Two men have had their conviction for attempting to abduct a child from a school overturned after a judge decided it was just a ‘stupid prank’ and had no ‘sinister motive’. Tariq Alsamaan and Carlton Tebbs dressed as security guards in a plan of ‘crass stupidity’ at Wellacre Academy in Flixton, Trafford, in 2016. They told staff they had been hired to take a pupil home because he was being bullied, and wanted to speak to him. Alsamaan told reception staff the boy needed to be escorted to and from school by security officers from now on. Tariq Alsamaan But their plan unravelled when the school’s headteacher became suspicious and called police. A court heard Alsamaan, then 21, was the ringleader and met Tebbs, then a 22-year-old shelf stacker from Scotland, through online gaming. Read More Alsamaan claimed he liked to play heroic versions of himself in fantasy games to escape his ‘low self-image’ in the real world. The pair w...
Coming into the season, the Philadelphia Sixers big man Joel Embiid was one of the favorites to win the NBA’s MVP award, an award that was won by the Houston Rockets ’ James Harden . An article in The Athletic details how Embiid thinks of himself as the ‘James Harden of big men’ and citing a story with Dwight Howard as an example: “An irate Howard complained to an official that the swipe-through move shouldn’t be rewarded but started to chuckle when Embiid whispered something as he walked to free throw line. Asked later what Embiid stated that was so funny, Howard shook his head and said, “Blame James Harden.” When reminded of that exchange with Howard, Embiid flashed a grin and added, “I did that three times in a row. He didn’t learn from it. And I did it again the next game and I was like, ‘You stupid or what?’ “I’ve said it before; I’m the James Harden of bigs. I know how to draw fouls....
Inject your children with vaccines. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY The opioid crisis is hitting Alaska hard : Deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl nearly quadrupled in Alaska last year. There were 37 overdose deaths in 2017, compared to 2016’s eight deaths. Alaska has one of the highest opioid death rates per capita. Vaccinate your kids, you idiots : Ah, don’t you love fall in the air? The leaves are turning, school is starting, and clusters of un-immunized children are making it a very real possibility that other children will catch preventable diseases. Fall is lovely. You know what else was lovely? When rates of polio and measles drastically declined in the United States because of immunization. Hundreds of schools in Washington don’t have high enough immunization completion rates to protect kids. Too many kids are unvaccinated, and that puts everyone in jeopardy. Hot take: Anti-vaxxers aren’t just stupid, they’re selfish. India has decriminalized homos...
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