- Well, at least they didn’t get stopped and frisked. New
York City resident Kimberly Santiago and her family became the unwitting,
unwilling and unsuspecting stars of the New York Police Department’s social
media feed just before Christmas when officers raided their apartment by
mistake and posted a photo on social media with the caption "Merry
Christmas Its NYPD." According to Santiago, the NYPD’s warrant squad
showed up at her Brooklyn apartment in the middle of the morning and informed
the residents that they were looking for an individual neither she nor her
family knows and who doesn’t live at the residence. That didn’t stop the NYPD
officers from handcuffing everyone in the apartment and while they were on
premises, the police posted two photos of the botched raid on Snapchat. The
second photo was captioned "warrant sweeps,” but like all other social
media users, clearly the NYPD needs to think and check its facts before sending
out a snap, because by the end of their raid, they had succeeded only in
wasting three hours of their time and bringing a healthy dose of fear into the
lives of a family who seem to be guilty only of being home at the time when
some overzealous, underinformed police officers kicked down their door and
turned their holiday season into a nightmare. A police spokeswoman says the
department's internal affairs bureau is investigating the incident, but it’s
going to be awfully difficult for the NYPD to apologize for this one…….
- It was certain to happen, the when was all that needed to
be determined. After “Bad Moms” proved to be one of the highest-grossing comedy films of
the year, making more than $180 million worldwide, it was a certainty that
there would be a sequel. When a movie costs $20 million and brings in an
800-percent return on that investment, the race to green-light a sequel is on
and so it is that a Christmas-themed edition of the film will be released in
2017. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn starred in the original movie,
which came out earlier this year, playing a trio of mothers struggling with
balancing work, family life and keeping their children happy. Production
company STX Entertainment confirmed the festive sequel, “A Bad Moms Christmas,”
with all three leading ladies returning for the November release as their
characters attempt to cope with parenting during the Christmas period and the
stress of visits by their own mothers. To keep the continuity going, the script
will be written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, writers of “Bad Moms.”
That dynamic duo will also direct the film, as they did on
the original movie, and one of their stars is clearly fired up about the film. “Get
ready. It’s about to get festive as a mother. A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS coming for
ya winter 2017!” Bell tweeted. Before the sequel hits theaters, STX
Entertainment will also crank out a “Bad Dads” movie, set to hit theaters this
summer and prove that the hijinks and adventures of overwhelmed fathers can be
funny too………
- Score one for wretched excess in India. Amidst cries of
money being wasted in a country that could badly use some extra cash on more
immediate needs, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone
for a massive memorial of a medieval warrior king that's expected to cost
billions of rupees. The statue has drawn the ire of environmental activists and
others who oppose a 630-foot-tall statue of Shivaji, a 16th century ruler from
western India, being built off the coast of Mumbai on land reclaimed from the
Arabian Sea. The memorial is expected to be completed by 2019 and the
government of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, is expected to
spend about 36 billion rupees ($530 million) on the statue. That money will be
spent over the objections of some 25,900 people who have signed a Change.org
petition asking that the government spend the money on infrastructure and
development instead. "Apart from a waste of money, this statue is going to
be terrible for the environment, for the traffic situation in South Bombay and
a security nightmare," the petition reads. Yes, but can you really put a
price tag or true value on a statue that, when complete, will be more than
twice the height of the Statue of Liberty? As part of the stone-laying
ceremony, Modi also performed a Hindu religious ritual called
"Bhoomipujan," or worshipping the land. It’s a ritual performed by
devout Hindus before the start of any construction project and one with which
Modi is family. Back in 2014, shortly after he became prime minister, the
national budget set aside about 2 billion rupees ($34 million) to build a
massive structure to honor independence leader Vallabbhai Patel. That project
is underway and currently slated to cost about 10 times the amount set aside in
the budget. But never mind that, because this one will definitely (not) stay on
budget………
- Soccer is known for plenty of qualities, most of them
negative and ridiculous, as a sport. According to a prominent face in the game,
the sport’s governing body may be mulling rule changes to eliminate some of the
absurdity that makes the average sports fan hate soccer. Former Netherlands
striker and manager Marco van Basten says FIFA is considering introducing
further measures to improve player behavior towards officials, i.e. a bunch of
mulleted, flopping divas storming up to the referee every time they don’t get a
call they want, get called for a foul they disagree with or otherwise have a
beef with how the game is being called. Van Basten is the world governing
body's chief officer for technical development and he believes that soccer could
learn from rugby, which allows only captains to speak to referees. "There
are a lot of players now who are complaining during a game,'' Van Basten said.
"I am sure the behavior of the players can be better -- we are thinking
about putting it back in the right direction.'' He noted that soccer must “confront
the problem,” noting that television replays to assist referees were used for
the first time in FIFA competition during this month's Club World Cup in Japan,
while in English football referees were given the power to issue red cards to
confrontational players. "This is what we have to do to help the
referees,'' Van Basten said about rule changes. "We try to make a good
product -- dynamic, exciting, but in the end also honest. "There's a lot
of emotion in the game and that's what's good -- but we have to control it
also.'' Yes, let’s channel that emotion where it belongs - into lame, asinine
and moronic goal celebrations involving using soccer balls as fake babies, wild
fist pumps and pretend rides in the team minivan……..
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