasons and
lost 15 pounds while in jail can lift this weight from his shoulders,
put some of that weight back on the rest of his body and get back to balling
out for a living……….
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