- There are quality senior pranks…and then there are
felonies that cause hundreds of thousands of dollars and could ruin the next
few years of your life. This falls into the latter category for those
responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to an Oregon
high school, a crime that is blamed on vandalism. Roosevelt High School’s
basketball coach discovered the chaos left behind when water was left on,
causing liquid refreshment to pour down
the new hallways, down its elevator and into offices and classrooms. The flood burst
through multiple floors of the school’s new wing and Roosevelt principal Filip
Hristic said that the six classrooms and six bathrooms will be unusable for a
few weeks. Classes will be held in a food pantry and in a conference room for
now and the flooding damage is estimated to cost the North Portland school
$300,000. The chief suspects are teens from a visiting basketball camp, as
surveillance footage shows the campers turning on an emergency shower in a
science room, defacing a whiteboard and spraying a fire extinguisher in a
classroom. These amateur hooligans were at the school for a basketball camp
that the school hosted and school officials believe the damage was done on
purpose. The timing could not have been worse, as the school recently completed
the new wing as part of a $92 million bond-funded overhaul of the building that
was long overdue. For the time being, the school will have to grind out a
day-to-day existence in what remains of its shiny, new wing of its made-over
building……….
- The college basketball preseason is proving to be a
profitable time for student bodies across the United States. First, Kansas
director of basketball operations Brennan Bechard made a half-court shot for
the second straight year to earn a student $10,000 from Jayhawks coach Bill
Self and now, East Tennessee State is getting in on the action. ETSU players
Devontavius Payne and T.J. Cromer made back-to-back half-court shots to win
free spring semester tuition for a pair of students, but only after students
Garrett Pack and Jeremiah Pearson missed their half-court attempts. Ever the
giving man, athletic director Richard Sander then allowed each to pick a player
to take a shot. Pack chose wisely, tabbing Payne, who made his shot. Pearson
selected Cromer, who also made his shot. I've never seen two guys hit
consecutive shots like that before," ETSU coach Steve Forbes said.
"Never. I hadn't seen Payne make one before in practice, but I've seen
Cromer do it time and time again. So when Payne made his, I knew Cromer was
going to do it. "Giving away free tuition to college students scraping by
on ramen and Keystone Light and waiting for the next infusion of cash to come
from home so they can finish out the semester is a smart idea and maybe when
these schools need a little extra energy from their student section at a key
conference game late in the season, these fiscal gestures will inspire plenty of
yelling and noise……..
- Drones are becoming a point of contention all around the
world. The skies over Sweden are the latest battleground as a Swedish industry
group tries to fight a court ruling that drones with cameras must have a
license under the country's surveillance laws. Gustav Gerdes, head of Unmanned
Aerial System Sweden, denounced the decision by the Supreme Administrative
Court as a huge blow" to
recreational and commercial users, one that could put 5,000 jobs in danger —
from drone operators to those handling footage. According to ol’ Gus, Sweden is
among the first countries to ban camera drones with no surveillance license. He
and his drone-loving friends lament the fact that permits can be expensive and
difficult to get. Not helping matters, the European Aviation Safety Agency
recently released a rough, non-binding text for drone regulation, leaving it up
to EU members states to decide whether to require licenses for drones with
cameras. It was a smart move for the EU to not try to enforce strict new
policies at a time when the union has experienced plenty of tension, infighting
and drama, lest any member nations rebel and make drones the tipping point for
the eventual demise of the EU. Sweden has maintained a certain degree of
autonomy from the union as one of the few member nations to keep its own
currency and this drone decision furthers that general philosophy………
- This is a (sad) new twist on the idea of rap beefs. Most
of the time, there are dis tracks, brawls at clubs, shade being thrown via
social media….but not so many lawsuits. Suge Knight is taking things in a new
direction and for a man with scores of iconic stories about him bullying,
menacing, threatening and nearly killing various rivals, it’s sad to see.
Knight has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Dre of hiring a hitman to kill him. In
fact, Knight claims Dre was responsible for two attempts on his life, a belief
that in Knight’s mind stems from the fact that he claims Dre agreed to pay him
30 percent of his earnings for life, including his share of Apple’s 2014 $3
billion purchase of Dre’s Beats products. That would be powerful motivation to
try to kill a person in order to keep all of that money, but the ability to
prove it in court will be tough. According to the lawsuit, Knight alleges that
Dre had contacted a man who shot him seven times at Chris Rock’s pre-VMA party
in the summer of 2014 and then paid a man $300,000 to finish the hit in January
2015. In the old days, Knight would have gone and finished the job himself, but
now he’s seeking unspecified damages, punitive and otherwise, for the alleged
hits and a few other claims. In
response, one of Dre’s attorneys claimed that his client has had no interaction
with Knight since leaving Death Row Records in 1996 and suggested that Knight
and his legal team had best have malicious prosecution insurance. Oh, and
Knight is pursuing this case while in jail awaiting trial for murder for
allegedly running over and killing industry colleague Terry Carter in January
2015 in a Los Angeles parking lot, so maybe this is about getting money to pay
his mounting legal bills………
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